Here Today... Gone To Hell!

To get away from the negative press (Show Cancellations, Site Closures, Lack of the Promised Album, etc.) RosesOfVelvet.com has created a video poll to determine which 'new' song had the best live performance this year

GnR Video Survivor (http://www.rosesofvelvet.com/poll.php)

Vote off your least favorite performance, round one will stay open for a week. from there we will proceed on a weekly basis until we determine the ultimate fan favorite of the new songs.

Basically the above link is a YouTube type of site (called GunnersTube (http://www.gunnerstube.com/) which has all kinds of rare and not so rare video's from the adler court case to the latest performances by our favorite band), you don't need to sign up for anything, just go and click on the windows to watch each live performance, then make your choice, you can use this thread to to discuss each video or to tell us what you voted for.

please feel free to post this link at any of the gnr forums, the more the merrier, and the more votes the more accurate feel we can get for what the fan favorite of the new songs is.

btw there was a glitch before so the thread was deleted and the poll was reset .... sorry for any inconvenience :peace:

TWAT - just isn't as tight as the others.

I voted madagascar.

TWATs the best song IMO, just not the best performance. Can't wait till it becomes a regular in the set list.

I love the song, but i just think it's the worst performance "live" of all the new songs.....obviously its down to the fact that it's not played often!!!

The Blues......not as strong as better or even CD

TWAT, one of the better songs but out of those performances the weakest.

i voted TWAT the least favorite because i thought it was the weakest performance, but its really hard picking a least favorite song out of your favorites  :hihi:

haha yea thats the point! I sat and looked at the damn poll for like 5 mins before I made my decision!

Better - His voice sounds exausted, and the pformance is weak

WOW, that was very hard to even pick on. I inie meenie minie moed it!  :rofl:  I fucking love the intro to Chinese!

Chi Dem is losing though by the looks of it ....

It sucks that CD is losing. I had to vote IRS off for now.

Chinese Democracy    42
There Was A Time    30
I.R.S.    28
The Blues    25
Madagascar    18
Better    7

At the moment CD looks like it could be canned! We'll see we still have a 6 days left!

How can Better be winning?

I love this song but I have yet to hear a decent live version.

Every version i hear is kind of crappy.

I hate Bumble foot's interpretation of Bucket's solo.........................

I don't understand how CD is losing?? I love the intro. Fucking class song.

I.R.S

had to go with IRS just did feel it live.

Better is never great live...

Are you insane?

better is my Fav live!

better is my fav song by far, but it doesnt really go down that well live. the demo is better than the live version

All my apologies to the poster of this thread.  I just can't make a decision between these songs.  They all kick ass.

It's like being in bed with Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba, Naomi Watts, and Elle MacPherson in her prime and having to pick who gets kicked out of bed...that's just wrong!
 :peace:

Better is one of my favorite GN'R songs EVER but sucks live.  The band sounds great but Axl clearly struggles with it almost every time. I have all the bootlegs from this tour and I have yet to hear a version of Better that blows my mind. I have yet to even hear a version in which Axl gets every word of the song in without having to pause and catch his breath. Especially the "Know when ever told me when I was alone..." parts, those never come out good live.

IRS.

totally overrated. I was hearing how awesome it was ever since the Mike Piazza incident. I finally heard it live in San Bernadino and was so disappointed. I was thinking to myself, "this is it?"


Wow

Ugh  I actually really like twat live and its not my fav new song

I had to go with IRS on this. sucks cause it was so damn hard to choose!

IRS plays terrific live.

Chinese Democracy is ok, but definately not one of the tracks that should be showcased with the rest of the A List material. It is definately not up there with The Blues Better and Madagascar.

Better is good but not a great live song because the chorus is sung so low in the mix. I almost wish they would play a pre recorded backing track from the album instead of Tommy, Richard and Robin's back up vox.  I actually think TWAT has this one beat.

It doesn't get better than Madagascar and the Blues though, the latter being Axl's strongest live performance of a new song

BETTER was the best new song performed live when I saw them in Everett   Chinese Democracy comes in second.

Chinese Democracy    57
There Was A Time   ?? 39
I.R.S.   ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 36
The Blues   ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ?31
Madagascar   ? ? ? ? ? ? ?25
Better   ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? 13

I think people are choosing their "Favorite" song and not which is the best "performance"


I have yet to hear one version of Better that is anywhere close to Madagascar or The Blues as far as live performance goes.

i gotta vote TWAT...they even mess up during it, it's a great tune but they haven;t played it enough live to do it justice :-\

Better,   at the May 17th Hammerstein show........best song and performance of the night.

yeah I had to vote IRS off

what do all you people have against chinese democracy? it rocks like hell!

If we were talking about the original version of CD I would've voted it off easily. For some reason the new intro just re-sells the whole song to me, it's just SO bad ass.

Better has to go, killer song, but it sucks live. The Blues is the best.

Looks like cd is gonna head home early in this race inless IRS can pull 14 + votes..