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Best Album of the 1980s -- Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses
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| March 13, 2009
| Loran Montgomery
Posted on 03/14/2009 6:04:51 AM PDT by terabyte
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To: lefty-lie-spy
I think they put that label on it because it was the first of the nonhair band and non-”I’m so bad because I sing about Satan” bands to break through the mainstream. Anthrax was a good band, but they did not have the success or sales that GnR had. I loved GnR (until Axl got all artsy fartsy) and think that AFD was a really good album musically too.
But if you asked me on another day, I might tell you that “Frontiers” was the best album. Which is nearly 10 years younger and in a totally different genre.
Heck, I’m just being nostalgic for GnR today I think.
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:41:40 AM PDT
by
autumnraine
(Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson VIVA LA REVOLUTION!)
To: j_k_l
You *do* know that the chorus of that song started as a joke, right?
Here’s a better example of Rose’s poetry. It didn’t get released until the Use Your Illusion albums, but it was written about the same time as AFD:
Just like children hiding in a closet
Can’t tell what’s going on outside
Sometimes we’re so far off the beaten track
We’ll get taken for a ride
By a parlor trick or some words of wit
A hidden hand up a sleeve
To think the one you love
could hurt you now
Is a little hard to believe
But everybody, darling, sometimes
Bites the hand that feeds
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:42:11 AM PDT
by
Terabitten
(To all RINOs: You're expendable. Sarah isn't.)
To: TurtleUp
I think it’s funny that all these hippies’ gods did recognize how evil communism is. Dylan compares Selma, Alabama with red China. Now THAT’S funny. (Hey confederates: segregationism was big government!)
Add that to the Rolling Stones making the Bolsheviks the very personification of the devil; the Beatles’s preference for bashing the Tax Man instead of joining the Revolution; the Sex Pistol’s and Pink Floyd’s bashing on the Labor government;...
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:42:46 AM PDT
by
dangus
To: j_k_l
HA! Gonzo... good one.
Slash and the rest made GNR to me.
That’s why Chinese Democracy will never be as good as anything Velvet Revolver put out.
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:44:02 AM PDT
by
autumnraine
(Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson VIVA LA REVOLUTION!)
To: OnTheDress
OHHHH YEAH.
Ok, I’m rethinking this. I forgot about alot of really good albums.
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:44:29 AM PDT
by
autumnraine
(Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson VIVA LA REVOLUTION!)
To: weegee; KevinB
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:44:59 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: misterrob
I have heard their basic themes in many bands before them.The last rock group that really talked about the dark side of that lifestyle was the Eagles (think Life in the Fast Lane). Sadly, many of the listeners of both bands never realized that the lyrics were a cautionary tale, not a bragging session.
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:45:01 AM PDT
by
Terabitten
(To all RINOs: You're expendable. Sarah isn't.)
To: terabyte
I'm going to have to go with Queensrÿche's Operation: Mindcrime. One of the best thought out "concept" albums ever made. Tight songwriting, excellent lyrics, and Geoff Tate's vocals are outstanding (not to mention Michael Kamen's orchestral contributions.) 20+ years later, the theme is still 100% relevant to society.
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:45:06 AM PDT
by
Renderofveils
(My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
To: dangus
Hey, I was a liberal then too. Just off a GNR high and voted for Clinton. DOH!
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:45:24 AM PDT
by
autumnraine
(Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson VIVA LA REVOLUTION!)
To: terabyte
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:45:43 AM PDT
by
mylife
( The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: terabyte
What's so hilariously funny about this is when that album came out I hated those guys. I've played in cover bands since I was 16 and never wanted to have anything to do with what I would deem "crap" music. I thought GNR were just another dying glam band with absolutely nothing to offer the rock world. Now 22 years since later I still don't necessarily favor them, but have a different view since I actually have to play Sweet child Of Mine. The guitarist in mt band wanted to do it, go figure?
You never know what music can do until you have to actually play a certain piece! People LOVE this song! As for the "Best" album of the 80's ...pleeeeeaaasssee!
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:46:20 AM PDT
by
sirchtruth
(Gravity Of The Situation...)
To: dangus
I went to see Terminator 2 just to hear a GNR song in a Terminator context. It did not dissapoint. Neither did the movie.
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:48:04 AM PDT
by
autumnraine
(Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson VIVA LA REVOLUTION!)
To: Constitution Day
To: sirchtruth
I've played in cover bands since I was 16 and never wanted to have anything to do with what I would deem "crap" music.Funny... same here, except my last cover band, we thought about doing a U2 song. I graduated HS in 1990, and I utterly despised U2. Now, though twenty years later, I'm actually digging them.
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:49:01 AM PDT
by
Terabitten
(To all RINOs: You're expendable. Sarah isn't.)
To: rollo tomasi
Yeah, but that’s only because Iron Maiden helped all the hippies who teach English think they’re cool. “Run to the Hills” is a perfect example of a song where the author is trying to express his hatred for America by seeing us through the eyes of our victims, but ends up so condescending, he has to flip POV just to avoid complete drivel. “Oh, those evil white men gave us alcohol. Now come one college frat boys, drink up!!!”
All my English teachers under 50 loved that band too. And they were all hippy losers.
Not that it’s not a fun song... but the band’s lyrics are sorta like Hannah Montana trying to fit in with the commie click at a new school.
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:49:57 AM PDT
by
dangus
To: terabyte
Rory Gallagher made Axl AND Slash look like pikers
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:50:05 AM PDT
by
mylife
( The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Renderofveils
I'm going to have to go with Queensrÿche's Operation: Mindcrime.Excellent choice. If you don't have it already, get the Operation: LiveCrime concert DVD. It's excellent.
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:50:06 AM PDT
by
Terabitten
(To all RINOs: You're expendable. Sarah isn't.)
To: misterrob
Even though Steven Adler is still walking around, he killed himself decades ago.
Does that count?
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:51:01 AM PDT
by
autumnraine
(Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson VIVA LA REVOLUTION!)
To: mylife
Rory’s a great guitarist, no doubt.
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:51:11 AM PDT
by
Terabitten
(To all RINOs: You're expendable. Sarah isn't.)
To: terabyte
i was 11 when this album came out. it was the craziest thing i had ever heard. the video for Jungle scared the hell out of me.
i agree with this article.
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posted on
03/14/2009 6:51:19 AM PDT
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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