Bad Apples
| Bad Apples | |||||
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| by Guns N’ Roses | |||||
| Album | Use Your Illusion I | ||||
| Genre | Hard rock | ||||
| Length | 4:28 | ||||
| Writers | Slash, Duff McKagan, Izzy Stradlin, Axl Rose | ||||
| Label | Geffen Records | ||||
| Producer | Mike Clink , Guns N’ Roses | ||||
| Use Your Illusion I chronology | |||||
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«Bad Apples» is the fourteenth track from Guns N’ Roses’ Use Your Illusion I album.
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One day Guns bought some apples at a stall, but all of them had bugs inside, they were so sad that they wrote a song about it.
Bad Apples was only played live twice. This was on 23.01.1991 at Rock In Rio II and a Secret UYI warmup show at Pantages Theatre 11.05.1991.
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How Guns N’ Roses Wrote Together One Last Time on ‘Bad Apples’
It’s no secret that Guns N’ Roses were falling apart during the making of the Use Your Illusion albums.
Although it was likely far from the biggest problem facing the band at the time — compared to personality conflicts, substance abuse and the way everyone adjusted to fortune and fame — songwriting credits on the records showed just how complicated and contentious things had gotten.
Except for two cases where they had outside help, publishing for every song on Guns N’ Roses’ 1987 debut, Appetite for Destruction, was collectively credited to the five members of the band: Axl Rose, Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan and Steven Adler.
But drummer Adler was fired early in the Use Your Illusion sessions, and the four remaining original band members are listed together as cowriters on just one of the two albums’ 30 tracks: «Bad Apples.»
It’s not that there weren’t disagreements to overcome in the Appetite days. «We found ourselves arguing about things we’d never had to deal with before,» bassist McKagan wrote in his memoir, It’s So Easy: And Other Lies, about the band’s early discussions regarding publishing splits. «No, I wrote that part; no, I wrote that part. It got heated for about a week as we tried to hash it all out. . We finally agreed to split everything equally across the board. Our lawyer enshrined it in writing — and thank God for that.»
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Guitarist Slash remembered things differently in his 2008 autobiography, writing that the band came to that agreement only after singer Rose was granted a cut of Adler’s share. «There’s no way Steven gets 20 percent, the same as I do,» he quotes Rose as saying. «I want 25 percent, and Steven gets 15. He’s a drummer. He doesn’t contribute to the writing as equally as the rest of us.»
Regardless of which account is true, Slash recalled things got more complex for the Use Your Illusion songs. «The days of band members getting a straight 20 percent were long gone because there were so many outsider writers this go-round, especially on the old songs that existed before Guns that were now in the equation, such as ‘Back Off Bitch,'» he explained in Slash. «We also had to factor in [new drummer] Matt [Sorum], who wasn’t a full-fledged member: He hadn’t been around during the writing of the songs, though he’d played on all of them.»
According to the guitarist, things got even trickier when the band tried to figure out splits for the songs he and McKagan crafted while waiting weeks for Rose to join them in Chicago for a two-month songwriting session in the summer of 1989. «For the most part Axl wasn’t even there, so the splits he devised for songs like ‘Garden of Eden,’ ‘Don’t Damn Me’ and ‘Get in the Ring’ were totally arbitrary,» Slash noted.
Even though he called the time spent in Chicago a «huge waste,» Slash noted the band was able to produce «a few good tunes,» specifically «Estranged,» «Garden of Eden» and «Bad Apples.»
According to McKagan, when Rose finally did arrive in Chicago, matters worsened, which ultimately contributed to the band losing another original member. «[Axl] got there, got into a fight with a girl we had befriended, and trashed the place where we were living,» the bassist recalled.
This all took place just before a teetering Stradlin made his appearance during the Chicago sessions. «Already nervous because of his court-mandated sobriety, Izzy came upstairs, took one look at all of the damage Axl had just wrought (not to mention the various powders all over the place) and hightailed it the fuck out of there,» McKagan noted in It’s So Easy. «His day-to-day involvement with the band pretty much died that day.»
Guitarist Stradlin officially left the band on Nov. 7, 1991, less than two months after the Use Your Illusion albums were released. McKagan and Slash’s last show with what was left of the band’s classic lineup took place on July 17, 1993.
Despite all the trouble that surrounded the creation of «Bad Apples,» it’s hardly become a big part of Guns N’ Roses’ legacy. According to Setlist.fm, the song has been played only twice in concert, and its video is made up entirely of repurposed footage from the earlier «Don’t Cry» clip.
In 2016, after more than two decades apart, Rose welcomed Slash and McKagan back to the band for a series of successful reunion tours. Adler made a couple of brief onstage guest appearances alongside his former bandmates, but Stradlin opted not to join because of financial disagreements. «They didn’t want to split the loot equally,» he tweeted at the time. «Simple as that. Moving right along.»
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Текст песни Bad Apples (Guns N’ Roses) с переводом
Diamonds and fast cars
I got my head in the clouds
I got these thoughts to churn
Got my feet in the sand
I got a house on the hill
I got a headache like a mother
Twice the price of my thrills
An it’s a cold day, it’s a continental drift
I said this traffic is hell
Can you give me a lift
An i’ll try to paint a story
Got your pictures to tell
Yeah you got to make a living
With what you bring yourself to sell
I got some genuine
For your peace o’mind
I got my camera back from customs
Got my law fees up to date
Hell they musta seen me comin’
Ain’t this life so fuckin’great
When the shit hit the fan
It was all i could stand
Yeah, well i’m a frequent flyer
My body’s breathing while it can
But what i don’t understand is that
My world ain’t gettin’no brighter
If i could touch the sky
Well i would float on by While everybody’s talkin’
Hell i’m just another guy
If it were up to me
I’d say just leave me be Why let one bad apple
Spoil the whole damn bunch
Gold and caviar
Now why’nt you pour my apathy
I’d have all my bases covered
If i could teach my hands to see
But now we’re down in the deep end
Where they’d love to watch you drown
I said your laundry could use washing
We’ll hang it up all over town
I said hollywood’s like a dryer
An we’re down on sunset strip
An you’ll be suckin’down the clorox
’til your life’s all nice and crisp
When the shit hit the fan
It was all i could stand
Yeah, well i’m a frequent flyer
My body’s breathing while it can
But what i don’t understand is that
My world ain’t gettin’no brighter
If i could touch the sky
Well i would float on by While everybody’s talkin’
Hell i’m just another guy
If it were up to me
I’d say just leave me be Why let one bad apple
Spoil the whole damn bunch
When the shit hit the fan
It was all i could stand
Yeah, well i’m a frequent flyer
My body’s breathing while it can
But what i don’t understand is that
My world ain’t gettin’no brighter
If i could touch the sky
Well i would float on by While everybody’s talkin’
Hell i’m just another guy
If it were up to me
I’d say just leave me be Why let one bad apple
Spoil the whole damn bunch
Why let one bad apple
Spoil the whole damn bunch
Перевод песни Bad Apples
Бриллианты и быстрые машины,
У меня есть голова в облаках,
У меня есть эти мысли, чтобы взбиться,
У меня есть ноги в песке,
У меня есть дом на холме.
У меня болит голова, как у матери,
В два раза дороже моих острых
Ощущений, это холодный день, это Континентальный дрейф.
Я сказал, что это адское движение.
Можешь ли ты меня подбросить,
Я попытаюсь нарисовать историю,
Чтобы рассказать твои фотографии?
Да, ты должен зарабатывать на жизнь
Тем, что ты продаешь себе.
У меня есть несколько настоящих
Для вашего мира, о’Минд,
Всего 9.95 долларов.
Я получил свою камеру обратно от таможни,
Получил свои гонорары за закон до настоящего времени.
Черт возьми, они, должно быть, видели, как я приближаюсь.
Разве эта жизнь не так чертовски прекрасна,
Когда дерьмо попадает в вентилятор?
Это было все, что я мог вынести.
Да, я часто летаю на самолете.
Мое тело дышит, пока может,
Но я не понимаю, что
Мой мир не становится ярче.
Если бы я мог дотронуться до неба .
Что ж, я бы проплыл мимо, пока все говорят,
Черт возьми, я просто еще один парень.
Если бы это зависело от меня.
Я бы сказал, просто оставь меня, почему пусть одно плохое яблоко
Испортит всю эту чертову кучу.
Почему бы тебе не излить мою апатию
, если бы я мог научить свои руки видеть, я бы покрыл все свои основания,
Но теперь мы в самом конце,
Где они хотели бы видеть, как ты тонешь?
Я сказал, что твое белье не помешает,
Мы повесим его по всему городу.
Я сказал, что Голливуд-как осушитель,
И мы на Сансет Стрип,
И ты будешь отсасывать «клорокс»
, пока твоя жизнь не станет хорошей и хрустящей,
Когда дерьмо ударит по фанату.
Это было все, что я мог вынести.
Да, я часто летаю на самолете.
Мое тело дышит, пока может,
Но я не понимаю, что
Мой мир не становится ярче.
Если бы я мог дотронуться до неба .
Что ж, я бы проплыл мимо, пока все говорят,
Черт возьми, я просто еще один парень.
Если бы это зависело от меня.
Я бы сказал, просто оставь меня, почему пусть одно плохое яблоко
Испортит всю чертову кучу,
Когда дерьмо ударит по фанату.
Это было все, что я мог вынести.
Да, я часто летаю на самолете.
Мое тело дышит, пока может,
Но я не понимаю, что
Мой мир не становится ярче.
Если бы я мог дотронуться до неба .
Что ж, я бы проплыл мимо, пока все говорят,
Черт возьми, я просто еще один парень.
Если бы это зависело от меня.
Я бы сказал, просто оставь меня, почему пусть одно плохое яблоко
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