10 Most Underappreciated Rock Albums

With Scott Weiland ousted from Velvet Revolver and the band’s future in limbo, a newly sober Saul Hudson (that’s Slash, to you and me) found himself in a quandary. Does he stay at home and risk his idle hands becoming the devil’s playthings, or does he do something, anything to get him into the studio and out on the road?

Of course, being a man who just doesn’t look right unless he’s fingering a fretboard, he chose the latter and used riffs he’d been preparing for Revolver’s third record as the basis for tracks on his first solo effort. He put a band together and, not being a singer himself, but having seemingly worked with everybody in rock and roll at some point in his illustrious career, drafted in the biggest rock singers in the world to write and record with him. The personnel list reads like a Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame roll call: Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Chris Cornell, Lemmy Kilmister, Kid Rock, Adam Levine, Cypress Hill, Fergie, Nicole Scherzinger…

The result has the feel of both a great, uplifting rock record from the greatest guitarist of his generation and a compilation of your favourite singers. Is it a masterpiece? No. Is it a fun soundtrack to a good beer drinking session on a hot summer’s day? You’d better believe it.

Standout Tracks: Ghost, Beautiful Dangerous, Back From Cali, Starlight, Baby Can’t Drive.