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Chinese Democracy If The World Oh My God There Was A Time Riad and The Bedouins Better Perhaps The General Sorry Shackler's Revenge Atlas SOG Monsters Prostitute

STP - Core The only STP album I can stomach front to back, Weiland does a better Vedder than the lamaramadingdong poser himself, poses interesting question, who's got the bigger ego, Weiland/Vedder?

Prostitute Better CD The General Riad James Bond Theme OMG I failed the assignment Boss

release the entirety of the leftovers under the condition they contain vocals or an album like so; CD,Shacklers,Better,Atlas,IfTheWorld,TWAT,Catcher,Perhaps,Riad,TheGeneral&Monsters,Sorry,SOG,Hardstool,Prostitute closing the book with the intended followup to illusions as deus intended. New material with Axl riffing ontop of tophats stuff, no bueno and no comprendo for mesa

Gotta eat crow on this one, naivety took over and I could see TG and Monters being this one complete epic of a song, I still like General clearly, however the released version makes it substantially harder to do so, but to remove it permanently and forget it ever existed or some stain on the entire GNR lore? Not even close.

saying Kiss is cringe, is as cringe as saying GNR is Co0l, criiinge. Kiss dig the Melvins, so they alright in my book, also business men of a caliber Axl could only dream of ever reaching, Kiss is the boomer version of a rnr band, Gnr is zoomer rnr and apparently highly down to earth nice guys to boot, a rarity in the industry..

The only album since that I anticipated and waited for, and it would take literal years until it clicked for me. Helped seeing them in 10'. At this point it has its place among other gnr, I prefer the album over demos, Axl's fingerprint until it was taken away. Overall really solid album, that judging by now, seems almost too plain and safe imo. However for the longest time its a great record over a period of 10years listening to nothing but CD when it came to guns music, its here to stay. What hinders it becoming a white type album is exactly it being dated at release and dumbed down, again imo. Closing, some of my fav cuts are on that monstrosity.

Worth the wait? CD3 let alone CD2 isn't even out yet..

If the song was released under any other name, nobody would care.

Time to pack it in or release the leftovers as an excuse to tour. In reality continued touring is on the menu with minimal effort, until anniversary, mby the 5 piece tour and then hopefully curtain calls.

Its gnr being anti commercial, up there with their most experimental work, took a band breakup and makeup to make it happen.

I think we're very much in agreement as your'e kinda proving my point. For sure he's mostly been hit or miss, and like you say it shows post AFD, eventually ending up with CD that was, as you put it, a mixed bag. I think he ended wanting too much, pleasing his own ego and the fans, while seeing himself as some prolific and profound songwriter of his era, again AFD is the proof in the pudding. He does/did provoke a very raw and emotional picture with his lyrics, and obviously as a vocalist from a writing pov, is at the very top. He should invoke some emotion inside and he does.

Better, Prostitute, Twat, The General and Monsters look good together..

Well both statements can be true, apples and oranges at the end of the day, I could open a new can of worms and list another side project of his, yes I called fnm his side project. For the record I wasn't making a comparison between the two. The comment originally stems from Axl's subpar work from the CD era when compared to Illusions imo.

I agree big on the lyrical side, if only he did too and focused on making the best with what he has, know your place and reign it in. Instead he tries awfully hard to be profound but ends up worse instead. I still think he could write good/enjoyable lyric, instead it was a struggle and only pain, hence we get overload of seymour drivel. Think I wrote earlier back he only writes from experience, would indicate he stopped late naughts there were no more sad thoughts and experiences, not a slight on his person btw, but he's been done musically a long time.