The Eternal General - 04/24 - Unpinned but alive; Atlas/Monsters nowhere in sight; Slash 'Orgy of the Damned' next month

[Guest The Monkey]

Someone let me know when the FLAC is online

[Guest]

Can we hit 110 pages before the actual song drops online?

[VoidLykos]

[Guest]

Apparently been played on some Japanese radio station

 

Still not ripped 

Spoiler

Spoiler

 

 

[Sydney Fan]

Someone somewhere is probably doing us a favour.

[VoidLykos]

Hey i got the General Radio rip send me a PM if you want it 

[EstrangedTWAT]

Does it sound any different from what we have?

[LiarzisDead]

51 minutes ago, EstrangedTWAT said:

Does it sound any different from what we have?

Not really.

 

There's some typical Axl overdubs but no

[Slugworth]

Its the same quality as that leak?

 

Yikes.

 

Par for the course obviously. All these singles have terrible mixes.

[VoidLykos]

[Facekicker]

"Axl is a perfectionist."

 

Mygina myth #3578 destroyed. By Axl himself. 

 

I love it. 

[LiarzisDead]

I just got booted from gnr reddit

 

God those faggots are more sensitive than the sore vaginas over on whatever the fuck that other pussy site is.

 

I fucking hate soft faggots who can't handle life.

 

Fuckers

[Slugworth]

Just listened to it. It's the same.

 

God that chorus is such a mess.

[LiarzisDead]

11 minutes ago, Slugworth said:

Just listened to it. It's the same.

 

God that chorus is such a mess.

aren't there some over dubs with axls voice in it?

seems a bit cleaner also.

 

but ya, its basically the same

 

[Slugworth]

4 minutes ago, LiarzisDead said:

aren't there some over dubs with axls voice in it?

seems a bit cleaner also.

 

but ya, its basically the same

 

I'll have to listen again. The bass might be higher in the mix. That's what I noticed. It's hard to tell. The mixes on these songs are muddy. Even the audiophile forums don't bother dissecting these songs.

 

These songs just aren't good quality whether by leak, radio listen, or directly implanted into your brain.

[LiarzisDead]

45 minutes ago, Slugworth said:

I'll have to listen again. The bass might be higher in the mix. That's what I noticed. It's hard to tell. The mixes on these songs are muddy. Even the audiophile forums don't bother dissecting these songs.

 

These songs just aren't good quality whether by leak, radio listen, or directly implanted into your brain.

i just side by sided them on Audacity. 

theyre exactly the same

 

hahah this band

 

[Guest]

Utter SHIT

[Guest The Monkey]

I’ve been listening to 90s trance lately.

 

So good. 

[wasted]

3 hours ago, The Monkey said:

I’ve been listening to 90s trance lately.

 

So good. 

There was an off shoot of something in the 90s called Jungle. There were these tapes of either white labels or dj sets. 

[wasted]

Is it possible it's not ripped it's just the leak re-leaked? If they don't release it on Apple music I may never actually hear the real General. GNR always breaking new ground in how not to release music. 

[wasted]

5 hours ago, Slugworth said:

I'll have to listen again. The bass might be higher in the mix. That's what I noticed. It's hard to tell. The mixes on these songs are muddy. Even the audiophile forums don't bother dissecting these songs.

 

These songs just aren't good quality whether by leak, radio listen, or directly implanted into your brain.

Good has always interested me because past the subject matter or vocal delivery, The General is pretty much just the soft loud dynamic of grunge or nu metal. But when I think of good in terms of GNR it's AFD and that's all about hard rock and smooth Thin Lizzyesque transitions between parts which give a progression feeling. Perhaps is more based around a UYI piano break. Listening to Izzy solo material as sparsely recorded as they are they do have those transitions where it seems more musically sophisticated, that give the songs a simple feelgood fluidity. They are two completely different genres so not comparable, but The General is not AFD or UYI era material at all whereas HS and Perhaps you can make comparisons. But even within grunge, nu metal, alt The General is still hard to judge bcos it's a hybrid. It's a little start stop, with little momentum or solo development, but that's pretty much true for the genre. 

[Sydney Fan]

9 hours ago, LiarzisDead said:

i just side by sided them on Audacity. 

theyre exactly the same

 

hahah this band

 

Was it "mixed" by caram?.

If so i dont know why Axl uses this guy. There would be a 100 better studio engineers in LA who  could probably do a better job.

Im convinced Axl just wants these songs "out". Quality be damned.

[wasted]

To me it sounds different, deeper and richer. I hear more bass and orchestra. The chorus is clearer. Overall it's better but did it lose something on the chorus. It's clearer and heavier, but it's lost some kick. 

[Reynard the Fox]

they have one great album, their first

 

I'm 30 years in denial that the UYI's really aren't "that" great. there's a handfull of songs on par with AFD, but the majority is Axl epics, and a bunch of covers.

 

With UYI, they had half an album's worth of great material (right next door to hell, you could be mine, perfect crime, dust n bones and 14 years ) but somewhere along the lines Izzy left and Axl could force his vision on the band

 

fast forward to CD, and the half album's worth of appetite level songs are gone, and it's made up entirely of Axl epics, drama and self-pitying.

 

These new singles are leftover tracks to that project, with bass and guitar from pooff and gravy biceps; in effect being a dishonest, pointless hybrid of Axl's grand vision with a misguided attempt to add more appetite power.

 

When I appreciate all of the above, I long for more simplicity and honesty (in whatever form that may be). I'm too old for this shit. Life is too short to wait years and years for mythical songs that turn out to be shit.

 

From now on, Motley Crue is my new favortie band. I can even forgive the amount of fat and fake bass in that band. It's a band, in the woke era, still standing behind their image and having strip dancers on stage. Mad respect for them.

[wasted]

10 minutes ago, boobytrap said:

they have one great album, their first

 

I'm 30 years in denial that the UYI's really aren't "that" great. there's a handfull of songs on par with AFD, but the majority is Axl epics, and a bunch of covers.

 

With UYI, they had half an album's worth of great material (right next door to hell, you could be mine, perfect crime, dust n bones and 14 years ) but somewhere along the lines Izzy left and Axl could force his vision on the band

 

fast forward to CD, and the half album's worth of appetite level songs are gone, and it's made up entirely of Axl epics, drama and self-pitying.

 

These new singles are leftover tracks to that project, with bass and guitar from pooff and gravy biceps; in effect being a dishonest, pointless hybrid of Axl's grand vision with a misguided attempt to add more appetite power.

 

When I appreciate all of the above, I long for more simplicity and honesty (in whatever form that may be). I'm too old for this shit. Life is too short to wait years and years for mythical songs that turn out to be shit.

 

From now on, Motley Crue is my new favortie band. I can even forgive the amount of fat and fake bass in that band. It's a band, in the woke era, still standing behind their image and having strip dancers on stage. Mad respect for them.

I want to believe but the idea of just churning AFD songs out seems unrealistic. i do think there's an element of them willfully not wanting to try. Or it not fitting them personally. The spirit was self destructive and naive, and they just moved on. 

AFD was like a hard rock concept album and they pulled it off. UYI is more like 3 solo albums with Axl and Slash pulling out the stops. They got by on talent and attitude.
 

CD is like another attempt at an AFD for the 00s but it's such a mad idea that it's hard to back. They should've been in UYI mode with the odd flash of AFD for the rest of time.
 

CD was the AFD and now they are just doing solo singles. One for Slash, one for Axl. like UYI it's more dynamic and diverse. They aren't limiting themselves to just 70s 80s hard rock. I wonder if they will eventually but time is running out.