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  1. Yes, it makes me want to put a rope around my neck blasting it. Absolutely killer
  2. I mean, look: he is churning out the exact same album because that is what worked before, it's the safe space where not a lot of thought has to be put into it. The problem is just that while he can copy the sound and formula, the songs just aren't there since GNR reunited. That would be a pretty big coincidence if it was for another reason ..no? 15 absolutely great songs on WOF to the downgrade of the century of maybe only 3 or 4 on LTD, and then even less on 4, is that the trajectory he should be following? And the streaming numbers reflect it when even a real deep cut like Dirty Girl has TRIPLE the streams of a lead single like River Is Rising. Like I said before you too can believe he doesn't look at that on his phone. But that seems incredibly unrealistic to me for life in 2024. As a person having lived life in 2024, with your smartphone constantly in your hands, how can you honestly say that, he surely didn't check in on the charts back in 1987 when MTV was the Youtube of the time, but now it's the other way around where you can have the Youtube App on your homescreen and look up anything within 30 seconds or less, especially when you've just launched a new project for the first time since 2010. And like I said before also, even if he himself doesn't check it, he has been TOLD by now how the numbers haven't been this high since probably his 2010 album. And third, what exactly don't you agree with? I too like SMKC, Myles and each of the albums. That doesn't mean I think that the albums have been getting better, which is what I've been saying the entire time. Do we want Slash to further go downhill instead of realizing his full potential? On my money, you can bet your ass nothing better will be happening with SMKC after the last 2 albums, and on the third time around since GNR reunited. He needs to focus on a different thing again and maybe return to doing SMKC after that.
  3. With the numbers 4 did and still has on streaming, it really wasn't good, even compared to LTD where Driving Rain could be considered an actual hit for the band. I don't see Slash investing so much money in a world wide known producer like that on a side project of his that isn't doing well. It will be autopilot from here on out probably with Michael Baskette returning to copy the exact same album again and ending with a worse clone again, especially if both, GNR stuff and now the blues band does better. SMKC will be relegated to be a complete time-filler for time when he has nothing else to do, his heart has not been in it since the GNR reunion happened. I believe we have heard all of SMKC in terms of creativity because it has been downhill since Slash has had more projects, and now he has something else even on top of GNR happening.
  4. You can believe that, but in the year 2024 I will believe it's not really realistic to think he won't check something that is so instant and easy to look up, especially for an older guy in his 50s who isn't preoccupied with partying and drinking. He can't lay in bed with Megan in the evening, and check on his phone literally within 30 seconds how well his new single is doing? Especially since it's a new project. I think you're still thinking it terms of older life and not in terms of a realistic life of people in the 2020's. And EVEN if not, probably no single he released has garnered that much attention and so quickly in probably 14 years, trust me he knows and if he didn't he was told by somebody, even if he doesn't follow it himself. If the album really takes off in terms of popularity and how it does, he WILL know. If he really wanted to just crap something out on the side and wasn't really interested in following how it would be doing, he wouldn't have hired Mike Clink who with his credentials can charge artists more to only walk through their door than other producers can charge for an entire session. All I'm saying is that, after churning out the same WOF clone (and it being worse, with 4 now being the absolute bottom with now newly added crap production) and this new album looking like it's going to completely overshadow the last SMKC singles in terms of success, that maybe it would now be somewhat time to wake up and smell the coffee.
  5. In the grand scheme of things, if you read what fans of Slash and GNR say stops them from getting into SMKC, that is never brought up. It's like trying to fix a broken table in a house where the ceiling is gone. You'll have a working table, but people still won't want to hang out. He goes and puts out a single with a different band (and vocalist), reaching close to 2 million views within only 9 DAYS -...what gives? Did he even achieve that in 2010 with his album? If that doesn't speak volumes about what Slash should be doing, then nothing ever will. Let's just say I won't exactly be shocked if Slash sits in his room now scratching his chin after this album and doesn't decide "my song arrangements were an issue before"
  6. Since when was the complaint about SMKC the song arrangement, like ever? I don't recall even reading that once, in all my 8 years on here lol. What complaint you are guaranteed to read every time, and it's the same every time a new album comes out: is that people actually LIKE the music and the songs, but Myles voice is making all the songs sound the same or that it's too whiny for them. No producer song-rearrangement or guidance is going to help fix that for people, and that seems to be the one main reason why people can't get into SMKC.
  7. Kudos to you because I didn't even make it that far, my first listening attempt will probably remain my only one lol.
  8. Atleast give some names if you're gonna say something like that. Show us your "improved" version. Looks like an empty statement with nothing behind it otherwise. I think it's great he didn't go with the usual suspects. How boring would that have been for real. We have enough blues songs with those people, do we need the 79th blues cover with Eric Clapton on it? I'd rather hear someones new take on it.
  9. I can see Neither Can I, which he played in the Slashs Blues Ball set before, and Ain't Life Grand (which is pretty much a blues song also) in the set. Anything else is wishful thinking I believe, it'll be all blues covers similar to his Blues Ball setlist.
  10. Bro River is Rising was nowhere near 1 million even a whole WEEK after it came out I remember the week in 2022 it came out listening to it every day, it still doesn't even have 5 million streams on Spotity 2 years after release which is pathetic compared to even what Driving Rain did in 2018, it was by FAR the worst bomb of SMKCs singles which probably woke Slash up and decided it's time to move ahead and do something different.
  11. I'm just glad Slash is doing something different and seeing it being this successful is great. SMKCs albums started feeling bleh since the reunion shifted Slashs focus away from it. Or maybe there was just nowhere else to go from WOF, it was that complete and all encompassing of an album, and for the type of rock music Slash makes, the genre he's in, it probably doesn't get better than that. So maybe of course it went downhill since then, I don't know. But this album looks like it will break up that downhill trajectory of his solo stuff ever since the GNR reunion. If anything it will show him he can come out of that safe SMKC bubble and do something else, and also have that be MORE successful.
  12. It doesn't even need promotion, ACDCs singer with GNRs guitar player on a song, that stuff will have people turning their heads.
  13. Wow fucking incredible that it's true! Opening track 7 minutes I nearly fell out of my chair seeing that and then only to see like 3 more songs over 7 minutes long! It's almost guaranteed Slash ripped out some incredible shit on this album, I got to hear this, pains me to have to endure another The General-Like wait like last fall, lol. Atleast it's good knowing it probably won't be a disappointment
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