that's just about right...
In the same way that Tommy Lee's Methods of Mayhem album would have been mindblowing in 1995, but was mediocre when it came out, it seems that Axl spent too long trying to hit the next big trend and lost his nerve, rather than being true to his original vision (a la Illusion 1 and 2), he tried to make something that would appeal to everyone from old-style GnR fans to those more into Muse and suchlike. The end result is an album that has some great glimpses of brilliance, but a lot of muddled ideas and execution that belies the fact it has had an almost permanently rotating schedule of musicians attached to it. The end result is a body of work which is...ok. The good is weighed out by the poor and unfortunately the mediocre is what sticks in the mind.
(, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 15:32, Reply)