Can anybody explain this?

[Mark Wein]

WTF? I finally watched it for the first time al the way through since I have a student who wants to learn all 9 and a half minutes of it.

 

[reverend1]

Ugh, can't stand that song.


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[OGG]

IMHO, that is GnR's finest moment (or ten finest moments if you prefer)

 

[jelloman]

I'll take "Examples of Rock and Roll Excess" for 400, Alex...

 

[Kerouac]

I love that song. I mean, it's not "Nighttrain" but it's freakin; awesome.

 

[Prages]

GnR peaked with Appetite. The UYI albums could have been one great album instead of two mediocre ones.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

Cool tune, total cluster.

 

[Mark Wein]

I think it's the first in a series of Dolphin love songs myself.

 

[Peeker]

never heard it, no desire to do so

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

I think it's the first in a series of Dolphin love songs myself.

It's hard to hold a candle, in the cold November dolphin rape.

 

[Peeker]

 

[Kerouac]

It's hard to hold a candle, in the cold November dolphin rape.

Mmmmm, dolphin rapists come and dolphin rapists go
And no one's really sure who's getting away today
From their caves

 

[Peeker]

welcome to the fishtank?


yeah...I got nothin'.
don't know anything off those records.

 

[Kerouac]

I'm being dolphin raped... bottom's up!
I'm being dolphin raped... and I can never get enough!

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

Prediction: this thread will end poorly. Hilariously, but poorly nonetheless.

 

[Scott Powell]

I remember Beavis and Butthead laughing at it

 

[Modern Saint]

I will not explain it....
I cannot explain it....
I don't want to explain it....
Better yet, I don't want to know!!!

 

[frunobulax]

 

[shoeless]

It's no "Attack Attack", that's for sure...

 

[Dogsinplastic]

I got less than four minute through the video. It was one of those obligatory tour videos combined with some would be "high concept" bullshit that Axl likely thought was super deep. But it wasn't the video that stopped my viewing, it was the music. I remember when UYI came out and the "hits", but this was right about when I stopped listening to radio and watching the MTV. I even saw the big co-headlining tour with Metallica, GnR (Faith No More opening), but I don't remember the song at all and it certainly didn't grab my attention today.

I enjoyed GnR back int he day, but they were always overrated to me. Sort of like Nirvana, but without being musical game-changers and have an interesting influence on future musicians. They were a great American rock band in the vein of Aerosmith (who I actually never really liked).

Sorry you have to work on this tune Mark. It'll be okay because you've got the forum community for support. We're here for you man. We're all pulling for you.