IRS is great
Prostitute is one of the best GnR songs from any era

madgas quoted the night they drove old dixie down
weirdly i've had that line, esp they should never have taken the very best, in my head the last 3 or 4 days.. maybe it was some pre-cognitive thing waiting on this thread.. be disappointing if this shit is all i have waiting on me tho..

muse suck
lol@slither mash-up > ITW original & @ the Beautiful Dangerous remix BS. mad people.

GnR stopped being fuckin GnR the day Izzy packed up his songs & headed to the beach.
the influences & styles on CD are so varied & heart-stoppingly exciting - & not just where Axl's Elton-obession & lyrics are concerned - that i still discover cool new things to explore whenever i put CD on (which isn't often anymore)

i think CD title track is the weakest album opener of all GnR's proper albums... but even then it's still a p mindblowing hard rock tune.

i know it's been used a lot but it really is frankly brilliant the personalities & ideas/ideologies that come thru on CD, even if it is awash with Axl's demented paranoia. to quote Bumble/Axl & whoever else dared talk about CD's successes, but really an album containing two frightening dexterous guitarists (BH & Bumble) & the hodge-podge of talented accomplices (chiefly Brain & Pitman - Tommy's relative absence is a sad note, of course) make it a much more fascinating & progressive hard rock album that there's been since probably UYI2!

no joke, CD is a landmark hard rock album in much the same way UYI2 was. there hasn't been anything in the intervening years, or since CD was released, that comes close to the zealous mania on show in CD.

that's balls mate
yea axl loves his balladry but CD is streets ahead in ambition/imagination in songwriting terms than anything any of the other guys have done. compare Better (in any of it's guises) to Slither & it's ridiculous. diversity? the problem with CD is that it has too much scope, every song tries to be a pocket symphony.
CD is so far removed from Contraband & Libertad most notably that i'm amazed to see people say what you've said.
Slash, until the Slash album, was stuck in a the same songwriting rut he'd been in since 5 o'clock - and only one or two times on the Slash album did he do something different and cool.

now on topic, yea props to Slash for playing Civil War when Axl doesn't have the energy or sense to go there. & there are about another twenty stone-cold classics in the catalogue that never get an airing (RNDTH springs to mind straight away)

ok. start holding your breath... now!

i'd actually love to see GnR in Mexico City - or in Brasil or Chile. Latin/South America is rock's last outpost. even European rock fans are a dying & mutated breed.

u people r crazy
sandals rule
the dude abides, never forget. more of a man than any of u suckers.

obv when you're going to concerts tho they're a no-no
how u gonna survive in the mosh pit w/sandals?
russ' shitty bear complaint @ concerts/festivals is ot$

& it's not only axl who treats his fans like shit - here morrissey gives a life-time ban from his gigs to a fan who runs a website dedicated to him:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicbl … issey-fans

worse than throwing people out for wearing slash t-shirts? ( )