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When Appetite For Destruction came out, there had simply never been anything like it. Marcus, I also agree that the weakest song on the album is Paradise City. A guy at work just turned me on to a cover album by a band called Halestorm. They've got a chick lead singer and they cover Out To Get Me. It's actually much better than I had anticipated.
 
GnR trivia: The girl in the throes of ecstasy in "Rocket Queen" was actually Steven Adler's girlfriend and she had sex with Axl in the studio to provide the orgasmic sound.
 
jazzman12 said:
When Appetite For Destruction came out, there had simply never been anything like it. Marcus, I also agree that the weakest song on the album is Paradise City. A guy at work just turned me on to a cover album by a band called Halestorm. They've got a chick lead singer and they cover Out To Get Me. It's actually much better than I had anticipated.
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I'll check it out. If they can cover GNR well they've got to have some talent. Hopefully some great original songs as well.
 
YB85 said:
GnR trivia: The girl in the throes of ecstasy in "Rocket Queen" was actually Steven Adler's girlfriend and she had sex with Axl in the studio to provide the orgasmic sound.
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I've heard that before. Since it was for the good of the group she was all in. Of course Axl had to pay her with two bottles of Jack Daniels.
 
jazzman12 said:
When Appetite For Destruction came out, there had simply never been anything like it. Marcus, I also agree that the weakest song on the album is Paradise City. A guy at work just turned me on to a cover album by a band called Halestorm. They've got a chick lead singer and they cover Out To Get Me. It's actually much better than I had anticipated.
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Marcus said:
I'll check it out. If they can cover GNR well they've got to have some talent. Hopefully some great original songs as well.
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Been listening to them on Youtube. Chick can rock! I love this kind of music. It gets my pulse up and releases a nice dose of endorphins!!
 
It's good to see that I'm not the only one who loves "Rocket Queen" and "Estranged". The latter is my favorite GnR song and it's a shame it didn't get more love. It's so much better than "November Rain" and some of the other songs that got played from the "Use Your Illusion" albums. The other "Illusion" song I really loved was "Pretty Tied Up".
 
"I created the sound of madness,
wrote the book on pain
somehow I'm still here to explain;
that the darkest hour never comes in the night,
you can sleep with a gun, when you gonna wake up and fight?
For Yourself."
 
YB85 said:
It's good to see that I'm not the only one who loves "Rocket Queen" and "Estranged". The latter is my favorite GnR song and it's a shame it didn't get more love. It's so much better than "November Rain" and some of the other songs that got played from the "Use Your Illusion" albums. The other "Illusion" song I really loved was "Pretty Tied Up".
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My favorite non-mainstream Illusion song has got to be Locomotive or Bad Apples.
 
I didn't really care for Illusion all that much. I don't know why, it just didn't have the same edge as Appetite. I liked GnR for that reason really, and Illusion went more mainstream and lost some of that edginess that separated them from everyone else.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I didn't really care for Illusion all that much. I don't know why, it just didn't have the same edge as Appetite. I liked GnR for that reason really, and Illusion went more mainstream and lost some of that edginess that separated them from everyone else.
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Axl definitely got a lot more "artsy" on the Illusion records. There's stuff on each album that just misses the mark with me. However, the songs that do have some edge to them seem to be a worthy follow-up to Appetite. On a related note, what did you fellow G'NR fans think of Chinese Democracy? Even though I was not expecting much, I was pretty bummed out by the effort. It has it's brief moments but Axl seems to be all over the place from song to song. Best thing he could do is swallow his pride and give Slash, Duff and Izzy a call.
 
Not to be too harsh but I thought Chinese Democracy was garbage. Stinky garbage.
 
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