Here Today... Gone To Hell!

The title says it all, everything about the song goes in this thread.



/jarmo

In my opinion, this is THE ROCKER on Chinese Democracy.

It's hard, has a thumping bassline, and a kickass solo.  Tell me you don't hear a Van Halen influence at the end?

Scraped is the Jungle of the 21st century.  It will be played in stadiums and arenas worldwide as the new sports anthem.

It's the perfect song to listen to while working out.  You also listen to this song before you go out behind the bar to beat up the guy who touched your girlfriend in an inappropriate area.  After listening to Scraped, you will be convinced that you can do anything in the world.

Sometimes I feel like
There's nothing that's stopping me
All things are possible
I am unstoppable

Simple, but so powerful.

Also, I got the feeling this song used to be called "Atlas Shrugged."

Sometimes I feel like
The world is on top of me
Breakin' me down with
An endless monotony

this is my 2nd favorite song  ;D

It's excellent - but so is the whole album! It's been a long time since I've bught an album that rewards with new aspects on almost every listen!

Wow. This is my first post i ages I think. I have just heard the whole on myspace.
Can't think of all the years, hanging both here and other places, thinking about chinese democracy. Its finally here.

What a great album. Im stunned! First take on the 3 completely new songs for me after hearing 'em 1 time:
Scraped- the immediately favourite. SO powerful!
Sorry-I think this may grow on me alot. I like it after hearing it for the first time. Seems like some kind of Metallica in the instruments, I don't know, this is all to much happening to fast  :rofl:
This I love- so sad, so brillantly beautiful. Feels like a wanna cry.

this is going to be played a lot during the next days and years  :rofl:
Can't wait for the real album in my hands, have pre-ordered it from 3 different places so that I hopefully get it soon... :rofl:

My favourite Axl vocal on the album, especially on the verses. Good song too.

this needs to be on every hard rock station out there!

i love this track.

Dirty funky metal groove!

great song, good rocker track love the chorus :peace:

Balls to the wall rock n' fucking roll. Love this song. Adrenaline charged lyrics and guitar solos. I LIKE IT A LOT.

This song snuck up on me. At first I wasn't all that impressed but found myself humming it a few hours later. When I went back to check it out again I found out why I was humming it; there's a ton of stuff I missed. Here's another song where the intro hints at the rest of the song and keeps making an appearance throughout, cool idea. The solo on this is yet another great one, although weak at the end of it. The way Axl comes back in vocally deserves to have a bigger finish to the solo.
4/5

Its a bad ass lyrics in this one eheh. We missed that! Great song once again!

A grower, for sure.  First listen found me very unsure.  The harmonized vocals at the beginning took me completely off guard.  But it grew on me quickly.  Now it throbs like a giant tumor.

this song is cool, but i feel like it should replace shackler's at track 2 and shackler's shouldn't be on the album at all

It's alright. I gotta get used to it.

Am I the only one who thinks they recycled some of the melodies from Oh My God (a song that was "scraped" off CD :P?) on this one? Listen to the verses from  0:33 to 1:00 into the song.  The "sometimes I feel" part. Sounds a bit like the verses before OMG?s chorus to me.

Anyway, there?s some HIGH singing on this one. If tribute GNR bands want to add CD songs to their repertoire they will need to start carrying a helium tank around  :hihi:.  

No you're definitely not the only one.  It definitely sounds similar.  I said it when I first heard the song.  There are definite elements of "Oh My God" in this song...while I didn't dislike "Oh My God"...this song is more accepting by my ears...it's a good tune...although I don't think it will ever be a single...

I get this on several songs, especially Scraped and TIL...like monkey/man missing link shit...they sound familiar but new. 

This is a GREAT SONG, one of my favourites.
 : ok: :beer: :drool:

all i could say when i first heard this song was OMG i mean it was totally unexpected (only listened once so far although its coming up next) but just pure awsome!

next to better, scraped is the best rock song on cd.

don't care for the axl into. Like the song. Has a don't damn me feel to it. rocks. 3/5

We have oppisite opinions on these two songs. :hihi: I love Shackler's Revenge. And could see scraped taken off the album cuz I do not dig this song.

It is interesting how everyone has such different opinions on favorites and to see peoples personal tastes. :smoking:

I really like this song ,especially the intro.

I totally agree with you

Same.


This song is gonna get concert crowds rockin'!!!

This is the best song on the album, it ROCKS!!!!!

Just listening to the first time right now and I'm instantly hooked!

There is so much that I get from each song on the album...its amazing, there really is something for everyone on here so should appeal to a mass audience.

Scraped is hard adreneline driven rocker - a really good tune.
Personally i hope it is not a single as I think there are stronger songs on the album as singles but cannot wait to hear Axl scream this one live - a certain crowd pleaser

This is a great hard rocker

It sounds even 'better' when its played on the radio!!!  :o  WAAF is playing it right NOW!!! Anyway love the song..I always love the 'harder' songs more....like Coma and "Don't Damn Me" for example...
Jbat

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a rumoured song titled "Lies They Tell"?  I think that is one of the lyrics in this song.  I would guess that this is the song then?

As of right now, I've only listened to the song once, so I'm not even sure if I got the lyric right..

LOATHE the intro, but everything else about it rocks.  Good stuff after that.

the most AFD sounding song in the disc
sleazy riff and crazy drums

the intro sounds like a boy band doing 5 part harmonies; why the hell include this? i think of this song as filler for a GnR album, which makes it the centerpiece of most others...

Hmm - I hope not to be honest, I thought that song might be linked to the book (about the creative, intelligent people going on strike) ...  have fingers crossed for Atlas Shrugged and the General to appear in the next CD  :smoking:

This song has good bones and good ideas, but it just doesn't come together fully for me. It gets messy after the first verse. Along with Catcher (which I loved the demo version of) this song should have really been "scraped"!

That vocal intro is just too weird for me.

I hope we have more songs left in the archives as well. 8)

This isn't Atlas Shrugged, this is written by Buckethead and Atlas Shrugged was around before Bucket joined the band

It's "Lies They Tell" !


"And the lies that they tell you..... Don't you try to stop us now"

I was surprised at the message of this song.  The last line in the lyrics is "Believe in yourself"  You don't think of GNR as a source for inspirational songs :hihi:

I woke up with this song blasting in my head.  I love it.  It's not my favorite song, but it's definetly up there.  Good thing I have alot of personalities...they all get their own #1 songs ;D  :rofl:

They are all wonderful for different reasons!

I have to reckon the intro isn't quite welcoming... but the rest of the song puts that aside.  ;)

I didn't like it when I first head it.  Now that i've listened to it over and over again I LOVE IT !

Same here, BUT...

The intro could work SO WELL live!  Axl could do the A-yo parts and the crowd can call back, much like Freddie Mercury did during Queen shows.

Man, that's it!! There are some UYI moments and other new vibes there, but this is the most AFDish song on CD. At the same time there's a lot of the new band style. I can't define exactly what reminds me of AFD and neither which moment of that album. Maybe something of Mr. Brownstone or Rocket Queen (riffs), maybe the vocals of Out to Get Me. Really don't know.

I'm ok with the intro and can live with that awful nanosecond editting mistake on 1:19.
Never doubted, but listening to this song in particular I just went: "THAT'S GUNS N' FUCKIN' ROSES!!!"

Axl's vocals are even more amazing here. I just loved the way he sings in a lower tone on the majority of the pessimistic words (eg.: ...I fell my life's a catastrophe... ) and screams very high on the the optimistic part of lyrics (e.g.: sometime's I fell it's all opened up for me, nothing's impossible, I am inconquerable). 

When we get closer to the chorus, this ups and downs turn faster (eg.: up: "You know you are stronger.." down: "..then the lies that they tell you").

That's a simple but still very original idea and a difficult task to anyone's voice to achieve! But that's our hero!! AXL = GENIUS!!! Nothing's impossible to him!! AMAZING!!!!

This song originally didn't stick in my head as one of my faves but I really appreciate it for what it is now. Axl's vocals are kick ass. Sometimes I feel like I am in the 80's or 90's listening to Axl in the demo of Crash Diet. I fucking love it.

This song grabbed me from the first listen. Its an anthem and potential single for sure. THis song will be the song that athletes/sports teams and people in general turn on for inspiration and to get pumped up

Im glad this song has  positive, uplifting lyrics. I love the solo and Tommys baseline especially at the end of the song. Great stuff

Anyone else hear some "OMG" elements in this song?

This song would be perfect for an NBA playoff promo in June.

same here, really dug it INSTANTLY. 

after i got past the kinda weird intro...  :hihi:   fits with the rest of the song though (or the rest of the song fits with it... whatever).

good call whoever posted about how this might have been "atlas shrugged" at one point.

It's a really great song. Love it.

The only critique I have of this song,

is the overdubbed vocals in the verse

" Dont you try to stop us now
(I'd Give anything to Know)
Dont you try to stop us now
(I would have never made it so far)

the parts in Bold are hard to hear, and just kind of sound out of place...
It would sound better "imo" if it was just the chorus without the bold. :peace:

but this song is a big grower.

Absolutely. It doesn't break new ground but the chorus is catchy and it has a strong melody. Could be one of those sugary sweet hits that give the album legs.

totally agree. Same with SR

it's a grower for me

There's some very strange Pitman noises in the left channel in the verse. Sort of a bubbling sound (reminiscent of that "robot having a chug" in Better ;D) which ordinarily would just sound very silly but seems to work quite well in the context of the song.

It is the rock anthem of the album. I never question Axl's genius or choices, but why the weird intro? Like everyone else said, this is the balls to the walls, classic kick ass rock anthem of the album. Why didn't he go with a kick ass, riff to open this one? Or, just start right off with the chorus? I guess, in the end, Axl knows best. I'm sure the intro will grow on me and the "big picture" will come together as it grows on me.

Anyway, it will easily be a hit on the rock stations.

I liked the song from first listen.  I found myself singing it all day yesterday.  Lots of people seem to be hating on this song (not in this thread obviously).  To each his own though.  I think it rocks!  Good point too by all those who said this could be a sports anthem.  "Don't you try to stop us now".  It doesn't get much clearer than that.

The song is genius, I think it's meant to sound like a duet, but with 2 Axl's.  It reminds me of My Michelle with Baz.

prairieboy,

Lovely song, those words always give me that same powerful feeling, 5/5 for sure. Maybe this is the 2008 Perfect Crime for me.

Good song. Love the vocals on this and the guitar is pretty cool

I really don't like that song and there's nothing 'classic GnR' to it as far as I can tell.  ??? Unlike IRS, for instance.

Love the intro--kinda threw me for a loop!

I can see this being released as a single.

Becoming one of my favorites.

too clunky, okay song though...

too much going on in this song... would of preferred a revamped "Oh My God" on the cd

Least favorite song on the album. Not a bad song, just not for me.

I LOVE this song,Kicks major ass although when i first heard the intro i thought WTF? :hihi: but it's grown on me now.

this song has really grown on me since I first heard it ;)

One of greatest solos on CD, albeit short.

I don't like the intro or the secondary voice he sings in-
-And I feel this is a song that could have been worked a little more on.

What I miss is a chord-change when the chorus starts, but it's very good :peace:

sorry--------but its good !!

fuckin a*

One of the best intros I've ever heard

Awesome rocker, grows on me with every listen. Awesome solo as well.
The coolest thing about the song is the switches between  voices. :smoking:

Full throttle, nice dueling vocals, big ending.

Fucking love this song, definitley the most straightforward, upbeat rocker on the album and the most directly comparable to Appetite material. Very catchy, rocks hard, simple and effective lyrics/message, great stuff all around; and a nice break from the otherwise decidedly heavy/deep material surrounding it.

This is my least favorite song on the album.  I don't know why but I just don't dig the intro, and I don't think the song flows well like any of the others. 

Think thats about right, really got an AFD feel to it. I love the way the vocals are different on the verses, I think Scraped is one of my fav's so far.

Its my favorite rocker on the album no doubt, its aggressive, catchy and keeps me wanting for more, I played Scraped in my DJ set a week ago the song went down very well, a lot of people coming to the booth asking who it was and saying they were very impressed, getting the GN'R name out there of course ;>

I think "Axl Rose's Bicycle Basket" put it perfectly (page 1 post).

I'm really surprised that most people didn't rate this song higher on their list of favorites. I look at it as the 'It's So Easy' of Chinese Democracy. Amazing pump-me-up tune!

Really kick-ass song ;D

Took awhile, but I love it..Hopefully it replaces IRS in the live set..

nah way man, IRS is among the absolute best of the new songs live, imo it's better live then in studio

one of my least favorights

This sounds very strange to me. This track in particular as none of the groove that made Guns n'Roses so special. It's way too martial and robotic for my liking. All headbang, no snake dance.

I love the verses, particularly at the chord change. The lyrics are pretty cool too, the bridge has that Axl sneer.

 I find the intro to be very annoying. The rest of the song.... meh.  :-\

I really do like this song. I for some reason am reminded of Oh My God when I hear it for some reason...Maybe Axl's voice on the track or the rhyme scheme not really sure. But I really like this track suprisingly.

This song is one of my top 5 on the CD.

Reminds me of "Locomotive" for some reason....just the way the song is structured, I guess.

I really like this song, one of my fav !!!

The intro is VERY special but AMAZING ! Only Axl could do something like that !!!

This song totally rocks !!!

I thought the same thing.

the line before watch out.. gotcha..

This is likely my fav. track on CD. I like the vocal intro too. It got me thinking the song was going in another direction, then all of a sudden

DON'T YOU TRY TO STOP US NOW!!!

I like the aggression in Axl's voice.

See, now this is the reason why I think it's one of the weaker tracks.  Locomotive really never did much for either, because it doesn't go anywhere, much like "Scraped."  I agree though, it's a good comparison.

Different people, different likes/dislikes.....

one of my favorites on the album. the best rocker. i love the vocals throughout the whole song. and the guitar during the verses is so bad ass.

i've been kinda surprised at the general lack of love for this tune.

the song just kicks ass!

IRS is incredible live.  Not only was it by far the best of the new songs in a live setting, it was one of the top 2-4 songs of the night to me.  The energy and hugeness of it was hard to describe, you just have to see it first hand


As far as Scraped, I noticed something kind of cool the first time I listened on good set of headphones, the third level of vocals.  There's the high pitched "oh, oooooh" vocals, the full on screams, but beneath that are some lower vocals with Axl going "hey, heeeeeeey, hey."  It sounds pretty cool.  It's clear now every time I listen but I'd never heard it before

Scraped is cool by me.  It's kind of like the Right Next Door To Hell or Perfect Crime of CD

This song doesn't get out of my head.

+1

Great song! Definatley one of the top songs IMO. I like the "rocker" songs ie Better, CD, SR, R&B....but this ones got its own groove. Gives me goose bumps when Axl belts out the first few lines!
DONT YOU TRY AND STUP US NOW
I JUST REFUSE
DONT YOUR TRY AND STOP US NOW
CAUSE I JUST WONT LET YOU

I was unsure at first, but at around 1:46 it turns into a great rocker when the layered vocals kick in. And I like its unabashed upbeat lyrics!

Its not one of my favourites, but I do love:

"Sometimes I feel like the world is on top of me
Breaking me down with eternal monotony" (or something like that).

I really love Scraped. It has a defiant message of not letting people break you.

i d'nt like it at first but now i love it !!

can't stop singing "don't u try to stop this now"

great song!!

Ohmagawd, the board's most popular poster is back.

Thought you left.

Two words:

Scraped. Live. :drool:

lol i was sooooo drunk that night lol

Yeah right.

My only complaint with Scraped is the background Axl vocals especially during the end. They cludder the primary lyrics. The believe in yourself line is great though

Other than that its a great rocker. Love the lyrics and solo as well. And Tommys thumpin base at the end kicks ass

So Scraped is a really solid jam full of testerone.  It will be heard in sports stadiums for years to come. 

sorry I am really stoned.  really bad spelling.

I heard they played the song during Sunday Night Football last night.  Bob Costas made some comments on it.  Is that on youtube yet?

My buddy texted me as it happened.  I was too upset to continue watching football after the Jets got their asses handed to them.

Apparently, Mr. Costas said, "This is Axl Rose with the new Guns N' Roses song, "Scraped."

at first listens this was a 3/5 song for me, but i think it might be a solid 4 in some days :)

Anyone know who plays the solo starting at 1.58 or 1.59?
Credits say both Bucket and Bumble. It fucking rocks! :smoking:

One of the best Rock songs  :drool:

This song has really grown on me and I imagine it will continue so...if I had of rated it when I virst heard it I'd probably give it a 5/10...now I'd say it's an 8.5/10!!

It's an awesome fucking rocker, and that's why I NEED TO KNOW WHO PLAYS THE 1.58 SOLO!!! BUCKET OR BUMBLE??? :drool:

should've been the first single, so much power and the lyrics are made for sport events. It's a song that says 'I'm back'.  :drool:

I agree with all the comments about Scraped being a great rocker. The only thing I'm not crazy about is the intro and the continued use of that "ay-o" stuff throughout the song. That just seems a bit out of place to me. Still a good song though. : ok:

This is the song that I have played most.

for sure  :peace:

Apart from the crappy vocal mix edit/mistake/whatever at 1:19, this song rocks.
Really grew on me--great riff and melody.
One of the shining unknown stars!
Would love to see and hear it live.

I'd love to see the band/Axl license this song out to the NFL or something. It would be great as a marketing clip featuring season highlights from the two teams that make it to the Super Bowl (perhaps aired during the pre-game show) for example. Same would apply with the NHL playoffs as well.

Yeah, apparently it was played during Sunday Night Football a couple weeks back.  I didn't get to see it though.  It would be a great song for the playoffs though, that's for sure.  They played "Better" multiple times last night during Monday Night Football, so it's possible.

awsome song
to me it?s like the new IT?S SO EASY  :peace:

could be a single tho, awsome song!!

imagine a video for this  :drool:

One of my favs. Axl using the Locomotive voice....

OHH!! This hadn't hit me till you just mentioned it... Scraped does bear a similar resemblance

I just noticed today the decending chords that are similar to Locomotive too!!

Oh yeah, they should definitely market this as a type of sports anthem.  The lyrics are perfect for that

I love the guitars during the chorus of this song, as well as the rhythm section during the solo

This song is one of my favs, since the first time I heard it.
Great Rocker Song  8)

This song is going to push me harder as I chase my IronMan triathlon dream.  It's inspiring as hell.  Love it!

Thank you Axl.  :peace:

This song is really starting to grow on me ! especially when I go lift weights and do cardio its a good workout song.

This item is great  : ok:

hmm, I like the background vocals, it's like an extra kick in the behind  :)

According to my itunes playlist, this my 2nd most played song on CD after Sorry.

How does the title "Scraped" relate to the lyrics? What am I missing?

I know this was originally titled, or registered with the copyright office, as "The Lies They Tell". Is the title on the record then a mistake? Or, what accounts for the change?

To my ears Bumble plays the main solo.  Bucket has the outro before and after the keys section.


"Scraped" sounds very much like a title that Bucket would come up with, I'll bet my left nut he named the song (along with Shackler's Revenge). 

aren't there skyscrapers with the scraped lyrics in the booklet?

This songs seems a bit overlooked for some reason.....

Great lyrics as usual by Axl.


For example, the lines:

Some may convince you
No one can break through
You know you?re stronger
Than the lies
That they tell you


remind me of U2's "Acrobat". Because in it one part goes And you can dream, so dream out loud, And don't let the bastards grind you down..

Both songs seem to deal with similar subjects. It could be aimed at the press, people who try to stop you from doing what you want/believe in etc.



Took me nine months to make this kind of "connection".  ;D



/jarmo

What a useless bump.  ::)

Just kidding, everyone needs to be reminded of how awesome this song is.

If there is ever a time you need inspiration, or the strength to get through something, this song will lift your spirits and help you attain whatever goal you have set forth for yourself.

Nothing's impossible
I AM INCONQUERABLE!

This song is so cool, it features made up words. 

W. Axl Rose: God's gift to the English language.

Sounds like a call to arms for a disillusioned and downtrodden generation.  Was my favorite track on the album when I first heard it, and probably still is along with Rhiad. 

It's a jabbing manic/schizophrenic rocker that's immediately catchy without getting annoying. LOVE IT.  :beer:

I love this song since I heard it first time, great song, I love the intro too.  :drool:

My favorite from day one...as for 'sports anthem', it was played at the TimesUnion Center in Albany NY during River Rats (Hockey) warm ups last season...sounds awesome blasting throughout the arena.  Only part I think will hamper it becoming as prevalent a 'sports anthem' as WTTJ is the intro.  WTTJ has a much more menacing intro...I could be wrong, but I believe the  PA @ TUC skipped the 'axl with stubbed toe' intro and started right at the 'punch you in the face' drum/guitar kickoff part when the skates hit the ice.  F--king love it, no matter what.

great song and lyrics. Just would use less ay ohs throughout the song and wouldnt have included the barely audible Axl background vocals. They clog up the song a lil

other than that its a great anthem type song with some powerful lyrics

My favorite part is the solo and the rhythm guitars beneath it, that part hits extremely hard on the stereo

Also love the guitars under the second part of each of Axl's verses where he lets loose on the vocals

this is what i said back then right after CD was released, and i still feel exactly the same way.  : ok:

i saw the similar connection to ugly duckling, Rapunzel and Cinderella ;D

It's a grower.

I would love if they put out scraped now for the tour if it happens. It would be good promotion for them having a new song on the radio a good rocker . :peace:

This is my skydive song!

This would be a good opening for their concert.   Then follow it up with It's So Easy.  That would rock.  Rhiad would be a good opener too I think.

Scraped is an excellant song, but I feel the reason it's considered the best "rocker" on the album is beacuse it was fresh when it came out....We were already familular w/ CD,Better and Rihad so many gravitated towards Scraped (as did I).

How weird.

This song just came on randomly on my iTunes DJ, as I was reading the above post.....  :D


Yeah, would be amazing to hear it live. Just like the rest of the album....




/jarmo

It would be very cool if Gn'R divided the setlist between the entire new album and old classics like The Cure did when they played Rome last year.

i feel scraped and riad a pair. of superb grooves and nimble moovements.

great contrast to the slow heaviness of the following song, sorry.

+1

I keep imagining Ron and Tommy belting out the intro with Axl taking the lead vocals.  Wonder how they'll pull off that intro live....

Yeah three options I can see:

1. Get pitman to sample the background Axls, so then Axl can do 1 of the parts over the top.

2. Ignore the background parts, and have Axl just rip into a huge scream intro - similar to the famous "Do you know where the fuck you are?" thing with Jungle.

3. Forget the intro and just kick it off from the riffs....

I'd love this song live though, the lyrics sum up how I feel much of the time.

After all this time I got to said that this song has grow so much in me!

I come home after work and play this song out loud and it just put me in the fn' mood you know. Its like the day starts again you know...

Great song.

i think they should have worked this song better. It sounds incomplete, but its great still... i just wished they had worked on the intro a bit more

I disagree. IMO, it sounds just perfect. The live intro with drums is cool, but what makes the song to me is the guitar work - the heavy main riff and Bumble's awesome solo. Its one of my favorites besides Riad.

back to back those songs are slamming...you need Sorry after that assault. :nervous:

This song is motivational for me, and I feel it has a very strong message behind it.

I've been listening to this song a lot lately, reminds me of the awesome performances of it I saw in Canada!

Certainly hope the decide to play it Norway! I'm a big fan of the alternative intro.  :peace:

This song is unique in it's own way, in which we never heard it played live or had the title of the song rumoured before the release. I believe that it's the only song off of Chinese Democracy that we never even had any idea existed until the album release.

As soon as I heard the intro on the 20 sec (or so) album adverts, I knew I was going to love this song. They never played this song in Toronto, so I look forward to still hearing it in a live environment.  :)

The more I think about it, this song should have been the first single. Classic Axl swagger with some huge riffs, kick ass modern sounding solo, etc.  :P

oh well, no reason to cry over spilt milk.  :hihi:

Any song of the album could be a great single. This one is no exception and it would show a great hard side of the album.

I also think Scraped could make a great second song in the setlist of the shows, following Chinese. Hell, it could be an awesome begining. :)

i love the song except from the intro whaling, i think it would be better if it just started when it kicks in  :beer:

Awesome song, it sure is.. the beginning reminds me a bit about, the beginning of Tool - The Pot. I know that the songs are very very different, maybe just because i am a Tool fan, and The bot also starts with Maynard singing in a whole new way...

I totaly love the live intro to this song.!

This song was absolutely badass live.  The drum intro is monstrous!  As much as I love it in its current form I would love for them to release a remix with the drum intro and maybe mix it a little more thundering and heavy. 

The song is great, but it would have been great if it had that intro they do at the shows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6z8eCcb1Gg

^ This version kicks ass, especially the intro by Frank.  :)

I double and triple that!

I was shocked (in positive way ofc) when they played it in Prague. Great song. But only if czech crowd wasn't that lame...
On 00:09 is me, the only one that starts jumping  :rofl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M75aTeucl_E

HD video of Scraped in Prague.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poUEHP03DLU
Fucking amazing night, Axl's delay and the best setlist on Europan tour.

Scraped is the song that was my least favorite on CD. But fuck me this song is one of my favorites now. Its just really positive and uplifting. I need to hear it when I have to go somewhere I don't want to. It helps me me courage.

The first time I heard this was on those 15 sec, Best Buy commercials.

I remember being so excited to hear new music. And I new this song would be a catchy one, from the sound of those overdubbed, high intro vocals.  :drool:

Have always wondered if this had the working title of "Atlas Shrugged" - mainly because of the lyrics especially the "sometimes I feel like the world is on top of me" and then the bits about being stronger .  Atlas was the strong man who had the world on his shoulders .. just a thought  ?

No, Atlas Shrugged is a different song. Axl adressed something about it in his chats in 2008:


Fan: Hey Axl, is the song Atlas Shrugged as epic as the book? Who is your favorite character from the book?

Axl: Song doesn't have all that much to do with the book other than trying to do what you believe in and a line about shoulders not being wide enough.

If you havent already, check the whole thread:

http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=55296.0


And when he talked about rumored tracks:


Ides Of March, Oklahoma, Atlas Shrugged,  Oh My God, Silkworms , Down By The Ocean (Izzy), Leave Me Alone, Seven , The General , Thyme , Quick Song , Zodiac Most all titles subject to change w/out warning and r considered working titles.

Oh my god, all those rumoured song titles just makes my mouth  :drool:.

 : ok: Scraped does ROCK!  It's been my ringtone for over 2 years now  :hihi: