Caught_in_a_Coma

7 hours ago, Rovim said:

maybe he meant most recent, Village leaks from 2019

I meant the village leaks.  The stuff from the locker?  That was three years ago now?  Insane

I thought the recently made youtube channel IS the village leaks, just now on Youtube.  That material hasn't been pulled down in two weeks.  I wonder why GN'R hasn't pulled it down.

Perhaps and Atlas Shrugged are special songs.  Makes me sad some of this was never finalized and properly released.

Are we allowed to discuss leaked songs from that recent infamous leak or is that discouraged or not even allowed?

I think the accent on "don't what to do it" is a clear reference to a smart ass who said that statement to Axl like that in the past.  I'm surprised more people don't think along that line.  It make sense to me.  In my mind it's "this is how you like to act, right?" sort of line to some specific person

He's not perfect and I wish he had done some things differently but... Axl is my favorite member

I would absolutely love it if Izzy is on a new record, especially if that mid-90s stuff he was working on for GN'R got used, assuming Izzy didn't use all that stuff up already on other projects.

37 minutes ago, GnR Chris said:

No one can do it for a three-hour set at 60. But “Rock the Rock” proved he can go in the studio and lay down vintage vocals. 

I wish everyone would give Axl a bit of a break on the live vocals.  I guarantee you no one is more down on his inability to bring it for three hours every night (like he used to be able) than Axl is.  He still goes out there and gives it 100%.  Goes out on time.  No real drama has gone on as far as we know since Duff and Slash agreed to come back.  I think a studio record will give Axl a chance to show he's still more solid on vocals than we think.

Honestly, as I think about it, a studio album being able to better let Axl's vocal capabilities of today shine might be one of the main reasons I'm hoping they do a record.  Obviously a new record would feature a lot of old unreleased vocals, but I bet we'd still get some new, recently recorded vocals as well

If Hard Skool released on either of the Illusions it would be viewed as the "solid tune that is deserving of being on a good GN'R record" reception it deserves rather than what it faces being released today in this situation

This is really exciting.  I'm happy for the band and for the fans

An EP would be awesome because they wouldn't release an EP without an album to follow it up.  So instead of getting a just a new album, you get an EP as well to tide you over until the album

I'm curious to hear how different Hard Skool sounds from the full song leak.  From what I understand, the full leak sounds like an incomplete song, almost like a song concept or demo. 

I am so freaking excited to hear this song finally finished!!!!!!!!!!

Wow.  Axl has just been a class act every day with every challenge the band has come across during the NITL era.

I'm completely impressed and proud of him.  We can complain all day about vocals and lack of new music and I think the latter is worth discussing but I'm just proud of how he has been out there working with Duff and Slash

I know most prefer 2 but I honestly like 1 more.  I think some of the filler tracks are quite underrated, particularly; Bad Obsession and Bad Apples.

I think Don't Cry and November Rain are some of the best ballad rock singles ever made.  Even if you find November Rain "corny", I think the song deserves respect. 

Coma is a monster of a masterpiece.  There isn't a single track on UYI 1 that reaches the lows of UYI 2; Get in The Ring and My World

Looking back, I'm surprised that for so long UYI 2 got the reputation of being the better of the two albums. 

UYI 2 has arguably my two fav GN'R tracks with KOHD and Locomotive though.  I also think Breakdown might be GNR's most overlooked track.

I call Breakdown overlooked because I feel like it when it comes to GN'Rs fantastic deep cuts (Coma, Locomotive, etc), I feel like Breakdown is mentioned the least

I love the Illusions.  Fantastic albums

7 hours ago, Top-Hatted One said:

Social class and registers 

COCAINE in the halls 

You were the one…….

 

fuck!!!! So fuckin good man!!!

It's some of his best song writing.  Amazing song

Broken glass and cigarettes,
Writing on the wall,
It was a bargain for the summer,
And I thought I had it all.

1 hour ago, Ratam said:

Frankestein mix 

Frankenstein or Frankenstein's Monster wouldn't be a bad name for a new GN'R record.

1 minute ago, Sweersa said:

The latter. Very little of that leaked.

I would say yes. 

Do we know when Axl called Slash?  This isn't referring to the 2015ish phone call to Slash's mom to get the ball rolling on the NITL era?

I remember reading in a few places that Slash drove to Axl's home around 2006 and yelled outside at the gate that he needed to talk to Axl or something to that extent

I really with they would revisit and finish Bring It Back Home!

Was Seven on the "locker" leak material?

Albums having bonus tracks placed at the end is a common thing.  And I think generally people consider bonus tracks to be kind of gimmicky and to not necessarily being as meaningful to an album as the "official" (non-bonus) songs of an album.

UYI II ends with Estranged or maybe it ends with You Could Be Mine and you get Don't Cry (with alternative lyrics) and My World as bonus songs thrown on at the very end.

You Could Be Mine had already been released before UYI I and II through it being part of Terminator II, particularly part of the marketing of the movie.  Do you see You Could Be Mine as the official end to UYI II or do you see it as another bonus song thrown on at the very end of the album like Don't Cry Alt and My World?

Do you see Estranged as the real closer to UYI II?

Or do you not see Don't Cry Alt and My World as bonus tracks and consider My World to be the real ending to the UYI II album?

55 minutes ago, Politania said:

Considering Axl's comment at a concert in Boston that "you've heard it before" and that "they don't know yet it's a joke" - it's very possible.

Am I the only one who hasn't heard any of those (leaks?) ?

I didn't listen to the leaks.  I'm a paranoid person and didn't want TB haunting me

"This next song is by Mr. Dizzy Reed"

On 8/6/2021 at 10:54 PM, Bitchisback said:

Glad you woke up from your coma. 

On 8/6/2021 at 11:35 PM, JimmyMick3 said:

They kinda liked it in a coma……

That song is a masterpiece.  It's so heavy, trippy, the lyrics are amazing.  One of GN'R's (particularly Slash and Axl) finest moments.

I think it's really cool Axl said he wanted to include Coma on occasion on the NITL tour because he knew it would make Slash happy.

2 minutes ago, WhazUp said:

One thing I think most of us can agree on even if the views on the song itself are split... isn't Slashs guitar tone on the riffs and especially leads great!?  The tone of the solos to me sound very similar to the vibe he went for on the solo work on TSI? and SFTD

Yes, I love Slash's sound on this.  With all respect to Axl, if Axl's lyrics were a bit more reigned in here, this could be much more than a "lol, Axl sure loves to give people the middle finger" sort of song.  I like the song.  I liked it as Silkworms.  But this feels like a "joke" song to me and I think it could have been more than that.