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Jackie Blue:
--- Quote from: hipster jesus on 07 Aug 2008, 14:38 ---Guns N' Roses. Appetite for Destruction wasn't that great
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YES IT WAS.
According to your profile you weren't born yet when it was released so I don't think you can appreciate how totally fucking awesome it was to hear as a teenager, after being constantly bombarded with shit like Poison, a band that really knew how to play their instruments and write amazing hooks and had a kind of "fuck it" punk aesthetic, as if any token hair-metal moves they pulled were on sufferance and at the label's insistence.
hipster jesus:
Oh, I was born when it was released. I may have been all of ten months old, but I was born. I'm also not saying that album sucks, I'm saying I prefer Hanoi Rocks and, to a lesser extent, L.A. Guns, who are both largely overlooked while GNR gets hailed as rock gods.
Also, I wholeheartedly agree with your assertion that Poison is shit.
Jackie Blue:
Well, sometimes a band's rating is more to do with what they did than the songs they wrote, is what I'm getting at. LA Guns and Hanoi Rocks weren't on MTV, hardly anyone listened to them (in comparison to GnR) and both of them were substantially more "glam" than "punk". Not that either band was bad, but they never felt to me like a band that was saying "we are just a fucking rock band composed of some white trash motherfuckers who started playing in a garage", which is the vibe GnR gave off.
The first time I saw the video for "Welcome to the Jungle" was in a room full of friends, none of us had heard them before, and when it was over there was a collective stunned silence until someone said "I think I want to worship Satan now".
You just cannot fuck with that.
suitupletsgo:
I have a huge thing for Appetite for Destruction. I was all but 2, but I remember distinctly my mother brushing my hair (it was long, it was the 80's, shut it. now I just hate short hair) while blasting it.
my mom is pretty much an all-around awesome person. I once played her Pig Destroyer, because I thought she'd like it. her reply 'I don't like the screaming, but it reminds me a lot of suicidal tendencies. I like it!'
sorry, I just miss my mom. :P
Jackie Blue:
I wish my mom liked good music.
Alas, her palatte is pretty much limited to Jimmy Buffet and Rascall Flatts.
Ugh.
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