Dienstag, 20. Jan 2009, 18:09

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Chinese Democracy
Shackler's Revenge
Better
Street of Dreams
If the World
There Was a Time
Catcher in the Rye
Scraped
Riad n' the Bedouins
Sorry
I.R.S.
Madagascar
This I Love
Prostitute

The extremely long awaited album from Guns 'n Roses is finally upon us. I don't like to review an album until I feel I have given it enough playtime to make a unbiased/informed opinion. That being said, this album really blows.

It has two (count them, TWO) songs that are decent. Not good, decent. I'll get to those in a second. I want to clarify why I despise this album so much. It seems after all these years, Axl forgot which genre of music he is in. Granted, Slash did put a bluesy-rock aura to the old albums, but all-in-all it was straight rock n' roll. I would even classify them as a hair band. That is what I expected and wanted from this album and I was epically disappointed. He is all over the map in this cut. Trying to sing blues, pop, I even heard a folksy song in there… What I loved about old-school GnR was the ballads likeEstranged, November Rain, and Don't Cry. He provided crap… Thanks Axl.

The two songs I slightly enjoyed were Chinese Democracy (because it has been unfairly crammed into my brain from public radio) and This I Love (which was the ONLY song on the album that Axl wrote by himself. Strange.)

There's really not much else to say about it. Don't buy it. If you want to hear the best of the album, buy 'This I Love' from iTunes for 99 cents.