Chinese Democracy Reviewing Rules

[//JK75]

But i disagree with not being able to compare to original albums, as the name is still guns n roses, this isnt a debut, this a follow up.

A follow up...? It's different people making the music - how can you compare...?

Do you compare Bon Jovi's last album to... say...Aerosmiths' first album..? No. Why? Because it's different people making the music.

The name is just a name. It didn't make the music. It can't. It's just words. Words don't play guitar.

That's what Axl got to use to if he uses GNR name.
I agree it must be compared, if this is GNR I will compare, it's natural.

[FlashFlood]

This album could be cows farting for an hour and id STILL say it was the best cd id ever heard.

[Gaymo, the Hobbit]

 

This album could be cows farting for an hour and id STILL say it was the best cd id ever heard.

hahahaha...very funny.. but oh so true

[Dont Try Me]

This album could be cows farting for an hour and id STILL say it was the best cd id ever heard.

cows farting are very intruiging

[Gaymo, the Hobbit]

lol imagine that, we're waiting 10 years for the return of rock and all we get is cows farting..

[mrlee]

lmao....id outfart any cow 

[Dont Try Me]

lmao....id outfart any cow?

prove it

[jameslofton29]

This album could be cows farting for an hour and id STILL say it was the best cd id ever heard.

You are really that closed minded? Damn. Mental note made to skip over your posts in the upcoming "Post your CD review" thread.

[mikegiuliana]

Sir, yes Sir!!

that fucking line made me laugh so hard, like he was barking out the strict rules of how to approach the reviewing of these tunes

[Mikkamakka]

Chinese Democracy Reviewing Rules:

1) Don't judge on the time taken to make the songs.

This is going to be the biggest point critics' are going to make..."this is what we get after ten years!". It's totally stupid. No one knows how much time was actually spent on the individual songs or the album as a whole. I've heard timespans of five years, ten years and even fifteen years! "There Was A Time" could have been written in two years or it could have been written in a week - no one but the band knows. Also, just because Axl has not released anything major in ten years does not mean he has spent every single second working on this record.

2) Don't judge the album expecting/wanting to hear 'classic' GN'R

This is a completely different band to 'classic GNR', as we have heard. Even though it's called Guns N' Roses, judge it as if it wasn't...

3) Don't compare the new tunes to the classic ones.

Different band = different music

4) Admit to liking the songs!

If you like the songs, say so. Don't grumble about them being "...umm...okay...not too bad...", or hide your love for them because you're an old-school fan and you don't believe the new band is Guns N Roses.

5) Don't jump on the bandwagon

I gaurantee you, when the album is released a lot of critics are going to poison your mind with their blinkered view of Axl Rose. Don't fall for it...! Even the ones who shoot down Axl the most are probably secretly rocking out to "TWAT" with their "Chinese Democracy" t-shirts on...! Don't be like these critics - who have to censor what they say to please the taste of their emo-loving editors - instead, be like Axl Rose and have some balls!

OMG, HTGTH has become a stalinist propaganda site? Is this the Kominform? 

[kupirock]

Chinese Democracy Reviewing Rules:

1) Don't judge on the time taken to make the songs.

This is going to be the biggest point critics' are going to make..."this is what we get after ten years!". It's totally stupid. No one knows how much time was actually spent on the individual songs or the album as a whole. I've heard timespans of five years, ten years and even fifteen years! "There Was A Time" could have been written in two years or it could have been written in a week - no one but the band knows. Also, just because Axl has not released anything major in ten years does not mean he has spent every single second working on this record.

2) Don't judge the album expecting/wanting to hear 'classic' GN'R

This is a completely different band to 'classic GNR', as we have heard. Even though it's called Guns N' Roses, judge it as if it wasn't...

3) Don't compare the new tunes to the classic ones.

Different band = different music

4) Admit to liking the songs!

If you like the songs, say so. Don't grumble about them being "...umm...okay...not too bad...", or hide your love for them because you're an old-school fan and you don't believe the new band is Guns N Roses.

5) Don't jump on the bandwagon

I gaurantee you, when the album is released a lot of critics are going to poison your mind with their blinkered view of Axl Rose. Don't fall for it...! Even the ones who shoot down Axl the most are probably secretly rocking out to "TWAT" with their "Chinese Democracy" t-shirts on...! Don't be like these critics - who have to censor what they say to please the taste of their emo-loving editors - instead, be like Axl Rose and have some balls!

OMG, HTGTH has become a stalinist propaganda site? Is this the Kominform? 

exactly, this is ridiculous

[Woooo!]

I think another point should be that people must be entitled to their own opinions. Too often, people are slammed just because they dislike a new song etc. Honesty is good and if we want to know what people think of Chinese Democracy we have to listen & consider their point of view. G&R fans can't all destroy others and make excuses for them not liking it i.e. He has it in for Axl.

[oldgunsfan]

So far I've heard 10 tracks from the new GnR, and on a scale of 1-10, i'd give the new stuff a

3/10

as in, i've liked thre of the 10 tracks I heard

how's that for adhering to the rules (which are ridiculous)

[Scree]

Bandwagon = the metaphorical thing people jump on when they don't share the same opinions as YOU.

[Elrothiel]

Chinese Democracy Reviewing Rules:

1) Don't judge on the time taken to make the songs.

This is going to be the biggest point critics' are going to make..."this is what we get after ten years!". It's totally stupid. No one knows how much time was actually spent on the individual songs or the album as a whole. I've heard timespans of five years, ten years and even fifteen years! "There Was A Time" could have been written in two years or it could have been written in a week - no one but the band knows. Also, just because Axl has not released anything major in ten years does not mean he has spent every single second working on this record.

2) Don't judge the album expecting/wanting to hear 'classic' GN'R

This is a completely different band to 'classic GNR', as we have heard. Even though it's called Guns N' Roses, judge it as if it wasn't...

3) Don't compare the new tunes to the classic ones.

Different band = different music

4) Admit to liking the songs!

If you like the songs, say so. Don't grumble about them being "...umm...okay...not too bad...", or hide your love for them because you're an old-school fan and you don't believe the new band is Guns N Roses.

5) Don't jump on the bandwagon

I gaurantee you, when the album is released a lot of critics are going to poison your mind with their blinkered view of Axl Rose. Don't fall for it...! Even the ones who shoot down Axl the most are probably secretly rocking out to "TWAT" with their "Chinese Democracy" t-shirts on...! Don't be like these critics - who have to censor what they say to please the taste of their emo-loving editors - instead, be like Axl Rose and have some balls!

Hell yes!!
I woulda written all that (or something akin) if I hadn't been so dog tired from stayin' up all night again last night and then having to get up early to have a driving lesson...

[kyrie]

Chinese Democracy Reviewing Rules:

1) Don't judge on the time taken to make the songs.

This is going to be the biggest point critics' are going to make..."this is what we get after ten years!". It's totally stupid. No one knows how much time was actually spent on the individual songs or the album as a whole. I've heard timespans of five years, ten years and even fifteen years! "There Was A Time" could have been written in two years or it could have been written in a week - no one but the band knows. Also, just because Axl has not released anything major in ten years does not mean he has spent every single second working on this record.

2) Don't judge the album expecting/wanting to hear 'classic' GN'R

This is a completely different band to 'classic GNR', as we have heard. Even though it's called Guns N' Roses, judge it as if it wasn't...

3) Don't compare the new tunes to the classic ones.

Different band = different music

4) Admit to liking the songs!

If you like the songs, say so. Don't grumble about them being "...umm...okay...not too bad...", or hide your love for them because you're an old-school fan and you don't believe the new band is Guns N Roses.

5) Don't jump on the bandwagon

I gaurantee you, when the album is released a lot of critics are going to poison your mind with their blinkered view of Axl Rose. Don't fall for it...! Even the ones who shoot down Axl the most are probably secretly rocking out to "TWAT" with their "Chinese Democracy" t-shirts on...! Don't be like these critics - who have to censor what they say to please the taste of their emo-loving editors - instead, be like Axl Rose and have some balls!

Hell yes!!
I woulda written all that (or something akin) if I hadn't been so dog tired from stayin' up all night again last night and then having to get up early to have a driving lesson...

Driving lesson? Peg some poor pedestrian for me!

On topic, the key to reviewing CD is going to be to review the songs by themselves and block out all the BS surrounding the CD. But that's not going to happen in a lot of cases for mainstream critics, because they sell more papers/magazines/rags by taking potshots.

Putting oneself in the headline is the easiest way to gain attention, and a lot of shoddy journalists do it.

[Elrothiel]

I would have run over a couple of stupid chavs that ran across the road right in front of me, but my driving instructor slammed on the brakes, so I blasted the horn and yelled "YOU MOTHERFUCKIN' STUPID CHAV FUCKHEADS!!" out the window at them...

Back on topic.... the critics better not bring out the whole predictable bullshit about "oooh this albums been in the making for 13 years!! WHY haven't we got 100 songs? WHY haven't we got this, that and his dog!? blah blah blah yaddayadda BULLSHIT!" or else I'm going to march down there with my New Rocks on and kick every critic's nuts in there! And if their female, get into a good old fashioned catfight!

[EccoTides]

So when did they stop being Guns N' Roses?
After Steven Adler was gone?
After Izzy Stradlin was gone?
After Slash was gone?
After Duff was gone?

Indeed. I look at the UYI/TSI lineup as a totally different band than the one that recorded AFD - And it was. The vibe and dynamic was very different and not as cohesive. I hate how just because Slash and Duff were still around, no one cares that two members of the band had been replaced.

For that very reason, I think that the "Chinese Democracy" version of the band deserves the GNR name just as much as the band that recorded UYI and TSI. But this time, for the better - As I think that the CD project is already a far more interesting and musically dynamic thing than the UYI's were.

[the dirt]

This album could be cows farting for an hour and id STILL say it was the best cd id ever heard.

cows farting are very intruiging

Oddly enough cows farting is a bigger source of air pollution than you may think. Seriously.

[jameslofton29]

Oddly enough cows farting is a bigger source of air pollution than you may think. Seriously.

Thats what killed the dinosaurs.