Bad song, good album

[bicycleheader]

Shiny Happy People on REMs 'out of time'

that’s the first example I thought of but then realised that’s an opinion I used to hold but now that the song isn’t so overplayed, many years later, I like it again

 

[Tea_drinker]

that’s the first example I thought of but then realised that’s an opinion I used to hold but now that the song isn’t so overplayed, many years later, I like it again

I don't mind the song on it's own but it's weird when playing the whole album through.

 

[bicycleheader]

I don't mind the song on it's own but it's weird when playing the whole album through.

yeah I guess so

 

[LostLegend]

'My World' on Guns N Roses' Use Your Illusion II

Rumors were that Rose wanted to take the band in a more progressive direction and that was his little teaser/test project.
That track was probably the beginning of the end for an already fractured band.



What a god awful track, it's like he was trying to be Nine Inch Nails, without any of Trent Reznor's synth/production skills.

I once heard a quote about Axl Rose that said something along the lines of: "Axl Rose was so much of an asshole, that he couldn't even keep a group of heroin addicts together, even with the promise of unlimited heroin."

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

yeah I guess so

I am kind of mixed. I think Rose saw the writing on the wall, and Chinese Democracy showed he knew what he was doing. Its just it was such a hellish project, and the other group members did not support his vision. Having seen both the 'New Guns 'N' Roses' and Velvet Revolver live, it seems clear he was the truly talented one in the band. Him and Izzy Stradlin' were the ones with the real musical chops and vision in my view. Slash is an OK guitarist, but certainly not on the level of the real giants of the genre, such as Ritchie Blackmore, John Sykes, Eddie Van Halen, etc. Hell, he modeled himself on Marc Bolan, and I would say The Slider came up with far better riffs and tunes on the whole.

 

[Daz1878]

Did you like them as much post-Leadon? I know Hotel California was their defining moment, but I felt they were a better group before Joe Walsh came in.

I did, to be honest - I like all their albums up to '79. While Leadon was great, I think Walsh was a good fit and the right successor; he also gets some bonus points for In the City, a song I really like in both solo/band versions.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

I did, to be honest - I like all their albums up to '79. While Leadon was great, I think Walsh was a good fit and the right successor; he also gets some bonus points for In the City, a song I really like in both solo/band versions.

Yeah - they did some good stuff. They just seemed to have more of an identity when Leadon was in the band. In fact, it was more of an actual band, rather than the Henley-Frey show!