it would be a better song if he'd...made animal noises
if the internet weren't what it is & things weren't what they are, not that I'm complaining, I would track this version of "Every Rose" in Garageband right now & yall would get good lols btw
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
xp no no, that's my exact verdict, it's exactly where my complaining comes in - people defending Warrant say "what's not to like, Van Halen was dumb & so's this!" and it's like saying "what? you like to eat Doritos, here's a milkshake with actual human shit in it, same diff!"
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, May 25, 2012 12:40 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is a strawman, dude, nobody said this. people made an argument for Poison being acceptable when taken on its own terms, and i pointed out that those terms in no way lead anyone to putting them on equal footing w/ actual great bands, which you took to mean the opposite.
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
haha clemenza Bernie Taupin has no business accusing anyone of writing terrible lyrics.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
pplains is bored
You got me wrong, mang. I haven't listened to Poison all day.
― pplains, Friday, 25 May 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
what about last night?
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder if Bernie Taupin looked at the Ramones in 1976 and felt like that; I'm going to guess that he was appalled
I bet Shadow Morton, who I rank over Taupin, looked and nodded approvingly
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
I think we should rank the relative success of all pop songs by how many awkward teenage handjobs they inspired. In that case, "Every Rose" towers over every other song brought up in this discussion. By any other definition however, its a profoundly shitty song.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
one of the funniest things about Rock of Love, and there were many, was how "Every Rose" was constantly referenced and as an emotional device, because it was the closest thing Bret could lay claim to as an actual great, enduring song, and the more skanks would quote its lyrics to him or he'd get all misty remembering writing it or whatever the more hilarious its pseudo-profundity would get. and of course, it actually made me like the song more.
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
referenced and USED as an emotional device
I think we should rank the relative success of all pop songs by how many awkward teenage handjobs they inspired
then pop music was for me a horrible waste of youth
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
if any of the awkward teen handjobs I received had been inspired by any Poison song but ESPECIALLY "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", I would consider my life to be a failure and I also would have castrated myself sometime in my twenties
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
the brain-damaged Springsteen antics of their post-Extreme acoustic move "Something To Believe In" may be even more entertaining, though
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
self handjobs count, of course
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
okee doke dude it looks to me like you switched horses hard at one point but maybe I missed your point about how
lousy lyric writing can be as much an essential part of the character of an enjoyable piece of music as lousy musicianship
by the way what was more depressing Rock of Love or Flavor of Love
oh my God I hate that one too
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
"addled" best describes "Something to Believe In."
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
I have something for you to believe in, Bret, it's called "my fists, swinging"
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 25 May 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
Flavor of Love was definitely more depressing, white trash minstrel shows don't have nearly as much racial tension
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ otm
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 25 May 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
i was always on the same horse but i also wasn't actually involved in the initial defense of "Every Rose" and was jumping on the tangential back end of that convo, so my POV may have been understandably conflated w/ someone else's
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
i mean tbh i have no idea how your argument here squares with your old rant at me about how eminem's hooks are above criticism because people bought those records by the boatload, but i'm assuming there's an apple and orange somewhere
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
btw thank you Spotify for playing Bel Biv Devoe directly after "Every Rose" as a palate cleanswer
lol Poison's disastrous blues-influenced 1993 album Native Tongue has a track titled "Richie's Acoustic Thang"
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
dude, can you smell the corpse?
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
a hook, like the thing that inspires its name, catches people. a good hook catches lots of people. a bad one catches none. the only qualification for a good hook in my mind: is it catchy, memorable, does it draw people in. maybe I hate it ("I Gotta Feeling," say) but it's kind of past being called "a bad hook" I wonder if our disagreement on that didn't have to do with whether the lyrics in the hook were good or bad, but that's a different matter imo. The hook is largely hearing-and-head-nodding function, not a lyrical function. If we're talking about it as a lyrical aspect then I'd be talking about the chorus.
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 25 May 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" is a pretty catchy hook!
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
lol I was just about to make that point
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 25 May 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
good hooks can be very nicely undercut/ruined by, surprise, shitty lyrics
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 25 May 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
or also if they're by Poison, that will let all the air right out of a good hook
'rose : thorn :: night : dawn' really is some nonsense
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
incidentally a lot of lyric sites credit the song to GNR
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
haha well I'd say "don't get me started," but...
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 25 May 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
love this scene so much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-eXUtoDH4g
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
as teenaged guys are wont to do, a bunch of us were hanging out talking about female musicians we thought were hot and one guy said "the drummer from Poison, man she's GORGEOUS"― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, May 25, 2012 3:09 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, May 25, 2012 3:09 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Bought Look What The Cat Dragged In with my mom at Kmart when I was in 3rd or 4th grade. At dinner that night, my dad was asking about our shopping trip and mom said "and Doug bought an album by a nice-looking group of girls named Poison". She got a little downcast when I corrected her.
― how's life, Friday, 25 May 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
i remember buying the first Pearl Jam while visiting family in Virginia, and when I showed my Beastie Boys/Fresh Prince-loving older cousin what i bought, he looked at the indistinct long-haired figures on the cover and earnestly asked "are they all girls?"
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
Between the pink background and the "Pearl", I was sorta uncomfortable about buying it, but I liked the music.
― how's life, Friday, 25 May 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
(this was after I had been shamed out of liking glam metal first by my parents, then by my hip-hop/r&b middle school friends)
― how's life, Friday, 25 May 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
I was always very confused by gender bending musicians as a kid. It kind of blew my mind when Boy George sang "I'm better than the rest of the men" in "Miss Me Blind". But then I just now remembered my bafflement about the short-haired elementary school classmate named Jennifer and I guess I was just generally baffled by exceptions to the gender norms that were being drilled into my head.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 25 May 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
that aero is conflating poison and warrant is kind of all i need to know he's just hatin to hate
― da croupier, Friday, 25 May 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
seriously, aero you need to check out "32 Pennies" by Warrant. Check it out, and apologize to Jani.
― da croupier, Friday, 25 May 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
jani's gone, man
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
5 seconds into this and I seriously just want to die
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
what do 32 pennies add up to
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
did he really just roll the r on "Ragu"
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
did he really just blow your mind? the answer is yes
― da croupier, Friday, 25 May 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
Spend my time and all my moneyOn a knob for my brass bedClimb to the top of the highest mountainJust to see how far I get
I mean come on
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
to the pennies its all the same
― da croupier, Friday, 25 May 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
ooh ooh
― da croupier, Friday, 25 May 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
here is a sentence I never thought I would type: I now understand why so many of the ppl in my high school who listened to this stuff defaulted to Skid Row fandom
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
i actually heard "18 and life" in a jimmy johns earlier today, which I guess would have been like hearing "Fire" by Crazy World Of Arthur Brown at a restaurant in 1992
― da croupier, Friday, 25 May 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
Climb to the top of the highest mountainJust to see how far I get
Uhhh... the top?
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link