would you rather see axl dance to it?
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 28 October 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
neither, thanx.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 28 October 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
so maybe I like stripper music
;_;
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 October 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
I really don't think appetite would rate any higher in people's unbiased minds than say a motley crue record. (I personally like Mr. Brownstone better than Dr. Feelgood, but this is all stripper music, basically)
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, October 28, 2012 3:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
As a huge fan of stripper music I can tell you in my unbiased stripper music mind that Motley Crue doesn't have an album with more than 3 or 4 good songs on it and Appetite has 10.
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 28 October 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
3 or 4 solid stripper tracks sounds right for appetite. welcome to the jungle, paradise city, mr. brownstone. rocket queen kind of overstays its welcome and sweet child o' mine's lyrics appear to be about pubes, so those two are kind of iffy for the 4th.
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 28 October 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
You overstay your welcome. BAH. Hello? Night train? It's So Easy? My Michelle?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 October 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
Sweet Child is a strip club classic wtf bro
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 28 October 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
the song is about young axl hiding in some lady's pubes and waiting for heavy periods to pass.welcome to the jungle, indeed.
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 28 October 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
You are a curious fellow
― seasonal hugs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 28 October 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
xpost otm
― Mule, Sunday, 28 October 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
This conversation makes me wish that I'd let that stripper music poll of mine get off the ground.
― how's life, Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
Motley Crue is terrible. Some of the worst and worst sounding albums of their ilk from the '80s.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
xpost how's life, you should totally run it!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
Motley Crue first album is awesome imo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
VG, it was going to be this
"If only more strippers voted." - the Hard Rock and Hair Metal tracks poll nominations thread (Closes September 3rd)
It was a great idea, I thought! But I there's been too much of that type of polling going on these days as far as I'm concerned.
― how's life, Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
Add it to the bottom of WMC's list! By then it'll be midyear next year and it'll give me another poll to look forward to!
*begs*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, ok.
― how's life, Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
hooray! :)
I know nothing about running polls but if you need help when the time rolls around, I'll donate my services
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
I'll hold you to that!
― how's life, Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
the song i feel least happy about on my '80s rock ballot is "Sweet Child O' Mine" while I believe Axl was having a genuine, tender moment, I just can't get over the knowledge that Slash couldn't have given less of a fuck.
Appetite is still a solid album
― da croupier, Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
Slash is lying about not liking Sweet Child imo
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
yeah initially i thought "well i can enjoy it FOR slash knocking off such a solid hook even while rolling his eyes at steven adler" but recently the tale has harshed my buzz
― da croupier, Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
i used to hear stories about Slash hating "Sweet Child" or coming up with the riff as a joke but then in his memoir and interviews have never seen him expressing any negative opinions of the song so i've started to wonder if it was an urban legend (xpost)
― the man with 2 BRAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINZ! (some dude), Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
ah i see that story is on the wiki page, i guess it's more confirmed than i'd thought? also lol:
On an interview on Eddie Trunk's New York radio show in May 2006, Axl Rose stated that his original concept for the video focused on the theme of drug trafficking. According to Rose, the video was to depict an Asian woman carrying a baby into a foreign land, only to discover at the end that the child was dead and filled with heroin. This concept was rejected by Geffen Records.
― the man with 2 BRAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINZ! (some dude), Sunday, 28 October 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
wikipedia credits the "slash made the riff as a joke, then Axl went 'aw that would go well with my love poem" bit to Duff in an '88 hit parader article, though links to some foreign "meanings behind songs" site. xpost
― da croupier, Sunday, 28 October 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
xp: Reminds me of how the original cover of Appetite was supposed to be a picture of the Challenger explosion.
― how's life, Sunday, 28 October 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
xpost: slash talks about it in his autobiography. called it "circus music" or something.
― the man with 2 BRAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINZ! (some dude), Sunday, October 28, 2012 8:59 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he wildly contradicts himself about it
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 28 October 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
the impression i got was that slash didn't like it at the time because it was kind of corny, but over time, he's grown to enjoy it.
― Poliopolice, Sunday, 28 October 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
riff is corny, izzy lifts it to glory anyway, solos rule
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 29 October 2012 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
can we talk about how great izzy was
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
i can talk about how great izzy was ALL DAY
but full disclosure i share his keef fetish so
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 29 October 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
heart and soul of that band etc etc
too bad his solo stuff is like 85% snoozeville
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 29 October 2012 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
That first Juju Hounds record was ahead of its time.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 29 October 2012 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
i haven't listened to it, i really should
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
No kidding... May be my fave "other guitarist in the band" next to Malcolm Young
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 29 October 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
I never heard anything after that first one, but I liked it a lot!
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Monday, 29 October 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
i remember liking the cover
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
I would advise everyone here to listen to "Welcome to the Jungle" again with fresh ears. How fucking amazing is this song? There's like 15 different parts and they all rule. I have an especially newfound appreciation for the badass Izzy guitar riff behind the "serpentine" and "sha-na-na-na-knees" part. KICK ASS!
― Poliopolice, Monday, 29 October 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
Juju Hounds record is killer. he's made TEN albums since then but i think i'm happier just assuming they're good than finding out for sure.
― Victory Goon (some dude), Monday, 29 October 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
Never listened to the Ju Ju Hounds album, but always kinda liked the cover. Maybe I'll check it out, seeing as how I'm basically stuck in my apartment for two days.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 29 October 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
spotify only has one of his, River? it's kinda meh.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
also, Duff is a hugely underrated bass player. he's got some great parts on AfD.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 29 October 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
Dust N Bones is still one of my favorite GNR songs.
from wiki: Stradlin was then asked by his former Guns N' Roses band mates Duff McKagan, Slash, and Matt Sorum to join the supergroup Velvet Revolver. Although he contributed to the songwriting process while the band was in its formative stage,[19] Stradlin ultimately declined to join due to his aversion to life on the road and his unwillingness to work with a lead singer, although he offered to split vocal duties with McKagan.[20]
Velvet Revolver would have been a thousand times better with Izzy & Duff doing vox vs stinky Scott Weiland.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
I just started listening to opening track on youtube
straight Keefing omg I love it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
Agreed. What a shame that Izzy wasn't part of that; and what a shame that Scott Weiland was. The GNR guys have been cursed with singers with awful attitudes.
Also, Adler on drums... He's got a great, sleazy style that just really works with GNR, something that accentuates how terrible and unfit Matt Sorum was for this band.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 29 October 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know enough about drumming to know if Sorum is good or bad but I just really cannot stand him. Him and Gilby fucking Clarke. gross.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
Sorum is "good," in the sense that he had a fine career as a session musician. But he doesn't have much in the way of character.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 October 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
and shiny
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 October 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link