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Music Notes: Guns N’ Roses Chinese Democracy Leaked Tracks

Started by webomatica · 2 months ago

So… Axl Rose has been working on the next Guns N’ Roses album, Chinese Democracy, for the past 14 years, spending around $13 million in the process. Yeah, that’s longer than it took Lord Of The Rings to get made. That alone piques my interest in the album, as a possible eclectic musical misfire / masterpiece like The Beach Boys’ Smile. ... Continue reading »

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  • Podophile

    2 months ago

    On a related note: It looks like Robin Finck is back together with NIN and rehearsing for their upcoming tour. He left NIN a couple years ago to tour with GNR with the expectation that Chinese Democracy would be released at some point during the tour. All the delays must be bitterly disappointing for everyone who has worked on the album.
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  • webomatica

    2 months ago

    Yeah - the delays only would make sense if there was new material to be
    recorded - but I'd heard most of these songs before in demo form. At this
    point, no amount of new polishing is going to help - they sound essentially
    finished, and further delays only serve to increase expectation.
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  • Podophile

    2 months ago

    The problem with delaying an album for so long is that, as an artist, you change over time. The song you recorded three years ago probably doesn't sound so good anymore. So you go back to the studio and re-work it. By the time you're finished with that song, you have ideas for re-working other songs. Then somebody quits the project and you have to re-record their parts. Etc, etc ... Ironically, the long delays only increase the chances of further delays.

    If Axl really thinks he needs to release a new album (and I'm not convinced he does) he should just scrap Chinese Democracy and record something entirely new. Pop music, like all art, is a snapshot in time... not a long, winding journey.

    The hardest part of creating something new is knowing when to stop.
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  • Amanda

    2 months ago

    "Still, with 14 years and the money spent, I feel the tracks should have been better" I think you've said everything with this short sentence. I'm waiting for the album since 2000 but now, I confess, I don't have the same interest in GNR that I had when I was 14...
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  • GW

    2 months ago

    Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy (2008)

    (9 tracks from CD)

    1. Better
    2. Chinese Democracy
    3. IRS
    4. Madagascar
    5. Riyadh & The Bedouins (New Song #1)
    6. This I Love (New Song #2)
    7. If The World (Would End Today) (New Song #3)
    8. The Blues
    9. There Was a Time

    Ripped @192


    http://rapidshare.com/files/125244043/JNRS987q4...
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