Nine Inch Nails - Reptile

The much-anticipated live album Guns N 'Roses was released in November 1999. "Live Era 1987-1993" was a double disc with twenty-two songs. Axl and former Guns members mixed and modified the tracks separately, communicating through managers and staff. The album contained many tracks from the Illusion tours with background noise from South American stadiums, but it did not convey the frenzied cruelty of a young band playing in clogged clubs. (The art director tried to compensate for the lack of drive with reproductions of GN'R street flyers of 1985.) The songs again, apart from a couple of bright numbers from Appetite, received almost no radio broadcasts, and the reviews were not particularly enthusiastic. Axl forbade the former members of the group to advertise the album and did not bother to do it himself, so even on the eve of Christmas sales amounted to less than a million copies.It was a shocking slap in the face from old fans. Many believed that the time had irrevocably passed and the audience of Guns had melted.