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#531 Re: Guns N' Roses » Will GNR release new music in 2021? » 251 weeks ago
166 days until we can make the "Will it happen in 2022" thread 
#532 Re: Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…Riad » 252 weeks ago
The other is that we all now know monkey sings Riad in the shower.
I'd play you guys my offical clip of it but I'd never be able to get Lars to sign off on it 
#533 Re: Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…Riad » 252 weeks ago
I always feel the vocal is under appreciated in this song. Bust out a version in the shower and you'll see what I mean - it's hard to sing right...and it's actually kinda cool as it's own thing.
#534 Re: Guns N' Roses » WTF happened to…Catcher in the Rye » 252 weeks ago
I actually think what Ron did he was a good version of playing the solo in his own style and making it more shreddy and consistent with the tone/sound of all the bucket/ron 'industrial' solos in the other tracks.
It kinda keeps the main thematic ideas of the solo (which I think are said to be assembled by Axl out of Brian May's various takes) but makes it match the rest of the record.
So I don't at all blame Ron for the changes to the song.
However of all the songs on the album, this is the one that sort of lost something intangible with it's redux version...there's just a vibe to that "demo" version that's not on the final. I think it might be the mix - the early version feels piano driven and you feel the song pushing along with Axl's piano in a way thats kinda not there now.
#535 Re: Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…There Was a Time » 252 weeks ago
I'm still obsessed with the vocal in this song.
Those screams are incredible.
Old GNR fan in me would love to have heard a Slash outro on it - not the cover he does of Bucket's solo these days but like something he originally composed to fill that section. That said I enjoy the bucket solo and overall there's not really anything I would change about this one.
#536 Re: Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…The Blues (Street of Dreams I guess) » 252 weeks ago
I think Axl's songs explore emotional states across relationships and thus kinda have layers of meaning.
So I think something like Street of Dreams can be partially directed to a troubled romantic relationship but then specific emotions or sometimes lines from the song can express how that same emotion is mirrored in a troubled friendship, or troubled feelings about an institution of society etc.
So to me it's not that the song is specifically about Steph or Slash or Erin or the record label or whoever...it's about that feeling of nostalgia for something and realising even if you got it back it wouldn't be what it was and then wondering if it ever was what you thought it was.
Which isn't to say aspects of it don't apply to those relationships - they probably do and that's probably why he wrote the song - but to me it's kinda deeper than just writing a song specifically about the one person. It's about how those people reflect that concept.
Then again...what the fuck would I know...you'd have to ask Axl. But I do think I remember him commenting once that specific lines are not always directed to a specific person or something similar.
#537 Re: Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…If The World » 253 weeks ago
Def a bond song but I really like bond songs so that's cool.
Underrated vocal line IMO, I think Axl sounds killer on this track.
Basically really like this song, some ways I would actually like it produced without the guitar and even more like a bond song.
Melissa/Brain remix had even more fucking around than the album version but still shows off the basis of what a great vocal line it is to me.
I know it's a bit different for GNR, but I would love to see more of this type of writing from Axl. I can almost imagine what a more pop Axl album would have been like with awesome melodies and lyrics as it's own thing.
#538 Re: Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…The Blues (Street of Dreams I guess) » 253 weeks ago
I find with a lot of GNR songs once they do something cool to it live then the studio version then forever lacks that thing.
Sort of like in YCBM i'm always listening for "with your ass in the air" or the 2006 era opening to Jungle....
There's two of these with the blues.
One of them is the time Axl sort of sang the musical crescendo then diminuendo in the song that the guitar does before the "what this means to me" part. On the record there's a swell of the guitar, but there's a live version where he does an "Arrghhhhh" raspy thing to the exact tune the instruments do....now it forever lives in my mind in the song.
The other is "ok nevermind" but that's just funny.
#539 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 254 weeks ago
I find that sometimes when people's behaviour is really contradictory too it can take a moment to sort of fully process exactly what they just did.
You sort of assume it was somehow your fault, or like sometimes I'll attempt to forgive the person like it's not so big a deal, then you get progressively angrier over time as you realise what a violation it really was.
I could imagine that happening with a cosby victim too. Like he seemed charming and is very funny in person. Everyone else loves him. He has a reputation as a clean cut champion of family entertainment. That's in direct opposition to how he seemed to drug your drink. Now he's acting like you're still friends and not mentioning the rape at all, acting like it didn't happen. It's the kinda thing that makes you temporarily question what happened - did you say something that made that happen? Did you drink more than you should? How sure are you that there were drugs? Maybe it was an accident etc?
I had a situation once where I had been single for a long time and unhappy about it. I finally meet a new girl and things are great. Few months in a bring her to hang out with one of my best mates (who had his own girlfriend). Throughout the course of the night this guy brings up in conversation how much in love I had been with an ex-girlfriend. He tells my current girlfriend all about how I had said I would never love anyone else. He basically tries to wind her up and split us up. Then he goes back to normal hangs with us. Makes plans to see me again. Hangs out with me again like it's no big deal. I bring it up and he just says "oh did I say that? Probably just chatting" and plays it down when he had gone on in detail to her about every one of my faults for like an hour lol.
Was kinda hard for me to process...cos like trying to bust up my relationship apparently just for fun and for no reason is not the actions of a friend, yet this guy has been friends with me for years, and he's not acting like he wants to end the friendship verbally. Just like it's going to a new normal part of our friendship to fuck me over now. But not even admit he's fucking me over.
So like this kinda made me mad over time. I forgave him on the spot for the dumb comments at first cos I was just kinda shocked and figured he fucked up some how, but then it started to eat at me ....like why did he do that? What else will he do? Did I cause it? etc.
So like...while in principle I agree with Randell in the idea of like "why would you keep hanging out with a dude who raped you" I can also see how sometimes when people are very nice to you generally but then randomly do something completely assholish and seemingly out of character that it can take a little bit to process what the hell happened.
#540 Re: Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…Better » 254 weeks ago
yeah...I love the album...but I think given how a LOT of it is ballads there's kinda a "duty" (lol I bet team brazil would love that word) on the rocker tracks to be rocker tracks.
One of the problems to me is how because the songs are experimenting with being cross-genre and taking different directions they jump around so much it kinda makes them not really sit well in any genre. It's like a movie that starts off as a horror, then becomes a drama, then has a comedy sequence and then a historical flashback, then ends as a doco. Like no matter how well each section is done the result is somehow less than seperate complete works in those genres would be.
A comeback rocker along the lines of the first verse of better would be badass. A metal sounding piece along the lines of the bridge would be hardcore. A blues rocker like the outro would be great. An industrial piece about masturbating robots would be acceptable after a few drinks. But all of them in the one track 30 seconds appart. Where's my foreplay Axl? 
