Rock the Cock

6 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

Its exactly the place George was at, he bank-rolled it back in the day or else the Hare Krishnas were always gonna struggle to finance a manor house.  A lot of the Hare Krishna/buddhist community in town knew George personally, I've met people who grew up knowing him as Uncle George, he's in their home movies and everything.  I had no idea she did any solo work at all, I thought she chucked it all in, I shall have to have a listen.  Was quite the shock when she died, Ari Up too, both of cancer.  Ari Up apparently refused conventional medicine and was taking all these Jamaican rastafari herbal alternatives and shit.

Me too. Worst of all, Poly was misdiagnosed by her GP. Otherwise she might still be with us. Her first solo album, Translucence, it's a sorta stoner, hippyish kinda album; the last one, very modern (for the time), a bit hit and miss bit still a great listen and you'll probably find a few stand-out tracks. The first one is on the streaming services (at least mine); the last one you'd probably have to search for illicitly.

I phrased that really badly, about the "musically speaking whatever". I think I meant to say their music was very, very simple - which was why it's special - and so powerful

2 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

Nah i think they were something pretty special musically speaking.  As well as unique and incredibly powerful.  She got out of the punk movement pretty quick though when it started getting messy.  Ended up a Hare Krishna, living in that temple that George Harrison set up near where I live.

Yeah, I'm too lazy to Google it but I think she may have been in the same place George was at. Have you heard her solo albums? There's one from the 80s and another that (I think) came out very shortly after her death. Both are great listens. The last song on her final album (it's called Electric Blue Monsoon) is beautiful.

I can't be bothered thinking about what's best and what's worst from every album. But I think every GNR album (even Appetite) has a mix of brilliant and terrible songs, mostly leaning towards the former. 

For me, that's partly what makes me love them so much. Chinese Democracy aside, they were a band who completely ignored any attempt at self-consciousness - and I think that's a key part of what makes so many people love them so much.

lol

On 08/01/2019 at 2:15 PM, Len Cnut said:

There was a lot of that about in the punk movement, a great many even more musically unique than X Ray Spex...for example, The Slits.  Not that X Ray Spex ain't, they're becoming sort of a tasters choice thing lately when about 5 to 10 years ago it was a struggle trying to find someone who had heard of em.  And all anyone seems to know is 'Oh Bondage Up Yours'

I didn't really mean they were particularly special musically speaking, although I think there's something unique and incredibly powerful about them. Never really been able to put my finger on it tbh and I think that's why I love them so much. But there weren't many other bands fronted by brace-faced African women back then, were there?

I first heard their album when I was about 13, when my music taste was basically just GNR, Aerosmith and the like. Couldn't get enough of that album and still can't. When they reformed at the Roundhouse, I had a friend, the only other person I knew who knew them, who insisted we go and see them. She'd already bought four tickets for it and I had to sell my iPod to pay her for mine. Probably the best decision I ever made! I've watched the gig on YouTube since and Poly seemed to struggle at times. But I didn't notice at the time. I think it's ruined all gigs for me since then, because nothing has compared to that, not even close.

41 minutes ago, journey said:

I love this song. I posted it a few pages back. 

X-Ray Spex and Poly Styrene were a really special, one in a billion kinda band.

For favourite grunge song, I would pick Nirvana's Sliver. Not because of the quality of the song itself, but just because I think it gives such a great insight into Kurt as a man and the darkness from which all the brilliance came.

I really like Chinese Democracy, so I'd love to hear the songs recorded for it over all those years. I think a Bootleg Series-esque box set of those sessions would be one of the most fascinating and fantastic box sets a music fan could ask for. I can't imagine a scenario where that music is released in any appropriate way otherwise. But Axl is clearly never going to do that. So I think all of us GNR fans should be very, very nice to Axl's Brazilian family, because the only way we'll ever hear it is when he pops his clogs and they get to decide on what's released. It would be a great shame if that music was lost, Prince-style, although I doubt Axl has planned his legacy Bowie-style. So yeah, I think our only hope is to simply hope for the best, sadly. But we should be used to that by now!

No offence, everyone, but GNR's cover of Down on the Farm is the antithesis of punk - WTF? Try this 

14 hours ago, allwaystired said:

Baffles me why people think this track is any good. Axl sounds good, sure, but the song? It's designed as a joke - a pastiche of AC/DC's ongoing use of the word 'Rock'. It would be an absolute disgrace if it was released as a serious song (which it quite clearly isn't) - and everyone I've played it to has laughed at it. 

Absolutely absurd that people have even suggested it should be played live! I know we're desperate, but surely we have some sort of standards?! 

I suppose it says a lot about rock fans in general that they greet an intentionally derivative and backwards-looking pastiche song as good....and perhaps suggests why the entire genre of music is struggling! 

The positives are of course that Axl has been in a studio and recorded something...and that he did it without anyone leaking that information. 

 

 

I agree with everything you said. But I'm also pretty sure Axl knew this would make his fans hysterical and is probably browsing this site every day, eagerly searching for compliments on his vocals and having a fit over every comment about how bad he looked in the late 90s.

9 hours ago, Legendador said:

Yeah! I think not much.

They change 17 different guitar players, 2 bass players, 3 drummers, 2 keyboard players.

They reunited in 2016 (But not with Izzy, Matt, Gilby and Adler only played in 3 shows)

They did a 3 year tour that endend last December and it was the second most profitable tour in history.

They were not late for a sing show of the tour which went off without a glitch.

Slash got divorced and remarried.

Duff's kid open for them in a couple shows.

They now have a female keyboardplayer.

They release the most incredible boxset with tons of songs, commemorating the 30th AFD anniversary.

They released lyric videos for Shadow of Love and Move to the City

Axl was the lead vocalist for the remaing dates of the ACDC tour in Europe.

Axl sang in a cartoon song called "Rock the Rock".

So, just the usual. Nothing much...

Thanks for such a detailed response! I was hoping to hear there's been a load of great Chinese Democracy-era leaks, but I guess that was just wishful thinking haha

Can anyone recommend the best of Bucket's recent albums for me, please? Big fan of his but haven't been keeping up with his records for about six or seven years now sadly.

Hi everyone. So I'm new here - I used to follow the band closely until Chinese Democracy came out. Could somebody please fill me in on anything I may have missed in the past ten years? Thanks

Just now, Rock the Cock said:

Hi everyone. So I'm new here - I used to follow the band closely until Chinese Democracy came out. Could somebody please fill me in on anything I may have missed in the past ten years? Thanks

I assume not a lot, right?

I've only just joined this forum to see if anything was happening with GNR nowadays (lol), but this seems much more fun. Can we please have a 2019 edition?