Thursday, May 29, 2008

457. L.A. Guns / Greatest Hits and Black Beauties. 1999. 3/5

When L.A. Guns arrived on the scene in the late 1980’s, I was just finishing high school, and so was probably at the peak of my malleability in regards to music. L.A. Guns first two albums left an impression.
Here we have their greatest hits album, with a few odd bits and pieces thrown into the mix, most likely to help sales to people who already had all of their material. Their best and most well known stuff is here – “Never Enough”, “Sex Action”, “Rip N Tear”, “No Mercy” and the still awful “Ballad Of Jayne”.
As with so many greatest hits albums, sometimes you are better off just getting the original albums and listening to them. That is certainly the case here. I would suggest to anyone likely to go out and get this to just get the first two albums instead.

Rating: Good enough for what it is. 3/5.

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