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faldor

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Re: Nothin'

faldor wrote:

I’m in the camp that likes Nothin’ more than Atlas. Pleasantly surprised with how it turned out. The first song in a long time that we haven’t had much to go off when listening to the Final Cut, so maybe that was a factor. I don’t think Atlas is bad, but the lack of freshness probably contributed.

Not that I expected these songs to be smash hits but they don’t appear in the iTunes Rock charts yet. Never mind the overall top 200. Are they still too new? I tend to remember their other recent singles at least climbing the charts initially before they were forgotten. “Perhaps” especially since there was an actual music video.

Bill Brasky

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Re: Nothin'

Bill Brasky wrote:

I haven't seen credits anywhere. I know what you mean about island sounding lick

Per YouTube
Producer, Vocalist: Axl Rose
Mixing Engineer, Producer, Engineer: Caram Costanzo
Additional Engineer: Eric Caudieux
Background Vocalist: Duff McKagan
Composer Lyricist: Guns N' Roses

Just a hunch, but I doubt Izzy is getting screwed on writing credits, even with the current bad blood between the two camps.

If it was just a rough demo and frame work that was changed a lot then he wouldn't get a credit.

Where's Izzy's creditd Velvet Revolver's contraband ? No bad blood there.

BLS-Pride

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BLS-Pride wrote:

Atlas is still trash. But Nothin is growing on me..Slash really elevated the song. The vocals melodies are quite good as well.

Monsters still takes the crown from these new old songs.

harmon420

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Re: Nothin'

harmon420 wrote:

Atlas is still trash. But Nothin is growing on me..Slash really elevated the song. The vocals melodies are quite good as well.

Monsters still takes the crown from these new old songs.

This is my sentiment as well. It's borderline tragedy that Monsters is just gathering dust. It's everything you'd expect of a "current" GN'R track. Love the bridge and the guitar licks that lead into it. 

Having said that....Nothin is a fucking banger. Vocals are nice and melodies are great but, Slash shines on this track. He really takes it to that next level.

jimmythegent

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jimmythegent wrote:

This is the best song of the leftovers post-reunion by some distance. Slash sounding like Slash, Axl killing it. Sounds great. Wonder when the vocals were done and who's drumming?

guts

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guts wrote:

Song writing credits for both songs

Axl S

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Axl S wrote:

If there is somewhere a 00s Bucket version of Nothin, I really hope we get a chance to hear it one day.

WARose

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WARose wrote:

A great Song. Nice to See what That turd from the village Sessions turned into.

sp1at

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sp1at wrote:

Yeah I like Nothing too, probably the best of the post CD songs to be fair

'On a restless sea' = Down by the ocean/Down by the sea? probably not but who knows. I remember Axl saying Fink played an SRV style solo on one song, I would imagine that was Nothing.

I had this thought too. A theory could be Down By The Ocean could have been a working title based on the island-sounding guitar lick. Seems like something Izzy could come up with. The big thing that goes against it is the demo had no mention of bodies of water in the lyrics. What are the writing credits?

it's not Down by the Ocean, which also wasn't Box