Madagascar

[markreed]

All the sample voices work perfectly : I like the way different sources are collaged together to create a narrative theme. To me it's my favourite part of the song and the part of the Hammersmith show I was most looking forward to.

[daviebuckethead]

i like

"all men betray, all men lose heart.........I DONT WANNA LOSE HEART!!!!!!"  from Braveheart.

its kinda releveant in the sense i dont know if it is about past members??

im also from scotland so i thinki ts great anyway!!

fuck king eddie!!! ahaha

[polluxlm]

It's not samples, it's Axl.

Yeah, he's that good.

[TheDave0206]

Axl actually wrote MLK's speeches and it wasn't the A-bomb that stopped WWII, it was Axl Rose's shrill Jungle scream that created the mushroom cloud and forced surrender

[JuicySwoos]

Axl actually wrote MLK's speeches and it wasn't the A-bomb that stopped WWII, it was Axl Rose's shrill Jungle scream that created the mushroom cloud and forced surrender

LOL, you should start an axlrosefacts.com website....maybe even have a chuck norrris roundhouse kick vs axl's scream pay per view.

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

Now that would be close to rivaling Norris.

[JuicySwoos]

Now that would be close to rivaling Norris.

You know what?  That may be the only thing that could rival a chuck norris roundhouse kick to the face.

[kyrie]

what do you guys think of the sampled voices used in madagascar? i think its pretty coool that axl used martin luther king in the track? what about you lot?

I love the quotes, and I'm dying to hear a studio version of that song. From the second I heard it, it's been one of my favorite GNR songs period and my favorite new song till I heard TWAT (they're now kinda tied).

I do want to hear more straight out rockers now though... a la IRS and Better (but not so poppy as better)... and I really wanna hear that Sorry track.

[Sober_times]

I like the way it sounds, but am wondering if these maybe something only in the live versions with video to go with it. The guitar work during the voices sounds great but wondering what it would sound like just as a long solo. But maybe too long.?

[Gagarin]

I'm still surprised they were able to secure/afford the MLK quotes... they, uh, don't just give that out (his family).

[Ak1nney]

This was my first ever new GNR song I heard, and I still love it. I always watch the VMA;s of it.

[KillKurtzKids]

Probably the best song, though I suppose after 5 years it's more than famillier. Can't wait to hear the studio version.

[Communist China]

I find the quotes to come off as bland. The MLK ones are good (although using them after writing OIAM will have media pens scribbling pretty fast) but as a whole to me it doesn't build the tension it goes for. But some people love them, so maybe it'
s me and not the quotes, but Maddy doesn't cut it for me.

[shoup]

The Michael J. Fox line is from the movie Casulities of War.

[AxlReznor]

I really like the samples and mixed in with the solo.  The way it builds up to a crescendo... gives an incredible feeling.

[gandra]

Well there are a lot of chance that my post will be deleted but i have to "impres my sentimence  " with that amazing song

for me the best ballad till 2001 was aerosmith song "dream on",but after that madagascar is the best ballad ever "for me ofcourse"

i have never heard deepier song tham it!in that song we can hear all axl rose geniosly,and his energy,life atitude,geniouly text,and axl give the best in that song!!1

maybe some people don't get it,but it is "poem" song,and for sure there weren't songlike maddy in last ten years

[Journeyman]

i agree with you! I remember when i heard it the first time, it was at RIR 2001, i immediatly thought...this is an instant classic...I never get tired of that song

[GnFnR87]

i agree it is pretty deep. It really sets Axl apart from his contemporaries. fantastic lyrics.

[gandra]

especialy part with solo and geniously talking by martin luter king

Axl you made a monster with this song (man you can fuckin hypnotize with it lol

[The Legend]

Well there are a lot of chance that my post will be deleted but i have to "impres my sentimence? " with that amazing song

for me the best ballad till 2001 was aerosmith song "dream on",but after that madagascar is the best ballad ever "for me ofcourse"

i have never heard deepier song tham it!in that song we can hear all axl rose geniosly,and his energy,life atitude,geniouly text,and axl give the best in that song!!1

maybe some people don't get it,but it is "poem" song,and for sure there weren't songlike maddy in last ten years

It's definitely a different song for GN'R to do. It makes a more powerful statement, than any Guns song before it. It has a definitive message.