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Re: Slash: I like to play Roses tunes
You either like the songs or you don't. It's isn't about relevance-progression-regression or any of that bullshit wanna be high brow industry music talk. It is about the songs and the music and how they connect with you individually. Do they turn you on or not? Will they turn you on 2-5-10 years from now?
CD is almost 3 years in the bag. Honestly, I like a handful of tracks still and the rest I could care less about ever hearing again. Same goes for tons of albums I own. "You take what you need and you leave the rest..."
super karma to anyone who knows what song that lyric is from...:mosh:
Re: Slash: I like to play Roses tunes
3 years later...
CD - still think it's a great opener, not as good as Jungle or Civil War
Shackler's - underrated rocker, needs more Bucket
Better - great rocker, needs less Pitman
Street of Dreams - love it, but 2002 was superior
If The World - loved it in the beginning, can't stand it now, Slither remix is better
There Was A Time - still the amazing song to come out of new Guns
Catcher In The Rye - demo was better
Scraped - has REALLY JUMPED UP in my book in 2011, sing it all the time
Riad N' The Bedouins - better as an instrumental
Sorry - decent, Bucket shines, but it's still missing something to put it way over
I.R.S. - sucks
Madagascar - one of my favorite GN'R songs ever, in any form
This I Love - little less Robin, little more orchestra = masterpiece
Prostitute - decent, but like Sorry seems like it's missing that extra umph to put it way over, still love the ambient outro, Beautiful Dangerous remix is better
Re: Slash: I like to play Roses tunes
IRS is great
Prostitute is one of the best GnR songs from any era
madgas quoted the night they drove old dixie down
weirdly i've had that line, esp they should never have taken the very best, in my head the last 3 or 4 days.. maybe it was some pre-cognitive thing waiting on this thread.. be disappointing if this shit is all i have waiting on me tho..
muse suck
lol@slither mash-up > ITW original & @ the Beautiful Dangerous remix BS. mad people.
GnR stopped being fuckin GnR the day Izzy packed up his songs & headed to the beach.
the influences & styles on CD are so varied & heart-stoppingly exciting - & not just where Axl's Elton-obession & lyrics are concerned - that i still discover cool new things to explore whenever i put CD on (which isn't often anymore)
i think CD title track is the weakest album opener of all GnR's proper albums... but even then it's still a p mindblowing hard rock tune.
i know it's been used a lot but it really is frankly brilliant the personalities & ideas/ideologies that come thru on CD, even if it is awash with Axl's demented paranoia. to quote Bumble/Axl & whoever else dared talk about CD's successes, but really an album containing two frightening dexterous guitarists (BH & Bumble) & the hodge-podge of talented accomplices (chiefly Brain & Pitman - Tommy's relative absence is a sad note, of course) make it a much more fascinating & progressive hard rock album that there's been since probably UYI2!
no joke, CD is a landmark hard rock album in much the same way UYI2 was. there hasn't been anything in the intervening years, or since CD was released, that comes close to the zealous mania on show in CD.
Re: Slash: I like to play Roses tunes
Yeah i'm not really bagging on the ballads. Axl adapted his own unique form of doing ballads that's part Freddie, part Elton, part Paul, part Nazareth. It adapts from various forms of his influences, and it is HIS sound. Axl wouldn't be Axl without November Rain. I'd be totally cool if my legacy was that song, that moment.
As for the rockers though, if you've never heard those songs before... you really didn't listen to alot of White Zombie or Ministry or NIN.
Re: Slash: I like to play Roses tunes
Seriously, I know all those bands and can't compare any of their songs to a song on CD. I'll admit, Shacklers Revenge did remind me a bit of Rob Zombie when I first heard it, but Zombie's never made a song that was THAT pop oriented. That's about the only one on there.
Re: Slash: I like to play Roses tunes
More Human Than Human was more pop than Shacklers is. CDs rockers sound like zombie/manson wannabes to me.
On another note, I'm not 100% sold that is Slash shredding on DTJ. It seems if he could do that, he'd have done it more than just that one time. Just my opinion.
Re: Slash: I like to play Roses tunes
Shackler's is definitely Zombie-ish. However, I hear no Manson influence at all and as a matter of fact none of the songs aside from Shackler's sound much like anything in particular. There are a lot of small influences and parts in each song, but as a whole, every song is pretty unique. That doesn't mean I think they are groundbreaking or are great songs, it just means that there is not much out there that really sounds like it. It is such a mutt of an album that pinning the influence down to one artist on any song is not fair....and not possible in my opinion. It is purely an Axl Rose album, and it reflects the personality of the madman who created it. 
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Re: Slash: I like to play Roses tunes
More Human Than Human was more pop than Shacklers is. CDs rockers sound like zombie/manson wannabes to me.
On another note, I'm not 100% sold that is Slash shredding on DTJ. It seems if he could do that, he'd have done it more than just that one time. Just my opinion.
If its not him, its only a couple passages that are not him. Most of the solo is his style and a lot of it is note for note of what made it on the album. Slash's paradise city outro has MAJOR shred moments that are sometimes hard to hear due to everything else going on in that outro, but for a long time people said, "there was a ghost (a studio musician brought in to fix band member parts without the band member being there) in the studio during appetite, no way Slash could play that Paradise City outro solo". Well, he now plays that solo note for note almost live. And if you listen to the current version of the godfather, he plays some of the EXACT same runs that you hear in that double talking jive solo. All that harmonic minor shit. And if you listen to the acoustic demo in the same thread, that too has that same harmonic minor feel.... I am not saying it is without a doubt him, but what I am saying is that Slash often does shit we don't think he could do, or should do. The solo from Serial Killer is another one of those moments.
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Re: Slash: I like to play Roses tunes
Dude, its him. Even live in 1992 during his days of drugs and booze he plays some of the same exact runs from that demo version....
