Taking Sides: Guns' n' Roses vs. Stone Roses

But, but, BUT, the Stone Roses after One Love are utterly awful. I refuse to accept that the same people responsible for the wonder that is "Sugar Spun Sister" and "Mersey Paradise" are responsible for the drudgery of Second Coming, with its endless sub-Zeppelin wankery and empty messiah posturing (by this point the band's constant Christ/heaven/messiah references in their lyrics were getting even more annoying than Oasis's pointless Beatles references) and uninspired songwriting. And then there's the Seahorses. And Ian Brown's solo career. I have to stop, I'm getting depressed.

As for Guns N'Roses, aren't they really just a hair metal band done right? Appetite For Destruction still sounds pretty solid, though, with some good overlooked songs (Think About You, Nighttrain, and of course Out Ta Get Me with its great-to-sing-along-to "I'M FUCKING INNOCENT!" chorus), and Izzy Stradlin sure looked cool. On the other hand, while Axl Rose may once have seemed like a dangerous, 'unpredictable' force in music back when people still cared about such stupid things, these days he's more like Elton John with Tourette's.

OTOH, Axl Rose these days = what Jim Morrison would have become had Mr. Morrison not O.D.'d. To wit -- fat, slovenly, perpetually drunk, obnoxious, and clueless. At least Mr. Mojo Risin' had the good sense to kick before it got tiresome -- as fer Mr. Rose, while I don't wish dead, I do think that he's got enough $$$$ to hie his anti-social self to some island or mountain ("you just don't move me any more, Axl," to paraphrase Izzy's Rolling Stones predecessor/role-model).

As fer the Stone Roses ... I liked the Happy Mondays better (how conventional). So my vote goes to GnR, by default.

*Before*? ;-)

I know G&R can be accused of many of the same sins so I won't offer any further judgement on them, but they weren't a huge part of my teens so I take their aberrances less personally.

Odd is an understatement. I mean sure they were pleasant enough, but reading back in the day how nuts English kids were going for them... I just didn't get it.

I still think the first G'n'R album is classic, so maybe it's an America vs. England kind of thing.

I still hate Guns n' Roses.

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New interview with Aziz Ibrahim suggests that Slash was tapped for Stone Roses after John Squire left. Weird as fuck.

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