elevendayempire wrote:

James wrote:

If those songs hadn't leaked.....they wouldn't have been released.

That's a pattern for 21st century GNR. If leaks don't happen.... nothing gets released.

Only reason Chinese Democracy had three unheard songs is because they needed to pad out the album.

Yeah, but my point is... you don't get to complain that a song "isn't new" to you when you made the conscious decision to download an incomplete demo version of it before the artist chose to release it. If you'd chosen not to listen to it, then the song would be new to you if/when the polished, Slashified version popped up on Spotify (if indeed it ever did so).

That goes double when we had no inkling that many of the near-complete tracks from the lock-up auction, like Perhaps, existed. If Axl had chosen to release them on his own timetable, for all we knew they would've been entirely new songs cooked up by the NITL lineup. They certainly would've represented music that was new to us.

Would Axl have released them without the demos leaking? Who can say; it's irrelevant to the point I'm making.

I get what you're saying now.

After CD was released and how anticlimactic it was, I swore to myself I would ignore all leaks so I could properly experience a new GNR album....an experience I hadn't had since I was a teenager.

Of course...that was when we were expecting its followup on a normal timetable. I know some other fans felt the same.

It quickly reached the point where I just said fuck it....if it leaks....I listen.

Why wait when two things could happen....

They go years without releasing the leaked material

I drop dead from a heart attack or get run over by a bus

It's a very unusual, strange band to be a fan of. Absolutely nothing substantial is guaranteed to occur....and more than likely won't.

It's why the hardcore base 100% jumped all over that box set like Roseanne Barr on a loose meat sandwich.

The Axl screams in State of Grace are cool as fuck, throw Slash and Duff on there ala Hardschool and Absurd and I'm a happy camper.

Perhaps is a great song too.

At this point, put those out, maybe something like a re-worked OMG or something similar and it would be a nice little EP for us kiddos.

What makes me sad is most of my favourite bands are winding up and or dying and whatever. It's the way of things. But I'd rather this stuff came out before it's too late. Hopefully they feel the same way.