"Civil War" on Stern

[smishkey]

Today on Howard, everytime the war in Iraq was mentioned,  Artie started singing ".....Washed away by your genocide....", doing the "Axl" voice, he sang it like, four times, and finally deeming it "the most pretentious song EVER".  It was pretty damn funny.

[PrettyTiedUp763]

The songs fits in pretty well to today's current events. That's for sure.

[Progress]

Well...let's face it. A song about war will always be relevant..
Did anyone tape it?

[GNR estranged]

i can tape the replay tonight if anybody wants to hear it.

[Progress]

That would be cool

[Ali]

Today on Howard, everytime the war in Iraq was mentioned,? Artie started singing ".....Washed away by your genocide....", doing the "Axl" voice, he sang it like, four times, and finally deeming it "the most pretentious song EVER".? It was pretty damn funny.

Pretentious?  I don't see anything pretentious about the song at all.  In fact, I think Axl's vocals are very heartfelt and Slash's lead guitarwork is tasteful and fits the song beautifully.

Ali

[themovieaddict.com]

Today on Howard, everytime the war in Iraq was mentioned,  Artie started singing ".....Washed away by your genocide....", doing the "Axl" voice, he sang it like, four times, and finally deeming it "the most pretentious song EVER".  It was pretty damn funny.

Pretentious?  I don't see anything pretentious about the song at all.  In fact, I think Axl's vocals are very heartfelt and Slash's lead guitarwork is tasteful and fits the song beautifully.

Ali

Pretentious within the realm of rock n' roll - a bit.

Hypocritical? Very.

"What's so civil about war anyway...?" followed by Axl jumping on a guy at a concert and causing a mass riot and assaulting an elderly woman who lives next door to him. 

It's still a great song, though.

[gator]

I remember hearing Axl trying to explain some of the meaning behind the song once--didn't make a whole lot of sense to me, though.

I guess it is currently relevant in that Saddam Hussein is on trial for genocide against the Kurds. Maybe Axl was just 15 years too early.

[GeraldFord]

Today on Howard, everytime the war in Iraq was mentioned,? Artie started singing ".....Washed away by your genocide....", doing the "Axl" voice, he sang it like, four times, and finally deeming it "the most pretentious song EVER".? It was pretty damn funny.

If Civil War is pretentious, so is...

-Imagine
-Fortunate Son
-Tin Soilder
-For what its worth

[GNR estranged]

here are the links. sorry i couldnt post them last night, my internet was down.

1st mention: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OCU9WI8Z

2nd mention: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FX6YHF7L

[requiem156]

Today on Howard, everytime the war in Iraq was mentioned,? Artie started singing ".....Washed away by your genocide....", doing the "Axl" voice, he sang it like, four times, and finally deeming it "the most pretentious song EVER".? It was pretty damn funny.

Pretentious?? I don't see anything pretentious about the song at all.? In fact, I think Axl's vocals are very heartfelt and Slash's lead guitarwork is tasteful and fits the song beautifully.

Ali

Pretentious within the realm of rock n' roll - a bit.

Hypocritical? Very.

"What's so civil about war anyway...?" followed by Axl jumping on a guy at a concert and causing a mass riot and assaulting an elderly woman who lives next door to him.?

It's still a great song, though.

I don't really see how it's anymore pretentious than any other antiwar song.

About the incidents you're mentioning, the alleged assault on the elderly woman never took place as far as I know, and I don't see how one act of violence equates to hypocrisy when we're talking about a war thousands of innocent people being killed as a comparison - the two examples are not that similar. It does serve as a good illustration of why rock stars should not become politicians, though - too emotional.

[sea of black]

Howard Stern's a cunt anyway.

[Elrothiel]

Today on Howard, everytime the war in Iraq was mentioned,  Artie started singing ".....Washed away by your genocide....", doing the "Axl" voice, he sang it like, four times, and finally deeming it "the most pretentious song EVER".  It was pretty damn funny.

Pretentious?  I don't see anything pretentious about the song at all.  In fact, I think Axl's vocals are very heartfelt and Slash's lead guitarwork is tasteful and fits the song beautifully.

Ali

Pretentious within the realm of rock n' roll - a bit.

Hypocritical? Very.

"What's so civil about war anyway...?" followed by Axl jumping on a guy at a concert and causing a mass riot and assaulting an elderly woman who lives next door to him. 

It's still a great song, though.

What, so someone has to be a Ghandi-a-like for their anti-war song to be non-pretentious? Gimme a break!

I agree though... its a great song and always will be!

[faldor]

Howard Stern's a cunt anyway.

Thanks for your valued opinion, but it wasn't Howard Stern who called it the most pretentious song ever.  It was Artie Lange

[faldor]

You know a strange coincidence yesterday I got in my car to go to work and turned on my Sirius and almost instantly heard the Artie imitating Axl and reciting lines to "Civil War".  Then on my way home from work "Civil War" came on Buzzsaw or Hair Nation, one or the other just before I got home.  So I started and ended my work day in essence with "Civil War" just by chance.  Signs of a good day.