First Single (What should it be + RUMOR)

[kyrie]

Anyone care to take a stab at what the first single will/should be?

There Was A Time
IRS
The Blues
Madagascar
Better
Chinese Democracy

Something else? Personally Madagascar is still my favorite track, though an improved TWAT could be good. IRS has had a lot of radio play from the leak so I'm not sure we need to see it as a single.

From MyGNR (insert gripes here, now, move on):

"Just talked to a buddy of mine who is a DJ for a rock station here in Florida. He's always asking me for "insider" info on wrestling whenever we chat (he's a huge wrestling fan and I work in the wrestling business). Anyway, I figured I'd turn the tables on him for once and asked what he'd been hearing about Chinese Democracy if anything. He said his station was promised to be one of the first to receive the new GNR single if they resisted playing IRS. He confirmed that Prostitute is expected to be the single and that it's scheduled to go for adds the first week of April, but that stations that didn't play IRS would probably get it a week earlier. He also said he'd heard that the album drops the first week of June, which is interesting because I saw June 6 mentioned here on the board, but then it vanished. I was hoping the album would be out sooner, but at this point, what's another couple months?"

[jameslofton29]

http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=26131.0

[kyrie]

yes yes I saw that after. Still curious on people's opinion though, and that thread really doesn't cover said topic.

[killingvector]

Prostitute

perfect title for a GnR single.

[BLS-Pride]

It is.. and a 6/6/06 is a hell of a release date. 

[boston]

epic's like TWAT are not first single material

BETTER should be the first single....TWAT later 3rd single maybe would work

[killingvector]

It is.. and a 6/6/06 is a hell of a release date. 

My wife and I have another surprise which may drop on that day too.

[BLS-Pride]

The Better love needs to end. Its not going to be the first single. Id rather hear a new song anyway... And Prostitute SOUNDS like a GnR song.

[Axl4Prez2004]

Awesome!   
  D-Day!  Time to storm the fuckin beaches at Normandy!  ...Video lead-in...asshole reporters waiting in fortifications on the high-ground blasting off machine gun rounds at the new ship GNR as it comes ashore to free the rock world from other shitty music. 

[Funral]

better is the best choice for a first single. all fans will love it,
and new people who don't know guns n'roses will love it too.

the intro is original for a guns n'roses song, it's modern, and it kicks ass.

not to mention fantastic lyrics!........."Better" should indeed be the first single!

[RichardNixon]

I love TWAT but I don't think it should be the first single.

Of the songs I've heard, I'd go with "Better." Remember that the Illusion albums kicked off w/ "Don't Cry." If you don't count KOHD and YCBM from previous soundtracks.

[Gaymo, the Hobbit]

yea, i'd also go for better or irs as first single. twat is too complicated for the masses as a first single.

[Steel_Angel]

better

[BLS-Pride]

How do you people feel so strongly about Better as the first single when you haven't heard the whole album? Better could be one of the bottom tier songs.. Who knows..

[Spirit]

How do you people feel so strongly about Better as the first single when you haven't heard the whole album? Better could be one of the bottom tier songs.. Who knows..

One of Axl's favourites though...

[BLS-Pride]

Doesn't mean its the best. I want a fresh song. And I think thats what we will get. Better is too far from the GnR sound to be the FIRST single.. Maybe a single but not the first. And that article said it was .. They could just ran wit some titles he said.

[boston]

Of the songs I've heard, I'd go with "Better." Remember that the Illusion albums kicked off w/ "Don't Cry." If you don't count KOHD and YCBM from previous soundtracks.

CIVIL WAR was also released long before UYI, Romanian Children Relief record

[Neemo]

I love TWAT but I don't think it should be the first single.

Of the songs I've heard, I'd go with "Better." Remember that the Illusion albums kicked off w/ "Don't Cry." If you don't count KOHD and YCBM from previous soundtracks.

Don't forget Civil War was out before Don't Cry too (and it's a long "complicated" song for radio) (Damn RichardNixon Beat me too )

And we don't even know how better ends!!! How can you possibly judge it!! I know what we've heard so far is cool, but, personally, I need the whole picture before I can Judge the song. And we have no idea what other songs will be on the CD or what they sound like. (just like BLS-Pride said)

From the stuff we've heard, I think "The Blues" might make it to be the first single just cuz it's closest to the UYI GnR that everyone fell in love with. Think about it from a general public standpoint.

(Thoughts from random joe blow listening to the radio sometime in the future, "Wow, GnR does that new song The Blues...Cool!!! They still sound like they did on UYI's!!! I'm gonna buy the CD!" Flawless strategy if they want easy record sales IMO.)

[Spirit]

Doesn't mean its the best. I want a fresh song. And I think thats what we will get. Better is too far from the GnR sound to be the FIRST single.. Maybe a single but not the first. And that article said it was .. They could just ran wit some titles he said.

Don't you think Axl decides what the first single will be, my guess is he picks the song HE thinks is best...

[BLS-Pride]

And he may not have wanted to give away others.. Or the interview didn't post the others. Dont buy into his favorite too much.