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Libertad (Special Edn) |  | Artist: Velvet Revolver
Label: Columbia
Category: Music
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 47966
Format: CD+DVD, Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.5
UPC: 886971096828
EAN: 0886971096828
ASIN: B000QEIMJG
Release Date: July 2, 2007
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Let It Roll | | • | She Mine | | • | Get Out The Door | | • | She Builds Quick Machines | | • | Last Fight | | • | Pills Demons And Etc | | • | American Man | | • | Mary Mary | | • | Just Sixteen | | • | Can't Get It Out Of My Head | | • | For A Brother | | • | Spay | | • | Gravedancer | | • | Re-Evolution |
Disc 2
| • | Tierra Roja Sangre Roja |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk
When they exploded out of the gates on their 2004 debut, iContraband/i, Velvet Revolver were met with as much diffidence as appreciation. After all, supergroups have tended to detonate as often as succeed, and with vocalist Scott Weiland, bassist Duff McKagan, and guitarist Slash all vying to keep the lit match away from the fuse, the odds against this band ever seeing album #2 were even money at best. Surprise! Not only have Velvet Revolver survived three years with unreckless abandon, this album blows the doors off its predecessor. Save a pair of disinfected ballads ("The Last Fight," "Gravedancer"), iLibertad/i is all about hand-grenade chords, drag-racing riffs, and circus-tent choruses. The ageless McKagan and Slash continually gun for the disorderliness of their former band (most notably on the punkish opener "Let It Roll" and its lewd brother "Spay"), while Weiland sounds--knock on wood--positively clean and like a voice of boisterous renewal on tracks like "Mary Mary," "She Builds Quick Machines," and the melt-in-your-mouth cover of ELO's "Can't Get It out of My Head." Obviously egos have been checked at the studio door, as Velvet Revolver have already exceeded their anticipated existence. And now that existence goes back on the clock, trying to outshine a second album that's head-and-shoulders better than the first. --iScott Holter/i
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velvet Revolver.....brilliant! July 2, 2007
Sarah (Bradford, UK)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
As a huge fan of Velvet Revolver I knew that this album was going to be a must have in my collection. Little did I know how good it was going to be. You can really hear the transition of VR becoming more established with this record. I really recomend this to any rock fan.
Great! July 2, 2007
Laura (Scotland)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
You can really hear the band coming together more on the second album - i think its a lot better than their first album 'Contraband'. You can also hear a lot of the bands influences come through on certain records. It seems more personal this time, but it still rocks! Slashs solo's are still as brilliant as ever!
a long waited, but truly worthy successor to contraband August 3, 2007
A. J. Rogers (UK)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I awaited in the utmost anticipation for Velvet Revolvers follow up album to contraband.
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br /I picked up Contraband on its day of release (having always been a fan of Guns'N'Roses), to find out what I read about the latter days of GNR to be true. The fued between Axl and Slash really did compromise Slash's talent. the guitar riffs were truly stunning, and showed Slash in a completely different light in my opinion.
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br /So when I read that Libertad was soon to be released, I was truly excited about listening to their new material.
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br /the moment I put the album on and listened to the first 2 minutes of the first track, I knew this was going to be a fantastic follow up to Contraband.
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br /There is not a single track on this album that I dislike and skip (which is rare on mosts bands albums nowadays). There is hard, heavy tracks and guitar riffs but also slower tracks such as 'The Last Fight' that help break the album up whilst still letting flow smoothly. This is reminiscent of the GNR albums with tracks such as 'Sweet Child O Mine' and 'November Rain' etc.
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br /Upon first listening to Libertad, Scott Weilands voice will surprise and amaze you. Its almost as if Velvet Revolver have got a new lead singer. This just shows that no matter how good an album Contraband is, Weiland was still battling his drug addiction, which obviously affected his voice somewhat. Weilands voice on this album is now softer and more melodic, although he can still sing the hard rock tracks when demanded of him.
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br /It is great to see an album of this calibre from some of the best musicians from the last 20 years, and I can only hope and look forward to a third album. Especially since Audioslave (one of the other bands that, in my opinion, have gone on to greater things since splitting from their original bands/lead singers) have now seperated and are very unlikely to regroup in the foreseeable future.
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br /i shall certainly be listening to Libertad a severe lot whilst they are (hopefully, please, please) getting together and preparing a third album to take the world storm with.
A big suprise and so far one of my favourite albums of 2007 July 10, 2007
Lando Malak (Sheffield, UK)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
First of all I would just like to say that I think that Scott Weiland has always been underrated as a frontman both here and with his old grunge band, Stone Temple Pilots.
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br /Isn't it great when you buy an album with not very high expectations, although I was looking foward to this follow up from their debut album Contraband, I can honestly say that I wasn't expecting it to be anywhere near as good as this, for some reason I was just expecting one or two really good songs and lots of fillers, how wrong I was. I am not exaggerating when I say that almost every track on this is good enough to be released as a single. Trust me when I say that tracks 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 would fit very nicely onto a classic Stone Temple Pilots album they really would, the tracks that I have just mentioned along with track 9 (JUST SIXTEEN, which reminds me of Queens Of The Stone Age in style for some reason) are my personal favourites on this album. Like I said these are my personal favourites so don't be thinking that I don't like the others because I do, there is also a good cover version called CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD, I am not sure if this is an ELO song or a Jeff Lynne solo song.
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br /Everybody has their own opinion but I honestly think that this is a better album overall than Contraband as I feel most songs on this are just a lot more catchier. These guys are getting on a bit now, but full credit to them for making an album of this quality and not just putting on lots of album fillers like a lot of bands seem to do, I am sure that a lot of younger bands would have been proud to have made this. Chinese Democracy will have to be something very special to beat this, WELL DONE SLASH AND CO.
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2nd album shows its steadying influence of a group coming together no matter what the press say about them August 3, 2007
spike (united kingdom)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
While Audioslave bit the dust its a question of time wether or not those of Velvet Revolver will come up with another third album of scorch ridden rock for 2008 remains to be seen but this second album LIBERTAD just shows a band coming up with the goods that the press have long dismissed as a poor Guns and Roses side project.
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br /Slash solos' shows why it made him a guitarist of a very high calibre, Scott Weiland vocals veers from the master of cool to the king of sleaze, Duff's Baselines are faultless, while Matt Sorum's drumming explains why he made it on the stool as Steven Adlers replacement in Guns and Roses, and rythm guitarist Dave Kushner is just as good as what Izzy Stradlin was in his heyday.
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br /superb second effort make it a third you guys!
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