ManetsBR Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Well, I always believed If The World to be the most radio friendly song on Chinese Democracy. It has a good beat, a catchy rhythm, easy lyrics and well, a cool vibe overall. Should have been a single. I started showing it to friends of mine who don't like Guns N' Roses - basically all of them - and the result has been what I expected: most of - if not all of them - enjoy it quite a lot, and I've seen some of them singing it around and putting it to play. And what some of they say, "it doesn't sound like Guns N' Roses" is somewhat true. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gackt Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Maybe if it was a little heavier, it would have been a solid single for the GnR brand..otherwise I'd expect it to get panned from much radio playBuckethead's outro solo in the track is ace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post maynard Posted July 16, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted July 16, 2015 It should have never been released. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManetsBR Posted July 16, 2015 Author Share Posted July 16, 2015 It should have never been released.I disagree. I never really liked it, until much recently when I started to listen to it again. I love it now, great song. It's something different, it doesn't fit anywhere in Chinese Democracy. There should have been more songs like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetness Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 lol no Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maynard Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 It should have never been released.I disagree. I never really liked it, until much recently when I started to listen to it again. I love it now, great song. It's something different, it doesn't fit anywhere in Chinese Democracy. There should have been more songs like this.Instrumental is not bad although there's nothing original about it. What kills it for me is Axl's high annoying voice. Lyrics are hilariously bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Słash Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 A music video for Street of dreams would have been pretty good, like a 4th part to the trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvH Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 No rasp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasZZ Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 It should have never been released.the good side of been released is that one mashup with Slither Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 100% respectfully disagree.Better was the obvious choice.Street of Dreams would have been a good one. Sounds like old school GnR.Then either TWAT or Catcher.CD was a terrible choice. Boring generic rock song. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Jay Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Doug Goldstein had a video idea for this song. I think it has the best guitars on the album, they sound magnificent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Jay Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 100% respectfully disagree.Better was the obvious choice.Street of Dreams would have been a good one. Sounds like old school GnR.Then either TWAT or Catcher.CD was a terrible choice. Boring generic rock song.Better, If The World and Catcher In the Rye.Street Of Dreams was too obvious and too old.The thing is, you need a three minutes song to be a hit, even Better was cut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magisme Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 No one wants to hear those vocals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 No one wants to hear those vocals.That harmonised spanish guitar at the end though . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magisme Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 No one wants to hear those vocals.That harmonised spanish guitar at the end though .I think it's aces as an instrumental track. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realpoti Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Interesting instrumentals. That's it. Axl sounds awful in it. It should've been released later, it doesn't fit CD's style at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RnT Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 (edited) Chinese Democracy first, Scraped after... then Better and Madagascar. 4 singles, 4 video clips. CD had a lot of potential. Sad GNR/AXL/Record Company didn´t think this way. Edited July 16, 2015 by RnT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Comstock Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 (edited) It should have never been released.I disagree. I never really liked it, until much recently when I started to listen to it again. I love it now, great song. It's something different, it doesn't fit anywhere in Chinese Democracy. There should have been more songs like this.Instrumental is not bad although there's nothing original about it. What kills it for me is Axl's high annoying voice. Lyrics are hilariously bad.No rasp.Really? Yea the lyrics are bad but it has some great vocals IMO. The verses are all rasp. For all the love the 2010 voice gets around here I'm kinda surprised how many people dislike ITW.I like it. It was great live when they extended the ending.edit: ^LOL at Scraped. Edited July 17, 2015 by Gordon Comstock 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niceguy Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Axl had... HAD... the name brand pull to get whatever he wanted on the radio. He's long blown that chance. So yes, this song could've been released as a single. And it would promptly disappear off the charts. Has it ever occurred to you guys that the reason Axl didn't promote this album because he knew it wasn't very good? He fought tooth and nail to prevent its release, for crying out loud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChineseIRS Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 The verses probably have his raspiest vocals on the whole album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomfriend Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 If The World would have made a shit single. There's nothing striking about it. Better, TWAT, This I Love...even a radio edit of Prostitute would have had a good chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChineseIRS Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 First single should have been Better, no ifs or buts about it. With a proper video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gackt Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I'd agree that most of the tracks on Chinese sound pretty awesome as instrumentals if Axl is removed from the mix: I've no problem with the vocal performance though on ITW, an over-abundance of rasp just wouldn't fit the tone of the song as it is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IncitingChaos Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 (edited) The instrumentals of CD were amazing! Some really great music was made here, but Axl's vocals and lyrics were not up to par. I think he put too much pressure on himself or simply was listening with a deaf ear. If the world is incredible live. I love the power, but as a studio release it was lacking. Again Axl didn't do his job as far as taking a cool track and giving it the vocals it deserves. I think it goes for the rest of the album also. Poor vocals, spotty lyrics and what amounted to a mediocre effort in musical form but a devastatingly bad record in terms of GNR's legacy. Better and CITR and TWAT are a few songs done right in my opinion, but only having 3 of 14 is terrible. Edited July 17, 2015 by IncitingChaos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosaj Thing Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 If The World sounds great as an instrumental. Lyrics, vocals and melodies are simply awful. I can understand why it wasn't a single. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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