Start your bets for the new single!

[GnR-NOW]

I hope it would be Better, Chinese Democracy, and TWAT.  TWAT is probably the most epic, but who knows what the other songs sound like

[whiny]

Better ! it's the best song i've heard of all the new one's and it has the potential to probaly be the biggest song off the album.  GnR first single in 14 years needs to be a bang and its BETTER.

from the ones we have heard: better. definitely.

[Bodhi]

I would have to say "Better", it is the most catchy song of the tracks I have heard...although I LOVE "Shacklers Revenge"

[novemberparadise23]

I can't really say since we haven't heard Sorry, Scraped, This I love, and we are not sure if we have heard Street of Dreams, and Prostitute. However I would love to have Catcher in The Rye, or Catcher as its shown here released at some point as a single.

[Annie]

I really love BETTER!

[Verse Chorus Verse]

Better. Definetely

I'm going to agree here.

[Olorin]

Is it a coincidence that Better is so popular, and that Axl sounds more like W. Axl Fucking Rose on that song than any of the other songs we have heard?

If Axl *cough -  had a #2, nudge nudge wink wink - in that Better voice, people would be struck dead from orgasm overdose.

Dead I tells ye!!

[D]

I have been wanting to hear "This I Love' For 12 years now or whenever I first heard the big rumored title.

Does anyone have the interview where Axl first talks or mentions this song? Isn't it suppose to be like the third part of NR and Estranged or something?

[cocoscum]

I'm going with Better. Ever since WAAF played the leaks, when I mention Chi-Dem around people that aren't die-hard fans, they tell me they heard that song and they liked it.

[GNRVahland]

Title song !!!

[GNR4L]

I think we have a winner !!! "Better"

[ben9785]

I don't think "Shackler's Revenge" and "If the World" could be contenders for a single since they've already been 'released' in a promotional sense.

I'd say the first single could possibly be either "Madagascar", "Better" or "Scraped/Lies They Tell".

I think alot of people are familiar with "Madagascar" from VMAs etc and has good feedback.

"Better" seems to have the most potential as a radio friendly, catchy, melodic straight ahead rock song.

"Scraped/Lies They Tell" I considered since it could be a hard rocker if they've slated it in between the title track and "Shackler's Revenge". And nobody's heard it before either..

[gnrvr.]

Chinese Democracy
then Better as second single
as Third TWAT

[ShotgunBlues1978]

Better is the best overall single but that doesn't mean it has to be the lead single.  Personally I think that it's best to release your best single second

Obviously haven't heard the song, but I like the sound of Scraped just based on the fact that it's a Buckethead song.  That combined with the title leads me to believe that it could be a real heavy, in your face song.  I think the best idea would be to release something heavy and aggressive for the lead single so they can let people know they're back

So, I would say (if it's a heavy, aggressive song) release Scraped because nobody has heard it.  Otherwise, lead off with Chinese.  Better for the second single.

What's interesting is that they have a lot of singles that could get airplay on different formats.  CD, IRS, Rhiad, Shackler's would go over well on rock radio.  If The World and The Blues could both be hits on pop/mainstream stations. 

Better would get airplay on all of the above which makes it the best overall single but I would still lead off with something else more aggressive

[ShotgunBlues1978]

I have been wanting to hear "This I Love' For 12 years now or whenever I first heard the big rumored title.

Does anyone have the interview where Axl first talks or mentions this song? Isn't it suppose to be like the third part of NR and Estranged or something?

I believe he mentions it in either the 1999 Kurt Loder interview or the 2000 Rolling Stone interview

Patti Hood, who plays harp on the song, said it was one of the most beautiful songs she'd ever heard, based on that description it sounds like another Axl piano epic

[King Axl]

I think as far as a radio-friendly single goes, "Better" is probably the most obvious choice.

I'd personally like to have "Sorry" be the leadoff single, given that Baz has commented on it being a really heavy song.

[bazgnr]

Better.  No song says "We're back" like this one, especially when the first verse kicks in.

[Jack49]

Better! By far... Up next after that has to be TWAT, what a masterpiece

[whiny]

Chinese Democracy
then Better as second single
as Third TWAT

second singles are often balladesque songs. so catcher or this i love as second, i'd say.

[damnthehaters]

scraped