i'm always surprised at how clunky and stitched-together a song WTTJ is
― goole, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
apparently it always surprises his current band, too
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
guys, i'm legitimately really sad! 12-year-old me thought he was so cute and rebellious!
― With extreme tenderness - flexible - always guided by the words (get bent), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
Our 8th-grade English teacher asked us, who's the next James Dean, the live-fast, die-young icon that will serve as the tragic face of our generation?
And we all said AXL!
― pplains, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
yeah get bent otm - I've had a hard, hard time letting go. It's only since Chinese Democracy that I've stopped expecting anything good from him. I was always so hopeful, you know?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
at least pplains' class got the "tragic" part right.
― With extreme tenderness - flexible - always guided by the words (get bent), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
its weird how he lost his ability to dance and sing, are we sure the real axl didnt die young
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
he must have pressed a button of some kind.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
but there's no denying he's always been a shitty person. it took me a while to fully come to terms with that.
I am mystified that anyone would have ever had the impression he was NOT a shitty person. being a shitty person was his whole persona!
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
yeah but teenage fandom doesn't really allow for realities of 'shitty person' to filter in, or at least it didn't for me
I had no idea til I was older that Slash was wasted 100% of the time, that they were all junkies etc
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
I mean I was 12, it's not like you're scouring the newspapers and magazines for THE REAL STORY
it's called denial. i really did not want to acknowledge that "one in a million" existed. la la la la can't hear you, etc.
― With extreme tenderness - flexible - always guided by the words (get bent), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
this is like when friends of mine (primarily women) say they had no idea Boy George was gay
xp
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 4:08 PM (44 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
speak for yrself lady *tilts fedora*
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
encyclopedia lagoon on the case
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
hey, my first rock star crush was george michael. no one's born with gaydar.
― With extreme tenderness - flexible - always guided by the words (get bent), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
I guess boys schoolyard gossip covers different topics than girls'
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
when I was in elementary school it seems like EVERY SINGLE pop star was rumored to be gay - Michael Jackson, Motley Crue, Boy George, George Michael, all the guys in Duran Duran etc
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
I still love that there were dudes in my high school who were CONVINCED Poison was an all-female band
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
oh, they're female? who plays their instruments for them?
― With extreme tenderness - flexible - always guided by the words (get bent), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
xpost Shakey that was me! George Michael too. I didn't know Freddie Mercury was gay til well after he died! I just liked their music and wasn't party to that information that other ppl knew. I had no older siblings or male friends or anyone that would ever think to clue me on that (which at the time would have also had to entail explaining what it was)
I led a very naive childhood/teendom, what can I say
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
tbf they do look like some fugly women herehttp://c3.cduniverse.ws/resized/250x500/music/637/7242637.jpg
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
xpost DJP - Mr Veg has a story from college where he was hanging out with friends in their dorm room, and talking about cute girls. One of the guys in the group was all "I think those girls are SUPER hot" and pointed to the Look What The Cat Dragged In album-flat hanging on the wall
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
what did Freddie Mercury have against Jaws and Star Wars? (I feel history has vindicated Freddie on the Star Wars front but this is a weird beef to have in a song about cycling.)
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
lol little boys are (were?) such vicious little homophobes it probably just got discussed amongst us more
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
actually one time a guy I had a crush on told me that urban legend about Jon Bon Jovi getting his stomach pumped and them finding a litre of cum or whatever. and it wasn't til years later that I figured out that was supposed to imply he was gay. I was like, 14 or 15 and I was all, why would he drink semen? LOL :/
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
i totally remember that urban legend. but i heard it about rod stewart too.
― With extreme tenderness - flexible - always guided by the words (get bent), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
yeah apparently there's a whole bunch of variations?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
I know we all mourned MCA earlier this year, but every Beastie Boy fan knows that it was King Ad-Rock who was the first to die when he O.D.'ed in 1987.
― pplains, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
my fave was the kid who told me an MTV film crew had, on live TV, interrupted Nikki Sixx and Vince Neil in the act of coitus
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
wow
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
was there peanut butter involved?
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
one the one hand, i have a horrible mental picture in my headon the other hand, i'm glad it's not tommy lee and mick mars
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
haha as soon as i saw this post:
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 3:12 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
...i was gonna say, in schoolyard gossip every single famous man has had a gallon of cum pumped out of his stomach. and here we are
― goole, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
marilyn manson was the last guy i recall that seemed to attract the gallons of cum/having rib removed to suck his own dick type rumors...i wonder who took up the mantle after he wasn't relevant anymore?
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 8:00 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
His voice sounded pretty darn good in 2006 believe it or not
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
macaulay culkin, one/all of the new kids, etc etc
xp hahah AAAAAND i was gonna say that the marilyn manson rib-removal story was kind of the industrial-goth variation on this thing
― goole, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 7:58 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I think CD is great. Axl can still write good music. Releasing it is a big hurdle.
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder who took up the mantle after he wasn't relevant anymore?
skrillex?
― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
I first heard the rib removal story as an explanation of how Janet Jackson lost all of that weight between Rhythm Nation and janet
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
Janet Jackson had a rib removed so she could suck her own dick?
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XOX_juLtAXU/T-OXGYgvIbI/AAAAAAAAAa8/s8ZyJS-ccqQ/s1600/hugh+marlowe.jpg
"I like that Axl, that quality of quiet graciousness."
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
are the rivers cuomo leg lengthening procedure and queen's dwarf cocaine party rumors still true?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
puts "If" in a whole new light, doesn't it
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
hmm.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
... as far as I know the Rivers Cuomo story is true?
Cuomo was born with his left leg 44 mm (13⁄4 in) shorter than his right leg. After the success of The Blue Album, Cuomo underwent a procedure to correct the condition. This involved the surgical breaking of the bone in his leg, followed by several months of wearing a steel brace which required self-administered "stretching" of the leg four times daily; Cuomo likened the ordeal to "crucifying [his] leg."[31] An x-ray of the leg is part of the album art for "The Good Life" single, and the experience inspired him to write the song. Cuomo can be seen wearing the brace on an episode of the Late Show with David Letterman, which can be found on their DVD Video Capture Device.
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
urban legends about pop stars are alive in the twitter era, lady gaga has a penis etc
― my mansplain songz (some dude), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder if we can lend credibility to the manson story if we edit wikipedia to say he donated the rib to be ground up and incorporated in rivers leg.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ "Cuomo was born with his left leg 44 mm (13⁄4 in) shorter than his right leg" -- i think the bigger issue would be a newborn baby with a leg that's over a foot long!
― my mansplain songz (some dude), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
ah yeah gaga! she's got the juice it would take to have a fake dick rumor, props
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link