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Fave guns n roses song

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by digsy
Paradise C for me.

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digsy | 28 May '05, 13:21 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I only know about 2 songs by them. am I missing out?


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appetite for destruction has some amazing stuff on it. forget your preconceptions and turn it up loud whilst getting ready to go out on a friday night and i guarantee you will feel LIKE A MAN!!! etc. no really do that its great.

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I think it would have to be 'It's so easy'. It doesn't have too much Axl Rose wailing & it kicks along. Having said that, I'd never chose to listen to G 'n' R ever again, and haven't done since I was about 14!

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I really find them irritating. They just come over as shallow and meaningless and i find nothing likable about them that i can connect with.

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Ahh but when 'Appetite for Destruction' comes out, you're 11ish years old, and you think hard rock is Bon Jovi, they were quite an epiphany. I have, ahem, moved on since then. However, they were a part of my musical development. Having said that, 'Use your Illusion 1 & 2' were fucking terrible. I wonder whether Axl Rose will ever shit out 'Chinese Democracy'?

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I know this is slightly harsh, but thank fuck im 6 years younger than you. Although a lot of brit pop (which was big when i was 11) has aged badly, its done so nowhere near as badly as gnr and their ilk.

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Yeah but hot on the heels of my G 'n' R phase (about a year later) came discovering the Pixies and Janes Addiction, along with such great British luminaries as the Wonderstuff, Pop will eat itself, Jesus Jones, EMF, Carter USM, Neds Atomic Dustbin etc which any grebo will tell you, fucking roooooooled (at the time!).

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Ah foiled.

I like singles by all of those bands.

Obviously i love the pixies

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On a par with velvet revolver for shitness

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I know they're cock rock of the highest order but they have a special place in my skinny heart.

Night Train for me.

*I got a molotov cocktail with a match to burn, i smoke my cigarette with style* he he

Velvet Revolver are cack though.

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I once heard about slashes pre velevt revolver band slashes snakepit

Were they any good or just more spandex cock rock?

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I cant believe you had to ask that question...

Slash is a one trick puppy, the man knows nothing else except cock rock...

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I know sorry

Hoping to expect a bit of kroutrock or even free jazz

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You could be mine

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November Rain or You Could Be Mine.

Appetite... is a great album but for some reason I prefer both Use Your Illusions.

Coincidentally a live version Civil War has just come on VH2 :-)

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All of them are utter shite.

Except for "Welcome the the Jungle". That is unbelievably awesome.

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this is just 'so fucking easy'!

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ALL of them are utter shit.

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people still like GnR?

eww.

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November Rain fo me.

"Everyone needs some time on their own"

True, Axl True. 12 years is pushing it though.

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Even at the peak of my young GnR fanaticism i couldn't sit through November Rain. It feels like watching Schindler's List on repeat.

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What always got me is how they never showed how his wife died in the november rain video...

She must have listened to the gnr albums back to back

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Lyrically, even though they did it as a cover it has to be 'Ain't It Fun.' The lyrics describe Axl Rose down to a tee, especially the line:

'Ain't it fun when you've broken up every band that you ever begun.'

Most ironic cover version to date I reckon.

Crap song anyway.

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I take it thats not the same song as the one by Rocket from the Tombs, which is amazing.

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Someone else has heard of RftT!!!!!

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yeah, great band. Have you read the article on Peter Laughner in Psychotic Reactions..., that compilation of Lester Bangs' writing? luckily read about the same time as The Day The Earth Met... came out. Although adds to the shame that they could never make a proper album

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Well I haven't heard the original so I can't really judge it, but it was a bad cover anyway.

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I looked on all music guide, i think its a different song...

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i can't believe the GnR bashing going on! - Appetite is one of the greatest albums ever made! Sure Axl is essentially Satan's scrotum, but some of the tunes they came out with stood them out from Motley crue and the like, who were truely and embarrassment

gettting back on subject, it just has the be Paradise City for me - their first hopelessly epic tune

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Yep it's the same song, but I have just 'aquired' the original and it pisses over G'n'R's cover. It's pretty damn good.

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No i havent.......

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The first time I saw them I thought, Hmm the guy with the silly top hat can really play the axe, but erm that guy can't sing fer shite.

But I was wrong. Later when Appetite came out it got played to death. Best: Jungle and Rocket Queen. Worst (terrible): Paradise City. Illusion records were more spotty but had some truly memorable stuff on them.

Now: In my reconstruction period I bought a G 'n R greatest hits. It's unopened.

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"Slash is a one trick puppy, the man knows nothing else except cock rock..."

Indeed. But the man who replaced him in GnR- Buckethead- is a leading free improv guitarist. He's worked with Derek Bailey and other uber-avant garde types.

And this discussion is wrong. Anyone in their right mind knows that Appetite For Destruction rocks like little else!

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civil war

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Mr Brownstone. Tip top.

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Rocket Queen, for the bit at the end where Axl goes all semi operatic and cant quite pull it off, sounds top.

Appetite was the first album i purchased, (pre Definitely Maybe), and is rather good, does remind me of Never Mind the bollocks a bit, for some reason.