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#2481 Re: Guns N' Roses » B-Real: 'Chinese Democracy Is Not Real GNR' » 940 weeks ago
I was tempted to give some negative karma when I was reading those nonsense comments. Thanks to BLS, I only gave one positive. Axlism annoys me, these songs are far from being great. That's what he can do in 17 years with dozens of musicians to write for him for 13+ million bucks. Imressing.
#2482 Re: Guns N' Roses » B-Real: 'Chinese Democracy Is Not Real GNR' » 940 weeks ago
It's stupid not to like something before even hearing it. It's not Guns N' Roses, I agree, since Axl Rose isn't Guns N' Roses, but since Axl is great, the album can be great. A lot of music which isn't Guns N' Roses is great.
#2483 Re: Guns N' Roses » Radio Reacts To Guns N' Roses Single » 940 weeks ago
Over at the Velvet Rope, someone was saying that big releases like this generally don't play their best single first. They know they are going to get big sales the first week so you hold what you consider to be your best single until sales begin to dip. Sounds like a good plan to me. In the end, this record isn't going to live and die with radio play. Considering the cost to record it, it will be purely judged by sales.
I agree with your last sentences, but argue with the first ones. After 17 years of no new material, you'd better put out something incredibly exciting as the first single. You need to prove that you used these years (decades) to make something really great. It's the point where CD fails: the song is really simple with the 4-quint riff going through the whole song.
I like the tune, don't get me wrong, but the music structure and solutions are simplier than a grunge song. Of course, you must have another big guns in your pocket to hold the interest, but the first single could have been better. Well, it couldn't have been better if I look at the leaks. It's a good song, but faaaaar from being earth-shattering or interesting enough to make people think 'oh, what another briliant music can be on CD?'.
#2484 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash Exercises Freedom With Solo Album » 941 weeks ago
I know that a lot of fans wanna hear Baz, Alice Cooper, Michael Monroe etc. on the record, but I don't really need to hear Slash ripping with these guys again, since I don't see anything new and exciting coming out. I enjoy the Slash & Alice songs, but they're like, yeah, it's great, but we've heard it a million times. The direction I really want Slash to go is the one he mentioned before The Project, when he started working on his solo material, exploring African, Asian etc. music. That would be an amazing and exotic record with some bluesier songs and guest singers like Linda Perry, Fergie, Amy Winehouse, Lenny Kravitz etc. That's what I want.
When I was thinking of my favourite albums of all time, I realized that most of them materialized when the artist (whom I like for his/her 'usual stuff') came out of his/her comfort zone. Tori Amos exploded when started working with electronica on her From The Choirgirl Hotel album, leaving the piano in the corner. PJ Harvey's Is This Desire? and White Chalk are far from her punky guitar stuff - the first is full of electronica, the second is a piano album. Nick Cave left the harder and groovy rocking (I can't find the right words) and 'distrurbing' songs for And No More Shall We Part, which is mostly a piano album. Reznor's best work (since the magnificent TDS) is Still. He should have gone to that direction - thanks to Jeremy Dillon, we got nearLy. Robert Plant's best record in the last 30 years was his collabo with bluegrass star Alison Krauss... I mean... if Slash does something different, like the Obsession song with Marta Sanchez, it will be fantastic. 
#2485 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses to release Chinese Democracy single » 941 weeks ago
It's a good choice for the first single. The studio version is really great and catchy, although it's a very simple song. I don't mind too much that one of the few things Axl said about the album was CD will not be a single. Plans can change, and it's one of the bigger guns on the album. Good choice.
#2486 Re: Guns N' Roses » Fernando vs Mysteron » 941 weeks ago
The whole Axl camp is intriguing and disgusting. Axl should rid of them all. They make more damage on Axl, than SS could have done in a decade.
#2487 Re: The Sunset Strip » Which was the last CD you bought? » 942 weeks ago
Mikkamakka wrote:Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: Dig! Lazarus, Dig!
(to collect everything I like, but didn't afford earlier)
Good choice, The Cave never disappoints! Had the good fortune to check him live this year yet? Saw him at Brixton Academy in May - electrifying - a loads of classics and newies. The whole thing had a Grinderman kinda edge to it. Brilliant.
Last purchases for me - Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony.
Yeah, I saw him in Budapest. After not liking Abattoir blues too much I became a downloading motherfucker, and I didn't like Lazarus for the first listens. But I wanted to see them live so listened it more and more, cause I knw the setlist would be Lazarus-heavy. I started to like the songs, but the show was... terrific. One of the best shows of my life. I got there early so I had a place in middle of the first row! 
Warren Ellis is a genius and he almost stole the show, and it wasn't easy since Nick is one of the best frontmen ever. The new songs sound better live than on the record and the band was much tighter and rocking than back in 2004 when I first caught them.
Back on topic:
I've just ordered PJ Harvey's White Chalk and Is This Dsire? albums. 
#2488 Re: Guns N' Roses » How does the new material rank against the old? » 942 weeks ago
if cd was released in 87 and appetite this year a lot of you would have differing opinions
It's absolutely absurd. CD just isn't good enough and AFD is a masterpiece. I like a lot of artists and sometimes I like their later albums more. Sometimes I think they lost it on the way nad prefer the early works. Sometimes I like some early, some middle and some later stuff, with some terrible albums between the greats.
To tell the truth, I think Axl lost it - not his own talent, although now he makes very bad musical and lyrical moves, the old band wouldn't let happen. Axl lost the guys who wrote that amazing music, and now we're left with others, who aren't as talented as a band as the classic line-up was.
It's not about liking the old band more. I confess that I prefer the AFD and Illusion line-ups. But I totally accepted his industrial change back in 1998-1999. As the time went by and the material surfaced, I was left quite disappointed. Will CD be a bad album? No. Will it be great? No. There's some good stuff and some bad stuff, but not something that would worth more than 2 years of wait. And it took much much more time. CD is not an album to listen years later.
Of course, my opinion is based on the demos we've heard.
#2489 Re: The Sunset Strip » Which was the last CD you bought? » 942 weeks ago
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: Dig! Lazarus, Dig!
and
Tori Amos: Strange Little Girls
(to collect everything I like, but didn't afford earlier)
#2490 Re: The Sunset Strip » "What Are You Listening To" Thread » 942 weeks ago
PJ Harvey: White Chalk
