There's a genre of pornography based around women picking up and carrying men. I only know this because the human sexuality class I took for liberal arts credits was essentially a TA looking up weird porn on the internet.
Point being: Bat For Lashes just widened her demographic.
Slash is definitely one of the kings of the early 90s hard rock riff.
Some music is meant for certain people and certain people only. It's not always the case but I think it's true with GnR, just like you said. Everyone I know who really like GnR also really love the movie "Rockstar," and a whole bunch of other things I either can't or don't understand.
So the message, I think, is to steal money from your step parents and, I guess, flail your arms around and yell like a five-year-old on a sugar high? Work a car in there, if you can?
In all honesty, I was expecting the song itself to be way worse than it is. That said, I have a question for the more informed: Are Kreayshawn's lyrics usually this nonsensical? She seems emphatic about a particular point, but never gets around to explaining it.
Guns 'n Roses is one of those bands I dislike and don't have a good reason to support it. When I was a kid, our next door neighbor was a high school dropout and a huge piece of shit. He stole my skateboard once and sold it for drugs. He also loved Guns 'n Roses. We know this because my parents constantly had to call next door and tell him to turn his music down. For a stretch of a couple years, Appetite was literally the only music you ever heard coming from his window.
The short version is I think of this guy whenever I hear any GnR song and it made me hate the band. And no matter how hard I try to appreciate some of their albums for what they were, I can't do it. It sounds like asshole music to me.
I would controversially put No Code ahead of Ten. Just like would controversially put water instead of milk on my Cheerios. Face it, you wish you were such a rebel.
Yeah I agree, it is a pretty solid list. I think if all the comments here shows anything it's that making the perfect PJ setlist that would actually fit within a reasonable concert length is pretty hard to do. Very quality catalog.
I think the biggest shame of all is that someone named Harley Flanagan is so angry and violent. With a name like that, he should be the jolly bartender at a Limerick County tavern.
But, seriously, I agree with you. I've never understood why we can't just have hardcore without the bullshit. But then again, there's a lot I've never understood about that whole scene. Like those straight-edge crews. What is that all about? OK, you don't do drugs or drink. Fine. I commend you for your life decision, just please don't chase me to my car because I ordered a beer. Are those folks still around these days?
(And I apologize ahead of time if I inadvertently start a little tiff with this)
Agreed. SML does a little exploring but it certainly centers around good hooks.
Back to plb102's point. I think it's also very easy to forget how the dialogue went back then when you consider how many great albums there were to discuss that year.
Once through it. Enjoyed it thoroughly.
I'm very interested to see how Dave plays "Maybe That Was It" live. Using the tuning pegs like that was a great idea (if, in fact, that's what he's doing).
OK, you need to settle down.
First, I can comment on the song because I've heard it before. I cannot, and did not, comment on the album because I haven't heard it all the way through.
Second, I am well aware that Noel ripped off the Beatles as well. What I don't understand is where you're coming from. You apparently think I'm making some kind of Team Noel/Team Liam argument. Trust me, I'm not. I'm simply pointing out something that is quite obvious.
Third, please show me the part where I claimed to be an "expert."
I can't comment on the album since I haven't listened to it, but I can say the chorus in "Standing on the Edge of the Noise" is a blatant ripe-off of the Beatles' "Get Back."
I'm starting to take a Joe Howse approach to leaked albums. It's like finding where your parents hid the Christmas presents a week before the big day. That said, I'm hoping this one will the Super Nintendo of my Summer 2012.
Thanks for sharing, Michael_. And I'm glad this whole thing came to a decent resolution. I was getting pretty worried for the same reasons stated by others. I had a friend in high school who grew increasingly detached from all of us as we got older. He became so engrossed in conspiracy theories that he moved to Thailand to teach. And I heard recently that he had grown disillusioned with that job and started wrangling exotic reptiles (yes, almost exactly like the last Rambo movie).
I guess what I'm saying is I'm glad you didn't move to Thailand(?)
Onward and Upward
Good posts end with great quotes so:
"Be ease and have some of these <3 <3 <3..." -Donny "Tell'em" Tilla
The whole thing is just confusing now. There's, what, three accounts claiming to be the John? Whoever made the fake RubJohn account(s) ruined that whole thing for me. Knowing those posts are coming from a person trying to piss people off rather than someone who, by nature, just pisses people off takes the fun out of it.
I know I was kind of part of the problem this week, but can we agree not to go down this road ever again? You all can do whatever you want, but I'm not taking the bait anymore.
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