So much for "13 tuesdays left," etc, etc and all the counting down of tuesdays in 2006. haha

Wonder when it will be out here in Ireland? Most likely the day after - Monday 24th. Monday is the day records usually comes out.

Can somebody send me some Pop Music please? Thanks

Eh? Not satire. Newsnight is a serious news program in Britain.

Unless you found it funny?

Holy fuck! This is the news we've been waiting to hear forever. Biggest news ever regarding this album i think.

To be honest I'm happy enough. From Axl's point of view, 8 of the 14 songs have been made public officially which is ok. On one level its disappointing not to hear new songs but on another, its great to wrap up all these songs once and for all.

What if we never heard a full version of Catcher, don't think anyone predicted it would be on the album. As for This I Love, I thought was a lost song and didn't think we'd ever hear it. Its the most mythical song of all. Everyone always assumed thes wouldn't make the album, so this is great news to have these two songs.

Perhaps Axl decided the second album will be all brand new material. It has to be, unless he includes Oh My God which is unlikely. His idea might be, get all the songs people have heard out of the way, plus a couple more of the most talked about songs (This I Love and Sorry), I wild card and then the next album can be a complete surprise.

It would make sense if scraped was checkmate because it would every song we've heard in some is on the album. I think this is good, it wraps up that old era, we get all those songs that have been worked on for ages and Axl and the band can move on.

On the name change, I think the Blues is a very generic name for a song so I'm happy he changed it. Not that it really matters, I guess.

The only surprise -

How come There Was A Time doesn't finish the album. That solo:drool::buckethead:

I always thought it was a perfect finish. Oh well, I love prostitute so...

One more thing...we know that all these songs have been around for years and years. Why wasn't this album released in 2004 or earlier.

This I Love goes back to 1993/94 interview
IRS, TWAT, Catcher, CD, Madagascar and Prostitute were mentioned in the RS interview (1999) (not sure if they were all mentioned but they were all around back then)
Street of Dreams and Rhiad were played in 2002
Better and If The World have BH on guitar (pre-2004)
Scraped and Shacklers have buckethead credits (pre-2004)
Sorry mentioned by Bach in late 2006

So at least 13 of the 14 songs hark back to before Buckethead left 4 years ago and that was the number of songs mentioned by Axl in the RS interview a couple of years back. So he's spent 4 years fine tuning. Or working on a future album