Underhardy

It’s sad. I hear the makings of absolute epics, all time classics. But it’s only half of that. I really feel like Axl fell short. He wanted to use voices that didn’t make him famous… all this spoken singing and weird mega-phone effects just really bring these down. The general repeats the first verse nearly identically in the second verse.. the last 4 lines are scratch vocals or he just gave up on writing the lyrics. Fuck man I wish I could get with these tracks but the ideas Axl came up with just don’t get them there. I’m just very let down by Axl in the way he’s putting out these songs in lesser form than they could be. Perhaps became unlistenable for me because of Axls vocal takes. I can’t imagine the dudes in the band vibed with a lot of these vocal takes either..

So agree. The terrible mix on the vocals along with the layering and tacky effects really kill it for me

In a 2001 press release from the Rock in Rio promoter, it was said that one of the unreleased songs centered around child abuse. Pretty sure that’s the only thing concrete. Through process of elimination, rumors began that the song referred was The General

I was talking about Monsters. I know the subject matter, songs suck bud

I LOVED Axls lyrics on State of Grace. More general lyrics about human beings and the corruption and emotions we see and feel. The General misses the mark with me… the daddy lyrics just miss the mark for me. What, did Axl re hash some lyrics from ‘Daddy, Can The Devil Do Mommy and Me?’ And Monsters is just the same old shit as hard school. We were a pair, we broke up, it was all your fault.. just fucking lame.

This just further confirms that Axl should’ve in fact written another appetite. These songs and all of the shitty tacky vocal effects are not good. This is why Axl was told he has 2 to 3 good songs.. can hardly make out half of the vocals. I finally understand why these songs were shelved for decades.

You know the vocals are mixed like shit when you can’t even make out half of the words to both songs. Just like Street of Dreams’ demo, or state of Grace, the last lines of the general are just Axl singing the melody, presumably waiting for the right lyrics to come to mind. Both songs just sound completely muffled, with no good structure. The only good part in both songs is really the rasp breakdown on Monsters, and even those vocals just sound a little weird. This fuckin sucks

Underwhelming. Not hits and songs no one outside of these forums would listen to twice. Waiting for higher quality versions to come out in time.

Fuck this band, Axl and TB. They’ve never done a god damn thing right by the fans. The Troubadour 2016 show was legitimately the only thing they’ve done right.

You can tell which fans have really been following this band since the 2000s and who hasn’t.

I don’t think it’ll be released to streaming services. Just a hunch from a smart fan reading through the tea leaves here. Hopefully YouTube ain’t gonna delete the videos when people rip them, that’d be fucked up.

watch before it’s taken down.

It was a botched single release. No Axl promotion, the music video was canned. The whole thing was a mess, if that song and the album were properly promoted and released Better could’ve been much more mainstream.

Better. A perfect nuGuns song. Perfect for the masses and the die hards. Should’ve been the lead single and handled better.

This is AC/DCs festival. It’s their moment.

I despise when bands throw their new/unreleased songs at the end of a greatest hits album. So wrong

8 fucking songs? And one of which is hard skool… I see zero point in this.

Love how Axl goes for it on the Perhaps chorus. It’s just a little out of control, and it’s fucking awesome.

I cherish his one-offs with NuGNR. He doesn’t like the limelight at all, wants no attention, I respect that. It’s a real shame he can’t be onstage with the current lineup though. As OP said, the band is buttoned up and professional now, Izzy could probably roll with that. One day, hopefully

Here's a video I made on the CD tour. It's part one, so it covers years 1994-2001 leading up to the CD tour. Tried to get in as many details as I could. I think you guys will enjoy Also, here's my favorite video I've made, covering Axl/DC in detail.

I guess it would be so GNR to have their most anticipated unreleased A-List song be named the working title named after chicken. Kinda like their first single being ‘new material’ being Absurd. With rumors that the songs lyrics are about something as serious as child abuse, especially to Axl, I just can’t imagine him not re-naming the song.

And furthermore, I find it interesting that the song is still called "The General." It was named after the chicken the band was eating when Brain wrote the instrumentals. Axl thought it was about Tommy initially. There were no lyrics then. Axl must've heard that song title, and wrote the song based off of it in a way. He had to have been inspired by that title to write a song around it. I'm so fascinated to hear the lyrics.

It's rumored The General's lyrics center around child abuse. I've never seen anything to hint at this. I know the speculated lyrics say "Who did this, to you?" which would make sense. But where did this rumor actually start? There was one mention of a song about child abuse in a release from Globo the day after Rock in Rio 2001. "With 18 songs, the group's next album [...] which will be released in June [...] is a collection of songs, which, in Axl's opinion, are as good as 'November Rain'. Among them 'Madagascar', included in the show on Sunday. The CD will include a tribute to John Lennon [Catcher in the Rye], and another [song] about child abuse." (O Globo, 01/16/01) Did someone just decide to assume, or guess, it was The General being referenced here and run with it?

Ah yes. I’d like to see those emails again.. forgot about this

Oh no.. a piano lick intro and whiny nasally vocals are NOT a traditional rock song. 1 verse repeating itself is not a traditional rock song. The buildup to the bombastic chorus is cool, but the song does not have legs, and is not what a casual fan (the majority) wants to hear