Here Today... Gone To Hell!

Were the last four non-live songs on GNR Lies written at the same time some of the Use Your Illusion songs were. Or were they actually ment to be written as a second album and they were pressured into making it the way it is?


I'm an idiot :(

Ummmmm, there are no live tracks on Lies. Yes, there's crowd noise, but they're not live.

Basically, Lies was released as a hold over for the fans until the UYI albums hit.

The 4 "live" songs are actually the songs from their first album Live like a suicide. Only 10000 copy's of this album where made and sold and released under their own label Uzi Suicide. G N' R recorded these songs in the studio and added some crowd noise to make them sound like a live recording. Only Axl and the rest of the old line up knows when the acoustic songs where written but they are probably written when they where recording Appetite. G N' R played these songs for the first time live at CBGB's, N.Y. ( 10.30.87 ) 6 weeks after the release of Appetite. They hitted the studio in 1988 to record these songs.

lies is a great album, but im sure the last 4 songs were a special session they recorded for lies

Yeah, I think it's just a few songs they had kicking around and used as a stop-gap.

Thanks guys. It always bothered me that Lies was a filler album :(

Lies is a good album,the accoustic version of your crazy(better than the AFD version IMO),patience,and one in a million(despite the few lines) its a great song musically.

Agreed on You're Crazy. Much prefer it slowed.