Ha! It really makes little sense. Release singles in between touring cycles to help sell tickets for the next tour? Are they selling more tickets now because of these two songs? We’ll obviously take what we can get, but it’s puzzling.

And I’m assuming Team Brazil was behind the drone show to promote tickets going on sale for the tour. I’ve also heard there are billboards promoting the two songs in LA. So it’s like they do show signs of life but do nothing with the band to back it up. It’s silent marketing. It would almost make more sense if they did nothing because we know they’re not going all in.

They came out with a music video that no one expected for Perhaps. That was awesome. Then they came out with that AI video for The General. That was, something. They even had lyric videos for other songs. Nothing for these latest songs though? Meanwhile Monsters sits collecting dust. None of it makes much sense to me.

Update, Nothin’ jumped up past All I Want for Christmas is You to get to #3 and Atlas is at #5. Interesting that Nothin’ is getting more love than Atlas. I wouldn’t have guessed that prior to hearing Nothin’ in full. Definitely agree though. Song is really growing on me. Doesn’t hurt that they were somehow able to keep that one under wraps all these years for the most part.

I agree. TB gets a lot of hate, and I totally get it, but I do think they’ve kept Axl sane over the years and in the business. Granted they let him work at his own pace, and don’t seem to push him in any real way but he had lots of issues with managers before they took over and he was obviously fed up with the industry.

Who knows how much of it is incompetence on the part of TB or if it’s more Axl only wanting to do so much. I mean they had a damn drone light show to announce the tour in LA. Was that necessary? It’s like they want to do things but certainly not to the level of most bands their stature. Is that their fault or are they doing what they know they can get away with?

And by the way, I am really digging Slash’s work on Nothin’. Seems like a song Axl could pull off live too, until he gets to the high parts. Sounds great in studio, we’ll see in a live setting.

I’m in the camp that likes Nothin’ more than Atlas. Pleasantly surprised with how it turned out. The first song in a long time that we haven’t had much to go off when listening to the Final Cut, so maybe that was a factor. I don’t think Atlas is bad, but the lack of freshness probably contributed.

Not that I expected these songs to be smash hits but they don’t appear in the iTunes Rock charts yet. Never mind the overall top 200. Are they still too new? I tend to remember their other recent singles at least climbing the charts initially before they were forgotten. “Perhaps” especially since there was an actual music video.

Maye has been fantastic the last 4 weeks. He was good the first few weeks but too many turnovers. He’s played mistake free since then. Needs to stay out of harm’s way though when scrambling out of the pocket.

They have played a really easy schedule. Thing is though, it doesn’t really get much tougher the rest of the way. They only have 3 games remaining against teams that currently have a winning record (Falcons, Bucs, Bills). They do face the Ravens, Bengals, and Giants who I guess aren’t pushovers but they could go 3-3 or better in those 6 games. It’s all about health and taking care of the football though. They need to tighten up their pass defense too. They’ve been making bad QBs look better than they are for stretches this year.