COMA

[badapple81]

slash wrote all the music for it. "It's Slash's baby - it's his monster" - Axl.

Slash is a well-known liar and misled Axl. The truth is that Axl wrote the whole song.

Lets not start this again.

If by 'wrote' you mean lyrics.. yes Axl wrote the song. Slash wrote the music. Some influence from Axl simply means that Slash would have taken on board Axl's comments about how the music might accompany these lyrics from his point. Simple.

[D]

in this case i think axl wrote the amazing lyrics but had no hand in arranging the music


axl said that slash wrote the music and he had that music to write lyrics too.

so every single bit of music was already wrote when axl got it to work on the lyrics.


Axl isnt a guitarist, Slash isnt an incompetent baphoon*sp* that cant do shit without axl standing over him.

Slash gave a completed musical track to axl and he wrote the lyrics so u can say without Slash we never wouldve had Coma because Axl never wouldve wrote the lyrics if Slash hadnt done the music first.

So since Coma contains some of Axl's best lyrics to date, can we say Slash helps bring out the best in Axl?? well no not really cause maddy,the blues etc etc are pretty damn amazing.

Slash definitely gets mad props for Coma though.

[Mikkamakka]

slash wrote all the music for it. "It's Slash's baby - it's his monster" - Axl.

Slash is a well-known liar and misled Axl. The truth is that Axl wrote the whole song.

 

Read the quote again, I think you misunderstood it. It says that AXL said the song was Slash's baby, not that SLASH did. If Axl wrote the song, he would be the liar according to your quote from 2Na.

Of course, I don't think that Axl wrote Coma. Slash wrote the music, Axl wrote the lyrics and maybe it was his idea adding the voices and noises. I just wanted to be faster than some 'GN'R fans' who have the tendency saying that Axl was Guns N' Roses, and every credit goes to him.

[grog mug]

Coma is definately among the big 3 in GN'R's songs.
Coma
Estranged
Madagascar (not even a studio version yet, but still love it)
Three epics that I can listen to over and over.
"Kind of like it in this Coma, cause I never wannnaaaaa...come back to this....worrrllldd aggaaainnn...."

[thelostrose]

Coma is definately among the big 3 in GN'R's songs.
Coma
Estranged
Madagascar (not even a studio version yet, but still love it)
Three epics that I can listen to over and over.
"Kind of like it in this Coma, cause I never wannnaaaaa...come back to this....worrrllldd aggaaainnn...."

you're not the only one.

[D]

i tell u what madagascar is the new estranged in some ways for me


if people could just open their minds and relate their lives to those quotes instead of being close minded and writing them off as the MLK quotes they would really appreciate that song 100 times more.

i use to hate the quotes simply cause i didnt listen, i didnt realize what axl was tryin to do with those quotes how he pieced together different dialogue from movies to tell a story

i mean how fuckin genius is that? honestly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so now that song has very very deep meanin to me.

[Kahz]

Axl: It's like 11 minutes and 45 seconds long

Izzy: It's fuckin' 15 minutes long. 

Gilby: It's like this 15- or 20-minute song

Make up your damned minds, people. 

[Bad_Apple]

Coma--one of the best artistic songs of our time--very experiemental--like a journey.
When I was younger, I would listen to this song with my eyes closed and make-up a visual plot line for this--sorta like a mini movie....
this should've been part of the trilogy (or rather tetragy??) of don't cry/n. rain/estranged videos!
Axl's voice and genuis lyrics are so touching---so yearning! 
Slash's guitars reach new levels here as well.
Voice and guitar are intertwined here!  (so please let's not pitch the two genuises against each other!)
oh, and thanks for the 2nd post with the quotes!  nice

[W 23 AXL II]

Coma obviously ROCKS!!!

,y favorite part is the outro: "Live your life like its a coma...."
that whole ending, lyrically, is amazing.

i love the intro music and chord changes: A to Am, G to Gm, F to Fm...very cool

Slash's solo is totally intense...those bends just make me wanna pass out every time i hear the solo

Its nice to see Axl n Slash shine here, for one of the last times ever

[norway]

at the beginning, when axl starts

hey you cought me in a coma -there's some really great guitar behind that

i wish they played that for a run b4 the vocals kicked in

otherwise- the song rocks

[Megaguns]

Problem for me is that im shit scared that nothing on CD will even compare to Coma, Axl set the bar so high with that one that its gonna be real hard to beat.

[You Gonna Eat That?]

Haha, funny thing just happened. I read the info on the song then decided to put it on, then decided to have a look on that website and was reading on some songs for what seemed like ages... I was really getting lost in the moment of reading the info on some songs and then snapped out of it and realised Coma was still going... I laughed.

[Grouse]

Damn just put Coma on again, It's such a dark song Axl's lyrics are pure poetry . It really is one of my favourite Guns songs

[Eric]

I know it's a long song, but I'm surprised they didn't do it more live in concert.

[BluesGNR]

slash wrote all the music for it. "It's Slash's baby - it's his monster" - Axl.

Slash is a well-known liar and misled Axl. The truth is that Axl wrote the whole song.

Read the quote again - and its been said for years that it was the combined effort of the two.  I somewhat doubt that Axl created this one on his piano.

[plasmabeam]

Coma by far and away is my favorite Guns N Roses song. It is a masterpiece. This song is very under-rated.

I agree 100%. My favorite GN'R song as well.

[Communist China]

Loved reading all those quotes from the band, are there any morne about the other Illusion songs?

Coma and Estranged are my fav GN'R songs, just so deep and so fuckin heavy.
It makes me sad that we'll never hear any more Axl/Slash collaborations like that anymore.

Estranged is heavy? There's a piano solo!


Loved the quotes. Coma is an underrated giant in the Guns catalog of awesome songs.

[Mandy.]

Doesn't matter who wrote it. The song is fuckin awesome and that's what counts.

[Velvet Forever]

Thanks , you make me wanted to ear this song again

[shaun]

Of all the big songs on the UYI albums i prefer Estranged and Locamotive most of all. I was never really into November Rain, it's one of the songs that gets played too much). Coma is good, although i only really like the song from the middle to the end. I simply don't have the patience to wade though the first half, way too dragged out for my liking, which brings me convienetly onto T.W.A.T. Boring intro, slow, boring, but half way though the song is amazing and feels like it's about to end, and it don't end, it keeps on going and going and going    and the end is so suited to Slash (too bad)