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Podophile · 1 year 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.

webomatica · 1 year 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.

Podophile · 1 year 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.

Amanda · 1 year 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...

GW · 1 year 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


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BusbyTest · 1 year ago

Gun's and Roses Rocks!!!!

HimynameinGeorge · 11 months ago

Guns N' Roses rock so hard that they don't deserve to be on this planet......they should be in rock heaven!!!!!

shutters · 10 months ago

It was never going to live up to the hype was it

Groomsday · 10 months ago

Can I just ask...What the **** happened to this band?? They started out as like the best band ever with Appetite For Destruction and then got steadily worse over time. Axel Rose really is a royal schmuck, me thinks!

PDFoxy · 8 months ago

this is cool! thanks to GW for Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy (2008) link

glenn76 · 3 months ago

Great review! It's a bit of a let down after spending so long making it, but maybe it'll grow on me. Some great riffs in there but on the whole, Gn'R have never been the same since the original line up...

Still a great band but not one of their finest!

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