As Is is an instant classic that continues to grow on you.
As Is is an instant classic that continues to grow on you.
It's one of the best songs they've ever written, IMO.
It's up there with the best, for sure...
The day the album came out I pulled into a parking spot at the University, music blaring, window unrolled. As Is ended just as I turned the car off. I let a loud "holy fuck!!!" just as a couple of kids walked by. They walked away laughing at the weird old lady rocking out.
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I drove around town and cranked it for 4 hours. It ranks right up there with the first time I heard FW.
Man, what a great tune! When I heard it all the way through for the first time and I heard Ed's pick scrape/slide right before the solo I remember thinking to myself "Uh oh- here we go!!" and I just laughed and shook my head at the awesomeness as Ed smoked through the solo. And the "this part should really confuse things everybody let's stay focused" line is one of my favorite Dave lines on the album.
From what I've read, sounds like Ed had the music for this before the 2004 greatest hits album came out, so thank goodness it wasn't used on that. I don't know how anybody else around here feels about it, but I actually like the music part of Up for Breakfast. The lyrics are garbage, particularly the fruit fetish ones (honeydew my manboobs and cherries on my banana), but i wonder what Dave could've done with that music.
This song is scary good ! I hope Japan gets to hear it !
They wouldn't get it...
True ! I think that's why Dave hasn't sung it here yet. To much going on !Originally Posted by ELVIS
Bullshit!
Don't shortchange the Japanese rockers.
Godzilla is about to return to Japan, and those Motrhafookers are going to show you how the Empire of Japan
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~Only you can prevent low volume~
"As Is" could possibly the best song on the cd, it's that good.
I sing the shit outta this song at work everyday and I even got the young 20 somethings saying, "As Is" ! LOL
In time, this song will rank amongst the greatest of all Van Hale tunes, trust me, you heard it from me first.
And Dave's scream at the beginning, did he sample that or what ? He hasn't had that scream in nearly 25 years.
Fuckin' classic ...
Hot dog and a shake
Sorry for the double post.
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Too bad you can hardly hear any Bass in this song...
Dave's scream to begin the song is a vicious tease to what used to be....
The future aint what it used to be...
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Kind of weird to quote yourself, but after listening to this album over and over, I still think the last third or so of this song is the best thing by far. I wish this song would never end.
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I love the whole CD but As Is is my favorite tune by far. It's phenomenal and shows the unfiltered magic of what the sweat bros and DLR have together. The one two punch of As Is and HBSD still blows me away. I expected cool stuff from VH in 2012 but wow.
Couldn't agree more
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As Is ...fucking still mindblowing after 11,327 listens. When the first fast guitar comes in and then Dave screams like young Dave......I get goosebumps every time. STILL. Crazy.
Really should have been the 1st single with a better video than tattoo. If the world had been fed As Is with a video in the style of Panama....wow.
“Great losses often bring only a numb shock. To truly plunge a victim into misery, you must overwhelm him with many small sufferings.”
As Is has the galloping Alex drum part, Ed hammering all over the neck and Dave's melody and humor.
It hits on all levels.
Oh shit, I've just realised why I liked "As Is" so much.
Hummala bebhuhla zeebuhla boobuhla hummala bebhuhla zeebuhla bop
Yeah. Sinners Swing is exactly like another AC/DC tune as well. Funny how 2 rock bands can use very similar chords & progrssion in a song yet still sound different & unique to themselves. Just shows how great both VH & AC/DC are. Wow what a great double headliner that would be. Other than Donnington have they ever played together?
Yeah, but they both stole the progression and pauses from Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, on the tune "Oh, Well."
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”― Stephen Hawking
Most good music is just thievery mixed with innovation. Everything can be traced to something that came before it. As long as a band can make a sound that is unique to them & instantly recognizable as them I'm ok with that. ANY VH song you can tell it's Eddie. Same with Angus. You would have to raise a child without allowing them to hear any music ever if you wanted them to create truly original music. And without ever hearing anything to determine the difference between win & fail the chances of it being anything good are slim as fuck.
And honestly, what makes As Is so good is Dave anywhow.
Listen close (but not too close), it's 1234 Fu(k Sam Hagar!
"Nothing gets a yak over a suspension bridge faster than 'Back in the Saddle Again' by Aerosmith" ~ DLR
Jeez! I have listened to 'Oh Well' a million times (and the AC/DC tune was never off my turntable back in those days) and I never made the link, but yeah - there's a definite "family resemblance" there.
I would just take this opportunity to say that if anyone is unfamiliar with the original Fleetwood Mac, this (below), Greatest Hits (1971) is a great fucking guitar album - a collection of their UK hits in that late 60s era. While they had global success with the 70s incarnation of the band, in the UK the Peter Green version of the band at its peak in the late 60s was more successful than the Beatles and the Stones ... and everyone else.
Included on this are also 'Green Manalishi' (covered by Judas Priest), 'Black Magic Woman' (covered by Santana), 'Rattlesnake Shake' (Aerosmith claimed it as a big influence, and played it live), 'Albatross' (their huge instrumental hit), 'Need Your Love So Bad' (which made BB King say that Peter Green was the only other guitarist who gave him chills), and 'Man of the World' (you can just hear that as the beginning of Peter Green breaking down - what a fucking song).
THINK LIKE THE WAVES
Actually - that isn't the album it purports to be ...!
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