Saturday, May 31, 2014

Weekend Wildcard - Coma by Guns N' Roses

This Weekend's Wildcard is brought to you by Guns N' Roses. This is the closing track off of their Use Your Illusion I album from 1991. This is the band's longest song clocking in at 10 minutes and 13 seconds. The song is unique for GNR because it has no chorus. It has always been one of my favorites even though it didn't get much airplay due to its length.

This song was written by Slash who stated "I think one of the best things that I've ever written was maybe the end segment of the song "Coma". It just poured out." 

The lyrics from 7:40 through the end of the song is a long, outstanding rant. I bet it took a lot of practice by Axl to get all that down. Then again they only played this song live like 4 times ever. Maybe that's why.

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