Do You consider CD a follow up to Illusions?

[mrlee]

i just listened to those live tracks and i put the blues on. God that song makes me cringe when i hear it. I had to switch it off, it was purly disgracefull.

[Eva GnRAxlRosette]

i just listened to those live tracks and i put the blues on. God that song makes me cringe when i hear it. I had to switch it off, it was purly disgracefull.

do any tracks on the UYIs make you cringe..?

[younggunner]

They couldn't even tour for more then three weeks without causing riots..

For me gnr is dead, this is the axl rose band and his hired helpers. Now that won't take anything away from the music he makes, but it just won't be gnr for me..

When are you going to give it a rest?

[*Izzy*]

I don't exactly understand what you guys mean by cringe ?
But if it's something negative then I've got two words, My World ?

  Izzy ?

[mikegiuliana]

They couldn't even tour for more then three weeks without causing riots..

For me gnr is dead, this is the axl rose band and his hired helpers. Now that won't take anything away from the music he makes, but it just won't be gnr for me..

When are you going to give it a rest?

never..  Why must you always come to their rescue..

[younggunner]

because they are my favorite band? Wont come to the "rescue" this time. I dont feel like shooting down your dumb ignorant comments yet another time. Ive argued the same point with you a zillion times now. I guess you like to beat a dead horse

[ppbebe]

never..  Why must you always come to their rescue..

I thought younggunner always came to your rescue.. Seemingly You need it.

[Saul]

I don't exactly understand what you guys mean by cringe 
But if it's something negative then I've got two words, My World 

  Izzy 

I love "my world" .. never understood why so many people seem to hate it? 

[*Izzy*]

Because after Don't Cry Alt. Lyrics, a great song, it seems to ruin UYI2. Plus it's not Rock n' Roll. I hate the "Guesse what I'm doing now" part?

  Izzy?

[ppbebe]

Or rather It lends spice to UYI2.

I love My World too.

[Johnnyblood]

Yes, in fact. I think of it as Illusions redux, because I thought Illusions is where Axl tried to redefine the GNR sound to something along the lines of Queen, Elton John, Boston, ELO, etc. And of course there was resistance in the band. So the sound of Illusions, to me, was not harmonious. People were not on the same page. And now Axl has the opportunity to do things his way, so it will very much be a continuation of the Illusion theme I'm guessing. The only thing missing is the original band.

[*Izzy*]

It's not as if I skip My World when listening to UYI2, I just don't think it fits in with the album, in my opinion.

  Izzy ?

[killingvector]

UYI had alot of filler unfortunately, but the veins of brilliance more than make up for So Fine, YATF, MW, and DC Alt. Lyrics.

[Saul]

Yes, in fact. I think of it as Illusions redux, because I thought Illusions is where Axl tried to redefine the GNR sound to something along the lines of Queen, Elton John, Boston, ELO, etc. And of course there was resistance in the band. So the sound of Illusions, to me, was not harmonious. People were not on the same page. And now Axl has the opportunity to do things his way, so it will very much be a continuation of the Illusion theme I'm guessing. The only thing missing is the original band.

I'd love to agree 100% with you but if you take into account all that Tommy has said you would be led to believe that this album is a "band" collaboration as a whole and not just Axl's vision to "do this , play this way , sing that note" or whatever .. it seems to me from what tommy has said is that every band member has been afforded much luxury to help shape and mold every song so that everyone has put their own stamp on them. 

[younggunner]

No sense in arguing that Saul. Some people dont want to accept that reality.

[ShotgunBlues1978]

The reason im not into this "GNewR" is because these live tracks are all keyboards and there all slow songs with hardly any rock and its just dissapointing. The only newish track i like is "oh my god" i just dont like this stupid techno crap.

You don't have to like the new songs but the only ones that are heavy on keyboards are Silkworms and Madagascar. 

[Pandora]

i just dont like this stupid techno crap.

There's no techno. Stick that into your thick cranium already.

I love "my world" .. never understood why so many people seem to hate it? 

Ditto here. A lot of people don't seem to realize what a groundbreaking sound that song had at the time.

[killingvector]

No sense in arguing that Saul. Some people dont want to accept that reality.

Unfortunately, silence feeds the haters like blood to a virus.

[ppbebe]

Unfortunately, silence feeds the haters like blood to a virus.

Does that virus infect their brains and hearings? 


Good post Saul!  Way to go!

[Eva GnRAxlRosette]

Illusions was a band effort also.