Here Today... Gone To Hell!

better written, more interesting, better singing, more dynamic.

first thing i noticed when listening to contraband....

you sir, are correct. OMG kicks serious ass.

Yeah, its so fantastic it just tore the charts up. In fact, the song got so big I chose to block out of my mind the millions of times I heard it played on the radio all those years ago. I mean poor Slither has had to settle for a number 1 video and #2 on the Billboard rock charts thus far. Compared to all that OMG accomplished I can't believe this wasn't posted earlier.  Thanks a ton for reminding me Riot Act, I almost forgot how huge OMG was back in the day because it really tore up the world of RnR.

if you go strictly on numbers than its not even close. Slither kills omg. But slither has had a shitload of promotion, a video and most importanly an album backing it up with a set band touring.....


As for the songs vs song. Omg is better in my eyes. Its different and the lyrics are awesome. Its loud and in your face....actually im gonan stop being nice...it kicks slithers ass and it kicks any of the "rocker" on Contrabads ass

If you dont think so than all i can say is ....the only one in the game who is lost, is youuuuuuuuuuu

Numbers? Oh My God wasnt released as a single was it?

to tell u the truth i dont even know if it was or wasnt

No, it wasn't

well said

I agree.

And to those comparing chart positions.. Oh My God was never released as a single, only on the soundtrack.

"the only one in the game who is lost, is youuuuuuuuuuu"

ha!  ;)
love it
OMG is awesome!
I remember heairng it on the EOD movie trailer for the first time...
That was exciting
And when you're watching the movie its cool how you keep hearing it in the background

I like: "so give it away like they're not gonna fuck you how long can you bade them to come back and haunt you..?'

that whole verse (and the first one) is classic axl ranting (like the last verse of YCBM) : ok:

I like the vocals - i think it was cool for Axl to do something different with his voice (the effects)

and I like the guitars on it...  the song is rockin', exciting, &  in-your-face  AND its a great live song, too. :yes:


 :love: : ok:

It was actually billed as the lead single off the "End of Days"soundtrack, much like "Set Me Free" was of the Hulk...

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDCASS70401070010442271&sql=TRne5j8qm9btv4

Oh My Gos is really great, but I just miss a better solo than that 3s solo...

Even though the sound quality isn't the greatest, Rock in Rio 3 Silkworms really showed the potential of that song if it was reworked with the current band (hoping Bucket will come back).

I loved OMG since I first heard it...I have not heard all of Contraband, but I have heard 'Slither," which is OK, but nothing to shout about. I think Axl's vocals wail on OMG : ok:

Oh My God has been my favorite new release since 1999 ;D

I heard OMG once on the radio. A local station got an advance copy of the soundtrack then they never played it again.  Kinda sad. I thought it was an alright song. Nothing too great. It was billed as the lead single off EOD alot like Set ME Free was for the Hulk.  I think it would be more reasonable to compare the success and similarity of those two songs.  They are both rocker type songs written for movies.  

I don't even think Slither is near the best of VR. Im surprized they used it as there first single. Most rock bands release a HARD ROCKER before a ballad. Thats what audioslave did. OMG vs Slither success would go to VR.  

Maybe if end of Days was a better movie more people would of heard it.

I agree ... OMG is a bad ass tune.. i love the intro...

hey admin, how about

"What song do you like better?"
  Slither or OMG

for the next Voting Poll on the main page???
just a thought.....


Id vote for OMG.. :beer:

Naupis,
your a sellout :yes:

i used to be an usha at the cinemas in 99' n' always looked foward to cleaning out the popcorn n' shit during the credits to End Of Days, I FUCKIN' LOVE IT, its brutel as : ok:

have you ever seen coma, dont damn me and the other best GNR songs that WASNT a single in the chart?

i'm sorry
but OMG is NOT rock n roll at all.
it is so OVERPRODUCED. geez how many sounds did he put in it ?

VR is rock n roll.

Oh My God kicks ass! It's better than anything from Velvet Revolver. So far the best band from, ex-gunners are Neurotic Outsiders. But I guess that's Steve Jones's band. To bad they didn't continue thoug, they were fukkin mental ;D

Ok, you sound little bit simple...


true.

Slither isn't as popular as people think. I dont hear it much at all on the radio. I've heard it a total of 2 times on the radio since its been released as a single. Same goes for the video, besides the Making The Video premeire I've only seen the video 1, maybe 2, times on MTV or VH1. And I watch and listen all the time.

Oh My God kicks ass!!!!

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS 'OVER PRODUCED'

We're dealing with musicians/producers at the top of their game. If a song sounds a certain way or has a certain amount of effects, etc; IT'S BECAUSE THAT'S HOW IT WAS SUPPOSED TO SOUND.

They didn't make a mistake and 'over produce' the thing.

Someone may personally think they'd like the song more with no effects, etc, but you can not say the song is 'over produced'. Saying that means the song was done incorrectly, the producer fucked up, and the bands sound (which they choose) is wrong.

I don't think anyone here is qualified to say that.

@#$%Muther

OMG was the first song I heard of the new GN'R tracks, 1/2 year ago, and then I wasn't so impressed about the song, but it grows on me all the time, and now I think its a killer song...
As good, or better than Chinese democracy!!  : ok:

what he said (motherfunker)! :D

and its not THAT heavily produced either... its just new to some kind of "head-stuck-in-the-arse" people that cant take changing...

I haven't heard Contraband but OMG was a great song because it was innovative and had a great feel to it. My only criticism was I felt that the quality of the sound on the EOD soundtrack wasn't great and the overall sound on the song could have been 'clearer'.

That aside, I love the song because its a new style and yet when you listen to it you still know its GNR, yet it doesn't sound like Illusion, AFD or in fact any other rock band. At the time I remember thinking - if this is the sign of things to come, Chinese Democracy will be a very interesting album to listen to (still thinking that! - just a pity that its TAKING SO BLOODY LONG).

But I can't help but think the words 'Oh My God' will be on everyone lips if a release date is announced!



 

I think all of Contraband is better than OMG - i really dont like that song at all.

I'd rather listen to Cristina than listen to that Crappola. :rofl:

Does every thread need to compare GNR to VR?

OMG is an outstanding track i don't need to compare it to VR or any band to know that

Again from what I heard of Contraband(only songs I heard live) Oh My God has better lyrics....I am a huge lyric fan.....But I really dig the RN'R aspect of Contraband.

Come On Axl! :smoking:

Just adding in my opinion:

OMG - kicks ass. but am i thinking that just cuz its Axl? hhmm, not sure. But it does kick ass. I tried to get an "OMG" chant started at msg in '02, but it didn't work. then i kinda felt like a dick chanting Oh My God, alone. LOL but i love this song and i think axl kicks ass on it. some of the "solos" i can do without. the guitar work on the album kinda sucks. not technically, but "hook"-wise. but its axl, and its awesome.

SLITHER - kicks ass. the half-time chorus is excellent. the bridge is cool. the solo is slammin. the intro is fuckin cool. the words are cool. the song is HOT. face it, whether anyone here likes it or not, this band is about to EXPLODE onto the scene. MTV Music Awards this year, i think we can bet on that. live, this is song is even better. they extended the intro and outro in nyc. (they also did the same to set me free) anyway, this songs kicks major ass and is betten written than OMG. OMG is just cool cuz its Axl and Axl is god, and god is..........well, you get the point.

Contraband would sound totally different with Axl, cuz the melodies and lyrics would be different. Axl on-top-of that album's music, wow, the possibilities would have been endless. But Scott's a rock, he's still "cool" by the public's vision, and they are actually RELEASING SHIT and TOURING.....wow, what a fucking concept!!!!!

Yeah, who gives a shit if it is rnr, you need to expand your musical horizons.


I adore Oh My God,


The main riff is as good as any other gnr song - I'd put it up there with COMA as one of GNR's heaviest and meanest.

The chorus is so intense and evil sounding it engulfs my whole person and makes me want to destroy something (something evil or bad - I'm not a psycho).

The solos - Fucking good - like nothing I had ever heard before.

Only slight criticism would be the post chorus bit where AXL is signing 'ohhh if it opens your eyes'. but then again on the RIR 3 version this sounded much better and was probably my favourite part of the song.

To sum this song up I would describe it as TOTAL GUNS N' ROSES, and you can't get much better than that.

Oh My God was the perfect title for that song, he just forgot to put the second half of the title on it......"Did I really release that?" It sounds just like every other industrial/techno type thing that was out there at the time. Hardly revolutionary, I think frankly the major reason we have no album is he scrapped most of what he was working on at the time as OMG as very poorly recieved by the public, and it makes no sense to make music no one is going to buy and listen to.

How the fuck can you not compare?????

As much as VR is kicking my ass with fucking awesome juice, I do love OMG...

Meh, I won't pick what I like better. It's all good music.

If I hear the term "over-produced" again, I'm going to slit my wrist. How anyone cannot agree that 'Oh My God' is better than any of the rockers on 'Contraband' is beyond my mind. The so-called 'over-production' in the song actually helps accentuate the aggression, like the screams, the tire-screech, and the like. It's what rock'n'roll is in today's world, get used to it.

I don?t really like either OMG nor Slither.But I like Slither waaayyyy much than OMG.I?m not saying OMG is a shit, it has some really good things, but I don?t get, I can?t feel the song, not my type at all.........



Baby Slash//

Better singing?  What a joke.  It isn't even Axl's real voice, he sang it into some stupid vocal harmonizer.  More dynamic?  It sounds like a bunch of electronic farts to me.

Didnt you tell me in another thread that album sales and postion doesnt equal how good a song or album is?
Oh so now it does because it suppots your agrument?
I just love how people like operate.
You cant have it both ways.

Never said that, and I challenge you to find where I did. I was using such things as chart positions, musical countdown lists, and album sales as objective ways to compare music within genres, Remember? You ddidn't like that as a way of comparing CD to Appetite as the superior GNR album because you know that there is absolutely no way that CD will ever supplant Appetite in ANY of the areas I mentioned. YOu are the one who had to resort to subjective ways of measuring as a means of supporting your argument.  I know you thought you had me there, but seldom right and wrong again.

THe fact we have heard exactly zero other releases from GNR since then supports the notion that Axl realized OMG bombed, and that would not be a good direction to take the band. Had it taken off we would have had the album in 99 like was expected.

Oh my god was not even released as a single, so  how would it be able to chart on billboard? Hmmm

OK, it was universally rejected by radio. Does that make you feel better? Most places tried to play it at least once or twice seeing as it was new Guns stuff before it was politely not asked back. It was what it was, a forgettable song that is still talked about only because it the only thing our favorite red head has released in 10 years. It didn't work so he went back to the drawing board......thankfully.

"Once the opportunity was presented, the song was given priority in our recording process. -Axl....

I bring up the quote because it shows how stupid your theory on "GNr releases a techno/industrial song like omg and it fails so they go back to the drawing board"....The song was chosen becuase it fit that particular movie and soundtrack. It doesnt mean all their material was that type of stuff. People who have heard the album have said that all of that techno thoery shit is bullshit. The Pearl Jam drummer said it sounds more like AFD than anything else. ANd brian fukin may has said its as close to perfect as you can get. DO you think Brian May is a big fan of techno/industrial music?

So please stop boring me with the same old shit about overproduction/techno/this and that....do us all a favor....

I can find you a million different things Axl has said that contradict himself and aren't true. What do you think he's gonna say. The song didn't take off, of course he is going to play it off like it was a one shot deal. At the time though the leaving band members said that was the sound he was going for, and I think it is WAY more than coincidence that the album was scrapped in 99 after the song ended up not doing well. Something tells me he had lots more OMG songs and realized that movement had died and he went back to the drawing board. How else can you explain the complete lack of inactivity after 99 when the album was originally suppose to see the light of day. He had an albums worth of stuff done then, I guarantee you if OMG lights up radio stations that we see that album in 99.

Hindsight is always 20/20, and using Axl quotes to back up arguments is about as useful as Iraqi Dinars are right now. Not very, as the credibility of both is about nil.

That quote is from an MTV.com news story called Axl Speaks: Rose Sounds Off On New GN'R Track from September 1999. So he knew in advance nobody was gonna like it and he should change the direction?

 ::)


/jarmo

Ok you got me....I messed up my dates a bit. Man enough to admit it, still doesn't change the end result which was a song generally not accepted by the masses....especially as a comeback song given nothing with the GNR name on it had been released in 5 years I would have expected better.

zack said when he heard Axls new stuff back in 99/2000 that it sounded like AFD on steriods.

Axl wanted the 3rd album to be all techno but he always intented CD to have a bunch of different styles on it.

Thanks Slashy, I was genuinely surprised that someone named Slashy would prefer Slither to OMG>

Who ever said it was gnrs comeback song/single? It was a song for the soundtrack dude....

The only people that are still in the band that were on oh my god are Axl, dizzy and tommy.

Robin and brain were not even on it nor was BH and of coarse fortus was not. I dont even think pittman was it on.

I love Oh My God. I've owned 3 copies of the soundtrack because ive over played the track so much. Axl is genius on it.

Suckertrain Blues, Do it for the Kids, big Machine and Dirty Lil Thing are up there in my book. There not radio hits. They are the don't damn me's, the double talkin jives the its so easys of this record. Today given a choice between any song on contraband and oh my god, contraband wins but oh my god will always have a spot on my playlist

 :confused:

It had been 8 years since the last released original song...Soundtrack or not, that song was their "comeback".  Thats how it was hyped at the time, and thats what it was.

If I had to choose between a 2 Track CD with Silkworms and Oh My God on it, or Contraband...

Ah fuck, I think I'd have to flip a coin.

 :nervous:

How is one song not followed up with a video or album and tour considered a comeback?

FOr me Gnrs bell rings when they do things properly...release their 1st single/video,album, tour, additional single and videos...thats a comeback effort.

if it makes you happy that omg wasnt well recieved i could care less. Its still an aweosme songs and i havnt stopped playing it all of these years. ALong with the other new gnr songs..including silkworms which im listening to right now{vegas version} cool lil diddyy...

That is the way you look at it YG, but to the general public that does not have a vested interest in GNr the way we do, that was viewed as a comeback/start of a comeback. It's failure to get people interested did not help the image of the band. Couple that with the VMA's and the failed tours/cancelled European tour and you start to see why people look at the band the way they do. The non-bias casual observer looks at the totallity of all of the comeback attempts and see nothing but failure, that is how we got to the point we're at. There is a specific reason behind why each thing happened didn't work out, but the general public isn't interested/doesn't care. All they know is it has been 13 years since an original GNR album and their have been many failures in between.

Fair enough but what does it mean exactely?

When gnr finally get the ball rolling and do what I mentioned above, will peopel automatically write them off because of OMG? Hell no. They dont even care about gnr. Theres some interest but not liek we have here. SO if the material is good people wont care. No1 will deny good music...

Yes gnr pr wise have been a joke....but again if the material is good all that gets thrown out the window.....so although its a valid point now it iwll be meaningless if the album is what peopel like....

Oh.. A PUSSY!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE PUSSY!

So little pussy up there logs on the internet and looks at the charts. He assumes what's #1 is the best music out there, perfect for him. So he goes to his local store, and gets his perfect music for his un-perfect ass (cause, well, it is said by a huge number of people that no one's perfect, hey).

He goes back home, put his monster sound system up and running and booming, and listens to the wonderfull Velvet Revolver that kicks so much ass cause it's Rock and Roll baby, straight no fucking about Rock and Roll baby, such a dangerous band!

VR sucks, plain and simple. They blow. They sound like shit. They sound like air. I mean, air. Nothing. If one of their songs got played on my local rock radio, i wouldn't notice. Same as usual. Mary go round. Bubbles.


Great promotion tough... man those guy love their cash$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ That cunt Scott must need it to fullfill his heroin addiction.

Oh My God ROCKS. When i listen to it loud, i feel like moving the fuck.

Velvet Revolver, most of it BORES me. Like chewing gum: first 2 minutes you chew on it, it tastes kinda good, and looses it's flavor real fast.

But I KNOW (we're talking certainty here) that even in 20 years, i'll STILL be listening to 'Oh my God', and 'The Blues'.

Just because 'Oh My God' wasn't something that changed the rotation of the Earth doesn't mean it sucked. I still listen to it just about everyday, it's definitely better than anything you'll hear playing on the radio today. It's actually the song that got me re-interested in GNR back in '99. 'Slither' is a good rock song, but it doesn't have any particular punch. You make it sound like 'Oh My God' was GNR's one and only chance to come back, and since it wasn't overtly popular, GNR failed and is destined to singing on casino boats while Velvet Revolver will enjoy a long career of selling out arenas and snorting crack with Benjamin Franklin's. BS. Go find a VR forum to spout off to.

If you have a better way of comparing the songs/ success of the songs I am still open to suggestions. Make sure that none of them include things like because it is, or its just not special, or any of the other subjective comments I keep hearing bantied about.

V- tremendous use of language, I thinks its great you think so highly of me because you totally know so much about me and my musical tastes.

I don't know, nor do I give a shit about your musical tastes.

Such hostility and anger is not healthy, I mean this is just a message board. I don't always agree with YG or Dave, but at least they don't break down into the "I'm a tough guy role". Have fun with that one. : ok:

HAHAHAHAHAHA
LOL

Cause... I'm a guy?

LOL.. still laughing... that was a good one.

.....or girl? Feel better?  :hihi:

That's right baby, i'm a girl playing a 'tough guy role', man you are such a visionary.

Take your little fight somewhere else.


/jarmo

the lyrics to oh my god are better than anything on contraband  : ok:

OMG was released on all rock radio stations across North America and Canada,if the song would've been a kickass tune like you all are saying,the song would've gone right up the chart,but it didn't happen that way and Dave,do you know why?  Because that tune SUCKKKKS!!!!
 SUCKKKKKKKS!!!   IT SUCKS ENORMOUS ASS!!!!!!!!

I just think its funny on how VR trys to be all hard and "a band with an edge".  There in there mid 40s, they all got wife and kids, and they got millions.  They think there cool by chain smoking at interviews and shit like that.  They should just be like they are.  Im going to buy there CD because theres nothing else out right now but come on.  How dangerous can they be?

To each his own. However,  I'm willing bet that if Slash, Duff and Matt where to release a song with lyrics secretly penned by Axl you would still think it's crap.

As for "Oh My God" not being released as a single, will lets compare it to "Set Me Free". That too was not offically released as a single but yet it was a huge success. It filled the air waves last summer and did extremely well in the charts.

Oh my God on the other hand didn't fair to well with the public. I thought it was cool song, but it wasn't well received by the public. That much is very evidient.

Yeah and the music public loves puddle of mudd and nickel back, what does that tell you.
Also estranged never placed high on the rock charts and its one of gnrs best songs.

IMO OMG is much closer to Manson than NiN.There is this one song by MM, Astonishing Panorama Of End Times,  that always comes in mind when listening to OMG. All too vividly. The vibe. The way Axl sings it...very Manson-ish, at times.

In don't think OMG is a bad song,  but it is  horribly un-crteative.  It sounds like it could be by any even remotely talented  Industrial hard rock band of mid 90's.

oh my god is better than any rock song in last5 years of all rock bands

OMG is okay but I'd rather listen to SuckerTrainBlues....just opinion here, but the subject of this post is totally that: OPINION! :hihi:

OMG soundtrack version is really good, don't know if better that all Contraband rockers, but it's defilitely good...
but I don't like live version they played on RIR...

Oh My God is a god dam amazing song...it is better then any song off contraband ...great song... i love it at rio where axl says "the only one in the game thats lost is you" and points to somethin ..its so cool

I don't think it was axls intention to sing it like this..the band or axl made a mistake. still pretty cool.

What the hell are you talking about?  Its a good song but nothing compaired to anything VR has done.

Slashisthebest

It's good, but not so fucking great..

Slither, Set Me Free, Suckertrain Blues, You Got No Right & Loving The Alien.. Are Much Better Than Oh My God

OMG is better than SMF, but not better than Slither and some other Contraband rockers...

I still think that SMF is the best "rocker" on contraband. But Oh My God is better than SMF.

then you aren't gnr fan.
i'm gnr fan since 1990,and slither isn't song which belong gnr music,it is alternative song.
velvet revolvers music is too far from gnr music

I'm not a great fan of comparing GNR with VR, there two different bands with different musical philosophies and i appreciate both.

However i have to say i think OMG is a better song than anything on Contraband

Contraband is excellent its just OMG is even better

OMG is catchy, the guitar work is awesome, the lyrics are viscious, all of which can also be used to descibe songs off Contraband its just Axl and co do it better on OMG

Why does it matter if he like alternative rock.  People can like what ever they want.  I personally like most hard rock even some alternative.  And i've been a fan since 2001.  Im only 17, but why cant you guys accept VR, they are my favorite new rock band.  More power to them.

Slashisthebest

How is that so? How does that not make him a GNR fan just because he thinks something else happens to be better than ONE of their songs? So to be a GNR fan you absolutely must like every single song of theirs over anything? I must not be a GNR fan then... :-\ Hell, in that case a LOT of people must not be fans - so why are we even here?


It's not supposed to be like GNR's music.

OMG may be better than one song on Contraband, not more than that, most songs on Contraband kicks OMGs ass real damn hard!

it took me 40 listens to like oh my god and it took me being in a real god damn pissed off mood to like this
so i dont know

i think it is even with the contraband rockers right now cause i think its gonna take me some time to dig the CB rockers

i think ive been listening to prince to much here lately and i have to rediscover my rock tastes

Without shooting down anyone's feelings, bashing their opinions, taunting VR fans, or presenting some long drawn-out musical dissection, I'll just say that I also like "Oh My God" better than anything on "Contraband."

I heard the record a few weeks ago.. and to be honest, it wasn't groundbreaking ( obviously ), and I really didn't expect it to be. Scott Weiland just doesn't mix well with the likes of Slash and Duff, and a majority of Weiland's lyrics are mediocre to horrible. Another dissapointment about it was that Izzy declined being apart of this project, which in my opinion only worked against Slash... he's a good guitarist, but Izzy IMO has always been more of the " songwriter " between the two. Slash has came up with some terrific riffs, but Izzy was always there to perfect them( example: Sweet Child O' Mine ).

But more important than all of that, I think " Oh my God " owns most of this album.  ;D

Musically, Contraband beats the piss out of any New GNR song.  It is that hard rock Appetite sound.

Axl is better than Scott, but the Velvet Revolver musicians are more my kind of rock band than Robin and the other new GNR members.

There are some tracks ( Sucker Train Blues ) that I would've much rather heard Axl sing, but other than that I think Oh my God is better. But I agree, I think Slash and Duff are better than alot of the new Gn'R as well.. but OMG definitely rocks.

I think at least 11 (maybe 12 or 13) of the songs on Contraband are better than Oh My God.  The lyrics in Oh My God are good, I'll admit that.  But the song sounds way too industrial and is not a great "rock" song.  There are some good parts in it, but the instrumental part of Contraband blows away Oh My God (which has I believe Dave Navarro, Tommy Stinson, Robin Finck (there's a dispute over that too), and Josh Freese).

I'll put it this way.....The only songs from Contraband(including the slow tunes)I would rather listen to over Oh My God are Suckertrain Blues and Slither(and even Slither is not that hot) :smoking:

I think Slither is WAAAAY better, it's actually one of my favourite songs, and to be honest, I was always pulling for Velvet Revolver to fail, but they didnt :crying:

VR is good but none of those songs even touch Oh my God. Chinese Democracy will waaaaaste any VR song and its sales.

I kind of agree. I like OMG a lot... but it should be a lot better. I don't like the OMG vocals atol. Oddly, the best part is the guitars, which Paul Tobias apparently wrote and possibly was theee thing that ended Slash's stay there. So it's strange that the guitar is the best part. But it is. It reminds me a lot of the VR rockers, which have cool guitar parts with no vocal hooks (especially Big Machine and Spectacle). The thing is, when you have an Axl song and the vocals aren't very good, the effect is even greater. And with VR I don't expect much from Scott because, while I like his voice, it has a very low degree of difficulty. So on balance, I think the VR songs seem more complete, and I have a more satisfying time listening to them than OMG. But the OMG guitar parts are way heavier than anything from Contraband.

I agree with you about Axl's vocals. Axl's voice wasn't always there even in some earlier Gn'R recordings, but the sloppyness of the vocals.. and sometimes even the instrumentals is what makes it so raw.

Except that the problem with the OMG vocals isn't that they are too raw, but that they are too processed. This was from a time when Axl was fascinated with the industrial sound. It didn't suit him and I hope he doesn't do anymore vocals this way.

The satisfying part of listening to that song could also be the fact that its the newest original studio recording by GNR that any have heard of since 1991 (unless you heard IRS on the radio a while back.  I know I didnt).  So I think that most people like it more because they feel that this songs means that Axl will eventually release Chinese Democracy.  Not so much of a good song, more like a good lure into making us hold on to the belief that Chinese Democracy will come out in your life time.

Slashisthebest

'Oh My God' is one of the coolest songs to have come out in the last long time. It's almost 5 years old, but it still sounds like it came out yesterday. I'm not sure if that''s a coincidence, or if that's Axl showing his amazing talent with how to determine musical trends. I'd love to hear a more "finished" version on the album, seeing as Axl said it's more of a demo. The song is definitely better than anything on 'Contraband', though.

I dont know, I have the OMG End of Days soundtrack and I disagree, I can think of a few rockers off CB i like better

OMG is excellent. Its a cool rocker. I love the lyrics and the whole vibe. ALthough I dont want a whole album full of OMGs I hope that there is 1 or 2 like that on CD.

I wish they extended the drums on the intro. Very cool opening but too short. They should have built it up then bam....its not how your thinking, like youve been right, youve been living a tradeoff  believe your own version believe your in slavery and drain out your soul. what can i do when theres so many liars that crawl through your veins, like millions of spiders that seek out their victims and ruin the wiser...watch out...got ya ....ooooooooooo...i love bucketheads hand motions at rio during this part...what a fukin song.....
the only one in the game whos lost is YOU....


Sorry song pumped me up now im hyper

DISCLAIMER: I like OMG.

But...

You've got to be kidding.  OMG sounds like NIN or Ministry circa 1989.  Nothing groundbreaking, nothing ahead of it's time.  A product of influences, hardly setting any musical trends.  Maybe a new direction for Axl himself, but a path many had been down long before he.

It has NIN elements but its not a NIN song. NIN songs are more deeper and "creepier". OMG has more of a rock vibe than NIN songs.

I wouldnt call it a groundbreaking song either, but it certainly does rock. And if GNr give us a variety of diverse tracks, we are in for a real cool musical jounry.

If people mean the End  of Days version then is good, however if we speak of the Rio3 version I would say is awesome, even though people say that the band screw the song at the end, maybe they want it to play that way.
 :peace:

Re:Oh MY God is better than any rocker song off Contraband

Hell yeah it is! : ok:

ill say oh my god's lyrics are better than any rocker on contrabands lyrics hands down

it took me about 3o times listening to oh my god to like it whereas i like almost all the rockers on CB

granted OMG has more stayin power, ive been listenin to OMG for4 years now and i cant say ill be listening to anything off CB this time next year

Contraband is this years Results may vary for me

last year i listened to RMV for 6 months solid, i fuckin absolutely love that cd bizkit haters i dont care

contraband i have the same vibe, thing is i havent listened to RMV in about 3 months and have no desire to at all

and CB feels the same way


its amazing that after 17 years i still love afd the same and after 13 years i still love uyi's the same thats the difference in music now and back then

I ain't listened to Oh My God in a long time, I gave it a few listens a year or two back and just couldn't get into it.   I prefere every track on Contraband to Oh My God, to each his own though.   I loved Guns N' Roses, I listen to their songs every damn day because they are a huge part of rock n' roll, but I quit paying attention to Axl and his new group long ago.   Guns N' Roses had huge success, it was a band effort and they made songs that will be remembered forever.   I hate it when I see people talking as if it was all Axl, it wasn't just him on his own because if it was his throwing in new members would have worked and they'd still be rocking the world, but they ain't.

Are Slash, Duff and Matt not the same members who tore it up with Axl back in the day, some of the best out there who we all adored?   Velvet Revolver are sound at least music wise in my view, and Scott does a good enough job on vocals.

Axl Rose is a legend, I would love to see him get it together and get another album out there, although I am one of those who wants him to drop the name.   If the album is quality and we get memorable songs, then great because we need more good bands back in music, sick of this pop, rap and dance crap.

I don't post here often, because I don't follow the new line up and have nothing positive to really say about them...I mean we're still waiting on a damn album!   Then there is the fact I'd just be going against everyone else, because I happen to think Guns N' Roses beat the Guns N' Posers.   Any arguement I can't take seriously, won't be able to until the album finally gets relased...if it gets released.

Sorry if it's not meant to go in here, or if you've heard it all before but there it is.   I'm off again.

I enjoy Slither and Sucker Train blues better than OMG.  

Slash's Slither guitar solo is incredible, and OMG's is lame, if you can even call that a guitar solo.  

I do like both songs though.  Slither really takes off when Slash starts the guitar solo.  That is the kind of rock music I have desired since UYI2.

Every part of Oh My God is great, it can go in my version of GNR greatest hits any day.

Oh My God introduced me to GnR. I got the soundtrack to burn for a friend, and thought that the song sucked; they were trying to real badly be relative. After a few more listens I started to really dig the song. It still is nothing too original, but I've been listening to it for 4 years now. The thing about well produced songs is that, over the course of a few months, you discover new sounds you haven't heard before. Oh My God is on the brink of falling off the edge with too many FX, but it manages to balance just on the border.
OMG would do better without that crappy last solo... It's too out of place. Axl's case for the solo was that it had an older GnR sound, so older fans can relate to the song. But you can't relate to a whole song just because of one solo. It's useless. Get rid of it, and go straight to the chorus. Get rid of the effect on Axl's voice. And finally, ease up on the processed guitars and drums.

I borrowed Contraband from my cousin and have to agree with D. Neither of us(cousin n' me) will be listening to it for a long time. The rockers are all average, nothing exciting enough. On the other hand, the ballads are the best part of the album.

OMG is better than anything on Contraband, except for a couple of ballads.
On a side note, does anyone else think Illegal i sounds a lot like Jane's Addiction? Scott has a Perry sound, and the guitar style is Navarro-ish.

Oh My God is a cool song, and I've always liked it. I first heard it back in the winter of 2003, and I was blown away by how aggressive it was compared to GNR's older material. I was just getting into GNR then, so I was unprepared for the shock of Axl's industrial-tinged work here.

All in all, it's a cool tune, but I hope that it doesn't show up on Chinese Democracy - There's no real point in revisiting it, and I'm sure that the band has cooked up a bunch of songs at least as good as this one... well, scratch that, it's almost a totally different band now than in '99. But I'm sure that the 'new' material is at least this good.