Song · Velvet Revolver
“She Builds Quick Machines” by Velvet Revolver
From the EP Melody and the Tyranny (2007)
“She Builds Quick Machines” by Velvet Revolver appears on 7 radio countdowns from 7 stations in 2007. It was first released in 2007 on the EP Melody and the Tyranny. Its best result is #22 on the 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2007. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #102 alternative song of 2007.
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"She Builds Quick Machines" fired the first shot from Velvet Revolver's Libertad, going out as the album's lead single on May 21, 2007, after a digital release a few days earlier, and it also turned up on the Melody and the Tyranny EP. The writing credit goes to Scott Weiland, Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum and Dave Kushner, and Brendan O'Brien produced and mixed it, with Nick DiDia engineering. It's hard rock with the pedal to the floor, built for speed rather than subtlety.
Dean Karr's video plays like a spaghetti western on a bad trip: the band as latter-day cowboys out in the desert near the Texas-Mexico border, Weiland got up as the Man with No Name from A Fistful of Dollars, spotting through a telescope an angel called Libertad, played by Fernanda Romero, who falls to earth and gets snatched by a hostile village. The song also landed in the video game NASCAR 08.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 95 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2007 | 106 |
| 2007 | 76 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2007 | 101 |
| 2007 | 74 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2007 | 89 |
| 2007 | 63 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON | 102.1 The Edge Top 102 Songs of 2007 | 102 |
| 2007 | 84 | CHOI Radio X Quebec City, QC | CHOI Top 101 Songs of 2007 | 101 |
| 2007 | 36 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2007 | 105 |
| 2007 | 22 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2007 | 88 |
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