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« on: November 22, 2015, 08:46:01 AM »
Happy birthday to the release of CD, 7 years ago!!
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« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2015, 08:48:42 AM »
Time certainly flies! I saw the TWILIGHT movie for the first time on the very same day! hihi Still love to play it in my car although I don't drive to work anymore so I don't spend much time driving. But it is on my iphone ! love TIL still my fav.
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« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2015, 08:50:45 AM »
Also, I know that buckethead probably doesn't give a shit about CD or anything GNR, but he did rock on the album.
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« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2015, 02:33:06 PM »
I remember driving to Best Buy with my friend and bought it on CD & Vinyl.  We sat in our cars and read the booklet before even listening to it.
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« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2015, 04:24:15 PM »
Time flies, eh?  I remember getting it on the day, and then going round to visit my then-girlfriend, who had already been out to buy a copy for me.

There's some really stellar work on that album.  Some that's less good as well, but it holds up as album, and I certainly listen to it far more often than the older GNR albums these days. 
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« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2015, 12:54:16 AM »
i was so excited that day that i sprained my ankle from jumping around like a maniac.
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« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2015, 04:51:30 AM »
I took about a year of from listening to CD in the car and have been doing my eclectic stuff instead, Prodigy, FFS, The Adventures etc

Yesterday CD went back in the player and wow, a ten minute trip ended up being a two and half hour drive (on an island with 60miles of coastline takes some doing)  hihi

Unless another drop happens guess this baby is gonna be in the player for the foreseeable future. beer
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« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2015, 05:15:06 AM »
Bought it at midnight from a gas station as the record stores were closed Cool
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« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2015, 10:38:32 AM »
Awesome memories, I still remember that the first song I've ever heard from CD when I walked in through the shop was Sorry and it blew my mind.
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« Reply #9 on: November 23, 2015, 10:46:44 AM »

I was really looking forward for years, waiting for the release , I think the incredible songs , but half had already been leaked , and when the album finally saw the light of day I saw the darkness . Axl should have released a double album , but still imagined that the next album would be released in two or three years later, but I was wrong . The song I like most is Madagascar and TWAT , have hip hop beats and a little bit of Led Zeppelin.
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« Reply #10 on: November 23, 2015, 10:47:44 AM »
Quote from: AHUGEAxlFan on November 22, 2015, 08:50:45 AM

Also, I know that buckethead probably doesn't give a shit about CD or anything GNR, but he did rock on the album.


Best part of it, I think.  Shame that didn't work out.
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« Reply #11 on: November 23, 2015, 01:19:46 PM »
Although my enthusiasm for the album has certainly decreased over the last 7 years it was a very very exciting time.  I went with my then gf (and now wife) to pick up the vinyl and CD at Best Buy.  We had bought 4 bottles of Nightrain from a liquor store on Delancey street in NYC (which has since shuttered) to drink while listening to it that night.  Needless to say I took off the next day at work....

As for the album itself, because it had mostly leaked I actually downloaded the songs in case Axl or anybody was able to stop the release of the album.  If that happened I was going to listen to the tracks I had downloaded.  Luckily I didn't need to do that!  I definitely liked the album at the time of the release, but the more I've listened to it the more disappointed I've become with it.  I still think that TWAT is the standalone track on that album.  It is the one song I continuously come back to unlike the rest of the material.  I also like Madagascar and IRS, but outside of those tracks I just don't think its a solid album. 
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« Reply #12 on: November 23, 2015, 01:21:57 PM »
Quote from: WAR41 on November 23, 2015, 01:19:46 PM
We had bought 4 bottles of Nightrain from a liquor store on Delancey street in NYC (which has since shuttered) to drink while listening to it that night.  Needless to say I took off the next day at work....

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« Reply #13 on: November 23, 2015, 01:50:48 PM »
Seven years and no follow up, Come on Axl!
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« Reply #14 on: November 23, 2015, 02:05:59 PM »
I still maintain that Klosterman wrote the best CD review for the AV Club:

http://www.avclub.com/review/chuck-klosterman-reviews-chinese-democracy-2539
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« Reply #15 on: November 23, 2015, 02:13:09 PM »
Quote from: Mike McKagan on November 23, 2015, 02:05:59 PM
I still maintain that Klosterman wrote the best CD review for the AV Club:

http://www.avclub.com/review/chuck-klosterman-reviews-chinese-democracy-2539
It is a great review.
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« Reply #16 on: November 23, 2015, 02:20:57 PM »
my favorite review...Rolling Stone.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/chinese-democracy-20081127
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« Reply #17 on: November 23, 2015, 02:39:25 PM »
A lot of reviews were positive.

Yet many fans perpetuate the myth that people shit on it and didn't give Axl a chance.  Really not the case.
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« Reply #18 on: November 23, 2015, 02:52:17 PM »
Quote from: ComeOnAxl! on November 23, 2015, 01:50:48 PM
Seven years and no follow up, Come on Axl!

Seven years and no follow up YET, key word there.
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« Reply #19 on: November 23, 2015, 02:58:44 PM »
Quote from: EmilyGNR on November 23, 2015, 02:52:17 PM
Quote from: ComeOnAxl! on November 23, 2015, 01:50:48 PM
Seven years and no follow up, Come on Axl!

Seven years and no follow up YET, key word there.
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