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#101 Re: Guns N' Roses » Could the first Snakepit album have been a good record with Axl / Duff » 171 weeks ago
polluxlm wrote:I don't care so much for lyrics apart from the way they sound when being sung. What I don't get about CD is how weak Axl sounds vocally when we know from the live shows that he had a great voice at the time. Not as much rasp as the old days, but still a very strong and powerful voice. Most of CD sounds like he's straining to sound like his old self. The IRS scream is good but is it really on the level of those Live and Let Die screams he did in 2002? Only the scream in TWAT and the vocals on Oh My God give credit to his skills at the time. This I Love too but that song is so cheesy.
Yeah but I feel like he had “it” on Better and Shacklers. Would have been a great time to record vocals for songs like Prostitute and SoD.
Yes the voice he uses on those songs, especially Better, is the closest to his vintage voice. I wish the whole record sounded like that. I actually wish he’d gone back in 2006 and re recorded all his vocals for the album
#102 Guns N' Roses » July 17th 1993 - 29 years ago » 171 weeks ago
- Wilco
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29 years ago today we had the last show by the Axl / Slash / Gilby / Duff / Matt / dizzy lineup
At that time, for those old enough to have been lucky enough to live through those days, did you have any inkling that this would be the last time Axl and Slash shared a stage for 23 years and that it would be the last time Axl performed a whole show for 7 years?
Where did you see things going from there back in 93?
#103 Re: Guns N' Roses » What’s your opinion of the Spaghetti Incident? Rank the tracks! » 171 weeks ago
They did do a few interviews for it, as a matter of fact Axl and Slash’s last joint interview to date was to promote TSI in January 1994. Slash did the typical magazine interview scene for it.
Slash wanted Guns to do a club tour to promote TSI further, but Axl said no.
And they planned to do a video for Aint it Fun as well, the video got so far as to be written by Del James, but for whatever reason that never came to be
#104 Re: Guns N' Roses » Could the first Snakepit album have been a good record with Axl / Duff » 171 weeks ago
Riad, Scraped? Not exactly top-tier poetry, IMHO.
I feel like Axl consciously wrote his lyrics in a different style on Chinese. I could well be wrong, and it could be that he was suffering from diminished skills. But he seems to be trying to ape the (consciously) simpler styles of Cobain and other grunge musicians in his lyricism on CD, with simpler rhymes and such. Just a theory.
#105 Guns N' Roses » What’s your opinion of the Spaghetti Incident? Rank the tracks! » 171 weeks ago
- Wilco
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For myself I think it’s a totally underrated gem. It’s not aspiring to be anything more than mindless fun. And since it’s not trying to be more than it is, it ends up being cool as such - because it’s just a fun cover album, a band having fun playing songs they enjoyed hearing; nothing more or less. Since there’s no attempts to make “art”, there’s no pressure and one could argue the band gels here more naturally than on any album than perhaps Lies, in that there is a natural energy to it. There is no diverging interests here like with the tug of war between Axl, Izzy and Slash displayed on the Illusions. There’s no darkness of a band living in poverty struggling, as on AFD.
Spaghetti is just the sound of a band at the height of its success actually enjoying themselves, a last little bit of calm before the inevitable storm that came after
That being said, IMO, it’s a B album, in the same way a B movie is a B movie. It could never be called great (however it does, IMO, contain Axl’s best vocal performances)
But it’s fun
That’s just my opinion;
I am curious to hear yours
#106 Guns N' Roses » Could the first Snakepit album have been a good record with Axl / Duff » 171 weeks ago
- Wilco
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Thoughts?
#107 Re: Guns N' Roses » What is your favorite song on CD? » 173 weeks ago
If Matt had gotten his way, the band would’ve had Slash on lead and Robin on rhythm. That could’ve been interesting
#108 Guns N' Roses » What are your opinions of HS and Absurd? » 173 weeks ago
- Wilco
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Considering they’re technically the first “new” songs since TSI?
To be honest, I’m probably in a very small minority on this, but I actually like Absurd a lot more. HS is very GNR by numbers to me, sort of like, a less angry YCBM; if you slow down the tempo of HS in your head it’s even kinda got a similar rhythm and vibe to it as YCBM does
Absurd is more interesting because it’s unhinged, angry, wild and the guitars are basically very wired, it’s venomous; I really wish, with all my heart, that we had gotten an album’s worth of songs like OMG, Absurd, Shackler’s, Scraped, etc - the angrier songs
But, I’ve said my opinion. I’d love to hear yours
#109 Re: Guns N' Roses » What is your favorite song on CD? » 173 weeks ago
I miss those days...we deserved an album
GNR fan community wise, the community that really deserved an album to experience and discuss is probably HTGTH and mygnr circa 2004-05....it was the height of the online fan base. Such a great group of people....
The old timers here
Saul
ppbebe
Eva
Acquiesce
AxlsMainMan
RocketQueen
Jazjme
EvolutionList goes on and on. HTGTH had like a thousand regulars at the time.
After the leak craze of 2006 perfectly timed with both big forums selling out, they started to hemorrhage members left and right...which led to sites like this one being created.
Im an old timer as well. I used to be known as Miser. And yes, I was a dick back in the day but then again, I was between 12-19 years old in 2002-2009. Not exactly a mature rational person. I still have my days of irrationality, but I’m trying to do a little bit better all the time.
#110 Guns N' Roses » What is your favorite song on CD? » 175 weeks ago
- Wilco
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Mine is Shackler’s to be honest. I really was hoping for more songs in the OMG / Absurd / Shackler’s industrial direction
