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If you had to pick 7 songs for the first side of CD what would you choose to have flow and maximum impact.

I'd go something like this,

1. Chinese Democracy

2. If The World

3. There Was a Time

4. Scraped

5. Sorry

6. Madagascar

7. This I Love

I never get over epic'd with this track list.

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Chinese

Better

IRS

There was a Time

Street of Dreams

Catcher in the Rye

Shackler's Revenge

I like Chinese as the first track because of the way it builds from the Chinese whispers into the vintage Axl wail we've come to love. I guess my list of songs sort of slowly get "softer" but then it comes back with Shackler's. No one is stopping you from doing what you want to do.

The way the songs are listed on the record, I actually love it but it's so top heavy. The best songs are the first eight in my opinion. The second act is much weaker, but "Prostitute" is a great capper. For sure.

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Agree about prostitute being a great ending to the album. Couldn't imagine it anywhere else on the album.

Only problem I have is that the tracks were done over such a long period and every single song is so layered and over produced, ESP over such a long period of time that the album doesn't really flow well.

It's a decent collection of songs, but doesn't flow together well like afd uyi1 and uyi2 do. Except my world. That doesn't fit anywhere.

I burned a copy if uyi2 just so I could omit the track. After a great tune like dont cry, they just ruin the moment tacking that song to the end of a perfect 2 disc set.

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  • 5 months later...

Only took my five years to figure out how the playlist shold have been released.

Maybe something for the rumored remastered re-release?

Liked the OP's playlist as well. Much better than the original album's playlist.

My suggestion is slightly different though;

1. Chinese Democracy

2. Catcher in the Rye

3. IRS

4. Street of Dreams

5. Madagascar

6. Sorry

7. There Was a Time

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8. Ryad n' the Bedouins

9. Shackler's Revenge

10. If the World

11. Better

12. Scraped

13. This I Love

14. Prostitute

Late Edit; Swaped 10 and 11.

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I change my mind like a bitch on this. Sometimes If the World sounds like Welcome to the Jungle to me.

1. If the World

2. Street of Dreams

3. There Was a Time

4. Catcher in the Rye

5. Madagascar

6. This I Love

7. Prostitute

But then that leaves the rockers for side 2. Which is like AFD 2.

1. Chinese Democracy

2. Riad n the Bedouins

3. Better

4. IRS

5. Shackler's Revenge

6. Scraped

7. Sorry

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1. Chinese Democracy

2. Prostitute

3. This I Love

4. IRS

5. Better

6. Street of Dreams

7. Shacklers

All 7 should have been singles. This band could have done some damage! Thanks again, team brazil!

TB weren't TB for the release but I get what you are saying.

But ITW, Shackler's, Chi Dem, Better, SOD wasn't a bad run of singles, I just think they needed videos to give them more exposure, a visual presence in people's mind and for people that just watch tv or youtube.

If ITW had a proper video made by cutting footage of Body of Lies with a live show at least.

Shackler's - Mickey Rourke plays the Shackler, cheap b-movie horror vid with the band as the victims.

Chi Dem - like an Oliver Stone movie with lots of political footage cut with band live performance shots.

Better - remake SCOM vid in Best Buy warehouse.

SOD - band plays in front of Hollywood sign, then shots of them riding down Sunset in Ferraris.

Unfortunately the band broke up before they had chance to shoot videos.

But I think every song on CD could have been a single.

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I could imagine Madagascar playing on tv as a video. maybe Catcher and This I Love too.

To me the singles were the leaks, so Better was already done on release, maybe SOD and Mad also. Chi Dem I don't think ever got an official leak, it was a live song.

I guess I saw ITW as Heavens Door on a movie, then Shackler's as YCBM pre-release single, at that point on release they needed to drop the hit, that could have been Better, then This I Love is Nov Rain style thing. Then videos for TWAT and Catcher could have extended it GNR style.

But actually live, it's Chi Dem, Better, SOD, TIL - so maybe they are the real singles.

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This is it, I think.

1. Chinese Democracy

2. Catcher In The Rye

3. Madagascar

4. Shackler's Revenge

5. If The World

6. Street Of Dreams

7. This I Love

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8. IRS

9. Riad N' The Bedouins

10. Better

11. Scraped

12. Sorry

13. There Was A Time

14. Prostitute

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Side 1:

1. CD

2. Catcher In The Rye

3. Madagascar

4. Shackler's Revenge

5. Sorry

6. TWAT

7. Prostitute

Side 2:

1. Scraped

2. If The World

3. IRS

4. Street Of Dreams

5. Riad N' The Bedouins

6. Better

7. This I Love

This one works great.

Now, time for me to finally stfu about this.

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I got a more UYI II Axl-centric one..

Madagascar

Street of Dreams

If the World

There Was a Time

Catcher in the Rye

This I Love

Prostitute

Kind of like the R-Side - Madagascar is like a Civil War type opener.

leaving the G-side as

Chinese Democracy

Shackler's Revenge

Better

Scraped

Riad n the Bedouins

Sorry

IRS

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Finally, I'm done with the re-arrangement of the playlist.

Side I

1. Madagascar

2. There Was a Time

3. Riad N' The Bedouins

4. If The World

5. IRS

6. Catcher In The Rye

7. Prostitute

Side II

1. Chinese Demcracy

2. Shackler's Revenge

3. Sorry

4. Scraped

5. Better

6. This I Love

7. Street Of Dreams (though I can barely stand this song any more, too screamy, boring ending.)

Except for Street of Dreams, this would have made it worth the wait for most fans.

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01) Madagascar

02) Shackler's Revenge

03) Street Of Dreams

04) There Was A Time

05) Better

06) I.R.S.

07) Prostitute

'Madagascar' was the first "NuGNR" song I heard and I loved it. That's why its my opener.

'Chinese Democracy' at RIR III, I love. That's the version that makes my playlists. The studio version is an overcomplicated mess of what is a straightforward 3 minute rock song. So I am likely one of the few that won't have it in their 7.

'There Was A Time' is my favorite of all the new songs, and the only one that might make my alltime GNR top 10. But I didn't put it at the end due to that dopey long ass coda tacked onto 'Prostitute'. You should be be able to stop the playlist early.

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