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There's a huge difference between leaks and actual releases for me. Most of my favourites from the leaks (The Blues, Catcher, CD, Riad, Hardschool) got butchered the worst for their actual release. Turning what I considered 9/10 songs into 4/10 songs at best. 

Really fuckin awesome tier:
TWAT (2006 leak)
CITR (leak)
The Blues (leak)
CD (leak)
Hardschool (leak)

Awsome-tier:
OMG (bordering really fucking awesome tier)
Prostitute (bordering really fucking awesome tier)
ABSURD
Silkworms (leak)
Monsters (leak)
TWAT

Good-tier:
Riad (leak) 
Madagascar (leak)
CD (I hate the lack of bass, but I like other additions)
ITW
Perhaps
Perhaps (leak)
The General

Okay-tier:
Madagascar
IRS
Shacklers
Better

Bad-tier:
Riad
Sorry (would be okay-tier without the cringe "I don't vant to do eet" line)
Hard Skool 
SCOM '99 (Mostly because it was kinda redundant, otherwise it's okay)

Awful-tier: 
Scraped
TIL
CITR (release)
SOD (release)

4 minutes ago, allwaystired said:

I would. They've clearly got more money than sense so perhaps might drop me some cash? 

Yeah but they probably made that money cooking meth. 

15 minutes ago, allwaystired said:

Can only speak for myself of course, but I have never seen anyone wearing these things. 

If anyone spots these items 'out in the wild' they should definitely take photos for here......

I'm not sure I'd want to run into the type of people who'd wear this.

2 minutes ago, invisible_rose said:

WTF is that? Looks like Wish knock offs.

It really is from https://gnrmerch.com/collections/mens 

The thought did cross my mind that maybe this year Fernando got a tie dye set for his birthday. Just a wild guess though. 

This might be the most KISS thing that KISS has ever done. 

I couldn't imagine ever going to a hologram show myself though. I might be wrong, but I doubt it could ever feel real or organic to me in the way a concert would. 

I couldn't see myself going to a KISS show either, but that's besides the point. 

10 minutes ago, Stay.Of.Execution said:

if you think the band is shit then maybe people should stop spending their time and money in general on them and find other hobbies? i don't understand the obsession on shitting on something you don't like anyway and then complain about it on a fan forum. it's like me buying a taylor swift album and then complaining on a fan forum how shit the music and the merch is

That's not the issue. Some people have less to spend than others, so for some $15 might be a lot of money. And then there's shipping too. So people might spend their money on this thinking it's the only way to get it, only to discover later they didn't have to because it's put on streaming anyway. None of that has anything to do with thinking the band is shit or not. 

5 hours ago, Powerage5 said:

The second half of the list is much harder than the first half. 

My problem exactly!  We have the same top 5 (aside from order), but the second half is where it gets hard. 

Might seem like an odd question for some, but it really annoys me that the whole Perhaps/The General thing was presented as vinyl-exclusive. But then when everyone has ordered the vinyl they still announce a CD version (Japen only, but still) and now all signs are pointing towards it turning up on Spotify soon. Which means that GnR is blatently lying to their fanbase about "exclusives" just to sell more crap. That doesn't sit right with me. Anybody feel similar? 

Im trying to make sense of a top 10 of sorts. But it's impossible. 

Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main St. and Some Girls are still (in no particular order) my top 5. 

The other half of my top 10 definitely has Hackney Diamonds in it. As well as Aftermath (UK), Out Of Our Heads (UK) and Goats Head Soup. But I can;'t decide in what order because they're so different. 

And I still have no idea what my #10 would be. Probably either Tatoo You, Steel Wheels or It's Only Rock And Roll. 

Just now, guitarpatch said:

That’s what these songs serve as. A news cycle bump. These songs were released half way and towards the end of the tour. We seem to get 2 of them per leg.  

It looks like these songs were part of their promotion obligation with the promoter. Nothing more, nothing less. Repurposing what’s available and Axl doesn’t have to to do press. They make more $ off of negotiating a deal with live nation to drip these out every leg than what Spotify and some physical sales would produce 

Maybe if they come together to write an album’s worth of songs, it will be different next time 

Oh damn. That's a depressingly realistic theory. 

Since we're doing a love fest, I really want to join in. This is their best album since Some Girls for me. And that means it's their best in 45 years. Let that sink in. That's a longer period than many bands even existed. I actually went back through their discography album for album to see which one would top this for me. These guys are in their 70's and 80's and have had a 60+ year career. This is not only more than anybody could realistically expect from the Rolling Stones, but this is more than most Stones fans could hope for. There are a ton of homages to their past, every Stones trope they've used during their career and it's still a very fresh sounding album. The energy, the flow, it's just really great. Sweet Sounds Of Heaven is the top song and instant love. It holds up even compared to their absolute peak from the late 60's and early 70's. This is the kind of song nobody could have expected they had left in them. But the rest of the album is quality accross the board as well without a single dud in there (for me at least). Some were instant love, some were growers, but damn they're good! I'm insanely happy about this album. 

3 hours ago, allwaystired said:

Surprised the very obvious "oh, you'll definitely get Nothing from GNR in the next year" pun hasn't been made yet....

You;re right, we're slacking as a fanbase. 

On 11/23/2023 at 5:01 AM, ZoSoRose said:

Everyone want a piece of you? Family fucjed?

 Does everyone annoy the fuck out of you?

fuck it all, complain about it here. Ho ho ho happy holidays

Why can’t o people just get off your fucking back, man?

I refuse to even think about Christmas before Sinterklaas is over. 

55 minutes ago, Caedo said:

Why is no one talking about this? Surely means it’s being dropped Friday

I can imagine the news headlines: 

"Guns n' Roses fails AGAIN to release a song the fans haven't already heard"

5 hours ago, Blackstar said:

It would be a bad thing for me. I wouldn't like them to hire Desmond Child type writers to write generic radio friendly songs for them just to have new music. I'd really take more Absurd's over that 

I'm not so sure he wouldn't call Izzy if he got seriously into the process of making new music.

The real question is whether Izzy would be interested. Assuming that money is the main reason he didn't join the reunion to begin with... There's more money in touring than in albums these days. So I don't see the motivation for Izzy at all. Even if they'd throw a big chunk of money at him now, I doubt he would. 

5 hours ago, Rindmelon said:

We know there is Izzy stuff that's unreleased for gnr, probably wouldn't need to work with him again they could just dig out old stuff. Don't see it happening though.

We don't know how far along that stuff was and what the quality even was. I'm assuming it's more rough ideas and or song sketches than actual finished tracks. Might be nowhere near finished and even if it was they'd need to sort out a royalties construction as well.  

3 minutes ago, username said:

I've always quite liked Nothing. It's clearly an unfinished idea, but I like it a lot and love to know where it went from there. 

Sadly this is GnR, so unless there's another massive leak we probably never will. 

I've always quite liked Nothing. It's clearly an unfinished idea, but I like it a lot and love to know where it went from there. 

2 minutes ago, Slugworth said:

You just won a chicken dinner!

You mean Shacklers? 

11 minutes ago, colonizedmind said:

We were told that was delayed until early next year apparently 😝

GNR posted about it in the aftermath of the delay

After seeing the totally bloodbath of pissed off fans. They said they weren't happy with the mix and that they finally had it in a place they were happy with but it was too late to make Oc 27th....they never normally say anything silence is golden...so this was unexpected move by them 

I must've completely missed that. Who posted that where?

Just now, GNRRHCP98 said:

I know the X page said there is “no Monsters” but did the person who got their vinyl copy early actually SPIN it or is just going off the info on the back cover? 

I'm assuming the latter, but I think it didn't specify. Still looking for someone to CONFIRM whether the version on the vinyl is the same as the leak or not. 

2 minutes ago, BillConnor_1982 said:

I don’t know how anyone can listen to the leaked General and think it came from a rip of the vinyl pressing. You’d hear some surface noise, the dynamics would be different.  

It doesn't have to be a rip from vinyl. But rather something that wassent out to press on vinyl.