Hey, could someone hook me up with the latest rip of SR?

Is it significant, I wonder, that they've picked a song with a Bumblefoot solo and a minimal presence from Finck for the first official release from Chinese Democracy?

Hello, everyone. Um, with my usual brilliant timing I buggered off on holiday for a week just as the song leaked... can anyone hook me up with a PM?

The irony is that with time and distance, the (one-sided) feud between GN'R and Nirvana seems laughably irrelevant and petty (and, of course, like most of Nirvana's negative points, was exacerbated by That Bitch Courtney).

For all Cobain's posturing about being "anti-industry", he ended up becoming the mainstream. All the guff about "grunge changing the face of music forever" has, over time, ended up with grunge just being another "swing of the pendulum", a phase music went through. As far as the kids listening to both bands are concerned, they both fall under the broad church of "rock".

And, yes, irony of ironies, Grohl has ended up churning out bland, cookie-cutter mainstream rock. I really hope Chinese Democracy emerges from the wilderness and blows him away.

Rockstar For A Day
Wasted Away
Time
Overloaded
Breaking Away
Shadow

Actually, just d/l the Normal album; it's got a really great narrative running through it, and each song contributes to it.