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After fifteen long years of speculation, rumours, and disappointment, the one-time "most dangerous band in the world" finally reward their fans' patience with the release of Chinese Democracy. Guns N' Roses' fifth full-length studio album of original material is an uncompromising, fully-focused, hard rock monster that brings the rockers' early sound alive with modern day stylistics.
Title track 'Chinese Democracy' opens the album in grandiose style. A montage of sirens and Chinese dialogue rise as the track bursts into life with a riff of speaker-endangering proportions and Axl Rose's trademark falsetto squeal. Keeping Guns N' Roses familiar sound intact with ferocious riffs, Chinese Democracy throws in grinding industrial rock and keys-and-strings balladry for good measure. While the stabbing-dagger licks of 'Riad N' The Bedouins' and looping squeals of 'Street of Dreams' offer an Appetite For Destruction fuzz, 'There Was A Time' reverts away from the band's previous raw sound with a delicately structured style that incorporates new-found techniques with wah-wah guitars, a full-strength choir, and Axl Rose's overdubbed sour-growl harmonies. Incorporating a vast array of movements, themes, and motifs, Chinese Democracy offers a scattergun approach to song structure that packs the maximum punch per pound.
Despite frontman and mastermind Axl Rose being the sole remaining founder member of Guns N' Roses, the music sounds much as it did back in the band's glory days: it is massively produced, bluesy rock with a decidedly misanthropic vibe. But with the added accompaniment of new techniques and sounds developed over its fifteen year construction, Chinese Democracy has become an audacious, unhinged, and uncompromising hard rock record that marks a triumphant return to form for one of history's greatest rock bands.
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- Chinese Democracy
- Shackler's Revenge
- Better
- Street Of Dreams
- If The World
- There Was A Time
- Catcher N' The Rye
- Scraped
- Riad N' The Bedouins
- Sorry
- I.R.S.
- Madagascar
- This I Love
- Prostitute
Average rating (150 reviews)
This is surprisingly good
anderz11 | 07/01/2009 | See all anderz11's reviews (1) »
I was expecting this to be a bit disappointing. I had heard that Axl was planning an Industrial album without all the guitar work that we know and love - I was misinformed. When I found out that Buckethead had played most of the guitar parts that Slash would have played (being a huge Slash fan) I was sceptical but, after listening to the album from start to finish I noticed how Buckethead had managed to combine Slash's bluesy style with the super-fast fingerwork that he is known for, and it works! I'm almost afraid to admit it. Plus, if you are wondering whether to get it or not, £6.99 isn't a bad deal...definitely worth the money.
Thank you Axle Rose!
Candymaker | 06/01/2009 | See all Candymaker's reviews (3) »
Not a Classic GnR but a new era Axl Rose
Duffy080177 | 06/01/2009 | See all Duffy080177's reviews (1) »
Firstly, like most, i have been a huge fan of gnr since the beginning and have been waiting for this album for some time....not to buy it, but to see axl rose fall flat on his ass! My feeling is that gnr as a group bought individual flavour to the band and music which created the best album in the world in appetite for destruction. This is not gnr of old but gnr of new and is totally different to what was. The illusions albums were an insight to what was to be expected as axl had already took control of the band and so was mainly influenced by what he wanted it to sound like. Well, gnr is his baby and his alone and this album is totally how he wants it to sound. Now for the admission....not a bad album, some querky parts (spanish guitar?????) and he does sound like he's taken too much helium on some songs, but all in all not a bad album. Not the best out, but not bad. Must be honest though, if i didn't receive it as a present...i wouldn't have bought it!
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