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Contraband

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Contraband

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Play Sucker Train Blues full track 4:26 97,609
2 Play Do It for the Kids full track 3:54 90,732
3 Play Big Machine full track 4:24 86,722
4 Play Illegal i Song full track 4:15 73,450
5 Play Spectacle full track 3:40 72,721
6 Play Fall to Pieces full track 4:30 163,433
7 Play Headspace full track 3:41 76,588
8 Play Superhuman full track 4:15 76,778
9 Play Set Me Free full track 4:05 96,579
10 Play You Got No Right full track 5:35 71,098
11 Play Slither full track 4:10 166,281
12 Play Dirty Little Thing full track 3:56 103,865
13 Play Loving the Alien full track 5:45 71,104
14 Play Bodies (live) 3:19 28,550
No More, No More 5:38 2,070
Fall To Pieces - Acoustic Version 4:09 11
Surrender 4:23 8,447

About this album

© RCA Records Label (2004) Released: 7 Jun 2004 18 tracks (74:05)
Contraband is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Velvet Revolver, released on June 8, 2004 by RCA Records. A commercial success, Contraband debuted at number one on the American Billboard 200 chart and was certified 2x platinum by the RIAA.

Velvet Revolver formed when three Guns N’ Roses musicians - Slash (guitar), Duff McKagan (bass) and Matt Sorum (drums) - combined to play at a benefit concert for fellow musician Randy Castillo in 2002. They decided to form another band and recruited guitarist Dave Kushner who had previously played with Suicidal Tendencies, Wasted Youth, and Dave Navarro. Kushner had gone to school with Slash and had worked with McKagan before. The quartet was known as The Project pending the selection of a permanent name.

The quartet then set about recruiting a lead singer with the recruitment process filmed by VH1. Several lead singers auditioned including Josh Todd of Buckcherry, Kelly Shaefer of Neurotica and Travis Meeks of Days of the New but they were unsuccessful. Scott Weiland had become friends with McKagan and had played on the same bill as Kushner when Stone Temple Pilots were known as Mighty Joe Young and Kushner was in the Electric Love Hogs. Weiland heard the material and offered his services as the lead singer and the band clicked. Slash suggested the name Revolver for the project and Weiland suggested the addition of Velvet to the title.

Velvet Revolver recorded its first track “Set Me Free” for The Hulk soundtrack in 2003, along with a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Money” for The Italian Job.
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