Pumping: Guns N' Roses — Live Era '83-'93

It's funny the difference between being at a GNR show and listening to the recording of a GNR show.

When you're at a GNR show and Axl's screaming and you've got eight beers in you and some stripper just popped out of her tube top and she absolutely does not care... in those moments, your suspension of disbelief is gone. You're there, you're losing it, you ARE the rock 'n' roll. It's amazing.

But when you're sitting in an office listening to Axl screech and you know you've got two hours left of work, all this album sounds like is the disorienting whir of a thousand toilets flushing at once into your ears.