Spectacle

[badgirl]

Normally i wouldn't start a thread just about one song, but in reading the reviews you all are giving, i have noticed that many of you consider this to be one of the weaker songs on the album. I have listened to Contraband about 15 times and i think Spectacle is the best rocker on the album (followed by STB or DIFTK). Who agrees that Spectacle is an intense, awesome song? It's funny, because of all the songs that i see as being the most Guns N Roses (which were none the first few times i listened), this song is it, probably because i identify the angry tone and defiant lyrics as very Axl. Love it!


On another note, does anyone else agree that the bridges (all of them) are among the stronger elements of this album?

[Booker Floyd]

Who agrees that Spectacle is an intense, awesome song?

I do...I love the chorus and it has one of the best solos of the rockers as well.  

On another note, does anyone else agree that the bridges (all of them) are among the stronger elements of this album?

Yes...

[metallex78]

I love Spectacle, it's probably my favourite rocker along with Superhuman.

I like seeing all these different discussion threads about favourite VR songs.
It's almost like sitting a bunch of GN'R fans together and asking what's their fav UYI song, nearly everyone has a different favourite.

"Motherf**ker yeah!!!"

[Walapino]

Im one of the people that think its the weakest song. I guess its a matter of taste... however I used to skip it all the time but now Im finding myself liking it a bit. Maybe time will make it a favorite or maybe I just need to get bored with the rest of the songs

[Top-Hatted One]

I love it!!! and the solo is soooo good!

There's not one song I don't like on the album!

IMO SMF is the weakest maybe cos it's so old and it's tired

[vicarious existence]

I love Spectacle too... at first I thought it was one of the weaker songs, but now it's one that I look forward to when listening to the album. Awesome solo.

[tomass74]

I am pretty indifferent to this song right now.   I don't dislike it or like it. It just hasn't jumped out at at me all, but sometimes songs hide on an album for awhile then jump out at you. Damn I fucking love that and  judging from these post it looks like it may happen.  Can't say there is anything I don't like on teh album, but I do find myself skipping Falling To Pieces..

[bill213]

this is one of my favs on the album with superhuman and loving the alien.......i just love the verse to death

[SunKing278]

Oh man, this song is so fucking intense!  I love it.  Really, I can't believe people were actually calling this "average."  Nobody, I mean nobody, rocks this hard anymore.  Scott and Duff have great vocal chemistry, and Slash's solo is one of the insane he's ever done.  Everything about this song is near God-like.  "Motherfuckers, YEAH!!!"

[RyanMFGs]

I do like this song quite a bit, I think it really rocks. This album is just great to me, I can't really skip any of the songs, they're all good.

And on a side note, I absolutely love the re-mixed Set Me Free. It's really subtle but it just makes it that much better to rock out to, I f'n love that song

[D]

its interesting for me to read so much praise on this song

cause right now its my least favorite, however im sure in a couple weeks ill see how great it is,

its weird isnt it? i mean i loved big machine right off the bat and its my fav rocker but ive seen some that dont like it

just like spectacle is my least fav but uall are goin crazy for it

just like chili peppers by the way, the last song i liked off that cd was venice queen and now its in my top 5 chili peppers songs of all time

im gonna keep listening and i cant wait till i see the appeal like u all do

[Top-Hatted One]

I prefer Big Machine Live. It's a great song to hear live. You don't get that sense of WOW when you just hear it on the album

[dont_damn_me]

Spectable was one of my fav. songs of CB since the day i heard it. As someone else said earlier, a great vid could go along with that song. Don't want to begin to think about a vid. for FTP

[loretian]

Maybe the song just hasn't caught on for me, but I just find Spectacle to be an incredibly boring, stereotypical rock song.

[Thorned Rose]

Hell yeah, this is in my top 5 or 6 for sure. Spectacle is cool...

[Doc Emmett Brown]

I prefer Big Machine Live. It's a great song to hear live. You don't get that sense of WOW when you just hear it on the album

I know what ya mean.  I started getting into the song after hearing it live - it was intense!

[metallex78]

Spectable was one of my fav. songs of CB since the day i heard it. As someone else said earlier, a great vid could go along with that song. Don't want to begin to think about a vid. for FTP

Yeah, I was lying in bed listening to FTP when my alarm clock went off this morning, and I can just picture the video with Slash with his Les Paul slung low between his legs and he's ripping into the solo...

[Johnnyblood]

Yeah, I love this one. This and Big Machine are the two that I didn't get at first. Spectacle is intense. If you're unsure about it, listen to the instrumental part. Tune Scott out for a few listens. The band grooves almost as gnarly as early Stooges. Nasty, nasty stuff. Whew! Then listen to the vocals again and the song as a whole makes more sense. To me anyway. Yeah Badgirl, definitely a cool song. I haven't read too many of the reviews here, but the ones I have seem to be fixated on the ballads and the two singles. People listen to the rockers and only hear Scott's choruses, as though there's nothing else to the song. Listen to the fucking guitars, boys and girls! Heavy ass shit. Lots heavier than much of UYI, even.

[MetaSouL]

From the first time I listened to Spectacle I loved it.  This song is so akin to early GN'R.  Albeit not an original, Reckless Life is a great example of what I'm talking about.  Listen to the first 10 seconds of Spectacle, then do the same for Reckless Life.  This brings in a raw punk element that makes this album what it is.

~M

[Mr Cowbell ?]

I prefer Big Machine Live. It's a great song to hear live. You don't get that sense of WOW when you just hear it on the album

I agree with you from the begining. When I heard BIG MACHINE live in Detroit the energy and pulse was raging through this song. It was like a Red Bull for my EARS. But then when I hear the studio version something is missing. I cant quite tell, I like BIG MACHINE, but its not the same as it is live.