NEW GUNS N ROSES

[nayland]

I got a copy of the new GUNS N ROSES and it ROCKS!! It's no APPITITE FOR DESTRUCTION. But it's good. My buddy who i got from only gave it to 2 and swore me to not tell or let anybody listen. If you are like me you pick out certain stuff on and album and listen over and over. For me it's the first 5 songs. I can't stop listening to it over and over.
the song titles are:
1-BETTER 11-RHIAD AND BEDOUINS
2-CATCHER IN THE RYE 12-OH MY GOD
3-CHINESE DEMOCRACY
4-IRS
5-IF THE WORLD
6-MADAGASCAR
7-PROSTITUTE
8-SORRY
9-THE BLUES
10-T.W.A.T(THERE WAS A TIME)

[detective mills]

Sorry, but you've been duped. That's not the tracklisting for the cd. All of those songs have been leaked over the past 5 years, or officially released 9 years ago in the case of Oh My God, which was on the End of Days soundtrack. All of those songs will be on the final CD, aside from Oh My God, but not the versions you've heard. They will be mastered versions, not the rough ones which a lot of people have (although after hearing Chinese Democracy on the radio, it appears there won't be much differences aside from sound quality). Here's the official tracklist:

1. Chinese Democracy
2. Shackler's Revenge
3. Better
4. Street Of Dreams
5. If The World
6. There Was A Time
7. Catcher N' The Rye
8. Scraped
9. Riad N' The Bedouins
10. Sorry
11. I.R.S.
12. Madagascar
13. This I Love
14. Prostitute

[nayland]

My buddy is going to be pissed. But when i tell him this i'm going to get a good laugh

[SkyNet]

Madagascar is an excellent track... reminiscent of November Rain... not quite as good, obviously, as November Rain is one of the all time great tracks of any band, ever!

[Hucksta G]

I thought the song at the end of Body of Lies was pretty shit, but that's just like my opinion man.

[FilmJunkie1114]

I would kill to hear an album from Guns N' Roses. But the washed up Axl Rose Guns N Roses Tribute Band? No thanks.

[athf1980]

I agree with Filmjunkie. The new GNR is a not true GNR album. I just want my free dr. depper instead of the new album.

[Kevin Smith fan]

A buddy of mine downloaded this and played it for me at work the other day, and it was god awful. I'm not the biggest GNR fan out there, but I loves me some Appetite for Destruction and even Use your Illusion. But this was total shit. Keep this thing in Axl Rose's basement for an eternity for all I care.

[Inglorious]

Best album of the year.

[starcat]

Only cause rock n roll jesus came out last year... right now i think my favorite is songs from the sparkle lounge, but i'm wanting this album so to be good so bad!!!! But hey, bad Axl is better than no Axl!!!

[poguesfan]

Another band trying to cash in on their fame. I have never been a big fan of Guns and Roses, but the music press trumpeting this album as a comeback, when none of the original band members, with the possible exception of Axel, appear on the album is in my opinion a true insult. The Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle lives on my friends.

[Beard_of_Meat]

Best album of the year.
I don't know my vote is for Radiohead's In Rainbows..and as for possible "comeback" albums Metallica would get my vote for Death Magnetic (Not the best Metallica album but it's a turn in the right direction)

[Badbird]

Am I the only one who remembers that Guns n Roses recorded a "new" song for the movie End of Days back in 1999? It was called Oh my God, and I remember it sounded pretty cool. If the new album sounds anything like that song, I'd be pretty interested.

[DrJellyfingers]

Another band trying to cash in on their fame.

are you saying Axl waited 12 years to "cash in" because he had a premonition that we would be in an economic crisis in 2008? interesting

[KingofKings2525]

Heard a rundown on the radio this morning. Thanks for nothing.

Worst Album of the Year.

Seriously, in his Rock Ballad he sounds like Dracula singing in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

12 years - Again, thanks for nothing.

[Badbird]

Yeah, I listened to some of it on Myspace. I wouldn't call it bad... just bland. Which is almost worse.

[detective mills]

I think the cd is surprisingly good and I'll buy it. However, I think it's funny that there's a good chance that it will not debut at #1 seeing as it's coming out the same week as a new Kanye West cd. Kanye's last 2 cds debuted with over 900,000 copies sold in the first week, and I'm not so sure I see GNR moving over a million copies. Axl sure is gonna be pissed if he waits 13 years and doesn't get the number 1 cd.

[Frank the Tank]

It's okay I guess. Some really good songs ("Chinese Democracy", "There Was A Time", "Shackler's Revenge", "Better" and "Riad N The Bedouins"), but also a lot of terrible ones that are way overproduced ("If The World", "Catcher In The Rye", "This I Love", "Street Of Dreams",). It is also a pretty tedious listen although some songs are still interesting. I like what "Madagascar's" going for, but man that song becomes kind of unintentionally funny by blending in a Michael J. Fox quote with a Martin Luther King quote. "Sorry" is another one that's alright but kind of jumbled, and there's a line where Axl sounds like Jason Segal in Sarah Marshall singing "The Dracula Song". He also sounds like Dracula in "Street Of Dreams" at point. The tracks like "I.R.S." are just very boring. I don't like the trip hop like sound on a few songs either

I'd probably go around a 6/10 on first listen.

[SkyNet]

wait, is the cd out?

[detective mills]

It comes out officially tomorrow, but it has leaked online, and was streaming on myspace earlier this week.

[The Postmaster General]

This is an adaptation of the Faith no More song "Chinese Democracy" and set up as a prequel to Appetite for Destruction concept album that takes place before Axl was playing with Duff, Izzy, Slash and Adler. He's doing two more of these albums, the next one Bonejug's Knock-Down and then Terra Rose. He's also going to re-release Appetite, Lies, and Illusion with additional remixes and added vocals from Axl, mostly scatting, and it will also feature inserted drum breaks and guitar solos as played by a couple "bad legged mutherfuckers" that Axl gets drunk with. Axl is also getting his very own theme park ride at Universal Studios, Orlando. It promises to be a voyage through an incredible rock and roll legacy as lead by Axl Rose, but early rumors have it that after the ride is open, visitors should expect it to routinely be under construction and plagued with breakdowns and poor engineering.

[MidnightAngel]

Chinese Democracy is Axl Rose's solo album. :D

[The Beast]

It's okay I guess. Some really good songs ("Chinese Democracy", "There Was A Time", "Shackler's Revenge", "Better" and "Riad N The Bedouins"), but also a lot of terrible ones that are way overproduced ("If The World", "Catcher In The Rye", "This I Love", "Street Of Dreams",). It is also a pretty tedious listen although some songs are still interesting. I like what "Madagascar's" going for, but man that song becomes kind of unintentionally funny by blending in a Michael J. Fox quote with a Martin Luther King quote. "Sorry" is another one that's alright but kind of jumbled, and there's a line where Axl sounds like Jason Segal in Sarah Marshall singing "The Dracula Song". He also sounds like Dracula in "Street Of Dreams" at point. The tracks like "I.R.S." are just very boring. I don't like the trip hop like sound on a few songs either

I'd probably go around a 6/10 on first listen.

You just listed the best four tracks, minus Prostitute as terrible. You need to listen again, or go back to your Kanye West collection.

[Frank the Tank]

You just listed the best four tracks, minus Prostitute as terrible. You need to listen again, or go back to your Kanye West collection.

Sorry guy, the production was just too over the top on those four tracks. I prefer the tracks that felt more natural and not the tracks that felt like Axl jumbling together a bunch of stuff he thought sounded cool. I'm not really the biggest GNR anymore, I liked them a while back though. I figured I hear this too see if it's worth the wait.

WTF, is with the Kanye comment, he's a perfectly fine musician but nowhere near my favorite, I'm more of an indie/death metal guy. Go back to your Morbid Angel collection would fit me better, since I prefer that to GNR. Besides, I'm not much of a power ballad fan. "There Was A Time" was easily the best ballad here.

[detective mills]

My favorite songs in no particular order are probably:
Shackler's Revenge
Better
If The World
There Was a Time (my favorite on the cd)
Prostitute

[SkyNet]

certainly not the EPIC album that should have come after 17 years of sheer anticipation

but, it certainly isnt a bad album (in my most humble of opinions)

i actually disagree with you FranktheTank (which is rare).. but i really liked This I Love... it may be a bit over produced as you said, but i still dig it... and my favorite track is Madagascar... it is a song getting alot of shit for its use of the MLKjr quotes and stuff, but i really like the song.

Some songs do fall very flat, but others are highly enjoyable tracks.

So all in all, a solid effort, but, there was just no way any album produced could live up to 17 years worth of anticipation!

If this CD had come 5 years after Spaghetti Incident or whatever their last effort was ( i think it was Spaghetti).. this would be hailed as the triumphant return of GnR (even without ANY of the original members except Axl), but since its 17 year hiatus, it comes a solid rock album, but nowhere near what it could have been!

[Inglorious]

... but man that song becomes kind of unintentionally funny by blending in a Michael J. Fox quote with a Martin Luther King quote...

Uhh... what?

[TheHutch23]

Mayhaps this is the album equivalent to The Phantom Menace?

[Frank the Tank]

Uhh... what?

Listen closely, you can hear his voice.

[Tyler_Durden_208]

I think the main problem is that none of the songs really build up to any big finish or anything like that, they just kinda get tired and limp off. Kinda like the album itself. Starts off fairly strong and the last few tracks are just... there.

[countchocula]

I listened to most of CD yesterday, and it's laughable. "Overproduced" is an understatement. It definitely sounds like it was recorded over a period of 12 years. Axl sounds terrible. The high notes are thin and shrill. It doesn't help that every line is double-tracked. God, what a mess. "Sweet Child O'Mine" is such a simple song, and it DESTROYS this entire album.

[TheHutch23]

I give it zero Stephen Colbert's out of five Stephen Colbert's