*Enters incessant whining mode*

They've now officially scraped the bottom of the incompetence barrel.

The Stones released the Angry vinyl within days of announcement....GNR/TB had 2 months and still wasn't enough time.

I'm sticking to my theory that sales are pure shit... regardless of them briefly claiming it was sold out....and they're going to delay it hoping for more sales. If sales don't increase, they'll shit can it.

The Perhaps single is already dead/old news and since no one but a few hundred people know of The General's existence, they'll get no blowback from pulling it.

If the goddamn thing was sold out, that first batch would already be on the way. Things that sell like hotcakes do not get delayed.

Yeah and I laughed like a hyena on crack when Axl himself referred to them as that.

I was one of those people. I was expecting a mind fuck like Slayer meets The Cure. Now that's real fire and ice.

I still don't like it although don't hate it to the extent I did back in the day.

Luckily my hopes for The General are nothing like they were in the 2000s. Like I mentioned earlier, at best it will be another Riad or Madagascar.

If it was on the level of peak Floyd like some used to believe, they wouldn't have sat on it for 20 years.

Hopefully he's doing well. When people from those days leave and never pop back up, I always wonder if they're even alive.

I assume you remember EFISH, Robman, and Tommie?

They're dead.

Some others died over the past 15 years but don't remember their names at the moment.

KV pops up every now and then... usually when a song comes out.

In my youth...my expectations were through the roof.

Now? Just expecting a decent song... somewhere between Riad and Madagascar quality, if we're lucky.

Thank God it's so close.

I only got to listen to it a couple times and then was gone all weekend. Mainly watched/read about the war since getting back.

Listened again today.

Best song...

Shocking that he hit one final home run. Didn't know he had it in him.

That and Sweet Sounds of Heaven are the main highlights.

Whole Wide World and Depending On You pretty good.

I'll say this though...it's definitely missing something Not just Charlie.

The backing vocals don't seem as distinctive as they do on most Stones albums. I'm also wondering how much if any AI was used because their vocals just seem too crisp for men in their 80s. Listen to a recent Keith interview...then listen to Tell Me Straight.

I need to listen more before fully judging it. More songs may stand out.

Right now I'll say...

Not as good as Steel Wheels or Voodoo Lounge...better than Babylon and Bigger Bang.

I still gotta listen to the new Waters album. Only heard it that first day.

I don't remember Beta being there at that time. Weird. My memory ain't what it used to be.

Mysteron was the big enchilada in the 2000s. Went quite a few rounds with him although we generally got along.

Fun fact (that you may already know):

Mysteron was an account shared by two people. We found this out many years later. It explained why he liked me half the time and didn't know who I was the other half. Don't remember exactly who but one was a journalist.

Back around 2015 or so I got high and was in the mood for memory lane. I remembered this long crazy debate with ppbebe that went on for pages and days back in early 2006.

It was no longer there.

While there were various interactions with her still on the forum, that discussion was definitely gone and my post count looked different too (lower).

It was a discussion over that Slash-Beta-Axl-Weiland fiasco. I guess it's no surprise that it's gone.