The Paradise City 'cover' is about as bad as Slash could have managed. I mean, fair enough, there was no point in making it sound exactly like the original, but this is a vulgar reworking.
The a-side doesn't do anything for me either. Not awful, but not as engaging as it needs to be. Slash needs a proper band around him, clearly. Although that band obviously isn't GNR, coz while I'm no Slash hater by any means, these two pails of pallid piss form the best argument for the new GNR line-up yet. Something I take no pleasure in saying against the great man.