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#1161 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses playing Brooklyn Bowl before Governors Ball » 700 weeks ago
Band sounded okay, Axl sounded fucking terrible. Horrible rendition of Civil War.
As nice as I can be. 
#1162 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Kings of Chaos (Supergroup with Ex-GNR and Baz ) » 700 weeks ago
Does anybody have any songs with Glenn Hughes singing GN'R classics (other than KOHD), that doesn't have Myles shitting all over it?
I would love to see what a Glenn Hughes-fronted GN'R would sound like. Might be the future after Axl crokes.
#1163 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Video Game Console Thread » 700 weeks ago
Regarding BATMAN: ARKHAM ORIGINS--
Definitely looking forward to it, although leaving the TAS/Nolan-world they created in the first two games will be a bit of a shock, not having the duo of Conroy & Hamill leading the way, nor Rocksteady who designed both games.
Not sure what to expect, especially with it being a prequel, but i'm honestly expecting the more fantastical/comic-book element to be toned-down and WB Games using this opportunity to move the franchise more into the Nolan world personally. A game more rooted in realism.
jmho, I think it's gonna be more different than anyone is letting on. Talk is too mum for my tastes.
#1164 Re: The Sunset Strip » Superman Thread. » 700 weeks ago
That's a bad ass trailer. Hype machine in overdrive like last summer.
To be honest though, despite looking forward to this. Have to think, is it only cause I'm fooling myself into thinking this is a Nolan film?
Can't fuckin' wait.
That's kind of how I feel too man. I know you're a big Batman guy like me, and honestly I was never big into Superman. The story was cool (basically a Jesus Christ retelling), but of the old films, I thought Superman was overrated, and the only one I really liked was Superman II: Donner Cut, and that didn't come around until years later. Never saw III, IV or Returns.
Batman at least had Burton. Superman ALMOST had Burton in the late 90's. But after Nolan made the definitive vision of Batman, despite "director Zack Snyder", this whole thing has Nolan all over it. Even in it's look.
Reminds me of Halloween II & III back in the day. Let's be honest, it might've said "Director Rick Rosenthal & Tommy Lee Wallace", but those films had 'John Carpenter' all over as Producer.
This film seems the same way. Nolan's Producer credit is felt all over this thing. And it's the only reason i'm going to see my first Superman film in a theater.
#1165 Re: The Sunset Strip » Alice In Chains » 700 weeks ago
No, I didn't catch that video. But I don't know after hearing this if i'm rushing for the next one at the same time. After four years, I thought it was gonna be BGWTB II, and not quite.
I'm hoping for more risk-taking on the next record with DuVall, and possibly some collaborations to breathe a little new life into some of the songs, like a Cornell collab (even though I think he was exclusively Layne's friend), or possibly something else. It wouldn't hurt to bring in a writer to take the load off of Jerry.
Now if it just comes down to Jerry's ego, someone might need to tell him to back off. But Jerry doesn't come across as an ego-case to me. I think he truely IS the only writer in the band. I think he was always that guy, until Layne became more comfortable around the mid-90's writing, and by then he was in decline.
#1166 Re: The Sunset Strip » Tesla to put out new album this summer » 700 weeks ago
They're definitely not bad, but I never became an expert on them because they seemed like too much of an Aerosmith knock-off to me as a kid.
I think Russ used to be a huge fan of there's.
#1167 Re: The Sunset Strip » Lady Gaga Hints At New Music » 700 weeks ago
I personally think she really needs to take her time and trim the number of cuts on the album.
Her last album was a bit of a bloated follow-up. Counting her bonus songs, it was a 17-song album, her limited-release bonus songs were better than some of her singles, and I personally think she's a better musician than her last release (she crushes contemporaries like Katy Perry & Taylor Swift).
I'm hoping she trims the fat, keeps it simple, and just drops like an 11-track album with no bonus tunes, and all the tunes are single-ready.
#1168 Re: The Sunset Strip » Alice In Chains » 700 weeks ago
Axlin12 wrote:I gotta admit, like King Animal, i've been listening to this over and over, and it's starting to feel more and more like the grower we all originally predicted. Even some of the tracks I said before are starting to change for me, like Low Ceiling. Suddenly they seem even better than before.
Sure there are immediate grabs, and still a couple of weaker ones, but like KA it's an album for fans and it's a slow burn. Suddenly alot of the stuff seems more defined than it was before.
That's what I was saying. I heard people say this album all sounded the same and I disagreed. It needs to be played and absorbed. As you do, these songs come to life. Most don't jump out immediately though.
I felt your review was premature to be honest (no offense at all.) Unless you had been listening to it for a week already, which I doubt you had.
Keep pressing play dude.
No I didn't listen to any leaks. The only "jump" I had on the record was I did the Amazon.com "CD + AutoRip-MP3" option and by 2am the day of release I basically was downloading the songs to my smartphone and listening full "old school headphones"-style, and really absorbing this, very fucking wasted. The right way. The AIC way.
And honestly I don't think THAT much has changed for me since my original review. Some things, yes, and I definitely think it's a grower. But I also still firmly believe BGWTB was a better record, but not by massive leaps.
I truly stand by my original assessment in a nutshell... TDPDH is AIC's Reload to BGWTB's Load.
That BGWTB was "their comeback record" moment, no different than Metallica in 1996, although Metallica's hiatus was far shorter, and they didn't lose their frontman. Regardless, that's still where i'm at.
Axlin12 I went back and read your review for the first time and I gotta say, you have to give more props to Low Ceiling and Breath on a Window - those two songs bleed into eachother so perfectly and I think it is the best moment on the album.
Also, as for the three "ballads" I easily prefer Choke. I agree with your comment that the positioning as the album's closer may warp some opinions on it.
I was listening to Breath On A Window the other day, and instrumentally the band is just on fire. Vintage Chains. But the chorus... I just struggle with it.
Breath On Window, Getting Tic Tac Toe, There Ain't Nobody Home...
Really? That's the big hook? The song that surrounds that chorus, deserves a better verse there imho. It's AIC's "Halfway There" moment on the album.
Yeah, Axlin.... I gotta give you credit. I listened to the record twice.. Blew it off as a shitty record.... I read your review, and you were spot on about a few things...
1.Lab Monkey
2.Voices
and
3.Where the FUCK is William Duvall on this thing? He killed Acid Bubble. End of list. And he's been in the band as long as Layne was. More in depth later... Thanks, man.**edit** and... #4: It really should have been an E.P.
And I also agree again. I felt that way about Load/Reload. Load should've been an EP, and Reload should've been the big Gun album comeback around 1997 with all the major hits. The cutting room floor stuff could've been saved as bonuses later on, or just re-worked for future albums to trickle out here and there.
In hind-sight I feel the same way about UYI I & II. Had UYI been a full album LP, like all the other rock acts at the time with the best of the best, and then in 1992 drop "Skin N' Bones" or "Get In The Ring", a post-LP, EP with the best of the stuff left over, it would've kept quality high.
Alice In Chains really showed how this concept could be successful in the 1990s. Jar of Flies remains one of the best selling EP's in history. I think people are forgetting something.
Four years
We waited four years for this? As much as I like this record, I don't hear anything earth-shattering to make it understandable for a four-year wait. So to me there are a few tracks on this that could've been kept off, and had the band buckled down, they could've dropped this as an EP a couple years after BGWTB. jmho
#1169 Re: The Sunset Strip » New Pearl Jam coming soon » 700 weeks ago
He changes it depending on the thread. *see Van Halen thread* 
(j/k)
As for Pearl Jam & Soundgarden, gotta be honest, Soundgarden destroys Pearl Jam. Although I can see Neemo's point too -- i'd take AIC over them both. Nobody is doubting Pearl Jam has a shitload of accomplished musicians who just bring it constantly, and honestly of the last 20 years Pearl Jam was the only band to survive and still remain fan-oriented. Gotta love that.
But on the other hand you gotta tip your outlaw hat to SG as well. Soundgarden were basically over and done in 10 years, and their catalog is solid. Granted i'm not a big fan of Ultramega OK (tries to be their Kill 'Em All! and it's just not), Louder Than Love is comparable to Nirvana's Bleach (take that how you want), but "the big three" is just an amazing trilogy of work. Badmotorfinger, Superunknown & Down On The Upside in the span of only five years is just an astonishing accomplishment. And although you could say the exact same thing for Ten, Vs. & Vitalogy or arguably Facelift, Dirt & Tripod or Bleach, Nevermind & In Utero in their respective periods... if I had to choose the three-album deal to go to a deserted island with, it'd be tough, but i'd go with SG over PJ. Choosing Badmotorfinger, Superunknown & Down On The Upside over Ten, Vs. & Vitalogy.
In the end, none of this matters. We all know the correct answer is...
Appetite For Destruction
Use Your Illusion I
Use Your Illusion II
#1170 Re: The Sunset Strip » STONE TEMPLE PILOTS return with CHESTER BENNINGTON as their FRONTMAN! » 700 weeks ago
And that's one of the main problems with these faction groups that are off-shoots of other popular bands. Usually the band's quite suck. Axl was VERY lucky that he had not one, not two, but three VERY capable bands to back him as Guns N' Roses to at least go out there and give it the old college try. He lost some people on image (2001-02), he lost some people on musicianship (Robin & Ron lead in 2006-07), but he found his sweet spot in the current incarnation since 2009.
Scott's backing band sucks (and i'm not even an STP fan). Has anyone ever heard Sammy Hagar without Van Halen or Chickenfoot? He literally plays with the equivalent of a local bar band. Bloody awful.
