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Just now, k12 said:

there is a Citi Presale tomorrow if you have a Citi card, that being said getting good seats is going to be hard, there are only so many good seats in a Football stadium, and I am sure most of the good seats are going to be sold in the VIP stuff, if you are willing to spend $1,800 on a Floor GA or about $800 on a Floor seat behind the GA you are likely able to get a good seat

 

and I do not think you need to be a nightrain member for the VIP stuff

Thank you, but thanks to my car breaking down, I can't afford VIP. Ah, lovely. I wish I was still with Citi.

Welp, I guess any ticket at this point will be desirable. Thanks again.

At what rate are tickets selling? Will I have a prayer of getting good seats for the San Diego show? I'm not a Nightrain member so I have to wait till Friday.

And I was willing to pay the maximum dammit.

Iron Maiden...never understood their appeal..too Spinal Tap for me,,

I understand you've tried and respect that you don't like them, but how in the world are they anything like Spinal Tap?

Ahhhh, right, sorry, it's Monday and i'm in dozy cunt mode Was he really shit then? Been listening to his Greatest Hits this morning and to be honest, it's grating on me a bit, i keep switching back and forth between it and With The Beatles.

It just seems to be the same fuckin' bollocks over and over, fuckin' American car makes and wistful lyrics and that whole "baby we can make it if we really try" and "the wind through my hair" and all these really really tired fuckin' stereotypes of Americana, tempered with the hint of some sort of tragedy to make you feel like it's about something and not just some crap inoffensive picture postcard of a song, just tired old cliches held together with a dull agnostic belief that, somehow, everything will be A-OK, it's patronising.

I'm guessing you fell asleep during Atlantic City? Seriously, though, I could see you liking the Nebraska album. The other albums... probably not, since they generally are optimistic, liberal American songs.

As for the topic, I always say it, but Metallica. I did relisten to Ride the Lightning and actually like three of the songs this time, so they are growing on me. Little by little. Alice Cooper's another one. I like him in small doses, but entire albums are out of the question. I was listening to Stone Roses, and I liked what I heard, but I honestly can't remember how the songs sound after I've heard them. Very forgettable stuff.

Tough between Zeppelin and Purple. Gave the edge to Purple, though. I mean, in the '70s, they served up In Rock, Machine Head, Fireball, Stormbringer, and Burn.

It actually does sound like that. I think the title track from Taylor's Red is probably one of the worst songs ever. It makes Katy Perry's questionable lyrics* look genius.

* "Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?"

"Think I need a ginger ale, that was such an epic fail."

Not trying to hate on Taylor since I loved a lot of songs on her new album (All Too Well, Treacherous, The Lucky One ), but WANEGBT and Red are just awful.

Bruce Springsteen is so damn overrated. Although I'll give him props for having massive long live shows full of deep cuts.

I used to think this when I really only knew his BITUSA songs. I still hate Glory Days. But honestly, he really isn't overrated. All of his pre-BITUSA albums are some of the best albums out there. I don't think many bands have an album as good as Born to Run. Hell, I don't even think there are many debuts as good as Greetings (outside of the obvious ones like Appetite and Boston). Nebraska is also a fantastic album that I feel like everyone should listen to. Even some of his later work is truly fantastic (The Rising and Magic).

Springsteen is a very good songwriter, at his best he is one of the best... I have admired his talent for a long time, that's why it hurts when he writes substandard stuff like a lot of what is on his last three albums and he needs to be called up on it. I think he's gotten a bit slack since that Seeger album.

I don't know if I'm unbiased talking about the Boss but I don't think it's that bad. Death to my hometown, for example, is a really really good song. Better than most of the stuff out there nowadays.

Death To My Hometown is definitely the best song off the album. I don't it's that bad either. I quite like Jack of All Trades, We Take Care of Our Own, Rocky Ground, Land of Hope & Dreams, and the title track.

I will say that I think his lyrics from BITUSA on weren't that great. But he deserves all the credit he gets for his pre-BITUSA stuff. I actually like his BITUSA-Wrecking Ball material, but I'll be honest and say it might be a little overrated.

I want to punish Bruce when he does crap stuff so that he feels the fan pain voiced and doesn't do it again!

ZOMG! There is more wit (satirical and otherwise) in the first song from his first album (for argument's sake) than most will ever have. I read some of your posts on the film thread... you need to at least check out Nebraska before coming to such a penetrating and insightful assesment because obviously you are just talking shit here and really have no clue what you are talking about.

I hate that Because I Got High song...

Agreed. His whole debut album had such great lyrics. Lost in the Flood.

^ Wow. Good posts. Really good points in there and perfect recommendation. The first 2 albums are my soft spot for some reason.

Because I got High is sooo catchy (and bad), but it's the typical song you can't stop humming.

Edit: Hanson - Mmm...bop. Pretty bad too.

Mmmbop is amazing.

I'd nominate Red Solo Cup and We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. Oh, and everything with the name Florida-Georgia Line attached to it.

I'm not even comfortable with Triumph being there.

Really? I think Triumph is actually one of the better bands to come out of Canada.

Ride the Lightning.

Figured I'd give it another shot.

Punk fans are alright. I don't see how they're any more elitist than metal fans, honestly.

Most rock and metal fans just enjoy the music for the music, not for the sociological class conflict Marxian ideas that underlie it. Punk fans seem to feel some weird sense of superiority because their music is somehow more real for the lower class or some shit and tend to look down on Rock music as being music for less enlightened cave men or "suburban white kids."

Like if I listen to a Stones song or a Led Zep song I don't pick it to death and hate it because Mick Jagger went to the London School of Economics, and trash it as somehow being less "real" or raw or whatever the fuck shit Lenny says. A song doesn't need to have a point about how the Queen isn't a human being in order for it to be a legitimate expression of feelings.

At least punk fans have a legitimate reason. Generalizing here, rock and metal fans think they're better than you solely because of music taste. And they praise AC/DC for being a fantastic band and complain about Nickelback for writing the same song over and over again. And they complain that today's music is just about sex and partying when in the meantime, their favorite band is Aerosmith.

I gotta hand it to punk fans. At least they're consistent.

I've been pretty consistant. Most rock music today is actually fucking depressing watered down shit. And AC/DC is garbage and one of the most overrated bands ever in history except for a few songs off Back in Black. I don't think I am better than Punk fans, they enjoy what they enjoy, I just find the musical marxists of the lot, who try to tear down everything else, to be really fucking annoying.

That's why I said "generalizing here." Since you're generalizing punk fans, I'm generalizing rock fans and saying they can be an equally obnoxious group (and personally, I find them more annoying even though I'm among them). All fans have their share of twat buckets.

Punk fans are alright. I don't see how they're any more elitist than metal fans, honestly.

Most rock and metal fans just enjoy the music for the music, not for the sociological class conflict Marxian ideas that underlie it. Punk fans seem to feel some weird sense of superiority because their music is somehow more real for the lower class or some shit and tend to look down on Rock music as being music for less enlightened cave men or "suburban white kids."

Like if I listen to a Stones song or a Led Zep song I don't pick it to death and hate it because Mick Jagger went to the London School of Economics, and trash it as somehow being less "real" or raw or whatever the fuck shit Lenny says. A song doesn't need to have a point about how the Queen isn't a human being in order for it to be a legitimate expression of feelings.

At least punk fans have a legitimate reason. Generalizing here, rock and metal fans think they're better than you solely because of music taste. And they praise AC/DC for being a fantastic band and complain about Nickelback for writing the same song over and over again. And they complain that today's music is just about sex and partying when in the meantime, their favorite band is Aerosmith.

I gotta hand it to punk fans. At least they're consistent.

Punk fans are alright. I don't see how they're any more elitist than metal fans, honestly.

I think it's shit. As are Metallica.

I'm not even a punk fun and I agree.

They were inducted in the Canadian Rock Hall of Fame, so it's about time for the US to get on board.

No offense to Canada, but who else is in there? The Guess Who? Neil Young? And who else?

http://canadianmusichalloffame.ca/inductees/

Probably will recognize at least a few names.

I knew Bryan Adams and Shania would be there!

What's been going on with Avril, haven't heard anything about her in a while.

She just released a new song, "Here's To Never Growing Up."

Got my Maiden tickets as soon as they went on sale. I'll be going to the Battle of San Bernardino! It's gonna be a long five months.

Alex's speech. Their speeches were so fitting for each other (Neil's proper, borderline pretentious speech, Geddy's down-to-earth speech, and Alex's nonsense speech). I'm so proud of Rush. And Dave's speech was awesome, too. Very cool performance of 2112 Overture.

I heard that ~80% of the audience was Rush fans.

The only correct answer is Operation: Mindcrime. Born To Run's close, and maybe Blood on the Tracks.

This is why I think the Chinese Democracy era was much more interesting than the classic era. Not only was the drama juicier, but Buckethead is a soap opera unto himself.

Yeah, here's the article: http://www.guitarworld.com/guns-n-roses-chinese-whispers

It's a shame Buckethead left, like you said Axl went to extraodrinary lengths to make sure Buckethead was happy in the band

(Bringing him to Disneyland & building a chicken coop in the studio).... It probably hit Axl hard when Buckethead decided to leave

is this a cupcake or did Axl really build a chicken coop in the studio?

Nope it's true, Tom Zutaut said it in 2001. 'What if we build a chicken coop in the studio for you to record your guitar-parts , from Chinese Whispers

Wow, I wonder if it was actually built. What is up with Bucketheads obsession with chicken stuff?

It was built, and in addition, Axl brought in a wolf pup to give to Tom Zutaut's daughter, and the dog took a crap in the chicken coup, and Bucket insisted they leave the crap there because the smell inspired him.

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Voted again for Bruce Springsteen. I still can't believe people are voting for Motley Crue.

Ok, we get it, you don't like GNR.

No, I think it's pretty factual that Bruce Springsteen's tour shat on every existing musician's face.

Nonetheless, I'm pitching a vote for both the Boss and GN'R because Crue winning is just embarrassing.

The funny thing is that Axl is always so ahead of his time, that no one appreciates what he's done until he's on to the next thing.

The only look anyone has really liked in the past ~15 years is his '06 look, though. . .

One day, I want a reporter to shout, "Hey, Axl, when does CD II start?"

Good to see him looking happy. He does come across as a little shy.

pop lyrics matter?

They do when they're so cringe-worthy you can't get through the song.

Like in one of Britney's songs when she says something like, "I smell your breath. It makes me cry."

Speak Now - Taylor Swift

One Of The Boys - Katy Perry

Born This Way - Lady Gaga

I thought Teenage Dream was a better album. /shrug

It's better musically, but the lyrics were much better on OOTB. TD has some really embarrassing lyrics. "Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?" "Think I need a ginger ale. That was such an epic fail."