Bumblefeet Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Give me "the second half" of CD please!!! The remix album... meh. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Re-release of CDI with a proper booklet its a MUST to me. Then you could throw a collectorsbox with Cd-Cd2-Remix. Id pay for that!Serious question, just out of curiosity....why does the booklet mean so much to you? Isn't it typically just lyrics, thank you notes from band members, and sometimes a few pictures? You would pay $16 for another copy of CD if it got released with a different booklet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wkuk04 Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Scrap remix album. Release CD 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Re-release of CDI with a proper booklet its a MUST to me. Then you could throw a collectorsbox with Cd-Cd2-Remix. Id pay for that!Serious question, just out of curiosity....why does the booklet mean so much to you? Isn't it typically just lyrics, thank you notes from band members, and sometimes a few pictures? You would pay $16 for another copy of CD if it got released with a different booklet? I know you weren't asking me, but the booklet is almost endearing to me at this point. It just seems like the absolute last thing that could have went wrong with the album and did. I remember opening it the first time (Best Buy shipped my CDs and LPs almost a week early) and saying "OH FUCKING COME ON!". My wife asked what was wrong and I said "11-15 YEARS IN PRODUCTION AND THE GODDAMN BOOKLET HIS TYPOS!!!" With respect to the topic at hand, I don't think there's any need to do any testing of any waters. I recommend GN'R follow this formula:Release kick ass singleRelease kick ass albumRinseRepeatThis formula will guarantee that no one needs to test any waters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magisme Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Terrible idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Terrible idea. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Re-release of CDI with a proper booklet its a MUST to me. Then you could throw a collectorsbox with Cd-Cd2-Remix. Id pay for that!Serious question, just out of curiosity....why does the booklet mean so much to you? Isn't it typically just lyrics, thank you notes from band members, and sometimes a few pictures? You would pay $16 for another copy of CD if it got released with a different booklet? I know you weren't asking me, but the booklet is almost endearing to me at this point. It just seems like the absolute last thing that could have went wrong with the album and did. I remember opening it the first time (Best Buy shipped my CDs and LPs almost a week early) and saying "OH FUCKING COME ON!". My wife asked what was wrong and I said "11-15 YEARS IN PRODUCTION AND THE GODDAMN BOOKLET HIS TYPOS!!!" With respect to the topic at hand, I don't think there's any need to do any testing of any waters. I recommend GN'R follow this formula:Release kick ass singleRelease kick ass albumRinseRepeatThis formula will guarantee that no one needs to test any waters.Thanks Russ - I get what you are saying.I've never really understood the "collector" aspect of it all. A 25-cent guitar pick or an autograph or buying three copies of an album and stashing away two of them.Now when I buy a CD I'll check out the booklet, then put it back in the case, which gets tucked away and maybe never looked at again!So I was just curious why people love booklets so much! (Hopefully nobody takes offense to my question).The rest of your answer is also spot on.Releasing a remix album is fine...........if it is just a throw in thing to tide people over between albums. That remix album should have came out three years ago.I just can't imagine any manager of any band in Guns' spot saying "You know, instead of releasing an album of original material, let's just so a remix of the only album we've released in the last 20 years. That seems like the best route to go."After seeing that 2nd to last show in Vegas, this band has so much talent and potential that a new album could really launch GnR back up to the top of the rock world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakey Styley Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 As some people have touched on in this thread;A remix album? Why? What rock band does that? That would only make people laugh. As a GNR fan it'd be cool to hear them but to anyone else, it's just weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmapelian Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Blood in the Water is one of the worst songs (?) I've ever heard. A remix album would be hilarious. I hope they release it."Fan " And a huge one. AFD and UYI are my favorites. I also enjoy early versions of TWAT and Better. If I weren't a fan I wouldn't be here, agree?Don't you agree a remix album of CD would be hilarious? Have you heard Blood in the Water? Releasing remixes of 6-10 years old songs that nobody outside the forums care about. How is that not hilarious?I totally agree with you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gackt Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 A remix album? Why? What rock band does that? That would only make people laugh. As a GNR fan it'd be cool to hear them but to anyone else, it's just weird.It's typically an industrial/electronic band thing, but artists like U2 have dabbled in strictly remix albums. The album's more than likely to contain demos and outtakes (hopefully some unknown) along with the remixes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estranged Coma Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 I'd like to hear anything Dr Dre worked on for Axl. Who knows if it was even true or if it's even finished but that's the only remix shit that would intrigue me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbhutto Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 The only way CD Remix works is if it's either released simultaneously with CD II, or if GnR make it expressly clear that the Remix album is just a teaser for the lead up to CD II. Anything that GnR does is going to get attention, so it's not like the latter option is actually necessary. They can achievethe same thing with Axl appearing on late night talk shows or wherever and reminding people that heis still alive.Unless it is just packaged with CD II I don't see anyone aside from hardcore GnR fans bothering withthe Remix disc. I really do want to hear the remix version of Madagascar that has the MLK quotes replacedwith Nicolas Cage quotes though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-GenerationX Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 It'd be fun, but it better bet a bonus disc. Otherwise they'll collect dust in the stores. Exactly. As a bonus throw in, only. You spend the better part of a decade on one album. Which few cared about. Then, given 6 years to come up with something new...and its remixed versions of the same songs that made no impact on the marketplace? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estranged Reality Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 axl honestly SHOULD hire evader to help him with his next album (if there is a next album) -- i'm not even fucking joking, he should. there will never be a remix album for ChiDem - its time has come and gone. if it was gonna happen it would have been a long time ago. i like the album but it didn't make much of an impact and remixes aren't going to change that for the general public. they need to just focus on new material IMO rather than rehashing rehashes of material that's now going on almost two decades old (!!!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-GenerationX Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Even the "new" songs aren't new. But its the best thing he's got, so its what we go with. Pick the best 12. Let's see what else you got for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzzy Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Please for the same wait guve us 15-18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristmasFnatic Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 If they wont release CD2 with this or before, atleast put in 1-2 new songs. Otherwise it would flop. Bon Jovi released a remix album of their hits, didnt do well. How much more CD where most people dont care about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzzy Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Groghan.-The reason why Id like a proper booklet of CD its becuase its such subpar of alternative work of arts out there, it doesnt fit the standards of Guns and considering thewait for the álbum all we deserved was a proper job.As a foreigner Id love to read the lyrics and the booklets, I learn a lot of english through that you know. Im also kind of collector on Guns.Maybe re-releasing Chinese we´d have THE GRENADE COVER!A box containing CHINESE - CHINESE 2 - REMIX ALBUM would be a fucking dream and closing a chapter/agony since 2001. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatVin Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 (edited) i'd love Axl to take more electronic direction and to to be only a nostalgic act. However, with bucket out of the band and DJ and Ron in, I don't think it's something that's gonna happen. Which is shame because in modern hard rock, there is no way Axl, Dizzy or Richard would actually use all their creative potential. Edited June 25, 2014 by BatVin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magisme Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 I don't even believe a full remix album exists. Just like I don't believe the second half of Chinese is completed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teroz Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 I do not have anything against it, but I do not want it to be a major release. It will not test anything to do with demand more widely it will anyways be a diehard fan album. I just want new material, we have sort of heard different of mixes and outtakes of different songs already. No more. New music, next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WFA Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 AFAIK, the remix album was never intended as a standalone album, just as a bonus disc on a re-release of Chinese Democracy. I don't know how a bonus disc would be testing any waters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangoSkank Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Exactly. As a bonus throw in, only.You spend the better part of a decade on one album. Which few cared about.Then, given 6 years to come up with something new...and its remixed versions of the same songs that made no impact on the marketplace?Or something downloadable through the web site, released only to fans. that way no real money is lost and whoever wants it can get it. It's just too unrealistic business-wise to have it sitting in stores and expect a profit. That said, I think it's a cool project and I'd buy it however they put it out.AFAIK, the remix album was never intended as a standalone album, just as a bonus disc on a re-release of Chinese Democracy. I don't know how a bonus disc would be testing any waters.Yeah, but Axl's Revolver interview kind of implied otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThinkAboutYou Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 it should just be released for free the remix album has little commercial value Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maynard Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 blood in the water level remixes are still pretty expensive for free. they should pay 10 bucks to each fan that accepts to listen to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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