Towelie Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I say Shacklers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) Voted Better. Oh My God is close tho, with Chinese Democracy and Shackler's behind it.Edit: I'll take I.R.S over Shackler's, but the slow parts in I.R.S kinda make Shackler's a more effective up tempo rocker in comparison. Edited March 28, 2012 by Rovim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chloe Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiraMPD Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Scraped (not counting the intro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosaj Thing Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Better of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketQueen1985 Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Better. Great melody and great lyrics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerage5 Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) The only newer songs I consider "up-tempo" are Oh My God and Riad. Up-tempo to me is anything over roughly 152 BPM. CD comes the closest of the remaining songs (I think it's around 138 maybe?). Shackler's is only 120. The rest are even slower. Short answer: Oh My God. Edited March 28, 2012 by Powerage5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Better by far. By Powerage's example I say Riad only because the Oh My God heard is an incomplete demo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Shackler's pumps you up like few other GnR songs do. I don't really consider Better a rocker. Chinese comes close second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Towelie Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 How can Shacklers/Better not be considered up/tempo??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 How can Shacklers/Better not be considered up/tempo???There's something power-ballady about Better. Only the chorus makes it a rocker. The verses are really ballad-like. Kinda like a Metallica power ballad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Shacklers is the biggest shredder on the album, probably why some people don't like it. It is a song that certain former members can't play. Ahem.I want a finished version of Oh My God so can get my friend to listen to Chinese, Better, Shacklers, Scraped, Riad and I.R.S. and admit to me that GN'R is bad ass. He hates old GN'R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 all of em except Scraped, Shacklers and Riyadh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Towelie Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 How can Shacklers/Better not be considered up/tempo???There's something power-ballady about Better. Only the chorus makes it a rocker. The verses are really ballad-like. Kinda like a Metallica power ballad.Interesting. Never really thought of it in that way before.Still think of it as an up-tempo rocker though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) Buckethead's guitar solo in Chinese Democracy sounds like George Harrison's in Drive my Car. Edited March 28, 2012 by BirdCatcher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 How can Shacklers/Better not be considered up/tempo???There's something power-ballady about Better. Only the chorus makes it a rocker. The verses are really ballad-like. Kinda like a Metallica power ballad.Interesting. Never really thought of it in that way before.Still think of it as an up-tempo rocker though.Really? I've always compared it to a Metallica 4th-track ballad 'cause it really kinda has the same structure: Calm verse --> heavy chorus --> calm verse --> heavy chorus --> song gets a lot heavier --> goes back to chorus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desperado Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 (edited) The only newer songs I consider "up-tempo" are Oh My God and Riad. Up-tempo to me is anything over roughly 152 BPM. CD comes the closest of the remaining songs (I think it's around 138 maybe?). Shackler's is only 120. The rest are even slower. Short answer: Oh My God.well Riad is only 130 bpm and shackler is 132 CD is 134 I like Shackler the mostand better is to slow to be up tempo it's only 98 BPM Edited March 28, 2012 by Desperado Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 I still put Better into the top 10 list of songs GnR has done. Any version of the band.Live though, I would say Shacklers. Not Youtube live. But sitting in the arena, Shacklers is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Bond Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 The only newer songs I consider "up-tempo" are Oh My God and Riad. Up-tempo to me is anything over roughly 152 BPM. CD comes the closest of the remaining songs (I think it's around 138 maybe?). Shackler's is only 120. The rest are even slower. Short answer: Oh My God.and better is to slow to be up tempo it's only 98 BPMIndeed. I vote Shackler's from this list, otherwise I'd say Riad as far as truly being up-tempo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerage5 Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 How can Shacklers/Better not be considered up/tempo???Because they're not up-tempo That's not to say they're lacking energy or anything, because mid-tempo rockers can be even more powerful than up-tempo rockers. But both are absolutely mid-tempo.The only newer songs I consider "up-tempo" are Oh My God and Riad. Up-tempo to me is anything over roughly 152 BPM. CD comes the closest of the remaining songs (I think it's around 138 maybe?). Shackler's is only 120. The rest are even slower. Short answer: Oh My God.well Riad is only 130 bpm and shackler is 132 CD is 134 I like Shackler the mostand better is to slow to be up tempo it's only 98 BPMAll my BPMs were estimates, I'm usually pretty spot on...can't believe I was off by 12 on Shackler's. I was thinking about 104 for Better, so that was pretty close to. Way off on Riad, but admittedly it's been quite a while since I've listened to that one Has anyone measured OMG? I'd guess the verses to be around 148 maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desperado Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 All my BPMs were estimates, I'm usually pretty spot on...can't believe I was off by 12 on Shackler's. I was thinking about 104 for Better, so that was pretty close to. Way off on Riad, but admittedly it's been quite a while since I've listened to that one Has anyone measured OMG? I'd guess the verses to be around 148 maybe?hehe okej I know only about the CD songs because I downloaded the isolated tracks and put them in cubase and wanted the metronome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 They took Oh My God off YouTube and I don't have a proper hard drive to store It on. I am pissed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 They took Oh My God off YouTube and I don't have a proper hard drive to store It on. I am pissed.Download the iTunes version, dude. It's worth it. Whole other quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 They took Oh My God off YouTube and I don't have a proper hard drive to store It on. I am pissed.Download the iTunes version, dude. It's worth it. Whole other quality.Not available on my device. I feel like it is 2001 again where finding good music impossible unless you have cash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 They took Oh My God off YouTube and I don't have a proper hard drive to store It on. I am pissed.Download the iTunes version, dude. It's worth it. Whole other quality.Not available on my device. I feel like it is 2001 again where finding good music impossible unless you have cash.My brother downloaded it from iTunes, I don't think it was from the american iTunes, probably the british or argentinian iTunes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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