EvaUnit02 on 21/11/2008 at 03:54
Has anyone listened to Chinese Democracy yet?
I've heard most of the record, I found it pretty inconsistent TBH. Would still much rather listen to Contraband by Velvet Revolver at the moment.
Scots Taffer on 21/11/2008 at 04:01
I'm going to get it over the weekend and give it a listen; huge, massive, collosal fan of Appetite for Destruction and a middling fan of the Use Your Illusions.
icemann on 21/11/2008 at 04:08
The use your illusion albums were my favorites of the GnR albums personally. Just loved the guitar + singing in alot of the tracks. Spaghetti Incident I`ve never been a big fan of. Sure it has some good songs (Back on the Farm, I dont care about you, Since I dont have you etc) but on the overall whole it wasn`t upto par with Illusion or Appetite for that matter.
So the albums FINALLY out is it? God that ones been a long time in the works.
EvaUnit02 on 21/11/2008 at 04:14
Quote Posted by icemann
So the albums FINALLY out is it?
It'll be officially released on the 22nd.
Scots Taffer on 21/11/2008 at 04:19
The thing is Use Your Illusions are pretty sloppy and self-indulgent as far as band-albums go, it's the musical equivalent of Quentin being unable to pare Kill Bill down to just one volume, and it was the beginning of the end as far as the original G'n'R stand. They have some absolutely dynamite tracks on there, but Appetite for Destruction is just a non-stop, rocket-fuelled, adrenaline machine. If I stick that on while driving I seriously have to watch the speedometer.
twisty on 21/11/2008 at 14:42
Appetite for Destruction was one of the most eclectic rock releases ever produced. It was an amazing album that managed to bridge a number of genres and musical generations above and beyond the so-called seminal releases of bands such as Aerosmith, Styx etc.
Lies was great as well, if not somewhat contrived, but was their last significant musical endeavour imo.
fett on 21/11/2008 at 21:04
More like Some Other Guys 'N Roses am i rite
Stitch on 21/11/2008 at 21:32
Appetite is the benchmark dirty rock n roll album, a dangerous, close-to-the-streets manifesto from five dirtbags with little more than booze and stripper digits to their collective name. Although Guns n Roses still eked out the occasional perfect song afterwards ("Patience," "You Could Be Mine,") successive discs found them trading in underdog hunger for bloated ambitions that didn't exactly play to their strengths. Considering the direction they were headed in, is it any surprise that their next step proved to be an Axl Rose vanity project fourteen suffocated years in the making?
And on that: I jumped around Chinese Democracy a bit and it was pretty much what I expected: shit songs overstuffed with ideas, an unmemorable album that somehow manages to remain listenable in a "yeah this song may not have a hook but there's a killer mariachi bit in ten seconds" kind of way.
It'll get some radio play just because it's the new Guns n Roses, but for the most part Chinese Democracy will slide off into "oh yeah I forgot that came out" irrelevance to all but the few who mistake sugar buzz for nourishment and incorrectly declare this to be a misunderstood classic.
Rug Burn Junky on 22/11/2008 at 18:51
Quote Posted by Stitch
Although Guns n Roses still eked out the occasional perfect song afterwards ([...]"You Could Be Mine,")
That was written before Appetite. :(
(Check the Appetite album sleeve.)
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I give Chinese Democracy a bit more credit than that*, but Appetite was a pantheon level album the way few others are, and no band can pull that off twice.
*then again, "Oh My God" wormed its way into being one of my more listened to songs for a while, even after swearing I'd never care for GnR again.
