Chinese Democracy

[hdtvkss]

wow, 14 years for this ??!! i want my money back please....

its terrible. maybee 3 good tracks. i wont purchase the next album, if there is one.......

I wonder if the delay was the record co saying this just isnt good enough? if so they were right.

i tried really hard to like this album but i just cant.......

the songs just dont fit right.... Izzys presence is really missed. its palinly obvious that Axl cant write vocals on his own.

The guitar solos are OK, but nothing new.... its like youve heard them a thousand times before. its all wankery with no feeling. no doubt buckethead and Finck and Thai can play, but its pure shred for the sake of it. some interesting effects though.

waaaayyyyyy too many balads, and nothing even close to November Rain or Estranged.

i love the liner pictures , a pic of Thal kinda lookin like Izzy, a pick of Finck who could possibly be mistaken for Slash.....

Velvet revovler jsut blows this stuff out of the water.

I wonder if Axl regrets rejecting what became the snakepit songs now....

its big, its overblown and its dissapointing. the VR guys must have a smirk of quiet satisfaction right about now....

but then again, its probably better than Death Magnetic.

 

[johnny]

China's censors cool on Guns N' Roses democracy album

SHANGHAI, Nov 24 (AFP) Nov 24, 2008
China's Internet censors appeared to be trying to block fans Monday from accessing websites related to Guns N' Roses' first album in 17 years, which is provocatively titled "Chinese Democracy".
The album's official site chinesedemocracy.com was inaccessible in communist China and Internet portal Baidu.com blocked music-related searches for "Chinese Democracy".

However, Chinese Internet users were still able Monday morning to listen to the album's 14 songs on MySpace.com, the band's homepage remained accessible and bloggers were allowed to have their voices heard.

China's Ministry of Culture appeared to be immune to the global hype surrounding the album headed by Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose, 46, the only member of the band's original line-up involved in the recording.

"This is the first time we've heard about it," a ministry spokeswoman said, when asked about the album and reports that it had been banned in China.

"I don't know if they're banned or not," she said. "It might be a rumour."

The album's official website responded with a poll asking visitors if they thought the Chinese should be allowed to access it -- about 70 percent of respondents said yes.

Like critics' reviews, reaction from Chinese music fans has been mixed.

"I feel GNR has a mocking, misunderstanding and disdainful view of our country," an Internet user who identified herself as Tiffany in Guangzhou wrote on Douban.com, a pop culture social networking site.

But many participants suggested an angry knee-jerk reaction was unwarranted.

"You are judging it just from the album's name. Did you ever try to listen to it, understand it and think about it?" a male from Guiyang, calling himself Mr Lee, wrote on the same forum.

Another music fan appealed to Internet users to show more sophistication.

"Green Day could have an album named 'American Idiot', but if a band released an album named 'Chinese Idiot', whatever the content or motivation, Chinese patriots would be outraged," wrote Shippo7, a Beijing male.

Western rock critics have also shown little restraint.

Rolling Stone described the album as a "great, audacious, unhinged and uncompromising hard-rock record" but the New York Times said it was the "Titanic of rock albums: the ship, not the movie."

 

[thecat]

I wonder if the delay was the record co saying this just isnt good enough? if so they were right.

After the amount of money Use Your Illusion made for the company I think they would have been happy to let Axl put out an album of spitting yak grunts...

I finally caved and bought it. I'm trying to listen to it with 2 things in mind.

1. Trying not to view it as a Guns n Roses thing and compare it to earlier albums

2. trying to remember that I hated Sweat Child when i first heard it (It, and Appetite for destruction, became one of my favourites of all time)


First listen through and I think it's a fair go. A couple of the songs would sit well on UYI... A couple i think will grow on me (a bit like algae if you let it)
A couple were fairly crap, with the amount of time and talent that the band had at it's disposal that should not be the case...

Anyway It has me listening to my old GnR albums

"But it's been 14 years of silence
It's been 14 years of pain
It's been 14 years that are gone forever
And I'll never have again"
14 Years: Use your Illusion II

Pretty prophetic really

 

[Moggio]

After the amount of money Use Your Illusion made for the company I think they would have been happy to let Axl put out an album of spitting yak grunts...

I finally caved and bought it. I'm trying to listen to it with 2 things in mind.

1. Trying not to view it as a Guns n Roses thing and compare it to earlier albums

2. trying to remember that I hated Sweat Child when i first heard it (It, and Appetite for destruction, became one of my favourites of all time)


First listen through and I think it's a fair go. A couple of the songs would sit well on UYI... A couple i think will grow on me (a bit like algae if you let it)
A couple were fairly crap, with the amount of time and talent that the band had at it's disposal that should not be the case...

Anyway It has me listening to my old GnR albums

"But it's been 14 years of silence
It's been 14 years of pain
It's been 14 years that are gone forever
And I'll never have again"
14 Years: Use your Illusion II

Pretty prophetic really

All I can say Mr Cat is that you are just too nice and fair.

After repeated listens it hasn't got better for me.... really its the type of album that is made for illegal downloading.. it isn't worth the money.

That said, old GnRs has been played more recently...