Customer Ratings & Reviews

Solid rock album, better than 90% of rock music out there today. Worth a listen

I Love the whole Album ,amazing from begining to end SORRY is my favorite song

I love this CD it's awesome, well worth the wait and has a nice price.

Guns N' Roses is Immortal. Axl Rose is the best producer on earth!

Im Waiting 14 years to say ¡I got The new Guns N roses Album!

ITS ABOUT TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are we still in the jungle?

Great CD this will be the biggest release in a long time!

Nice, finally we will have the best album of the history!

This CD lives up tp the hype and was def worth the wait!

Hey who cares if its not old GNR....it freakin ROCKS

we were waitig for so long that is so beutifull !!!

After reading Mr. Rainfox's review, i must say, i disagree, Roger Ebert is not sexy and George Bush doesn't hate guns n roses and best buy AND America is GREAT. However this album is not, it's pure slop on a CD. Theres only two new songs on there, everyone has all the other ones, unless they've been living in a compute-less cave. I'm sure RF will buy a few thousand copies but other then that, this album will fail miserably.

It is good to hear the lone awaited album, but the music isn't quite the same as the classic guns with all the original members

i've been a fan of GNR since the appetite days, and have been following the development of chinese democracy since at least 2003. i've heard all but three of the tracks on chinese democracy, and must say that the music is disappointing and not worth the wait. it pales in comparison to earlier GNR, and cannot compare to current artists like Radiohead who are really pushing the boundaries of pop music.

I went to the concert in 06 6 when gnr was in town, was so excited to here the release was set preorderd my cd went picked it up every thing was great till i popped it in the cd player first track i heard in concert it was good after that it went down hill big time. Maybe i will start to like after another play but first in presion it stinks, worst GNR cd ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't even know what to say. I was saddened by this album because I was always such a HUGE GNR fan. This is NOT a GNR album, make no mistake about it. This is ... well, I'd say an "Axl" album, but the fluctuations in his voice and the songs just do not mix well. The song Chinese Democracy is the only one that resembles the old GNR in any way, shape or form. Axl's voice sounds strangely out of place on almost all of the other songs. I can remember standing in line at midnight at Strawberries when Use Your Illusion 1 & 2 went on sale. I put the CDs in my car, and got goosebumps instantly. I still do when I play them. The other day, I put Chinese Democracy in my car and drove around with a puzzled look on my face for the next hour. I've played it and replayed it, and I really do not like it. It has nothing to do with the old band members, it has more to do with the old style -- a style that I believe could've easily been successfully resurrected, but was not at all. I wish I had borrowed it from a friend for a week so I could just give it right back to them.

I listened to all the tracks on myspace. It is an ok record. The production quality is certainly good. It actually is over produced. Remember when GNR was a "rock" band. The songs are so so. There is no real standout for me except madagascar, which has been out for years now anyway. The guitar playing is good but not much else can be said about this project. IMHO of course.

You really have to listen to this one over and over again to even get a feel for it. All tracks that were leaked are demos. You can tell with this one. Tracks 1-9 have very bad sound quality. The song Prositute is definitly the best song on the album. This would be a great album if it was mixed better. This album grows on you like a fungus.

I was excited for this album to some degree, but being a big fan of the original Guns line-up, I had low expectations based on the new Guns line-up, which, over the years, has had a roster that changed more than the old-school original L.A.Guns. When I first heard Shackler's Revenge earlier on, I was disappointed. It didn't sound even remotely Guns-like - it was way too NIN for me. I love NIN, and I know that Axl's time with Robin Finck obviously had influence, but there was too much of NIN's sound. I also was disappointed with 'Better', mainly because of the eerie falsetto voice Axl uses in the intro. I'm honestly disappointed. It sounds like a bunch of different bands mashed into one less-than-satisfying CD. Axl is just trying far too hard to compete with the old Guns, and isn't succeeding with Chinese Democracy. It took too many years to complete - and it shows.

Except for Axl's voice which is the same as it used to sound, this album does not sound like G'N'R at all. The songs sounded over-produced and over-edited. The way the songs were sequenced on the album gave it a really disjointed and abstract feel. It may need to grow on me over time...