Here Today... Gone To Hell!

I was walking in the by Swedish standards large town of Uppsala with some fresh beers in my bag when I suddenly halted: "That sounds familiar... ". Out from a "Jack n Jones" clothes shop I hear: PRETTY TIED UP! I mean... a GNR song unknown to common people on the street in 2003, that's fantastic  ;D

I remember hearing "New Rose" at a McDonalds here in 1995 or something like that.....



/jarmo

You are soooooooo lucky  ;)

You mean that we have McDonalds? ;)

We have two.....  [hihi]

But that's a weird place to hear a GN'R song, especially something that isn't a hit or anything like that. Hearing Sweet Child O' Mine or November Rain wouldn't been weird at all, but New Rose?



/jarmo

mickey d's must love gnr's speghetti incident, cause a couple years back i was in macdonalds and they were playing gnr's since i don't have you, and i guess they were playing the album cause new rose was next and i left during down on the farm.


rock n' roll

haha dude you guys must have really cool mcdonalds cause the one here plays elevator music.......haha of like the new radio hits and stuff at that......i'm waiting to hear an elevator music version of Oh My God or something....haha that would really spruce up mickey d's......but the wierdest place i ever heard a gnr song was at being played over the speaker system at JC Pennies...sweet child  [love]

the oddest place i ever heard a GNR song was my daughter's
ballet recital.some of the older girls had a jazz/modern dance done to wttj.now whenever we get in the car i have to put AFD in the cd and turn it up. [smoking]

I go to a BodyPump class at my gym twice a week (it's a cardio-barbell class set to music, it originates from Australia). Anyway, they usually play Sweet Child O Mine during the bench press track--it's gotten to a point that whenever I hear SCOM, I feel like doing bench presses.  [rofl] Although recently they've dropped SCOM in favour of Christina Aguilera's Dirty song.  >:(

Sure is.


hahaha, there are about 3 Mcdonalds within walking distance of my house!   ;D

Today I happened to catch a glimpse of a show about local news in 2003.

It was a look at the biggest "local" (local as in Western Sweden) news that had happened during 2003. One of the stories was about this small town building a concert hall for several million Swedish Krona. The town is located out on the "prairie" and they have a nicer concert hall than we do.  :confused:

Anyway, they were showing clips of kids using the stages and on one of them this band was playing a song.... It was Welcome To The Jungle.  ;D

By the looks of it, those guys couldn't have been old when Appetite For Destruction was released.


/jarmo

I was at my fav bar here in Cologne just two hours ago, sippin a few drinks with a friend. When we walked in they played You Could Be Mine. Then they played Creed (I hate that band) and I complained and said to my buddy something like: "Snakepit would be cool now. Lives Sweet Drug or Serial Killer." And after Creed, as if they read my mind, they played Serial Killer, The Truth and Landslide. Last week they played nearly the entire UYI II. The owner loves GN'R as much as I do. Sometimes I carry GN'R members solo records with me (Gilby, Izzy, Bucket, etc.) and most times I ask they play it.
Location: "The Cave", Kyffh?user Str., near Barbarossaplatz. If you ever visit Cologne, go there! You'll love it!


/lastroots

I don?t know in other countries, but here in Brazil So Fine and Used to Love Her were played a lot in radio. Were they released as singles?

I heard "I use to love her" (live era version) at Shock in Gothenburg , some minutes later I was in a record store and I heard "November Rain".

I recall 'So Fine' was but I don't know about 'used to love her'..I quess it was a single also (?)

None of them were released as singles.


/jarmo

Thanks, Jarno! Are these songs popular out there or are they as "alternative" as Pretty Tied Up?
As I said, in Brazil everybody knows So Fine and Used to Love Her, but just a few are familiar to PTU.

I heard Estranged the other day on one of the major rock stations by where I live.  It was a Cleveland based station I believe.  Its kind of weird to hear that particular song on the radio because its so long and is rarely ever played.  GN'R gets a lot of love on the radio around here.  Songs I hear everday on the radio are, wttj, brownstone, pardise, sweet child and nov. rain.  :smoking: :smoking:

I found myself in this bar one night, there were pole dancers in there. Anyway, I got chatting to one of these pole dancers and before I knew it (about 6 or 7 drinks later) she offered me a special dance and asked me what song would I like. Well I thought for a moment, I was trying to think of a long song. So I said November Rain, she said ok, she would have to go check with the DJ (so see if he had November Rain). She returned to me some moments later, the DJ didn?t have November Rain, although he did have Since I Don?t Have You (that?ll do I said). The funny thing is, she laughed, that song, November Rain, it goes on for some time, I replied, yeah I know with a big grin on my face. That was a good night? : ok:

Cool story u must have had a lot of fun

I remember hearing Paradise City in HMV I was thrown out for dancing  >:(

That's awesome you guys, i haven't heard a guns n' roses song on stores ever.

But when i used to do internship you know i played guns n' roses in every store i was at :P

I heard Coma used on a car show we have in the UK called Top Gear.   Fucking sweet car aswell, Chrysler Crossfire, Coma was used when it was flying around the track at 200mph!!

In a music shop I visited last week they were playing the Greatest Hits. I managed to catch Yesterdays and stayed right up until the end of Sympathy For The Devil.

so fine was released as a promo single in brasil. there's a 12" of it in my bed room right now! usually that's a record that's easy to get in 2nd hand and collectibles stores in madrid's puertas del sol. everytime i go there i find a few. not cheap though, it's always around 30 euros.

You got thrown out for dancing in HMV? WTF?

HOW DARE THEY  :rant: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

These are not funny stories hearing GNR played in different places and what not. It's all satellite. :love:

I was walking into the gym at UCF (University of Central Florida) for a ballet class when I hear..

Everybody's fightin for the promise land...

I was like waaait. It was pretty amazing. Usually worthless rap music is blaring.
It's nice to hear a real band playing. ;)

 : ok:

i was sitting in traffic with my friends and i could hear something really faint and i knew i recognized it so i told everybody to shut the fuck up and i turned down our music and it was civil war haha. then the next day i was on the bus with my friend and the guy behind us was listening to civil war on his ipod. kind of a coincidence two days in a row eh?

 Was watching my girlfriend's choir concert, and all of a sudden I heard Welcome to the Jungle... my phone went off lol :rofl: 

I was just in the bathroom and paradise city came on, I walked out, and my neighbor was playing SCOM.

I like to blare "Better" out of my car to give people an unexpected treat. If anyone ever heard me do that for them...talk about it.

When I walk in every corner of Street in my City where they were Sell pirated DVD and VCD. I've Always heard SCOM and WTTJ being played (for years) over and over again.  I ask them, they even didn't know what Rolling Stone is.but they know Guns.

Last weekend I visited Rome together with my wife. On Sunday we went back home, at the airport we went into a duty-free shop. They were playing November Rain!

on new years eve our neighbours were listening live and let die. really loud. never would have thought that would happen lol  :hihi:

I remember hearing Don't Cry once when I was at Carrefour.

And November Rain at a souvenir shop in Prague.


I've probably heard GNR at other places as well... I just can't remember. Usually I don't leave the place until the song is finished... Oh, and I sing along too. :hihi:

I think I've heard "Sympathy for the Devil" at my hairdresser's yesterday.. :o

I went to see a movie a few years ago and the theater was playing AFD before the movie started.  That was pretty cool.

I heard november rain in a baby clothes boutique recently.

the last time i heard any gn'r song was Paradise City at the Hard Rock in Orlando last month, i just entered the place and Be Yourself by Audioslave was finishing and Paradise City came on, and they played the video in the big screens

some people were singin along, i was very excited, i had to stay there til the song finished hehe

but i'm always hearing gn'r songs in random places, i guess i'm very lucky ;D

school. my gym teacher usually plays the radio, and i walk in and i hear NR. i walk out of the locker room, and there was playing Patience

They played AFD in a clothing store here,theres almost always good music in there  ;D

A few months ago i saw some dudes cruising through the city in an awesome ride, They had Yesterdays playing full blast, I just remember it being really random.

Well what would an awesome ride be without awesome music?  :hihi:

They play gnr songs on the simpsons alot.  I can think of three off the top of my head.  1. homer buys an RV and him and the kids are in partying, Welcome to the jungle is blaring.  2.  When marge hangs out with her friend (ala thelma and louise) they play something else from appetite, maybe PC, 3.  When Apu has quintuplets they play Welcome to the jungle again.

--Tommie

That was WTTJ also.  :)

Was walking down the street in Beijing last month and some shop was playing Don't Cry out onto the street so anyone passing by could hear it  :peace:

I was in a shop here in Denmark (Carlings) and they played "Don't Damn Me" (http://www.metallicabb.com/style_emoticons/default/rockdevil.gif)

It seems like you almost always hear PC and WTTJ played at pro football games.

we are the champions :hihi:

I showed up at the house i babysit at last night and the girl had patience playing :peace:

BBC Holiday prgramme on BBC1 last night, about 10 secs of WTTJ during a feature in Ecuador exploring up part of the Amazon basin....

Saturday night a local ska-band played a nice ska-version of Paradise City in the encore.

Maybe not random, but once when I walked into the World's End in London they were playing AFD. And kept playing it until Paradise City. So it was more than just one song.....

Perfect timing.  :hihi:





/jarmo

i work 530 meters underground in the worlds #1 uranium mine and i was washing down a drift when i heard live and let die coming from a shop across from me lucky bastards get to listen to music while they work :rant:

volleyball tryouts at SBU, crazy when paradise city and sweet child started playing. my friends were like oh no, not guns n' roses, as i went balistic and started dancing haha

This one time when I was at Rochester KIAD (art college for you who don't know), I was sitting in the digital media room and we were all talking, and there was a li'l bit of a pause... and I swore that I heard Paradise City coming from somewhere... really quietly. I looked at all the computers and none of them had a music program running at the time, and no one's phone was going off, and I hadn't brought my CD player to college with me...

Oh, and no one else could hear it! I could hear it, not very loud though, I think it was being played in another studio in a different part of the building.

and for those of you who don't know... Rochester KIAD was built by the Bauhaus (the art group, not the goth band), and its a total maze!! Its very simplistic, but inside you really have to know where you're going... it is quite possible that the studio from which I heard PC playing was directly next to the room I was in, but to get to it, I would have had to have gone round the entire building to find the door...


Oh and another time I was watching TV and a commercial for A Knight's Tale came up on the screen and Coma was playing in the background.

I also remember watching the world ice hockey championships a few years ago and during intermission, wgen they were talking about the game so far, you could hear "Estranged" being played in the arena...




/jarmo

Over the weekend, I heard Sweet Child at a billiards place, and yesterday I heard someone listening to Shotgun Blues in class.  :)

I heard Dust n' bones in an electronics store 8)

In this channel menu on my tv cable, they show some kind of live chat with some background music.. I heard often Civil War, SCOM and Paradise City there. :)

Other people have heard them random often because of me, if that counts.

I once heard some gnr songs being played in the sunlight in the RDS in Dublin last june...oh wait a minute.. :hihi:

They always play Sweet Child O' Mine in the nightclubs i go too, which is great coz its the only rock song they ever play. Although my friend started DJing in one of them and he played Welcome To The Jungle sandwiched between some dance songs, which rocked.

Last Saturday at the Marlins/Phillies game Matt Treanor had "My Michelle" played everytime he came up to bat.  Must be his entrance music this year.  Don't remember if he had it last year.  Still cool to hear it blasting through stadium speakers.

I saw this live show on tv, where anything could happen. Then they got out on the streets and found a gn'r fan and a
Nik and Jay fan (shitty danish pop group). Then you could vote wether you wanted to hear gn'r or Nik and Jay, the funny thing about was that the band that should play the song, was an old country western street band.
Of course gn'r won and then they played the paradise city chorus very fast over and over again. Hilarious. 8)

During a trailer for the film "A Knight's Tale" on Channel 4 here in the UK a couple of months ago they used Coma as the soundtrack. GNR on a film trailer is nothing new but Coma certainly is unusual.

I don't know if anybody else has found this but theres usually a GNR reference somewhere in the British media everyday, be it on TV, newspapers, radio or whatever.

http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Music-Review/guns-n-roses-to-headline-download

Rose described it as ?an honour and a privilege? to be returning to the UK, as the country had ?always been special? to Guns N? Roses.

http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Music-Review/guns-n-roses-to-headline-download

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8577253676920505673

OK lets see... *looks at front cover of random newspaper on table* "Poison: Yard to arrest KGB men" ... hmmm... Poison are a band, Slash auditioned to be in Poison, he then declined and ended up in Guns N' Roses!

By golly you're right!!!

:hihi:

You don't have to look that hard and make the link yourself, there's usually always something more obvious than that, be it a headline pun for example!

did anyone just see scuzz (music channel)?? there is some kinda comp.... it just shows a pic of a few guns, then + sign and then a few roses.... its not a logo or anything.... all it says after is ''do you know what this means? if so text game and your answer to 64646'' it doesnt say what its for what you will win or anything...!! seems kinda weird.... anybody have any idea..???

I've heard 14 Years at the place that I play football. I mean there is some kind of pub besides the pitch. There!

I heard "Better" today when I watched a random video (on the net, of course) featuring a transformation from chubby to fit... :hihi:

Trust me when I say that it was unexpected.

Last night, was watching CSI Manhattan and the episode opened with SCOM, that was kewl !

a premonition???????????????????

Just an awesome song.

Not even a little bit. It happens at tons of sports events.


And it's been discussed to death already.

i know, but im saying it was played on FOX TV between innings, not at the stadium...i agree, its probably nothing, but you never know.....

ibelieveinaxl, I'm just as crazy/paranoid.  NBC's Sunday Night Football played SCOM's intro. as they went to a commercial.

Now, the reason that pricked my ears up is that I think NBC is owned by Universal or vice versa, I'm not sure.  Universal is the entity that has invested quite a few bucks in GNR if I'm not mistaken.  Even if it meant nothing, which I'm sure it did, it was still cool to hear.   8)

thanks, man. i've been paranoid for the last 20 years....no joke....

They always play Jungle during NASCAR when going on break.  (ABC)

It isn't a sign, but it's always fun to hear GN'R on TV.

Chinese Democracy starts with Jungle on NASCAR and Paradise City on MLB broadcasts!   We can only dream.

ITS ALWAYS PLAYED AT ALMOST EVERY SPORTING EVENT!!!

Jungle gets played every time my high school football teams takes the field which is was awesome and gets the  crowd pumped up

Who cares  ::) :hihi:

our sports news show "sports tonight" played a bit of Locomotive goin to a commercial a couple weeks back......

There is rarely a sporting event in the U.S. (professional games anyways) where a GNR song isn't played.  This doesn't mean shit about CD coming out.

I was looking for a new printer some time ago and some kid was playing Guitar Hero at the store..... Trying to play along to SCOM.




/jarmo

Pete Townsend has a contract with CBS and the creators of the CSI'S Teenage Waste Land is the theme for CSI NYC.? They usually have opening songs when the storyline starts though.? It must have been an episode from last year.? Although I heard a reference to GnR on a Comedy recently regarding the delays of Chinese Democracy, also there was another reference that Axl should beat up another clothing designer for being a dick on a sports show.? I don't know who they were referring to.

Yesterday I was in class and suddenly Paradise City starts playing. Someone had it as a ringtone.  ;D It was really cool cos now I know somebody in my class who likes Gn?R too! : ok:

At my school a bunch of ppl come with guns n' roses shirts, their popular here thats for sure. But havent heard any gunners in a long time on the radio.

It's been kind of slow news-wise, but thought I would mentioned You're Crazy is played in Gone Baby Gone-not just a small snippet, either-thought it was kind of neat-anyone else catch it?

What version of it?

I saw the great new movie Gone, Baby, Gone, which is co-written and directed by Ben Affleck and stars his younger brother, Casey.  In it, there is a bar scene where Casey Affleck and his business partner/girlfriend are talking to a bartender and in the background you hear the asskicking Lies version of "You're Crazy".  I thought that was pretty cool.

Incidentally, there was another Axl/GN'R reference in another recent major motion picture release, The Kingdom.  In that movie, the FBI team that heads to Saudi Arabia to investigate a bombing of a compound housing US citizens is housed in a gymnasium and locked in from the outside to ensure their safety from anti-US terrorists.  One of the characters, played by Chris Cooper says, "They can't do that (lock them in the gym from the outside).  That's against fire code."  Jennifer Garner's character says "Fire code?  There's no fire code here.  You're in the jungle now, baby."  Jason Bateman's character says "Alright Axl...".

Ali

I was at an A's Baseball game recently and at one point they played the beginning of Sweet Child over the loudspeakers.

They made another Chinese Democracy reference in the new episode of the show Californication.

I know Tommy does the soundtrack for that show so I'm guessing that he and/or the band is okay with these joke references to CD but I myself find them insulting because it seems to be a "running joke" on that show. ? :-\

But it's still cool that Tommy does the soundtrack.?:headbanger:
HTGTH News link to the "Tommy does soundtrack" info:
http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/news/shownews.php?newsid=1833

So I'm almost to work and I decide to turn on 94.1 WYSP to hear what Opie and Anthony are up to.  I'm surprised to hear the intro to Paradise City...and it's a live performance of PC!  Not Greatest Hits!  I'm pumped and wait in the parking lot blasting the stereo for an extra couple minutes!  PC finishes and it's a commercial for the radio station's newer format of all live music in the morning...next song?  SCOM!  Needless to say, work started a little bit late!!!!   :beer:

btw, I couldn't figure out what live performance it was...although I do know it was old band stuff.  I can't wait till the new stuff hits!!!!!!!!!!!! :peace: 

No but there's a show on Playboy TV called "Guns and Poses".

Do you remember what the reference was exactly?

Ali

David Duchovny's character 'Hank' is a book writer.? He crashes a meeting at his agent's office.? Attending the meeting was a Publisher from NY.? The NY Publisher, in an annoyed tone, sayes something to the effect that they've been waiting 7 years for Hank's next book.? Then sarcastically invites Hank to join the meeting by saying "Sit down.? We'll talk about Chinese Democracy."

That's pretty cool

I saw Grosse Point Blank for the first time recently, and when Cusak goes back to his high school they play Live and Let Die .....never heard that in a movie before

it wasnt hearing the music that was random for me...just the people listening to it. We were outside at lunch, and a student, trying to look cool, drove by really quickly and blew through a stop sign, the whole while blasting "Its so easy" on his car speakers. doesnt stop at a stop sign, somebody else had the same idea of not stopping...and this guy got wasted. the guy that hit him gets out of his car to try and talk to the guy and probably flip out on him, but this kid was still sittin in his car headbangin listenin to GNR.

According to the BBC's website, one couple on this Saturday's 'Strictly Come Dancing' will be dancing the Paso Doble to 'Live And Let Die'.? It's billed as the GNR version but as the programme uses a house band to cover the songs, it could be kinda interesting to hear what they make of it.

Heard One in a Million being played yesterday at Fopp - which is a music/books/dvd store, so not that random a place really - but its not often you hear that song anywhere these days.  The guys at the desk had it turned up pretty loud as well - nice to hear it booming out in central london!

just been watching sky sports news here in the uk and they were showing the press conference for the new scotland national football (soccer) tems management.  anyway, half way through the interview terry butchers mobile phone goes off and the ringtone was sweet child o' mine.  very cool in my opinion and very unexpected.

just thought i would share

Changing room chat

It's a hard-rock life for Butcher

THE days of the Scotland team running out at Hampden to the sounds of Runrig's Loch Lomond could be a thing of the past.

There are fears among the Tartan Army this morning that if new assistant manager Terry Butcher gets his way then Guns N' Roses will be blasting out over the Tannoy when Croatia visit these shores for a friendly match next month.

Butcher was unveiled as George Burley's right-hand man at a press conference yesterday, and concerns over the former England captain's nationality have been overtaken by concerns about his taste in music.

Butcher's mobile phone went off during the media call and suddenly the opening bars of Sweet Child o' Mine filled the room as the former Motherwell manager' s ringtone echoed around Cameron House.

It seems that the man who has a liking for England's rose also has a wee thing for Axl Rose.

Butcher's favourite two bands are understood to be Guns N' Roses and Iron Maiden, and it's safe to say he far prefers hard rock to Scottish folk music.

 :)

I was at a Powderfinger/Silverchair concert.. After silverchair there was a bit of a wait, anyways the last song to be played before Powderfinger was Paradise City..

Watching a movie today in legal studies the guy said "Welcome to the jungle"

I was on holiday in Barcelona (great fuckin' city!) for the last few days (february 1st - 5th) and I when I was at the Fnac on Placa de Catalunya (first thing we did) an Axl impersonater was on all of the tv-screens. The sound was off so I didn't "hear" GN'R anywhere random. It was so fuckin' cool though!

I also bought Bach's record there (finally, had to fly all the way to Barcelona to find it).

On the show Grounded for life today the chick had a baby named Rose... They were thinking who it was named after and the dad said Axl Rose

I was at work one day on my lunch. I was talking with one guy and then some other guy comes in and joins the conversation. We all kind of start arguing and I'm having to be on the defense. Then I say something like "shut the fuck up. I'm trying to eat my damn lunch. Go away! I'm not listening to you guys anymore, I wanna listen to Axl Rose." Then I reach up and turn the radio on and Live and Let Die was on. Fucking coincidence, amazingly awesome.

Yes! The people goes crazy.

I wanted to give a copy of Chinese Democracy Leaks to the DJ of a pub in my city but....I don't go out since New Year's Eve 2006 so.....


P.D.: I'm not old :P. I am a Home-loving guy  :-[

I was at the 2008 Hungarian F1 GP about a week ago and while waiting for stuff to happen heard them play Sweet Child O' Mine at the Paddock Club.

Over the normal PA they kept playing things like the Top Gun soundtrack and music from Rocky. But over at the Paddock Club (I think it was, it was on the pit lane side of the track at least) they played Sweet Child O' Mine.....




/jarmo

On the way to the library today, a black Acura drove by with Knockin' on Heaven's Door cranked :D

2 nights ago Sweet Child of Mine in a hooked up pick up track blaring around 11pm in queens ny

I saw the trailer for a new movie Death Race on TV last night, they were playing Welcome To The Jungle.

Here is the trailer...the song starts a little past the halfway mark.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809936373/video/9014838

Walking into Guess the other day, they had some dance remix of Welcome to the Jungle absolutely cranked ;D

I heard wttj during an olympic game. girls soft ball final I think.

Rock Band 2


Totally caught me off guard

 :rofl: I hope...

I was in the army, hadn't heard any music in three weeks as we were locked up.. so after three weeks we were leaving the island  for a cooper test, so we got in to a bus and when the radio was turned on, Civil War started. It was so cool and it sounded so fucking great, listening to that song and seeing normal people going to work and stuff. Cool feeling!

Slipping in my own vomit on a friends kitchen floor...
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