AFD was the first GN'R record (full) that I listened to.

And I didn't attach myself to it all that much. I probably skipped My Michelle & Think About You for a year. But listened to You're Crazy [electric] & Anything Goes.

Now I feel that latter two aren't near as strong, and what in the fuck I was missing with the other two, which are great.

I love all of this GN'R material from beginning to present, but I think war is totally right. Had the coin been flipped, I think alot (not all) would change their tune.

If AFD subtracted You're Crazy [electric] & Anything Goes, and replaced it with Move To The City, Patience, Used To Love Her & You're Crazy [acoustic], it'd = a masterpiece. Just like if the Illusions merged, it'd = a masterpiece.

I don't know yet how CD will shape up. I sure hope I come away from it with that impression. Riad I think is average, but the rest of the songs are EXTREMELY strong imo, and we haven't even heard Scraped, Sorry or This I Love, and I get the feeling Sorry & This I Love will be in "Coma"/"Estranged" territory, and if that's the case, I just might consider CD a masterpiece on it's own.

Neemo, you make valid points. But I think if someone ALREADY isn't a fan of the new band, most likely won't be going into BBY to buy the album anyways.

If OLD GN'R is a soundtrack to your life, that's cool, I think alot of us can relate, I can. But some of the new songs are just as much a soundtrack to some of us, because we've heard them for years in some form or another. When the world is getting me down, for years my mind immediately went into Estranged-mode, but for the last couple years, my mind immediately does to Madagascar. Just this last week, my best friend's wife pulled some MAJOR bullshit with him, and I could think about this weekend was Street of Dreams. It fits that cunt well.

If you can't wrap your mind around someone being able to put new GN'R songs with the old on a 'best of' list, I think it's more of a comment on the fact that at the end of the day - you just don't really think the new stuff is all that great, and you might be fighting it in some way. Me, the role is reversed, at times i'm embarrassed at how much I LOVE the new stuff, because it doesn't seem to be the "cool" or "popular" opinion to have among diehards or casual fans alike.

CD is going to end up splitting the fan world right down the middle imo, if it hasn't already begun. This album's imminent release is unearthing emotions in GN'R fans, where people's true opinions are going to start cropping up.

I think we've already started to enter those "uncharted waters".

Other than Riad, the entire CD tracklist is stronger than You're Crazy [electric] & Anything Goes. Prositute & TWAT is stronger than anything on AFD. Out Ta Get Me & SCOM are vastly overrated.

The rest of the album is strong imo, and imo Think About You is vastly underrated.

I understand people view AFD as a masterpiece, and that's fine, but imo if you combine a few top-tier tracks from Lies on AFD, combine UYI 1 & 2, and this have a tri-face off between AFD/Lies vs. UYI vs. CD...

I do think CD has a fair shake in that competition.

You guys I think are approaching this with a bias that - "only nu-GNR fans would actually think CD can compete with AFD", when it reality what you're not realizing is - "only AFD fans would NOT understand that CD can be as good as AFD".

It all depends on the perception of the fan. But not all of us feel AFD is untouchable.

My top-5 only features ONE AFD song - Jungle. The rest is Illusion I, II & CD.

I hate to break it to you kozy, but 'Street of Dreams' will be the name.

Considering the fact it's been called The Blues for years, and even referred to as 'The Blues', the name change is probably final.

I don't quite understand it either, considering the big hook, the main name in the chorus is 'The Blues' to change to the name to 'Street of Dreams'.

Unless Street of Dreams is an entirely new song, and The Blues has been axed from CD I.