# Is "Chinese Democracy" any good?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chinese-democracy-any-good/474052>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 23, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chinese-democracy-any-good/474052 "2008-11-23T00:12:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chinese-democracy-any-good/474052/1 "2008-11-23T00:12:46Z")

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…or will it totally sink any respect I have for Guns n Roses?

I don’t want to listen to any songs from it before I find out. Because I really want to think of GnR as that great band that did “Appetite For Destruction” and “Use Your Illusion 1&2” and not as some band that sunk miserably.

I know it’s just Axl Rose now, but still…

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**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chinese-democracy-any-good/474052/2 "2008-11-23T00:38:10Z")

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Here’s a [former thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=492183&highlight=Chinese+Democracy)on this topic.

Basically I’m unsure- Rolling Stones said it was decent, but that poster disagrees.

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**Author:** ![Jesus\_Harold\_Christ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f14d63/32.png) [@Jesus\_Harold\_Christ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesus_Harold_Christ)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chinese-democracy-any-good/474052/3 "2008-11-23T00:44:33Z")

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You can listen to it our GNR’s myspace page.

My view: It is not good. Not terrible, but overproduced and tedious. Maybe it is terrible.

Ok, I guess I am going with terrible.

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**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chinese-democracy-any-good/474052/4 "2008-11-23T00:56:10Z")

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> [@Ro0sh](#):
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> Here’s a [former thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=492183&highlight=Chinese+Democracy)on this topic.
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> Basically I’m unsure- Rolling Stones said it was decent, but that poster disagrees.

I think I’ll avoid it as much as I can then. Thank you.

> [@Jesus\_Harold\_Christ](#):
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> You can listen to it our GNR’s myspace page.
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> My view: It is not good. Not terrible, but overproduced and tedious. Maybe it is terrible.
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> Ok, I guess I am going with terrible.

And you just further my decision. Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-chinese-democracy-any-good/474052/5 "2008-11-23T01:12:59Z")

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Technically it’s great. The production is unbelievable.

The actual content is the blandest shit I have ever heard.