drlaban

Peaked in 92 after the release of the November Rain video.

1 hour ago, sofine11 said:

Is anyone in the Chicago area right now?!?!? 

Look up at the sky, east towards the lake NOW!! The clouds just spelled out "HSKL". I swear to God!! Look!!!!!!

Use Your Illusion III starts now.

15 minutes ago, rocknroll41 said:

Looking forward to it!

UYI hasn’t really aged as well as AFD, to be fair.

It has aged perfectly well IMHO. 

”indefinitely delayed for reasons that have yet to be explained.”

6 hours ago, betterman said:

In latest Sweden rock magazine there is a page/advertisement with a date only on a black background: 10.9.21

Could tvis be related to GNR? It was part of this team who got Slash to speak about the reunion first, right? 

 

Edit: Sorry, must be Metallica Black album anniversary

Metallica was released in August. 

2 hours ago, Draguns said:

I just saw that Guns N' Roses  News mentioned that GNR is pleased with the numbers for Absurd and will be getting ready to release Hard Skool soon.

I would be pleased by a new release. 

1 minute ago, betterman said:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YGT7U3siYz85WLnNFqxUjXLnd7Qj6YjX/view

Nice little news report from the studio 1990.  (Page 2 and 3)

Talks of 35 songs for UYI sessions. 28 on the albums, right?

Do we know all the other ones..?

Half of TSI. 

11 hours ago, rocknroll41 said:

For some reason, I’m starting to get the feeling that this is gonna be the opening track of the album…

Or the title of it.

34 minutes ago, tkarmy said:

Pretty much everything they played at rir3 were better than how they ended up on CD 

except CD IMO

Songs from RIR3 ending up on CD:

Madagascar
Chinese Democracy
The Blues

So other than Madagascar you claim that The Blues too is better than on CD.

Another new song was Silkworms. As we all know, Absurd is better.

1 hour ago, Gordon Comstock said:

 

Absurd is terrible, Atlas is just mediocre. At least we have the version with Brian May's solo.

Perhaps and State Of Grace are really good though, considering they're early demos.

I haven't heard any of those songs except Absurd. As I found that song ok, it seems we'll have a killer album.

As long as the album version of the song is on par or better than the leaks. Madagascar on CD was a disappointment as it wasn't as good as the RIR 2001 version.

I haven't heard any of the leaks leaked after 2008 except parts of Hardschool, better release UYI3/CD2 soon!

I've always wondered how Axl, when on the roof in the Don't Cry video, can look exactly like Joey Tempest.

12 hours ago, Powderfinger said:

2 weeks later Absurd is still crap to these ears.... I’ve tried it a few times and it’s still tripe. 

1.5 million views of the first original track by a band in 13 years. The new Iron Maiden tune has 10 million views. That says a lot. 

If you look at the officially released singles by GNR, this surely ranks the worst. Shadow of your love, even though an oldie, was far better than this. 

Amongst the couple of music heads and GNR heads I know, I haven’t heard anything positive about this track. “It’s a joke right” , “it’s not sexy” and “I turned it off after a minute, twice” were some of the comments made. 

I’m glad they got SOMETHING, out there, and I hope an album follows, but this track ain’t great.

(Again, only my take on it. Music is like food, what I eat others might not like and others eat what I might not like, it’s why there’s such a variety of music, all tastes are catered for, and absurd isn’t to my taste) 

Light my Fire has been mentioned by some posters in this thread @Pele is this a cover of the Doors track? I never thought of Guns covering this track, but I could see it being brilliant. I’m intrigued!!

Absurd is better than the Maiden single. Not joking. And I'm a fan of both bands.

Greatest Democracy. Chinese Hits. Chinese Lies. 

It was fine when it leaked 2003 or so, but today. No thanks.

Zelda 3

Perfect Dark

Metroid Prime

Best track on CD.

18 hours ago, Arnuld said:

 Have we collectively underrated Libertad? While I think Contraband is superior there are four really good songs on Libertad. Aforementioned Messages, Let it Roll, She Builds Quick Machines, and The Last Fight. I feel like people thought it sucked when it really didn’t. 

What irritates me is that they picked SBQM as the first single, which in my opinion is the weakest song on the record! 

Album picks: all songs except SBQM.

28 minutes ago, Martin Riggs said:

Are Dizzy/Richard/Frank on Amtrak?

Yes, on the night(t)rain.

25 minutes ago, GNFNRUK said:

It’s not just that though. The placement of the vocal track in verses 1 & 2 sounds like it’s been pasted in the wrong place over the music too. Even if I hadn’t heard previous versions I’d still think the ‘screaming fucking banshee’ line comes in too early.

The placement of the vocal tracks is what makes it rock. It shouldn't work, but somehow it does.

4 minutes ago, Gordon Comstock said:

 

That's per disc, right? So 28-40 songs total?

As CD had "only" 14 songs, that should mean CD2 has 16 songs, UYI style.

39 minutes ago, jamillos said:

Haven't read it yet, but please let's not forget, from the other side, that some fans may also be kind of dead. Look at the motionless zombies with cell phones. No lighters or waving and jumping like it used to be, just staring on and through the screens. Then remember those crowds from the 80s/90s bootlegs. Imagine Axl being 2 hours late in the year 2021...

The biggest problem with that would be the risk of your cell phone battery running out while waiting.

Nothing wrong with intros and outros, but the intro to CD on CD should've been a track on it's own, meaning 15 tracks including the intro. Can't stand the start of the song/album.

I've been revisiting CD since Absurd was released. TWAT, Sorry, TIL and Prostitute are on heavy rotation.

Sebastian Bach's solo records.

Night Crowned - Hädanfärd (Swedish death/black metal in the vein of Dissection and Mörk Gryning).

(58) Night Crowned - Fjättrad (Official Music Video) - YouTube

1 hour ago, hollywood_democracy said:

I think they made most of it back with CD's sale to Best Buy—so BB took a majority of the loss

Not their best buy. Can you still find CD on CD or 2xLP at $0.99 or is it sold out/used for landfill by now?