I’ll be happy to listen to reworked CD era songs by the current line. The more appealing prospect is older versions leaking around the same time.

But for all the pretense of Axl’s Tegridy, Guns N’ Roses is a traveling bank at this point who will be releasing an album comprising of material written by 10+ writers from 20+ years ago.

No different from say... Beyoncé.

#RockNRoll #rad

I need another spin tomorrow but these versions are like 95% there for me.

I like the additional lyric in “If The World” but miss the drum and guitar stings, the la la la interlude, and extended synth intro. The album version bridge slows it down and gives it more of a thematic arc. Mostly better here but missing some of those good decisions.

“Sorry” is by and large superior in every way. Missing that Bucket outro solo and the bridge solo is a little more raw and sloppy but everything else is incredible. The heavier synth gives levity to it but retains that groovy gloomy flavor. The pounding riff just knocks you over the head. It’s so Motörhead we’re playing at 10 and fuck you tock n roll.

“Shankler’s” is another hatchet job by re-recording and Caram and Axl poor decision making. The riff is way heavier the stab riff has a serial killer Halloween vibe instead of obnoxious riffing feel of the finished album. The bass and reworked sections on album give it a more funky danceable vibe. That’s actually a theme of further re-recording. Axl tries to stick a hook on the “TWAT” prechorus (thinking about it makes me physically sick) but the better example are Bumblefoot’s “Oh My God” and “Silkworms”. More funk and disco in search for of hooks.

I still don’t care for PRL. Crystal Method rip-off. Real Doll sounds dated but I dig the riff and is better than PRL.

I want to hear Cuban Skies out of morbid curiosity. And older This I Love.

Come to daddy.