Posted on 12/03/2008 9:58:41 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
I guess Axl Rose is still a pompous a-hole.
Might also have something to do with the fact that it SUCKS!!!!!
PING!!
I’ve heard several tracks off of it and didn’t care for it. It sounds way to over-produced and like it only exists on a computer somewhere. I was most interested to learn that former Replacements bassist Tommy Stinson apparently is now part of GNR. I guess that means GnR is now Axl Rose and some other guys.
I’ve heard some new GnR and was not impressed
disclaimer : I’ve heard some old GnR and was not impressed either
It is downright awful.
However, I have it, plus several other whole albums on one mp3 cd I play on my drive to work. As I parked this morning, For Those About To Rock came on. Needless to say, I walked in to work on time, but barely.
All of the songs sound exactly the same.
If Slash, Duff, et al. are not it the band, it’s not GnR: it’s Axl’s karaoke act. That’s why there’s no interest.
They have for decades and yet like Coca-Cola the formula still sells big time.
IMHO, it's flat out terrible stuff. Axl was always hit-and-miss as a lyricist, but the tracks I listened to were all misses. The tracks are overproduced and the overall songs just aren't very interesting. Collectively, it reminded me more of some of the B-list hair metal bands of the late 80s than anything off of Appetite for Destruction (one of my all-time faves).
I had no idea these bands were still recording...
The first two are decent, everything else begins to blend. Everything sounds like something they've done in the past.
Of course, I remember someone saying that AC/DC's response to the accusation that they've made x number of albums that all sound the same was along the lines that they made more than x that sounded the same.
Being a big Rush and Van Halen fan I have difficulties with their actions and choices later in their careers song and touring wise. I always wind up with Van Halen on my i-pod from any era because the music is timeless...even the Hagar and Cherone stuff is still very listenable to me. Rush is another story. 1978-1990 is easily their best period of work and yet I hear fans all of the time telling me how their latest record is always the new “Moving Pictures” or “Signals” or “Permanent Waves”...yeah yadda yadda right...never happens not even close. Rush has changed their formula so many times its ridiculous. But they are given credit with doing that. However, it is commercially not accepted and that is the truth. You look at how their records sold even 10 years ago when an album would certainly go Gold. So many of the hardcore fans that stuck with the band in hopes of them turning something incredible out like they used to basically gave up and downloaded what they wanted to hear.
Guns n Roses was easily the biggest band on Earth along with U2 until 1991 when Metallica’s black album came out and they took over with Nirvana in 1992. Without that original line up or something close to it...zip will be on the menu for Axl.
its not awful. its kind of intersting. but it isnt anything i will listen to more than once.
i really liked old GNR though.
ping
I bought the CD the other day and was not at all impressed with it. I was a huge Gn’R fan back in the day and have met Slash and Izzy. This “effort” is just an Axl solo act using the Gn’R name. If anyone’s considering buying the CD or downloading it on iTunes, don’t bother.
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