Chinese Democracy Review Thread

[LeftToDecay]

talent as diverse as Brian May, Trent Reznor and Moby aborting the project in fear

Trent Reznor was on board at one point? 

Nope,never was.

[overmatik]

Listen people, go to rateyourmusic.com, write your personal review of the album and give a nice rating to CD, the average now there is very low, 2.75/5... The haters can't win!

[estebanf]

Excellent review -

http://www.addictivethoughts.com/?p=109

While you may agree or disagree on the quality of the songs, he does some up the thoughts of a lot of the community towards the end.

outstanding review. The part where the critic talks about This i Love and Robin's performance gave me shivers.

Here's translated into spanish: CLICK

[Mama Kin]

http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/chuck_klosterman_reviews

Pretty good review, with one very humourous moment (at least I thought it was) about a line in "Sorry".

[w.axl.rose]

That's the only line i didn't like from the song Sorry.

[grog mug]

best review yet.  Haven't heard the 3 new tracks (Sorry, TIL, Scraped), so I'll look forward to hearing that line Sunday.

[Mama Kin]

Whoops. I looked for a thread like this.

Anyway, here's the link

Chuck Klosterman Reviews CD

[Eazy E]

So why is this the one we finally hear? What finally made him decide, "You know, I've weighed all my options and all their potential consequences, and I'm going with the Mexican vampire accent.

 

Cracked me up.  This part is going to stand out like a sore thumb when I first hear this song.

[Mama Kin]

So why is this the one we finally hear? What finally made him decide, "You know, I've weighed all my options and all their potential consequences, and I'm going with the Mexican vampire accent.

 

Cracked me up.  This part is going to stand out like a sore thumb when I first hear this song.

I'm glad that so far everyone found that as funny as I did. You really gotta take the whole quote, however "Rose suddenly sings an otherwise innocuous line ("But I don't want to do it") in some bizarre, quasi-Transylvanian accent, and I cannot begin to speculate as to why. I mean, one has to assume Axl thought about all of these individual choices a minimum of a thousand times over the past 15 years. Somewhere in Los Angles, there's gotta be 400 hours of DAT tape with nothing on it except multiple versions of the "Sorry" vocal. So why is this the one we finally hear? What finally made him decide, "You know, I've weighed all my options and all their potential consequences, and I'm going with the Mexican vampire accent. This is the vision I will embrace. But only on that one line! The rest of it will just be sung like a non-dead human."

[Bodhi]

easily the most amusing review I have read thus far...good stuff...

[SLCPUNK]

So why is this the one we finally hear? What finally made him decide, "You know, I've weighed all my options and all their potential consequences, and I'm going with the Mexican vampire accent.

 

Cracked me up.  This part is going to stand out like a sore thumb when I first hear this song.

Every time I hear that part, I laugh my ass off, and then repeat it. It's obvious he spoke that way for some reason, but I have no idea why. It's hilarious though.

It's a great review though...

[SLCPUNK]

Excellent review -

http://www.addictivethoughts.com/?p=109

While you may agree or disagree on the quality of the songs, he does some up the thoughts of a lot of the community towards the end.

I seen that, it reads more like it was written by a member of the boards.

I pretty much agree with most of it, it is very well written. I wonder who wrote it? Obviously a fan who has followed the changes over the years.


Good article, suspicions aside.

"Sorry slows things down on the album with what Sebastian Bach described as a ?grinding doom metal? riff. I think he might be deaf. "

 

[acompleteunknown]

Axl always does funky little voice stuff...like "baaaing" at the end of Down on the Farm.

[TWT]

If every review was like this, whether from a positive or negative angle, the world of jourmalism would be a better place. I'm sure everyone will think the same thing the first time they hear Sorry. That is to think, why?

[Amish]

Doesn't anyone else think that line is meant to be ironic?

"But I don't want to do it.
You don't know why I won't act the way you think I should."

He's doing something that he knows people will question and then in the very next line he spells out what the listener is thinking.

[pilferk]

That's the only line i didn't like from the song Sorry.

Ditto.

Sounded like he's trying to do a voice over for that "Chihuahua" movie.  Otherwise, I LOVE that song, though.

[Chuzeville]

I enjoyed reading this but the guys makes a lot of assumptions about Axl's intention that would get him flamed if the review was negative. (Incidentally, I think his assumptions are pretty close to reality, but I wouldn't know, since I don't know Axl, etc.)

[veritas55]

That Chuck Klosterman review was excellent -- incredibly well-written, funny, and very insightful.  I actually agree with much of what he said (I have heard all the songs but Scraped).  Sounds like he cared enough to actually really think about this album on a pretty complicated level and not write either a knee-jerk positive or negative review.

[Continental Drift]

Axl always does funky little voice stuff...like "baaaing" at the end of Down on the Farm.

Yup. Or "Cool Ranch Dressing" ("Cool and Stressing")- or "Alright- that sucked!", or the extended soliloquy at the end of "Breakdown" or "Smoke 'em if you gote 'em" or "To the bar!" or "Yowzaaaaaaa" etc.... Axl always seems to work in some funny or random shit onto GN'R albums.

I haven't heard "Sorry" yet... but I seriously doubt a Count Chockula line from Uncle Axl is going to ruin it for me. In fact, I'll probably fucking love it. There's probably some "inside joke" angle to it- that would crack us the hell up if we could ever find out what it is (like Slash having a lawyer who sounded like Dracula or something).

[Tyson]

Entertainment Weekly's review really pisses me the fuck off.  They gave it a B-!  That is a widely read, influential magazine and a B- is NOT a good review.  We should all go to this site: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20241280,00.html    and type in our own reviews.