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[mjpuczko]

i love appetite & almost all of UYI. i still think appetite is the best debut album. IMO IMO IMO IMO

 

how can you not love a song that starts out:

your daddy works in porno

now that mommy's not around

she used to love her heroin

but now she's underground

[JUDE]

... the Use Your Illusion albums. They could easily have condensed the best stuff from those into a single album...

 

This I agree with.

 

 

P.S. Slash > Nels Cline

[mjpuczko]

as far as an overall rock guitarist, i would totally agree

[Lammycat]

I like both the UYIs for the most part. A lot of excellent tunes to choose from, more than would have fit onto one album.

 

There's a time and place for GnR and I still go back to them 1-2 times a year and Appetite holds up very well 20 years later imo.

[JerseyMike]

Slash made GnR and everyone knows it.

 

Not true! IZZY made G'N'R. He wrote most of the tunes on Appetite, a great and seminal rock record.

 

Use Your Illusions was Axl's ego being overblown. A lot of trite crap on that one.

[bobbob1313]

"Mr. Brownstone" is what the Beatles would have sounded like if they sounded like Guns n Roses.

[stooka]

 

Enter insult here ____________________________!!!!

[cryptique]

When did Axl Rose become Boy George?

[Boots]

What I've never understood is all the praise for the Use Your Illusion albums. They could easily have condensed the best stuff from those into a single album, and even then it wouldn't have been all that great. Seriously overrated.

 

I think it helps to have been 12 back when they came out. That said Estranged still rocks

[rileykill]

Not true! IZZY made G'N'R. He wrote most of the tunes on Appetite, a great and seminal rock record.

 

TRUTH

[Duck-Billed Catechist]

http://www.nme.com/news/guns-n-roses/35812

[Degenerex]

Dr Pepper!

[John Smith]

http://www.nme.com/news/guns-n-roses/35812

 

 

Interesting. They have been working on this thing for so long and have recorded and re-recorded it so many times, that they could almost release it as a box set.

[LouisvilleGreg]

There's an incredible book out called "Reckless Road," that was done by Slash's childhood best friend. Basically, the guy was a compulsive scrapbooker and started documenting Slash's music career going back to 1981. He collected every flier for every show, took photos at every show, kept all reviews, etc, I mean way way before GN'R and on through the release of Appetite. It's an incredible behind the scenes look and is loaded with very early photos, backstage photos, photos with groupies, the works. The book basically follows a chronological order of all the shows and the stories are told through the lens of the members (sans AXL of course), their friends, girlfriends, and roadies. I still listen to Appetite on nearly every roadtrip I take, but this book made me listen to it like it was ninth grade all over again. Highly recommended rock book.

[Mr. Heartbreak]

I actually like Izzy and the JuJu Hounds better than G & R. I hate Axl's voice.

[suites]

I actually like Izzy and the JuJu Hounds better than G & R. I hate Axl's voice.

 

 

Word....I say the JJ hounds in Ft. Lauderdale, great show.

[Lammycat]

I actually like Izzy and the JuJu Hounds better than G & R.

The first one he put out is quite good, the second is decent. Im only have them on cassette but I may just bust them out tonight.

[nalafej]

I like the first three:

 

Izzy Stradling and the Ju Ju Hounds

117 Degrees

Ride On

 

The song writing goes downhill after that.

 

Even so, it is amusing that Izzy has put out 7 albums since Use Your Illusion and Axl has put out a cover album, a live album and recorded 5 released songs with other people.

[Analogman]

Guns N' Roses 'Negotiating' To Release New Album

Axl Rose

April 21, 2008, 12:55 PM ET

Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

 

With a new management team in place, Guns N' Roses is "in negotiations" for the release of its decade-in-the-making album "Chinese Democracy," according to a post on the band's Web site.

 

The message did not elaborate on what the discussions concern, or offer an approximate release date for "Chinese Democracy," which was last on Interscope's release schedule in March 2007.

 

In other GNR news, guitarist Robin Finck has left the Axl Rose-led band to return to Nine Inch Nails, and will tour with the latter act this summer.

 

"Robin's plans caught everyone in Guns, as well as our fans, a bit off-guard," the band says. "Neither we nor management, etc., know any more in this regard and we prefer not to speculate or offer opinions at this time."

 

"When we begin to put tour plans together, we'll see where things are," the post continues. "Until then, Robin's touring with NIN and we're working with management on our game plans.

[bigideas]

What I've never understood is all the praise for the Use Your Illusion albums. They could easily have condensed the best stuff from those into a single album, and even then it wouldn't have been all that great. Seriously overrated.

 

actually they did do that i believe.

i burned a cd from a friend that had tracks of both and it was not a mix cd or anything.

maybe it was released as a kind of budget cd.

[Lammycat]

ed. Listened to the supposedly finished tracks of Chinese Democracy. Some decent tunes but so-so overall. Certainly not 13-years-in-the-making worth it.

[Analogman]

I find this sort of thing interesting - but as time goes by - outside of some of those acoustic songs, and a few other songs, I don't really much care for GNR. This is not GNR anyway, more like - The Axl Rose Band.

[caliber66]

"Mr. Brownstone" is what the Beatles would have sounded like if they sounded like Guns n Roses.

That's only because Ringo played bass on it.

[Analogman]

Purported New Guns N' Roses Tracks Hit The Web

Axl Rose

June 19, 2008, 12:00 AM ET

Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

 

Nine purported "mastered, finished" tracks from Guns N' Roses' 14-years-in-the-making album "Chinese Democracy" were leaked online yesterday (June 18) by the Web site Antiquiet.com, prompting a quick cease-and-desist from the band's handlers and the removal of the links.

 

Six of the songs have already leaked in one unfinished form or another: "Better," "The Blues," the title track, "Madagascar," "IRS" and "There Was a Time." But these versions appear to be much further along on the path toward completion, and feature new touches like organ and tambourine on "IRS" and a beefed-up chorus with multi-tracked vocals on "Madagascar."

 

The three previously unheard songs are "Rhiad and the Bedouins," "If the World" and a track whose title is unknown.

 

"Rhiad," which was played live by Guns N' Roses in 2001 and 2002, is a pounding rocker with a trademark down-and-dirty main guitar riff and a flashy solo. "If the World" is a head-spinning blend of flamenco guitar, industrial synth tones, bluesy piano licks and Rose at the top of his vocal register, while the unnamed track is an even more unusual melange of piano-led crooning, orchestral bombast and a serene instrumental outtro.

 

"Chinese Democracy" was last on Interscope's release schedule in March 2007. In late March of this year, the Axl Rose-led band signed a new management deal with industry heavyweights Irving Azoff and Andy Gould and began what it described as "negotiations" with Interscope to release the album.

 

But even if its release is drawing near, "Chinese Democracy" will likely go down as the album with the most troubled birth in rock history. Work began on it way back in 1994, and since then, Rose has burned through a reported $13 million in production costs as well as every lone original member of the group.

 

The endless delays reached comic levels this spring, when soft drink manufacturer Dr Pepper offered to send a free can of the drink to "everyone in America" (excluding ex-GNR members Slash and Buckethead) if "Chinese Democracy" arrives anytime during the calendar year 2008.

[solace]

ed. Listened to the supposedly finished tracks of Chinese Democracy. Some decent tunes but so-so overall. Certainly not 13-years-in-the-making worth it.

 

it's absolutely HORRENDOUS... 100% awful

 

wow