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A Year Before CD: Angel Down


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Angel Down came out on November 20, 2007. It is the first release to feature new Axl Rose vocals since 1999, he guests on Back in the Saddle, Stuck Inside and Love Is a Bitchslap. He also had a writing credit on Stuck Inside.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5on1iEdLL4g

Back in the Saddle: 6:54

Love Is a Bitchslap: 11:12

Stuck Inside: 18:29

(the tracklisting on the video is fucked up)

Imagine the best vocals from Axl at his 2006 peak, that's what he sounds like on Back in the Saddle. The deep vocals on Love is a Bitchslap remind me of TWAT, he adds a great texture to an otherwise standard rocker. Stuck Inside, holy shit... those are among his best vocal moments on record. I get goosebumps listening to that song.

I couldn't wait to get that album. It's a good record even without the Axl songs, but the Axl songs are great.

The weird thing is, he recorded them in an evening, and they're arguably better than most or all the vocals on his own record that came out a year later.

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So what are peoples opinions on this album? On Axl's guest vocals?

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Axl sounds fucking glorious on 'Stuck Inside'.

This

otherwise this is a very mediocre album

Like Sebastian Bach's music in general (inc. most of his Skid Row days)

agreed...it's not a very good album at all

Stuck Inside sucks until Axl's vocals

Love is a Bitchslap is embarrassingly bad...aside from Axl's vocals

the rest of the album is basically a subpar Skid Row album

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New theory.. Axls vocals on CD2 sound like that therefore won't be released until he feels confident singing them and doing them justice. Shit.

Sounds like UYI vocals only.. Dare I say.. Better?

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It is an excellent album. 2006-08 was a fun time to be around, starting with that appearance on the Eddie Trunk Show where he texted and called Baz and ended up joining them in-studio. I still listen to that every once in a while. From there, they had the Hammerstein Ballroom shows, he guested on Angel Down, then we finally saw Chinese Democracy a year after that. I wonder if the album gets released without Baz getting Axl on Angel Down first...

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Axl sounds fucking glorious on 'Stuck Inside'.

This

otherwise this is a very mediocre album

Like Sebastian Bach's music in general (inc. most of his Skid Row days)

agreed...it's not a very good album at all

Stuck Inside sucks until Axl's vocals

Love is a Bitchslap is embarrassingly bad...aside from Axl's vocals

the rest of the album is basically a subpar Skid Row album

Word.

While I think he is a cool guy ( as evidenced in the GWAR video "Skullhedface" :headbang:), I've never liked Bazza or Skid Row's music much at all and if I'm honest only "like" the 3 Angel Down songs with Axl on them.

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