gnr definitely have some duds in their catalog, but it's hard to pick out any songs that really sound "bad."

mike clink was a fuckin' wizard when it came to recording these dudes. sure, afd has way too much cowbell, but the guitars and drums blow you away every time you hear them. the production on spaghetti incident salvages the entire recording -- yeah, it's all covers, but the sound is pure gnr magic.

chinese democracy is obviously the elephant in the room. the final version of catcher in the rye is almost unlistenable. the vocals on rhiad have always sucked (but the instrumental version is a monster!). street of dreams went from the most modern sounding new guns song to a bloated, shiny piece of shit covered in glitter. bucket isn't anywhere near loud enough on the madagascar solo.

in classic era guns, i can't really name anything. i still listen to "breakdown" these days and it sounds great, imo.

i'm not an admin or mod and i completely believe you have those songs, but i'd love to hear anything, even if it is over the phone.

while we're on the subject, for anyone who hasn't heard, i highly suggest you check out walker on the appetite for distortion podcast. it's a very entertaining & enlightening edition of the show. i've spent years of my life researching this band and there was a lot of cool shit discussed that i hadn't heard before.

imagine being a complete outsider to gnr and reading a gnr message board in 2017

shitloads of people begging to send them silkworms in a pm

"that prostitute last night sounded like mickey mouse!"

what a wacky world we live in

the true magic of guns n roses came from axl, slash, duff and izzy sitting in a room together with acoustic guitars. none of them, including axl, were ever able to come close to re-creating that magic outside of the band. creatively, steven and matt are interchangeable.

by himself, izzy is just a really laid back songwriter who writes cool, mellow tunes -- nothing more, nothing less.
by himself, slash can craft good riffs and solo his ass off, but never took his sound anywhere interesting or challenging.
by himself, duff is just a punk rocker with an average song-writing ability.
by himself, axl is a man of a thousand ideas who can only execute on one and needs people around him to elevate and inspire him.

at some point during this tour, i hope the band found themselves backstage strumming guitars and piecing together ideas. it's the only way this band works... the cut & paste/pro-tools style is for the birds.

how does your vinyl sound? do any songs skip?