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I am, as usual, at least a decade behind pop music. I fully expect to joyfully discover Pearl Jam in 2009.
As a teenager, I listened to sixties folk music, Broadway and movie soundtracks, and classical. We didn't get cable, so no MTV. In college, I was broke and without a computer, so I heard whatever Jason had playing in his room. I also listened to quite a bit of German industrial music, as that was the price of hanging out in the common room and playing pool. Besides that, I didn't hear much that was new except for the soundtrack to The Scarlett Pimpernell.
So, now I'm exploring music. This month it is 80's metal bands. I read Fargo Rock City the last couple of days, and I really enjoyed it. I went on youtube to listen to some of the music it was talking about, and I found the November Rain video.
It's wonderful! Thumping and powerful, and I love the orchestral background. Axl Rose has yowling voice that really works with the guitar. Slash looks like Cousin It, but the guitar solos are wonderful. This is a great song and an even better video.
So...does anybody like Guns 'n' Roses?
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GnR rocks! I remember the first time I saw the November Rain video. 11 years old with dirty hair to my shoulders, an old flannel shirt open over a Nirvana tshirt and a torn up pair of jeans; sitting in my friends bedroom with eggcrate covered walls and hundreds of band posters, cassette tape covers and magazine clippings. To cool for school, all the way.
I love the video and the song. Perfect for a good headbang or seething in teenaged anxt.
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I love Guns N' Roses. Slash is one of my favorite guitarists. He may not have the greatest technique. but he has an awesome style and writes incredible solos.
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I opened this thread thinking "Ha! I'll make a GnR joke in this thread. There's no way kat would start up a thread about a washed-up, tired song like 'November Rain.'" Boy was I wrong!
80's metal, eh? I'm not even sure November Rain qualifies. Certainly pop-rock, but not Metal. There are other songs on that record that fit the bill, though.
Who else are you listening to?
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Oh Sweet Child of Mine, Patience, and November Rain all probably end up on a top-100 list for me, especially OSCoM. I love the way it layers on top of itself.
It demands listening from the CD, though. The radio stations always mess with the equalization so that all you hear is the lead guitar and a mishmash of the rest.
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When I was a kid I was always uspet GnR never made a video for Civil War. It was always my favorite.
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PC: I also heard some Van Halen (fun - great guitar), whoever did "Cryin", Poison, and Ben Folds Five, which is not metal but which I really, really like.
I didn't like "Patience" very much - I'm not sure why. It seemed too slow, I think, but I suspect I'm just not in the right mood for it. Sweet Child of Mine I actually heard when I was in high school, along with "Blaze of Glory" from Bon Jovi.
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quote:Originally posted by katharina: PC: I also heard some Van Halen (fun - great guitar), whoever did "Cryin", Poison, and Ben Folds Five, which is not metal but which I really, really like.
BFF is not an 80's band either, just FYI.
Hmmm... Poison? Perhaps, if you want to hear some good 80's metal you should pick up some King's X. Try the songs "Over my Head" or "It's Love."
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Hey, thank you for posting that video! It is completely unrelated, but in the contextual links to the right of the video I found the following: http://hometownbaghdad.com/
Like I said, totally unrelated. But serendipitous nonetheless.
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"Cryin'", as in video featuring Alicia Silverstone? That was Aerosmith, on their Get a Grip album. Aerosmith is good stuff.
"November Rain" was on Guns N Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II albums. Forget which one it was actually on... seem to recall these albums being particularly good.
My sisters and I watched MTV before we left for high school every morning, so I'm familiar with (and love!) many of the songs/artists from that time period. Other bands that come to mind are Poison, Def Leppard, Tom Petty, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue... basically, any band that fits the hair metal definition. Posts: 1805 | Registered: Jun 1999
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Appetite For Destruction was Guns N Roses' magnum opus.
No other album they did ever compared to that. No matter how good some individual songs were off those other albums...IMO.
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My older brother put hair metal bands on every Saturday morning (that my mother wasn't home) while we cleaned the house. I came to love Poison, Def Leopard, Warrant, Scorpion, Firehouse, Van Halen, Bon Jovi, GnR, and Damn Yankees. I'm still collecting a lot of it now that I'm a grownup. I think 80s Van Halen is some of the best stuff ever.
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I listened to Whitesnake's "Here I go again," on you tube a few days ago on a lark. I remember Tesla had a song I liked, too. And I do love me a hokey power ballad like, "Home Sweet Home."
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quote:Originally posted by Dagonee: Oh Sweet Child of Mine, Patience, and November Rain all probably end up on a top-100 list for me, especially OSCoM. I love the way it layers on top of itself.
It demands listening from the CD, though. The radio stations always mess with the equalization so that all you hear is the lead guitar and a mishmash of the rest.
I may be wrong, but I believe that's because radio stations broadcast in mono, and so songs that do not have a version specifically mixed for radio broadcast (which was more common 20 years ago) can sometimes come out sounding muddy, or strange, when heard on the radio.
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quote:Originally posted by El JT de Spang: I may be wrong, but I believe that's because radio stations broadcast in mono, and so songs that do not have a version specifically mixed for radio broadcast (which was more common 20 years ago) can sometimes come out sounding muddy, or strange, when heard on the radio.
The stereo LED that lights up whenever an FM station comes in clearly on my radio disagrees with your initial point in pure binary.
FM just isn't very hi-fi, and most stock car radio systems aren't designed to be so much clear as audible over road noise. Even a good CD in a car doesn't sound nearly as good as it does with a set of quality noise-cancelling headphones in a quiet room.
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quote:Originally posted by Irami Osei-Frimpong: I listened to Whitesnake's "Here I go again," on you tube a few days ago on a lark. I remember Tesla had a song I liked, too. And I do love me a hokey power ballad like, "Home Sweet Home."
*whispers*
"Here I go Again" was, like, my anthem between high school and college.
As you might imagine, there was a girl involved. Or, more to the point, no longer involved.
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I just listened to November Rain again because of this thread. I now have a big grin on my face. Thanks, Kat.
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I just watched/listened to Fallen Angel by Poison. I have heard and will tend to agree that this is a really conservative song - this is conservative music. Interesting.
Great song, too. *dances around cubicle*
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