Rolling Stone reviews Chinese Democracy

[trekkiebaggio]

http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/24024297/review/24161281/chinese_democracy

A very positive and fair review. I'm pleased that he actually focused on the music. Some quotes;

If this is the Guns n' Roses that Rose kept hearing in his head all this time, it is obvious why two guitars, bass and drums were never going to be enough.

Rose shows that he still holds a long-breath vowel — part torture victim, part screaming jet — like no other rock singer.

You may debate whether any rock record is worth that extreme self-indulgence. Actually, the most rock & roll thing about Chinese Democracy is he doesn't care if you do

I pre-ordered my copy today and got the Chinese Democracy single free. I can't wait until the cd is actually in my hands.

 

[NCC1701]

I'll be sure to download this later this month, I'm not holding my breath tho, I mean seriously, how good can a record that's been worked on for the better part of a decade and a half be?

 

[Gil T.Azell]

Time will tell if it was worth the 15 yr wait and the $13 mil spent.

 

[LutherSloan]

I was not impressed with the first single.

 

[NCC1701]

^ Hell, I haven't even HEARD the first single yet, and I listen to a rock radio station at work most days. Almost seems like they're embarrassed to play it, though that can't be it, they play Kings of Leon tracks over and over like they're actually any good

 

[trekkiebaggio]

^It's actually #1 on the rock song chart for most played in a lot of countries, including USA, Canada and UK.

The first single is pretty weak, but I think they just released it because it's the title track.

 

[T'Baio]

I cannot wait to hear the whole album. I love this quote from the review;

"And there is so much going on in "There Was a Time" — strings and Mellotron, a full-strength choir and Rose's overdubbed sour-growl harmonies, wah-wah guitar and a false ending (more choir) — that it's easy to believe Rose spent most of the past decade on that arrangement alone. But it is never a mess, more like a loud mass of bad memories and hard lessons. In the first lines, Rose goes back to a beginning much like his own — "Broken glass and cigarettes/ Writin' on the wall/It was a bargain for the summer/An' I thought I had it all" — then piles on the wreckage along with the orchestra and guitars. By the end, it's one big melt of missing and kiss-off ("If I could go back in time . . . But I don't want to know it now")."

I have heard that song, and the reviewer has it right. It fuckin' rocks.