Random True Confessions of a Pop Culture Blogger #40
Even though this pop culture blogger has given Axl Rose much crap over the years for his failure to release Chinese Democracy, guess who still bought the damn thing when it was finally released Sunday?Follow up question: Guess who has Buyer's Remorse?*
*In a one-word review, I would go with "Overproduced." But this is so bloated it demands more than one word, so I'll throw "self-indulgent" and "irrelevant" and "meh" in there too. My curiosity got the best of me. Chuck Klosterman had a great opening paragraph to his guest-review on the Onion AV Club last week, but he still gave it an A- grade for some reason. Gahddamn you hipster douchebag rock critics... you're just encouraging Rose at this point. And in a few decades we'll have to go through this all again.
Labels: Axl Rose, Random True Confessions of Pop Culture Blogger, The IHoB Reviews
posted by McGone at Monday, November 24, 2008
13 Comments:
I'm not holding my breath but still need to heat it.
I got a two-sentence review from my record store-owning friend: "Does anyone else give an ess? Because I don't." That was enough for me.
Whatever happened to the good old days when rock stars named their albums and bands cool names?
Now we have "Queens of the Stone Age," "Fall Out Boy," and "Chinese Democracy".
What's next, "Iranian Islamic Theocracy" or "Russian Oligarchy With A Splash of Facism"?
It makes me long for the days of "Love Gun."
Is it true Slash doesn't appear on the album at all? Or did I read the Klosterman review wrong? Meh, indeed.
I am happy to say that I do not own any Guns N' Roses albums. Axl Rose has always come off to me as a whiny, scummy egomaniac who contributed nothing to music innovation. Every Guns N' Roses song I ever heard sounded like the one before it. If it took another 20 years until Chinese Democracy to be released, my life would still be the same.
Fuck Axl Rose. After the initial flurry of publicity, I hope I never have to hear his irrelevant name again.
Kicking off my comment frugality, I give you this that I said over at The Imaginary Reviewer's place the other day:
Now a little name-dropping: A good friend of mine was the lead singer in a band in the 80's called The Eyes (later known as Pale Divine.)
Richard Fortus was the guitarist in that band. I am one degree from Richard Fortus. That is all.
Is the one in a decade going to be called "Iraqi Democracy?"
This is why I only buy through iTunes now. I can try out every song first. :-)
I'll definitely give it a listen, at least for curiosity's sake.
I just listened to it on MySpace. But I did listen to each song a few times so I could give it a fair review. And that's what it got. "Fair." I think the first 4 songs are pretty good, but it goes downhill from there. There are a couple of really steamy, smelly turds too. But overall it's just average.
Oh...I'm sorry. Who is Axl Rose again? I think I must have filed this in my ToDo List right after sorting my underware.
The REAL rock came out weeks ago. I was called BLACK ICE!!!
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I was reading that Axel spent like 37 million dollars making that record! I can't imagine why in God's great damn name that it costs that much to make a cd!
I lost interest in Axl and wandered off years ago.
I won't buy the CD, but if I happen to chance on a song on the radio, I'll listen.
Chinese "Damnocracy" could have been NOTHING MORE than a letdown.
Too much effort does NOT the good rock album make.
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