not to seem argumentative but who the fuck are you to tell me which one is better?
i love appetite and UYI, they're both classics in my mind and certainly in most rock music lover's minds. but quite frankly i don't want another appetite, i want something i haven't quite heard before, oh sure you can "oh SR is rob zombie and NIN" etc etc but GNR, for me at least, has always had their own brand of sound, sure, initially they were blues based hard rock, but they didn't sound anything like led zeppelin or aerosmith or the stones or hanoi rocks. that sound then evolved into UYI, which again sounds totally different to anything i had ever heard before. now they have evolved into what we have heard from chinese dem, and nothing has changed, their new songs are not comparative(sound wise)with any other contemporary act, there might be similarities but the caliber of musicians that has worked on the album, coupled with axl's influence and presence has made something new and unique once more.

sorry to go off on a tangent, but the point is: just because it sounds different doesn't make it inferior, at the moment i am enjoying the new songs more than the old, with exceptions from both era's of cause.

from what i have heard, i have no doubt that i will enjoy chinese democracy equally as much as appetite or UYI. maybe for the fact that no contemporary ROCK act is producing music anywhere near the level of the leaks i have heard, so axl benefits from the musical climate. or it might be the fact that so many people are doubting the album and i am willing it and wanting it o succeed even more.

at this very moment in time i am listening to and enjoying the leaksmore than most of GNR's old songs, maybe because they're newer? who knows but don't tell me appetite and UYI are automatically better, especially without having heard the full album.

i am not completely defending the leaks, there are certainly poor quality tracks that we have heard, but no guns album was free from imperfections, no album is. appetite has 2 or 3 weak tracks eg. anything goes, you're crazy, and UYI has its clunkers too, however the good far out way the bad, as is the case with the leaks.

wow i wrote far too much,
tldr: its your opinion that chinese democracy isnt as good as UYI or appetite, and certainly don't tell me i am out of my mind if i choose to think so.

i Listen to TWAT and Chinese democracy at least 3 times a day each, same with better, other then that i've gone off listening to music at the moment, since i am supposed to be studying. shackler's underwhelms me now, i was completely in love with it when it first leaked, and then fell remotely in love with it after the official release, but since then it seems to bore me.

i was at the very same show and everyone loved the new songs.

1. Twat: in my opinion comparable with anything GNR has previously produced, the guitar acrobatics and Axl's wails on this track are breathtakingly good, only let down for me is the the somewhat drab opening chorus.

2. Better: Axl uses his raspy wail to full effect on this song, the middle verse in which he screams is one of axl's strongest vocal performances in any GNR song, there's an unprecedented amount of anger in that verse. only let down for me is the start an end of the song, a little weak.

3. Chinese democracy: its clear that the intro to this song was created in attempt to supersede the opening riffs of welcome to the jungle or SCOM, and provide something equally as awe-inspiring and adrenaline inducing, especially during live shows, and it succeeds for the most part. the angst ridden lyrics and Axl vocals provide a palpable amount of anger, anger that you, or certainly i recognise and feel every time listen.

the others i feel aren't in the same tier as the above 3, they're good, just not remarkable like the aforementioned tracks. although song #2 has  undeniably epic feel, and possesses huge potential(as do all or most of the leaks), an epic music video resembling November rain or estranged could see its potential recognised, coupled with a final improved mix. that applies to all the leaks, we have no idea how old and how close to complete they really are.

if the above tracks are a band 6, ranging from 90-100 on a scale of 1-100, the others are band 5's(80-90) or band 4's(70-80) and maybe even a band 3.

of course measuring music on a scale is, for me at least, really contrived, its like the graph used to measure poetry in the film 'dead poets society', the graph they are required to tear out of their text books..=)

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