Voodoochild

Voted for The General because I really like the track. But Monster's leak was also awesome. First real new tracks we've heard in a long time.

I think it’s just that they don’t want to divert attention to what they are actually promoting. Also because they probably don’t have a clue about what will happen with GNR anyways, so it’s better to not create any expectation.

If Monsters didn't leak, we would be very confused by now.

Yeah, her name is Renata Sorrah. It's from a soap opera scene. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/math-lady-confused-lady

You should start a GNR memes thread.

Funny thing is that this woman is also Brazilian. I was among the first to bitch about the clipping and compression. Those things are upsetting, but I do like the song quite a bit. The chorus is way better than Monter's chorus, IMO.

Right on Duff. The world needs KOHD and Rocket Queen 3-hour solos.

For sure. A bit less, but still...

With the arrangement and production? Yes, totally. With the mix? Very much doubt it.

I agree. You're overthinking.

Did he know he was being recorded in the beginning? He confirmed the blues stuff there.

Very cool art. Just lacks Monster Energy Drink®'s endorsement.

What evader did is a different kind of work, but it does include artistic sensibility and meticulous observation of song elements. It's a lot of work, but the guy clearly has the chops. It's different from creating a song from the scratch, of course, but it doesn't mean it's easy to make something worth noting. Having said that, I encourage anyone here to try to just sing The General in the same tone, octave and timbre and then come back to say if that was easy. Just because the song's structure and chords are relatively simple, it doesn't mean there was some serious effort there.

This is awesome.

They could've been listening to some alternate new mixes and decided to stay with Caram's (yeah, I know).

Agree. About The General: It's been almost a week after the release and at least for me, the majority of top comments on YouTube are positive. I know this is not much, and the views are much lower than Perhaps, but that's expected. Overall, I think it is what it is. The song is not universally liked, but I feel there's not that much hate as some may want to focus on.

It's there, but not noticeable IMO. I don't think it's really necessary to use it in neither The General and Monsters. It's fine the way it is, rock music shouldn't be perfect anyways.

It’s all about their schedule too. This year off could be exactly the moment for Axl to properly write his parts and record at least initial voices tracks. The problem, as always, is to release it.

I don’t mind the distortion on vocals. Maybe I’m more used to weird things like that because of my personal musical taste. Well, this is hardly representative of the regular audience. But they are mostly right - I even said a lot of the same things myself. I just strongly disagree with the guy bitching because they didn’t use autotune for Axl. There’s nothing really wrong with the tuning, and to use this would be way worse to me.

The thing is: is the mixing a problem outside of the forums? I don't think so. But still, the issue is very real to me.

I honestly believe the band and Axl have been writing stuff the last few years. Just a hunch, tho. About the length, it depends on Axl, I guess. I mean, the song could have different sections and all, but ultimately it will depend on how much lyrics Axl will write to fill it all in. I don't want to jump to conclusions based in the NITL singles though, as those were all CD era lyrics anyways.

Well, I think anything from CD and NILT era is way more interesting than the two examples of "old-school" stuff that were posted here. And I still think people are overreacting with The General - not that they can't dislike it, but in the sense that this is "the end of the band".

Both. To be fair, everyone in the band who heard this final mix and went away with it.

And he’s an awesome drummer. I really like his input with several different artists. But that’s a huge oversight. Different mixes and mastering, I presume? It’s very interesting to know stuff like this.