Its Tino

2 hours ago, Coma16 said:

Man, imagine if that post was the first time we were introduced to The General....

Oh what could have been. I was all on board to wait, but they haaaaaaad to delay it. I had romanticized the thought of dropping a needle to listen to TG for the first time. But they delayed, it leaked and I buckled under pressure 

I like the buckethead version better 

Wtf??? You think trailer trash spends $65 GNR sweatpants??? 

How long did it take Best Buy to sell those million they bought?

14 hours ago, bmus1 said:

I question if Atlas was even selected as a song for Slash and Duff to rework.

Did you also question Silkworms 

If we’re talking album art, I’d be remiss not to bring up the single greatest piece of artwork in the history of mankind…

Megadeth’s Rust in Peace. 

5 hours ago, Axls_Moustache_Rules said:

I want to take a moment to gush about Soul Monster. What a song. I've not stopped listening to it since it leaked, when I first heard it gave me Bowie impressions..it has Ozzy/Sabbath feelings also..it's so good, quite simply the best music to come from GnR in years IMHO.

Creepy satanic Axl lyrics

Impassioned ultimate demonic Axl voice making an impactful and triumphant ending.

It needs to be released. it's a shame, In another universe, 2006 Axl, who's rasp had rasp..on tap could scream this on top of his lungs to a download audience who had not pissed him off.

Def has some Rob Zombie vibes too IMO

4 hours ago, allwaystired said:

Why would people expect the leaks to be different to the ones on the vinyl? 

Curious as to why people think that - it's obvious the leaks came as a result of the vinyl, so it would make no sense for other versions to leak at that time. 

 

Isn’t it confined Monsters is not on the vinyl tho.

I’m very happy that I think the leaks sound just fine. 
 

I grew up on cassettes so, yeah 

Better buy some before Nando finds out. 

On 11/24/2023 at 3:58 PM, F*ck Fear said:

I'm torn on this.

One on hand I absolutely love the earliest version from the locker leaks with thart killer bass line from Tommy Stinson!

However, I also love Ron's fretless work on the verses.

I really don’t like fretless work. Big turnoff for me. 

Being 22 in 2008, CD generally turned me off initially. Scraped was my first favorite track! I had little to no interest in Axl continuously singing over piano about how his exes made him incredibly sad waaaaaaaaaah. I liked the title track but I did not have the patience for the intro. Same for Rhiad. I hated those offensive WHOMPS in Shackler’s.

Fast forward 3 years and I had a new coworker who loved GNR and he insisted I re-listen start to finish. Then it clicked. 
 

Minus the CD intro, Rhiad intro and Catcher being so busy, I put CD on my top 10 fav albums. I really enjoy it. even the WOMP WOMP WAA in Shacklers. Thankfully Catcher demo leaked in 19 and I can finally enjoy the good song that it is. 

My ideal version of CD would be as it was before BBF joined, so 2004. No offense, great player but CD didn’t need new solos, additional solos or addition fills. 
 

Just now, F*ck Fear said:

No disrespect to Evader because he does great work but I never listened to his version of The General.

I had no interest in listening to an interpretation of a song that was heard through a shitty cellphone recording from 2010.

My thoughts exactly with all due respect to Evader.

The General (as we knew it) is a (soul) Monster. 

And to think a week ago you’d never guess he’d be a bigger villain today 

If Monsters does in fact get released as a hidden track it could be because Axl knows we had it confused with The General and the co-release is a nod to that. 

Na na

na na na na

heyyyyy eeeyy eeeeyyyyy

GOOOOOODBYEEEEEEEE

Hey does anyone have receipts for users that posted alleged lyrics of the general and soul monster? I’m looking for screenshots on my phone 

2 minutes ago, allwaystired said:

What makes you so sure that there is a 'hidden track'? It's highly possible it will just be The General on the b-side. And people will moan and complain about that now, even though it was never advertised or sold as such. 

 

 

I always go back to that same question when listening to Monsters.  

But it’s because The General and Monsters were registered together and Nando’s comment that The General is a monster. 
 

I honestly won’t be surprised either way. Monsters could even end up a single and Atlas the b-side to it for vice versa. We won’t know anything for sure until the 7”ers are delivered. 

I truly understand everyone’s perspective. I don’t get hung up on it tho. I enjoy the tunes as they are and the more time goes by I appreciate them all more. 

My biggest takeaway from these reunion releases is that Brain is now my fav past or present GNR drummer. His drumming on TG is phenomenal. 

3 hours ago, DSTK said:

I'd take a 2023 live over 16 all day long, longer & better setlist ..the only 2016 they should release is the troubadour show 

Release Glastonbury if it can be mixed properly, the BBC made a mess of it big time

I dunno man, Axl sounded way better in 16

As long as it’s all original material I’m in for Lies 2.

I also still think they need to release a 2016 live album and blu-ray. 

55 minutes ago, Free Bird said:

Don't listen to them. The outro is awesome.

Hell yeah it is!