Legendador

0. Nice Boys

1. Rocket Queen

2. OIAM

3. Coma

4. Locomotive

5. Ain't Fun

6. Schackler's

7. Absurd

Physical appearance the same as of 2022 with the shinning suits.

Vocally, who knows?

3 hours ago, JimiRose said:

He does. I was at those shows and she was by far the best thing about them. The only one on stage with energy, great vocal, plus she's stunning and she made them sound way better than GnR have played them in years. to be honest, i wished she'd have done more. They didnt play november rain on the second night at Tottenham hotspur stadium, axl could have easily played the piano as she sung the vocal. 

Owe is too harsh for a 30+ year behemoth band! Even that they really lack energy since 2021...

29 minutes ago, CAFC Nick said:

To be fair, he does owe her for saving the day at the London 2022 shows!

Owe? Come on!

7 minutes ago, Stay.Of.Execution said:

Hey, if some guy told it some other guy, then it must be true. Doesn't really matter that duff and slash spend lots of time together while on Tour (outside the concerts) and their wives/girlfriends are pretty close to each other. 

Was that story about Slash coming to Axl's house drunk (during the velvet revolver years) and talking shit about all VR members to Beta?

3 hours ago, SoulMonster said:

But your opinion that OIAM wasn't controversial among fans prior to "cancel culture" and "woke" is simply wrong 

All opinions aren't equal, you know, sometimes some are correct and some are wrong. 

And yes, I trust what you say about Brazil, and that is interesting. Thanks! 

I never said OIAM wasn't controversial, but in countries were english were not the first language, or spoke at all by that time, the song didn't have the shock effect.

With time that change, and if I'm calling "woke" is (from my perspective) the Brazilian woke generation.

Whatever, dude!

8 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

But your perspective is only that, your perspective. If you want to talk about how the song was viewed, then your perspective is insufficient. Fact is that the song immediately got a lot of attention and caused lots of problems to the band. Read about it here: https://www.a-4-d.com/t4987-09-august-december-1988-lies-and-the-spotlight#19261

Man, it is just an endless back and forth. You want your opinions to be respected, but if someone has a different opinion, or tries to bust a bubble, it becomes this endless back and forth with everybody in this forum!

In Brazil before the internet, no one gave a shit about how polemic the song was. It was mainly a problem in English-spoken countries.

I give up! You're right!

18 hours ago, Stay.Of.Execution said:

How do you know? Have you heard the conversations among fans in 89 or what makes you think it wasn't talked about back then?

From my perspective people never talked about the song (maybe because english was not our main language).

What I've experienced was reading (maybe 89 / 90) that GNR was dropped from the bill of a AIDs Foundation Festival (Sponsored by David Geffen if I'm not mistaken).

"One in a Million" is not in the boxset, but is still featured in current LIES copies, and also on YouTube, which seems odd since the band is quick to take down videos.

Here in Brazil people/fans only started talking/posting how bad the lyrics of the song where after the cancel culture started.

This is my perspective...

17 hours ago, downzy said:

No, it proves you have no idea what you're talking about by associating every opinion you don't like as being "woke."

It's become nothing more than the sad cries of the angry white man.  No one who even subscribes to being woke would call themselves woke.  The only people who continue to use the term are largely those who were against what it originally meant in the first place.  

Sure! You're allowed to disagree, so am I.

As I said before the "majority" of opinions, not all opinions.

18 hours ago, Shacklermyrye said:

Yes they did. It's been talked about on forums for years. Even ones like Newgnr that shut down way before the term woke became common parlance

Ok.

1 hour ago, Stay.Of.Execution said:

One in a million has been talked about since the song got released. And that's before idiots came up with the word "woke"

Not the fans!

1 hour ago, downzy said:

LOL...

So great when the anti-woke brigade believe that any of this is new.

 

Well, it just proves that the example of Dee Snider is not wokeness, but common sense! "Woke" is something else completely different and a current shitty event.

1 hour ago, Shacklermyrye said:

Music is subjective, if you like the song fair enough, I do think the solo is great tbf. But to assume that everyone who picked that song as the one they like least off Lies means what you think it does is a huge sweeping assumption.

I prefer the other songs off lies more, this doesn't mean i'm striving to be some virtuas pollicially correct person at all.

Nobody brought up the other songs you mentioned because this is a Guns N' Roses forum and a thread about which Guns N' Roses song you like the least from each album/EP. I do like that Patti Smith song alot, always reminds me of Natural Born Killers.

 

It's subjective, but no one here talked about that before cancel culture and wokeness, that's my point.

To everybody saying ONE IN A MILLION, you're just forcing too much to be woke and politically correct.

The song is great, the lyrics have meaning, you may like it or not.

Axl did explained this was a hick's point of view in big city. Was he mistaken? Of course? Was that in bad taste? Sure. You've never said, made a joke, or tought that, right?

But why nobody picks on Patti Smith for "Rock N' Roll hooray for tolerance!"? Or Marilyn Mason singing "everybody's someone else's hooray for tolerance!", or even "haters call me bitch, call me hooray for tolerance!" or “White Noise” by Stiff Little Fingers, or “White Punks on Hope” by Crass, or “Holiday in Cambodia” by Dead Kennedys, or Dire Straits hit "Money for Nothing", Katy Perry "Ur So Gay", Taylor Swift in "Picture to Burn", Michael Jackson with "They Don't Care About Us", Green Day's "American Idiot", Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds with "Henry's Dream", Korn with "Faget"?

Woke hypocrites.

9 minutes ago, Spoon87 said:

Don't even start to get your hopes, there's like a 0,5 % chance this gig will mean / change anything. It's either right before the tour starts or before the US leg, but I guess we all already sense how this will play out.

0,000000000005% actually.

22 minutes ago, koldbeer2 said:

I suspect Guns won't allow it to be live streamed, though I do suspect we will see something like Coachella where a songs are allowed to be played.

Axl just hasn't got the vocal chops anymore to sound even remotely like what the general public remember him as, even arguably his best nights from 2022 were still a shadow of what general people remember Axl sounding and on TV there will be no hiding it with effects/layering.

Why do you think they won't allow the streaming? Last year they streamed Rock In Rio 22.

31 minutes ago, ChristmasFnatic said:

Who are these people complaining about "white" and "male"? A small, vocal minority or is it the type of people who go there?

It is not that small, there's a lot of noise around the matter, though they are kind of right, I think is just Gen Z / Late Millenials trying to be woke.

32 minutes ago, DTJ80 said:

I suppose it means there is a ‘better’ chance of a single/EP around that specific gig as exposure goes through the roof for that festival.

Stop it right there! They won't do it! They never did it that way.

12 minutes ago, batatadoce said:

do you know what it is ?

madagascar has it in almost all the vocals, except for some of the high parts and then the lower backing vocals near the end.

It's not a matter of opinion, he either using distortion or not.

 

Great nickname! Ri aqui alto! hahahah

1 hour ago, Rovim said:

huh? Madagascar and SOD are full of rasp. Shackler's not so much, but Axl said it was an artistic choice to use the cleaner voice and you know it's true cause Axl's work on Bach's Angel Down solo album kinda proves it.

As always, Rovim, potato/potato, tomato/tomato, you just agree to disagree! You won!

1 hour ago, ruttu69 said:

CD, Madagascar, Street of Dreams, Shackler, Better don’t have enough rasp? 

They don't if you compared them with AFD and UYI.

Better and CD have some rasp, but Madagascar, SOD, Shackler's is minimum to none.

Wait, do you know what rasp is? 

He chooses to sing like this, he needs to have his voice for a 3 hour concert almost every night for 7 years.

It is a conscient decision not to use or overuse the rasp.

He recorded Chi Dem without the rasp so it wouldn't sound so different live.

Also, compare it with the ACDC concerts. They were 1h30 hour long concerts and he was full on rasp.

11 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

It's been mainly Axl since the '80s.

Sorry, Blackstar, but the band didn't have a setlist during the 80's and the 90's. They had a call list: a bunch of songs reharsed and they played whatever they feel like it in the moment.

BUT, the NITL became boring already in 2017, who would've tought that they would be playing the exact same thing (with minor changes) 6 years after.

In 2016 the concerts in Brazil were explosive! In 2017 it was magical, but in 2022 I felt the band is getting tired. The São Paulo concert was off, even with the minor changes in the setlist (Shadow of Your Love, Reckless Life, HS and Absurd).

1 minute ago, megaguns1982 said:

Wow. It’s getting really sad seeing what this band has become. 
 

To the hardcore fans like us, to them (making loads of money) and to general fans that only like NR and SCOM it's fine!

3 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

Don't ask me, I am not really interested in live records unless it is from the 80s. But generally, from what I have heard from members here countless of times, people are really interested in live recordings that are more professionally recorded than most bootlegs. So that's why people bother caring about live music recordings... until the band actually decides to release live music, then that's terrible!!! 

If we are talking about a proper 80's Live release, I'm up for it.

13 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

We don't? 

If I only had a penny for all the posts I've read where people have been complaining about the band's refusal to release live albums...

When the disappointment from the band releasing live music now blows over, people will go back to being disappointed about the band not releasing enough live music. 

I'm talking about the quality of current vocals. To me 2016 was the best year vocal wise for this line up, for the past line up 2006. There's tons of live performances on Youtube, so why bother?

We will never be happy with this band, it will be an eternal no-situation.

And then when both blows over, people will start complaning that they are not doing too many live shows.

2 hours ago, SoulMonster said:

Most fans would appreciate live music albums from whatever band they like. Which was the point I was making. Only on mygnrforum can such news be made met with nothing but indifference or rightout scorn.

Personally, I don't care for live music albums from GN'R unless it would be from the 80s, but that's just me. I can still be happy for the fans who are excited about this. Wherever they are. 

"cause LIVE ERA is the ultimate GNR Live album. We really don't need another live material, unless there is a comemorative CHI Dem Live edition.