How big or popular GN'R on their heyday

[oldgunsfan]

When the Illusion albums came out, I had just started college.  I was too busy getting stoned and partying to notice what other people thought of them.  Though I did hang out with a few punk rockers in college the liked bands like the misfits, etc., and would go for bake breaks, get stoned, drive around, and I made them listen to the Illusion albums, I more so that II since it was a little heavier, but I do remeber they fucking loved that album.

[KeVoRkIaN]

and would go for bake breaks, get stoned, drive around

Lol!  Poster boy for driving schools everywhere!

[oldgunsfan]

and would go for bake breaks, get stoned, drive around

Lol!? Poster boy for driving schools everywhere!

"Why drink and drive, when you can smoke and fly"

[chrosken]

I still hope that one day everyone will be into GN'R again.

It would be cool to see people wear GN'R stuff again and being talk all over the place.

[The Dog]

I still hope that one day everyone will be into GN'R again.

It would be cool to see people wear GN'R stuff again and being talk all over the place.

It'll never happen.  There is too much choice out there now with all the different types of music and the different means with which to hear it.  Satellite radio, internet radio...its too easy to listen to new stuff and find your own niche.  Popular music seems to change every 2-3 years too in every genre of music.  Since the death of rock/hair rock, in the 90s alone, you had so many different types of rock:
grunge (pj, stp, nirvana)
nu-metal (korn, linkin park)
rap-rock (limp bizkit)
ska rock
then what I call puss rock - but I guess thats always been around (match box 20, goo goo dolls, etc...)

I honestly wouldn't even know what to call todays rock.....I guess its somewhat emo rock now?  Well, I guess you could call it what I call it...Total SHIT!

I don't think you'll ever see a type of rock music, new or old dominate the charts for more then a year or two the way we have since the 80s.

[jbenzz]

HannaHat, I think you're going to be wrong about that.  Well, might be.  It depends how good the album is. If it's as good as we're all hoping, I wouldn't be at all surprised if GN'R exploded in a way that we haven't seen a band for a long time.  GN'R has been diverse enough to get Mainstream Rock and Pop radio to play their songs.  IF the new GN'R is basically expanding their sound, and the album shows that, they could make it huge.  The problem with music today is that you never get a band that appeals to a large fan base.  Even great bands like NIN, Radiohead, etc don't have the diverse sound that is needed to appeal to most people.

[The Dog]

HannaHat, I think you're going to be wrong about that.  Well, might be.  It depends how good the album is. If it's as good as we're all hoping, I wouldn't be at all surprised if GN'R exploded in a way that we haven't seen a band for a long time.  GN'R has been diverse enough to get Mainstream Rock and Pop radio to play their songs.  IF the new GN'R is basically expanding their sound, and the album shows that, they could make it huge.  The problem with music today is that you never get a band that appeals to a large fan base.  Even great bands like NIN, Radiohead, etc don't have the diverse sound that is needed to appeal to most people.

dude, I TOTALLY hope I am COMPLETELY wrong