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Re: The Positive CD Thread
Itchy GTR wrote:If you think about it this cd explores many avenues of soundscapes than compared to the previous cds. I would have never thought that Axl would do a song like If the World or This I Love.
What?
too funny....:haha: ...If The World is a little off the beaten path though. Sounds like something out of a Blaxploitation flick.
Re: The Positive CD Thread
screw all y'all. where's the madagascar love? i liked that song ever since i've heard it on the rio shows. and the quotes with the bh solo are truly great. too bad on the album the solo is buried somewhere if i remember correctly. it's been a few months since i gave the album a listen
Re: The Positive CD Thread
If anything on CD is "out there" from a music standpoint, it's Shackler's Revenge in my opinion. Even though most of the album doesn't feel like classic GnR (ouside of most of TWAT), most of it has a GnR sound to it (admittedly mostly due to Axl). TIL is classic Axl - not sure how anyone could think it was amazing that he wrote that song.
Re: The Positive CD Thread
People used to ask me "does it sound like a Guns N' Roses record?" back in November... totally. It sounds like it's a Guns N' Roses album. It might be Axl's GN'R, but it has the attitude and self indulgence seen from other records in their back catalog. It feels like Guns N' Roses, just modernized... to the late 90's.
Favorite solos:
Ron - Shackler's Revenge
Buckethead - There Was A Time
Buckethead - Sorry
Re: The Positive CD Thread
screw all y'all. where's the madagascar love? i liked that song ever since i've heard it on the rio shows. and the quotes with the bh solo are truly great. too bad on the album the solo is buried somewhere if i remember correctly. it's been a few months since i gave the album a listen
The solo is buried which is a real pity, but overall the song is very powerful and a definate highlight of the album.
My favourite part is the crescendo when the solo and samples come to an end and Axl starts singing with all the guitars and drums thundering alongside him, it just sounds so fucking awesome 
Re: The Positive CD Thread
I've loved The Blues since I first heard it in 2001, that CD and Maddy I heard on the RIR3 recording and I thought they were outstanding. The Blues was my favourite though, the outro blew my mind, it was so beautiful. I thought the 01/01/01 Vegas performance was the best rendition they have ever played, I absolutely loved that version.
I never really figured out all of the lyrics until I got the Boston 2002 soundboard version, which is pretty incredible as well.
In November 2002 my best and life-long friend committed suicide at only 21 years old, I was 22. It was the most devastating thing thats ever happend to me and pretty much drove me insane trying to deal with that and the mess it left behind, my depression and my university studies.
I was sitting reflecting one night a while after it happened and listening to the Boston soundboard on headphones which had just came out and The Blues came on, and for the first time I could make out every word Axl was saying. I was flabbergasted cause he was saying pretty much everything I had been thinking about and feeling over that period but just wasnt capable of expressing, it was a great release of boiling frustration and confusion. From that moment on that song became very special to me and I cant listen to any version of it ever without reminiscing about my friend and becoming a little emotional. It was an extremely special event for me to be standing about 10 metres from Axl while he sung it live in Glasgow, it was another moment I'll never forget, my eyes were welling up.
I always said I didnt care if Chinese Democracy sucked, I just wanted more than anything the finished version of that song and I would be content.
If I ever meet Axl Rose I know I'll be telling him about just how much that song means to me and how it helped me through that period and I'll be giving him my thanks for giving us that song.
Re: The Positive CD Thread
That's a very touching story.
Madagascar actually brought me back from wanting to commit suicide, when it was really bleak for me. That's all I can equate to having a CD song touch me on a level that, the song takes on it's own meaning and spiritual embodiment. Ironically, it was the Boston 2002 soundboard I listened to the most.
I've always wondered... what would some of our lives be like, had Axl not even performed these songs live? I wouldn't have had the song to help save my life. Olorin wouldn't have had Street of Dreams/The Blues to really put things in perspective.
What if it hadn't ever been there, would I even be here? Would he still be lost? Others?
It starts getting deep from that point forward... 
