the impression i got was that slash didn't like it at the time because it was kind of corny, but over time, he's grown to enjoy it.
― Poliopolice, Sunday, 28 October 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
riff is corny, izzy lifts it to glory anyway, solos rule
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 29 October 2012 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
can we talk about how great izzy was
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
i can talk about how great izzy was ALL DAY
but full disclosure i share his keef fetish so
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 29 October 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
heart and soul of that band etc etc
too bad his solo stuff is like 85% snoozeville
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 29 October 2012 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
That first Juju Hounds record was ahead of its time.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 October 2012 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
i haven't listened to it, i really should
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
No kidding... May be my fave "other guitarist in the band" next to Malcolm Young
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 October 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
I never heard anything after that first one, but I liked it a lot!
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Monday, 29 October 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
i remember liking the cover
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
I would advise everyone here to listen to "Welcome to the Jungle" again with fresh ears. How fucking amazing is this song? There's like 15 different parts and they all rule. I have an especially newfound appreciation for the badass Izzy guitar riff behind the "serpentine" and "sha-na-na-na-knees" part. KICK ASS!
― Poliopolice, Monday, 29 October 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
Juju Hounds record is killer. he's made TEN albums since then but i think i'm happier just assuming they're good than finding out for sure.
― Victory Goon (some dude), Monday, 29 October 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
Never listened to the Ju Ju Hounds album, but always kinda liked the cover. Maybe I'll check it out, seeing as how I'm basically stuck in my apartment for two days.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 29 October 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
spotify only has one of his, River? it's kinda meh.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
also, Duff is a hugely underrated bass player. he's got some great parts on AfD.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 29 October 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
Dust N Bones is still one of my favorite GNR songs.
from wiki: Stradlin was then asked by his former Guns N' Roses band mates Duff McKagan, Slash, and Matt Sorum to join the supergroup Velvet Revolver. Although he contributed to the songwriting process while the band was in its formative stage,[19] Stradlin ultimately declined to join due to his aversion to life on the road and his unwillingness to work with a lead singer, although he offered to split vocal duties with McKagan.[20]
Velvet Revolver would have been a thousand times better with Izzy & Duff doing vox vs stinky Scott Weiland.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
I just started listening to opening track on youtube
straight Keefing omg I love it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
Agreed. What a shame that Izzy wasn't part of that; and what a shame that Scott Weiland was. The GNR guys have been cursed with singers with awful attitudes.
Also, Adler on drums... He's got a great, sleazy style that just really works with GNR, something that accentuates how terrible and unfit Matt Sorum was for this band.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 29 October 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know enough about drumming to know if Sorum is good or bad but I just really cannot stand him. Him and Gilby fucking Clarke. gross.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
Sorum is "good," in the sense that he had a fine career as a session musician. But he doesn't have much in the way of character.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 October 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
and shiny
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
Although it has some decent songs, I'm actually not super crazy about Appetite, but I still think UYI is great. And really only about a quarter of it is filler/garbage ("My World" is one of the worst songs GnR or anyone has ever recorded), which is pretty good for a double album.
― Come Into My Layer (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
"Estranged" is awesome for sure.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 29 October 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't heard any reasonable complaints about my world that also don't apply to the rest of the catalog.I think my world might even have the same riffs as welcome to the jungle (but sped up)
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 29 October 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
I'm def a sucker for the Illusion ballads, and stuff like Pretty Tied Up, Dust And Bones, the real bluesy rockers. and I have a huge soft spot for Coma even though it's 9 million years long.
but Illusion could totally have stood being one album - some of that stuff like Get In The Ring is almsot impossible to listen to now, lol. Even when I listen now I think I skip at least half the songs.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
"My World" sounds like the work of a thirteen-year-old who just discovered ProTools and anger.
― Come Into My Layer (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
"Get In The Ring" also stupid imo.
― Come Into My Layer (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
Actually, it wouldn't be that hard to whittle down to a single album. The covers aren't bad but they're pretty unnecessary.
― Come Into My Layer (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
So the problem is protools? they're not allowed to use samples?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 29 October 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
Nunez, you're so off-base with this band, i don't even
― Poliopolice, Monday, 29 October 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
You wanna step into my worldIt's a sociopsychotic state of blissWhere dad can't make me mow the lawnAnd Mr. Harrison can't make me take that test
― Come Into My Layer (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
Nah the covers are good. I heard Knockin On Heaven's Door on the radio the other day, I was SURE I was sick of it but halfway through I cranked it up and was HAAAAY HAY HAY YEAAAH'ing right along with it lol
except I always hate that phone call part.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
again I don't see how this is more embarrassing than "feel my serpentine" or "yowza" or "Hunan grocery store ain't that fresh"
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 29 October 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
p sure it's human not hunan lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Chinese foodocracy
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 29 October 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
appetite for general tso's chicken
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
if his Hunan grocery store is anything like the one near my house, it really ain't that fresh
― Poliopolice, Monday, 29 October 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
loool
― Victory Goon (some dude), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
hahah
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
I am buying this Izzy & The Ju Ju Hounds album today, digging the hell out of it right now. unbelievably great
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
Enjoy it!
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 October 2012 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
yeah if you put a guitar in my hands it's pretty safe to bet that sooner or later you're going to hear bits of "somebody knocking" and/or "shuffle it all"
cf that keef thing
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 29 October 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
if I played guitar that's how I like to think I would sound too
or I'd try really damn hard to sound that way, lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
The Wikipedia entries on Use Your Illusion are amazing!
The Use Your Illusion albums represent a turning point in the sound of Guns N' Roses. Although they did not abandon the hard-rock tendencies vivid in their first album, Appetite for Destruction, Use Your Illusion I demonstrated, for the first time, more or less, elements of blues, classical music, heavy metal, punk rock and rock and roll classic. For example, lead singer Axl Rose plays piano on several tracks of both albums. This fact is evidenced by the numerous music videos produced in conjunction with these albums.
Plus:
See also:
List of best-selling albums in Argentina
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Monday, 29 October 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
i don't really like any of GNR's post-appetite albums ('lies' does have some great songs) and even appetite itself has plenty of uninspired moments but it never fails to amaze me how good 'welcome to the jungle' is. the riffs, the lyrics, the perfectly timed opening and build-up -- even axl's voice, which sometimes bugs me now, is crazy good here. for four minutes they really were the best band in the world.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
IMO the whole "what if UYI was one album" thing isn't quite true cuz these are all necessary:
don't cry 4:44double talkin' jive: 3:24november rain 8:57Dead Horse 4:18Coma 10:13civil War 7:4214 years 4:21Yesterdays 3:16Breakdown 7:05Pretty Tied Up 4:48Locomotive 8:42Estranged 9:24You Could Be Mine 5:43
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 29 October 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
little too much for one CD
yeah I started thinking between november, civil war, coma, and estranged that's almost a whole disc right there lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
i don't agree w/ those picks, but the fact that people can't really agree on what the ideal single album version should be is generally the best argument for a double album staying a double (xpost)
― Victory Goon (some dude), Monday, 29 October 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link