DR DOOM

7 hours ago, Apollo said:

What a topic. 

Just to be clear...people are saying that Little Richard wasnt rock, Axl sings Queen songs better than Mercury, GnR was 18 or 180 times better than Queen, and that the current members of Queen were wrong in who THEY though should front THEIR band?

I am just walking away quietly and peacefully so as not to get a warning point. 

Yes indeed.

Thing is, I like GNR way more than Queen but just cause GNR is one of my favourites doesn't equate to them being the super bestest in all respects.

12 hours ago, Bono said:

Threads like these are hilarious. It's nothing more than a group of people trying way too hard to be cool by name dropping popular bands and then saying shit like "I don't listen to radio" as if you're all above it 

Nah man, I just listed the bands I fucking hate the sound of.

18 hours ago, Edward Nigma said:

Any realistic figures yet...

Eleventy bajillion.

10 hours ago, Zint said:

Green Day

Yeah well hardcore punk isn't for everybody man.

13 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

It is fairly good if I was in sweaty bollock music still. Very Maiden-esque.

Sweaty teenage boys all over the world will be rebelling against their fucking parents to this one for sure.

18 hours ago, ludurigan said:

 

you can basically get any random performance of Guns n Roses from 1986 to 1991 and it will likely be at least 18 times better than the entire career plus the entire discography of Queen combined!

like this terrific performance of the most underrated GNR song ever, which is at least 18 million times better than anything that Freddie and Co ever did on this planet

 

thing is not only axl was 18 times better than freddie... but Guns n Roses was 180 times better than Queen

Freddie never had anything remotely close to Izzy and Slash (and Steven and Duff) to help him out. Brian May has nice riffs on him but when you compair his guitar stuff with Izzy/Slash you really feel sorry for poor Brian!

Cough cough...here's ONE guy from Queen (with Cozy Powell, Neil Murray etc) performing at a level definitely at least 19 times better than Axl ever did

3 hours ago, MillionsOfSpiders said:

 

Rage Against The Machine. 

Yeah I fucking hate them too.

4 minutes ago, ludurigan said:

Axl clearly didnt know how good he was. On his prime, he was at least 18 times better than ANY other singer in rock history. That version of Tie Your Mother Down -- which Axl claims he never "felt right" singing -- is the best ever version of that song -- by 18 miles, at least. No other human could sing like Axl -- and that was in fucking 1992, when Axl's voice AND state of mind were already past their prime. Of course after that it was only downhill and, sadly, apparently Axl is saving whatever is left of his voice (and of his drive and of his spirit) for AC/DC and for his solo songs only. Oh, and Freddie Mercury can get boring fast with all his pompous singing. Great voice, great songs but his style is too-grandiose and too-operatic (and not enough rock n roll) for my taste.

No fucking way dude.

Not denying that Axl in his prime was an absolute beast and force of nature but no way was he THE BEST let alone 18 times better than the best 

Roger Daltrey sang the fuck out of "I Want It All" at the Tribute concert...man that's a killer version of that song, Iommi and May together sounded fucking incredible too.

This thread has a severely misleading title.

9 hours ago, Len Cnut said:

Pearl Jam are shite.  Boring and patronising.

YES!

17 hours ago, DTV88 said:

If only Axl would have released a solo album like the rest of the member did, he could have gotten that Industrial itch out of his system...

It wouldn't have been everybody's cup of tea, but I would have loved an album of psycho "industrial" songs like OMG, Silkworms, Rhiad, Shacklers...take the Bucket era lineup to full potential.

Oh well.

1 hour ago, ToonGuns said:

I agree about Bumble, Frank and Fortus. I'd also leave out Pitman.

However Brain was good and the album needed him. Remember many of the songs originates from during Buckethead's tenure by which point Freese was long gone.

Ah yeah, I forgot that Brain was involved in a writing capacity too.

Pitsman was pretty integral though, those tracks need sub bass, towel faggery and fart noises almost as bad as You Could Be Mine or Paradise City 

It is terribly overproduced/messed with.

I've posted this a million times, but I think there are some good and even great songs in there but not as presented on the actual album.

The leaks and live performances from the years before the album came out were all way better than the Frankenstein's monster that finally emerged.

Ron Thal, Frank, Fortus and probably Brain (who pretty much copied Freese's work to the tee) didn't need to be on there.

14 hours ago, Slash787 said:

I din't know you were in to animals too 

I'm a baaa-aaad boy 

My grandad gave me his watch a few months before he passed away.

Anyway, not long after he died I was staying at my parents house.

There were a couple of nights where in the room I was staying in I swear I could feel his presence, and the air felt charged with...I dunno, energy.

I was sure I was just being silly, but on one of these occasions his watch (which I wear all the time) made this strange click sound that it has never done before or since.

In the hallway outside the room, we had a little plug in sensor light- it kept going off in the middle of the night with nobody there- on one occasion (common theme) I had just told myself I was being silly and it went off.

My dad said he woke up in the middle of the night to see my Grandad walk into their room (next to mine)- the dogs (who slept in mum and dad's room) saw him too, got up and went over to him.

This all happened around the same time.

It's a knockout 

There's a tribute album called THUNDERBOLT, the guy from Ugly Kid Joe (Whitfield Krane?) does a good job on Livewire and I think it's Ride On.

Jack Russel does an OK Back In Black as well.

Anyway, here is the best ACDC cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFJi_V8l8Eo

2 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said:

IRS would be better than what they play. The songs they actually play are some of the worst from that album. 

Indeed.

Better has it's moments, and the "new" intro is an improvement but as soon as the "no one ever told me when I was alone" bit kicks in it just kills the vibe and gets clunky as shit.

Agree with Len here, if I was BP I'd be happy to be free from that tribe and playing the field.

It sure beats Ashba playing them.

Face it, it's the most respect those songs are ever going to get.

The one CD song I'd actually really like them to play is IRS.

6 hours ago, Johnny Drama said:

Why do you have to be such a good egg and then go and still not like STP? You're breaking my heart, Doom.

I know man...never liked Nirvana either.

Add Jack Johnson, Ben Harper and any of that rubbish.

9 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

Where I differ is I believe the reason it did not come out resides solely - 100% - in W. Axl Rose, his insecurities, perfectionism and laziness. The label provided these whopping amounts of money to complete the thing. Hundreds of albums by hundreds of people are released every day; some of them do have logistical problems yet, not of them seem to have the convoluted history of Chinese Democracy (and its alleged, still unreleased, sister albums).  Why does/did this stuff only effect Axl?

Slightly off-topic but do you know how many studio albums James Brown put out? Sixty-three! Many of the masterpieces. All of them superior to Chinese Democracy I hasten to bet (I've not listened to them all). Now that is a genius. 

And (as you know) it seems pretty much everything was done in the space of a couple of years (late 90's-02) and the rest was pretty much just tinkering/sitting on hands.

It's not like the album actually took 10 years of work to make, most of that 10 years or whatever (correct me if I'm wrong) basically inactivity.

I mean, were there any songs written and recorded after Buckethead left? (last in the studio in what, 02?)

On 9/17/2016 at 4:40 AM, Fitha_whiskey said:

Interesting point. Could be right. Is Rose Tatoo still around these days?

Well, Peter Wells,Mick Cocks and Ian Rilen are all dead, so is Dallas Royal...Angry still carries on as Rose Tattoo but yeah.

Creed, Nickelback, Linkin Park, Blink 182, Matchbox 20, Coldplay, Avril Lavigne, Green Day, Limp Bizkit, Deftones, Korn, Tool...oh man, too many to name.

edit: add Pearl Jam and STP to that too.