Guns n Roses: Critical Rehab

is loving Get In The Ring like loving Megashark Vs Giant Octopus? i think i could understand that :)

"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

see I dig a lot of UYI, but Get In The Ring just makes me cringe now
I can't stand it

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.

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.

haha really? hilarious

And my personal fave:

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.

i'm pretty fond of "there's a smell of retribution in the air"

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"

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

Oh my distorted smile.

PS: wrong lineup in the photo Al

ain't that fresh rules!

That picture is the "Civil War" line-up.

Minus Dizzy, but fuck that dude.

haha really? hilarious

Guccione in particular iirc - printed something in SPIN about how he was all set to go whenever/wherever Axl wanted

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.

in contrast to giraffe grocery stores, I assume

eh don't blame me, i didn't pick the photo

plus i mean Adler was in the studio for SOME of the Illusion sessions /reaching

ha oh josh already got my back

xp It's next to the jerk store, and it's open from 7-9 six days a week.

Steven only appears on "Civil War" from the UYI albums.

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

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.

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"

two of the most embarrassing lines ever sung by anybody

i got some genuine imitation awesome lyrics, free sample, for aerosmith's peace o' mind only $9.95

Duff is a very underrated bass player too.

two of the most embarrassing lines ever sung by anybody

Sammy Hagar raises an eyebrow and steps up to the challenge.

"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

... 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, June 15, 2012 6:23 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do you think Axl meant police wear gold chains, too?

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, 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.

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

it took me a while to see the horns.

You were not the only one, trust me.

he wears gold chains with his bathrobe?

doesn't everyone?

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?

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).

are you sure it's gold, what if it's, like, beads. of some spiritual kind.

this photo validates john's original post.

it also makes we want to go back to bed.

axl looks quite cute there

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

kind of a dilapidated Biff Tannen look going there.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8021/7664838716_a8da1e117f_z.jpg

Oh my god ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZxMBq2usSU

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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?

I was about to say, late to the party here!