This album has become a regular inclusion to my workouts, particuarly cv stuff, its great for letting your mind wander and reflect about things, taking your mind off any tiredness your feeling. UYI2 is a pretty good workout album as well. Although admittedly sometimes you really need something a little more aggressive to push yourself that bit harder

Nice one

I've been listening to This I Love quite a lot recently and for me its about his mother. I know it was allegedly begun years ago about Dylan but I believe its more likely the piano score was begun then and the lyrics were created much later, it could be two-fold though.
The way I listen to it is like an ode to his mum, who I presume died of cancer,  and may have withheld her illness from him. Its only speculation but thats my interpretation, I'd love to know the truth. From what I've read they mended their relationship and Axl holds his family dear and I cant help but think this is his way of cleaning the slate for calling his mum a cunt in Bad Obsession. Its such a sad song and the child like lyrics are perfect for a child to mother type interpretation of love. But the two fold theory I have also means it could have the child like rhyming because it was aimed at Dylan.
Whatever it is, its stil very deep and powerful.

Catcher In The Rye deserves a video, a good reflective one with young unknown actors and the only footage of the band being of them playing in a live setting. I'd love to play the Holdenesque character, I've got a mean hundred yard stare that deserves to be immortalised

I think being chilled out helps, it aint party music.

Its cool man, suicide is an awful thing to deal with though for those left behind to carry on, especially for one so young. I think its a fitting song, for me anyway but I'm sure many others would find something in it for themselves. It doesnt matter a damn how many haters there are out there claiming Axl Rose is washed up, the man will always have an appreciative audience because he, like few others, can provide a voice for the unfortunate and downtrodden people of the world. It is and always has been his honest straightforward poetry of sadness and defiance that makes GNR such a big part of my life. There is no lyricist who comes close to Axl Rose in my life for putting into music the kind of things I empathise with, its not cause he is the greatest, but its something else, something heartfelt that exposes lesser peoples contrived pretence.