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#1491 Re: Guns N' Roses » One In A Million » 721 weeks ago
Bono wrote:I think Guns N' Roses were just too damn popular at the time. I also think as lame as the lyrics are Axl did manage to explain them even if his explanation was ridiculous. becaue it doesn't justify the lyrics. Thing is you had the biggest rock band on the planet with arguably the best frontman and guitarist of all time in the same band. A few lyrics weren't gonna derail them.
the sad part about all of it I think is that OIAM is one of their very best songs and in my opinion one of Slash's best solos and it IS Axl's best vocal performance. had Axl pulled his head out of his ass and wrote some proper lyrics the song coudl've beena big hit on radio and would likely be a classic rock main stay today. he didn't even need to chaneg the message of the song all he had to do was word it better. Still one of their best songs too bad it borders on hate speech
I love everything about the song but you make a very good point. There was no need to go that far and it is suprising that David Geffen (a gay man I believe) would let that out.
Yes, he should have taken the time to come up with a different way of expressing his point. Good Post Macphisto.
Bono = nail on head
I completely agree, and it's always been one of the biggest reasons I haven't ever been able to totally get into the song. Axl survived the fallout because GN'R were huge and people just loved him too much (and still do) to not forgive him. The fact most people blame him for breaking up GN'R, yet when he shows up somewhere everyone seems to geek out on him being there (other than other rock stars).
One In A Million i'm sad to say, because of the lyrics is only better than Reckless Life, Nice Boys & Mama Kin on Lies. I rank Move To The City, Patience, Used To Love Her & You're Crazy (in that order) all above it. Sadly it's a great piece by Slash instrumentally, and Axl has a great melody & chorus.
But there just had to be better lyrics out there than that. It might've been a raw, honest feeling from a small town white boy from the mid-west disillusioned with his false world in Indiana and the false world he experience in LA. From that perspective it works. But something about the song feels so dirty and trashy after you listen to it. Like an outtake from Jackyl or something.
Yet somehow i've always felt had Kurt Cobain wrote this song and screamed it over a distorted bass it would've been called "classic teenage angst". 
#1492 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash refuses to ever work with Scott Weiland again » 721 weeks ago
Hypothetical question:
If Axl could sing like he used to. Let's say 2006 or 2010 SO GOOD on it's best day, like 1993 picking up where it left off...
Would you still not want the reunion?
#1493 Re: GN'R Downloads » Better Gone » 721 weeks ago
maybe that is why we never got that remix album....drugs my friends.
Fucking suck ass drugs.
When you do good drugs you get White Zombie. When you trip fucking balls, you get this.
#1494 Re: The Sunset Strip » Prince Discussion » 721 weeks ago
That is totally bad ass that you did a completely impromptu deal like that. I got asked like that (with a much smaller band mind you) once and totally choked. Like pure Axl "if there's no planning, not doing it kind of moment".
I kind of regret it. A fleeting moment lost.
Great deal Russ. Total bad ass.
#1495 Re: The Garden » i need glasses » 721 weeks ago
Weird. I forgot when it started with me, but I do remember I started getting ghost vision, and seeing double. I had no clue it was just my vision slowly going until I saw a doctor.
#1496 Re: The Garden » Elementary School Shooting in US » 721 weeks ago
1) People will find conspiracies IN ANYTHING; so take with a grain of salt
and
2) The media and banks and governments will manipulate ANYTHING to suit their own needs at the same time; so don't be too skeptical
The government has guns. The banks have private armies with guns.
If the citizens lose there's? That's it man. The whole point of the constitution is flushed.
#1497 Re: The Garden » i need glasses » 721 weeks ago
I've been wearing glasses since high school. It'll be fine. Eventually I just went to tinting them like sunglasses and wearing them all the time, rock star style.
Most people have no clue that I wear Rx glasses. I usually have to tell them.
#1498 Re: The Garden » San Fransisco » 721 weeks ago
don't drop the soap....right JR?
Haha, nah I was actually thinking his opinions on guns. San Fran is always looking for a reason to hold a picket sign and be weird. San Fran has wanted to be a European city for so long.
But I still respect them for it.
#1499 Re: Guns N' Roses » Favorite Gnr Song From Each Album » 721 weeks ago
You know it's bad when GN'R is touring.... and we're doing 2005-style threads.
AFD: Welcome To The Jungle
Lies: Move To The City
UYI I: Coma
UYI II: Estranged
TSI: Human Being
CD: There Was A Time
#1500 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR according to The Manual » 721 weeks ago
I'd be willing to believe he's got a vault of weird shit, and i'd also be willing to believe that Axl thought CD was his most classic GN'R sounding album he had, and "if they didn't like that, then i've got nothing for them". I'd buy that too.
But if Axl truely wanted that music out there and to make a break, he'd do what i've suggested for years. Negotiate a reunion, buy securing the vault for himself. The label gets their reunion, maybe even the promise of a reunion record to tour behind for a few years. Axl gets his face and name turned babyface again the press for a new reunion, and then Axl can take every nugget he's got walk out the door and release it under "Axl Rose", and be as experimental and instrumental as he wants, while he tours the old hits with the original writers/performers.
I always thought he was an underrated piano player, i'd love to hear an instrumental album or an album full of Michael Mann film neo-noir synth music, or maybe even an album full of throwback John Carpenter 80's electronic ambient stuff. Whatever Axl wants to do. But he's got to realize releasing THAT kind of music under the name Guns N' Roses will never EVER happen. Uni won't allow it.
