The album is due out Sunday, and right now it’s streaming on their MySpace page. I’ve listened it to the first three songs and I’m not sure how much further I’m going to get. I recognize that this album could never live up to the hype, but even taking that into account, it’s boring. The songs are technically fine, the production is great, but there’s absolutely nothing interesting about it. Maybe this would’ve cut it back in 1994, but that was a long time ago.
Your thoughts?
Halfway through now. “If the World” is a good song, and definitely unexpected. Overall, I think this album will be the textbook example of overproduction for some time to come.
“Sorry” kinda works musically, but it sounds like writing credit is owed to the lyricist of Linkin Park. Also it is way too long. I think that’s symptomatic of the basic problem with the album–there’s no one who can tell Axl that he’s overindulging in whatever he’s overindulging in at the moment.
On a whim, I checked the play counts for the various songs. There’s a pretty significant drop off from the first few to the last part. I guess I’m one of the few who’s going to make it through the whole thing on sheer morbid curiosity.
“Cool Hand Luke” is a good movie with lots of good lines. If you’re going to sample from it twice in songs fifteen years apart, do you really need to use the same part in both of them?
Oh thank God, it’s over. This is a bad album.
Aren’t we supposed to get free Dr Pepper out of this? I mean, except for Slash?
Never mind, here’s the link:
http://www.nme.com/news/guns-n-roses/41220