Besides waiting for a long time with very little interest in Guns N Roses, Chinese Democracy, I really don’t know to say about this album because all I have heard are some demos here and there and the title track. I can say that I think it’s going to be outdated and the only people that are really going to truly like it is maybe older fans of G-N-R and the people that constantly have their noses half a mile up Axl ass (aka Sebastian Bach). I have never relied on Rolling Stone Magazine for a good review of anything. A lot of the time they kiss the asses of big names and labels and let’s be real about this…Rolling Stone is more about the pop aspect of everything and shuns the lesser than mainstream musicians. With that said, let’s take a little look at their review of Chinese Democracy.

The first Guns n’ Roses album of new, original songs since the first Bush administration is a great, audacious, unhinged and uncompromising hard-rock record. In other words, it sounds a lot like the Guns n’ Roses you know. At times, it’s the clenched-fist five that made 1987’s perfect storm, Appetite for Destruction; more often, it’s the one sprawled across the maxed-out CDs of 1991’s Use Your Illusion I and II, but here compressed into a convulsive single disc of supershred guitars, orchestral fanfares, hip-hop electronics, metallic tabernacle choirs and Axl Rose’s still-virile, rusted-siren singing.

Now that is just a little tiny bit, and where it starts to sound as if something is bad about this record, David Fricke turns it around with a “Not in a bad way” type thing. He gave it 4 out of 5 stars. To me that is more of a big old, wet, sloppy kiss to the ass of Axl and Geffen Records. But that’s what Rolling Stone does for the big labels. I can guarantee that this album is so overproduced with pro-tools and extra effects that it’s going to sound strange to say the least. Do I think it deserves 4 stars? How the hell should I know? I just told you I haven’t heard much of it. Maybe it will be great maybe it will be mediocre…and just maybe it will be pure shit. I’d shoot for mediocre at most seeing that it’s 2008 and this has been in the works since 1995. A lot of things have changed in the last 13 years and there will either be a lot of progression or it might be so overdone that it sounds like two cats fucking in an alley. Either way I’ll be waiting it out before I spend any cash on this. Of course I said the same thing about Death Magnetic and that didn’t turn out half as bad as I thought it was going to be. We’ll see.

You can read the full review here. If you come away from it totally confused then you’re probably not alone.