First song your going to listen to when you buy the Album

[JuicySwoos]

Then flip the vinyl over and finish with Prostitute.

I think it's two LPs.... 




/jarmo

Ooooh, thats right....Thanks for the heads up....I'll have the wifey put the second one on for me.

And speaking of LP.....Chin Dem is working its magic as AFD vinyl is moving up the best seller list on the Best Buy website.  As Mr Pitman says, you gotta listen to it on Vinyl!!!

[CoBrA2168]

Here is my projected order:

1. Scraped
2. Riad
3. This I Love
4. Madagascar
5. Sorry
6. Catcher
7. If The World
8. Prostitute
9. I.R.S.
10. There Was A Time
11. Shackler's Revenge
12. Street Of Dreams
13. Chinese Democracy
14. Better

I'm so excited to hear the final version of Riad you don't even know!!

[Continental Drift]

HAHA... Axl spends 15 years working on this masterpiece... including on settling on the perfect song order (God knows how long THAT took).... and people are skipping automatically to track 9 or whatever??!? To each their own I guess!

Not me. "Chinese Democracy" straight through to "Prostitute". And probably 5 times in a row (and I haven't even heard "Scraped", "Sorry" or "This I Love")...

[Axl Z]

Tempting as it will be to skip the first three tracks as I've heard them now, i'm going to have to listen to it all in order..
I've waited too long not to really!

Also, The more I hear on the radio the more this feels like Use Your Illusion III to me,
Chinese Democracy has the same hallmark lyrics like Civil War,  a protest song.
Shacklers Revenge remind me of Perfect Crimes speed and musical changes while Better, after hearing it on the radio last night reminded me of Don't Damn Me for some reason. some reviews have said that other track sounded like Estranged and November Rain.
In the end, I'm hoping this is gonna be the Sonic-Boom to the eardrums I've personally built it up to be!!

[Thinizzy]

Considering how long we have waited for this album, im going to listen to starting from track 1.  a few extra mins wont hurt .

[pilferk]

For me, its going to be Sorry. That, along with This I Love, Scraped, and Prostitute are the only ones I have not heard yet. Sorry sounds the most intriguing to me. So when I open up the package, Im skipping straight to that one.

Of the ones that I have heard..I wanna hear what the final mix of TWAT is like(my fav "new gnr" song)

Chinese Democracy....because it's the first song on the CD.

The first playthrough once it's in my hot little hands...I'll go start to finish.  Then I'll start skipping around.

I think you'll like Sorry.  I REALLY did....it's right up there for me.  But what struck me most is how well the material comes together as an ALBUM.  I said it somewhere else around here...it just "flows" really well.

[The Illusionist]

First two songs I'm going directly for is "Sorry" which is amazing.  Very underrated song.  And the 2nd will be "This I Love"...I believe this song was originally suppose to be in the Robin Williams movie "What Dreams May Come" but it never happened.  It does sound like it could be in that movie though.  I want to hear Axl's piano badly on a new song and this is the one.  Also amazing.

The finished Catcher in the Rye I'm also going to check out perhaps even before the others...it's one of my favorites...wonder how and what's been changed.

Not that "Sorry" is better than the others...it's just slow, dark, and amazing...just like Bach says it is...

[oldgunsfan]

Chinese Democracy and then the rest of the album in chronological order

[Continental Drift]

Tempting as it will be to skip the first three tracks as I've heard them now, i'm going to have to listen to it all in order..
I've waited too long not to really!

Also, The more I hear on the radio the more this feels like Use Your Illusion III to me,
Chinese Democracy has the same hallmark lyrics like Civil War,  a protest song.
Shacklers Revenge remind me of Perfect Crimes speed and musical changes while Better, after hearing it on the radio last night reminded me of Don't Damn Me for some reason. some reviews have said that other track sounded like Estranged and November Rain.
In the end, I'm hoping this is gonna be the Sonic-Boom to the eardrums I've personally built it up to be!!

I'm VERY much getting that feeling too- which is great since I prefer the Illusions above all else. It also shows that Axl really took on the challenge of continuing GN'R and the development of the GN'R sound from where it was in the early 90's IMHO. He didn't just say- "Ok- I own the name- I'm going to do whatever the hell I want." as many haters like to believe. Chinese Democracy will be right at home in our cd racks behind the rest of the GN'R catalog IMHO. That's an historic achievement.

[pilferk]

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Not that "Sorry" is better than the others...it's just slow, dark, and amazing...just like Bach says it is...

It sure is.  I wonder who he's talking to in that song.  I have some ideas, but the song predates at least ONE of them (Weiland).  Axl's pretty fucking brutal in it, but in a more understated way.  Sort of the polar opposite of "Get in the Ring", but just as biting...ya know?

[Axl Z]

Tempting as it will be to skip the first three tracks as I've heard them now, i'm going to have to listen to it all in order..
I've waited too long not to really!

Also, The more I hear on the radio the more this feels like Use Your Illusion III to me,
Chinese Democracy has the same hallmark lyrics like Civil War,  a protest song.
Shacklers Revenge remind me of Perfect Crimes speed and musical changes while Better, after hearing it on the radio last night reminded me of Don't Damn Me for some reason. some reviews have said that other track sounded like Estranged and November Rain.
In the end, I'm hoping this is gonna be the Sonic-Boom to the eardrums I've personally built it up to be!!

I'm VERY much getting that feeling too- which is great since I prefer the Illusions above all else. It also shows that Axl really took on the challenge of continuing GN'R and the development of the GN'R sound from where it was in the early 90's IMHO. He didn't just say- "Ok- I own the name- I'm going to do whatever the hell I want." as many haters like to believe. Chinese Democracy will be right at home in our cd racks behind the rest of the GN'R catalog IMHO. That's an historic achievement.

Yeah, I agree, I re-read my post before clicking the button as it felt a bit like a rant but in all honesty Use Your Illusion II has not left my CD changer since I put it in there around 8 years ago!! so it's totally not a bad thing that it reminds me of it.

I've just thought perhaps 'My World' wasn't such a strange song tagged on the end of II afterall? "guess what I'm doing now?"

[pilferk]

..I have heard and not really liked CITR,

You might want to give CITR another try, especially if you're judging it from something you heard awhile back.

It sounds a LOT different, a LOT tighter.  Same basic melody, but much different than you might expect.

[The Illusionist]

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Not that "Sorry" is better than the others...it's just slow, dark, and amazing...just like Bach says it is...

It sure is.  I wonder who he's talking to in that song.  I have some ideas, but the song predates at least ONE of them (Weiland).  Axl's pretty fucking brutal in it, but in a more understated way.  Sort of the polar opposite of "Get in the Ring", but just as biting...ya know?

I've been trying to think of who it's about too...sometimes I feel it's about the ex-band mates...because some of the lyrics sounds like they'd be directed towards more of a "brother-type" than a love of his life...

I can't really tell for sure although once the album comes out I'm sure I'll listen to it enough times to figure it out better

[stinkfist]

I'll probably skip the first 2 songs since I heard them over 1000 times now!    Then go in order
Can't believe I'm actually hoping for a Sunday to come quicker.  

[The Illusionist]

..I have heard and not really liked CITR,

You might want to give CITR another try, especially if you're judging it from something you heard awhile back.

It sounds a LOT different, a LOT tighter.  Same basic melody, but much different than you might expect.

You've heard the album version?  Are those that like the original going to be disappointed?

[pilferk]

I've been trying to think of who it's about too...sometimes I feel it's about the ex-band mates...because some of the lyrics sounds like they'd be directed towards more of a "brother-type" than a love of his life...

I can't really tell for sure although once the album comes out I'm sure I'll listen to it enough times to figure it out better

That one's gonna get repeated playings by me, too....

I got the same impression:  Bandmate or someone "out there" in the industry that's done Axl wrong.  Definitely not a "love interest", IMHO.  There's a couple of lines in there...you almost wonder if he's talking about a specific kind of "fan".  I don't know...but it's pretty brutal, like I said.

[pilferk]

You've heard the album version?  Are those that like the original going to be disappointed?

At the listening party in NYC last night.

Nope, I don't think they'll be disappointed.  It just sounds a lot more "finished" and "polished".  It's got the same basic song structure...but it's punched up a LOT. I liked it, before...but I didn't love it.   I was pleasantly surprised when I heard it....

[The Illusionist]

A few friends of mine weren't really into Catcher all that much either when I played it to them...I like it because it was extremely different to anything I've heard by GNR...all while telling me a story with great lyrics which I have assumed to be about Mark David Chapman...

I'm a huge lyrics fan...obviously I also have to like the song as a whole...but the lyrics are one of the most important pieces to me...

And Axl, as always, has done a phenominal job with the lyrics on this whole album...

[whiny]

A few friends of mine weren't really into Catcher all that much either when I played it to them...I like it because it was extremely different to anything I've heard by GNR...all while telling me a story with great lyrics which I have assumed to be about Mark David Chapman...

I'm a huge lyrics fan...obviously I also have to like the song as a whole...but the lyrics are one of the most important pieces to me...

And Axl, as always, has done a phenominal job with the lyrics on this whole album...

because i heard the whole album yesterday in new york, i think i'll listen to some particular songs first when i get the vinyl on sunday: catcher, shackler, sorry, this i love, scraped, irs. then everything from track 1-14

[pilferk]

because i heard the whole album yesterday in new york, i think i'll listen to some particular songs first when i get the vinyl on sunday: catcher, shackler, sorry, this i love, scraped, irs. then everything from track 1-14

I'm picking up a copy of the vinyl essentially for framing (and I'll use the free album download).

But I'm SORELY tempted to pick up a turn table at BB, buy Appetite on Vinyl, and then give BOTH a listen in that format.