Thyme gotta be the weirdest goddamn song ever then

Yeah, I think the additions were good overall

Thyme is a beautiful piece of music. I wonder if Thyme was combined with another song because it’s just orchestral instrumentation in the locker leaks. And if Soul Monster was actually “Me and My Elvis” seeing its working title was Leave Me Alone. MAME doesn’t really sound like Black Sabbath.

Beltrami:

[GNR] was sort of just work for hire. [...] I met with Axl and he played me these songs, asked me my ideas about them, and I told him what I thought they needed. They gave me four songs to orchestrate. [...] A song called 'Seven,' which is the one [...] I actually wrote a guitar part [on]. There was one called 'Thyme,' one called 'The General,' one called 'Leave Me Alone.'" (Marco Beltrami, IGN, 07/20/03)

"Leave Me Alone," "Seven," and "The General" could also feature on the new album. These three A-listed songs were worked on by Marco Beltrami, especially "Seven," which Marco deems as the best of the three songs. It has also been reported that Marco worked on a fourth track, "Thyme." However, this song was not worked on subsequent to Marco's work in October 2002. (Jeff Leeds, Sp1at website, 06/05)

When host Eddie Trunk noted that "Hard Skool" in particular was a strong cut, Slash said: "These other ones, they don't have the same kind of amount of history, 'cause I know 'Hard Skool' seriously has… [it] goes way back. But there's a couple of epic ones coming out, so I'm excited about that."

Looks like they’re going the Billy Idol route right now and releasing a track or two at a time. But it does seem Hard Skool is a track that dates back to the 94-96 demos