the opening to Alex Chilton or I Hate Music or Tommy Get's His Tonsils Out.....yeah the Mats had 20 songs to match up with It's So Easy. After that, Duff was a bloated, fat, pasty, drunk......real cool.

Buzz, get over it, Tommy is a better songwriter, artist, and rocker than Duff. No big deal, neither one of them are rock stars by your definition. Just accept the fact that Tommy, in the end, has been involved with more quality albums and songs than Duff has-record sales don't mean shit. Better solo albums, a better first band that he and his brother started...yes, that is right, The Replacements have more top quality songs than Gnr and are way more critically acclaimed and actually, way more influential. You can piss all you want....but it's true. Gnr had one classic album, The Replacements had three.

keep both...

Mole, one assholes opinion is just as valid as another's.......probably the only good thing about the internet, it renders asshole critics with personal agendas useless. That goes for good and bad reviews. I personally don't care for the song and don't think it should be the first single, but that is just MY opinion.

you obviously didn't look very hard or just disregarded this thread with two positive reviews-one from the same company as the negative one!
http://www.gnrevolution.com/viewtopic.php?id=4445&p=1

another review.......................

Sweet Revenge

Rating: **** (4 of 5)

Track: Shackler's Revenge
Band: Guns N' Roses
Source: Rock Band 2 (playlist)

Who's Shackler? We don't know either but he'll have his revenge soon, as Guns N' Roses air out some clean laundry from their mythic and forever unreleased album Chinese Democracy. Forget the dirty laundry (the demos, the leaks, the fakes) - this is the real deal.

A new, official and soon to be released track that will be tied to the Rock Band 2 videogame (MTV/Harmonix) being unleashed in September for the Xbox and in December for the PS3 and Wii platforms.

We've heard it. The verdict? Oh man.

"I've got an itchy finger and there'll be hell to pay," scowls Axl Rose in a baritonish chant, but he needn't fret or lose sleep anymore; his vocal cadence commanders this grinding disco anthem like General Patton driving his tank through a Sicilian village.

Shackler's Revenge harks back nine years to that lone other nu-GnR song, the pummeling Oh My God from the Arnold Schwarzenegger bomb End of Days - only the grime and distortion has now been replaced by in-your-face hooks, assaultive choruses and a front and center swooping drumbeat. Unshakable and uncompromising industrial blast rock for the dance floor.

Some GnR diehards will scream bloody murder but even the sleaziest Sunset stripper won't be able to sit still to the infectious groove of this Frankenrawk.

It sounds effortless, almost rushed, and it'll be fun to survey how every lyric, riff and loop will be scrutinized by the mainstream media, critics and crazy fans to the point of madness. If anything was ever a no win situation it's Rose and his next album. Only the masturbatory midsong solo by Buckethead (or is that Bumblefoot?) seems jaded - but good luck keeping up with it in the game, kids!

Guitar gymnastics aside, Revenge is a charging slice of Rob Zombified disco n' roll in GnR clothing and with a red bandana. A fist in the face of expectations and doomy naysayers; all waiting, teeth glaring, in the lobby of the jungle for the Lion King and his comrades to finally emerge from the shadows with that damn Democracy.

Hey, Joe Public probably won't even recognize this as Guns N' Roses.

Maybe that was Axl's plan all along.

Revenge can be sweet.

By: Peter Venkman
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