Guns N Roses worst song?

You wan'da step into my world
It's a sociopsychotic state of bliss
You've been delayed in the real world
How many times have you hit and missed?
You cat-scan shows disfiguration
I wanna laugh myself to death
With a misfired synapse
with a bent configuration
I'll hold the line while you gasp for breath
You wanna talk to me
So talk to me
You wanna talk to me (7 times)
You can't talk to me
You don't understand your sex
You ain't been mindfucked yet
Let's do it (3 times)
Oh my distorted smile

Guess what I'm doing now

Mind you, for a song that thought it was being NIN, it did an incredible job of predicting Limp Bizkit.

I've never heard "The Spaghetti Incident?"...too afraid...do any of those tracks qualify?

But for Original songs, I'd say "Right Next Door to Hell"

worst song on appetite: "anything goes."

until then your unbridled curiosity will have to suffice.

So are "immigrants" and "faggots"

Because it is, y'know. That was pretty much what I posted for, to kill the thread so there will be no more GITR hate, because it is not on, peeps.

GN'R's "One In A Million" is great; and the racism and homophobia and xenophobia are genuinely racist and homophobic and xenophobic, and his trapdoors and excuses are just copouts, and I don't notice any fictional distance, but more to the point (and unlike in "Criminal" and "Under My Thumb" and lots of others), there's not a lot that's interesting in this song about the way Axl's conflicted over sex roles and race, though I suppose it'd probably be interesting in his life, if you knew him...

So, why is it a great song? Because the melody is totally gorgeous, it's a quiet song that kicks, and it's totally heartbreaking, "Like A Rolling Stone" turned from victory into a lament, a trip from nowhere to nowhere, an escape into a trap: he rides his greyhound into loneliness and confusion, gets police cuffs on his wrists for his trouble, people speak in unknown tongues and have strange sex, and as he reaches for his one-in-a-million woman she fades out on drugs. I'm afraid I'm making it sound maudlin, but the scratch and ache in his voice balance out perfectly, and the voice never stops reaching no matter how despairing the words. And despite itself the song does give some insight into the man's bigotry. Despite the anti-immigrant stuff, Axl's the immigrant from small-town pain-and-shitboy Indiana to the promise of urban freedom, urban Babylon, which turns out to be a new prison, and he doesn't even know the language! So its his fear and disappointment speaking. And no way does this make the bigotry any less bigoted, and I don't find the bigotry challenging to me in any way that I care about, but I do feel for the man in the predicament, expressing himself so well and thinking so poorly.

-- Frank Kogan (edcasua...), October 21st, 2004. (Frank Kogan)

I like "My World" just because it's funny to imagine Izzy Stradlin kicking back in the listening room of his Beverly Hills mansion, putting on the completed UYI2 onto the hi-fi and then hearing that for the first time.

How in the heck is My World representative of GnR's catalog? R U DEAF MAN? You've actually heard the album Appetite for Destruction.

Their reputation is as one of the finest rock bands that ever trod the boards, it hardly needs rescueing by us or anyone else.

one in a million doesn't really sound like that much of a gnr song either...it's great, but it's more early 70s stonesy....

get in the ring is kinda like a gnr song, but it doesn't really rock like their good ones.

Oh no!!!!

What's with all this sudden Use Your Illusion 2 hatred?????????!??!

Gawd, Axl is the King of Not Leaving Well Enough Alone.

So, why is it a great song? Because the melody is totally gorgeous, it's a quiet song that kicks, and it's totally heartbreaking, "Like A Rolling Stone" turned from victory into a lament, a trip from nowhere to nowhere, an escape into a trap: he rides his greyhound into loneliness and confusion, gets police cuffs on his wrists for his trouble, people speak in unknown tongues and have strange sex, and as he reaches for his one-in-a-million woman she fades out on drugs. I'm afraid I'm making it sound maudlin, but the scratch and ache in his voice balance out perfectly, and the voice never stops reaching no matter how despairing the words. And despite itself the song does give some insight into the man's bigotry. Despite the anti-immigrant stuff, Axl's the immigrant from small-town pain-and-shitboy Indiana to the promise of urban freedom, urban Babylon, which turns out to be a new prison, and he doesn't even know the language! So its his fear and disappointment speaking. And no way does this make the bigotry any less bigoted, and I don't find the bigotry challenging to me in any way that I care about, but I do feel for the man in the predicament, expressing himself so well and thinking so poorly.

Um, there is no girl in this song. The fictional distance is in the chorus, where Axl addresses the protagonist (Axl too?) The chorus is either an ironic critique of the protagonist's pitiful confusion or an empathetic appreciation of his humanity or both. Besides that, I agree. Rules.

hmmm,
i have a problem with both illusion records, mainly due to that really unorganic sounding production. some of the songwriting is great, however (civil war, breakdown, locomotion, double talkin' jive, don't damn me etc.)

worst gnr tracks from first four records:

shotgun blues (throwaway fluff)
my world (misplaced and self indulgent)
knockin' on heaven's door ('AY AY AYAYEAH' excruciating - who puts a singalong style hoedown on a studio recording?)
you ain't the first (they really should be putting their acoustic guitars aside)
bad apples (rose as it his most unbearably obnoxious)

AY AY AYAYEAH' excruciating - who puts a singalong style hoedown on a studio recording?

Not to mention making the word 'door' sound like DOOHAAWOOOAH.

gnr version of knockin' on heavens door is a guilty pleasure of mine

i could give a shit about any gnr besides 'appetite'

Lyrically "One In a Million". But, really, their awful version of "Knocking On Heaven's Door" cannot be beaten here.

From Appetite, I can't stand "Paradise City".

But "Get In the Ring" and "Heaven's Door" are still the worst for me.

Ain't it fun.

hmmm, I didn't see this hatred for Knockin' On Heaven's Door coming. For one thing, the live versions are spectacular-- expanding on what Dylan did almost as well as Hendrix did with Watchtower. The studio version pales in comparison, but Slash's first solo is a masterpiece.

My World is terrible, but it's also basically a studio fuckoff, and not really very song-y. I'd vote for either the nuGNR mess of Silkworms or UYI's Shotgun Blues.

Get in the Ring isn't very good, but the riff is GREAT, so great that it's out of consideration as the worst GNR.

As an aside, the previous poster who still hasn't listened to "The Spaghetti Incident?" is doing himself a disservice. It's even a great record for people who don't like GNR.

Despite the anti-immigrant stuff, Axl's the immigrant from small-town pain-and-shitboy Indiana to the promise of urban freedom, urban Babylon, which turns out to be a new prison, and he doesn't even know the language! So its his fear and disappointment speaking.

Yeah, this is something I've been trying to articulate for years about this song.

You Ain't The First rules, man!

The answer: "November Rain"

i think i said something to that effect about november rain in the distant past and was shouted down. good luck.

november rain is a great song, it's just that i don't care to hear it ever again

I'm with PP on "Paradise City," which seems to be everywhere these days. I could stand never hearing it again in my next 10 lifetimes, though I'd be happy to hear "Sweet Child" right now.

'Get In The Ring' is a work of genius.

It's Axl & Guns being EXACTLY what a rock band should be - cocky, vindictive, petty asshats.

They are gods and these journalist cockroaches should just flip on their backs and die. Or something like that.

"You Could Be Mine" - gah.

Nice piece on that video.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypwea/the-untold-story-of-guns-n-roses-november-rain-music-video-wedding-cake-jump

“The General” just dropped. This is the crap fans have been clamoring for over the last 20 years? My god.

On the upside, “Now and Then” is no longer the most embarrassing new track I’ve encountered this year