Not optimistic
There'll be some "issue" which will force its delay AGAIN (like someone actually listening to it and realising that there's no way it can live up to all the hype).
All the tracks I've heard have been a let down ... who'm I kidding though, I'll still buy it.
(, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 9:01, Reply)
got to agree...
Actually, I listened to it the other day - it's pretty good in places, odd in others and a bit like some of the less-good racks on Use Your Illusion in others...
I just hope one day Axl and Slash realist they really need to work together again, as Velvet Revolver and Slash's Snakepit suffered for not having Axl on vocal and Chinese Democracy suffers from not having Slash's musicality on it...
I live in hope.
(, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 15:24, Reply)
How can it take so long
to make a shitty pop rock record?
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mookay immune to icons since, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 9:58,
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blimey!
i never thought this would actually exist. it can never live up to they hype- that much is true
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crab_bloke), Thu 23 Oct 2008, 12:25,
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from what I've heard so far
it would have been fucking incredible ten years ago.
That is the nicest thing I can say. I hope I don't get kicked in the balls.
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gronkpan, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:07,
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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)