New Guns and Roses after the FIRST listen....

PatrickBateman

just listened to Street of Dreams again.............
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I need a beer



I like the album but those dracula parts ruin an otherwise decent song

KingofFunk412

PatrickBateman wrote:

just listened to Street of Dreams again.............
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I like the album but those dracula parts ruin an otherwise decent song

I don't get it... that song is amazing... what dracula parts?

PatrickBateman

KingofFunk412 wrote:

I don't get it... that song is amazing... what dracula parts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ZtwbzUFZE

skip to 1:10....taht is what I cant get out of my head when I hear the "dracula" parts

Gardenparty

PatrickBateman wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ZtwbzUFZE

skip to 1:10....taht is what I cant get out of my head when I hear the "dracula" parts

Haha!! yeah that's the voice. I hadn't seen that movie yet so the Count was the first one to pop into mind.


Nice find! still need to see that movie. That guy was a trip in Knocked Up

gnr+pj=2bestever

Gardenparty wrote:

I wish i was more familiar with some of these guys guitar work because i'd be intrested to know who plays what leads.
I can pick out most of Bucketheads leads. I'm also thinking Better is a combo of both Buckethead taking the early leads and then Robin Finck playing the bluesier ones at the end.

Who plays the "If the World" and "There was a time" leads?

Also, I think the title track, There was a Time, and Riad n' the Bedouins are my favorites so far.

Buckethead plays the ITW solo, and Robin plays the first half of the TWAT solo and Bucket plays the second half. Out of five guitarists, I hear buckets, fincks, and bumbles playing throughout. I can't pick up any parts from Richard Fortus or Paul Tobias....they're prob. buried DEEP in the mix.

jervin007

PatrickBateman wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ZtwbzUFZE

skip to 1:10....taht is what I cant get out of my head when I hear the "dracula" parts

Ha ha ha!! I thought that exact same thing when I heard it. I kept thinking Axel was going to start singing about Van Helsing. Hilarious.

Kilgore_Trout

gnr+pj=2bestever wrote:

Buckethead plays the ITW solo, and Robin plays the first half of the TWAT solo and Bucket plays the second half. Out of five guitarists, I hear buckets, fincks, and bumbles playing throughout. I can't pick up any parts from Richard Fortus or Paul Tobias....they're prob. buried DEEP in the mix.

ah so thats why the entire album sounds like a crowded heavy metal circle jerk... its amazing that with all the overproduction they left so much chaotic layering that does nothing constructive for the songs... the more i listen to it the LESS i like it

12345AGNST1

Random Fact: I heard on K rock the other day that Axl spend a shitload of money to make the drums sound just like Dave Grohl's drums in Nevermind.

To be honest, they really don't. Just a little bit.

jervin007

sgossard3 wrote:

ah so thats why the entire album sounds like a crowded heavy metal circle jerk... its amazing that with all the overproduction they left so much chaotic layering that does nothing constructive for the songs... the more i listen to it the LESS i like it

Yeah, Slash's absence is definitely evident. You know what else?......the profanity! What is a Guns N' Roses album without the parental advisory stamp on it! I miss the "Get in the Ring" days.

lephty

after my first listen, i like it. however, i think it's going to be one of those albums i might have in heavy rotation for a while, then forget about it. most likely be replaced with one of the Kings Of Leon albums=p

if you want my generic response? "It wasn't worth waiting 14 years for it". that being said, i still think its a pretty good record. what would really be worth waiting 14 years for? not a whole lot.

PatrickBateman

I think I heard 1 single "f" bomb

BetterThanYou

pjtradeking wrote:

I dont care what anyone says about Axl...Whether he is an asshole..a primadonna....nuts...full of himself or WHATEVER....and I also dont care that this was 14 years in the making.....

This is one of the BEST records I have EVER heard...PERIOD...That is all...:D

speaking STRICTLY for myself of course....I LOVE IT!!

that's 3 of 3 people i've seen saying it's a great album.

PatrickBateman

BetterThanYou wrote:

that's 3 of 3 people i've seen saying it's a great album.

great album....sure.
14 years in the making, epic masterpiece?...not so much



........And if I see Van Helsing I swear to the lord I will slay him. AHAHA
He'd take it from me, but I swear I won't let it be so. HAHA
Blood will run down his face when he is decapited. HA!

gnr+pj=2bestever

PatrickBateman wrote:

I think I heard 1 single "f" bomb

2 Actually. One in Riad (axl singing), one in Madagascar (Mike J. Fox quote from a movie...so I guess that doesnt really count).

gnr+pj=2bestever

12345AGNST1 wrote:

Random Fact: I heard on K rock the other day that Axl spend a shitload of money to make the drums sound just like Dave Grohl's drums in Nevermind.

To be honest, they really don't. Just a little bit.

Actually, I believe axl wanted that sound JUST for the song Chinese Democracy. In the original demo(s), it is evident that was the sound they were going for...it is very similar. However, since they re-recorded the drumming on the final album version, it sounds nothing like Grohl and I don't think it was suppose to. I think they were actually going for the more traditional GNR drumming, ala Adler, with that take...I actually like the drumming on both versions.

unifiedscene

analogueaddict72 wrote:

UYI could have been much better with some discipline and editing, one album highlighting all the best tracks would have been killer instead of the self indulgent mess both albums were.

I've been trying to do this for myself on a CD. It's tougher than it seems.

12345AGNST1

gnr+pj=2bestever wrote:

Actually, I believe axl wanted that sound JUST for the song Chinese Democracy. In the original demo(s), it is evident that was the sound they were going for...it is very similar. However, since they re-recorded the drumming on the final album version, it sounds nothing like Grohl and I don't think it was suppose to. I think they were actually going for the more traditional GNR drumming, ala Adler, with that take...I actually like the drumming on both versions.

I see.... that would explain the not so nirvana sound. The drummer on this record is Brain, Primus' second drummer. He is sucha cool ass drummer, but I was pretty dissapointed with the playing. I bet Axl didn't want him to play his own way.

holtz

12345AGNST1 wrote:

I see.... that would explain the not so nirvana sound. The drummer on this record is Brain, Primus' second drummer. He is sucha cool ass drummer, but I was pretty dissapointed with the playing. I bet Axl didn't want him to play his own way.

Josh Freese was the first drummer but he left and Axl had Brain copy what Josh did. There is a video out there where Brain talks about it, some guy had to transcribe everything Josh did, put it up on a huge screen in front of Brain so he could read it as he was recording. And that is how an album costs 13 million.

phatucini

The record has 3 or 4 "nice" songs, that's it! I would give it a 4/10 if I never heard anything by "them" before. As an Ex-G'N'R Fan, sorry but waiting 17 years for the next record was simply too long! I have to say: the album is a joke in comparison to the Illusion Records and I don't even want to compare it to 'Appetite'!

I know that some people will say that you should listen to it without comparing. That's impossible if you call it a Guns N' Roses Record, if Axl didn't want any comparison to previous Albums by his band he would have released it as a Solo Album!

If Eddie would throw everyone out of the Band, claim the rights to the name PJ and live in seclusion for the next 14 years and release a lame album like this I don't know how some people would react around here. I don't think that people would say, you can't compare it to the previous records.

Beav

First impression: Trite. Especially the title track. Very lame, overused riff.