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#301 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N’ Roses Reportedly Casting New Music Video (fake) » 491 weeks ago
Instead, I'd want a big fuck off Wicked Stone style track with Axl spitting venom on top. Now THAT would a killer comeback single!
Yes, indeed. They need to come out with an angry, aggressive and lean sounding first single, Jungle-style. Save the Elton/Queen influenced balladry for the third or fourth single to show that this is still the more mature UYI-style band, but bring back that anger before going into that self-indulgent melodramatic lamenting again.
CD (the song) was probably the closest thing to such a song on CD (the album), but the vocal melody needs more energy, closer to the staccato machine-gun style in the pre-chorus of YCBM.
#302 Re: Guns N' Roses » Just say no to corporate cash grabs » 491 weeks ago
Izzy's role has been overrated. He's one of the central song writers, not the central song writer. Most of GN'Rs big guns were either written without him or in a supportive role. Jungle, RQ, NR, Civil War, Coma and Estranged are all without Izzy. SCOM is mainly Slash and Axl. PC is Duff, Slash and Axl.
Patience, YCBM and Don't Cry are Izzy's main contributions to the discography. Songs like Dust N Bones, Pretty Tied Up and Double Talking Jive are the songs with Izzy all over them, and while great they aren't the songs that defined the band.
Axl's vocals and arrangements and Slash' guitar are the foundation. The common thread in all their greatest hits. Even those written by Izzy.
Hear, hear! 
#303 Re: The Garden » Donald Trump running for President » 491 weeks ago
Then you should all welcome a guy like Trump. If anyone is to crash the system, it is him. Me I'd vote for the neighbor's dog if meant no more establishment.
I'd prefer a clean reboot of the system instead of a crash (less collateral damage that way), by someone who actually knows what he's talking about and means what he says. I like the comparison between Trump and your neighbor's dog though... 
#304 Re: The Garden » Donald Trump running for President » 491 weeks ago
Wilders is more like a European Nader or Paul. Hitler put an end to the Trump type characters in politics over here.
What you have is Trump like parties. Progress party in Norway, Swedish democrats, UKIP UK etc. In those you'll find plenty of Donald characters, but none with the leadership qualities to mount anything based on their personas.
Paul and Nader are much more affluent and civilized than Wilders, but I'd agree that they fulfill a similar role (I would say Wilders actually has had more impact than those two). I take your point though, given that European politics are more focused around parties than individuals, you're right that we don't have Trump-like candidates as such (nor would they stand a real chance). The closest personality-driven parties in Europe are probably Marie Le Penn from Front National in France, Nigel Farage from UKIP in the UK and Bart De Wever from NVA in Belgium. I voted for that last guy, by the way, so although I've been defending Bernie in these discussions, I actually do lean towards the (non-religious) right on most issues. But the amount of crazy on the right in the US is just too insane for me, and it needs to be counterbalanced by a moderate like Bernie for a couple of years. More than that, the US needs Bernie to take money out of politics before any real change can happen. Axlin16 says the US isn't ready for that yet (and he might be right), but there's a huge opportunity right now with the momentum he has amongst younger voters, and it'd be a friggin' shame if it got wasted.
#305 Re: The Garden » Donald Trump running for President » 491 weeks ago
I do agree that the Electoral system is entirely broken. Alot of people don't even realize that the Popular Vote -- MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Nothing. The popular vote only means something if it's in a state with massive electoral votes, such as the big swing states like Iowa, California, and Florida.
I agree the system is without a doubt -- VERY broken. Candidates don't even campaign for the goal of winning the people's vote. People in Florida don't even ask themselves why it seems EVERY DAY there's some other candidate coming to their hometown to win their vote. They don't pay any attention to it, because they are surrounded by it. The reality is they show up because they want those electoral votes, and it should by proxy, completely nullify the vote meaning anything.
What hurts America even more is that they have been indoctrinated by the state department in their high school & college history/government classes that the Electoral system is the CORNERSTONE of the American political system.
So they tie the broken system in with being the true birth rite of a Patriot. People fight to keep the system that keeps them enslaved and right where they are at.
I also wish we had a system like other countries where you could only campaign for about a month, and move on. This being able to run for President TWO YEARS before the actual election, and the media here in America, ALL THEY TALK ABOUT IS THIS for the 2 years leading up to the actual election, ad nauseum.
It's a fixed, Plato's Cave JOKE.
I agree with all of this. I maintain that the current system is a huge contributor to the ever-increasing polarization between the parties and electorate.
#306 Re: The Garden » Donald Trump running for President » 491 weeks ago
Trump can't even handle a Fox News reporter, how the he'll does anyone think he could work with other lawmakers or sitting across the table from Putin?
If you are against Trump, he shuts down and resorts to name-calling. If you praise him, he's on your side. As easy to control as a 2-year-old or a well-trained dog. All Putin had to do was say a few nice things about him a few months back, and he was his best friend. A few more nice things from Putin and Trump would have been ready to dissolve NATO. Dude is dangerous not just for the U.S. but the entire world. He's a joke.
QFT
That is all... 
#307 Re: The Sunset Strip » Old music is outselling new music for the first time in history » 491 weeks ago
Country has been the new rock for a long time.
In the relatively small market that is the US maybe, the last country hit in Europe was Achy Breaky Heart... not even Taylor Swift was a blip on the radar before she went pop.
#308 Re: The Garden » Donald Trump running for President » 491 weeks ago
Europe already has it's Trump, and he's called Geert Wilders (The Netherlands). The multi-party systems en Europe generally keep crockpots like that from gaining enough power to do any real damage (they'd need an absolute majority for that), but they add enough fuel to the fire the scare the establishment parties.
James, Merkel's party (CDU) would still get 37% of the vote if there were an election in Germany today (down from 39% in a poll mid last year or 44% in the last election in 2013). The extreme right-wing party would get 11% (and this is from a poll taken right after the Cologne attacks). Sure, the CDU will lose some votes, but no way in hell that Frauke Petry becomes Chancellor.
Europe is not begging for it's Trump, a vocal minority is spreading FUD.
#309 Re: The Sunset Strip » monster truck » 491 weeks ago
Sounds a bit like Black Stone Cherry to me, but without the Jebus-luvin'/Christian Rock undertones (and better vocals & production)... I dig it!
#310 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Video Game Console Thread » 491 weeks ago
We're currently knee-deep in another installment in the Borderlands series (The Pre-Sequel). I'm not typically into the whole RPG-shooter genre, but I play couch co-op (split screen) with my girlfriend, and it's a blast to go through the story together. We've done the same thing in the past with the Resistance series, and two of the Army of Two games. We also played The Last of Us and the Drake's Fortune games together, but that's time-sharing the controller of course. If it weren't for the co-op stuff, I wouldn't get much opportunity to play.
I'm really on the fence about the PS4 though. I'm looking forward to buying a VR headset, and the PS4 with Playstation VR is definitely a candidate, but I think the best VR games are going to be on the PC due to the more powerful hardware and dual rendering requirements. For the first time since 2003 I'm really tempted to buy a gaming PC... 
