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#811 Re: Guns N' Roses » Are we at comparison time yet? BEST of VR vs. BEST of New GNR Lineup » 886 weeks ago
Because I love Axl and Slash I can't get into this vs stuff.
However...I can contribute the GNR album I would have liked to hear (not in order):
Dime Store Rock
Neither Can I
Beggers and Hanger's on
Soma City Ward
Serial Killer
Speed Parade
Slither
Let It Roll
Get Out The Door
Slither
Sucker Train Blues
Madagascar
There Was A Time
The Blues
Catcher in the Rye
Prostitute (if its track 2)
Nice list, you must really love Slither 
This seems like a better approach than the VR vs nuGNR thing. My list would look a little like this (in order of release date):
Snakepit IFOC:
Neither Can I
Dime Store Rock
Beggers and Hanger's on
Take It Away
Back and Forth Again
Snakepit ALG:
Serial Killer
Ain't Life Grand
VR - Contraband:
Slither
Fall To Pieces
VR - Libertad:
Get Out The Door
Messages
nuGNR:
If The World
Better
There Was A Time
The Blues
Conclusion: I seem to prefer those songs that most closely resemble UYI era GNR's style, with the notable exception of "If The World" and "Get Out The Door".
#812 Re: Guns N' Roses » Overall feelings on the CD era songs.... » 887 weeks ago
Had a while to think about all this, listen to the songs a couple more times...
I'm not going to like CD. At all...
I'm very disappointed that I'm about to say this, but I really can't bring myself to liking this.
I tried... hard... but I can't.
I mean, I've got to be honest with myself, if you start listing the words that I (and others) have used to describe these songs, it does not paint a pretty picture: noncohesive, uninspired, overproduced, bland, boring, generic, messy, overly complex, not organic, doesn't do it for me, ...
Bono was right: it's not a good sign if everyone has their own few favorites. There are no classics in the mix; sure you can like some (even a lot) of these songs, that's personal opinion. But that doesn't make them classics. E.g. I absolutely love Chantal Kreviazuk's version of "Leaving on a Jetplane"... absolutely brilliant rendition, imho. But obviously not a classic.
He should've dropped the name. Like Chris Cornell, who was brilliant in Soundgarden and excellent in Audioslave but makes boring music as a solo artist. And I knew that was a possibility, 'cause he wasn't claiming to be the sole important member of any of those bands. And thus, I can accept his solo record for what it is. Axl wanted to keep the name, he should have delivered some real good GNR-type music. He didn't, so he failed.
#813 Re: Guns N' Roses » Riyadh and the Bedouins leak » 888 weeks ago
If Riyadh is on CD, does that mean there's a chance OMG might be on there as well (or god forbid, Silk worms)?
If so, we've potentially heard up to 12 songs of CD...that's a complete album worth of material 
#814 Re: Guns N' Roses » If the World leak » 888 weeks ago
ditto, love this one
#815 Re: Guns N' Roses » Overall feelings on the CD era songs.... » 888 weeks ago
"catchy" does not equal great song unless you are talking pop music
True, but "incoherent" almost certainly equals not so great song.
That's my general opinion on these songs (all of them), they're incoherent and overproduced.
Oh, and someone should ritually slaughter Chris Pittman!
#816 Re: Guns N' Roses » Overall feelings on the CD era songs.... » 888 weeks ago
As for Axl being "the weakest link" in this, I don't think so. I reckon the quality suffers because of the fact that Axl did not have a band to back him up this time. Just a (talented) assortment of musicians hanging around, doing as he asks.
No chemistry between them, and it shows.
#817 Re: Guns N' Roses » Overall feelings on the CD era songs.... » 888 weeks ago
Overall, all the CD era songs have very little flow and absolutely lack a catchy chorus. I think that's why Better is so popular: Better and IRS are the only ones with a real chorus.
There are some grandiose moments in there, some absolute brilliant pieces of music, some parts where the vocals are really good, etc... but overall, these flashes do not carry through in the complete songs. The more I listen to it, the more I'm dissapointed, to be honest.
I'll even go so far as to say something that will probably get me chastised: I think none of the nine leaks we have now (10 if you include CITR) match up to VR's Slither or even FTP & Messages. If this was a celebrity deathmatch, Slash&Duff have ripped Axl a new one.
If you consider it the follow-up to the UYIs, it's a let-down as well. If you compare it to the potential and quality that the music on IFOC has, that would've been a much better follow-up album.
It's obvious these guys need each other to bring out the best in each other, to counter-balance each other.
#818 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » VR new singer news (sort of) from snakepit .org » 888 weeks ago
oh my, please don't let it be him...
Might as well ask Robbie Williams if he's available. 
#819 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » VR new singer news (sort of) from snakepit .org » 888 weeks ago
Ugh... I reckon they would've been fed up with those grunge boys by now?
#820 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Daunt - Rate My Band » 888 weeks ago
That's going to be difficult, I'm in New York for the next couple of days, on an excruciatingly slow hotel internet connection. I'll repost (probably on myspace) when I'm back in Belgium.
