which parts of chinese democracy have made you cry?

[falungong69]

okay, i am not ashamed to admit it:  this album has totally made me cry!  sometimes i get a little teary eyes.  but every now and then i'll full on weep.  it's just so bursting with emotions and complexity.  sometimes i just get bowled over at how amazingly axl poured his soul into this music.  he just bares it all and it's geninuely touching.

so how many other people are willing to man up and admit that they cry at the album?  which parts get you the most?

i'll go first...

catcher in the rye....  from the 2:00-2:13 mark when the marching drums come in with the strings.  whoa.  i can totally imagine john lennon leading a march of decesaed souls into heaven.  truly visionary.

street of dreams... the lyric 'what i thought was beautiful don't live inside of you anymore!'  that one is very personal, but it reminds me of a girlfriend that i had once and a choice she made that i did not support and how it eventually drove us apart.  things were never the same after she ruined all that we had.

this i love... basically the entire song form start to finish.  but especially the guitar solo.  it's honestly one of the greatest guitar solos of all time and when i hear it, i can just imagine axl's heart breaking.  it's amazing how there is a symphony playing behind the guitar solo and they combine to make something even more powerful and special than regular classical music.

[SkeletorSerpent]

I was just being a smart ass; I love the album and really don't give a shit about sales or commercial success.  What made me fall in love with Axl and Gnr in the first place was how they were so anti-commercial yet managed to be such a smash commercial success from 88 - 93. It was like the sleazy burn out kid who is a genius but hides out in his van at high school skipping class, nipping whiskey and listening to old Iron Maiden tapes and then somehow becomes the homecoming king and gets the spot light on him for a weekend. In the analogical metaphor, 87-92/93 was that era when Gnr owned the world.

Seriously, my wife gets mad at me because I go off into our car and listen to the cd almost every night (better speakers, solitude, and dark) and close my eyes and just process and digest the album. For example, tonight I just realized that during the chorus of There was a Time, Axl dubs in a deep harmony behind his lead vocals. I just keep finding more and more hidden treasures on this album.

1. I cry during all of Catcher in the Rye (the song made me feel like a 16 year old kid again, smoking pot and drinking whiskey in the back of a van at a party; it has a real nostalgic, old-school Gnr feel to it. It makes rock n roll seem fresh again, and I feel like a kid when I hear it)
2. I cry during the "I just can't let it die, her hearts just like mine" and " I searched the universe" parts of "This I Love"
3. All of Madagascar and Street of Dreams because they are so awesome and it feels good to hear a confident Axl
4. Better when it comes on the radio (it feels good to hear Axl back on mainstream rock radio)
5. "Use and confuse them, they're numb and naive" Sorry

[estebanf]

The following part of This I Love made me cry after several listenings:

''confessions to a crime, of passions that won't die... in my hea [extended ''a''] rt''

How can a human being write that kind of masterpiece on his own?

All I know is I can knock tyson out if I'm listening to Bumblefoot's solo ar Riad 

[Buddha_Master]

I guess the part when the clock hit 10:a.m. and Best Buy opened that amazing day, and definitely the part when I held the album, my precious, in my hands for the first time.

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

I guess I haven't had many bad things happen to me in life that would aid a GN'R songs' efforts to bring me to my knees and weep uncontrollably.

[Naltav]

Haven't exactly cried yet.... But I came close on This I Love and Prostitute.

Axl wears his heart on his sleeve on those! Words aren't invented to sum it up... Pure genius!  

[SLCPUNK]

I guess the part when the clock hit 10:a.m. and Best Buy opened that amazing day, and definitely the part when I held the album, my precious, in my hands for the first time.

Now that's some funny shit.

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

I guess the part when the clock hit 10:a.m. and Best Buy opened that amazing day, and definitely the part when I held the album, my precious, in my hands for the first time.

Now that's some funny shit.

Ya, Best Buy opened at 9:00.

The murder trial is back on. 

[Chief]

oh come on, I'm pretty sure you cried when you heard that intro part of Scraped!

I guess I haven't had many bad things happen to me in life that would aid a GN'R songs' efforts to bring me to my knees and weep uncontrollably.

[GNR4L]

I haven't cried, but listening to This I Love and Prositute, Catcher in The rye have made been kinda of sad in a way.  Just songs that I can relate to in life, and girl's i've liked.

[willow]

I don't consider an album great unless at least one track doesn't push me to tears! Maddie has made me cry sense the first time I heard it watching the Rock in Rio bootleg. Its very personal to me. And This I Love gets me going almost everytime.

[Batuta]

This i Love.

Shoked me on the first time i heard.

[falungong69]

maddy gets me teary eyed sometimes because i think it's amazing that with all the people who have tried to tear down axl's soul and ruin his life, he proves he's the bigger man by not stooping to their level.  instead, he asks god to forgive their souls.  any christians will recognize this as the same thing that jesus christ did when he was crucified.  'forgive them father, for they know not what they do,' is what he said.  axl says pretty much the same thing.  when you think about all the suffering that people endure to follow there life's journey, whether it's axl or jesus or anyone else, and STILL maintain there humility and selflessness,  it is really inspiring.   

so while this i love or the blues might make me cry because i'm sad, madagascar makes me cry in a different way.... because it gives me hope and optimism.

[XxWickeds10xX]

Wow, you are some emotional people.

I havent even come close to crying from anything on the album, but then again I dont have much to cry about there days anyway Lighten up people!

[LIGuns]

I love this album, but I "Don't Cry"!!

[BlowUpYourVideo]

Maybe I'm cynical (or emotionless) but no music has ever made me cry. It just doesn't have that effect with me.



Unless it's really bad I suppose.

[falungong69]

i'm sorry, but if you've never shed a single tear to this i love, then you have no heart!

why do people think it's so bad to cry?  it doesn't make you less of a man.  i've only cried a few times in my life, like when my dog and my grandmother died.  but this album does it consistantly.  in many ways axl has helped me to get in touch with my emotional side by showing me how he did it himself.  i only wish i was able to write a beautiful love song that expressed my feelings about things too.

[ppbebe]

none. Cd has many electric moments where I wowed, smiled before i knew it, jumped and danced up and down, wore goose flesh and everything but tears.

not as a part of cd but IRS (before cd) did make me cry. I will ever be accompanied by this tune when working against time.

[duga]

Almost cry when I hear the guitar in the right speaker in Prostitute at 1.41 - 1.43 

[mcmurray]

Sorry solo first time I heard it.