LOL. When the Village Voice temporarily showed scans of the original newspaper pages for every Pazz & Jop poll, Glenn Kenny submitted this joke for the 1988 poll's comments section: "How many members of Guns N' Roses does it take to screw in a light bulb?" "F*** you! Suck my ****!"
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 04:34 (two years ago) link
imo axl has a good voice but also one that starts to grate very quickly
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 18:41 (two years ago) link
good thing he didn't make many albums
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link
just like i'm sure that the sky is blue and water is wet, i'm very sure that axl rose is a muppet. please reference the miss piggy-esque yowls heard on "knockin on heaven's door." remember some years back when somebody posted the isolated vocals of a van halen song? i need the axl rose ones for that song in my life.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
Most vocal coaches actually shit on Axl's technique. He's a baritone who came up with a screechy falsetto that fit the sleazy nature of their music. I love his vocals, but he's a good bad singer IMO
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 18:59 (two years ago) link
Lana Del Rey makes laughably bad music.
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
the isolated vocals of a van halen song
this is still one of my favorite things in the world and i listen to it at least once a year
― joygoat, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 19:22 (two years ago) link
axl rose is a muppet.
https://66.media.tumblr.com/a5446f2af0c3f9ea7d14f900d79619e3/c73c14591fc24780-c3/s640x960/2587fa1debb58f20b5adbfc2a1601c71f8533072.jpg
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 19:50 (two years ago) link
Alex, that opinion is more unpopular than controversial
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 24 February 2022 00:53 (two years ago) link
There were many of us in the "Video Games" era.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 24 February 2022 00:54 (two years ago) link
Alex I suspect Joan Crawford Loves Chachi will be your best friend for that opinion
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 February 2022 00:56 (two years ago) link
Practicing my kegelsEating lots of bagelsVideo games
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Thursday, 24 February 2022 02:42 (two years ago) link
absolutely loathe LDR
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 24 February 2022 05:15 (two years ago) link
Rabies is the best Skinny Puppy album.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 28 February 2022 13:25 (two years ago) link
That is controversial for Skinny Puppy fans, uncontroversial for people who only know "Worlock"
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 28 February 2022 17:46 (two years ago) link
Fans know Rabies wasn't a true SP album. The Process... now that would probably raise some eyebrows.
― beard papa, Monday, 28 February 2022 17:52 (two years ago) link
I'm not saying it's better than their other work by a huge margin...but it's appreciably better. The songs are hookier, the guitars work really well in context...it's a really good record. Once upon a time, Al Jourgensen had really good pop instincts, and he brought them to that project.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 28 February 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
With Jourgensen on board, I'm surprised it wasn't called "Rabies Home Journal" or something
― peace, man, Monday, 28 February 2022 18:10 (two years ago) link
Ronald Rabies
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 28 February 2022 18:21 (two years ago) link
Agreed, but the hookier songs and rock guitars are exactly why it isn't as beloved by fans. It's just not a real SP album. They should have just called the band Rabies and had it be a one-off side project like a lot of other great stuff Jourgensen was doing back then.
― beard papa, Monday, 28 February 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link
The songs are hookier
idk remission and bites would like a word
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 28 February 2022 18:33 (two years ago) link
i do love rabies though
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 28 February 2022 18:34 (two years ago) link
The problem with Rabies is that has three incredible songs on it and then there’s the rest of it
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 28 February 2022 20:54 (two years ago) link
Although I’m looking at the track list now and struggling to remember what the third incredible song was
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 28 February 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link
Stevie Wonder won many science fairs in the 70s but made no albums I have any patience for
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, February 12, 2019 11:26 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Brave take, but I couldn't disagree more. I guess my controversial Stevie opinion is that Innervisions is by far the weakest of his "big four" 70s albums.
― J. Sam, Monday, 28 February 2022 23:08 (two years ago) link
and fullfillingness' first finale is by far the best.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Monday, 28 February 2022 23:19 (two years ago) link
I agree with both of the preceding posts.
― o. nate, Monday, 28 February 2022 23:23 (two years ago) link
I'd go Songs... > Talking Book > Fulfillingness' > Innervisions, but there are no wrong answers when we're talking peak Stevie
― J. Sam, Monday, 28 February 2022 23:26 (two years ago) link
If Songs had been a single album, it would be the best by a wide margin.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 28 February 2022 23:29 (two years ago) link
In the spirit of this thread, let me also state for the record that the Red Hot Chili Pepper's version of "Higher Ground" is better than the one on "Innervisions".
― o. nate, Monday, 28 February 2022 23:30 (two years ago) link
There are like 5 Stevie Wonder songs I adore and consider some of the best music ever made. I can do without the rest of his catalog, don't care for a lot of the textures he uses and other production choices. Basically he's the 70s Prince wrt me.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 28 February 2022 23:31 (two years ago) link
Curtis>>> Stevie
If Songs... didn't start with one of the most boring songs on earth, it would be... better than it is.
Agree with this, except Prince has more songs I like.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 28 February 2022 23:40 (two years ago) link
"70s Prince" is not a formulation I had thought of but it i pretty apt.
I can't think of a similarly prolific artist with no duds in their catalog.
There are some artists who produced very little output but all of it was excellent. Like Katharine Anne Porter. Most folks with a lot of output have some filler or failed experiments in there.
― squid pro quo (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 28 February 2022 23:42 (two years ago) link
i'm assuming we are talking about prince through sign o the times
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 February 2022 23:54 (two years ago) link
Curtis>>> Stevie― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, February 28, 2022 3:31 PM
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, February 28, 2022 3:31 PM
otm
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 00:10 (two years ago) link
I like Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants better than the previous four Stevie Wonder albums.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 00:26 (two years ago) link
now there's a controversial opinion
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 00:33 (two years ago) link
I don't know if I've ever mentioned this on here, but I know a surprising story about Axl Rose. I once read a biography of the Pet Shop Boys, where they claimed Axl Rose was a huge behind-the-scenes PSB fanboy. He even brought them a bouquet of red roses and told them that their song 'October Symphony' was his inspiration for 'November Rain'. This was in the early 90s, at the height of GnR's fame. Who would have thought?
― Publicradio (3×5), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 01:22 (two years ago) link
I should say, he waited for them backstage at a show and brought them flowers.
― Publicradio (3×5), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 01:24 (two years ago) link
I like the sound of construction in the next door neighbour’s apartment more than the big four Stevie albums, since we’re bringing up old (but long felt) controps
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 01:34 (two years ago) link
Hell is not other people, hell is having to your shopping list cover seven different aisles in the pharmacy and having “Isn’t She Lovely” come on
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 01:35 (two years ago) link
No secret -- Chris Heath's second PSB bio interviewed Axl aboutthem.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 01:37 (two years ago) link
Other people put elastic bands around their wrists and snap them when they’re trying to train their brain out of negative thought patterns. I just think the words “Pastime Paradise” and success follows
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 01:37 (two years ago) link
I'm all for killing sacred cows, but Stevie Wonder's production choices during his imperial run are so...basic? In fact, he emphasizes the drums, to his credit because he's a distinctive drum player. He doesn't oversing. FFF is darker than an icon decided to be in 1974.
I thought deciding SITKOL as his least impressive imperial run album was long settled -- if you're not working for Rolling Stone?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 01:40 (two years ago) link
Discovering those five or six classic Wonder albums thirty years ago meant avoiding "Isn't She Lovely" and realizing how damn ruminative and worrying he could be, i.e. "Vision," "Creepin'," "All in Love is Fair," "Evil," not to mention the stuff he wrote and produced for Syreeta.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 01:42 (two years ago) link
*"Visions"
"isn't she lovely" is great
― aegis philbin (crüt), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 01:58 (two years ago) link
Yeah wtf
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 02:47 (two years ago) link
i can understand why alfred would loathe it though
― aegis philbin (crüt), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 03:06 (two years ago) link