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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.
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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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Ah, Pellegrino fizzy water and Ritz crackers! Diet of the champions!
And no, I'm not being sarcastic. Those can get you through anything
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44 minutes ago, Dazey said:
Clearly the solution is to ban Americans.
I'm afraid of AmeriGuns.
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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.
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!
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Zero, because they don't come to my country or any neighbouring countries.
But I would probably skip them any way. The band just don't feel as important to me as it did just few years ago. I still connect with their music, but seeing them live doesn't feel like a priority anymore.
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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
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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Yay, more capitalist infantilization! Dolls for adults!
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Don't really know much about Carrie Underwood, but she got killer pipes! And damn, her band is amazing! They sound really close to the record. Amazing amount of talent there
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Fuck this Skynet Light shit.
Wake me up when it gets genocidal.
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No Finland, what a bummer! Thanks a lot Putin
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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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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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23 hours ago, Spoon87 said:
I really don't get what all these guys see in that Andrew Watts dude. Seems somewhat like a douche.
He's a multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter, who can write, play and produce. Sounds like a guy you'd want to be friends with if you're a musician
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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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Pretty cool compliment! And it is a good song.
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All smart technology should work like that.
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59 minutes ago, El Guapo said:
I'd like a black shirt with a giant picture of Richard's nose.
Guns N' Noses!
Disclaimer: I think Richard's nose, like many other biggish noses, is majestic.- 3
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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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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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He sure was funny. Rest in peace.
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3 hours ago, ShadowOfTheWave said:It's important to take a nuanced view of these issues, something 99% percent of people seem uninterested in.
No. You don't need take a nuanced view on the Ukraine War. It's a dictator invading a neighboring, sovereign country. His army is killing and torturing civilians. Ukraine is fighting for their independence, their lives. There's your nuances.
Every democratic European country, especially those who share border with Russia, like mine, and their people are very concerned.
Ukraine and Russia aren't equal here. You wouldn't listen to the reasoning of a school yard bully and go "hmm, he has some good points, go ahead". Or a rapist. Or a murderer. It's the same with this.
It sounds so uneducated to me, when people see this as an issue that has two equal points of view. It's not.
Sorry for the off topic.
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Hard to tell if it is a new song or just a jam, but it does sound Chinese Democracy-y
Which would kind of indicate that it is not a jam, because I don't see Slash and Duff coming up with stuff that sounds like CD-era material on their own. I think their jamming would sound a bit more like old school Guns.- 1
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57 minutes ago, RussTCB said:
I doubt there's any other band on Earth, past or present, who's fans are having anything near this discussion.
We would cure cancer, if we'd get a new album.
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06/15/23 - Dessel, BE - Graspop Metal Meeting
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Posted · Edited by jekylhyde
While not a perfect song, Absurd does sound more inspired and "new" than some paint by numbers hard rock *cough* Hard Skool *cough*. I love it how it makes you scratch your head a bit. I would definitely take an album full of absurds over an album full hardskools.
And based on Youtube videos it does sound really good live. Absurd live is a good example of how the current lineup can sound like a cohesive, well oiled band, when they don't need to imitate the older lineups.