TRACK LISTING
Disc 1
| 1 |
Don't Look At Me That Way |
4:00 |
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| 2 |
OK, Let's Roll |
3:54 |
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| 3 |
Waking The Dead |
3:23 |
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| 4 |
Revolution |
3:26 |
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| 5 |
The Ballad |
5:21 |
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| 6 |
Frequency |
4:38 |
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| 7 |
Psycopathic Eyes |
3:04 |
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| 8 |
Hellraisers Ball |
3:23 |
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| 9 |
Lost In The City Of Angels |
3:39 |
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| 10 |
Don't You Cry |
4:22 |
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Synposis
Founding members of L.A. Guns, Tracii Guns and vocalist Phil Lewis have concocted a solid outing with producer Andy Johns on Waking the Dead, the follow-up to the band's 2001 debut for Spitfire Records, Man in the Moon. More than just a commendable effort by L.A. Guns, the work of Andy Johns is not to be overlooked. In the '70s it was producer/engineer brother Glyn Johns who had the higher profile, and when Andy did produce, as with '80s metal band Cinderella, it came off, much like the work of another engineer/producer, Ron Nevison, as homogenized black-and-white musical photographs for the ear. Waking the Dead is a triumph for Andy Johns as much as it is for L.A. Guns, and the fabulous and hooky "City of Angels" has all the elements a driving pop song needs -- throbbing bass, precision drums, singing guitars, and great vocals with catchy phrasings. It's the Ramones gone metal, and different from the identifiable groove on much of the disc, but it fits in perfectly. "Hellraisers Ball" gets back to the basics, but it is "City of Angels" and "Don't You Cry" that give Guns N' Roses at their best a good run for the money.
