Which Gn'R song brings out overwhelming emotion/tears in your response?

[NicoRourke 402]

On 12/1/2020 at 3:49 PM, DTJ80 said:

I guess Estranged is the one song that ‘makes me think/contemplate’ stuff.

Yes Estranged for me too. It came randomly the other day while I was riding my bike, it was dark and I was in the forest - so "isolated" and the song hit hard. It probably helps that it's my fav GN'R song.

[SoundOfAGun 815]

The end of locomotive (love's so strange) amazing and very sad.

[weaponsnflowers 111]

On an ordinary day
Not in an ordinary way
All at once the song I heard
No longer would it play
For anybody
Or anyone
That needed comfort from somebody
Needed comfort from someone
Who cared
To be
Not like you
And unlike me

That gets me every time. As I think it's about John Lennon and how his song was cut short. Luckily people can still find comfort from his songs, even though he no longer plays them for us. Great lyrics Axl, great lyrics.

[YouCouldBeMine_2029 47]

Coma

[Amaya 237]

Easy answer for me.

Personally, Yesterdays is such a good song . Well written. True words. Meaningful.

I have regrets of lost  years , nothing immoral  or illegal. Nothing like that, but just moving on faster in life. 
 

The song is really an uplifting song .
Yesterdays got nothing on me...

 

 

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[Dean 2,420]

23 hours ago, weaponsnflowers said:

On an ordinary day
Not in an ordinary way
All at once the song I heard
No longer would it play
For anybody
Or anyone
That needed comfort from somebody
Needed comfort from someone
Who cared
To be
Not like you
And unlike me

That gets me every time. As I think it's about John Lennon and how his song was cut short. Luckily people can still find comfort from his songs, even though he no longer plays them for us. Great lyrics Axl, great lyrics.

The demo fucking hits me in the feels. Perfectly structured with the rhythm being prominent throughout with Brian’s perfect outro solo coming right at the very last verse instead of Bumble soloing right from the get go. The album version doesn’t do it justice.

[Flayer 166]

Always get goosebumps for a few seconds on the last solo of Prostitute.

[Sydney Fan 1,966]

34 minutes ago, Flayer said:

Always get goosebumps for a few seconds on the last solo of Prostitute.

when they did it live as part of the reunion, i think it was in Hartford in 2017 , the last guitar notes did give me a few gooseparts. 

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[WhazUp 4,122]

For me it is probably the second half of Estranged, and the entirety of Don't Cry.  Estranged IMO is Axl's pinnacle of lyrical prowess

[A.R.S.D. 9]

On 12/4/2020 at 10:06 AM, YouCouldBeMine_2029 said:

Coma

Coma for me too - I don't know why but it just does.....

[Live Like a Suicide 2,510]

3 hours ago, A.R.S.D. said:

Coma for me too - I don't know why but it just does.....

Coma doesn't do much for me, except the for the killer riff and Axl's great lyrics at the end.

[AxlSlashthebest 251]

the begening of Dead Horse and the end of Locomotive

[Live Like a Suicide 2,510]

For me, i think the two GN'R songs i actually stopped and reflected on were This I Love and Prostitute, especially with the instrumentals. The orchestral arrangement on those two songs are amazing and seriously underappreciated (not least because the final mix drowns them out a bit). 

[John Reid 3]

I’d have to go with 14 Years. 
“But it's been 14 years of silence
It's been 14 years of pain
It's been 14 years that are gone forever and I'll never have again!”

that’s all I have to say about that...

🙃
 

[Damn This Jail 13]

This might sound weird but the last minute and a half of Prostitute. It slowly fades into this cinematic orchestration. It actually stops me in my tracks and I have to pause and appreciate it. It’s not a sad emotional reaction. It’s more of awe inspiring kind of feeling. A feeling of finality. Kind of reminds me of chapters that end and a book closing forever.

[ssiscool 103]

Either Madagascar or So Fine. Madagascar for the organ music and So Fine for  the lyrics.

[marlingrl03 9,790]

^ Agree with So Fine for the lyrics!  

[megaguns1982 682]

Estranged did when I was a teenager, now in my late 30s I’m so hardened to feelings that I doubt anything could make me emotional.... I guess that comes with age.

[DownUnderScott 394]

On 12/2/2020 at 1:28 AM, tbaugerud said:

Down on the farm.

I wish I was a farmer.

Me too, but I wish I was a cow.

[Free Bird 2,101]

It depends on my mood but there are moments on a lot of songs that might not bringing tears into my eyes but still a strong emotional feeling. Nightrain outro, Locomotive outro, Coma outro, SCOM outro, Raw Power outro (GNR, the band with the best outros). A lot of guitar solos and Axl moments like his part after the One In A Million solo for example.

[eddiedingle 24]

My World leaves me a gibbering mess

[Blue Phoenix 28]

For me it’s ‘It tastes good, don’t it?’.

That song definitely resonates with me on a deep level. 

[NicoRourke 402]

On 12/6/2020 at 3:04 PM, Damn This Jail said:

This might sound weird but the last minute and a half of Prostitute. It slowly fades into this cinematic orchestration. It actually stops me in my tracks and I have to pause and appreciate it. It’s not a sad emotional reaction. It’s more of awe inspiring kind of feeling. A feeling of finality. Kind of reminds me of chapters that end and a book closing forever.

I does leave me with a peaceful feel as well. That all has been said, a,d all will be well - at long last.

[WAR41 414]

Never moved to tears, but Locomotive does elicit the strongest emotion from me.  It brings me to a very specific time in my life.  I loved GNR since 1991, but I never "discovered" Locomotive until the summer of 1998.  I played it constantly that summer.  If I am driving by myself and pop on Locomotive it can bring me back to that summer where I was having a ton of fun and didn't have a care in the world.  

The demo version of There Was a Time also brings me back to a specific period that was actually pretty dark for me.  It's weird that these two songs can do that for me.  I have songs by other bands that do the same thing for me.