ABSUЯD Single released at midnight

[jettesnel]

44 minutes ago, jamillos said:

- Hey, buddy from 2013. Axl and Slash are gonna reunite. 
- What? You’re pulling my leg, right? Didn’t he recently say something like "not in this lifetime"? 
- You have no idea. Oh and Axl will front AC/DC for a bit. 
- Whaaat? Seriously? 
- And he’ll sound like the old days then. 
- No way! How does he look like in your timeline anyway? Still slim, long hair and all? 
- Don’t ask. By the way, there will come a time when no YouTube videos will be allowed on MyGnr forum. Other than official stuff, that is. 
- On a forum? That's ridiculous. Why? 
- Cause of a few sociopaths and a certain management team. You wanna hear something funny? 
- Absolutely. Still can’t wrap my head around all this information. 
- You wanna know what the first Guns single will be?
- Some old demo from the golden era? The mysterious later sessions? Or even a new song?
- Silkworms. 
- What. The fuck. But didn’t you say they’d reunite? Slash and Duff back in the band? 
- Yes. Isn’t that... absurd?
- I’m speechless. Wait, why did you say it like that? 
- Ha. Now get this: the Silkworms thread on the forum will have 90 pages within like two weeks, and people will even kind of grow to like it. 
- Ok, now you’re fucking with me.
- See ya next time! 

You should have described more believable stuff about the future first so you would sound more legit. Like the world lockdown and Trump as the president.

[Ak1nney]

4 hours ago, jamillos said:

- Hey, buddy from 2013. Axl and Slash are gonna reunite. 
- What? You’re pulling my leg, right? Didn’t he recently say something like "not in this lifetime"? 
- You have no idea. Oh and Axl will front AC/DC for a bit. 
- Whaaat? Seriously? 
- And he’ll sound like the old days then. 
- No way! How does he look like in your timeline anyway? Still slim, long hair and all? 
- Don’t ask. By the way, there will come a time when no YouTube videos will be allowed on MyGnr forum. Other than official stuff, that is. 
- On a forum? That's ridiculous. Why? 
- Cause of a few sociopaths and a certain management team. You wanna hear something funny? 
- Absolutely. Still can’t wrap my head around all this information. 
- You wanna know what the first Guns single will be?
- Some old demo from the golden era? The mysterious later sessions? Or even a new song?
- Silkworms. 
- What. The fuck. But didn’t you say they’d reunite? Slash and Duff back in the band? 
- Yes. Isn’t that... absurd?
- I’m speechless. Wait, why did you say it like that? 
- Ha. Now get this: the Silkworms thread on the forum will have 90 pages within like two weeks, and people will even kind of grow to like it. 
- Ok, now you’re fucking with me.
- See ya next time! 

Just summed up the last 8 years on here. Thanks.

Edited August 16, 2021 by Ak1nney

[Sweersa]

The Village leaks was the best thing to happen to GN'R fans in the last 5 years, IMO.

[Scarstruck]

On 8/15/2021 at 12:23 AM, Norespect1982 said:

It’s not a mistake. Jesus Christ.

It definitely is

[RussTCB]

1 hour ago, jamillos said:

- Hey, buddy from 2013. Axl and Slash are gonna reunite. 
- What? You’re pulling my leg, right? Didn’t he recently say something like "not in this lifetime"? 
- You have no idea. Oh and Axl will front AC/DC for a bit. 
- Whaaat? Seriously? 
- And he’ll sound like the old days then. 
- No way! How does he look like in your timeline anyway? Still slim, long hair and all? 
- Don’t ask. By the way, there will come a time when no YouTube videos will be allowed on MyGnr forum. Other than official stuff, that is. 
- On a forum? That's ridiculous. Why? 
- Cause of a few sociopaths and a certain management team. You wanna hear something funny? 
- Absolutely. Still can’t wrap my head around all this information. 
- You wanna know what the first Guns single will be?
- Some old demo from the golden era? The mysterious later sessions? Or even a new song?
- Silkworms. 
- What. The fuck. But didn’t you say they’d reunite? Slash and Duff back in the band? 
- Yes. Isn’t that... absurd?
- I’m speechless. Wait, why did you say it like that? 
- Ha. Now get this: the Silkworms thread on the forum will have 90 pages within like two weeks, and people will even kind of grow to like it. 
- Ok, now you’re fucking with me.
- See ya next time! 

This is the post of the week right here. 

[Free Bird]

16 hours ago, RussTCB said:

Poorly worded on my part I guess. I wouldn't mean to suggest that we know listeners opinion on the track. My guess was that 1 million listens means people listened to it multiple times, suggesting that they like it. 

Probably, but considering GNR is one of the biggest rock bands of the last 3 decates with way too much output I don't know uf it's that good. I mean, it could be like this:

"Hey, GNR have a new song, let's have listen!"

"WTF! That sounds strange"

You will easily find 1 million rock fans on spotify, or fans who listened to rock music back in the day, I think. A lot of them may have listened to Absurd once. I don't know if it's an evidence that they all like it. 

[MaskingApathy]

4 hours ago, James Bond said:

batch of brand new songs as opposed to the leftovers

I think we're going to get some of that too.

[MaskingApathy]

19 hours ago, GNRfanJen said:

I don't know who all cares about streaming numbers (though there's no denying it's a focal unit of measurement for music nowadays), but ABSUЯD has officially surpassed over 1 million streams on Spotify after only 10 days. 

We don't really have anything to compare that number to given this is their first track they've dropped on this platform in real time (not counting Shadow), but it's still pretty damn cool. Good for them. 

That's really good for a rock band just over a week after releasing a song. Does anyone know where they are on the Billboard charts?

A lot of those streams are from me though 

[Nick85]

I....still really like this track.  

 

Ready for more though. 

[Blackstar]

I'm surprised Alan Niven and Doug Goldstein haven't commented on this yet.

"If I were the manager, I wouldn't have allowed this to see the light of the day"

[MaskingApathy]

18 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

I'm surprised Alan Niven and Doug Goldstein haven't commented on this yet.

"If I were the manager, I wouldn't have allowed this to see the light of the day"

Who cares what those clowns have to say.

[RussTCB]

1 hour ago, sofine11 said:

I....still really like this track.  

 

Ready for more though. 

Same and same. 

[Jakey Styley]

4 hours ago, Scarstruck said:

It definitely is

Agreed. If it's not a mistake, then I've overestimated Axl's songcrafting ability. Because it sounds horrible.

[Towelie]

On 8/15/2021 at 5:23 AM, Norespect1982 said:

It’s not a mistake. Jesus Christ.

The fact that some fans think this was a mistake rather than an artistic choice is actually hilarious.

 

[ZoSoRose]

I like Slash’s contributions to Hard School. A lot of guitar work going on for a 3 minute track. Excited for the studio cut

[RussTCB]

11 minutes ago, ZoSoRose said:

I like Slash’s contributions to Hard School. A lot of guitar work going on for a 3 minute track. Excited for the studio cut

I still haven't even listened to any of the sound checks, so I'll be surprised by whatever changes if/when they play it live. 

[ZoSoRose]

13 minutes ago, RussTCB said:

I still haven't even listened to any of the sound checks, so I'll be surprised by whatever changes if/when they play it live. 

The song is pretty much the same, but Slash definitely does some cool stuff on it 

[Pskihq92]

29 minutes ago, RussTCB said:

I still haven't even listened to any of the sound checks, so I'll be surprised by whatever changes if/when they play it live. 

None of this if/when bs.. tonight! Lol

[RussTCB]

1 minute ago, Pskihq92 said:

None of this if/when bs.. tonight! Lol

All fingers crossed....every hope is giv-UN! 

[Pskihq92]

1 hour ago, RussTCB said:

All fingers crossed....every hope is giv-UN! 

No effort spared to keep low expectations 

Edited August 16, 2021 by Pskihq92

[st0n3r]

I hope there is some other track coming soon. I really, really dislike this. To me, it sounds like grampa Simpson angrily shouting over some random riffs. I can't help it.

Edited August 16, 2021 by st0n3r

[Nick85]

It’s coming this week methinks.

Edited August 17, 2021 by sofine11

[novemberparadise23]

59 minutes ago, sofine11 said:

It’s coming this week methinks.

If I had to guess before the tour started when they would release something, I would have figured around New York show or Los Angeles show. So ya never know. Hope you are correct !

[DTJ80]

For folks who have heard this on the radio etc….is it the full uncensored version or a ‘radio edit’? I know it means a good chunk of words would be missing but just wondered?

[RussTCB]

1 hour ago, DTJ80 said:

For folks who have heard this on the radio etc….is it the full uncensored version or a ‘radio edit’? I know it means a good chunk of words would be missing but just wondered?

I haven't heard it on the radio but a friend of mine works is a DJ on the rock station here in Detroit. He said they did get a file labeled "radio edit". I haven't heard it, but I'm guessing the censored words are just dropped out of the mix.