'A Little Respect' vs 'Sweet Child o' Mine'

[naughty boy]

[Goat Boy]

Erasure no contest.

I have a soft spot for a couple of their records.

Sweet Child is for dickheads

[ChrisB]

Erasure as well. Can't stand Axyl's voice

[The Modernist]

Neither.

[algroth]

Erasure no contest.

I have a soft spot for a couple of their records.

Sweet Child is for dickheads

This.

[The Red Heifer]

Sweet Child O Mine is godawful shit and always has been.

A Little Respect is so good fucking Wheatus made a great cover of it.

It's no contest.

[BARON CORNY DOG]

I’ll take Erasure, thanks. But I’d like to address the quick dismissals of Sweet Child. When that Guns ‘n’ Roses record came out, I was something like 13 years old. Sweet Child sounded FUCKING GREAT the first 40 or 50 times I played it. So yeah, after a week or so, I was pretty over it. 30 years down the line, I never want to hear it again.

[Fonz]

You lot. Ffs.

[Moleskin]

'Sweet Child O Mine' is getting a raw deal here. As Baron says, on release it sounded great. Somehow GnR were masters of the intro, not so much the rest of the song - this and 'Paradise City' start so promisingly but don't really develop anywhen.

And it's actually quite an affecting lyric when you strip all the bombast away. I'm much fonder of the Lunafied version.

[joels344]

Anything but 'Sweet Child O' Me."

[naughty boy]

Neither.

I'm closer to this view than any of the others, but I kind of like the intro of 'Sweet Child'. But the way it degenerates into hellish grunting and fretwanking is astonishing to behold. Shocking arseholery.

A mate of mine - similar taste to mine - worked at HMV in Newcastle in 1987 and 1988 and he says the fuckhead bouncer was always shouting at the cashiers 'PUT SOME ERASURE ON, MAN!'. They were always a band for dickheads, townies, scallies, whatever you want to call them. You'd hear them all the time in the worst pubs, the tackiest nightclubs. They were inescapable and they were rotten.

There might be eight seconds of 'A Little Respect' that are tolerable but they were a ridiculous band in all the worst ways.

[Rayge]

Never heard either to the best of my recollection, and given what's been said above, I'm not going to bother to 'remedy' that now. I parted company with
Vince Clark when he started Erasure because I thought the singer was ordinary. G&R are one of those acts like Led Zep, Radiohead, Van Halen, Coldplay, Marillion, Arcade Fire, Sigur Ros, Byeuch, King Crimson and so on that I've always avoided because I decided early on that they had nothing to interest me, and never would.

[Goat Boy]

Neither.

I'm closer to this view than any of the others, but I kind of like the intro of 'Sweet Child'. But the way it degenerates into hellish grunting and fretwanking is astonishing to behold. Shocking arseholery.

A mate of mine - similar taste to mine - worked at HMV in Newcastle in 1987 and 1988 and he says the fuckhead bouncer was always shouting at the cashiers 'PUT SOME ERASURE ON, MAN!'. They were always a band for dickheads, townies, scallies, whatever you want to call them. You'd hear them all the time in the worst pubs, the tackiest nightclubs. They were inescapable and they were rotten.

There might be eight seconds of 'A Little Respect' that are tolerable but they were a ridiculous band in all the worst ways.

It's a decent pop song

Maybe the associations ruin it for you mind.

[naughty boy]

Yeah. And it was seriously tribal back then! at least as I remember it. We’d go out a lot and there were video jukeboxes everywhere and it was SAW shit, or this lot. We’d manage to get some Smiths thing on but we had to keep our mouths shut about it!

[Goat Boy]

Living on the edge, John, living on the edge

[naughty boy]

[Bent Fabric]

Dickheads aside (perfectly valid), Appetite era Guns - and this specific song - have a fair amount of "it".

(The second verse of "Child" does have a couple of lines that I'd be quite proud to have written)

Much as I'd probably pay money never to hear "it" again at this point.

Erasure is okay - "lite" in their way, but there's a few songs I remember warmly enough ("Chains of Love", "Sometime").

I voted, but...difficult to have any real dog in this fight.

[Rayge]

Never heard either to the best of my recollection....

Sometimes I think Ray is just fucking with our minds.

or my memory is fucked.
But genuinely, after about 1980, the only place I would hear music was if it was in my, or a friend's collection. Hardly ever listened to the radio, no pubs, no clubs, nowhere with a juke etc. It makes thing easier to avoid

[sloopjohnc]

Erasure.

Never really liked Guns and Roses.

[ChrisB]

Never heard either to the best of my recollection, and given what's been said above, I'm not going to bother to 'remedy' that now. I parted company with
Vince Clark when he started Erasure because I thought the singer was ordinary.

I thought he started Erasure because Andy sounded like a male Alison Moyet