more Illusions

Right next door to hell – and why not? Has a good intro to lead you in, not as good as welcome to the jungle but then what is?
Don’t damn me – I like it, so what.
Bad apples
dust n’ bones
pretty tied up – a bit prophetic don’t you think?
Garden of Eden – has some pace, like it
you could be mine - a hard choice, I almost dropped this because I didn’t feel that it fit, but I like this song to much, it stays. And that intro? cool.
Locomotive – the only song to use “use your illusion” in the lyrics, it’s a must
don’t cry (alt lyrics) – I had to pick one of the two Don’t Cry’s, just happened to be this one. Personally both versions of this song get on my tits.
live n’ let die – at first I was not going to include any covers but this rocks, before I heard this I thought anything McCartney was tainted by the frog song
breakdown – great song, pity about the silliness at the end
estranged – when this song begins you get an inward groan the says “not this shit again” but by the time the song reaches full swing you are totally immersed and have forgotten about the crappy introduction
14 years - possibly the best song on the two discs
you ain't the first – nice and malevolent, this is what I want from guns ’n’ roses, it’s the rocket queen of the two albums


Almosts

Civil war – one of my favorites and in there right till the end, can’t really explain why I dropped it but it did not seem to fit, and made the album to long
Knockin’ on heavens door – good cover (apart from the dialogue in the middle), but as I had already decided to ignore the covers and failed something had to give
November rain – another song I like but far to long and I certainly didn’t want another epic ballad.
Yesterdays – like salt and vinegar crisps, you only eat them after the cheese and onion are gone.

Definitely nots

Coma – good song, I like it, but where the fuck did that come from?
Get in the ring – juvenile shite, what piece of crap. This should buried deep in some obscure session’s release.
My world – b-side material

more illusions

use your illusion

Well here is my Use Your Illusion album

right next door to hell
don’t damn me
bad apples
dust n’ bones
pretty tied up
garden of eden
you could be mine
locomotive
don’t cry(alt lyrics)
live n’ let die
breakdown
estranged
14 years
you ain't the first

hopefully tonight I will be able to offer some explanations for the track selection.

Happy St George's day

deal of the week

I picked up Aerosmith’s Pump today in Woolworths for £1.97, what a good buy. Tomorrow (this) morning the kids are going to be subjected to it over breakfast, it’s their own fault for having a father like me.

My evil wife has had my youngest's hair cut, my brother recently visiting from Australia described him as a little surfer dude, now he looks like a prospective member of the Hitler youth. This is not the first time she has done this, the last time she shaved my other sons head on his second birthday, he went from little surfer dude to trainee American marine in one afternoon. Many people think I’m bald but the truth is it’s my wife oppressive hair regime.

I miss my hair

Drunken germ laden ramble

I have a stinking cold. I am trying to counter the symptoms using a tried and tested method involving alcohol and cheese and onion crisps, it doesn’t work but why pass on a good idea because it fails?
My daughter played me an “inspired by” CD for My Chemical Romance that featured Helloween, this has sent me digging through ye dusty old tape box again and I now have a load of stuff to listen through including Helloween (naturally), Cinderella, Motley Crue, Faith No More, Britney Fox and Aerosmith.
My kids are going to suffer.

I have almost finished my “Use Your Illusion” album and sometime later this week should have a justification for the track listing, this has been put together on a personal level that has little to with musical techno whatsits which are beyond me.

My youngest sister got married on Saturday and they had a metal band playing at the reception, it was a good night and my youngest son almost managed to pull the singer, she was somewhat taken with him though she had to turn him down on the account of him being only two, better luck next time son(just leave it fourteen years please).

My daughter was a brides made and she looked lovely, she made up for this however with a bout of teenage moodiness untl she was aloud to change back into knackered jeans and her nirvana t-shirt (I had to act pissed at this but its what I would have done).

the bride looked lovely too, and as the groom is now family I had better say he looked lovely also.

on this day

in 1970 Paul McCartney said that he's bought the film rights to Rupert the Bear.

in 1982 Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast is UK LP no. 1

in 1912 the Titanic set out on its maiden voyage

1849 saw the patent for the safety pin

1994, over 5,000 fans attended a US public memorial service for Kurt Cobain at Seattle Flag Pavilion

and in 2007 I had to drink a pint of guinness from a plastic "glass" in A PUB, what is the world coming to?

This week I is mostly listening to

This is mostly this chap’s fault.
Appetite For Destruction and the two Use Your Illusion albums are regulars in my play list anyway but I have been inspired to listen to them in a different way, or should I say I have been inspired to actually listen to them.

Metal Marks first G'n'R related post was to create a super album out of Use Your Illusions I and II, I almost have my selected track list and just need to sort out the running order. I found it easier to ditch tracks than pick out the best. The initial rules I set myself for selecting the songs were ditched almost immediately (no covers, no soundtracks nothing over x amount of time) and instead I just went for what I liked and then I will decide (or try) what works together.

His second article came as a bit of a shock.
Appetite is twenty years old.
Ok so I didn’t come across it till a year later, but to think something I regard as an album of my time, something from my conscious listening period is twenty years old is very strange. Appetite for destruction has always been in my list of favoured records (or cds once I started updating), even though I have not always admitted it, there have been long periods when it was considered seriously uncool to be a Guns n’ Roses fan and I still haven’t forgiven them for that appalling cover of sympathy for the devil. I have my favourite songs from the album (rocket queen, welcome to the jungle) but to read through and then listen to it you realise that it is a superb work, it really does rock in a greater sense than just rock, and it’s very hard to find a fault with any of the songs.

The crying shame is the failure to produce anything good enough to follow it up, while Use Your Illusions I & II are very enjoyable and good in their own way they do not measure up to Appetite and what else have Guns n’ Roses done? I listened to the Spaghetti Incident once or twice and G’n’R lies was a cobbled together piece that has merit but was not really an album and the greatest hits doesn’t count.

There is still Chinese Democracy to look forward too (cough).