What I wonder though is if YCBM would work these days either.

Everyone knows better than everyone else.

Like i'm a fan of wrestling and everyone knows better than Vince Mcmahon.

I'm a fan of starwars and everyone knows better that George Lucas, then they absolutely know better than Disney.

We all know better than the clowns that made all the Alien sequels, especially that hack Sir Ridley Scott who made the last couple.

I realised recently that absolutely everything I am a fan of, has a collection of people online, all of who seem to engage with the product by finding flaws in it, and all of them know better than everyone who actually makes the products.

Some of it is granted of course, and god knows we know that GNR has given us an absolute litany of valid reasons to get frustrated over the years....but at some level I just enjoy stuff for what it is now.

Is Prometheus as good as Aliens? No...but it has some fun parts. Is Absurd a new Jungle? Nup...but it's kinda fun to listen to regardless.

But what i wonder is - if it really was as good - would anyone notice anyway these days? When was the last time anyone of our age actually liked anything as much as we all liked the 80s/90s classics. Like if you think about it - the twat screams may be harder than anything on UYI but they don't count, the Anastasia solos may be better than AFD solos note for note but they won't count either.

I'm not trying to say absurd is the best song ever or anything, but I dont think it even matters if it is, and it's fun for what it is.

To play devil's advocate.

In our single and streaming culture, and in a world where there may be a limit on how many recordings exist, wouldn't it be better to space the recordings out than release an album?

If he has 1 album still in the tank...they drop it now...then what do they do in 2 years?

Alternatively you could release 1-3 new songs, drop them into the hits tour and boom - fresh show. Tour that globally for 2-3 years, take break...then repeat with another 3 songs.

You could make a 12 song album extend out for 4 or so tour cycles this way.

It would work - like Shadow of Your Love revitalised my NITL interest for a time, and now Absurd and the promise of hardschool has def made this tour back on the menu for most. Then in 2 years they can drop us Atlas and State of Grace or something....

who knows....hopefully they're dropping an album but they really could do anything these days.

Sky Dog wrote:

Also…so, am I the only one who thinks it’s a little strange that Axl would want a blatant song about Seymour and a blatant song about Slash to be possibly the first two songs released from a reunion album?

Of course, those are my opinions as to who he wrote the songs about.

Aren't these his only options?

He wrote about very little else.

Kinda sad actually....late 90s-mid 00s such a chaotic period and he has nothing to say about it?

Also…so, am I the only one who thinks it’s a little strange that Axl would want a blatant song about Seymour and a blatant song about Slash to be possibly the first two songs released from a reunion album?

Of course, those are my opinions as to who he wrote the songs about.

The Stones arent a band and haven't been for 30 years.....it's a massive corporation/brand that employs many people.

Metallica are like this as well.