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"A
rock band even nastier than The Beastie Boys." |
"The
most dangerous band in the world." |
"The
world's most outrageous band." |
"Who's
cuter - Faster Pussycat or Guns N' Roses? The Little
girls will enjoy arguing over that one for the next few
years." |
"This
outrageous wrecking crew, with no pretensions and the
rawest sound around, are the best new act I've heard in
ages. They are the group who come closest to capturing
the real essence of hard rock..." |
"Guns
N' Roses now stand alone as the finest rock band on the
planet..." |
"...This
band is preposterously good." |
"They
don't look good, they're not pretty; but their music can
be beautiful, ugly as well, and heavy all at the same
time." |
"...The
Gunners will become to the next decade what Aerosmith
were to the Seventies and The Rolling Stones to the
Sixties. Already they've earned the unnecessary yet
somehow crucial accolade of 'the greatest rock'n'roll
band in the world.'" |
"The
greatest rock'n'roll band in the world." |
"Rock
shockers Guns N' Roses...'are gay bashers'..." |
"Rock
shockers Guns N' Roses... The outrageous LA-based rockers
thrive on drugs, booze, sex and violence." |
"Guns
N' Roses are 'what every band in LA pretends to be', the
last ditch saviours of rock'n'roll. ...They are a musical
sawn-off shotgun, with great power but erratic aim - they
veer from terrible to brilliant in a typical set, often
within a single song." |
"Guns
N' Roses have defined an approach. They are the
benchmarks." |
"Mad,
bad and dangerous to know." |
"Hit
band Guns N' Roses..." |
"Guns
N' Roses. They're jolly hard rockin' muthas, aren't they?
Has there ever been a meaner, tougher, more dangerously
exciting heavy rock band ever?! Probably not!" |
"The
wild 26-year-old singer has been known to slice his own
arms with razor blades during frenzied tantrums..." |
"...These
posturing pompadours of the oily head rags and momentous
hair... Are they really the epitome of rock'n'roll?" |
"...Sick..." |
"...Those
meatheads..." |
"LA's
favourite bad boys..." |
"The
most notorious rock'n'roll band in the world." |
"Guns
N' Roses have inexorably become the most celebrated,
talked-about and shock-steady band the hard rock world
has perhaps ever known..." |
"Bums
N' Roses..." |
"Guns
N' Poses..." |
"Guns
N' Roses are one of the biggest and most controversial
bands in the world, the so-called new Rolling
Stones." |
"They
are the X-rated history of rock'n'roll over the past six
years." |
"...The
most precious group ever." |
"From
mustard keen to masters of lethargy... The Saddest Band
In The World." |
"Can
you be the princes of punk and still swan around in a
Porsche?" |
"...The
world's most dangerous, and currently most beleaguered,
rock band..." |
"...Guns
N' Roses, probably now the world's most successful rock
group. Guns N' Roses are a heavy metal group... Most
heavy metal stars have very small brains..." |
"...Guns
N' Roses, who like to think of themselves as the most
dangerous band in the world..." |
"Tonight
the pop group who sell themselves as the most obnoxious
and outrageous in the world will show Britain why they
have earned their reputation as the Gangsters of
Rock." |
"...Outrageously
lewd..." |
"Even
by the inflated standards of the rock world, the hype
surrounding Guns N' Roses has been extreme. Would their
show be a display of primitive brilliance or an
amateurish shambles? The reality was disappointingly
mundane... If one truth emerged from this long, mediocre
show it was that those who live by the sword of
self-grafitication are not the best judge of when to wind
up a guitar solo... reminiscent of the worst excesses of
pre-punk dinosaur rock... This was about as challenging
to the status quo as a child burping noisily at the lunch
table." |
"Dangerous?
Not in the slightest. Entertaining? Absolutely." |
"...Undoubtedly
the biggest band in the world..." |
"The
world's most successful and controversial rock
band." |
"This
premature legend..." |
"As
a band less famous for their music than their attitude
and lifestyle... a muddled and chaotic show was an
odds-on bet. Where was the fabled awesome rock'n'roll
steamroller laying waste to all before it? |
"Guns
N' Roses are the nearest America's ever got to a Sex
Pistols." |
"Guns
stun the world." |
"This
was not the all-powerful 100 per cent set that we could
reasonably expect of the Biggest Band In The World." |
"Guns
N' Roses may have been blessed with only a thimbleful of
talent, but thanks to a bucketful of hype, the rock
superstars are turning heavy metal into gold." |
"...The
world's greatest rock phenomenon." |
"Guns
N' Roses are just a rock'n'roll band." |
"...The
reigning band of rock'n'roll." |
"This
group isn't yet fully ready to make their act work night
after night on this large a stage." |
"One
of the most famous rock bands of all time... Supposedly
the most notorious band in the world... Guns N' Roses
are, without a shadow of a doubt, a living legend, and
you can't say more than that." |
"No
wonder they take themselves so seriously." |
"Guns
N' Roses have fixed themselves as the premier rock'n'roll
band to have emerged since the Seventies, mainly on the
strength of the behavioural scandals." |
"They're
up there with the greats." |
"This
was not a concert... it was a magical, musical, religious
adventure. Those who survived the entire historic set
witnessed something awesome and unique; a concert they
could tell their children about." |
"Rock's
hardest band..." |
"There's
probably no other band who can match the Gunners' ability
to sound frighteningly real and then laughably crass in
rapid succession. |
"Not
so much a musical entity any more as a self-important
dribbling of Axl Rose's paranoid persecution
complex..." |
"In
every possible way that you can think of, Guns N' Roses
are a mess; a great big Rorschach of confusion, crassness
and contradiction. However, they are also an impossibly
massive, glamorous and thrilling rock group who are
glamorous and thrillingly precious because they are so
massive." |
"They
are now just another big and blunt stadium act, up there
with the fatted turkeys." |
"For
the record, Guns N' Roses' show is a saddening musical
mess." |
"...A
cartoon band with maybe three decent songs and a heap of
atrociously sexist thuggery masquerading as psychological
nakedness. They are just another vacuous money printing
behemoth safely fixed within conventional parameters are
treading a well-worn predictable formula." |
"Wild
Roses!" |
"The
world's meanest, most devil-may-care rockers." |
"...A
band of genuine megastars." |
"The
baddest boys in rock... Stipulations like demanding to
have control over the article before the work went to
press were one sad indictment of how jumped up Guns N'
Roses had become. Guns were big, but no-one should be
that big. Like, back off bitch!" |
"Rock
wildman Axl Rose was a bore in bed..." |
"...The
world's No.1 live band." |
"...The
most popular attraction in the world in 1992..." |
"Outta
control? Axl Rose... the most dangerous rock star in the
world." |
"Guns
N' Poseurs..." |
"...Two
hours-plus of solidified, low-grade stodge from the self
styled biggest band in the world." |
"...Axl
Rose and Guns N' Roses... they really are as clueless and
dumbstruck as the rest of us. Ain't it great?" |
"Watching
Guns N' Roses these days is a lesson in how to lose your
way." |
"...The
world's most photographed, talked-about, analysed
rock'n'roll outfit. ...The lodestone for a
generation." |
"Wild
Axl..." |
"Rock
wildman Axl Rose..." |
"...A
flat-out, balls-to-the-wall rock'n'roll band." |
"...The
World's Most Dangerous Rock'N'Roll Band."
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"...Guns is still close to my
heart, I'm loyal to the day I die, I suppose." |