GN'R has re-entered the Billboard 200

[italian queen]

nice!

[reayj2003]

or the Beyonce effect 

http://perezhilton.com/cocoperez/2015-05-06-beyonce-guns-n-roses-jeans-new-york-street-style

I think I'm right in saying those jeans are Taverniti. Almost identical to a pair Axl used to wear.

[rebelhipi]

I wonder what caused a surge in sales? Axl's letter & tweets? Slash touring? Duff's new book.

Perhaps Beatrazr releasing Johnnyblazer. 

Beatrazr. thats it


Ive been casually looking at billboard 200, last week and the weeks before for a few months gnr greatest hits has been around position 150.

So the only thing changed is the album. the sales have never stopped.

[sky dog]

I actually like Guns' version of Sympathy better than original. Ditto for all the covers on Spaghetti. Guns did the songs better than the originals IMO.

I would have to strongly disagree with that! 

[NaturalLight]

I think the song was a good example of how a GN'R sounding cover version of the song would sound.


My comment about the sarcasm was in reference to the comment about people needing the song. I'm pretty sure, but without any real sources, that the album isn't aimed at people who only want to hear that song. So therefore the comment about fans buying it just for that seems odd to me. Greatest Hits compilations are usually not aimed at the hardcore fans who have everything already. Especially this one without any unreleased tracks.




/jarmo

I think you're right, but a little off. Certainly greatest hits aren't marketed for just one song. But, there are going to be completists who do buy it for just one song. Granted the ratio will certainly be low, but I wouldn't necessarily discount it as it's probably no skin of the band's back to throw a "new" song onto a greatest hits album.


Regarding your first statement: "I think the song was a good example of how a GN'R sounding cover version of the song would sound."

It's funny, when I first heard the Jane's Addiction cover of Sympathy I thought it was very reminiscent of what GnR's version would be like and always wondered how it would sound if they ever did cover it - never thinking they would. Then, of course, years later they did, and the version was certainly not what I heard in my head when I pictured them recording it. In the end, the GnR version grew on me but I wasn't that keen to it the first few times around.

Anyhoo, my two cents.

[jarmo]

Yes, of course you got those collectors who want everything.

But compared to a compilation with that song versus let's say a previously unreleased song. Then there'd be something nobody had heard before.
This is often the case with these compilations.

Then you have an incentive for everybody to buy it. Not just the fans who collect.



/jarmo

[Spirit]

Appetite For Destruction places at #136 this week... climbing towards the top! 

[jarmo]

Maybe people are buying it before it's withdrawn because the biggest song on the album is apparently a copy of a well known Australian super smash hit from the 80s.

<end sarcasm>

 


/jarmo

[JAEBALL]

Appetite For Destruction places at #136 this week... climbing towards the top! 

I assume Slashs interview and Duffs book are behind the recent surge.

[Ow-So7411501]

Maybe people are buying it before it's withdrawn because the biggest song on the album is apparently a copy of a well known Australian super smash hit from the 80s.

<end sarcasm>

 


/jarmo

I heard it. I dont think it sounds anything like SCOM.

[Spirit]

Appetite For Destruction places at #136 this week... climbing towards the top! 

I assume Slashs interview and Duffs book are behind the recent surge.

Not sure. Master Of Puppets, Metallica and Slippery When Wet are also charting. Could be some classic rock albums campaign going on.

[D-GenerationX]

I heard it. I dont think it sounds anything like SCOM.

It's a stretch.

But, this is what that 'Blurred Lines' suit has wrought.

[jarmo]

Not sure. Master Of Puppets, Metallica and Slippery When Wet are also charting. Could be some classic rock albums campaign going on.

Correct. iTunes has GN'R's AFD and Greatest Hits on sale along with plenty of other classic rock albums.

Not sure about those two though.



/jarmo

[Ow-So7411501]

I heard it. I dont think it sounds anything like SCOM.

It's a stretch.

But, this is what that 'Blurred Lines' suit has wrought.

Are we to believe that GNR were influenced by a song that was a minor hit in Australia, pre-internet, when music wasnt as accessible as today?
Gotta be purely coincidental.

[draguns]

I heard it. I dont think it sounds anything like SCOM.

It's a stretch.

But, this is what that 'Blurred Lines' suit has wrought.

Are we to believe that GNR were influenced by a song that was a minor hit in Australia, pre-internet, when music wasnt as accessible as today?
Gotta be purely coincidental.

It definitely is coincidence. I heard the song. There are some slightly similarity to it. However, it's missing a lot. Actually got into a little debate with fans of that bands.

[HBK]

Excelent:

- AFDestruction
- AFDemocracy
- Greatest Hits

 

[Spirit]

Appetite has fallen out of the Billboard 200, but Greatest Hits has taken over by re-entering at #109.

[raindogs70]

Beyonce has the greatest t-shirt.....OF ALL TIME!

[axlvai]

I think the re-entering to Top 200 is 4 the "new famous people" dressed with gnr shirts and stuff. I remember when Axl weared a Deep Purple or a Thin Lizzy shirt... and i said : i have to listen that.

[rebelhipi]

GN'R Greatest Hits is at number 60 this week.