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Coma Vs Estranged

So what do you people think is the better of these classic two songs?

Mmmm a classic GN'R epic or a punctuation mark.............I can't make my mind up  :rofl:

Thats tough, but... Estranged.

Personally, I would take semi-colon over comma, but Estranged over both. ?(Sorry - Friday afternoon, couldn't help it).

i'm not able to choose. ???
they have different styles...   :P

coma just... cause its the most underated song ever.......


 :love:

its hard to choose , the songs are diferent  :-\

coma, all the way..... Id rather be driving around with coma pumping out my car speakers,
Estranged is cool, but i dig the live versions better, There always seems to be more emotion in that song live.

I would've said Estranged, until I seen that great youtube video of Coma live.

comma or coma? ?is this a new song we have never heard of? :rofl:

Okay, that is a hard pick. They are both very different. I love Estranged, but I have to go with Coma. It never got enough credit to me. It's such a powerful song.

estranged. my favorite song.

thats a tough one they are both fantastic songs but im going to pick estranged because i love it

If you held a gun to my head and forced me to choose, Coma would win out.

why its hard to choose becouse coma is ?very heavy ?song , estranged more soft and slow
IMO ?it was more easily to compare between estranged or madagascar or even NR
coma hard to compare with any song , maybe its just me

Coma + Estranged both have the same role to fill on their respective album

There's no competition here. Estranged all the way. The best song ever created.

Estranged, one of my favorites, right next to Nightrain

Estranged. Easy. My favorite GNR song by far.

They're incredibly different songs.

One is aggressive and the other isn't.

The only thing that ties them together is that they are both introspective. Otherwise everything about them is different.

I prefer Coma when I'm in the mood for it, and Estranged if I'm in a different mood.

For me, it's no choice. I'm going with Girth. I mean Coma.

Got a one way ticket on your last chance ride
Got a one way ticket to your suicide

Boy that's tough. They are my top-2 fav's.

But I gotta give the edge to Estranged...

Estranged

Ummm.....This sounds like a Dead Horse to me  ::)

Agree with every thing you say.

But I'll always prefer Coma no matter the mood.  i think it's more introspective an personal level.

coma

i dig coma, but i think it has cool parts, as opposed to being a song that is cool through and through.

that last 2 and a half minutes is killer, but there are sections that it couldve done with out, like the sound effects.


 i vote dolphins. i mean estranged.

Coma is an amazing, amazing, amazing song. But Estranged is the greatest song of all time by any band.

(1) Estranged
(2) Coma
(3) I don't know why!! ;D

'Coma' is the most brilliant song ever recorded, IMO. It has such an intense, ugly poetry to it. 'Estranged' is a fantastic song as well, I just haven't been a big fan of it. I think Axl's done better. I think 'Coma' was a sum of each indivual members' best efforts: Axl's best lyrics/vocals, Slash's best solos, Duff's best bass, etc...

Estranged is a better song, it has more meaning behind it and excellent solos and piano work.  It's like listening to an epic movie in the form of a song. 

The problem with Coma is that it is underated by the casual fans and overated by the die hards.  If Coma was cut down to around 6 or 7 minutes it would be a much better song.  The heavy riffs last too long and the vocals are too spread out.  If you cut out the middle-end of the song where there are paramedics in the background talking and the same riff is playing over and over again the song would be a lot better.  I really want to try editing my own version and see how it comes out.

Estranged. but both are great songs.

im going through a Coma phase right now so id have to choose that.  Dead horse

estranged

sick of this life

not that you care.....

Coma Vs Estranged

why?  ;D

Are we talking about a head to head battle here, with weapons?  if so Coma would certainly destroy Estranged

Estranged ;D

Yeah but Estranged would kung fu kick Coma, before it could get it's weapon out.

No contest.  Coma is a great song, but Estranged is my favorite song.

Estranged FTW.

ESTRANGED GRABS COMA BY THE HAIR AND BENDS IT OVER... : ok:

 :confused:

Don't write that ever again.

Estranged for me by quite a way.

Estranged, but Coma is such a close second  : ok:

I said Coma before, but now I'm changing my religion to Estranged.

two of my fave but Coma just does it for me,always has always will.i'll be old and rocking in a chair on my porch telling the grand kids get my gn'r cds and play dead horse and coma.

If I had to choose, 'Estranged'. Has a lot more personal "things" to it for me. 'Coma' is great too, but I've never been that fucked on drugs or booze, so I can't related. Relationships are a fucker though!

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Hmmmm... Growing up Estranged used to be my favorite song of all time for many, many years. Nowadays though, I hardly ever give it a listen and I don't really have a good answer as to why.  I prefer a lot of other GN'R songs now over Estranged. Coma has always been a favorite of mine but without the ending that Axl wrote himself, the song would just be "ok".  So at this moment, sitting here today, I would have to pick Coma. I love the live versions and for me, the live versions of Estranged just never did the studio version justice at all.  Don't get me wrong, I love it played live and I would love to see it live with this new band, but there was just something missing from the live version every time I heard it.  I think Axl might actually be able to perform that song better now, than he used to be able to.  God, thinking about these two songs just made me realize how long it's been since I listened to anything by the old band. I haven't listened to any studio albums for months or even any of the complete collection of live shows I received a few days ago. All I've listened to is this new band and all the boots and demos over and over.  Fuck it I guess.  Maybe I'll go and give Estranged a listen for the first time this year...

Coma

Estranged. 

Hands down. 

Coma rocks though and I love it, but Estranged means too much to too many people to let a rocker own it.

 :peace:

I hadn't heard about Axl finishing the song on his own... what's that about?

I found this on MYGNR:

Writing "Coma" on "Use Your Illusion I" was so heavy I'd start to write and I'd just pass out. I tried to write that song for a year, and couldn't. l went to write it at the studio and passed out. l woke up two hours later and sat down and wrote the whole end of the song, like, just off the top of my head. It was like, don't even know what's coming out, man, but it's coming. l think one of the best things that I've ever written was maybe the end segment of the song "Coma." It just poured out. I thanked Slash for that, because I used to curse him, going, "Man, that son of a bitch has written this thing and I've got to write to it and don't know what to write." It was so hard; it made me feel like, "l don't know how to write, I should just quit. But I finally did write it, and l ended up feeling a lot better about a lot of situations that I expressed in that song. - Axl.

And the source of this is http://hem.passagen.se/snoqalf/m-meaning3.html  I always love reading that explanation.  I can definitely relate to the feeling better about the situations that were written in the song, because I do that a lot. (putting emotions away into a song)

As for Coma vs. Estranged, it's Coma for me.  It's one of the best songs ever, and it means a lot to me.

Estranged...ohh i?m gonna listen to it right now

This is a good thread, 3pgs long and it hasn't been deleted or locked yet.

 Yipee!

Coma.

Estranged's an excellent song, but (just in my opinion), more about the music than the lyrics. Don't get me wrong, the wording's good, but if you held it up as a poem in comparison to even the last minute and a half of Coma, the latter would win, hands down. Besides, the emotion that comes through in Axl's voice, starting at "But who am I to tell you" is just gutwrenching. I dig songs like that, the ones that are almost... visceral.

I think, artistically, Coma was Axl's and Slash's masterpiece. Slash extended himself musically with the arrangement-all the chord changes etc. Axl's lyrics were simply the best he has done-and probably ever will do. That being said, I listened to Estranged a lot more, a little easier to digest. I rarely listen to either of them now since I am a wee bit older. :hihi: Still two of my top five Gnr tunes. :peace:

Agreed. : ok:

Coma

The last part of Coma and the last part of Estranged ...

Or the first parts ? Or the middle parts ?

Fuck, I love 'em both :yes:

Same goes for me... Estraned has a very peronal meaning to myself so I would choose it as my number one!

When the Illusions came out these were the 2 songs I was drawn to the most

Today - I really need to be in an Estranged mood to feel the same way about this song as I used to - it's very rare that it brings out the same type of emotions in me

Coma today is as heavy and intense as it was day one and is often the song I tell people to check out when they are kina unfamiliar with the entire GNR catalog - so to answer the question - Coma wins

Mmm... Estranged.  Coma is great, rare example of some great songwriting from Slash, too often he only contributes only in bits and pieces.  I don't actually agree with Iz's assessment that it is self-indulgent.  It might be more complex by GN'R's standards, but it's not exactly prog-rock, is it?  Estranged wins it though for me.  Moves me a lot more.

Without self-indulgence we never would have got most of UYI 1 + UYI 2.

There's plenty of stuff on those two albums that could get cut really.  I don't think I would cut anything that Izzy had a songwriting credit on, except perhaps Bad Apples... though plenty of the tracks that Slash wrote the music to could go.

We should be glad no cut's were made, otherwise we may never have heard Coma or Estranged in the first place.

Coma.

There's no question in my mind, even though Estranged is great, Coma is amazing.

I would cut Bad Apples and You Ain't The First in a heartbeat.  Those are probably my 2 least favorite songs.  Put on Crash Diet damnit. :p

God, please not another Crash Diet fan.

Crash Diet is a very good song.  It's not one of the best Gn'R songs, but IMO it's better than a lot of the songs on the Illusions...

I'd say it's better than: LaLD, YATF, The Garden, Bad Apples, Dead Horse, Get In the Ring, and Shotgun Blues.

IMO it had it's place on UYI1, they just forgot about it. =/

Mrlee said the same thing, so I clicked on the dudes youtube Crash Diet video link, and after 3mins, I lost 5 years of my life.