Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy Was Never Meant To Be Heard MTV.Com

[Bruno Poeys]

Is it coming out,(for sure)...?

You think Axl and the band didn't intend for the music to be released?

Really?




/jarmo

I think he meant if the album is really coming out soon (this year)...

[DemocracyRose]

Is it coming out,(for sure)...?

You think Axl and the band didn't intend for the music to be released?

Really?




/jarmo

No, but you sound like its coming out now...

[jarmo]

Until I hear otherwise, my attitude is the same as it was in January.

This is the year.





/jarmo

[DemocracyRose]

Is it coming out,(for sure)...?

You think Axl and the band didn't intend for the music to be released?

Really?




/jarmo

I think he meant if the album is really coming out soon (this year)...

Exactly.

[GNR4L]

I can picture once this album is out and whirlwind of people will wanna talk to Axl.  Asking questions probaly some stupid one's like I thought you would never put this record out what made you change your mind ? ect just what the media does they lambast you one minute and then whe something big happens or comes out they wanna talk to you.  Either way what im saying has probaly been said before, With hearing what we have heard regarding new material I think alot of people will be surprised and shock by the new sound of Guns N' Roses.  Im getting ready cause this is gonna be one helluva ride and it makes it just more sweet being behind this band and album since day one.

[Bodhi]

The guy who wrote this pile of crap is a tool...first he got the VMA year wrong, it was 2002 not 2004, and work on "Democracy" started before '98...when I saw that I almost stopped reading because he didnt even bother to fact check the easy shit...and what is that nonsense about "Shacklers" being a terrible song?  It is a great song...Axl told Kurt Loder in 1999 that "we are not working on all this to keep it buried" and in 2002 "YOU"LL SEE IT, i dont know if soon in the word" and this douche is telling us how the record was never actually supposed to come out....moron....but hey its MTV what do you expect...

[jarmo]

I can picture once this album is out and whirlwind of people will wanna talk to Axl.  

Of course.

All the magazines, newspapers, radio/TV channels and web sites that have been writing shit for all this time will want to talk to him.





/jarmo

[Gritty]

The line about getting wasted in Best Buy parking lot's pretty funny

And yet.....it's probably what will happen.

I can tell you this:  I intend to go to the closest Best Buy doing a midnight opening (if any) and party my brains out that night waiting.  I'm not sure about "wasted"....but certainly partying.   I'm 34 years old....wife and 3 kids.  If the album inspires me in that direction, I'm thinking it might do the same amongst some other fans.

Hopefully, they'll do a pre-order on the album, so we can all ensure we'll get one that night and we won't have to actually wait "in line" to ensure it.  That will make the party all that much better......

Yeah a pre-order is probably a safe bet. Otherwise if they run out of copies the angry drunks might start a riot!

[russkwtx]

If I were Axl and I faced such diatribes and hate from what  should be an enthusiastic source, or at least neutral, I would not be in a hurry either. MTV in the US is a shadow of what  it was meant to be.

[Saul]

Fuck any and all 'future reviews' of the album - they were written YEARS ago anyways. I'm no axl-nutswinger but the critics always wanna bring the man down for whatever reason. This album could be the best body of musical material ever recorded and people will still find faults with it. If not with 'it' with the fact it took long, it cost alot, it isn't 'guns n roses' and all that garbage.

My advice is this - go buy the album when you can, judge it for yourself. Hopefully you will enjoy it and it will be worth the wait - if not, move on and find something else.

DON'T be swayed by some schmuck in an office sitting behind a laptop with an agenda (a a text document written 5 years ago)

Democracy starts really soon, good time to be a real fan of Axl and GNR!!

Peace friends. 

p.s. be prepared for some really shocking 'surprises' when this album drops - a few twists in the road awaits. 

[Ali]

Fuck any and all 'future reviews' of the album - they were written YEARS ago anyways. I'm no axl-nutswinger but the critics always wanna bring the man down for whatever reason. This album could be the best body of musical material ever recorded and people will still find faults with it. If not with 'it' with the fact it took long, it cost alot, it isn't 'guns n roses' and all that garbage.

My advice is this - go buy the album when you can, judge it for yourself. Hopefully you will enjoy it and it will be worth the wait - if not, move on and find something else.

DON'T be swayed by some schmuck in an office sitting behind a laptop with an agenda (a a text document written 5 years ago)

Democracy starts really soon, good time to be a real fan of Axl and GNR!!

Peace friends. 

p.s. be prepared for some really shocking 'surprises' when this album drops - a few twists in the road awaits. 

Alright, Mr. Saul.  You can't leave on that last line and not elaborate

Does one of those twists have to do with a certain Bucket-headed one?

Ali

[LittleFly]

I know it was a bash, but that article really made me laugh out loud.  The whole CD thing really has been something that the masses never expected to come out.  First thing people ask me when I mention that I'm a big GNR fan is "Ok, when is CD gonna be released" forcing me to facepalm.


I can't wait for the whole circus that's going to happen with the damn thing is finally released.  Like always before, I'm gonna sit back and enjoy the ride, but this time I'll have MUSIC to listen to 

[jak0lantern01]

Is MTV even relevant anymore? Back in the heyday of MTV, GnR was king. Now, they mock Axl? Sure, perhaps I'm a little longer in the tooth than some other people here (I was a senior in high school when the Illusions came out, for time reference), but MTV is absolutely useless. Where is the "M" in MTV? I thought I was so out of touch when I couldn't relate to MTV anymore, figured it was that out of school and getting a real job and responsibilities thing. Then I started watching FUSE and tune into sirius radio. I suddenly realized that it wasn't me out of touch with things, it was just MTV dragging everything down with its own sense of self proclaimed hip-ness and crappy reality TV. GnR were MTV's bread and butter for a good stretch, they got me to tune in. I'll be on line for Chinese Democracy, and I just may even get drunk in the parking lot for shits and giggles (if I don't have to work the next day  ).

[DarkFairy]

I may or may not have laughed at some parts of that article  whatever! GN'R fans ARE crazy 

[sandman]

this piece was really annoying to read.

but one thing hit me...with the financial crisis going on in the U.S. right now, the environment is similar to that of 1987 when AFD was released. it's kinda ironic.

[djcleaver]

"There is perhaps no rock-and-roll album as starstruck or anticipated in history ? eternally promoted by disastrous world tours"

Obviously this a-hole hasn't been to a show in the past several years, which have been anything but disastrous......They are still the greatest rock band of all time and the shows are mind blowing.

[jarmo]

"There is perhaps no rock-and-roll album as starstruck or anticipated in history ? eternally promoted by disastrous world tours"

Obviously this a-hole hasn't been to a show in the past several years, which have been anything but disastrous......They are still the greatest rock band of all time and the shows are mind blowing.

Do you think it's required to know what you're talking about before writing articles on MTV.com?

 





/jarmo

[wadey]

FUCK THE HATERS......

everyones coming out of the woodwork now its close to getting released, all these so called stories hitting the web and stirring shit for the sake of stirring shit....I dont know what bothers me more, the stories or the amount of fans that suck it all in

GET IN THE RING MUTHERFUCKERS

[Silverchair]

"There is perhaps no rock-and-roll album as starstruck or anticipated in history ? eternally promoted by disastrous world tours"

Obviously this a-hole hasn't been to a show in the past several years, which have been anything but disastrous......They are still the greatest rock band of all time and the shows are mind blowing.

Do you think it's required to know what you're talking about before writing articles on MTV.com?

 





/jarmo

The only requirement is for you to be a straight-out-of college,Starbucks' drinking, liberal with a bone to pick. Knowledge of music or the music business is not what Music Television (MTV) is about or is known for...

Coming from the same people that gave Flavor Flav and Hulk Hogan TV shows.

[Ali]

"There is perhaps no rock-and-roll album as starstruck or anticipated in history ? eternally promoted by disastrous world tours"

Obviously this a-hole hasn't been to a show in the past several years, which have been anything but disastrous......They are still the greatest rock band of all time and the shows are mind blowing.

Do you think it's required to know what you're talking about before writing articles on MTV.com?

 





/jarmo

I know for a fact the guy that wrote this article never went and saw the old lineup of GN'R and I'd be willing to bet he hasn't seen the new lineup.  I don't think there's any doubt that he has no idea about the live experience of GN'R.  Having said that, he's just trying to provoke a reaction.

Ali