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#1231 Re: Guns N' Roses » Beating A Dead Horse » 931 weeks ago
I walked into Hastings today and saw that they had Chinese Democracy on the Best Sellers rack.
Is it now being offered at other retailers? It's the first and only time i have ever seen it anywhere but Best Buy.
#1232 The Garden » "Hello 911? I'm driving drunk" » 931 weeks ago
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BISMARCK, N.D. - Police get calls about drunken drivers all the time, but rarely do they come from the alleged offender.
A 17-year-old girl in Bismarck called 911 on New Year's Eve "to report herself driving under the influence," police Lt. Randy Ziegler said. "I've never heard of such a thing happening, and neither has anyone here."
The girl told authorities her location shortly before midnight Wednesday and officers found her in a parked car near downtown, Ziegler said. She failed a sobriety test and was arrested for failing to have control of her vehicle while intoxicated.
The girl, whose name was not released because of her age, was not cited for drunken driving, Ziegler said.
"Her keys were in her purse and she was parked," Ziegler said. "She did tell us that she had been driving around for hours."
The call probably was a plea for help, he said.
"She told us her life was spiraling out of control, and she had spent the majority of time drinking over the past two weeks," Ziegler said.
The girl was released to her parents Thursday.
#1233 Re: The Garden » The Rant Thread » 931 weeks ago
I am getting sick and fucking tired of all the God damned snow. It's like every other night that i find myself having to park in the road while i get out and shovel my driveway just so i can make it up it. Hell, most of the roads in my town are now down to one lane because of all the fucking snow.
There was a Rosaurs whose roof collapsed because of how much snow there is. A Wal-Mart has been closed for 3 days now because of the roof bowing down. And the place where i work didn't open until 3 hours later that it usually does because the roof was bowing- in fact it still is but the engineers say it's the way the place was built.
Spring can not come quick enough. We're not supposed to get snow for the next two days, but to make up for that, it's going to be cold as Hell, and then when it warms up we're going to get hammered with snow again.
#1234 Re: Guns N' Roses » So where exactly is Axl Rose? » 931 weeks ago
maybe there is something wrong with me...but I think Contraband and Chinese Democracy are both great records.
Just because some of the band members used to work together and choose not to anymore, doesn't mean we have to take sides or dislike one type of sound because we like another.
Two albums that I've enjoyed more than most of the stuff out there!
I agree. I like both Contraband and Chinese Democracy. And i like both STP and GNR. It seems people feel they need to pick sides on these debates. Both are great records, and both are great bands.
#1235 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy Chart Positions Thread » 931 weeks ago
HUH?!??!?!
This album sounds NOTHING like Guns N' Roses. That's the problem. Maybe with the sole exception of TWAT and This I Love, everything else is totally different. And there lies the problem.
If Axl was going to do a 'dated' album... then why not KEEP the traditional GN'R sound, and just do the material? Sure it'd sound dated, but it'd sound like classic GN'R. But instead, what he did was totally re-invent the sound of GN'R.... to something that was popular in the mid 90's.
Industrial-influences? WTF? If The World sounds like a Seal song, and even Riad is dated as far as techno goes.
He simply waited too long. This album would've been musically relevant, had it been released, by NO LATER than 2001, and I only say that to save Bucket's guitar work, which is probably the only thing in the album keeping it a bit modern.
I think what Axl should've done is modernize CD... AGAIN.... in order to be musically modern in 2008. If that means the rockers sound like Zombie, and the ballads sound like Nicklesuck... than so be it. It's really the only thing around being dated.
This album is dated, but not because it sounds like a GN'R album. It's because it doesn't sound like a GN'R album, yet at the same time, it's re-invented sound, is totally not modern either.
Some of the tracks sound like Queen. Catcher, This I Love... how will that appeal to a current audience? What's 'hip' about that? Those songs are throwbacks to the 70's, early-80's at the latest. SO... not only do they NOT sound like GN'R, they're also old too, for an entire different reason. You see where i'm going with this.
This is what a suit, sitting at Universal is saying, listening to Chinese Democracy, and having to tell HIS boss, WHY CD is underperforming.
I agree with you on most of this post. When I listen to modern rock stations and hear CD or Better thrown in the mix of all these new songs, it doesn't exactly fit right.
But then when you hear Metallica and ACDC playing on the same station, with CD or Better, then it starts to work more. The sounds from all 3 of these bands sound dated. People aren't complaining about ACDC and Metallica sounding dated because they stuck with the same sound. Metallica went back to their roots, and ACDC basically put out the same album again. But Axl re-invented the GNR sound, so it doesn't sound a lot like the old band. The new sound sounds dated. But i'm still not getting how this is a bad thing necessarily. It seems like a lot of people had huge expectations for this album and what it would do for modern music. It hasn't re-invented anything, nor is it going to.
CD isn't like anything else being played on the radio right now. For me, that works. I don't really care if CD is a huge financial success. As far as i'm concerned, that's more of a fault on Axl's part for the zero promotion put behind it than of the quality of material.
#1236 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy Chart Positions Thread » 931 weeks ago
I never said that I wanted it to sound like Nicklesuck.
I said that to get around the 'dated' sound, that's the route he'd have to go. It'd have to sound like modern rock radio.
I'd rather him not go that route. There's not much good on modern rock radio right now.
#1237 Re: Guns N' Roses » Where Do We Go Now? » 931 weeks ago
I doubt GNR will be over. It's just a question of where they're going from here. There will most likely be a tour. As for a bunch of album promotion, i'm not expecting it.
#1238 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy Chart Positions Thread » 931 weeks ago
Axlin08- there is part of your post i just can't wrap my head around. Why the hell would you want Axl to put out ballads that sound like Nickelback? I heard one of the ballads off Nickelback's new album, and practically every line he wrote was a cliche. Not something i want Axl to do.
#1239 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy Chart Positions Thread » 931 weeks ago
Smoking Guns wrote:James Lofton wrote:Helped? That entire boost was Christmas shoppers. A 9% increase isn't 'shocking'. Its Christmas season and there aren't a ton of new albums out. What would have been shocking is if there had been no boost at all.
However, a boost is a boost any way the cookie crumbles.
James, lets just agree with them so they shut up... HA. The album was released during the highest spending time of the year and that was done to maximize sales. If this maximized them, I would have hated to see what would have happened had this thing dropped in february.
Actually, that dead zone of Jan-March will be a good indicator of the album having any staying power. There will be little to no competition, and they better take advantage of it because they will be vaporized by the releases coming in March through the summer. U2 will destroy everybody, and there's gonna be a ton of rap/hip hop releases in that time frame. I don't listen to any new rock bands, but I assume some of them will have releases then as well.
March is definitely this album's cut off point. Hopefully Axl has something up his sleeve he's just waiting to unleash next month.
Actually, Universal has a big release coming between Jan and March. Last i heard, Eminem is releasing his album in January.
This album is going to have competition either way it works out. We'll see how it plays out.
#1240 Re: The Sunset Strip » Ultimate Dream Band » 931 weeks ago
That was educational. I never knew the names of the other 2 guys in U2. Thanks Bono!
Why is Bono's post a joke when he lists all the members of U2 with one added in, but when people do the same for GNR no one makes a joke? 
