Fat-Drunk wrote:

war wrote:

personally, i worry that cd was the best of all the songs. it clearly was a melting pot of songs. if they had 14 more songs of this quality they could have paired them up better to give the album more flow and a common sound. i'm sure they're are a few gems left but, like James said, I don't expect the second coming of Jesus, just axl.

the only other possibility i see is that cd was the monkey that he got off of his back and axl has already moved on to album 2 which will be a more cohesive, less dated, and more relevant album.

that would explain the lack of promo/touring behind cd 1.

It's safe to say the leaks had a great deal of influence on the tracklist.

they wouldn't have leaked if they were not on the launch pad

I remember going there last December to pick up Dark Knight and looked at the GNR chinese democracy display, I'd say at most 10 cds were sold--there was still a majority left in the display rack.