It's so fucking bad it sounds like the fucking track is skipping!!!

FUCK, people.

I completely respect your opinion and think it's great that every loves different songs, but I can't fathom how you don't like TIL's vocals. They are absolutely wrought with emotion; the really long 'goodbye' at the end absolutely killed me the first time I heard it.  And the first verse, the way he goes from that beautiful new clean lower register straight up into a rougher high register is just perfect to me.

I couldn't disagree more; I love the Twat intro. I want to try and explain what I think it is/means, although it's kinda hard. You know in the Estranged video where they filmed Axl in the kid's room when he climbed up on top or the wardrobe(?) and went to sleep during the shoot and said it was the most peaceful sleep he'd had? Well a lot of the emotional shit he'd dealt with on the record goes in tandem with all his baggage about being abused, going through regressional therapy etc. The sounds in the Twat intro bring to my mind the sound of broken toys, kinda like the soundtrack in a manchild's head as he's emotionally cowering in some dark place or going back in his head to some time long ago.

I think that all of the pain over Steph that comes out in Twat will have resulted in serious despression (well, we know this for a fact) and that at times he will have been catatonic, like a beaten child, and just emotionally broken. That intro, the choir and those sounds are like a little soundtrack to that place.

What these idiotic music critics don't understand is that Axl is not some sodding kid in an idie band playing guitar and singing silly pop songs. The guy deals in heavy emotion. He gets severely clinically depressed and takes years to get over failed relationships. All of the sweeping, grand arrangements in the songs convey his mental and emotional landscapes. Just because you don't have those ups and downs doesn't mean they don't exist.

As for punchy, catchy intros, I couldn't give a toss. This isn't Appetite, it's not a bunch of songs about birds, drinking, drugs and sex. The Better intro is superb.  Maybe the first and only time Axl has ever sung true falsetto ( funny that he doesn't sing falsetto when doing it live). It sounds completely unique and was magic last night when Zane Lowe played it. Like nothing else he played. When the songs ki9cks in with 'The hardest part...' that's the friggin punchy intro for you right there!

I love the IRS intro. Again, sounds so different to me. It's kinda cool to have a lower key beginning and intro to a song that, like Better, is a fairly standard verse/chorus/bridge/screamy bit format.

And lastly, how you can criticise Axl's vocals is absolutely beyond me. I too was hoping that Sod and Maddy would have amazing new vocals; I really thought those were rough, one-take demos. I'm especially cheesed off with the cut and paste job on the new SoD lyrics at the end. However, it is absolutely indisputable to me that Axl's vocals are overall totally magnificent. Go and listen to any of his contemporaries, whether the vocally bankrupt and shot Jon Bon Jovi or the monotonous Hetfield and compare their most recent efforts. Axl uses about 20 different fucking voices on this album, probably more, and uses technology and layering etc to create so many amazing sounds with his voice. You reckon Hetfield/Jovi etc could pull off an acapella intro like Scraped?! Dream on. If there's one thing that every fan, critic and hater should be able to agree on it's that Axl has just jumped up a hell of a lot higher in the list of all time greatest singers.

I'm not gonna bother with 128kbps files. If it doesn't leak in Flac before it's released then I don't wanna listen to low quality files and pretend it's anything like the vinyl.

Ha ha. Gonna changed my Facebook status to 'Jordan is ecstatic that Twat has leaked in full!'