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Originally posted by sunnybunny
It started somewhere around [I bought the velvet revolver CD and then went on from there]. You should have used the gift cert to buy a book. (Or the new Rachael Yamagata, but that's just because I have an Asian fetish).
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Oh hell, you can't say GnR was not an important band, and I happen to like big dumb music. I won't even call it a "guilty pleasure" like most music snobs tend to do. I think big bloated rock is good in small doses. I have enough "critics' darlings" in my collection. Sometimes, you just need the high test stuff.
I also happen to love old AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Lynrd Skynrd and even one a copy of ZZ Top's "Deguello" cd (got a killer version of Robert Johnson's "Dust My Broom" on it, and Billy Gibbons could actually play a great guitar, back when they were actually a band for about three years in the mid 70s).
The only thing that stops Use Your Illusion I and II from being two of the greatest cds of the past 20 years is their overproduction and the sloppy overly-long ballads that clog them. Pull out the 3 min rock tracks, rip out the overdubs, and you've got some great tunes - on par with some of the Stones' stuff from 69-72. Appetite For Destruction and Back in Black are still the two best dumb hard rock records of all time.
