CureTheSane

What I was saying earlier in this thread. And I wasn't bagging them, if there's a market, great. Go for it. Make some money. There will come a time when many others follow me and become disinterested and not bother too much. If they drop the smut, they will at least get a couple more albums out and maybe turn the tide a bit. This will happen at some point, and it probably isn't yet, but hopefully they don't leave it too late...

Last time GNR toured Melbourne was in 1993 in what is generally referred to as a debacle or a mess. With temperatures of 42 degrees Celsius, water bottles banned and no shade for the 75,000 people attending and nowhere near enough toilets. Happy I didn't attend. They came back last night, and played the MCG stadium in front of 70,000 fans. We rocked up early to get a car park in the surrounding streets which we did. Spent 30 bucks on crappy food outside the stadium. Went inside and took up our seats to watch Woldmother. They were as shit as I thought them to be. Other states got Rose Tattoo. That would have been nice. Anyway, the seats were reasonably shit for gold section. Stage was partially blocked by the sound booth. We ended up with discount tickets, and I assumed that was the price we paid, but people around me had paid full price and were pretty pissed. After Wolfmother, some dude came around and was talking to a few people who had complained. I listened in and joined that little group who were taken to the ticket box and had our tickets replaced with some near the side of the stage. This may sound not that much better, but given where we were (8 or so rows from the front of the stand directly in front of the band, with a 150 meter football field between us and the band) they were dots originally. Where we were moved to were platinum seats, and the view was pretty damn good, 6 rows from the front of the stand. Show started poorly. What is a GNR concert without waiting an extra hour for the band to appear? I guess this is just a part of the experience. Then as they were about to come out the announcer said "Hello Sydney" Pretty big fuck up at a Melbourne show. Coming on to the stage amidst a wave of "boo's" is not ideal. So they played. Sound in the end was not top notch, because it was a stadium and there was echo etc and the speakers had a tough job. Axl sounded...... pretty damn amazing. I actually watched closely looking to detect prerecorded vocals. He hit all the notes, and far exceeded what I thought he could do in his prime, let alone now. I expected Vince Neil type missing words etc, but he did none of this at all. He'd also trimmed down a bit. Setlist: It's So Easy Mr. Brownstone Chinese Democracy Welcome to the Jungle Double Talkin' Jive Better Estranged Live and Let Die Rocket Queen You Could Be Mine Attitude (Misfits cover) (with "You Can't Put Your Arms… more ) This I Love Civil War Slash Guitar Solo Speak Softly Love (Love Theme From The Godfather) Sweet Child O' Mine Whole Lotta Rosie (with Angus Young) Riff Raff (with Angus Young) Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd cover) (Slash & Richard Fortus guitar duet) November Rain ("Layla" piano exit intro with… more ) Knockin' on Heaven's Door Nightrain Encore: Don't Cry Paradise City Great Concert - far better than I thought it would be. Only song omission that I though we may have heard was Patience. Would have loved to have heard some others in place of Chinese Democracy crappy songs, like Bad Apples, Yesterdays, Get In The Ring, but never expected these to be played. Angus Young appearance was a crowd pleaser. Whole Lotta Rosie was a great pick. Riff Raff wasn't Would have been better to play an anthem song, but i guess I understand maybe why they didn't. Axl kind of fucked up Paradise city. For whatever reason that song sounded like shit. They screwed up the sound and it just sounded a mess, but no biggie. See them if you get a chance.

So I just looked up John Wick 2 and it's released here in..... 2 months. Yay, this is why downloading is prevalent. No reason for this in our modern age. I see US TV series pretty much as soon as it's aired in the US, yet they expect me to wait 2 months to see a movie that everyone is talking about and by then spoilers are all over the place. Looks like I'll see Gold instead.

Awesome news! I LOVE John Wick. Hopefully the second lives up to your post.

Takes me back to a time of easy listening light hard rock. Nice song.

Yup. Are you unfamiliar with the story of Desmond Doss? He survived WWII as a combat medic without firing a single bullet. The definition of a hero. OK, I'll give it a go.

I wasn't sure I needed to see yet another was struggle film. Does it do something different?

1986 for me. QR III is a great album

Deerek Davis - Revolutionary Sould. Because I am open to giving different music a go (sometimes) and this one was worth it. Quite a few catchy tunes...

The Founder - The story of the creation of McDonald's. Was ok, just a story 'based' on a true story so you don't know what was exaggerated. Best part was Ron from Parks & Rec without his beard. Lion - the based on a true story of an Indiia born Australian who chases his memories to try and track down his paternal mother. Not bad. My wife made me watch this as part of the deal we made when she watched all of the Rocky movies with me. I still have a few movies to pay her back with. Million Dollar Baby - apparently was one of those that won lots of Oscars or something. Was ok, with a few twists and turns that were unexpected. Classic Eastwood direction

OK, I feel like a bit of a dipship. I played my Cockroach CD and apparently I did get in to it and like it. Must have listened to the Paul Laine version and maybe assumed that the songs were from post Cockroach. Anyway, yes the songs you listed are good. There will always be songs you like better than me and vice versa. I just dig Turn It On. I know it's no Bohemian Rhapsody, but it's hooky and catchy and makes me wanna get up and party. I actually prefer Screw It! to S/T Don't really like Beat The Bullet, but I love Crazy Nights and Monkey Business Off S/T I don't like Rock America, and Naughty Naughty is only OK, but I like Bang Bang and One Step From Paradise Anyway, at least we can agree that Cockroach is a good album. I think I gave it a listen and didn't like it at all, then I must have pushed through that and forced some more listen until I liked it

Illuminati confirmed! haha, not really just giving you shit because more often than not we disagree on many songs. I live S/T and Screw It! Remember I come from less of an AOR perspective, so while Feels Like Love and One Step From Paradise etc are awesome songs, and I love listening to them, the songs that really hook me in are the ones with harder edges, and Turn It On is a party anthem. For me it just tips out the others as a stand alone D2 song on a compilation..

My Sebastian Bach book arrive all beat up and even water damaged. Ordered from Fishpond who drop shipped it from the UK Arrived in a thin cardboard wrapping which protected it in no way, so I sent it back for a refund and reordered from Booktopia. So now I wait longer....

You probably won't like it. Dangerous Toys - Cure The Sane? I do like that song, obviously. I also like what it says. So many people trying to conform rather than being themselves. But for whatever reason, my favorite song is Until You Suffer Some by Poison Long story to do with the film clip and where i Was at that point in my life. But also the hooks and melodies etc Some others that are up there would be Believe - Stryper Love (I Don't Need It Anymore) - Union Halfway To Heaven - Eurpoe Take The Dog Off The Chain - Babylon AD Turn It On - Danger Danger Tales From The Boogieman - Jester You Are The One - Hair Of The Dog Wanna Be The One - Haywire Hard To Be A Rock'N Roller - Wig Wam Touch - Bad City Face Down - Hot Action Cop Love Song - Tesla Love Is A Lie - Great White So Easy - De Mont Stronger Now - Warrant I could go on, but I'll stop there and copy & paste that list to be the start of a new compilation disc. Can't remember the last time I went and made one of my favorite songs...

I'm not a huge fan of this style, but I actually really like this CD. There is some really catchy stuff on it, just need a few listens. I would have rated my all time favorite song a 4 or 5 when I first heard it. After a few more listens obviously it's a 10 for me. Your absolute single favourite song of all time? Which one is that? You probably won't like it.

Song games. LOTS of song games. Which only a couple of people participated in which made them redundant. They'd also kick out good songs before crap ones. eg: a bands hits singe would go out before song 1 on the disc which was "intro"and lasted 15 seconds

I'm not a huge fan of this style, but I actually really like this CD. There is some really catchy stuff on it, just need a few listens. I would have rated my all time favorite song a 4 or 5 when I first heard it. After a few more listens obviously it's a 10 for me.

Won't be for everyone here. Described as Soul/Funk/Rock Party music Guarantee most people here will prefer any of the songs below to anything off American Blitzkrieg New Babylon AD this year as well hopefully. 1 Revolutionary Soul 2 Rapture 3 Valerie 4 Think About It 5 Love and Abuse 6 Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out 7 Vicious Heart 8 Woman's Gotta Have It 9 King of Fools 10 Picture of Love 11 Stop! Wait a Minute 12 All the Roads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpQLSC1exGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN1BzzMocFA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdXHCe_IlYk

I've heard it once and wasn't very impressed. Hopefully it grows on me as well.

Great song - great clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_l4Ab5FRwM

I read Geoff's comment before I listened to the song, and it was pretty much as he described. But by the second verse, it wasn;t as bad. I think I'm annoyed more by the way he says "Johanna" I'll give it a few more listens. I think it will grow on me....

Best female sung songs I've heard since Halestorm. In fact I think I prefer this to Halestorm. I'm gonna check more of this out.

Sounds ok but very generic. Maybe 10 or more years ago I'd have been more interested. The singers tone is kinda annoying to me, which is strange because he sounds like Juno Roxas. In fact I'd describe the band as a cross between Roxus and DiAnno.

Interesting how different people like different songs instantly. Probably some songs that you liked instantly that needed to grow on me.