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That's him ordering two more beers for his friends from the sawmill.

No dolphins, no funeral, no Arnold, Slash not walking on water = not a proper GNR video. I gotta say Carrie Underwood looks kinda cute with blue hair though. And it's good to see Izzy getting some screen time too.

Those lists are always subjective, but for me primary "rock" singers are people like Axl, Bon Jovi, Bon Scott, Robert Plant etc. while others like Jagger or Mercury are singers of technically/culturally different roots or style who brought that to rock music and in that expanded and connected. Nirvana's cultural significance goes without saying, but it just pisses me off that kids today might read those lists searching for reference and starting points of what to listen to from the past, thinking Cobain was the be all end all those lists make him out to be - and might end up overwhelmed with say In Utero or just disappointed expecting too much. In my opinion, the correct answer to "The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?" will always be The Doors and Led Zeppelin, if you catch my drift. Gotta give it to those journalists they have Axl at least in the top 10, but putting him lower than Cobain or David Byrne as a vocalist is outrageous.

I guess that's just for convenience to make it easier for Axl so he doesn't have to open so many tabs and can read all the rave reviews for his latest release in one place. But seriously, you're right. I think it might have something to do with the need for some moderation on one hand and the mods maybe having closed and/or merged threads one too many times so maybe some people might not even bother opening new ones anymore.

I love CD too. I'd put Hard Skool above Absurd, Perhaps, Scraped, Shackler's, Riad, Sorry and IRS, even though the main guitar riff is basically just a variation of the "Dead Horse" riff cranked up to 11. It's a solid rock song, catchy, melodic, good chorus and Axl sings it very well. I have no idea why he left it off the album and re-did it with Slash and Duff suffocating much of its initial spark. This would have brought the house down on the CD tour. With Slash and Duff it has become somewhat of a generic turd. I really don't like any of their input on any of the CD material at all. Perhaps sounds like three different fragments that had potential but were not taken any further and then randomly smashed together without any connection or flow whatsoever and then copy and pasted with until they could blow the initial 1:30 minutes of actual music they had into an excuse of a single. I love that piano riff, it had so much potential, but after hearing the final product I'm just super disappointed. Absurd....I could see the 30 seconds of actual music that are there being put on an album as some interlude or some punk lights on now get the fuck outta here track, but the final product is nowhere near worth a second listen at all. As a fan who has followed and supported the entire CD era (plus all of the classic years), I was shocked when I realized they were basically just taking the piss by putting this out as their comeback single. I have stopped attending shows around that time. The fact the Slash noddles on it doesn't make it any less of a piss piece. Overall I'm just super disappointed of Axl and the rest of the band too. Will cut the guys some slack any time for all the joy and inspiration their music brought to my life, but three way of least resistance piss tracks in a row while charging and arm and a leg at the door and coming up with absolutely nothing original to show for is really pushing it.

"The Three Burials Of W. Axl Rose" "Making F'N' Artistic Bankruptcy, Parts I - IV" "Appetite For Chinese Leftovers (Doggy Bag Edition)" "Copy, Paste N' Brickwall: The Return Of The Mack Daddy" "The Very Rest Of Guns N' Roses" "Where's Izzy?" You're welcome.

I find those lists stupid, redundant and amusing all at the same time. Too bad some kids grow up reading that shit and take it for gospel because the media prints it. I don't see any rock singers in that top 10 except Plant and Axl. Technically, Jagger is an rnb/blues singer and Mercury was an opera tenor. Cobain was a good songwriter but not a great singer. So bored of people praising him to moon and back. His tragic death doesn't make him a better singer than he was. People should rather discuss ptbs and depression instead of putting one of its victims on a fucking pedestral for their talent. He was a fucking popstar during his time. And he hated it. If anything grunge, Layne Staley should be on there, also Chris Cornell. Those guys could truly sing and hold their own among the greatest. That being said, Axl should be #1. I've never heard a better singer no matter the genre, that stuff he did live on stage between 2006-2010 was inhuman, totally underrated and underappreciated.

This I Love There Was A Time Better Hard Skool Shackler’s Revenge Oh My God Absurd Scraped Madagascar Perhaps Catcher In The Rye If The World Riad I.R.S. Chinese Democracy Sorry The Blues Prostitute

This song should have been a full on proper ballad, with just a little tasty rhythm work, clean vocals and a decent guitar solo to compliment that piano riff instead of that fake copy and paste „GNR is back again yet one more time and rocking so hard“ patchwork crap. I can’t stand that super compressed „let’s ROCK it“ rhythm guitar bullshit. So Richard doesn’t know where Izzy is? Well, frankly, I don’t know where 4tus is! After more than 20 (!!!) years in this band – still no signature tone! No groove. No proper interplay between guitars. Nothing. Nada. Gimme some Nuno Butterfuck over this tool any day. Slash’s solo is as mailed in and uninspired as most solos he did for GN’R since the threeunion. I don't know what's wrong with him. It's not like he couldn't do better. Sounds like he just doesn't give a fuck anymore. Duff’s bass is too loud and dominant in the mix. Instead of complementing the tasty piano riff with an inspired bass line, he just stomps all over it like a fucking dinosaur. Axl’s vocals are technically decent, but they are uninspired and messy and the lyrics are going nowhere. They „hey hey“ bit already pisses me off after three listens. If you have a writer’s block just sing about the weather but don’t gimme that meandering pseudo deep puff piece bullshit. I suppose Dizzy did the piano, so kudos to him. It’s the only really good bit of that „song“. After Absmurf and Hard Stool, „Perhaps“ is now their third shot at „new“ songs and it’s the third miss in a row. Don’t bother pulling out more zombie breadcumbs from your chinese doggy bag to have an excuse for your neverending cash grab tour and compensate for what is essentially artistic bankruptcy. Sorry for this harsh review, but these guys make MILLIONS every night and for this I just expect better.

For the record: In my above post I wrote a word consisting of the letter W, the letter O, the letter K and the letter E. It has been automatically replaced with "smarter than me", which is not my wording. Which is why this is officially my last post here. Fuck that shit.

For a musician who has been in the business for about 40 years, this is beyond embarrassing. We're talking about a guy here who recorded AFD and UYI and has toured the world multiple times. If he wasn't Duff McKagan ("of Guns N' Roses" - that's the ONLY point of sale there), this abortion of a song wouldn't get more than 20 clicks on YouTube and rightly so. No wonder Axl doesn't feel like working on new music with these guys, they just don't have it in them anymore. Any bedroom recorder has more talent, heart and fire than this pathetic excuse of a smarter than me wannabe punk. Absolutely embarrassing.

My pick would be "Breakdown" and "Yesterdays". Yours?

The ones that just never get old or hit even harder with time and age and just hold a special place in your heart? Here are my picks - how about yours? 1. Breakdown - so overlooked and underappreciated, great lyrics, crazy music, full of twists and turns, just one big WTF moment in a good way, amazing vibe and energy, never understood why they didn't perform it live more often, it's such a great song, my #1 fav GNR tune 2. Patience - simple but powerful, and it's relatable, love everything about it, the whistling, the lyrics, the coda, just beautiful 3. Yesterdays - short and sweet, kinda sentimental and almost pop - but there's just something about this song, those lyrics, the piano, the guitars...love it

https://www.ft.com/content/2f937640-5621-11ea-abe5-8e03987b7b20 Not funny.