I think what separates GNR from the frat rock pack is "Appetite for Destruction", 30 million copies sold and largely regarded as one of the best rock albums of all time.
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Oh man, we pumped some Limp Bizkit the other day while working out. It's so bad. SO effing bad. Especially Dursts whiny voice. And the lyrics are just dripping with cheese. Just another 2000's "How much swearing can we put in this?" crap along with Ja Rule and DMX.
I think what separates GNR from the frat rock pack is "Appetite for Destruction", 30 million copies sold and largely regarded as one of the best rock albums of all time.
everything they did, their song writing especially was just a huge cliche of every popular metal and rock band before them, you could almost subdivide the songs into 'the Aerosmith scream part, the deep purple classical keyboard break.
Like I said, I'm not saying they were bad, they were just so wholly unoriginal and yet took themselves so effing seriously, if they'd done the Kiss thing and just hammed it up for the punters I would have probably liked them, it didn't help that Nirvana came along a year or two later and actually were all the things that GnR seemed to pretend to be.
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I'm not comparing Gn'R to Nirvana musically, but the whole marketed image of the band was these edgy outsiders inheriting the legacy of punk, rejecting the pretty boy hair band image, they even covered sex pistols songs.
I'm not comparing Gn'R to Nirvana musically, but the whole marketed image of the band was these edgy outsiders inheriting the legacy of punk, rejecting the pretty boy hair band image, they even covered sex pistols songs.
uhh, again, they weren't marketed the same at all. Nirvana was marketed and presented themselves as the absolute opposite to the 80's glam rocker scene and that GnR emerged from and the total excess they became.
I feel like you're thinking of the wrong band.
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You're totally right I confuse this for Guns N' Roses all the time.
Come on, you know full well when you see the inevitable G'nR, Kid Rock 'got to pay off the ex wives and put a bit aside for my pension Vans Warped 2025 tour' if you added either limp bizkit or Linkin Park the line up would make total sense.
They weren't that good, they played the pub for a few weeks every Monday as they were just starting but I only bothered to go once, the Jam at the Nashville Rooms was much better, they were free at first, took off fast in the UK but never really caught on here.
I had a couple of mates and we'd just go out every night, there were and still are hundreds of venues in London, we were 15 or 16 it cost a few dollars to get in, you'd see a band you'd never heard of (AC/DC at some boozer in Hammersmith in 77) next week they were on TV.
Good times.
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Come on, you know full well when you see the inevitable G'nR, Kid Rock 'got to pay off the ex wives and put a bit aside for my pension Vans Warped 2025 tour' if you added either limp bizkit or Linkin Park the line up would make total sense.
Hang about, to be clear there are two GNR.
Izzy and post Izzy.
Izzy GNR >>>> than post IZZY GNR.
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I am vaguely aware that they have had some lineup changes, I am really only familiar with Appitite For Destruction and Use Your Illusion as a kid in a group home I worked in at the time was a huge fan and would make me listen to them (on home copied cassettes, remember those!).
Trust me, an Izzyless GNR was but a shadow of their former sleves.
wait you had a group home kid giving you mix tapes.....
We swapped tapes, he was aware of UK punk and I had all these bands he'd read about but never heard (pre internet in those days) all you had was FM radio
so I'd make him MC5, X-RAY SPECS Damned tapes, he'd try and turn me on to GnR and Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Liked the chillies as I've said didn't get GnR.
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