ugh Get In The Ring is as embarrassing as One In A Million, for completely different reasons. But both underline that Axl is crazypants. the end.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
I loooooove Get in the Ring!!!!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
I got a thought that would be niceI'd like to crush your head tight in my vice...pain!!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
And my personal fave:
I don't like you, I just hate youI'm gonna kick your ass
I hum this to myself all the time.
i like how they added like 5 new members to the band so they could get their weigh-in up for that song.
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
matt sorum is a total pawg
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
is loving Get In The Ring like loving Megashark Vs Giant Octopus? i think i could understand that :)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 June 2012 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
"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, 14 June 2012 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
haha really? hilarious
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
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
― 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 (eleven years ago) link
i'm pretty fond of "there's a smell of retribution in the air"
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 12:56 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Oh my distorted smile.
― how's life, Friday, 15 June 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
PS: wrong lineup in the photo Al
― the hat's filthy lesson (sic), Friday, 15 June 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
ain't that fresh rules!
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 June 2012 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
That picture is the "Civil War" line-up.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 June 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
in contrast to giraffe grocery stores, I assume
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 June 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
eh don't blame me, i didn't pick the photo
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
plus i mean Adler was in the studio for SOME of the Illusion sessions /reaching
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
ha oh josh already got my back
― bronytheus (some dude), Friday, 15 June 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Steven only appears on "Civil War" from the UYI albums.
― Poliopolice, Friday, 15 June 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Duff is a very underrated bass player too.
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
Sammy Hagar raises an eyebrow and steps up to the challenge.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
― 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 (eleven years ago) link
― 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 (eleven years ago) link
― 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 (eleven years ago) link
Can't wait to see the biopic coming out with him played by Danny deVito:
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/530251_424136280958684_1616635461_n.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 July 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
it took me a while to see the horns.
― j., Friday, 27 July 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
You were not the only one, trust me.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
he wears gold chains with his bathrobe?
― bajafreshnu orchestra (get bent), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
doesn't everyone?
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
are you sure it's gold, what if it's, like, beads. of some spiritual kind.
― j., Friday, 27 July 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
this photo validates john's original post.
it also makes we want to go back to bed.
― bb, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
axl looks quite cute there
― thomp, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link