I know.....and I do like Mandy! TIL and ITW are both straight out of the 70's. The quirky thing about If The World is Finck's industrial riffs that come in periodically. Also, I really think Sorry is about multiple relationships...definitely references to Slash, the fans, and a lady friend.

My brother simply said "Bizarro World"... whatever that means. However, after multiple listens it is really amazing lyrically/vocally (nothing processed on the voice) and gorgeous musically. He starts off with how much he loves this girl and how much she seems like him. Then, he slowly finds out that isn't true and maybe she doesn't care about him as much as he cares about her, then by the end, he just admits it and says " I'll never say goodbye"....in a beautiful vocal outro.

best line and basically the chorus/high point of the epic is....and it is Axl at his best, certainly not Barry Manilow. Although Mandy is a classic...

"So if she's somewhere near me
I hope to God she hears me
There's no one else that could ever make me feel so alive
I hoped she never leave me
Please God you must believe me
I've searched the universe
and found myself within her eyes...."

Beltrami and great piano by the redhead....then

"And now I don't know why
She wouldn't say goodbye
it just might be that I had seen it in her eyes
and now it seems that I
gave up my sense of pride;
i'll never say goodbye..."

fuck me....I'm gonna cry.

Buzz, you will love Bucket's solo on Sorry....very good blues with absolutely perfect tone.

Here is the single review from Billboard since I don't think anyone saw my prior post.......:smile:
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/content_ … 393b87fba8

Against all odds, Axl Rose is at last releasing "Chinese Democracy," the first album of new Guns N' Roses material since 1991 (it will be an exclusive at Best Buy). The opening track is a hard-rocking cyberpunk drama, complete with an action-movie intro, neurotic multitrack vocals and plenty of spaced-out guitar solos (Buckethead?) designed to make up for Slash's absence. Over an industrial riff with shades of the Scorpions' "Rock You Like a Hurricane," Axl wails about "Real time visionaries sitting in a Chinese stew"—and he must be the first rock star to name-check "Falun Gong" and "masturbation" in the same song. This is not a typical radio hit, as it's not built around an obvious melody or hook like so many Guns N' Roses classics. But that hasn't hindered massive early airplay at several rock formats, and fans are clearly responding favorably to their first (authorized) taste of new GNR music in nearly a decade. —Sven Philipp

Mother Fucking Goose