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Overview

"Absurd" (stylized as "ABSUЯD") is a song by the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released as a single on August 6, 2021. The song marks the group's first release of new material since the release of Chinese Democracy in 2008. It is also the first new track to feature guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan since the 1994 release of "Sympathy for the Devil". Originally written during the Chinese Democracy sessions, "Absurd" was first performed live in 2001 as "Silkworms". The reworked version made its live debut on August 3, 2021 in Boston. Background The song was initially written during the Chinese Democracy sessions as "Silkworms" by keyboardists Chris Pitman and Dizzy Reed. It was performed live four times in 2001. In 2008, Pitman talked about the song in an interview shortly before the release of Chinese Democracy, stating: "It ended up being this incredible track that sounded like Guns N' Roses 10 or 15 years in the future. It was so far removed from our other songs that we had to put it in this other place. Concept-wise, it didn't fit with Chinese Democracy. We hope we will have other songs that match that kind of futuristic sound. It's a really exciting track because it morphs into this crazy sound, but it was out so much in the other direction that we have to let time catch up with it. Following the release of Chinese Democracy, vocalist Axl Rose stated that the song had been reworked, now with "a lot of guitars, lots of different drum[s] [and] the chorus is gone". Two different studio recordings of the song leaked online in 2018 and 2019, respectively. On August 3, 2021, the song was performed live in Boston during the We're F'N' Back! Tour. Axl Rose introduced it by stating: "Some of you might have heard this under another name, but this is really kind of absurd to try this. Wasn't that funny? And they don't even know the joke yet. Okay, this is called 'Absurd'." The officially released version of the song was produced by Axl Rose and Caram Costanzo, the latter whom also recorded and mixed the track. It also features former Guns N' Roses drummer Brain. An accompanying video was also made, animated by Creative Works. The song is officially credited as written by Rose, Reed, Slash and McKagan. Style Ultimate Classic Rocks Corey Irwin described the 2021 live version as "one of the hardest tracks in [Guns N' Roses'] arsenal" with "blistering drums and a frantic, punk rock pace", comparing Rose's vocals to Rage Against the Machine.

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Notable quotes

“The logical figure of the absurd, which presents as stringent the contradictory opposite of stringency, negates all the meaningfulness logic seems to provide in order to convict logic of its own absurdity: to convict it of using subject, predicate, and copula to lay out the nonidentical as though it were identical, as though it could be accommodated with forms.”
— Theodor Adorno, Can One Live After Auschwitz? (2003), p. 284
“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.”
— Albert Camus, in "Three Interviews" in Lyrical and Critical Essays (1970)
“There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, in "Mr. —nov and the Question of Art" Polnoye Sobraniye Sochinyeni [Complete Collected Works] (1895), Vol. 9
“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.”
— Václav Havel, as quoted in Amnesty International's essay "From Prisoner to President – A Tribute"
“From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.”
— Napoleon I of France, speaking about troubles in the invasions of Russia (10 December 1812), as recorded by Abbé du Pradt, and quoted in History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, Vol. 3 (1842) by Sir Archibald Alison, p. 503; often also translated as: There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
“The more absurd life is, the more unsupportable death is.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

"Absurd" (stylized as "ABSUЯD") is a song by the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released as a single on August 6, 2021. The song marks the group's first release of new material since the release of Chinese Democracy in 2008. It is also the first new track to feature guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan since the 1994 release of "Sympathy for the Devil". Originally written during the Chinese Democracy sessions, "Absurd" was first performed live in 2001 as "Silkworms". The reworked version made its live debut on August 3, 2021 in Boston. Background The song was initially written during the Chinese Democracy sessions as "Silkworms" by keyboardists Chris Pitman and Dizzy Reed. It was performed live four times in 2001. In 2008, Pitman talked about the song in an interview shortly before the release of Chinese Democracy, stating: "It ended up being this incredible track that sounded like Guns N' Roses 10 or 15 years in the future. It was so far removed from our other songs that we had to put it in this other place. Concept-wise, it didn't fit with Chinese Democracy. We hope we will have other songs that match that kind of futuristic sound. It's a really exciting track because it morphs into this crazy sound, but it was out so much in the other direction that we have to let time catch up with it. Following the release of Chinese Democracy, vocalist Axl Rose stated that the song had been reworked, now with "a lot of guitars, lots of different drum[s] [and] the chorus is gone". Two different studio recordings of the song leaked online in 2018 and 2019, respectively. On August 3, 2021, the song was performed live in Boston during the We're F'N' Back! Tour. Axl Rose introduced it by stating: "Some of you might have heard this under another name, but this is really kind of absurd to try this. Wasn't that funny? And they don't even know the joke yet. Okay, this is called 'Absurd'." The officially released version of the song was produced by Axl Rose and Caram Costanzo, the latter whom also recorded and mixed the track. It also features former Guns N' Roses drummer Brain. An accompanying video was also made, animated by Creative Works. The song is officially credited as written by Rose, Reed, Slash and McKagan. Style Ultimate Classic Rocks Corey Irwin described the 2021 live version as "one of the hardest tracks in [Guns N' Roses'] arsenal" with "blistering drums and a frantic, punk rock pace", comparing Rose's vocals to Rage Against the Machine.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

"Absurd" (stylized as "ABSUЯD") is a song by the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released as a single on August 6, 2021. The song marks the group's first release of new material since the release of Chinese Democracy in 2008. It is also the first new track to feature guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan since the 1994 release of "Sympathy for the Devil". Originally written during the Chinese Democracy sessions, "Absurd" was first performed live in 2001 as "Silkworms". The reworked version made its live debut on August 3, 2021 in Boston.

Notable quotes

“The logical figure of the absurd, which presents as stringent the contradictory opposite of stringency, negates all the meaningfulness logic seems to provide in order to convict logic of its own absurdity: to convict it of using subject, predicate, and copula to lay out the nonidentical as though it were identical, as though it could be accommodated with forms.”
— Theodor Adorno, Can One Live After Auschwitz? (2003), p. 284
“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.”
— Albert Camus, in "Three Interviews" in Lyrical and Critical Essays (1970)
“There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, in "Mr. —nov and the Question of Art" Polnoye Sobraniye Sochinyeni [Complete Collected Works] (1895), Vol. 9
“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.”
— Václav Havel, as quoted in Amnesty International's essay "From Prisoner to President – A Tribute"
“From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.”
— Napoleon I of France, speaking about troubles in the invasions of Russia (10 December 1812), as recorded by Abbé du Pradt, and quoted in History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, Vol. 3 (1842) by Sir Archibald Alison, p. 503; often also translated as: There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
“The more absurd life is, the more unsupportable death is.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Absurd: 1981 film by Joe D'Amato · German musical group; National Socialist black metal band

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