First time hearing Coma “Guns N' Roses” Reaction | Asia and BJ

[@hoopwizardws]

This is a hidden gem from GnR! I feel like unless you're a huge fan of the band you won't know this song, looking forward to your reaction!

[@michaelasay8587]

Im not s huge fan of theirs but now I love them...a song doesn't have to be a hit, yes? Like Asia's music! But that last she did ...should be a hit. I thot it was a remake, I loved it so much!

[@bryanlogue1]

I remember when they played this in 2017 at the Olympic Stadium in London and lost my shit when they started playing it.

[@revolversntulips]

The song is great and it's one of few studio versions of their songs which really shows the greatness of Axls voice and it lets you understand why you should listen/watch to live/bootleg versions. But I don't think it's a hidden gem. Everything about this song is great - but it's too long and unorthodox for the masses to be recognised as a classic. A hidden gem, more so, would for me be "Locomotive" or "Right next door to hell".

[@blackdeath6085]

A real treasure indeed :)

[@jonathanmartin3767]

My favorite of this album. Gets better and better as the years go by. If November Rain comes on the radio, it is usually a quick dial search.

[@CalixYukon]

Axl wrote this song after he intentionally downed a bunch of pills and OD'ed. He realized at the end he wanted to live. You nailed this song Asia, he did it to myself and he wanted to live in the end. Great reaction!

[@CalixYukon]

Also if you're ever planning on doing a reaction to "Estranged" by GnR make _SURE_ you do the video. It was like the most popular music video of the 90s

[@Nichwar19]

Yeah she definitely got it i would love to see their reaction to one in a million 🤣

[@Xeno79morph]

@@CalixYukon most popular? you ever heard of november rain?

[@dimak4119]

Slash did the music, and told axl to do a lyrics , he sat down for like 1,2 months, couldn't figure it out, one day he come and wrote down the lyrics in ten minutes.

[@StarSeedHaokahGildas]

That last part of the song after the last solo was all thought up on spot when he awoke from his whole ordeal too.

[@stanleymyrick4068]

I listen to Coma, Locomotive, Bad Obsession, and Breakdown more than the ones that actually made charts from this album.

[@derekmaher6047]

I would add The Garden to this list

[@thabudmaster]

Breakdown has gotta be one of the greatest songs of all time! Good choices :)

[@darrenkay3165]

Don't Damn Me is another one from UYI 1 that's criminally underrated

[@chrisbakker9978]

Dont forget DTJive MF.

[@barry1369]

@@thabudmaster the intro of breakdown is one of the most satisfying things I’ve ever listened to

[@cherylbruce7274]

Slash created the music. Axl created the lyrics from an overdose that he experienced. It was and still is a Masterpiece that they still play in their concert song list today. Axl wanted his fans to know what it was like to almost be taken to the other side. Thank you! You both are the best! Much love!

[@HighFashionQueen]

He did a very good job, I felt I was almost on the other side, and all these people were bothering me

[@tomaszziental3576]

Axl didn't do drugs, or at least not as much as some of the others. This song describes the situation with Slash, who they barely saved.

[@jamesburns8827]

This is my favorite guns album I can't believe you guys did this song. That's a deep deep cut

[@TjM1978]

I think time has been kinder to the UYI albums

[@ES-fg2bf]

Thanks for being one of the only channels to react to this masterpiece. The lyrics are brilliant, the song is epic, and Slash is incredible.

[@akusuaakoto6702]

My favorite album by them. One of the most honest songs of that time. That album got me through a lot.

[@jonathanmartin3767]

100% agree

[@MichaelFoster-cs5om]

Yes ❤

[@stevelarson3391]

Indeed! I feel you.

[@davidscott4565]

100% agree❤

[@tomazroses6022]

Masterpiece. 🤘🏻 🤘🏻

[@bradbankes8137]

Without a doubt my favorite GnR track, great album. One of those hidden gems unless you are a GnR fan. Locomotive, Estranged, Breakdown, and Pretty Tied Up are worth a listen as well.

[@mtdreams72]

Estranged is another epic song from Guns n Roses. I went to a Def Leppard concert in the 90s and this was the last pre concert song they played over the loud speakers. Completely worked the crowd into a frenzy. It was awesome.

[@wordgiesworld5483]

Awesome song!

[@deannadrake2040]

Yep, I remember when Lep used that tape, w/ this song leading up to the house lights going out. For those of us who were paying attention to the pre-show music, "Coma" was the warning from the band, "Get to your seat! Show's starting soon, folks". "Coma" is such an incredible song. One of my faves from GN'R.

[@ronparsons8786]

One of their lesser known BANGERS. The song is a journey

[@johnfaamao-kt6qk]

Slashs guiter work is fire 🔥🔥🔥 he serves the song emotíonally well ❤

[@ZOSO900]

My favourite Gn'R song! Thanks to the requester for making you the only big channel to do this one!

[@MrLjs20]

Slash had this song put together after they had some downtime following their debut album. Axl came in later and penned the lyrics for it following an overdose experience he had. Overall Axl felt the song was too negative and so to give hope he wrote that last couple minutes of the song to give the listeners the feeling that whatever they choose it’s up to them. Not the “people waving goodbye” not the doctors, or psychiatrists. “Nobody pulled the trigger, they just stepped aside”. It’s a very deep song, but made more so by the fact that Axl had compassion for the listeners who have had a similar experience. I think GNR is a band that many can say helped them through life in some way.

[@TjM1978]

They got me through high school

[@natalierozean5989]

Ive been in a coma several times due to a genetic disease. Axl nailed it. Ngl…was pissed Af when I came to. I could hear people talking around me, but couldn’t respond. I was confused bout what was going on. Literally heard my fam planning my funeral. Anyway.. comas are cool. Peaceful. No anxiety. Best sleep ever.

[@jamesburns8827]

And also now since you did Come, obviously you got to do Locomotive baybay!!!! Guns and Roses are my favorite band of all time. And I think locomotive is their best tune. And it's absolutely my favorite

[@andreas3761]

14 years, night train, civil war, there are some many GNR-gems

[@frenchthomasmusic]

This is by far their most soul searching song. Thanks for being mind opened. 🙏

[@nathanpayne3729]

This is my son’s song, he was hit by a truck one night in 2017 and spent two months in a coma in children’s hospital and wasn’t supposed to live. He’s alive and has a son of his own now. He said a coma was like a deep sleep.

[@BettyBicepGirls]

Great reaction and you really understood the true meaning of the song 👍🏻😃

[@AsiaandBJ]

Thank you!! 😁

[@gryphoncroat]

This👆👆 Btw, GnR is full of hidden gems💎

[@alanonder2955]

This song is everything Axl thought and felt and heard while being in a coma.

[@elithegreat113]

This entire song gives me chills

[@edimiltonfortunato7499]

OMG Axl sang from 12:19 to 12:43 without breathing

[@marvelharris9540]

deep cut.. great reaction!

[@shaunfoskey9958]

Such a deep amazing song...and ROCKIN on top of it all!!!

[@DaeronK]

Great deep cut from the guys. A very personal song from Axl, fantastically supported by the rest of the band.

[@StarSeedHaokahGildas]

This was originally meant to be Slash' own individual song he was writing that's why it's so long with really long guitar solos. Axl eventually got his own personal story mixed up with it and the both went good together so they worked it into this masterpiece.

[@nightgathering]

GN´R has always been raw, genuine and tough. That was the huge difference with glam bands of the 80's

[@Halman82]

I'm not a huge GnR fan but this was always my favourite of their songs. Really powerful, great cadence, and amazing bassline

[@michaelasay8587]

Manhal ...well than I don't why you wouldn't love their other songs! Maybe you need to listen more...

[@Halman82]

@@michaelasay8587 I love many of their songs, they just don't rank that high among the bands I listen to the most. I'm more into grunge and blues rock

[@michaelasay8587]

@@Halman82 you like the no. 1 female singer, Karen Carpenter? I don't think you can say NO to her...lol

[@ditsiwt]

This is definitely in my top 10 Guns tracks... Glad to see it's reaching a new audience.

[@RyZenii]

Every year down here in NZ they have the Rock 2000, normally August- September. You can't even chose this song from the stations database to be the countdown except by manually writing the artist and title. This tells you how much we love Coma, as every year this bad boyfinds its way onto the countdown. Peace from NZ

[@hairlokk8672]

This is one of my favourite gnr songs

[@tylerhackner9731]

One of my favorites

[@Appelekop]

This song is a masterpiece and very, very underrated!

[@WilliamCooper-l6f]

These guys are a whole different bread of Rock.

[@chrismcintosh5675]

The Radioheads of hard rock

[@markherring3513]

do "The Garden" next

[@user-gz9jp3fj2d]

One of my favorites 😁

[@KrisThroughGlass]

My favorite Guns n Roses song!

[@yossireuven4240]

legendary guitar solo

[@x_mau9355]

legendary last rant.

[@renecasillas1308]

This a great song. Both Use your Illusion 1& 2 are great albums. You should listen to You Should be Mine

[@renecasillas1308]

Sorry. I didn't check my spelling

[@Tommysimonsen]

@@renecasillas1308 Why don`t you chance it instead of apologizing? How are they suppose to find your song request when that song don't exist?

[@philipmartin475]

This is a really good take on this song for just hearing for the 1st time.

[@samfischer-l6p]

Just reminds me how slash guitar is unique . In fact appetite for destruction (coma isn't in appetite I guess) album is something special that never gets old. And those are teenage memories. I'm listening to classical music now. Just as AC/DC is a riff and sound signature by Angus, guns are great with guitar intros and solos, so much energy, power. Do more gunsNroses.... slash's play is so powerful and yet never unnecessary messy. He does great to Gibson les Paul.

[@robinbeerman4726]

Axl said this was hard to write. He actually od and was in a coma 2 days.. never heard this before.

[@andreas3761]

GNR rule, they did so many hardrock-classics

[@TheNewRevolution]

Only GNR could do a +10 minute song without a chorus and make it good. The chorus is the payoff. So interesting that they decided to write a song like this and not put a chorus in it.

[@Gurotube]

She was so spot on figuring out the song

[@prabowosubianto8024]

Love this song ❗😄 I've tried editing the video for the song, the results are not bad Good reaction👌

[@AsiaandBJ]

Thanks

[@salemslotandmore8278]

Thanks 😀

[@AsiaandBJ]

You're welcome 😊

[@Abbittibbi]

How lucky you are to hear this masterpiece for the first time. One of my favorite song in karaoke but as well as just a listening. Thank you for listening to it too, and sharing your reactions.

[@cheryltaylor7161]

first reaction that got this song. most people don't understand it. Way to go!

[@NoLegalPlunder]

This and Night Train are 2 of my favorites of theirs, and they have a lot of awesome songs.

[@psaari99]

Great videos and great comments about this song! Love you guys!

[@mikidou99]

Asia totally got this song!! In one listen no less! Amazing reaction!

[@norme10]

EVERYTIME I hear this song I go back to the day.. Me and my GF at the time speeding through a rainy northern california back road at night, screaming out the lyrics and having a good ol FN time.

[@PauloRoberto-ru7dg]

This is such an amazing song.

[@jhawk1912]

This is a great GNR song. I love it. Thanks for reacting to it.

[@LN-Lifer]

Holy crap How did I miss this one?!?!

[@vader8724]

Another deep song by G'N'R is "Civil War"...love the react.

[@awbeaudry]

So you did Coma! Wow epic. Have you guys done estranged? I don’t recall. Another deep one if you don’t mind, or Don’t damn me is a bangar!

[@scarletngrey36]

ROCKET QUEEN is a great GNR song

[@HighFashionQueen]

I never had an overdose, but I feel it with song, it s amazing

[@HighFashionQueen]

Well, I have never done drugs😂

[@EVERLYNFRIENDS]

Love the build up in the beginning

[@naseemakram9807]

Coma is a long song. Slash spent a while perfecting it. While he was working on it the band named the song 'Girth' because it was so long. Axl wrote the lyrics for the first half and the last bit of the song took him some time to come up with, until he finally finished in the studio in one sitting. The song itself is fairly complex from a 'playing' perspective if recall from an interview I saw/read. No-one really wanted to play it live due to the complexity of it and they only performed it live twice back in the day. I think Gilby once said the song has over 50 chords he had to learn and he didn't like it too much for live (i don't think he performed it with them). When Slash and Duff reunited with the band in 2016, Axl added it to the set list purely to please Slash. It really is a studio song and you don't get all the intricacies of it as a live performance anyway, like the ones you picked up on in the background. The song is about Axl's near death experience after a heroin OD. The sound effects in the studio version are real effects from an operating theatre and the clinicians you hear are the actual staff that worked on Axl, I guess they must have paid them well to re-enact the scene. This is by far my favourite GnR track followed by Estranged, and well, everything else.

[@djyanno]

Love this song. Been one of my atf since the album release

[@LN-Lifer]

Man that ending.... when this album came out my cousin and sat there listening over and over until we both got it down. Still know the words (like ALL GNR songs) but boy am I sucking wind by the end these days

[@CrociatoAzzurro]

Hahaha

[@paulm114]

Great choice of song to react to. Its one that very often gets overlooked in favour of Estranged or November Rain but it really is an epic song!

[@BaconWhisky]

I had the privilege of hearing GNR play this Live in 2017, one of the most memorable experiences in my life that I will never forget

[@rockanroleropr3467]

GN’R and PR 🇵🇷… my two favorite things in the world! 🤘🏻❤️🤘🏻

[@dangerfindertreasureseeker8905]

Great tune !!! Such an awesome song and a great reaction as well .

[@dipsydoodle7988]

My favorite gym song! 😂 congrats for being one of the few with the nerve to react to this 9min song.

[@rayrivera1830]

Love your take on the lyrics. Massive track.

[@pennycartoon8]

Great reaction. My favorite GNR song, that and Estranged.

[@canonthomasen3219]

Legends! 💯

[@lucasbenzano6021]

Awesome. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@AsiaandBJ]

Thanks 🤗

[@kasparth14]

Do "Civil War" next - It's deep and it never gets old. Unfortunately.

[@charleslegget6956]

1st person as the active addict Additional 1st person as the disease speaking to the addict (maybe we’d be better off without you anyway) 3rd person perspective describing the situation. Multiple times. (Dr’s working on him and the disease is antagonisticly daring to bring him back from its grip) and (there were always ample warnings there were always subtle signs) ( No you don’t need a Doctor no one else can heal your soul) Mind blown when I really listened to it. Anyone who has struggled with the delusion of addiction can identify with all the characters.

[@markb1114]

💯🔥great reaction

[@AsiaandBJ]

Thank you!! 😁

[@ChrisOrders]

Best song ever

[@purplebeard1526]

It is a deep cut in the album and some deep lyrics about the things you think about in that situation.

[@Amp5150]

wouldn'ta thought I'd see anybody doing this hidden gem

[@rwestvang]

The best thing about songs like these, is that you can appreciate it without having to be there yourself. It's like a guy hurling towards a black hole for mankind, except he came back to tell the story...

[@stevelarson3391]

Axl said he actually passed out writing this track because of being overwhelmed with emotion. Maybe it was just the drugs? Lol

[@Metal-Josh]

Talk about jumping in both feet! Their strangest song, but I think it’s really a cool sounding song.

[@byronhutchinson28]

The doctors you hear speaking, are the actual doctors that worked on Axl to save his life in the hospital. Axl had them brought into the studio and recorded them

[@steverigby2406]

Great reaction, you got it straight away. I liked this song from the first time I heard it after buying my 'use your illusion' albums back in the day. I don't think I appreciated the creativity it took to portray this story in an amazing song, when I was younger but as time goes by the song gets better.

[@ericgaudet5488]

This song Coma is based on true events that happened to the Lead Singer of the band Guns and Roses Axl Rose during one of his no one giving a F#ck about me drug overdose and The Evening that happened during that time.

[@lynnlicallahan9022]

Love it ❤❤❤

[@timometsanoja9666]

Slash over dosed and got himself into a coma for a few days sometime in the 80's. This is where the song originated from. I don't know how much of "personal experience" there is here, but this was the spring board for this song. One hell of a song and it certainly doesn't feel like it is 10 minutes long. The message of the song is really strong too. No matter how down and out you feel there are always people who find value in you and you are important to them. Life kicks you around from time to time, but it does so for all of us. And persevere, life goes on and you start feeling better and it is not so bad anymore...

[@SebastianSmith-c5t]

It's some what based on a true story of Axl. This what he said in a 1990 interview with MTV Kurt Loader. an interview, on August 31, 1990, with MTV's Kurt Loder on Famous Last Words, Axl talks about the song "Coma": There's a song called Coma that's like 11 minutes 45 seconds long with no chorus. And I think there was only one verse that somewhere it repeats itself. It's Slash's baby. It's his monster. The song used to be called Girth. But I started writing about when I OD'ed 4 years ago. The reason I OD'd was because of stress. I couldn't take it. And I just grabbed the bottle of pills in an argument and just gulped them down and I ended up in the hospital. But I liked that I wasn't in the fight anymore and I was fully conscious that I was leaving. I liked that. But then I go, all of a sudden, my first real thoughts were that "okay, you haven't toured enough. The record's not going to last; it's going to be forgotten. This and that, you have work to do. Get out of this." And I went "No!" and I woke up, you know, and pulled myself out of it. But in the describing of that, some people could take it wrong and think this means "go put yourself into a coma," you know. And so it's really tricky, and I'm still playing with the words to figure out how to, like, show some hope in there.

[@miconis123]

I never expected to see someone react to this

[@NyomanSubamia-k1z]

8:44😂😂😂😂.many time l repeat still funny😅

[@samuelmarciano5988]

What almost no one knows is that Guns Roses was not only a great Rock band, but also the best in the history of Rock. The rock scene before Guns Roses emerged was known as Hard rock full of bon jovi, poison, van halem, motlrey crue, when Guns Roses appeared with Apetite For Destruction they set a standard for Hard rock in a row, since then several bands, due to the efficiency of their managers, had to reinvent themselves in the case of Aeroismith, Bon Jovi, many others lost space like Montley Crue, Poison, Van Halen. Axl wanted to release 4 albums on Use your Ilusion, but Gef didn't accept. Axl is the greatest lyricist in the history of Rock, coming from a poor and suffering life, but his talents were hidden, what would slash be without Axl and Axl without slash? For example, Slash wrote songs like this and Axl wrote the lyrics, if they hadn't known each other this sound wouldn't exist. I'm Brazilian at 14 years old and I spent all day listening to pirated cassettes because I didn't have money to buy vinyl. 

[@germancountryballDE]

Very cool reaction, still very sad that this song is so unknown

[@Samurai_Stoner]

This and Estranged are probably my favorite songs off the illusion albums

[@pkleo73]

the track before this one, Dead Horse, I liked as well. and Locomotive, Pretty Tied Up, Nov Rain, Bad Obsession, Breakdown, were my go to's

[@stephenfwadsworth9565]

I lived this in 2 or more months, but took that long to express. :)

[@charleswilliams6236]

Every thing in this song is the truth cause I was in a coma once back in 1988

[@osullibr]

I've been waiting for this one...

[@grendeltech]

I think a similar vein is Suicidal Tendencies' How Will I Laugh song.

[@BlakeHanback01]

GNR's best song. This is the best song ever.

[@thunderspike1892]

You should check out Velvet Revolver doing It's So Easy and Mr. Brownstone live. Of course Slash, Duff, Matt Sorum, Scott Weiland and Dave Kushner. On It's So Easy they have Izzy Stradlin as a guest. Totally rocks. Actually Slash, Duff, Matt and Izzy could have continued GNR with Scott Weiland on vocals and still have had great success but they couldn't do it because some rights. Funny enough they could still call the band Guns 'n' Roses without Tracii Guns

[@glenaleksis4589]

Great deep cut!