The best hardnosed rock album to hit stores in quite sometime. If you're sick of this canned crap that they call "rock" on the radio, try this.

Scott's slow, deep singing will not be heard much as he is forced to strain his voice while trying to keep up with the fast paced playing of old rock stars.

This album represents a rebirth of the mainstream rock. Solid vocals from Scott and the amazing riffs of Slash...this is a rock band!!

This album rocks!

This album is a solid rock albumwith not one single bad track. Album of the year!

Interesting mix of STP's often harsh sound and G n' R's 80 racous

There is nothing particularly bad about this album, but nothing good either. The hooks are stale, the guitars are boring, and it just doesn't seem to flow

Kick Ass!!! An awesome return to the Sunset Strip! These guys just sound like they are having fun and the reviews/critics be damned. Keep it going fellas!!

Great record

awesome real-kick ass modern rock demo. Slash and Scott make an excellent duo way better than fucking shaq- kobe or tom morello-chirs cornell b.s. axl rose should listen to contraband

Contraband is a breath of fresh air that rock music needs right about now. The perfect combination of Guns N' Roses without the maniacal ranting of Axl Rose; Stone Temple Pilots with a kick. Over the next few weeks, you'll hear more about the ballad "Fall To Pieces", and the similarity with G N' R's "Sweet Child O' Mine", but a few plays of the ballad "You Got No Right" reveals a classic that has Velvet Revolver in a class that neither STP or G N' R would be able to reach. In fact, "You Got No Right" is what we all wished that "November Rain" really sounded like.… Expand

Awesome! Rock is back!

Don't listen to the reviews just go down your local music store listen to the album for yourself and i bet you'll end up buying it.

The ballads are the best part of this album.

Great hard rocking return that beats the crap out of all the wimpy corporate rock junk being passed out like pablum for the lemmings. There's nothing original here - just ROCK. Ignore the whiners. Get it.

Still holdin' back, waiting for the big guns.....

Rocks... that's all i have to say that the album rocks!

It rocks, give it a few listens. Standout Tracks: You Got No Right and Headspace.

Thank God, Slash is back!

Complete crap. Nice marketing vehicle though. The kiddies will love it.

Even better than I expected!!!

There could be nothing better than STP and Gun's N Roses without Axel Rose. This merge is even better than audioslave!

Finally, rock music is back instead of little brats who pis and moan about heartbreaks

the name sucks. velvet underground and revolver by the beatles. YAY!

One of the years best. Doesn't sound like a GNR or STP album. Nice to see Slash back. Hope Weiland can stay alive to make another album.

TOTAL CRAP

This album is so much better than it is given credit for. This is not 1987 or 1993 and we can't expect it to make the same kind of impact against what passes for popular music today. It is just the best hard rock album to come out in the past 8 years or so.

Velvet Revolver is so far the best merger of former GNR and S.T.P, it remind me of the good old days of Alice in chain, this combination is perfect and they sound better than audioslave, which i expected they play something heavier and im looking for VR next realease

This album is great!

Great album, I got it, I listened, I got a sore neck. It shouldn't even be compared the wimpfest that is Audioslave.

Couple of good moments. Slash isn't loud enough. 'Nuff said.

it sucks compared to guns n' roses but way better than the alternative crap rock with 4 power chords and blink 182 type bands that pass as music these days.

Great 'in your face' rock album.

The cd, every song from start to finish is a song you can listen to, alot of metal or hard rock bands have 2 or 3 good songs, this is good listening all the way through.

piece of crap...slash and the ex-gunners can do soooo much better than this...

How disappointed I was by this album! The lush, hook-filled guitar stylings of Slash are nowhere to be found (ok, to be fair, they pop up for a few bars here and there), and this entire album feels like one long song. It's not bad, but it's rather innocuous; I had such high hopes...

Very Raw, if these guys spend some more time in the studio working on their sound, they can be great. Don't come into this album thinking to hear a strong influence of STP or Guns N Roses, more like early 90s alternative such as Jane's Addiction. It could have been better, but this album is only disappointing to people who expected the greatest album ever.

awesome

boring album.

This album is great,just like I thought it would be!This even puts Audioslave's first LP to shame...

I think all of us real rock fans have waited a good few years for an album likr this to come along. This has restored my faith in hard rock. Yay to the "old hands"

Contraband is a great RnR album!

Scott Weiland is one of my all-time favorite singer/songwriters around, despite all his personal problems. "Contraband" is a finely-tuned G N' R/STP sound mixed together, and to me that makes for a great listen!

Best CD I've heard in YEARS... Not quite GN'R, not quite STP.... Velvet creates their own identity and ROCKS!!

A really good rock album on it's own, but fans expecting G'n'R or STP part two won't be happy.

Audioslave still takes home the prize for best new rock super-group but Velvet Revolver hold their own. Weiland just doesn't seem very comfortable yet in the dirver's seat. But I think David Fricke (Rolling Stone) has a point in saying that Contraband is the closest fans are ever going to get to a new Guns N Roses album. I am eager to see what the future holds for VR.

The return of the lead guitar. Great album after a couple of years of ho-hum, bubble gum crap. Buy it.

It pains me to say it but this is very disappointing when Slither is the best song on the album. Nothing groundbreaking here.

i think this is great, although not as good as AFD i think its great that G n R got rid of slash and started afresh. Good job.

It's cool, the music and everything!

Not a dull track on the album. Great songs from start to finish. 'nuff said

A rare ingenuity in the world of rock, a dying species. The best album by any band in years. An instant classic.

Greatest album ive ever bought, Great guitar and lyrics, every song is brilliant after 2 listens

Now..if only Weiland could sing other than that a great cd Slash is the man

absolutley blinding

One of my favorite CD's of 2004!!! Every song I really like!! Very good CD!!

this album really rocks, it's even better than the guns n roses era that slash, matt and duff been through. slash is on the guitar even better, he did not lose the rhythm at all. matt's drumming is amazing. scott on the vocals is perfect. i could not pick an other singer out, better than axl rose.... people should think that these guys lost the inspiration because they have not released a project for years...but they are contra of that.... full of esteam, power and rock n roll.........velvet revolver rocks !!!!!!!!!!!!!! my favorite number is do it for the kids......… Expand

The chemistry of Matt, Duff, and Slash is there. This band cannot be compared to GNR because it has nothing alike. This band is much more modern. I've been ashtonished by the solos of Slash. I think Weiland needs transformation into "Axl" - in his behaviour on stage.

this album rocks! the only reason i think somone would give it a bad review is if they where expecting the music to sound exactly like gnr.

great album

What sounds better then a lp standard, tone knobs down, tube amp at 11 and a good singer to boost?

This cd is a awesome new start for over half the band!

This album rocks all the songs on the album are absolutely brilliant. Best Songs Sucker Train Blues, Slither, Dirty Little Thing and Do it For the Kids. It sounds much better than any of the GnR stuff.

theres nothing particully bad about this album except the fact that its really really really boring

This album is amazing. It has it! Great guitar solos and great singing. This has a hint of old rock nothing like todays rock its way better!!

So they threw this good of an album together on their first attempt, I can't wait for the second album.

It is rock and roll of the 21th century!! Really amazing

This album is amazing. Just like the Guns N Roses Days, this album also covers a range of tracks. Heavy songs: Slither, Do it for the kids! Ballads: Fall To Pieces and Loving The Alien. Velvet Revolver, i my opinon are the best (possibly second best) modern band around. My favourite tracks of contraband are: Slither, Fall To Pieces, Do It For The Kids, Dirty Little Thing, and Suckertrain Blues! Brilliant album 10/10… Expand

This is even better than the old stuff from Guns N' Roses. I reccomend this album to any rock fan. I don't reccomend it to rap fans . Eh, Maybe. But overall, this is one of the best albums ever. Buy it if you don't already own it.

the best slash album since appetite for destruction

lets get slashing

It's ok when you hear it the 1st time. But Scott's voice is annoying and there is not much really ground-breaking on it. It's a pity.

It's a good album, a lot of the songs remind me of the times way back when music dubbed "rock" was actually listenable. We can only hope for another Velvet Revolver album in the near-future; 21st century rock supergroup? Hell yeah!

I welcome the change of listening Slash play as well as he always has accompanied by a good singer. Scott might not be the best but I'll rank him ions above Axl any-day. Axl has his moments but only on radio. Seen him live and the guy just can't sing live. Otherwise, this record is a genuine throwback to the "good ol' simple dirty rock n roll". This type of raw hard rock is definitely missing from the scene today. It's definitely much better than anything that the new GnR put out in the last ten years! Oh.. wait..… Expand

There's a reason these guys are called a supergroup. This album is basically split into two sections with 5 or 6 songs that completely melt your face, then have a ballad to help it solidify again. One of the best rock albums ever!!!!!!!!!!

These guys (along with The Villains) will save real rock and roll from posers like those pop-punk babies.

Great Rock n Roll record!