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#2281 Re: Guns N' Roses » New song lyrics » 959 weeks ago
Thank you!
I was wondering when you'd have these up.
#2282 Re: Guns N' Roses » Questions about the leaks. » 959 weeks ago
It's interesting the different opinions people have...I really like the high screams and pitch in the songs and would be disapointed if they all came out low in the studio version.
I like the high pitch. With all these bands with the high pitch girly voices, it's about damn time someone comes along and has some hair on his peaches.
#2283 Re: Guns N' Roses » ALL Artlicles About Leaks (Post in here) » 959 weeks ago
Chinese Democracy: Track-by-track
Posted in Music by Brent DiCrescenzo on June 19th, 2008
As you read this, you might want to take cover in a lead shelter and make those last calls to loved ones, because the world may just be ending: Axl Rose's Chinese Democracy has (supposedly) hit the internet in mastered form.
Before Miley Cyrus and ER were born, Guns '˜N Roses released their last proper studio album. Since then, Axl has slowly chiseled his face to look like the antihero in V For Vendetta, while Slash left the band to become a video game character. Oh, and West Lafayette's most famous falsetto spent the GDP of Tuvalu on the follow-up. Now, apparently, the record has leaked.
Last evening, nine tracks hit the Internet, six of which are familiar from Brazilian concert bootlegs, demos and Mike Piazza radio appearances. After such a wait, I expected this to be major news. But checking the CNN.com front page I find:
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What, no headline room for the most anticipated album of all time? Is Dr. Pepper pulling some strings to quiet this down? Well, whatever. I'm here to take you through the Most Inevitable Letdown in Rock History. The leak comes unsequenced and three tracks are unlabeled, but here's the jist: Imagine Elton John fronting Linkin Park.
"Better": The best and craziest track (no coincidence) sticks out with a softly sung R&B hook over jungle breaks that sound as fresh as a 1998 Stabbing Westward record. Axl's voice still nails his three modes'”gentle croon, peregrine falcon cry and guttural belt. Goofy electronic flourishes, like the cartoony rewind effect in the bridge and the farty synth under the chorus' riff assault, don't modernize the sound as much as amuse with clashing flavors.
"The Blues": Axl's no stranger to cheesy piano, but this LIberace-like twinkling is Chester Cheetah bathing in Velveeta. John Dugan, TOC Clubs editor weighs in: "This sounds like Celine Dion fronting Jay Leno's band." Could Kevin Eubanks be the face behind the bucket?
"Chinese Democracy": The shoo-in opener, the title track could pass for Disturbed, if not for the 18 spider-tapping Buckethead solos.
"IRS": The most traditional G'N'R sounding cut, interjected with jarring Windham Hill bridges. The first kiss-off song to ever threaten an audit from the U.S. Government. Probably.
"Madagascar": Finally together in one song: French horn, Cool Hand Luke quotes, MLK's "Dream" speech and batshit finger tapping.
"New Song #1": The four minutes of funky thrash place this record firmly in the mid-'90s, like Perry Ferrell fronting Sepultura for a Mountain Dew commercial.
"New Song #2": Hip-hop beats slathered in more canned piano and synths. The strongest argument for this being another batch of unfinished demos.
"New Song #3": Hold on to your hats, "Welcome to the Jungle" junkies: FLAMENCO FUNK.
"There Was A Time": Sign that a record costs a fortune: A children's choir pops up'¦for just 14 seconds. The bombastic love song feels like a closer. Axl piles on every trick'”strings, solos, acoustic guitars, doubled vocals, synths.
Overall, the "record" captivates thanks to the unexpected schmaltz and Axl's inimitable (but fun to mimic) vocals. The novelty of the curveballs wears off, and the songs just aren't that catchy. The overwhelming amount of electric piano leads me to believe this is not the final product. Hopefully, the tacky keyboard runs are placeholders for a Steinway. Unless he ran out of money.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but these tracks need more time in the studio. Either that, Axl, or fly up to Chicago for a week and work with Steve Albini.
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Can't believe he's telling Axl to go back in the studio!
#2284 Re: Guns N' Roses » ALL Artlicles About Leaks (Post in here) » 959 weeks ago
Chinese Democracy Leaks, Underwhelms
Yesterday we heard Chinese Democracy had leaked. Now we've actually heard Chinese Democracy. Or most of it. It wasn't just an urban legend -- Axl really was working on something (but "overworking something" is more accurate). It's good to hear Rose's signature yowl, but the attempt at compositional and "modern" eclecticism via added electronics and the like sink it. Guns 'N Roses were good at being epic -- hello, "November Rain" -- but they kept it wisely within the rock 'n' roll idiom (even the more pompous side of said idiom). Here, when tracks like "Better" tap into "trip-hop" it feels like some bad '90s alterna-fluff outtake, not something that hasn't even officially come out yet. On the other hand, when Axl sings that main vocal line in the same track? It's hard to deny the power or catchiness of that voice. Not the bad funky part or when the song goes on for way too long, but otherwise. Unfortunately, it gets more and more difficult to say nice things as the album progresses. That guitar solo in the title track? Oy. Judge for yourself.
"Chinese Democracy"
"This I Love"
This is what the leaked tracklist looks like:
01 "Better"
02 "Chinese Democracy"
03 "IRS"
04 "Madagascar"
05 "Riyadh & The Bedouins"
06 "This I Love"
07 "If The World (Would End Today)"
08 "The Blues"
09 "There Was A Time"
Where's my Dr. Pepper?
Posted at 9:00 AM by brandon
Tags: Axl Rose | Guns 'N Roses
#2285 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Ultimate Showdown #2...WINNER ANNOUNCED » 959 weeks ago
David all the way. He was a much better frontman than Hagar.
#2286 Re: Guns N' Roses » If the World leak » 959 weeks ago
Saikin wrote:Communist China wrote:If this is a BH song, which it probably is, and certainly at least his work is all over the track... how can they release it on CD? I know they legally could, but it's just too much for Ron to have to be faced with. Why even put it on a master setlist if BH is such a huge part of the song? Unless he's on every track we haven't heard as much as he's on this and Riyadh, I don't see why they wouldn't put a Robin or a Tommy song on the master setlist instead.
EDIT: If it is Bucket laying the electric solo around the 3:30 mark than he has been proven as the single most important member of the new Guns N' Roses. I think it might be Robin, and I kinda hope it's Robin, because it kicks so much ass and I really want Robin to be as featured as a guy can be after all the years he put in.
Sounds like BH to me, but it could be Finck.
They need to bring BH back. Give him whatever he wants.
Do you have James write your posts for you or do you just guess at what he'd say?
Nope. Just happen to be two BH fans.
#2287 Re: Guns N' Roses » If the World leak » 959 weeks ago
If this is a BH song, which it probably is, and certainly at least his work is all over the track... how can they release it on CD? I know they legally could, but it's just too much for Ron to have to be faced with. Why even put it on a master setlist if BH is such a huge part of the song? Unless he's on every track we haven't heard as much as he's on this and Riyadh, I don't see why they wouldn't put a Robin or a Tommy song on the master setlist instead.
EDIT: If it is Bucket laying the electric solo around the 3:30 mark than he has been proven as the single most important member of the new Guns N' Roses. I think it might be Robin, and I kinda hope it's Robin, because it kicks so much ass and I really want Robin to be as featured as a guy can be after all the years he put in.
Sounds like BH to me, but it could be Finck.
They need to bring BH back. Give him whatever he wants.
#2288 Re: Guns N' Roses » Overall feelings on the CD era songs.... » 959 weeks ago
Saikin wrote:This music is beyond VR's music, that's for sure. Most VR songs sound quite generic, there is nothing generic about these songs in my book.
See that's the crazy part. These Gn'R songs sound nothing but generic to me. There's nothing organic about them. No heart, no soul and like I sad last night in the chat the guts sound rotten. Just a cloudy mess of production.
Now i agree that they aren't organic. Organic to me means that it just happens, kinda like a perfect storm. Working on an album this long, it won't be organic.
I'm wondering how you find it generic though? These songs don't remind me of any others.
#2289 Re: Guns N' Roses » Overall feelings on the CD era songs.... » 959 weeks ago
Bono wrote:And this notion that people can't like VR songs more than these is ridiculous. I'm no fan of Contraband or Libertad. Both were huge letdowns but both albums contains some solid rockers, some of which surpass what "Guns N' Roses" material we've heard.
I never said, "can't", but VR isn't in the same league as this stuff. Sorry. That's why they are opinions.
This music is beyond VR's music, that's for sure. Most VR songs sound quite generic, there is nothing generic about these songs in my book.
#2290 Re: Guns N' Roses » Overall feelings on the CD era songs.... » 959 weeks ago
Bri, its called denial.:haha:
When people who don't like BH are forced to listen to him, they don't like to admit BH just gave them a swift kick in the ass.
As a tribute to Bucket, gonna have to add my BH smiley to the site.
BH just fucked all of the haters right up the ass with these songs. Especially If the World, which i am throughly convinced was written by him. I could hear it on a BH album.
