Sybil Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 How fuckin' incredible is this song?!! I dusted off my UYI 1 CD today and have been listening to this song all day. COMA is absolute perfection (I'm surprised it's not listed on everyone's Top 10 GN'R songs). Shame there wasn't a video released. I don't recall - was there any talk of making a video for this song? I imagine some really cool visuals to accompany this otherworldly song. (Thank you for penning this composition, Axl!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riot Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Fav song Fav song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
combos Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Little do people know (even most GNR fans) that this song, lyrically, is about Axl's failed suicide attempt. Pretty deep stuff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 No other combination of people could have written that song. I like the interplay between Axl's vocals and Slash's guitar leads. It's so in tune with what the other one is doing musically. The chemistry here took it to a cool place. Slash showed he was capable of writing some epic stuff when he's in the mood for it.Kinda like what A Guns written And Justice For All with some Queen/Stones/and Zeppelin. An entire album with that direction could have been cool, but I'm not sure it's really Gn'R to include more then 1 or 2 songs like Coma in an album. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulMonster Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 It's a bit too long and meandering to get to my top 10 list, but the end starting with Slash's solo and then his Slash's circular riff behind Axl's singing and lyrics is absolute killer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nulla Lex Ink. Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 I love this song to death, particularly the last two minutes. Some of the deepest lyrics I've ever heard, and you're just bombarded with them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lio Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 (edited) I absolutely love it. It's definitely in my top ten. To me, it's like GNR's One (from Metallica).EDIT: In an interview Alan Niven said about it: Coma ? You put me in one. (Or something to that effect.) From that moment on, I stopped listening, because obviously the man is full of nonsense Edited July 28, 2014 by Lio 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superloconoriega Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 love it, i was thinking just today that i find pretty incredible that those guys could write such complex songs, being wasted and with bad vibes among them all the time . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riddick Bowe Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 (edited) Bersides Estranged this is GNR s best work. This is music on the highest level, and makes Axl up there with Mozart, Beethoven and Strauss. AMEN Edited July 28, 2014 by Riddick Bowe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axlspants Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 The last few minutes of the song are some of the best, most personal lyrics Axl ever put on record (that we've heard). Its a beast of a song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvH Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Apart from the amazing ending, most overrated GNR song ever. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trqster Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 IMO best ever live Gn'R performance.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conor Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 The last three minutes is arguably the best three minutes of Guns N' Roses in my opinion. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lio Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 IMO best ever live Gn'R performance.... The last three minutes is arguably the best three minutes of Guns N' Roses in my opinion.Totally agreed. A superb live performance. Love Axl's gesture at the Maybe we'd be better off without you anyway Dizzy on the tambourine at the end makes teh whole clip a bit less awesome though.I think the lyrics fit the music perfectly and I was amazed at how the song developed, because of the fact that Slash brought in the song first and Axl wrote the lyrics later. The music and lyrics go so well together, I can't imagine any other lyrics to the music and vice versa. This is just the perfect collaboration between Slash and Axl imo and, to me at least, it proves that they bring (or sadly, brought) out the best in each other musically. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Diet Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 It's a bit too long and meandering to get to my top 10 list, but the end starting with Slash's solo and then his Slash's circular riff behind Axl's singing and lyrics is absolute killer.Bersides Estranged this is GNR s best work. This is music on the highest level, and makes Axl up there with Mozart, Beethoven and Strauss. AMENnah this is a bit over praising Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 IMO best ever live Gn'R performance.... A buddy of mine was at that show. For as many bad ass GN'R performances as I've witnessed in person, I will be forever jealous that he saw this in person. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maynard Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Love Coma, fantastic song. Axl and Slash really shine on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 It's kind of like their Metallica moment. Could GNR have covered Metallicas One and pulled it off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moreblack Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Little do people know (even most GNR fans) that this song, lyrically, is about Axl's failed suicide attempt. Pretty deep stuff.How can anyone possibly miss that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
combos Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Little do people know (even most GNR fans) that this song, lyrically, is about Axl's failed suicide attempt. Pretty deep stuff.How can anyone possibly miss that?Most people don't even KNOW he tried to off himself. It's evident by the fact that when the Nirvana vs. GNR thing gets going, a lot of Axl fans rip on Kurt for killing himself. It's always funny to remind those people that Axl tried and failed to do the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LyndaRose Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Little do people know (even most GNR fans) that this song, lyrically, is about Axl's failed suicide attempt. Pretty deep stuff.I thought this was known by the fans... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
combos Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Little do people know (even most GNR fans) that this song, lyrically, is about Axl's failed suicide attempt. Pretty deep stuff.I thought this was known by the fans...You'd be shocked. I'd wager against it, actually. In my experience (going all the way back to the Gnronline forum days of the late 90's), only the extreme die hard fans know about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val22 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Coma is an amazing song. Do you realize that Axl hired the real doctors who worked on him when he overdoses to say the same things they said on the Coma song?It shows how much thought goes into making a GNR song.I love when Axl screams " Can someone tell me what the fuck is going on". One of the best lines ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnfnrs1972 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 IMO best ever live Gn'R performance.... The last three minutes is arguably the best three minutes of Guns N' Roses in my opinion. Totally agreed. A superb live performance. Love Axl's gesture at the Maybe we'd be better off without you anyway Dizzy on the tambourine at the end makes teh whole clip a bit less awesome though.I think the lyrics fit the music perfectly and I was amazed at how the song developed, because of the fact that Slash brought in the song first and Axl wrote the lyrics later. The music and lyrics go so well together, I can't imagine any other lyrics to the music and vice versa. This is just the perfect collaboration between Slash and Axl imo and, to me at least, it proves that they bring (or sadly, brought) out the best in each other musically.I think Axl brings out the best in most any musician. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val22 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 That was one amazing performance!Axl sounded fantastic. The whole song is just so different from anything GNR has done.I know there have been times when I have felt the same way about life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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