10 Worst GNR Songs (Houston Press Article)

[tinyrobot]

Anybody that bases their actions on a song or a movie is dangerous in that they are unable to discern the difference between right and wrong, thats not the songs doing, its called having a mental disturbance, art cannot be dictated to by the fact there are crazy people in the world or art wouldnt exist.

How are you supposed to know its not to be taken serious? Well if you are that retard Axl made provisions for that on the front cover, it states there clearly that its a joke and nothing more...and if perchance you hear it without the album cover to hand then he even says in the song 'take it for what it is'.

You're right, it is about a man killing a woman...although if you wanna get really deep about it it could be a gay guy killing another gay guy, since you're getting deep into this, the words 'she' 'her' 'bitch' could just as easily mean that, how did you know it was about women without clarification? I'll tell you why, cuz you got a brain in your head, the same brain that tells you dont take songs literally and act upon what you think they are saying, that is the difference between me, you and a psycho.

A retard?

That's a sad expression, dude.... I don't think people are retards for not reading Axl's provisions on his songs. Much less now that you just download the music without none of that. 'Take it for what it is' is not much of a clarification to me... what is it, Axl?

I agree with you that it takes way more than just a song for someone to completely let go of their minds and lose it like that. But I do believe messages are messages and maybe those lyrics will not make you literally go murder your girlfriend, but they will establish some common notions about shutting up women who complain or who bother you.

Jokes are fun because they mostly have an element of truth to them. There are vast academic studies on why jokes make us laugh and the whole psychology behind it.

At this point, I don't know who they are about. The obvious is about a man killing a woman. But since the world has become complicated and the obvious is not obvious anymore, I guess they can be about men, women, children, dogs, cats, snakes and your grandmother...

In ANY case, I dont like them. I don't like singing about killing people or animals.

Axl can fuck himself. I have my own opinions.

P.S.: I love you Axl, I was kidding, you're my prince.. please don't rant about me

Plus, they don't come with instructions on what is the correct way to understand their meaning so that no one takes offense.

And they shouldn't.

I honestly didn't mean to upset you homie. Your comment just struck me because I have never heard anyone take that song for more than a joke. So I just wanted to see where you were coming from.

I'm not upset!

I don't know how to respond to that other than... "well there's always a first time for everything"...

[Chris 55]

THE 10 WORST GUNS N’ ROSES SONGS

BY JEF ROUNER

THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2015 | 3 HOURS AGO

The first four albums I ever owned were the first four albums Guns N’ Roses ever made. I wouldn’t even say that they were my favorite band growing up because there weren’t other bands. Music would flicker in and out of MTV but only Axl, Slash and the gang were good enough to come home and be in my stereo until well into middle school. So when I say that not everything they ever did was fantastic you know I’m coming from a learn’d place. Many years down the road I find myself looking back on these records and having to acknowledge that there was a lot that simply wasn’t great. Today we’re going to point them out.

Note: I’m being fair here; we’re talking about Guns N’ Roses proper. Nothing after Use Your Illusion II and no cover songs, hence The Spaghetti Incident’s exclusion. I’m offering the band the best handicap I can. Now let’s roll.

10. "MY MICHELLE"

Appetite For Destruction remains a nearly perfect rock and roll record. It spawned five hit singles and the deep cuts like “I Think About You” hold up just as well. One of the few exceptions is “My Michelle”, which is frankly a mess. It’s strengthens the album’s themes of self-harm and a loose rock lifestyle, but more than anything it’s the best example of why early Guns were consider an inferior Aerosmith rip-off act. It’s a tune that really wants to hit hard but sounds painfully adolescent now.

9. "THE GARDEN"

This is another well-liked song that gets by on some undeserved accolades. Most notably it features Alice Cooper on guest vocals, who was going through one of the highest points in his career with the trilogy of Trash, Hey Stoopid and The Last Temptation being recorded around this time. Despite Cooper giving it his all the song lacks Rose’s trademark skill with phrasing, turning a song about death into trite pretentious hair metal track. Add to the fact that the video for the song is unforgivably boring, especially for a band responsible for some of the best music videos of two decades and it’s become a regular skipper in my iPod.

8. "YOU'RE CRAZY"

G N’ R Lies is going to come up a lot in this article, I’m afraid. Frankly, it never should have existed in the band’s discography, being cobbled together to capitalize on the success of Appetite while the band worked on their next real record. This acoustic version of “You’re Crazy” was actually closer to the original intention than the electric one that appears on Appetite, but it’s without the speed it it’s also without balls. Plus, while the acoustic sessions do in fact sound pretty good, they also represent a very tired band that needed a holiday much more than they needed a cash-grab. The vocals make that very clear.

7. "SHOTGUN BLUES"

The second Use Your Illusion album is probably the best of the original four albums, with few real misses. It does have “Shotgun Blues,” though, a really, really pointless song. First of all it comes right after “Get In the Ring,” which is already a puerile hate anthem but with far superior musicality and a killer guitar line to boot. “Shotgun Blues” has none of that, just Rose phoning in some very predictable rhymes and a solo that sounds like Slash was inspired by a need to finish recording and get to the bathroom.

6. "BACK OFF BITCH"

I am still not convinced that this is not a Britny Fox song that made it onto a Guns N’ Roses album somehow. Who’s Britny Fox? Exactly.

5. "USED TO LOVE HER"

Sometimes songs just remind you how much the world has changed. 1986 was a time when you could casually sing about killing a woman who complained too much and everyone would just laugh and laugh and laugh. I certainly thought it was funny when I was ten. I now take some comfort that the song is actually about Axl’s dog according to Slash. No, wait, that’s still terrible. Man, everyone in the ‘80s was kind of an asshole, huh?

4. "BAD OBSESSION"

Izzy Stradlin never gets enough credit for his songwriting skills, and neither did poor West Arkeen when he was with us. And “Bad Obsession” is actually a pretty good track, well-written and low-key. The only problem with it is it’s played like utter garbage on the record. For years I thought the title was “Battle Station” because of how Axl sings it as if he wants to be a kazoo when he grows up. I mostly rank this so high because it could have been a really wonderful recording if yet another song wasn’t so busy blowing Aerosmith.

3. "SO FINE"

Duff McKagan’s sole solo writing credit doesn’t speak well for him, sadly. It sounds more like a Paul McCartney song than the actual Paul McCartney song on the album. It has the same sappy sentimentality apparent in “Civil War” but without the energy and edge Axl and Slash contributed. Plus, on an album that already contains “Estranged” and for some reason an alternative version of “Don’t Cry,” you simply do not need another love song like this. It’s prom slow-dance music.

2. "ONE IN A MILLION"

Oh you knew this was coming. Racist, homophobic and thoroughly unoriginal, it’s amazing that even in 1986 someone put this on a record and expected no one to complain. To this day Axl says he doesn’t see what all the fuss is about, but you could play this song at a Tea Party rally and get a standing ovation. I know that conservatives stole rock and roll from us when we were all buying Jncos and pogs but come on, it shouldn’t be this bad.

1. "MY WORLD"

This was the last track on the magnum opus of the biggest band in the world at the time, a strange hybrid of industrial and bad rap that had no place on one of the last great rock records. It was the final original song send-off for G N’ R, and yet everyone was so surprised when Axl surprised us with “Oh My God” and we wondered what the hell had happened to one of the greatest songwriters of the ‘80s and ‘90s. So that’s what earns “My World” No. 1 spot, for being the shade of things to come.

Now excuse me, I’m off to listen to “Breakdown” on repeat.

http://www.houstonpress.com/music/the-10-worst-guns-n-roses-songs-7446815

Dont agree with majority of them apart from No. 1 - My World

Hipsters will never love GNR

[axljungle]

This is a nonsense list, back off bitch could be perfect in AFD, Bad Obsession, Used To Love Her, One In A Million or You're Crazy are great songs.

My list of GNR worst songs:

1 My World

2 Get In The Ring

3 Shotgun Blues

4 Dust N' Bones

5 You Ain't The First

6 Bad Apples

7 Double Talkin' Jive (Great song until the solo)

8 Breakdown

9 Catcher

10 Prostitute

For me 9 of this songs are great, but I have to chose 10. The right list is My World, My World, My World...(ten times).

[Len Cnut]

A retard?

That's a sad expression, dude.... I don't think people are retards for not reading Axl's provisions on his songs. Much less now that you just download the music without none of that. 'Take it for what it is' is not much of a clarification to me... what is it, Axl?

Well it's not Axl Roses job to spoon-feed you if you don't have the requisite cognitive abilities to figure out that a joke is a joke. In the context of a jaunty upbeat song, where on the cover of the album it says its a joke you're STILL confused by what 'take it what it is' might mean? The whole point he says take it what it is instead of 'disclaimer, this song is made in good humour and not designed to be a clarion call for widespread abuse of the female species' is perhaps he doesn't want to insult his audience THAT fucking badly

As far as the retard thing, it's clearly a colloquialism to denote someone stupid. See this is how language works, through common usage words take on a different meaning, this happens in language all the time, look at the word 'gay' and what it originally meant.

Also, since we're purposely looking for stuff to be offended about then don't call me 'dude', i find it offensive because the original meaning of the word was used to mock men that were sartorially inclined and equate them to women, look it up.

See how ridiculous that is? Thank you.

But I do believe messages are messages and maybe those lyrics will not make you literally go murder your girlfriend, but they will establish some common notions about shutting up women who complain or who bother you.

How dare you sit there and patronise me, a grown man of 31 years of age, and tell ME what going on in MY head and what certain songs will or won't establish. I was born in 1983, i been listening to GnR since 1992, i was 9 years old when i first heard Used To Love Her and I'm 31 now and the whole time it didn't establish jackshit in my head. It's my my brain and my life, if you want to know whats going on in it, you ask me, you don't tell me. And thats the root of the issue, thats what the essence is here, you're generalising about the male species and how they function and respond and react to things and it's absolute bullshit and MUCH more sexist that what you are trying to point out about the potential a song might have to a minority of people who are not well in the head.

Jokes are fun because they mostly have an element of truth to them. There are vast academic studies on why jokes make us laugh and the whole psychology behind it.

There are vast academic studies on UFOs too, that don't make em any less bullshit. Yes, there is an element of truth in them but the element of truth in Used To Love Her isn't in the murdering aspect, the element of truth that makes it relatable and funny is the concept of being nagged, because EVERYBODY can understand that, THATS where it draws people into the humour, not the murder, this is you not getting the joke and running with it basically.

At this point, I don't know who they are about. The obvious is about a man killing a woman. But since the world has become complicated and the obvious is not obvious anymore, I guess they can be about men, women, children, dogs, cats, snakes and your grandmother...

Well then say that then, that YOU just don't like it, don't imply there's something wrong with it because there isn't.

I have my own opinions.

We all do my dear, it's just some of us have thought about ours too.

Edited May 21, 2015 by Len B'stard

[katsdada]

First off....how can My Michelle be on a worst GnR song list..weird..I know it's just an opinion..but.....

Second off...I thought The Garden was about drugs...not death....am I off base here??

[Lies They Tell]

Here's my 10 least favorite GNR songs in no particular order (covers and officially unreleased songs excluded):

-My World

-Back Of Bitch

-You Ain't The First

-Right Next Door To Hell

-Garden Of Eden

-If The World

-Shotgun Blues

-Dust N' Bones

-Your Crazy (AFD)

-Bad Apples

[acor]

10. "MY MICHELLE"

Stopped reading at this.

[ludurigan]

I stopped reading on My Michelle

[Strange Broue]

You people are funny.

How DARE somebody have a different opinion than you about a song.

This guy is 100% correct with his list.

Because it is a list of what HE FEELS are the 10 worst songs. The 10 songs that he PERSONALLY doesn't like.

If every member on here put their top 10 worst song list up there probably wouldn't be one exact match. Does that mean every single person is wrong?

SMH. Telling somebody their personal preference is wrong.

You're absolutely right.

lol

if i feel that "we should execute DJ Ashba for being a horrible guitarist and a corporate whore" then that means i'm right ,because thats what i FEEL about right and i would prefer him dead?

P.S: this is hypothetically speaking right here, so don't jump on the "wow you're a psycho" train

Edited May 21, 2015 by Strange Broue

[tinyrobot]

Well it's not Axl Roses job to spoon-feed you if you don't have the requisite cognitive abilities to figure out that a joke is a joke. In the context of a jaunty upbeat song, where on the cover of the album it says its a joke you're STILL confused by what 'take it what it is' might mean? The whole point he says take it what it is instead of 'disclaimer, this song is made in good humour and not designed to be a clarion call for widespread abuse of the female species' is perhaps he doesn't want to insult his audience THAT fucking badly

As far as the retard thing, it's clearly a colloquialism to denote someone stupid. See this is how language works, through common usage words take on a different meaning, this happens in language all the time, look at the word 'gay' and what it originally meant.

Also, since we're purposely looking for stuff to be offended about then don't call me 'dude', i find it offensive because the original meaning of the word was used to mock men that were sartorially inclined and equate them to women, look it up.

See how ridiculous that is? Thank you.

I really don't know why you put yourself in this place of attacking a person for their opinions and taste in music. Calling them retards, stupid, fools... that never made anyone win an arguement, all the contrary it makes you look like someone who is desperately trying to hurt others, even if you don't know who those people are.

As I said before, 'Used To Love Her' lyrics are not a masterpiece worded out by Hegel, Kant or Adorno. I really doubt there's anyone out there who doesn't take the song as a joke in first place.

When I was 12 years old I laughed my ass off at it. Now in my thirties, I don't find it funny anymore.

This is not due to stupidity, retardness or lack of 'cognitive abilities' to understand jokes or humour in general. This is because I've become aware of certain problems in our society and as part of it, as an adult person, I don't support that kind of message and I don't see how I'm wrong with that.

Not that I supported it when I was 12, but you know when I was young there was so many things I was never told...

How dare you sit there and patronise me, a grown man of 31 years of age, and tell ME what going on in MY head and what certain songs will or won't establish. I was born in 1983, i been listening to GnR since 1992, i was 9 years old when i first heard Used To Love Her and I'm 31 now and the whole time it didn't establish jackshit in my head. It's my my brain and my life, if you want to know whats going on in it, you ask me, you don't tell me. And thats the root of the issue, thats what the essence is here, you're generalising about the male species and how they function and respond and react to things and it's absolute bullshit and MUCH more sexist that what you are trying to point out about the potential a song might have to a minority of people who are not well in the head.

Minority of people...

I think you're seriously disconnected from reality and certainly don't have a clue of what you're talking about. You're a very uninformed grown man of 31 years of age.

You patronize yourself, sir.

There are vast academic studies on UFOs too, that don't make em any less bullshit. Yes, there is an element of truth in them but the element of truth in Used To Love Her isn't in the murdering aspect, the element of truth that makes it relatable and funny is the concept of being nagged, because EVERYBODY can understand that, THATS where it draws people into the humour, not the murder, this is you not getting the joke and running with it basically.

That's YOUR interpretation.

In my interpretation, the element of truth that makes it relatable and fun for a guy, is the fact of singing a victory song over some woman who drove him nuts. She was nagging him so he made her shut up.

And she shut up.

Laughing at it is like becoming a partner in crime with who's singing it. It's a shared secret or wish some men have in their back of their minds.

Not everybody will act upon it, of course, but having it in a song it's the perfect scenario for this fantasy.

The song doesn't harm anyone in real life but everytime you play it and sing along to it, you're having this crime reenacted.

This is the reason why I don't want to take part in it anymore. I don't have this fantasy inside of me.

Well then say that then, that YOU just don't like it, don't imply there's something wrong with it because there isn't.

I said it, one hundred times.... You just don't read!

[Strange Broue]

THE 10 WORST GUNS N’ ROSES SONGS

BY JEF ROUNER

THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2015 | 3 HOURS AGO

The first four albums I ever owned were the first four albums Guns N’ Roses ever made. I wouldn’t even say that they were my favorite band growing up because there weren’t other bands. Music would flicker in and out of MTV but only Axl, Slash and the gang were good enough to come home and be in my stereo until well into middle school. So when I say that not everything they ever did was fantastic you know I’m coming from a learn’d place. Many years down the road I find myself looking back on these records and having to acknowledge that there was a lot that simply wasn’t great. Today we’re going to point them out.

Note: I’m being fair here; we’re talking about Guns N’ Roses proper. Nothing after Use Your Illusion II and no cover songs, hence The Spaghetti Incident’s exclusion. I’m offering the band the best handicap I can. Now let’s roll.

10. "MY MICHELLE"

Appetite For Destruction remains a nearly perfect rock and roll record. It spawned five hit singles and the deep cuts like “I Think About You” hold up just as well. One of the few exceptions is “My Michelle”, which is frankly a mess. It’s strengthens the album’s themes of self-harm and a loose rock lifestyle, but more than anything it’s the best example of why early Guns were consider an inferior Aerosmith rip-off act. It’s a tune that really wants to hit hard but sounds painfully adolescent now.

9. "THE GARDEN"

This is another well-liked song that gets by on some undeserved accolades. Most notably it features Alice Cooper on guest vocals, who was going through one of the highest points in his career with the trilogy of Trash, Hey Stoopid and The Last Temptation being recorded around this time. Despite Cooper giving it his all the song lacks Rose’s trademark skill with phrasing, turning a song about death into trite pretentious hair metal track. Add to the fact that the video for the song is unforgivably boring, especially for a band responsible for some of the best music videos of two decades and it’s become a regular skipper in my iPod.

8. "YOU'RE CRAZY"

G N’ R Lies is going to come up a lot in this article, I’m afraid. Frankly, it never should have existed in the band’s discography, being cobbled together to capitalize on the success of Appetite while the band worked on their next real record. This acoustic version of “You’re Crazy” was actually closer to the original intention than the electric one that appears on Appetite, but it’s without the speed it it’s also without balls. Plus, while the acoustic sessions do in fact sound pretty good, they also represent a very tired band that needed a holiday much more than they needed a cash-grab. The vocals make that very clear.

7. "SHOTGUN BLUES"

The second Use Your Illusion album is probably the best of the original four albums, with few real misses. It does have “Shotgun Blues,” though, a really, really pointless song. First of all it comes right after “Get In the Ring,” which is already a puerile hate anthem but with far superior musicality and a killer guitar line to boot. “Shotgun Blues” has none of that, just Rose phoning in some very predictable rhymes and a solo that sounds like Slash was inspired by a need to finish recording and get to the bathroom.

6. "BACK OFF BITCH"

I am still not convinced that this is not a Britny Fox song that made it onto a Guns N’ Roses album somehow. Who’s Britny Fox? Exactly.

5. "USED TO LOVE HER"

Sometimes songs just remind you how much the world has changed. 1986 was a time when you could casually sing about killing a woman who complained too much and everyone would just laugh and laugh and laugh. I certainly thought it was funny when I was ten. I now take some comfort that the song is actually about Axl’s dog according to Slash. No, wait, that’s still terrible. Man, everyone in the ‘80s was kind of an asshole, huh?

4. "BAD OBSESSION"

Izzy Stradlin never gets enough credit for his songwriting skills, and neither did poor West Arkeen when he was with us. And “Bad Obsession” is actually a pretty good track, well-written and low-key. The only problem with it is it’s played like utter garbage on the record. For years I thought the title was “Battle Station” because of how Axl sings it as if he wants to be a kazoo when he grows up. I mostly rank this so high because it could have been a really wonderful recording if yet another song wasn’t so busy blowing Aerosmith.

3. "SO FINE"

Duff McKagan’s sole solo writing credit doesn’t speak well for him, sadly. It sounds more like a Paul McCartney song than the actual Paul McCartney song on the album. It has the same sappy sentimentality apparent in “Civil War” but without the energy and edge Axl and Slash contributed. Plus, on an album that already contains “Estranged” and for some reason an alternative version of “Don’t Cry,” you simply do not need another love song like this. It’s prom slow-dance music.

2. "ONE IN A MILLION"

Oh you knew this was coming. Racist, homophobic and thoroughly unoriginal, it’s amazing that even in 1986 someone put this on a record and expected no one to complain. To this day Axl says he doesn’t see what all the fuss is about, but you could play this song at a Tea Party rally and get a standing ovation. I know that conservatives stole rock and roll from us when we were all buying Jncos and pogs but come on, it shouldn’t be this bad.

1. "MY WORLD"

This was the last track on the magnum opus of the biggest band in the world at the time, a strange hybrid of industrial and bad rap that had no place on one of the last great rock records. It was the final original song send-off for G N’ R, and yet everyone was so surprised when Axl surprised us with “Oh My God” and we wondered what the hell had happened to one of the greatest songwriters of the ‘80s and ‘90s. So that’s what earns “My World” No. 1 spot, for being the shade of things to come.

Now excuse me, I’m off to listen to “Breakdown” on repeat.

http://www.houstonpress.com/music/the-10-worst-guns-n-roses-songs-7446815

Dont agree with majority of them apart from No. 1 - My World

Hipsters will never love GNR

Exactly. Hipsters only chime in anything GNR related, because CD was the epytome of clusterfuck and idiocracy so they find it interesting...

They never like the old band really, just pretend it

A retard?

That's a sad expression, dude.... I don't think people are retards for not reading Axl's provisions on his songs. Much less now that you just download the music without none of that. 'Take it for what it is' is not much of a clarification to me... what is it, Axl?

Well it's not Axl Roses job to spoon-feed you if you don't have the requisite cognitive abilities to figure out that a joke is a joke. In the context of a jaunty upbeat song, where on the cover of the album it says its a joke you're STILL confused by what 'take it what it is' might mean? The whole point he says take it what it is instead of 'disclaimer, this song is made in good humour and not designed to be a clarion call for widespread abuse of the female species' is perhaps he doesn't want to insult his audience THAT fucking badly

As far as the retard thing, it's clearly a colloquialism to denote someone stupid. See this is how language works, through common usage words take on a different meaning, this happens in language all the time, look at the word 'gay' and what it originally meant.

Also, since we're purposely looking for stuff to be offended about then don't call me 'dude', i find it offensive because the original meaning of the word was used to mock men that were sartorially inclined and equate them to women, look it up.

See how ridiculous that is? Thank you.

But I do believe messages are messages and maybe those lyrics will not make you literally go murder your girlfriend, but they will establish some common notions about shutting up women who complain or who bother you.

How dare you sit there and patronise me, a grown man of 31 years of age, and tell ME what going on in MY head and what certain songs will or won't establish. I was born in 1983, i been listening to GnR since 1992, i was 9 years old when i first heard Used To Love Her and I'm 31 now and the whole time it didn't establish jackshit in my head. It's my my brain and my life, if you want to know whats going on in it, you ask me, you don't tell me. And thats the root of the issue, thats what the essence is here, you're generalising about the male species and how they function and respond and react to things and it's absolute bullshit and MUCH more sexist that what you are trying to point out about the potential a song might have to a minority of people who are not well in the head.

Jokes are fun because they mostly have an element of truth to them. There are vast academic studies on why jokes make us laugh and the whole psychology behind it.

There are vast academic studies on UFOs too, that don't make em any less bullshit. Yes, there is an element of truth in them but the element of truth in Used To Love Her isn't in the murdering aspect, the element of truth that makes it relatable and funny is the concept of being nagged, because EVERYBODY can understand that, THATS where it draws people into the humour, not the murder, this is you not getting the joke and running with it basically.

At this point, I don't know who they are about. The obvious is about a man killing a woman. But since the world has become complicated and the obvious is not obvious anymore, I guess they can be about men, women, children, dogs, cats, snakes and your grandmother...

Well then say that then, that YOU just don't like it, don't imply there's something wrong with it because there isn't.

I have my own opinions.

We all do my dear, it's just some of us have thought about ours too.

Grade A cupcaking right there, kudos to you Len Bastard

[magisme]

Wait, was I not supposed to murder all those bitches after I heard Used to Love Her?

[wasted]

I don't see You're Crazy going acoustic made it lose "balls". If anything the stripped down sound gives it a mean, in your face, type of feel. And I love the vocals on it.

If you're going to put an AFD song on there, I have no clue how you include My Michelle over Anything Goes or Think About You. That's just silly.

You're Crazy acoustic was used in Gone Baby Gone or Mystic River it sounded awesome.

[Mansin Humanity]

ohhhhhh that's why i never fully read threads in this part of the forum.

Edited May 22, 2015 by Mansin Humanity

[DR DOOM]

You people are funny.

How DARE somebody have a different opinion than you about a song.

This guy is 100% correct with his list.

Because it is a list of what HE FEELS are the 10 worst songs. The 10 songs that he PERSONALLY doesn't like.

If every member on here put their top 10 worst song list up there probably wouldn't be one exact match. Does that mean every single person is wrong?

SMH. Telling somebody their personal preference is wrong.

Technically you're right, but let's put that to the acid test...

The ten worst Guns N Roses songs are:

10. You Could Be Mine

9. Locomotive

8. Nightrain

7. Sweet Child O Mine

6. Don't Cry

5. Patience

4. November Rain

3. Paradise City

2. Estranged

1. Welcome To The Jungle

How is that not wrong?

[wasted]

I don't see You're Crazy going acoustic made it lose "balls". If anything the stripped down sound gives it a mean, in your face, type of feel. And I love the vocals on it.

If you're going to put an AFD song on there, I have no clue how you include My Michelle over Anything Goes or Think About You. That's just silly.

You're Crazy acoustic was used in Gone Baby Gone or Mystic River it sounded awesome.

[Nosaj Thing]

My World, So Fine + whatever 8 songs you want from CD. Or are we calling a spade a spade at this point and admitting CD isn't GNR?

Yeah, I was under the impression it's the ten worst Guns N Roses songs, so I didn't think CD counted.

Indeed. Those songs shouldn't count but if - somehow - they do, the're obviously the worst, even worse than My World.

[HuskerTornado]

More phenomenal music journalism...as was already said, between this and the article on Vice a few days back...

[wasted]

You people are funny.

How DARE somebody have a different opinion than you about a song.

This guy is 100% correct with his list.

Because it is a list of what HE FEELS are the 10 worst songs. The 10 songs that he PERSONALLY doesn't like.

If every member on here put their top 10 worst song list up there probably wouldn't be one exact match. Does that mean every single person is wrong?

SMH. Telling somebody their personal preference is wrong.

Technically you're right, but let's put that to the acid test...

The ten worst Guns N Roses songs are:

10. You Could Be Mine

9. Locomotive

8. Nightrain

7. Sweet Child O Mine

6. Don't Cry

5. Patience

4. November Rain

3. Paradise City

2. Estranged

1. Welcome To The Jungle

How is that not wrong?

Other than PC, YCBM and Nightrain that's my 1991 list.

[Apollo]

You people are funny.

How DARE somebody have a different opinion than you about a song.

This guy is 100% correct with his list.

Because it is a list of what HE FEELS are the 10 worst songs. The 10 songs that he PERSONALLY doesn't like.

If every member on here put their top 10 worst song list up there probably wouldn't be one exact match. Does that mean every single person is wrong?

SMH. Telling somebody their personal preference is wrong.

You're absolutely right.

lol

if i feel that "we should execute DJ Ashba for being a horrible guitarist and a corporate whore" then that means i'm right ,because thats what i FEEL about right and i would prefer him dead?

P.S: this is hypothetically speaking right here, so don't jump on the "wow you're a psycho" train

If somebody doesn't know the difference between killing somebody and not liking the same songs as another person, well then there really isn't much you can say to that guy. They clearly live in a world that the rest of us don't.

But just as a service do help you for your future conversations - you are free to think whatever you want. Feel free to wish people death for whatever reasons you want.

The difference comes when you ACT on that feeling and hurt or kill somebody.

Telling somebody they are wrong because they don't have the same opinion as you about a song is just silly and laughable and has exactly ZERO to do with taking violent actions against somebody.

The comparison isn't even apples do oranges. It's apples to rib-eye steak.

[uncivil war]

First off....how can My Michelle be on a worst GnR song list..weird..I know it's just an opinion..but.....

Second off...I thought The Garden was about drugs...not death....am I off base here??

It is about drugs, I'm pretty sure. I remember Axl or Slash saying it in an interview a long time ago. I've never heard the "death" reference before. All open to interpretation, though I suppose.

[Black Sabbath]

He acted like it was hard to pick JUST 10 lol. Music is subjective, but c'mon.

[DeadSlash]

The writer should learn more about the songs before he hates on them. Where pray tell is the acoustic version of You're crazy? It sure as shit isn't on Lies. Christ, it's even in the liner notes that the song "remains electric" Maybe the reviewer though acoustic means "slower"?

Wait, was I not supposed to murder all those bitches after I heard Used to Love Her?

No, I'm pretty sure that song meant it was ok. Everything on a rock record should be taken 100% literally.

For example, the FDA estimates that following the release of the Def Leppard album Hysteria, over 2 trillion metric tons of sugar was poured on people, in the name of love.

[Free Bird]

My World

Bad Obsession

Garden Of Eden

Shotgun Blues

So Fine

Bad Apples

Used To Love Her

You Ain't The First

Dead Horse

I have to admit that with the exception of My World, Bad Obsession and Garden Of Eden I really like all the songs and they don't deserve to be on a list like this.

[Apollo]

You people are funny.

How DARE somebody have a different opinion than you about a song.

This guy is 100% correct with his list.

Because it is a list of what HE FEELS are the 10 worst songs. The 10 songs that he PERSONALLY doesn't like.

If every member on here put their top 10 worst song list up there probably wouldn't be one exact match. Does that mean every single person is wrong?

SMH. Telling somebody their personal preference is wrong.

Technically you're right, but let's put that to the acid test...

The ten worst Guns N Roses songs are:

10. You Could Be Mine

9. Locomotive

8. Nightrain

7. Sweet Child O Mine

6. Don't Cry

5. Patience

4. November Rain

3. Paradise City

2. Estranged

1. Welcome To The Jungle

How is that not wrong?

It isn't wrong because it's your own personal preference.

It's no different than somebody telling you that you are wrong if you tell them a type of food you don't like.

Personal preference is never wrong. Just because you have a different personal preference doesn't make you right and them wrong.

No top 10 or worst 10 list would ever get 100% agreement on this forum. So that would mean every single person on this forum is wrong. How is that possible?