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Arnuld

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  1. 6 hours ago, rumandraisin said:

    What I find interesting is we never realised there were two separate orchestral pieces being used as the intro from 2006 to 2011. Monsters was used in some 2010 shows, we were hearing parts of Soul Monster all that time and never knew. 

    Although the strings out of context do sound quite similar from both songs. 

    I can barely hear any strings at all on Monsters 

  2. 8 hours ago, Sweersa said:

    I wish we had the 2008 Soul Monster for comparison, but I too find Monsters better than Hard Skool, Absurd, and Perhaps. I would imagine the CD-era version of Monsters to be even better.

    The cell phone clip sounds much more like the other CD songs. Bucket and or Robin guitars. Hip hop industrial influences. The Slash version still has a lot of the CD sound but is much warmer and bluesier. At least that’s from what I can tell from the cell phone clip vs the full leak. Would love to have both for comparison 

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  3. 7 hours ago, Sweersa said:

    I wonder what the 2008 mixes of Perhaps, Hardschool, Silkworms, The General, Soul Monster, Atlas, and Nothing sounded like. 

    Perhaps probably just like the 2000 version, Hard School probably just like the 2000 version, Silkworms probably a hybrid of the 2021 version and 2000 version, The General probably close to the same arrangement with totally different guitar sound, Atlas probably like 2008 CITR way too much bumble, Soul Monster from the cell phone recording sounds like a completely different song, nothing who knows. The 2000 version like a sketch 

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  4. 8 minutes ago, Gordon Comstock said:

     

    I guess it makes sense to only rank the officially released songs, since most of the demos are better and would probably be ranked differently, but he should've at least included OMG. (I know Monsters isn't a demo but it's unreleased so I see why it's excluded).

    That said, Monsters, Going Down, OMG, SOG, and the TIL remix would rank higher than several of the officially released songs...

    True true. I think Monsters should able to be listed because it’s obviously not a demo. OMG should absolutely be on the available list. 

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  5. I still can’t get over The General being 4 minutes long. And super weird. I dig it but it’s not at all what I had in my head all these years. Beyond Bach’s comments those concert intros with the Beltrami Orchestration made it seem like The General was going to be this long, dark, brooding epic. I’m still shocked how little of that killer orchestration ended up on the track. 

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  6. 7 hours ago, Lethalis said:

    Am I the only one who's worried all this negativity reaches Axl and he'll give up on releasing new stuff altogether?

    I don't think The General is a bad song, I just don't like the ending. Then again I also like NiN and Marilyn Manson, so my taste in music might be a bit more diverse than the casual GNR fan.

    I love Monsters though. And Perhaps is decent. That's 2 out of 3 and that ain't bad. We don't have to like each and every song.

     

    Axl is so rich now I don’t think he cares about what people think anymore 

  7. CD is a weird song. The intro is long and weird, the guitar riff sounds like 1994 grunge, the drum sound is lifted from smells like teen spirit (on purpose mind you) and the lyrics are weird. Now I don’t mind any of this but this song had no business being a single especially a lead single. It should have been Better which is really the only CD song with any pop appeal. Having CD as the lead single would be like having Absurd be the lead single for CD2……Oh wait that actually happened too…..

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  8. 5 minutes ago, invisible_rose said:

    Very well put. Chinese Democracy is criminally underrated almost entirely because people see it as "GNR without Slash". If it was its own standalone album, even just Axl Rose, I think it would be considered a modern classic. Maybe I'm bias, I dunno, but I listen to way more CD/CDII material now than the OG era. 

    I listen to the modern era more as well. I just enjoy the more modern flourishes. I like the hip hop elements, drum loops, synths ect…I understand that many people hate this and consider it trend chasing and not very “GNR” but I like the complexity 

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