"Don't Cry" was the initial breakup...."November Rain" was a dream of what could have been if she didn't commit suicide...and "Estranged" is him dealing with the emotions afterwards. Long time Guns fan here... Hope this helps. Take Care and God Bless.
Actually slash cheated on Axl with his estranged wife... hence the biracial kids who were shown outside the house.. and slash exiting the house 🏠 Also, in the November rain video she is cozing up the slash at the bar. Her death in NR is just an analogy, the death of the relationship. Estranged is coming to terms with that break up
@@scottvance7520 I will take your theory as another angle that could be true because these videos were released almost 30 years ago....but from what I can remember, Don't Cry was based off of a relationship that both Axl and Izzy had with the same girl (she's tattooed on Axls arm) November Rain video was based off the short story, written by Del James (their longtime friend) called "Without You" and she committed suicide before they could plan the wedding (face plate in casket, gun in mouth, pulled the trigger in the short story) Del James didn't release "THE Language of Fear" book with that short shory until 1995 which led to alot of theories of her death... could also be a metaphor as you claim but I think it's just not the case here.....Estranged video was a current thing going on with Axl and Stefanie Seymour breaking up, during the filming of.....alot of easter eggs of their relationship and that was Seymour's son in the video.... IMO, I don't think it's much of a trilogy but if GN'R said so in '92, I guess it is what it is. Take Care and God Bless.
@@sylmyl might not to you but it is for others. Either way it’s a great solo. Slash is not the greatest by all means but the way he plays just makes my girl dance on that pole.
My son was born Feb 1990, when he was just 2-3 months old and MTV actually still premiered videos. I remember the day I first noticed the effect this video had on him. He would just fixate on it, perfectly still and not a peep for the entirety of the song. 3 months old is when I started driving him to daycare, about a month before Brock was born I'd bought a '73 Chevy Cheyenne step side, it was immaculate and I had put a new sound system. So for the first month to help ease any possible anxiety issues with daycare, I just stuck to our routine of strapping into his car seat, he'd watch me get in and buckle up, fire up the 350 sm blk then turn CD player on select Estranged, and for the next 15 minutes Brock's soul would be one with this song! He went on to be an exceptional student, a two Combat Tour Army Vet. with a beautiful 8yr old daughter. 11/4/20 on his way home from work 5:45pm, an inexperienced 17yr old driver, turned his full size '86 Chevy p/u on a red arrow directly into Brock's path, who was operating a motorcycle. For 4+ hours they worked on him, at 11:27pm my only son passed at the very hospital he'd been born 30 1/2yrs prior. 11/18/20 an hour before his viewing, his 2nd daughter was born, the following morning 11/19/20/ Sergeant Brock Allen Baker, was laid to rest with full Military Honors. "Estranged" will forever take me back to a much simpler time, and literally my son's entire life before him!
That’s tough. I can’t imagine the pain of losing a child. Even tho he was 30, he will always be your little boy. God Bless. You can do everything right in this life & still get hit w/a tragedy. Well I hope this song brings g you sone peace. It’s 1 of there best. 🙏
This could have been the 1st time I've seen Brad go back after pausing to listen to the music, "that drummin' right there was tough". I continue to see good analysis of songs and now your feeling the music too. Great chemistry with Lex as always.
Axle had a rough up and down relationship with model Stephanie Seymour, they got engaged and broke it off before the wedding.. (November Rain) Axle really wanted to be a dad, and loved her son like he was his own, she took him away from him (Estranged). Axle definitely had some issues, but being molested by your own father as a child will do that to you. Pretty sure the Dolphins represent her and the kid, in the end when he is with the one Dolphin (the kid) he is all smiling.
This is the best answer ive seen on here so far. And the original plan was for Stephanie to be in this video. But Axl said that he would rather do a video with a bunch of dolphins than to be around her again for another video. So that is the origin of the dolphins
When the use your illusion double album's came out, they were huge, very different from the previous guns and Roses we were used to, still bloody awesome though.
This my favorite gnr song.. This is basically the aftermath of a break up from the love of your life .. Fun fact he actually jumped off the big boat for the video
The trilogy goes with the short story "Without You" by Del James who's friends and works for the band behind the scenes. And yes this is GNR at the height in the industry and unlimited budget for videos in the MTV generation. Axl did go through mental health issues but he worked past them and now after 20+ years 3 of the original 5 founding members are back together and touring. I highly recommend you guys catching them live, you will not be disappointed. The play almost every song and play for 3+ hours long and it's an event. Have seen them play too many times to count starting in 1988 up to recently. If you sit in the first 20 rows you might get rhe whistle from the start of Paradise City (last song) or Axl's microphone which he also throws into the crowd after the song. Slash, Duff and Axl are worth the price... just seeing Slash play in person is mesmerizing!
Axl broke up with Stephenie (girl from November rain) prior to this video, so that’s why this video doesn’t correlate with the other two. This video is more about Stephenie taking everything from Axl. He loved her son Dylan (the scene where he’s in a UCLA jersey picking him up in this video) and always wanted to be a father so when they broke up he lost that relationship as well. The dolphins are about Axl’s inner peace (walking down sunset strip) That’s what they represented to him. There’s some biblical metaphors here too in the video. But the song itself was written in line with November rain. Don’t cry just had a correlating video. Estranged was originally for Erin Everly (sweet child girl) Axl sat there and wrote this long 20 min song that got broken up into November rain and estranged. Regardless it’s just about losing someone and trying to put the pieces of your life back together.
I didn't know that he really wanted a child, sad now that he has never found anyone to have a child with (but maybe he chanced his mind, he just really cared for her kid).
I was eleven when this video came out. I immediately started saving my lunch money for a year to buy an electric guitar because of the “ocean solo” part. Now in my forties all my guitars are Les Paul’s. Coincidence?
That's awesome and my story is similar. It was Welcome to the Jungle and Sweet Child 'O Mine for me, then all of Appetite, then discovering Led Zeppelin. I got a cherry burst Les Paul Standard when I was 14 thanks to a very generous father in a particularly generous mood after months of prodding and waiting to get a mid level Stratocaster. That day was unbelievable. The guitar sounds incredible, though it has some electrical issue I need to fix. It's cutting the output of the bridge pickup by about 60%.
@@teijaflink2226 they did not, famously the band was annoyed at Axl for the money spend in the dolphins and the oil carrier, it was one of the triggers for the band implosion. Also they don't look fake at all (with then being real dolphins and all, also it's ignorant to claim that the technology in the early 90 could animate anything even close to this) so maybe you're so used to CGI that the real thing looks fake to you.
The song is so elaborate it's easy to miss the wonderfully subtle techniques Slash employs in this song. There are sections where he uses controlled feedback to create long smoothly fluctuating notes that seem to go on forever. When the dolphins arrive in the video Slash uses volume swells to make notes that sound like a whale, not something you hear every day. To my knowledge, this is the only G N' R track where Axl actually says thank you to Slash in the sleeve notes for his guitar playing so that shows you how good it is.
God, I Love This Song!!! How did I miss you two doing this one? I've always thought this to be their Greatest Masterpiece. And they've got several, but this one is tops for me...
“I think it’s almost there, but it’s still missing som…. dolphins, we need dolphins.” He had a bit of a flair for the dramatic 😂 Now that you did the trilogy, if you want to do anymore, I’d recommend Patience and Used to Love Her. I think you’ll dig both.
Charles manson also wrote songs and guns n roses covered one called "look at your game,girl” from his album "lie :the love and terror cult” its on guns’s "spaghetti incident “ covers album.
I was about 9 years old when my teacher asked all the kids in class to bring in their favourite song and it would be played. Most of the kids brought in guff pop tunes, 2 cool kids brought some snoop and NWA. I brought this. I didn't understand how people didn't feel like I did. I was pretty much the weird kid after that point.
12:32 In an already amazing song & video, Slash bursting up out of the ocean to deliver another brilliant solo is one of the greatest moments in music video history. (and I've watched thousands, if not tens of thousands, of them). Yes, I have a fair amount of time on my hands... 😉
In 1988 I was 10 years old. My dad had just bought a pioneer CD player to add to his stereo setup, and joined Columbia House to begin building his CD collection. I was allowed to pick one CD. The first CD I would ever own. I went with Appetite for Destruction. My parents were pretty angry with me when they first heard it. After a few months though I remember my dad saying "Buddy, this band may be the only group from your generation worth a damn." That said, as much as I love every song on that album, I have to say Estranged is my favorite GnR song ever.
I love seeing you guys appreciate GnR. You guys are adorable as well. I never knew watching these kinds of vids is so entertaining. You guys were my first and now I think I’m hooked. The 3 songs/vid story- Don’t cry, Nov Rain and Estranged is based of the Novel by Del James.
Love how the analysis goes from trying to decipher the deep, meaningful context of the song to "None of the dolphins are real?? It's all fake dolphins??"
Yes Brad, he was dealing with a painful breakup at that time. All the songs that Lex mentioned belongs to the Use Your Illusions Albums, it was a rough period for Axl in his romantic life which led him to write these fantastic songs.
November Rain is about unrequited love, Estranged is acknowledging it and being there & having to figure out what the fuck to do about it. It's like being catapulted out into the universe with no choice about it because all the things you wanted and worked for cannot happen and have to figure out what the fuck to do. Watch the documentary called Making Fucking Videos part 3 & Axl says those words.
A couple recommendations from Appetite for Destruction worth a listen, quintessential Guns : Mr Brownstone Nightrain My Michelle also the whole album from Use Your Illusions Coma Locomotive Pretty Tied Up
When Lex started talking about artists not having the power to be themselves because they're owned by their label, she nailed it. I think Axl has always been a loose cannon but he was always an artist. He was angry a lot of the time, maybe the label had something to do with it, and he got a lotta hate for it, but GnR made some damn good music either way. Maybe the label was big enough to tell him what to do in the beginning, but by the time they got to Use Your Illusion 1 and 2, GnR were too big to keep down and the label finally said "f*ck it, doowutchyalike"...resulting in the band giving us this masterpiece, along with the rest of the trilogy. Even Michael Jackson couldn't make a Thriller type of video in the Off the Wall days.
I agree with everyone saying you should do Coma. There’s no video for it, which I think is better because it’s one you really have to just listen to and let it wash over you. But make sure to not do a live version the first time or you’ll miss a lot-the studio version is perfection.
There are few reactions to coma and the few there are don’t do it justice. Brad and LEX will give COMA the reaction it deserves. Come on guys, react to Coma it will be epic.!
Looks like Axl is loosing his grip on reality after his new bride died and crushed his whole world after he worked so hard for his sanity during Don't Cry. I feel like Don't Cry is him trying to reassure his gf/future wife that he can pull it together for her
A song of love and loss and figuring out how to go on with the rest of your life. This album came out around the same time as a huge break up for me. I think I listened to this song everyday for a year and a half!!! My new girl who eventually became my wife won’t even listen to g and r anymore because I played this song and others from use your illusion 1 and 2 constantly!!!! For way too long…my wife saw them back in the day before their first album came out Philadelphia when she was in college. They were the bar band. No one even paid any attention to them!!!
Guns 'N Roses later went on to cover a Charles Manson song (he was a singer-songwriter before he became infamous as a cult leader). Axl really liked the song, and it's probable the shirt is due to his appreciation for Manson's music. Also, I agree with some of the other commenters here that you should check out "Coma". It's one of my favorites from the album, personally. Lyrics are pretty deep, too.
what a song. `it's like as movie itself, and I love the way you talk about what the song it is about It's like the song were made for you to talk bout it in that nice and normal people situation. It was fun
Saw Guns N’ Roses on the Use Your Illusion tour with Metallica and Faith No More at Foxboro Stadium in MA 9/11/1991 was turning 21 in two days went my true inner circle friends we rented an RV and a driver so we could tailgate think we got to the Stadium at 11:30AM and it was on…got hammered but what a time…I always say each decade doesn’t end right on the number the 80’s ended around 1992 when Nirvana hit…then the hair and metal band era took a back seat to grunge…90’s were great but I loved the 80’s into the early 90’s actually anything up to 9/11/01 was great then the PC asshats started taking over …
weird phenomena happening.. the songs that gave goosebumps lost there magic after a while....seeing your intial reactions reinvoke those feelings.. and the music touches me again.
This trilogy of Videos is based on the short story "Without You by Del James. So you are incorrect. November rain is NOT a dream. And remember he broke up with Stephanie Seymore before the filming of this vido and said.... I would rather swim with Dolphins than have her in the video. So Estranged is not the originally planned ending to the trilogy. You can find Without You on line at this opoint. For years it was only in an out of print book of horror short stories
@@BockwinkleB This song is their dirtiest, grimiest, hardest, raw, track. It's the epitome of the band, and the late-80's sunset strip scene's, hard rock decadence. It's leagues above Jungle, It's so easy, and Nightrain, and that's saying something.
Charles Manson wrote a song, Look at Your Game Girl, that GnR covered on The Spaghetti Incident. It's like a psycho singing a beach boys song. It's worth a listen
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"Don't Cry" was the initial breakup...."November Rain" was a dream of what could have been if she didn't commit suicide...and "Estranged" is him dealing with the emotions afterwards. Long time Guns fan here... Hope this helps. Take Care and God Bless.
Thank you.
Nice bro
Yup. Succinct.
Actually slash cheated on Axl with his estranged wife... hence the biracial kids who were shown outside the house.. and slash exiting the house 🏠
Also, in the November rain video she is cozing up the slash at the bar. Her death in NR is just an analogy, the death of the relationship. Estranged is coming to terms with that break up
@@scottvance7520 I will take your theory as another angle that could be true because these videos were released almost 30 years ago....but from what I can remember, Don't Cry was based off of a relationship that both Axl and Izzy had with the same girl (she's tattooed on Axls arm) November Rain video was based off the short story, written by Del James (their longtime friend) called "Without You" and she committed suicide before they could plan the wedding (face plate in casket, gun in mouth, pulled the trigger in the short story) Del James didn't release "THE Language of Fear" book with that short shory until 1995 which led to alot of theories of her death... could also be a metaphor as you claim but I think it's just not the case here.....Estranged video was a current thing going on with Axl and Stefanie Seymour breaking up, during the filming of.....alot of easter eggs of their relationship and that was Seymour's son in the video.... IMO, I don't think it's much of a trilogy but if GN'R said so in '92, I guess it is what it is. Take Care and God Bless.
Slash's last solo is the greatest guitar solo of all time. Even now, 30 years since I was a teenager, that solo still gives me chills.
Been a while since I've listened to it but I concur.
come on... its great.. but not the greatest of all time...
Agreed
@@sylmyl might not to you but it is for others. Either way it’s a great solo. Slash is not the greatest by all means but the way he plays just makes my girl dance on that pole.
@@ollievelasquez4387 imagine that! She dances on my pole as well.
This is my all time favorite G n R Song. Still hits the emotions.
FACTS
mine too, this song is amazing. I would love to see the evolution of this GnR, too bad that Axl was a great singer with a toxic personality
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@@eliamielsolisceron7155 The other band members had plenty of problems too it wasn’t just Axl
Mine too!
This song is a masterpiece....
amen....
💯
No.
Wrong. It's a MF'n masterpiece.
I agree so much with this
Axl was def a tool at times, but he should be respected as the Mad Genius he is.
Nah, he's just a tool! I was at one of the shows where he threw a temper tantrum and left the stage. No respect for him at all.
Only show I ever left early. 8 of us all agreed to go they were so bad. That being said... this song is epic!
They never wrote another song like this. Very ethereal and atmospheric. Love it.
Coma?
this i love
GnR was the best thing to ever happen to rock n roll.
My son was born Feb 1990, when he was just 2-3 months old and MTV actually still premiered videos. I remember the day I first noticed the effect this video had on him. He would just fixate on it, perfectly still and not a peep for the entirety of the song. 3 months old is when I started driving him to daycare, about a month before Brock was born I'd bought a '73 Chevy Cheyenne step side, it was immaculate and I had put a new sound system. So for the first month to help ease any possible anxiety issues with daycare, I just stuck to our routine of strapping into his car seat, he'd watch me get in and buckle up, fire up the 350 sm blk then turn CD player on select Estranged, and for the next 15 minutes Brock's soul would be one with this song! He went on to be an exceptional student, a two Combat Tour Army Vet. with a beautiful 8yr old daughter. 11/4/20 on his way home from work 5:45pm, an inexperienced 17yr old driver, turned his full size '86 Chevy p/u on a red arrow directly into Brock's path, who was operating a motorcycle. For 4+ hours they worked on him, at 11:27pm my only son passed at the very hospital he'd been born 30 1/2yrs prior. 11/18/20 an hour before his viewing, his 2nd daughter was born, the following morning 11/19/20/ Sergeant Brock Allen Baker, was laid to rest with full Military Honors. "Estranged" will forever take me back to a much simpler time, and literally my son's entire life before him!
So sorry for your loss but thank you for telling that beautiful story. Your son sounds like a cool cat.😔
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Thank you sir for your thoughts, I appreciate it.
Sorry for your loss Bro, hope your Grandson doing great!
That’s tough. I can’t imagine the pain of losing a child. Even tho he was 30, he will always be your little boy. God Bless. You can do everything right in this life & still get hit w/a tragedy. Well I hope this song brings g you sone peace. It’s 1 of there best. 🙏
Heartbreaking. May he rest in peace and we appreciate his serving. I am also a veteran.
Need to react to “Coma” next. Slash’s brainchild!!! Also he has said it’s his favorite to perform live.
Slash said Nightrain is his favourite to perform live
Locomotive is a great Slash song as well!
Amen
@@animalwillopus79 Amen too
@@vinniedixon1140 wtf? slash always says paradise city is his favourite song to play
This could have been the 1st time I've seen Brad go back after pausing to listen to the music, "that drummin' right there was tough". I continue to see good analysis of songs and now your feeling the music too. Great chemistry with Lex as always.
How did I miss this? The guitar in this song is beyond amazing!!
Yup
Axle had a rough up and down relationship with model Stephanie Seymour, they got engaged and broke it off before the wedding.. (November Rain) Axle really wanted to be a dad, and loved her son like he was his own, she took him away from him (Estranged). Axle definitely had some issues, but being molested by your own father as a child will do that to you.
Pretty sure the Dolphins represent her and the kid, in the end when he is with the one Dolphin (the kid) he is all smiling.
This is the best answer ive seen on here so far. And the original plan was for Stephanie to be in this video. But Axl said that he would rather do a video with a bunch of dolphins than to be around her again for another video. So that is the origin of the dolphins
I’m a big GnR fan and I didn’t know this wow.
Bro, this song is a fkn masterpiece. Like it’s in my top 5 fav songs and music videos of all time
When the use your illusion double album's came out, they were huge, very different from the previous guns and Roses we were used to, still bloody awesome though.
Nice Jem
@@mr.smithgnrsmith7808 thanks, she's a shred machine,whom holds status of Queen in my collection.
This my favorite gnr song.. This is basically the aftermath of a break up from the love of your life .. Fun fact he actually jumped off the big boat for the video
No way, he would drown from a jump like that, though maybe the boat was smalker than it looks like in the video.
No, it was a stuntman.
The trilogy goes with the short story "Without You" by Del James who's friends and works for the band behind the scenes. And yes this is GNR at the height in the industry and unlimited budget for videos in the MTV generation. Axl did go through mental health issues but he worked past them and now after 20+ years 3 of the original 5 founding members are back together and touring. I highly recommend you guys catching them live, you will not be disappointed. The play almost every song and play for 3+ hours long and it's an event. Have seen them play too many times to count starting in 1988 up to recently. If you sit in the first 20 rows you might get rhe whistle from the start of Paradise City (last song) or Axl's microphone which he also throws into the crowd after the song. Slash, Duff and Axl are worth the price... just seeing Slash play in person is mesmerizing!
Axl broke up with Stephenie (girl from November rain) prior to this video, so that’s why this video doesn’t correlate with the other two. This video is more about Stephenie taking everything from Axl. He loved her son Dylan (the scene where he’s in a UCLA jersey picking him up in this video) and always wanted to be a father so when they broke up he lost that relationship as well. The dolphins are about Axl’s inner peace (walking down sunset strip) That’s what they represented to him. There’s some biblical metaphors here too in the video. But the song itself was written in line with November rain. Don’t cry just had a correlating video. Estranged was originally for Erin Everly (sweet child girl) Axl sat there and wrote this long 20 min song that got broken up into November rain and estranged. Regardless it’s just about losing someone and trying to put the pieces of your life back together.
I didn't know that he really wanted a child, sad now that he has never found anyone to have a child with (but maybe he chanced his mind, he just really cared for her kid).
Yes, that’s is what I always thought too
Brad is def onto something. I been a GNR fan since 88 and seen them about 15 times. I love all the different points of view.
I was eleven when this video came out. I immediately started saving my lunch money for a year to buy an electric guitar because of the “ocean solo” part. Now in my forties all my guitars are Les Paul’s. Coincidence?
That's awesome and my story is similar. It was Welcome to the Jungle and Sweet Child 'O Mine for me, then all of Appetite, then discovering Led Zeppelin. I got a cherry burst Les Paul Standard when I was 14 thanks to a very generous father in a particularly generous mood after months of prodding and waiting to get a mid level Stratocaster. That day was unbelievable. The guitar sounds incredible, though it has some electrical issue I need to fix. It's cutting the output of the bridge pickup by about 60%.
The dolphins are not CGI, this was the early 90s, if the dolphins were computer generated they'd be pretty square.
Was thinking the same! In today's world you can just expect CGI... back then just expect art.
But why do they look fake? Though not sure that type cgi was possible back then even if looks like they used the latest texhnology for this.
@@teijaflink2226 they did not, famously the band was annoyed at Axl for the money spend in the dolphins and the oil carrier, it was one of the triggers for the band implosion. Also they don't look fake at all (with then being real dolphins and all, also it's ignorant to claim that the technology in the early 90 could animate anything even close to this) so maybe you're so used to CGI that the real thing looks fake to you.
This is my favourite comment of all time and im not going to elaberate further
I get goosebumps every time ....the melody is just so great.
This is EASILY one of the greatest songs ever created. A complete masterpiece. Axl Rose is a God
Rob Halford is a GOD , Axel is only Judas
@@exostell5653 that's what you think, but luckily not the most of people 🙃
@@exostell5653 Rob is more of a goddess tbh.
The song is so elaborate it's easy to miss the wonderfully subtle techniques Slash employs in this song. There are sections where he uses controlled feedback to create long smoothly fluctuating notes that seem to go on forever. When the dolphins arrive in the video Slash uses volume swells to make notes that sound like a whale, not something you hear every day. To my knowledge, this is the only G N' R track where Axl actually says thank you to Slash in the sleeve notes for his guitar playing so that shows you how good it is.
Hands down my favorite songs by G n' R !!!
In my opinion, thats Gunners at its best, a masterpiece! By far their best artwork
Axl: "Hey Slash, we're recording Estranged. How many solos do you want?"
Slash: "Yes."
One of my all time favourite solos of Slash's is where he gliding on the Rainbow with the black les paul. Soulful.
This is my favorite GnR song.I think it goes thru the emotions of being estranged from a loved on.Kind of 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.'
God, I Love This Song!!! How did I miss you two doing this one?
I've always thought this to be their Greatest Masterpiece. And they've got several, but this one is tops for me...
You two are my new favourite reaction video people! Good work!
Everybody talks so well of Duff and his bass and why not? That bass always stands out.
“I think it’s almost there, but it’s still missing som…. dolphins, we need dolphins.”
He had a bit of a flair for the dramatic 😂 Now that you did the trilogy, if you want to do anymore, I’d recommend Patience and Used to Love Her. I think you’ll dig both.
Used to love her
Great lyrics
Just stay away from "One in a Million" if you have thin skin lol.
@@randyman1331 lmao 🤣😂😆
@randyman1331 to me, that’s one of their trash songs anyway
@@react2reactions246 that album all around wasn't the greatest.
Easily one of GNR best songs ever!
Estranged and Coma are my 2 most favourite GnR songs, please do Coma next 🙏 Love your video's!
Dead horse, and Breakdown. IMO
@@goldengreen7763 I love Breakdown
@@pattillo21 Honestly man, I love Coma, Estranged and so many more. Take care my GnR brother!
@@goldengreen7763 same here brother!!
History!
This is the song Slash became more than great. Some people make music, some make history!
Well put bruh.
Charles manson also wrote songs and guns n roses covered one called "look at your game,girl” from his album "lie :the love and terror cult” its on guns’s "spaghetti incident “ covers album.
Another great composition on Slash's part, the guitar in this is amazing
I was about 9 years old when my teacher asked all the kids in class to bring in their favourite song and it would be played. Most of the kids brought in guff pop tunes, 2 cool kids brought some snoop and NWA. I brought this. I didn't understand how people didn't feel like I did. I was pretty much the weird kid after that point.
Where others see weird, I see unique.
No, my friend. You were the cool kid.
They think ur weird cause u cant understand estranged listening to it only once
another great song on a whole different vibe is "you aint the first"...... so underrated
Masterpiece! Axl is a genius and Slash is the greatest guitar player alive today... By far the greatest song you can see live up close...
Yes!!! Always liked this more than November Rain.
This song is so good. Slashs guitar is on point and clean. His best guitar work in my opinion
Wow. Yall rock. This is the best gnr song. One of the best songs ever.
12:32 In an already amazing song & video, Slash bursting up out of the ocean to deliver another brilliant solo is one of the greatest moments in music video history. (and I've watched thousands, if not tens of thousands, of them). Yes, I have a fair amount of time on my hands... 😉
In 1988 I was 10 years old. My dad had just bought a pioneer CD player to add to his stereo setup, and joined Columbia House to begin building his CD collection. I was allowed to pick one CD. The first CD I would ever own. I went with Appetite for Destruction. My parents were pretty angry with me when they first heard it. After a few months though I remember my dad saying "Buddy, this band may be the only group from your generation worth a damn."
That said, as much as I love every song on that album, I have to say Estranged is my favorite GnR song ever.
Ahhhhhh. Columbia House! Much repect for your dad for recognizing Gun's as the only talent worth a damn.
GNR-Used To Love Her.... that's the glue you're missing lol
And I miss the days of 9 minute epics....
It's a feel good song lol
@@wodm 🤣🤣🤣
isn't that about his dog?
@@EattheApple666 shhhhhhhh..... 😂😂😂
It's based on short story by Del James. They have a horrible relationship then she kills herself in November Rain, estranged is his mental breakdown
I always make sure that I watch the whole reaction. It seems at the end I'll get a good laugh and sometimes some good life advise.
I love seeing you guys appreciate GnR. You guys are adorable as well. I never knew watching these kinds of vids is so entertaining. You guys were my first and now I think I’m hooked.
The 3 songs/vid story- Don’t cry, Nov Rain and Estranged is based of the Novel by Del James.
One of the most beautiful songs ever to come out anyones speakers, lyrics are absolutely amazing and slash kills it on guitar as always
This song is amazing! Been loving it since 1992 and it hasn’t faded.
Guns n Roses " YOU COULD BE MINE".. is a must.
The acoustic version of You're Crazy on the Lies EP is one of my faves. The metal version on Appetite is decent but that bluesy version is awesome.
YES!!
Fuck yeah
Congrats on 100K!!!! I can't wait to see the youtube play button hanging on the wall behind you.
Always loved this song already, but after the end of a long relationship it hit 50 times harder.
You gotta read the story this was based on for context. It's a sad story, but it definitely puts the songs in the trilogy in perspective.
Now "you could be mine"
Love how the analysis goes from trying to decipher the deep, meaningful context of the song to "None of the dolphins are real?? It's all fake dolphins??"
Yes Brad, he was dealing with a painful breakup at that time.
All the songs that Lex mentioned belongs to the Use Your Illusions Albums, it was a rough period for Axl in his romantic life which led him to write these fantastic songs.
You don't have to try so hard to figure it out. These ballads are open for interpretation so everybody can relate. That's the beauty in them
Why does no one talk about how good that piano is. This song would be nothing without it
I love this song and your reaction is pure gold! Hugs from Brazil! (You should react to some Deep Purple. Maybe the live version of Child in Time )
Child in time would blow Brad and Lex's mind
My fav song. They are solid rock band. I ve always loved this video
axl says its a song about unrequited love. makes perfect sense. awesome song.... do locomotive next
November Rain is about unrequited love, Estranged is acknowledging it and being there & having to figure out what the fuck to do about it. It's like being catapulted out into the universe with no choice about it because all the things you wanted and worked for cannot happen and have to figure out what the fuck to do. Watch the documentary called Making Fucking Videos part 3 & Axl says those words.
@@vinniedixon1140 axl said November rain is about not wanting to live in a state of unrequited love.
I agree with the rest though.
"coma" absolute masterpiece.
He did not kill her, she killed herself , he is dealing with depression in this video, the 3rd of 3
This was art indeed!
Nobody make something like this today.
People that heard this for the first time thought the same thing about "hair bands" ruining "good" music. It all comes around.
A couple recommendations from Appetite for Destruction worth a listen, quintessential Guns :
Mr Brownstone
Nightrain
My Michelle
also the whole album
from Use Your Illusions
Coma
Locomotive
Pretty Tied Up
They did Mr Brownstone in a live the other day so hopefully they'll be uploading soon
When Lex started talking about artists not having the power to be themselves because they're owned by their label, she nailed it. I think Axl has always been a loose cannon but he was always an artist. He was angry a lot of the time, maybe the label had something to do with it, and he got a lotta hate for it, but GnR made some damn good music either way. Maybe the label was big enough to tell him what to do in the beginning, but by the time they got to Use Your Illusion 1 and 2, GnR were too big to keep down and the label finally said "f*ck it, doowutchyalike"...resulting in the band giving us this masterpiece, along with the rest of the trilogy. Even Michael Jackson couldn't make a Thriller type of video in the Off the Wall days.
I think the last real rock band. piss off attitude, I'm gonna do what I want to do.
listen to "get in the ring" and tell me if GNR and Axl had an issue with labels??
Definitely my favourite G'N'R tune, and absolutely one of my All-Time Favourite Songs overall.
I agree with everyone saying you should do Coma. There’s no video for it, which I think is better because it’s one you really have to just listen to and let it wash over you. But make sure to not do a live version the first time or you’ll miss a lot-the studio version is perfection.
It is a great song! Still get emotional listening to it... Especially the "Mo ones gonna bother me any more..." part
I think there live version of Coma in Chicago in 1992 was there best performance.
There are few reactions to coma and the few there are don’t do it justice. Brad and LEX will give COMA the reaction it deserves. Come on guys, react to Coma it will be epic.!
Coma is one of my favorites
13:12. Nope real dolphins. This was filmed in 1993 and cgi wasn't THAT good yet! :) Plus it's in the "making of" video for the song
You two are exactly spot on... About the record label saying your GNR no budget... Very intuitive.. You picked up on that from a 1992 1993 era
Looks like Axl is loosing his grip on reality after his new bride died and crushed his whole world after he worked so hard for his sanity during Don't Cry. I feel like Don't Cry is him trying to reassure his gf/future wife that he can pull it together for her
Yet another beauty... Love it! GNR rocks man!
My favorite GNR song. Seeing GNR this weekend in Atlantic City NJ
Probably my favorite GnR song of all time.
A song of love and loss and figuring out how to go on with the rest of your life. This album came out around the same time as a huge break up for me. I think I listened to this song everyday for a year and a half!!! My new girl who eventually became my wife won’t even listen to g and r anymore because I played this song and others from use your illusion 1 and 2 constantly!!!! For way too long…my wife saw them back in the day before their first album came out Philadelphia when she was in college. They were the bar band. No one even paid any attention to them!!!
Guns 'N Roses later went on to cover a Charles Manson song (he was a singer-songwriter before he became infamous as a cult leader). Axl really liked the song, and it's probable the shirt is due to his appreciation for Manson's music.
Also, I agree with some of the other commenters here that you should check out "Coma". It's one of my favorites from the album, personally. Lyrics are pretty deep, too.
Charles Manson was also a musician and Guns N Roses covered one of his songs. “Look at your game” it’s actually a good song
what a song. `it's like as movie itself, and I love the way you talk about what the song it is about It's like the song were made for you to talk bout it in that nice and normal people situation. It was fun
Saw Guns N’ Roses on the Use Your Illusion tour with Metallica and Faith No More at Foxboro Stadium in MA 9/11/1991 was turning 21 in two days went my true inner circle friends we rented an RV and a driver so we could tailgate think we got to the Stadium at 11:30AM and it was on…got hammered but what a time…I always say each decade doesn’t end right on the number the 80’s ended around 1992 when Nirvana hit…then the hair and metal band era took a back seat to grunge…90’s were great but I loved the 80’s into the early 90’s actually anything up to 9/11/01 was great then the PC asshats started taking over …
That's some serious insight, you folks rock
weird phenomena happening.. the songs that gave goosebumps lost there magic after a while....seeing your intial reactions
reinvoke those feelings.. and the music touches me again.
💯 I feel the same way
And after all the drama , there is only one train to take - "Nightrain" 😁
One of my favorites. I will back those up asking for Coma next. Another one of my favorites by them that doesn't get brought up as much.
Thank you very much for your reactions.
Don't stop, please.
all 3 songs are based off a short story. Don't Cry, November Rain and Estranged written bye Del James
This trilogy of Videos is based on the short story "Without You by Del James. So you are incorrect. November rain is NOT a dream. And remember he broke up with Stephanie Seymore before the filming of this vido and said.... I would rather swim with Dolphins than have her in the video. So Estranged is not the originally planned ending to the trilogy. You can find Without You on line at this opoint. For years it was only in an out of print book of horror short stories
The best GNR song.
My Michelle and Mr. Brownstone honorable mention.
Throw Rocket Queen in there too.
@@LanceThompsonKssooner for sure.
+10,000 to My Michelle.
@@spkrause well, well, well, you just can't tell...
@@BockwinkleB This song is their dirtiest, grimiest, hardest, raw, track. It's the epitome of the band, and the late-80's sunset strip scene's, hard rock decadence. It's leagues above Jungle, It's so easy, and Nightrain, and that's saying something.
We were so fortunate to have this back in the 90s to see new fans of today get into the chills n goosebumps we got back when. Love guns ❤
Charles Manson wrote a song, Look at Your Game Girl, that GnR covered on The Spaghetti Incident. It's like a psycho singing a beach boys song. It's worth a listen
It's about separation. When you are fully invested in something and things go south.. and you're stuck in the middle.
Axl explains what the two specifically are about. It's on RUclips
Slash’s solo still gives me chills to this day
Goosebumps Everytime the solo comes in at the end
I was just a kid when first listen to that... amazing to remember about my rock scholarship
Thanks for finally posting this.
CONGRATULATIONS 100K
Oh, do Coma, please, one of their best!