Support NeoGAF

[cryptoadam]

So which is your favourite "slow" GnR song?

I think November Rain is there magnum opus and Slash kills it. But Sweet Child O Mine always gets me

 

[triplestation]

sweet child

RAM JAM

 

[Airola]

 

[MrS]

Like, easily too.

 

[Kagey K]

Like, easily too.

I came here to post this.

Also missing Don’t Cry and Since I Don’t Have You.




Patience is the winner though.

 

[bender]

Best slow song (or song period) and their best video.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Why limit yourself to just one? They're all amazing.

 

[dorkimoe]

November rain

 

[#Phonepunk#]

love all these songs.

growing up i never liked GNR. i was into Nirvana, and they were more jockish, alpha male, glam metal than i was into at the time. i liked the Smith and Pixies and Nirvana and stuff so i wasn't a fan.

years later when i was in college, going to parties, i got it. when you are walking around w your friends walking the streets with booze and going from house party to house party and one of them is playing "Welcome to the Jungle", yeah, instantly you get it.

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is my vote. first Dylan rules. second the performance is great, a slowed down power ballad. one time i was driving home from a road trip with my friends and we were going through the Appalachian mountains with these massive beautiful valleys that stretched out for miles and this song came on the radio. i felt like i was living in heaven.

 

[Brian Fellows]

All good songs but I gotta go with Sweet Child O' Mine.

 

[Richard Packer]

Purple Rain.

 

[Prison Mike]

So which is your favourite "slow" GnR song?

I think November Rain is there magnum opus and Slash kills it. But Sweet Child O Mine always gets me

Patience

 

[Phunkydiabetic]

I picked knockin on heavy door cause it's the most fun to sing.

"Knawk knawk knawkin on heavuns dohoowoawww"

 

[hariseldon]

I’ll just drop this house classic here.

 

[MetalAlien]

 

[YCoCg]

November Rain (Outro) > Estranged (First Half) > November Rain > Estranged (Second Half)

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

 

[Kadayi]

Problem with guns and roses is that now whenever I think about them I always think of this goddamn Southpark episode: -




As regards the OP's question. I really like Knocking on Heaven Door, but it's a Dylan cover so in that respect 'Sweet Child of Mine' wins as it's an original song.

Slash isn't real

 

[Duellist]

None of the above. Don't Cry is the correct answer

 

[Meowzers]

November Rain for me. Best evuuuur.

 

[HF2014]

Wow. Totally forgot that album existed. Now i need to get it back!

 

[Hoya Destroyer]

I'd say Estranged is GnR's best slow song. One in a Million is great too.
You Could Be Mine in my favorite non-slow GnR song. I love that mean guitar work. Dust n' Bones is right up there too.

 

[belmarduk]

That's my favorite GnR song, too.. but this thread is about slow songs.
I don't really like any of their slow songs.. the reason Appetite for Destruction was such a good album is that it largely eschewed that sort of thing. Even Sweet Child O' Mine has a really cool guitar solo.

 

[belmarduk]

Its really a good song.. but one that is actually racist and homophobic.. and I don't usually call things problematic.

 

[Cunth]

Like, easily too.

This fo sho

 

[off duty ninja]

 

[ManaByte]

Every time there’s a thread about great GnR songs it just reminds you how Axl fucked it all up.

 

[Scotty W]

I don’t know why anyone would class Knockin on Heaven’s Door with these others. The hey yey yey yeaheyaheeyah is awful. The Bob Dylan version is great though.

 

[Setzer]

Love them all but if I had to pick one it would be Sweet Child.

 

[MetalAlien]

That's my favorite GnR song, too.. but this thread is about slow songs.
I don't really like any of their slow songs.. the reason Appetite for Destruction was such a good album is that it largely eschewed that sort of thing. Even Sweet Child O' Mine has a really cool guitar solo.

Yea I missed the "slow" part... SORRY FOR FUCKING UP YOUR THREAD cryptoadam !!!!

 

[YCoCg]

The fun thing about November Rain is that the song existed for 10 years before it was released! You can listen to demo versions of it from 1986 and it can be dated back to 1983 at the earliest with members of L.A. Guns talking about it. Axl worked on the song for 10 years because he was sure it was his magnum opus.

 

[farmerboy]

Best slow song (or song period) and their best video.

About 3 year ago GnR played Melbourne and we went along not expecting too much.

5 songs in and let's just say they sounded like a band who hadn't done a soundcheck or anything.

Then they played this.

The tone on Slashes guitar.

Axl's voice had warmed up.

10 minutes later I turned to my brother with the biggest grin, and he was grinning back and I said "they just played the fucking arse off that song."

What a great moment.

 

[Rien]

None unfortunatly. I really really REALLY dislike the band

 

[Prison Mike]

None unfortunatly. I really really REALLY dislike the band

Thanks for dropping by to tell us that

 

[Rien]

Thanks for dropping by to tell us that

Yeah sorry

 

[The Bloody-Nine]

Its really a good song.. but one that is actually racist and homophobic.. and I don't usually call things problematic.

Oh no.

 

[Kev Kev]

Like, easily too.

agreed. and in case anyone hasnt heard this yet...

 

[Prison Mike]

agreed. and in case anyone hasnt heard this yet...

Thanks for that never heard before... Amazing

 

[Kev Kev]

None unfortunatly. I really really REALLY dislike the band

i have never wanted to smack the absolute crap out of a gaffer more than i do right now

 

[haxan7]

Purple Rain.

10/10 troll would read again

 

[diffusionx]

Easily November Rain, brilliant song, one of the great rock and roll guitar solos of all time, and of course the music video.

That song is on my “anyone someone mentions it I have to listen to it” list so I’ll go do that now.

 

[Rien]

i have never wanted to smack the absolute crap out of a gaffer more than i do right now

Well I certainly love you too!

I admit I had no place coming in here talking negative abt the band. Sunday morning. I apolagize for that. That was rude

But let me clarify myself a bit better. The music itself is good, the quality is there and the talent as well. It’s just Axl Rose with his terrible voice dragging the whole thing into the ground.

 

[Kev Kev]

Well I certainly love you too!

I admit I had no place coming in here talking negative abt the band. Sunday morning. I apolagize for that. That was rude

But let me clarify myself a bit better. The music itself is good, the quality is there and the talent as well. It’s just Axl Rose with his terrible voice dragging the whole thing into the ground.

nah man no apoogies necessary, you werent rude at all. i was just makin a joke. and i dont disagree with you about the quality of axl's vocals. it just fits the kind of down and dirty aesthetic that GnR has. its all good tho i was just teasin.

check out the chris cornell cover of patience (i posted it just above). his vocals are insanely good on that song, blows Axl's out of the stratosphere

 

[Stouffers]

November Rain.

 

[Richard Packer]

Easily Purple Rain, brilliant song, one of the great rock and roll guitar solos of all time, and of course the music video.

Agreed.

 

[Porcile]

November Rain. It's like the best most stupid over indulgent rock song ever.

 

[#Phonepunk#]

Axl Rose is a great performer, however, sometimes i crack up when i listen to him sing. often he sounds like a muppet.

November Rain. It's like the best most stupid over indulgent rock song ever.

they have a few! there is also "Estranged". try to top Slash on an aircraft carrier and Axl swimming with dolphins!

 

[clem84]

Best slow song (or song period) and their best video.

This and November Rain. I like so many songs from them but these two stand above the rest.

 

[cryptoadam]

Maybe its just me but these guys still seem cool AF even 30 years later.

Lose your illusion double album who can forget.

 

[Zato]

All our good, I think for me I will put Sweet Child first because the solo is probably Slash's finest imo.

Love the others too.