
1/10 if not less, and a travesty to be under the GN'R name.Įetu Tiainen: Well, I know we're supposed to ignore the time that it took to make this album, but you sort of cannot. This is what happens when you give an OCD unlimited funds and unlimited time. I struggle not to laugh out loud every time at the vocal on Street of Dreams. As a whole it's their worst album, but these songs deserve a listen, they should not be forgotten.ĭamian Keen: It’s terrible, just terrible. It has some mediocre tracks, but there are also really good ones: For me, the best song on the album is This I Love, then Better, I.R.S. There's a couple of songs I could live without, but otherwise it's a special album for me.ĭavid Alejandro Cepeda Benavides: It's not as bad as some people say. Áslat Eira: It has a special place in my heart, since this is the only record by Guns that has been released during my lifetime, and I've grown up with this album. Chinese Democracy is frequently as exhausting to listen to as it must have been to make, not least on the regular occasions when Rose, clearly unable to decide whether to have another verse or a widdly-woo guitar solo, opts to do both at the same time. "The arrangements are impossibly over-stuffed. Peppers, Chinese Democracy became its Be Here Now – a record of relatively simple, similar songs overdubbed into a false sense of complexity in a horrorshow of modern production values." ( Pitchfork (opens in new tab)) Yet on the way to being this decade's Sgt.


"Axl took 17 years to, we hoped, explore new textures, manipulate songwriting conventions, seek out challenging collaborators, or delve into unfamiliar genres for inspiration. In other words, it sounds a lot like the Guns N’ Roses you know." ( Rolling Stone (opens in new tab)) "Let’s get right to it: The first Guns N’ Roses album of new, original songs since the first Bush administration is a great, audacious, unhinged and uncompromising hard-rock record.
