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Poll
Question: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Option 1: Apetite for Destruction votes: 8
Option 2: The Spaghetti Incindent votes: 0
Option 3: Lies votes: 0
Option 4: Use your Illusion 1 votes: 1
Option 5: Use your Illusion 2 votes: 3
Title: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: ! JDM The Professional ! on September 10, 2009, 10:10:02 AM
Please give a short answer on why you chose :)
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: ! JDM The Professional ! on September 10, 2009, 10:15:07 AM
I chose Use your Illusion 1 for its sheer excellent variety in each track and the fact that for its time, set a major standard in albums :)

But I count Use your Illusion 1 and 2 as a whole package, which makes them even better!
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: Tim-Æ on September 10, 2009, 10:32:38 AM
where's Chinese Democracy????
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: Tezmission Black on September 10, 2009, 10:38:08 AM
Whats an Chinese Democracy?
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: Hondo on September 10, 2009, 10:47:12 AM
LoL...Chinese Democracy, the pile of poopy that took 17 years to make.

I'm going with Use Your Illusion.............II.

Although I agree, I and II are companion pieces to each other.
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: Smash INC on September 10, 2009, 10:57:34 AM
Use Your Illusion II, inching ahead of Appetite for Destruction.
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: Zombie Gunn on September 10, 2009, 11:19:57 AM
My fav guns and roses album by far.

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Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: Excaligore on September 10, 2009, 11:30:21 AM
Where's the "None of the above. Guns N' Roses are overrated as fuck." option?

Edit: Fuck, Jesse beat me to it. For some reason his picture didn't load at first.
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: ! JDM The Professional ! on September 10, 2009, 12:09:30 PM
haha. Well, Guns and Roses were not overrated. They are now though. Chinese Democracy was a load of bullshit!
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: jagilki on September 10, 2009, 02:05:13 PM
I'm love "Civil War" so Use Your Illusion Dos
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: Tim-Æ on September 10, 2009, 02:29:26 PM
Quote from: Daz Holiday on September 10, 2009, 12:09:30 PM
haha. Well, Guns and Roses were not overrated. They are now though. Chinese Democracy was a load of bullshit!

Not true. They were overrated right from the start. They also paved the way for big arena rock, without them shit bands like Buckcherry wouldn't exist.
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: Excaligore on September 10, 2009, 02:39:18 PM
Quote from: TimFlatable on September 10, 2009, 02:29:26 PM
Not true. They were overrated right from the start. They also paved the way for big arena rock, without them shit bands like Buckcherry wouldn't exist.

QFT
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: Duckman on September 14, 2009, 04:55:27 PM
Bollocks.  They were a band that rocked just as hard as any band of their generation, produced classic songs and had a raw energy and aggression that you just don't see in 'big arena rock.'

Guns and Roses were a shot of JD straight to the heart of a music scene that woke up a whole generation of people.

Whatever followed them, followed them, but to write them off like that is very blinkered.  Just because they were popular doesn't mean they weren't important or didn't produced great rock music.

Oh and for me Appetite is their best album!  I will not stand for Guns and Roses hatred in these here forums! :)

Peace

Duckman
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: Cory on September 14, 2009, 05:09:40 PM
Apetite for Destruction

Slash's Solo in Sweet Child of Mine is sick.
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: Black Death on September 14, 2009, 05:14:01 PM
Appetite for Destruction.
 

get hype...go rip fools head off playing football,  this get me going
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: Goonboy on September 14, 2009, 05:24:57 PM
why is Zach Braff poking himself in the eye? .. anyhoo ... Appetite for Destruction by far
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: ! JDM The Professional ! on September 28, 2009, 09:47:52 AM
Quote from: Duckman on September 14, 2009, 04:55:27 PM
Bollocks.  They were a band that rocked just as hard as any band of their generation, produced classic songs and had a raw energy and aggression that you just don't see in 'big arena rock.'

Guns and Roses were a shot of JD straight to the heart of a music scene that woke up a whole generation of people.

Whatever followed them, followed them, but to write them off like that is very blinkered.  Just because they were popular doesn't mean they weren't important or didn't produced great rock music.

Oh and for me Appetite is their best album!  I will not stand for Guns and Roses hatred in these here forums! :)

Peace

Duckman


Good way to put it Duckman. It is good to see that people have fondness for such a great band. And honestly, as much as I wish the original members still remained in the band, I am glad they stopped after their music was at its all time high.

I'll never forget the opening line of their live album

"If you wanted the best, they didn't fucking make it. So heres what you get, from Hollywood... Guns...And...Roses!"

:D

Regards,

JDM
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: Excaligore on September 28, 2009, 10:52:20 AM
Quote from: Duckman on September 14, 2009, 04:55:27 PM
Guns and Roses were a shot of JD straight to the heart of a music scene that woke up a whole generation of people.

Guns N' Roses were not that musically different than what was before them. If you ask me, they were hair metal just like the rest. In my eyes, musically they're BARELY distanced from say, Poison.
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: Duckman on September 28, 2009, 11:13:15 AM
Fair enough.  Then again considering your taste in music as exampled on these forums - I'm MORE than happy to disagree with you on any musical matter.

Peace

Duckman
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: The Binge on September 28, 2009, 02:28:37 PM
Appetite is just such a great album, really fun stuff. I think Use Your Illusion 2 is easily second, but it's too ballad based in my view, I liked the whole Classic Rock Party feel to Appetite.
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: KenFucious on October 06, 2009, 04:36:29 PM
I'm a fan of all of them but Appetite definitely sold me. I still listen to it in it's entirety today.
Title: Re: What was the best Guns and Roses album?
Post by: Black Death on October 06, 2009, 04:53:31 PM
Appetite for Destruction


hands down the best for me