Who in the actual fuck likes this band...

Who in the actual fuck likes this band? I just heard that their 2017 tour sold out in under 24 hours! When I first heard them on the radio I thought they were like a "joke band" or something, with the ridiculouse sound of Axels voice and the goofy guitars and generic bass and drums. Then when I found out they were supposed to be taken seriously I thought "oh then maybe the lead singer is an old lady giving it her best to be hard". I just don't get who likes this band

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I don't. It was a period when musicians stopped being artists .

I've never met anyone who doesn't like at least one Guns N' Roses song, stop trying so hard to fit in you fucking spastic.

I liked them in very early high school before realising they were shit, nobody I know likes them, and yet a number of people I "know" like them on Facebook, it's strange since there were far more creative rock acts from that time

i do
appetite is a classic

probably made more bad music than good overall, but some of appetite for destruction is goat, good for helping you imagine you get laid
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>generic bass
lol. please oh wise one, tell me, what does a non generic bass in a radio song sound like?

I think Patience is a descent tune, until Axel comes in with his "old lady whining" sounding voice at the end

>there were far more creative rock acts from that time
GnR didn't reinvent the wheel by any means, but they were fantastic pop songwriters. There are more hooks in Welcome to the Jungle than in most artists entire discography.

Not saying I'm a music genius, I'm just not a fan o bands that you can't even hear the bass cause it's covered up by the rythum guitar

I used to think that. But now I use audiophile gear. Makes all the difference.

please tell me how you have never listened to the one of the most successful rock acts prior to that moment user

I think they were the Nicleback of their time. Makes a bunch of shitty catchy songs, sell out every show, and every album goes platnum. And their lead singer is a major dousch.

They got popular because they were an actual raw-edged, kickass hard rock band at a time when mainstream rock was fake, blow-dried corporate MTV shit.

GnR were as corporate shit as they come. Stop acting like they were some raw underground band. They were huge from the start.

They have a few pretty good tracks like Civil War, but for the most part they're just catchy and accessible

so fahking good

even fatxl still has it

Fucking love them. Won't go see them again ever. Once back in the 90s was enough. Fuck that. Saw them with Body Count and Metallica.

I say this about Nirvana in every Nirvana thread and people get mad.

I never said they were underground, I said these guys actually felt like the second coming of the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith while Poison...did not.

Poison is patrician

GN'R are GOAT

deal with it nerd

poison sucks

"I really enjoyed Appetite for Destruction. It had an honesty to it that was missing from most of the late 80s rock scene. Welcome to the Jungle was kind of like Satisfaction reimagined for the 80s."

-- Gene Simmons

ITT a bunch of people that think they're superior for listening to Animal Collective shitting on a band their parents liked

Guns N' Roses were the biggest band on the planet in the late 80s (or up there along with stuff like U2), so a lot of people. Anyone who was a fan of mainstream rock music in the late 80s likes GN'R. That's a lot of people.

These guys were real. They actually lived the lifestyle they sang about, unlike White Lion or those guys who were just the product of an MTV board room meeting where they'd have some 40 year old Jewish guy write generic rock star lyrics for the band.

>band that has sold 100m records despite releasing only a handful of albums
>'omg who likes them'?

Love em or hate em the fact of the matter is they're one of the most iconic bands of all time. AFD alone will ensure they will always get new generations of fans.

You mean they actually lived in a jungle?

>he doesn't know that axl was raised by monkeys

BTW, if you didn't know about the original of that song, apparently Axl Rose got on a bus in LA once and then was abruptly dropped off in some slum part of town...at night because the bus driver just told him "This is the end of the route."

So he ended up standing outside a children's playground at night in the hood and a couple of ghetto nigs hanging around the playground said to him "Welcome to the jungle."

It was actually pretty good.

if you don't like appetite for destruction you're a faggot

Would have been GOAT if it was released in 2000. Can't believe he re-recorded some of Bucketheads stuff. The demos were better than the final versions.

In the tradition of the Rolling Stones and the Sex Pistols, Guns N' Roses was a band of psychopaths, delinquents, sex maniacs, junkies and alcoholics who liked to show and sound what they were. Appetite For Destruction (1987) was as harrowing an experience as being catapulted into a dark narrow alley of the worst Los Angeles neighborhood. William "Axl Rose" Bailey's nasty, offensive, anti-heroic vocal acrobatics fended off the double-guitar attack of Saul "Slash" Hudson and Jeff "Izzy Stradlin" Isabell, who indulged in unbridled concertos of screeching and reckless riffs. The noise, the energy, the lyrics transformed each song into a bloody fistfight.

He tells the story before WTTJ at the Ritz

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Appetite for Destruction [Geffen, 1987]

It's a mug's game to deny the technical facility claimed by one-upping crits and young victims of testosterone poisoning--not only does Axl cruise where other "hard rock" singers strive, but he has a knack for believability, which in this genre is the most technical matter of all. When he melds scream and croon on the big-beat ballad, you understand why some confused young thing in an uplift bra is sure it's love sweet love. But Axl is a sucker for dark romantic abstractions--he doesn't love Night Train, he loves alcoholism. And once that sweet child o' his proves her devotion by sucking his cock for the portacam, the evil slut is ready for "See me hit you you fall down." B-

Use Your Illusion I [Geffen, 1991]

what pros ("Don't Damn Me") *

Use Your Illusion II [Geffen, 1991]

"Civil War" *choice cuts*

"The Spaghetti Incident?" [Geffen, 1993]

Talk about your anxiety of influence. As someone who never thought punk had much to do with musicianship or musicianship much to do with GN'R, I remain impressed even with the excitement worn off. I mean, Axl Rose damn near stealing "Human Being" from David Johansen? Because his drummer is so fierce? Fear and UK Subs (!) and Nazareth (!!) tunes that belong on the same record? What would Harold Bloom say? Something about Axl being a shitty songwriter, I hope. Which wouldn't be altogether fair. But hey--criticism is unfair. A-

Chinese Democracy [Geffen, 2008]

Hopeless eccentric spends most of his adult life and a large chunk of his ill-gotten fortune trying to make the perfect album. Succeeds, kind of, on his own totally irrelevant terms. Nobody cares. Since he's no longer capable of leading young white males astray, this effort isn't just pleasurable artistically. It's touching on a human level. Noble, even. I didn't think he had it in him. B+

I think GnR ascended past glam/hair farmer (which they were top notch) and demonstrated that they actually feel music, have some kinda message but especially do they have hella expression with the songs Civil War and Estranged.

Listen to Appetite for Destruction.

They were the only genuine hellraisers in that shitty era and they actually sang about shit they did every day.

Slash has like 3 flatline ODs and had to be brought back to life before 1990. He was also implicated (by mistreatment) in the death of a pornstar.

Duff drank so much that his liver ruptured and bled out (ended up on life support).

Adler had a stroke in his 20s.

Axl's trial (for anal rape and general abuse of his ex GF) was on all the major networks.

These guys were the real deal. Not the fake shit that we have nowadays.

Nirvana sold out, sure, but they weren't just huge from the start. They basically made subpop records

The difference between GnR and Poison is superficial as hell. It's all image. GnR is complete hair metal cock rock garbage.

>that Shackler demo
>those drums
Drums on the Better demo were better too, but they replaced it with the Ferrer track. Ferrer a shit.

The Blues demo was also great. And I wish we'd have gotten a cleaned up version of the Catcher demo with May.

The release version of Chinese Democracy though is GOAT, even if the vocals suck. Bumblefoot's fretless work just gave it that kick it was missing.

I hate hair metal and I'm not a fan of GN'R, but you're literally talking out of your ass. Poison were literally playing bubblegum pop with guitars. Guns N' Roses were bluesy and swaggering - you can hear The Rolling Stones, The Stooges, and Dead Boys very clearly in them. That swaggering blues element is central to their sound, and it's completely absent in Poison's sugary pop. Yes, they're both hair metal bands, but saying they sound the same is idiotic bullshit.

they toured europe within 1 year of forming the band

what the fuck? How do you even fund that.

Axl and friends were huge fans of Exile-era Stones and Aerosmith and wanted to bring back that kind of music. Nobody else in the late 80s was doing that; the mainstream rock scene at that time was abysmal. Just dozens of awful, cookie-cutter glam rock bands with the same songs/chord progressions/shredder solos.

Motley Crue lived the degenerate rock star life as well, although by the late 80s they'd slackened and gotten more pop.

Popular music changes dramatically every 3-1/2 years; the cute, Day-Glo mid-80s Miami Vice styles had gone out by 1987. The sense of happy-go-lucky optimism Americans had felt circa 1985 was blunted somewhat by events like Iran-Contra and Black Monday, so the time was right for slightly darker, more aggressive music.

And then they made their best album in 94 and no one was listening to them anymore

this 100%

The big cancer that hit the rock scene in the late 80s can be summed up in two words: Bon Jovi

After Slippery When Wet became a gigantic hit, every fucking rock group from young bands like Poison to grizzled veterans like Kiss had to get in on the act and copy them.

>although by the late 80s they'd slackened and gotten more pop

If some of the cuts on Too Fast For Love are an indication, Nikki Sixx always had this tendency in him. In fact SATD is the one album of theirs that doesn't have at least one sappy love ballad on it.

Ever read an interview where he doesn't come off as a 2sensitive4u emo fruit cup?

lyl James Hetfield used to have a guitar with "KILL BON JOVI" written on it

Lick It Up is pretty hair metal, and that's pre-Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi basically picked up where Journey left off.

>to grizzled veterans like Kiss had to get in on the act and copy them

A bunch of 70s veterans like Aerosmith, Heart, and Alice Cooper all had late 80s comebacks engineered by Desmond Child and featuring sappy power ballads and glossy MTV videos, again all in imitation of Bon Jovi.

Also by 1987 most of the veteran metal guys like Judas Priest, Dio, and Maiden were running out of gas and not putting out good albums anymore.

Oh, and Whitesnake. More 70s veterans who were reborn for the MTV age.

"The record industry has always worked the same way, or I should say it did work the same way since there's no record industry anymore. But you know what I mean...back when there was a record industry. Any time some new, cutting edge band comes along like a Twisted Sister or a Nirvana that makes people go 'Whoa, who's that?', the record industry takes them, studies them, and figures out how they can market them. So it worked like this. Bands would have two kinds of songs--the power ballad, which was for radio play, and the rock track for cred purposes, which was only going to be played on rock radio. But eventually, they decided 'Let's do away with the cred track and make albums with only power ballads.' Then it got even worse because MTV starts going 'If you don't do an acoustic set, you're not a serious band.' So now they drop the electric guitars entirely and you end up with a bunch of idiots on bar stools strumming acoustic guitars like a fucking folk band."

kekd

this. everyone at some point liked some GnR. people here try so hard to be austist contrarians just for the sake of trying to fit in

fucking kek @ the chinese democracy review

The nicest thing I can say is that Appetite for Destruction is the best hair metal album of all time.

It's got as much metal in it as something that doesnt have much metal in it at all though

nothing in the hair metal genre does

touche shower beer jlaw

I hate them just for ruining a classic Bob Dylan song.

>ruining
>implying it isn't better
GIMME SOME REGGAE

Simmons is a garbage person and a garbage musician

Check out WASP.

>Nirvana
>sold out

Nigga, I get that Kurt wrote poppier hooks in Nevermind, but I'd hardly consider that selling out. Especially considering how hard he tried to undo that with in utero(which btw, is their best album)

I think I was born too late to really hate Axl Rose the way people do.

He was an ok bassist in the 70s.

KISS has some great songs fuck boy.

>*stopped appealing to my narrow definition of artists

>AFD
>hair metal

I don't get why GN'R get this label by some people. They didn't sound or look hair metal (not at any point after 1987 anyway) at all. They were a hard rock band. They're in the same genre as Aerosmith, AC/DC etc. they had nothing in common with actual hair metal bands like Poison and Warrant

Because it's easy to discredit a band by calling them hair metal.

Because their girlfriends wanted to suck Axl's cock.

I was just listening to Detroit Rock City as I was typing this, so nuts to him.

you're an ignorant moron spewing bullshit you know nothing about