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Chinese Democracy | 
 enlarge | Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music
Buy New: $8.98
New (23) Used (15) Collectible (1) from $8.50
Rating:  211 reviews
Sales Rank: 59
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.3
UPC: 602517906075
EAN: 0602517906075
ASIN: B001LZXT9W
Publication Date: 2008
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Product Description
The wait is over. The new album from Guns N' Roses, Chinese Democracy, has arrived. The album, which features 14 brand new songs from Axl and company, has garnered rave reviews and is easily the most anticipated release of the year. Track listing: 1. Chinese Democracy 2. Shackler's Revenge 3. Better 4. Street Of Dreams 5. If The World 6. There Was A Time 7. Catcher In The Rye 8. Scrapped 9. Riad N' The Bedouins 10. Sorry 11. I.R.S. 12. Madagascar 13. This I Love 14. Prostitute
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 Disappointing.... January 6, 2009
B. Reule (Illinois)
I really don't care for this album - too much techno really. I have listened to it quite a few times hoping it would grow on me. Unfortunately it hasn't...
 Excellent Album January 6, 2009
Low End Curtis (Fresno Cali)
If you're expecting this to be Appetite Part II, you're going to be disappointed, and honestly that's your own fault. None of the 3 GNR albums since Appetite have sounded like appetite. Lies and both Use Your Illusions sound nothing like the first album. So why are people expecting another Welcome to the Jungle? GNR was experimenting with songs like what is on Chinese Democracy on Use Your Illusion back at the dawn of the 90s. This album is directly on course with the path they were taking back then.
Madagascar could easily have been on Use Your Illusion and is a great song. Chinese Democracy is an awesome song and the most rocking on the album. The album is different but still rocks. It hands down has the best bluesy-shredder lead guitar playing on it in the last 15 years, and the guitar playing is in the style of Slash.
If you can listen to it without groaning that it's not 1988 GNR, you'll love it.
CD arrived on time,as described. GNR fans might find January 6, 2009
K. Burnside Jr. (Wayne, ME USA)
Fast service. GNR fans might find their music style is still there though somewhat more seasoned. The new music quality is great and the new GNR song offerings I find interesting.
I will happily wait 13 years for an album that I will still want to hear 20 years from now! January 6, 2009
JD
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It is very rare for me to like an album during my first listen, I am very critical. But I must admit this is the best new music, rock or otherwise I have heard in many, many years. I won't give you a track by track breakdown but what I will say is that each track is very listenable, diverse, and original. I have been listening to Chinese Democracy since the first week is came out it never gets boring. Chinese Democracy has a quality that makes it seem as if the track you are listening to is different than the last time you heard it, my only explanation for this is a combination of complexity combined with musical genius. I would rather wait 13 years for one extraordinary album rather than 5 albums of inept garbage from so called metal bands such as Metallica among many others. I will happily wait 13 years for an album that I will still want to hear 20 years from now! Axl gives you so much more than your moneys worth!
AXL -- what I thought was beautiful still lives inside of you!!!!!!! January 6, 2009
Garbo (IL)
Axl, you sound amazing on this CD!!!
My premise: I have been playing guitar for 30 years and prior to listening to this CD...
I loved Slash during the day ... Buckethead at night ... there it is, night and day!
I did not care much for Finck, Tobias, Fortus, and who the flip was "Bumblefoot"??? I took pride in knowing who could play ... I mean really play.
After listening honestly ... I am changed for the better.
I have read all the reviews for this release on Amazon, and it seems that many have approached this recording with any number of hopes, expectations, and aspirations. The firmer your convictions about what this CD should be, the more your mind will be closed to the beauty, depth, and creativity of this recording - this *is* a classic album where the influences/similarities span Elton John, to the Beatles, to Black Sabbath, to Rob Zombie, to Led Zeppelin, to Queensryche, to the Allman Brothers, to Zebra, etc ...
While I admit there are way too many guitarists in the GNR kitchen, I am moved by the guitar work of all these players. Whether it Finck on "Street of Dreams", "There Was a Time", "IRS", or "This Is Love" ... or Bumblefoot on "Shackler's Revenge", "Catcher In The Rye" ... or Bucket on "Better", "If The World" ... I am slayed by the beauty and creativity of the playing. Honestly, if you are looking for Slash here, listening to this CD will be like chewing chewing aluminum foil ... fun for the first 1.25 seconds but then it will get annoying.
In addition, the arrangements are truly worth studying and I believe Axl had much to do with that. The best arrangement in my opinion is "Better" and that was done by Finck/Rose -- simply awesome.
Bottom Line: Axl is born again!
Next Steps: Bucket, I love ya but I gotta find out more about this BumbleFoot cat :)
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