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#1141 Re: The Sunset Strip » Sebastian Bach: New album update » 689 weeks ago
Never checked out Kicking and Screaming after being disappointed by Angel Down.
Probably should...
#1142 Re: The Sunset Strip » Brother Cane » 689 weeks ago
I really liked these guys in the 90's and their unique southern rock meets grunge sound, that was very unique to them. Always thought had GN'R recorded that infamous '95 album with Axl, Slash, Duff & Tobias that their rockers would've come out sounding like them.
Got No Shame is still a foot stomper, and Fools Shine On and it's appearence in Halloween 6 have become my iconic of my unique childhood. These guys will always be fondly remembered.
I think they died because of getting abused by the industry big wigs, poor management, and the shift of the business by 1997 to Creed and Lifehouse-type bands in the alt rock scene.
#1143 Re: The Sunset Strip » Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson Duets Set For Release » 689 weeks ago
Hopefully these see the light of day as Queen tracks.
#1144 Re: The Sunset Strip » Ratt » 689 weeks ago
Looking forward to it. Infestation was an awesome comeback, and one of their best records actually.
#1145 Re: The Sunset Strip » New Pearl Jam coming soon » 689 weeks ago
Song sucks and the album art is worse. Seems like another liberal villianization of God n' Guns.
What stuns me is for as anti-establishment as these grunge bands were, in their middle age they seem to be so willing to trust government and willingly champion the dismantling of individual freedom.
If anything i'd think they'd make music that is the opposite, almost to the point of being pro-terrorist at this point.
#1146 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Winery Dogs » 689 weeks ago
I heard these guys on the radio, with some radio guy I listen to talking them up like their debut album was the best thing he'd heard since Appetite.
Umm... not close. But I will say it's quality rock. A good album, that never bores, and is a good listen from start to finish. Favorite tracks were I'm No Angel (might be the best rock single in years), Time Machine, and The Dying.
Kotzen blew me away. I never knew he could even sing. Very Cornell-ish. Lyrically the album is a bit more for the melodic rock crowd, but still quality. A few songs trail off into too much bass, and drum soloing to show off Portnoy, that don't fit the tone.
But the album is like a cross between Ju Ju Hounds meets Soundgarden meets Alice In Chains meets Cream meets Clapton solo meets 80's melodic rock. You like that, you'll like that.
#1147 Re: The Garden » UK Government Starts Internet Censorship » 689 weeks ago
Reversed? Are we taking bets?
I'll take that bet. I'll put $100 down on "NEVER EVER EVER EVER IN A MILLION FUCKING YEARS GONNA BE REVERSED"
I'd also like to put $100 down on "U.S. decides to implement TSA security checks for life"
#1148 Re: The Garden » UK Government Starts Internet Censorship » 689 weeks ago
Censorship of porn is almost never about porn itself. It's motivated by a desire to enforce societal conformity in thought and art. While I wouldn't argue that all porn is OK, I'm fiercely opposed to censoring it. It's just too big an avenue for government to attempt to legislate moral norms that should be allowed to arise naturally out of society. I'd also be willing to bet a fair sum that any attempts to ban certain forms of porn will be discriminatory and unfair - for example, gay porn will be much harder to access while violent heterosexual porn will likely still make its way to people. I have no faith in any government to be able to be a fair arbiter of what porn is acceptable or not. I think the best choice is to treat it as speech and leave it mostly free. The US Supreme Court's experience is informative here. They used to rule on a lot of obscenity cases relating to pornography and were so frustrated by the difficulty of establishing a coherent legal principle for them that they eventually just stopped granting cert to those kinds of cases and created the broad standard of obscenity we have today, which allows almost anything that can be reasonably argued to be of any merit, even artistic. And you certainly won't see SCOTUS ruling on what's art and what isn't when they can avoid doing so. It's simply too difficult, and flirts with very dangerous government power in an area of life (expression) that is recognized to be essential to functioning republics and democracies.
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Again this is just another over-reach of government authority to try to dictate what people should see and how they conduct their lives outside of the established reality. Government on it's best day provides health care when others can't get it otherwise or affordable college (which should be free and grade-based anyways), and on every other day... it's this. Continuing to try to dictate beliefs, morality, censorship, and what you do with every facet of your life all the way down to what you can and can't search.
Kinda like the U.S. elderly couple awhile back who searched "Pressure Cooker Recipes" and "Backpacks for trip" at the same time, and had the FBI raid their home.
But hey... Obama and the NSA don't spy on you -- shhh, "all is well"... "all is well"... "all is well"... 
#1149 Re: The Garden » GnR Lockout Challenge » 689 weeks ago
Missed this thread eons ago in my self-imposed exile, and can honestly say I rarely listen to GN'R anymore. I DO have them in my Droid phone, but it's almost ceremoniously. I almost never ever listen to it, especially Chinese. Nothing personal, but even the rare quick listen it's not that. The only tracks i've listened to of GN'R in, I don't even remember, has been Jungle live and PC live back in the 87-93 period, and that's it. I listened to Estranged the other day on YouTube (the video) and it was the first time i'd heard Estranged since I watched the band perform it live in 2011. That's a long time for your favorite song ever.
I've just been busy and more interested with other bands that you know... actually work? Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, even that new Winery Dogs record. No Guns tho. The leaks are the first GN'R i've heard in ages, and I can honestly say it did not have near the affect on me as leaks would have 5-10 years ago.
#1150 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » GNR - Past, Present and Future » 689 weeks ago
Never seen that. Duff... damn, he was in HORRID condition at that point. So shocked he even lived. You would think he would've been another Seattle rock casualty.
