After the good, if unoriginal, cover of “Live And Let Die” and the excellent reworking of “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” from Use Your Illusion I & II, an entire album of other people’s songs from Guns N’ Roses sounds like a great idea. Unfortunately, “The Spaghetti Incident?” falls hard. Most of the songs aren’t bad - although Axl’s singing on “Down On The Farm” is unlistenable - but they are generally no better than the originals.

Perhaps the Gunners are only good cover artists when they reach for songs outside of the punk / glam rock / metal traditions that so heavily inform their own songwriting. The doo-wop song “Since I Don’t Have You” doesn’t work as well as their covers of McCartney or Dylan, but it does much better than the rest of the album. Perhaps the departures of Stradlin and Adler were more devastating to the band’s creativity than realized. Whatever the cause, the last LP by Guns N’ Roses before it became solely a vehicle for Rose’s ego is quite forgettable.