see I dig a lot of UYI, but Get In The Ring just makes me cringe nowI can't stand it
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 June 2012 23:31 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah it grated for a long time, but now it just feels so goofily triumphant -- those huge swinging slash leads, the title chant, duff's final rant, it's glorious.
― bronytheus (some dude), Thursday, 14 June 2012 23:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
It's just so unhinged but oddly funny in a stupidly endearing sort of way. Like, the ridiculous rhyme scheme of those first lyrics I quoted, which end in the grunt of "pain." And the way the other lyrics I quote don't even work rhythmically.
Also awesome because a couple of those dudes accepted Axl's challenge to fight and we wimped out.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 June 2012 11:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
haha really? hilarious
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 11:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
And my personal fave: I don't like you, I just hate you I'm gonna kick your assI hum this to myself all the time.― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, June 14, 2012 7:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't like you, I just hate you I'm gonna kick your ass
I hum this to myself all the time.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, June 14, 2012 7:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is the best part of the song.
― how's life, Friday, 15 June 2012 12:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
i'm pretty fond of "there's a smell of retribution in the air"
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 12:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
nothing in get in the ring is as cringeworthy as "what's so civil about war, anyway?" or "human grocery store, ain't that fresh"
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 15 June 2012 14:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
i generally try to avoid linking something i wrote but it seems important to drop this into the convo: http://www.splicetoday.com/music/use-your-interjection
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 14:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oh my distorted smile.
― how's life, Friday, 15 June 2012 14:30 (11 months ago) Permalink
PS: wrong lineup in the photo Al
― the hat's filthy lesson (sic), Friday, 15 June 2012 14:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
ain't that fresh rules!
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 June 2012 15:20 (11 months ago) Permalink
That picture is the "Civil War" line-up.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 June 2012 15:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
Minus Dizzy, but fuck that dude.
Guccione in particular iirc - printed something in SPIN about how he was all set to go whenever/wherever Axl wanted
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 June 2012 15:31 (11 months ago) Permalink
what does 'human grocery store' mean, anyway? It sounds kind of macabre, but I'm not sure it was meant to be taken that way.
― Poliopolice, Friday, 15 June 2012 17:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
in contrast to giraffe grocery stores, I assume
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 June 2012 17:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
eh don't blame me, i didn't pick the photo
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 17:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
plus i mean Adler was in the studio for SOME of the Illusion sessions /reaching
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 17:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
ha oh josh already got my back
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 17:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
xp It's next to the jerk store, and it's open from 7-9 six days a week.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 15 June 2012 17:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
Steven only appears on "Civil War" from the UYI albums.
― Poliopolice, Friday, 15 June 2012 17:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
my girlfriend heard me listening to "One in a Million" the other day. When the lines "Immigrants and faggots / They make no sense to me / They come to our country / And think they'll do as they please"came on, she perked up and said matter-of-factly, "Faggots come from Faggotland." LOLZORS
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, June 13, 2012 4:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sigggghhhh. The two phrases relate to the two groups separately. It's a lyrical trick. The next line makes it clearer "Like start some mini-Iran, or spread some fucking disease."
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
... you realize your "defense" makes no sense and that followup just makes it seem even more like Axl thinks gay people come from another country, right
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, 15 June 2012 18:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
The more I reflect on these lyrics, the more I realize that the sentiments perfectly articulate many of the preoccupations of modern day tea partiers: gays corrupting the moral underpinnings of society; blacks maintaining a threatening presence just by being in the presence of whites; malevolent middle easterners deliberately destroying the nation while taking umbrage under American laws; and a general sense of fear-induced xenophobia, with the narrator's yearning to just be left alone by everyone, almost like a separatist.
― Poliopolice, Friday, 15 June 2012 19:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
two of the most embarrassing lines ever sung by anybody
― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 15 June 2012 19:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
i got some genuine imitation awesome lyrics, free sample, for aerosmith's peace o' mind only $9.95
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 June 2012 19:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
Duff is a very underrated bass player too.
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
Sammy Hagar raises an eyebrow and steps up to the challenge.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
"Get In The Ring" belatedly became one of my favorite GNR songs when i started revisiting UYI the last few years, it's so insanely catchy
― bronytheus (some dude), Thursday, June 14, 2012 11:27 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the instrumental is out there, it's pretty rad
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Friday, June 15, 2012 6:23 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
do you think Axl meant police wear gold chains, too?
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Poliopolice, Friday, June 15, 2012 7:00 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes indeed. If Axl hadn't actually held a lot of the beliefs in the song I'd be more comfortable saying it's a masterpiece.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
Can't wait to see the biopic coming out with him played by Danny deVito:
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 July 2012 14:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
it took me a while to see the horns.
― j., Friday, 27 July 2012 17:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
You were not the only one, trust me.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
he wears gold chains with his bathrobe?
― bajafreshnu orchestra (get bent), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
doesn't everyone?
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
i think what that really means is that he wears the gold chains all the time. i mean he can't just put them on whenever he dons the bathrobe to go out to the ice machine, can he?
― j., Friday, 27 July 2012 17:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
maybe when he sang that he "don't wanna buy none of your gold chains today," it meant that he would come back tomorrow and buy them (and never take them off).
― bajafreshnu orchestra (get bent), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
are you sure it's gold, what if it's, like, beads. of some spiritual kind.
― j., Friday, 27 July 2012 17:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
this photo validates john's original post.
it also makes we want to go back to bed.
― bb, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
axl looks quite cute there
― thomp, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
cute as in like how a hamster or similar sized rodent is cute, not like 'i would have sex with axl rose' cute
too late you in in the jungle baby
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 27 July 2012 18:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
kind of a dilapidated Biff Tannen look going there.
― windjammer voyage (blank), Friday, 27 July 2012 18:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
― bajafreshnu orchestra (get bent), Saturday, 28 July 2012 22:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
Oh my god ...
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 October 2012 16:53 (6 months ago) Permalink
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
― Gary Mayonnaise (Old Lunch), Thursday, 25 October 2012 17:04 (6 months ago) Permalink
You guys've been missing out on the revive of this:
Did you really feel "welcomed" to the jungle by axl rose, or do you think that was sort of just insincere, halfhearted graciousness?
― Mule, Thursday, 25 October 2012 17:09 (6 months ago) Permalink
I was about to say, late to the party here!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 October 2012 17:12 (6 months ago) Permalink
Sorry, hard to keep track of all 30 GNR threads.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 October 2012 17:16 (6 months ago) Permalink
Site New Answers, broheems
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 October 2012 17:18 (6 months ago) Permalink