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As much as I hope he’s finally releasing an autobiography, I can’t wait for it to be something truly disappointing like a merch line or an NFT collection

Horrible soulless shite. AI art is horrible

The animation at the end of the video looks extremely AI generated

This song is fucking terrible.

The General, much like Atlas, is one of those songs treated as a legendary holy grail that actually ended up being terrible. Axl’s studio efforts during the CD era really remind me of Billy Corgan after he reformed the Smashing Pumpkins. Many different ideas, very few good ones. Totally unwilling to throw out a bad song. Monster is alright.

Seeing some actual push behind this single for once makes me happy

It makes me happy to see the band actually making an earnest effort to promote it, unlike when Absurd and Hard Skool were sent out to die. A radio premiere, music video, and now Times Square advertising. It’s quite refreshing!

Vinyl has had a massive resurgence in popularity over the past decade, to the point where vinyl sales overtook CD sales for the first time since the 80s in 2022. So a lot of people have record players.

I feel like It's So Easy is gonna be opener for the foreseeable future. It's just too good at setting the tone for a GNR concert. I think it'd be a terrible decision to open a concert with a song that a large proportion of the audience is gonna be totally unfamiliar with.

As much as I’m happy to have these reworked CD-era tracks, I do hope they’ve written and recorded some fresh material for a hypothetical new album. Wasn’t it earlier this year or last year where Slash said his hope was to put out a few more CD2 reworks and then get the band into the studio to write and record music? That’d be my best case scenario.

Not me, that song sucked

Gave me a laugh reading the line “Written and recorded by Axl Rose, Slash, and Duff McKagan this year” for a song that was written and mostly complete over 23 years ago.

That, and the fact he doesn’t seem to have any addictions

My only major gripe with this version of the song is you can sure tell it's a CD-era leftover by how much unnecessary stuff is on the released version. It really doesn't need so many "yeah, yeaaaah" lines or the weird whale noises at the start. I do like it quite a bit, though. I just think it could've benefitted from being more stripped-down.

I'm not sure I can argue against Hayley Williams being on the list or at #13. She's a genuinely phenomenal vocalist, both live and in-studio.