Used to Love Her
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"Used to Love Her" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses from the 1988 album G N' R Lies. The song was used as a B-side on some releases of the "Paradise City" single.[1]
Background
Contrary to popular belief that the song is about a girlfriend of Axl Rose, the song was written as a joke. Izzy Stradlin stated, "I was sitting around listening to the radio and some guy was whining about a broad who was treating him bad. I wanted to take the radio and smash it against the wall. Such self-pity! What a wimp! So we rewrote the same song we heard with a better ending."[2] Rose would later say that the song that inspired Stradlin was from the band Great White.[3]
Live performances
The band debuted the song live at CBGB in October 1987, during the Appetite for Destruction Tour.[4] The song has been a live staple at Guns N' Roses concerts.[5] After last being played with the previous lineup in 1993, the song re-debuted in 2006 during the Chinese Democracy Tour.[6] It was played at every tour since, being played by the reunited lineup in 2016 during the Not In This Lifetime... Tour stop at Coachella.[7]
Reception
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic described the song as a "country-fried boogie", but criticized it as misogynistic.[8] Rolling Stone described it as a "hilarious countryish number that will probably have feminist hot lines jammed across the country".[9]
In 2016, Spin ranked the song 42nd out of 79 on their rankings of every Guns N' Roses song, saying "strip away the misogynist, dark, and twisted fantasy, though, and you’ve got a terrific, rootsy little mimic of an Allman Brothers’ on-the-road jam."[10] That same year, Medium ranked the song 20th out of 80, stating "The crowning achievement of the 'remember this was written in 1988 [1987]; that doesn’t make it right, but still' manifesto that encompasses so much of Guns' oeuvre."[11] L.A. Weekly ranked the song 18th of 64,[12] and Ultimate Classic Rock ranked it 28th out of 80.[13]
In 2018, Loudwire ranked the song 83rd out of 87, stating "This song feels like their attempt at the Stones’ “Dead Flowers”... The song was likely meant to be taken with a grain of salt, but that was tough to swallow given that Axl’s ex-wife Erin Everly accused him of domestic abuse."[14] Houston Press named the song 5th on their list of "10 Worst Guns N' Roses Songs".[15]
Cover versions
White Lung covered the song as part of a SiriusXMU live session.[16][17][18] In February 2018, Guns N' Roses rhythm guitarist Richard Fortus joined Blackberry Smoke on stage to cover the song.[5] L7 released a cover of the song as the B-side to their 1992 single "Monster", changing the lyric and title to "Used to Love Him".[19]
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