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  1. On 6/11/2023 at 5:26 PM, rumandraisin said:

    As an aside, is anyone unable to get in to VR? As much as I've tried I just can't get excited about them, there's so e great tracks on the first album but it's all a bit generic modern rock to me? Maybe you had to be there at the time it came out. 

    I'm kind of unable to get back into Velvet Revolver. When Contraband came out in 2004 I had a summer job where I could listen to music and I spun that album 8 hours a day for a month. It was also pretty much the only album I listened during the following fall and winter. Burnt myself out with it. I still listen to it maybe once a year and really dig it, but more than that feels still too much. But all in all, it has aged pretty well. Definitely a good snapshot of 2004.

    So I was definitely there when it came out :lol:

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  2. 10 hours ago, Towelie said:

    Messages is the best song they ever did. How it didn't make the standard edition of Libertad is baffling, when it is far and away the strongest song on it.

    Yes, this. It's like they wanted Libertad to fail.

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  3. 7 hours ago, BucketEgg said:

    despite having no basis in reality, the James Cameron factor/correlation (explanation here:

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    has got me hopeful for new music being released in the next few years, since Avatar 3, 4, and 5 and coming.  :dance:

     

    tbh, other than GnR finally announcing something concrete, the possibility of surprise-new music at one of their show-dates, or the expiration of the Hell Rose Place trademark that Shacklermyrye found, I think the James Cameron factor is the most "reliable" "predictor" of when a new album will come out.  :/

     

    The release dates for the next few Avatar movies are

    20 December 2024

    18 December 2026

    22 December 2028

    , which means according to the James Cameron factor, the possible release windows for GnR albums are 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029.

    For the James Cameron factor to be broken, GnR would have to release something in 2030, with James Cameron not releasing a feature film in 2031.

    if GnR disproves the James Cameron factor by releasing nothing this entire decade, but they keep talking hints about having new music, I think i will finally understand the disappointment everyone else has, since I got into GnR late and didn't have to wait like everyone else did for new albums, so I'm not weary yet.

    (But if the James Cameron factor is disproven by GnR actually releasing an album in 2030, with no James Cameron movie in 2031, maybe that might actually be cool, because at least there is something released. )

    This sounds delightfully insane. A rabbit hole I'm willing to get lost into. Let's go!

  4. Hard Skool was a flop, because it is a sub-par song. It's a B-side. Like Absurd. Both are fun songs, but they just aren't A game material. They don't have to write a new November Rain or Welcome to the Jungle part 2, but they could at least try to write something you can take seriously :shrugs:

    But Axl can't or doesn't want to, and that's fine, I guess. It's just delusional to think that two 20-year-old B-sides would be hits and be bummed out when they are not. Any decent manager and/or producer would tell you that and send you back to the studio.  

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  5. Axl talking about his music and his legacy in the most popular podcast show in the world? Not a chance, bub!

    But he would probably do a 5-hour podcast talking about cooking, 90's vampire movies and his favorite Buckethead albums with some random Swedish guy who has like 50 subscribers. 

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  6. 10 hours ago, Gordon Comstock said:

    Axl probably is delusional enough to think "we're GNR, our new songs will be huge news for rock fans" and was then surprised when nobody cared.

    It would've been huge news if either of those songs were their A-level material.

    I like both of them, but they are Get in the Ring and Anything Goes -quality. Fun songs, but not heavy hitters. 

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  7. I would tell them that during the 90's The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. Skynet launches its missiles against the targets in Russia., because it knows the Russian counter-attack will eliminate its enemies over here. There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.

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  8. UYI I is pretty damn good as it is, but UYI II could be a bit better. I would ditch the alternate version of Don't Cry and bump Estranged as the last song and put My World between So Fine and You Could Be Mine, where I think it could fit almost perfectly.

    Other than that, they're both consistent albums. Even the "filler" songs, like Shotgun Blues and Breakdown, are pretty good, in my opinion. They might not be hit songs or amazing songs, but they are good songs. 

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  9. 5 hours ago, Chris 55 said:

    From what I read, it was Axl's idea. Just a "hey, jump through the cake!" I think it was meant to be funny

    It is funny. I think it fits the video perfectly. The November Rain video is so pompous and grandiose with all kinds of dramatic and melancholic scenes, that it needs some levity too. To kind of balance it a little. And it kind of weaves different emotions together. Like in life you love, you loss, you cry, but you laugh too. Plus the funeral scene hits you a bit harder after the lighthearted wedding scenes.  

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