Guns N Roses - The Spagetti Incident

The covers album.  It’s a bit of a staple in a band's catalogue.  I generally feel that it’s the sign of an artist who has run out of their own material.  That’s not entirely fair of course.  A good cover version can throw new light on a song.  An artist can do a version of song that makes you listen to it in a new way.

The other thing you can do is just do the pub band version of a song (plug in, play the chords, sing the lyrics).  It doesn’t show much imagination and can be a bit dull. 

You’ll never guess which way GNR went with this…

This album sounds exactly as you’d expect a GNR album that covers (mostly) punk songs would.  Neither musically proficient to lift the songs nor with enough punk attitude to really make them the definitive versions.  At this stage everything with GNR on the cover was selling like hotcakes.  But I doubt it gets many plays today.