I'd always figured those titles from the Kerrang article were bullshit, simply because not a single one has ever been confirmed anywhere else. Plus, Kerrang is the same magazine that about 10 years ago published that Nine Inch Nails was releasing an album called "Impossible Pain" along with a remix album called "Improbable Pain" which supposedly had mixes by brother Bob Reznor and a homeless guy Trent found in an alley behind the studio. Only one problem - the information was lifted straight off of a web page that was intended as a parody. If Kerrang had bothered to do any fact checking, they would have quickly found out that it was all bullshit. Obviously, Kerrang's source for the GNR tracks was just as credible.

To be fair, this was taken from a full page of political cartoons. It shouldn't be taken too seriously, even if the joke falls a bit flat to the hardcores like us. At least it's one more little way of getting the word out that Chinese Democracy has been released.

Some of these stations that are still going strong with Chinese Democracy may simply not be ready to put a second GNR single into heavy rotation yet. Let's hope that when CD runs out of steam that they won't forget about Better.

I was thinking the same thing today about releasing the separate tracks and letting the fans make their own mixes. Reznor has done this for his last three albums, and there are literally thousands of fan mixes of his songs out there now. Imagine what you could do with all the different variations that would go into a Chinese Democracy song. Do you use Freese, Brain, or Frank's tracks? Finck, Bucket, or Bumble's solos? Do you push the strings higher into the mix to accentuate the melody, or emphasize the guitars? The possibilities would be endless.

And speaking of GNR fan mixes, I'm really diggin' the Shackler's Revenge Club Mix by Imsorry. I think I like it better than the original.