Guns N' Roses - "Chinese Democracy"

Released: November 2008
Format: standard album (CD or download)

Songwriting: 3
Performance: 8
Recording: 8
First Impression: 5
Staying Power: 3

I listened to "Chinese Democracy" a total of five times, and this is how it played out:
1. Good job on the recording and choice of session musicians, Axl.  Your compositions come across as severely lacking, but maybe I just need to let it grow on me.
2. Axl, you've let me down - no - you've really pissed me off! 15 years and all you have to show is this festering pile of excrement?!
3. If I listen to it at home instead of on the bus or at work, will it sound better?  I guess it's worth another kick at the cans.
4. You kept me hanging on for 15 years and then you just threw it all away.  I'm never going to listen to another GN'R album again.  My appreciation of music is forever ruined.
5. It just wasn't meant to be.  Live and learn.  There is plenty more music in the tubes, though I'll always have a place in my heart for "Appetite".

Suggested same track: "I.R.S."

Recommendation: save yourself the grief.  Listen to "Appetite For Destruction" instead.