"Dirty Little Thing" is a hard rock song by the supergroup

Velvet Revolver Velvet Revolver was an American hard rock supergroup consisting of Guns N' Roses members Slash (lead guitar), Duff McKagan (bass, backing vocals) and Matt Sorum (drums, backing vocals), alongside Dave Kushner (rhythm guitar) formerly of pu ...

, released as the fourth and final single off the band's debut album ''

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''. The song was a top-ten hit on rock radio, although it did not repeat the number one success achieved by their previous two singles, " Slither" and " Fall to Pieces".

History

Before

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and

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joined the band, the band was slated to include Josh Todd and Keith Nelson from the band

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. "Dirty Little Thing" was written during the time with them. Suddenly,

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decided to boot the two from the band, but Nelson was given songwriting credit. The song has recently been the subject of a plagiarism dispute. Tony Newton formerly of rock band Dirty Deeds recently settled with Velvet Revolver after successfully proving that the main riff of "Dirty Little Thing" is a "carbon copy" of the riff in Dirty Deeds song "Cyber Babe".

Track listing

# "Dirty Little Thing" - 3:57

Song composition

The song's lyrics center around a girl who lives a crazy life involving sex, drugs and alcohol. The song opens with bass riffs from

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and then the guitar enters, playing major chords. The song has a string chorus and a guitar solo by

. The song's structure and sound is very similar to the opening track on ''Contraband'', "Sucker Train Blues".

Music video

The band is playing in the inside of a train, where there are a lot of women and gambling. The inside of the train is live action film, whereas the outside is animated. This train goes through various places such as

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, and finishing in

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, by the end of the video, the train car starts losing its fuselage, causing the band to turn animated. The camera then zooms out to reveal the train on a woman's hip. At the end of the video, the woman takes her position to match the cover on ''Contraband''. The video was originally intended to be for ''Contraband's'' first track "Sucker Train Blues"; however, the idea was turned down on label's imposition, which opted to release "Dirty Little Thing" in its place.

Charts

References

External links

* {{authority control Velvet Revolver songs 2004 singles Songs written by Slash (musician) Songs written by Duff McKagan Songs written by Matt Sorum Songs written by Keith Nelson (musician) Songs written by Dave Kushner RCA Records singles 2004 songs Songs involved in plagiarism controversies Song recordings produced by Josh Abraham