I have it too, and I have to say its pretty damn good. I get the sense most of it was written/concieved in the late 1990s, so that may be why.

So, can I listen to this while playing Duke Nukem Forever?

I was a gunners fan back in the day and I hate it. Horrible, horrible album.

This guy is a douche and so is his Skwerl buddy.

Show some class and send Axl $20 you fuhking losers.

I've had it (or demos of the songs) for years now and I like it. Especially "Better".

I haven't yet heard it, but Axl is a douche.

I, too, have some early demo stuff of this album. Some of it is really good. "Better" is a GREAT song. "IRS" is good, too. Some of the songs are kind meh, but that's always been the case with some of Axl's stuff. Sheesh, Use Your Illusion has some rubbish on it, for sure.

I think the new album is gonna rock, and be a world-wide sensation. I HOPE Sebastian Bach isn't wrong, that'll be a quadruple album. Not because I expect them all to be great, but that would be quite a stunt.

RELEASE the farkING ALBUM!!!!

/i wants to buy it

Imagine if John hadn't been murdered, and the Beatles had gotten together in 1984 and recorded an album. No matter what the result, a lot of people would have said it was fantastic, a lot of people would have been disappointed and said it didn't live up to what they had hoped it would be. How can Axl expect anything more? How can he not expect a lot less? If there isn't already a line on Chinese Democracy being released posthumously, there soon will be.

I wanna hear it. And I haven't liked one of their records since Appetite for Destruction.

I want to hear it, but for the same reasons I slow down to look at really bad car accidents.

I RTFA but didn't see a real review.

This is gonna be a whole lotta nothin'.

Axl's time has passed and he's so farked up he doesn't know it.

What a total crap article. First of all, by no means could you ever call those 9 leaked tracks "Chinese Democracy." They're just leaked tracks. "Riyahd" is not going to appear on the final album, and I would predict the same for "If the World" at the very least. There's probably over 100 "new" GnR songs sitting around in one state or another; that doesn't make them part of the album.

Second, this retard must not have ever listened to GnR before. Slash is not on these tracks, which is obvious from both a musical and timeline perspective. And the "woman" singing on "Better" is Axl. I thought the reviewer was being funny at first, but now I just think he's deaf.

downstairs: I get the sense most of it was written/concieved in the late 1990s, so that may be why.

last I had heard, and this was around the time that track from the End of Days soundtrack was released, it was very in-debt to NIN and Ministry. Now, I like both of those bands, but even by the mid-90s (End of Days soundtrack, you'll forgive me if I forget the track's name, was late 90s) both NIN and Ministry had moved on beyond industrial rock.

carmody: I wanna hear it.

Shatner's Toupee: I want to hear it.

Most of the recently leaked songs are on youtube, just search for Guns n Roses. Some of the songs are a little strange, if you ask me.

mfaby: I RTFA but didn't see a real review.

This is gonna be a whole lotta nothin'.

Axl's time has passed and he's so farked up he doesn't know it.

There is no real review. It's some obnoxious banter about "ooh, I have a bootleg and you don't" like most people even care anymore.

It's a Axl Rose record, whatever it is.

GnR are long gone, some might even call them Velvet Revolver now.

The review is linked at the bottom.

Here is the link..
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1818247,00.html?iid=redirect-gnr

snuff3r: I was a gunners fan back in the day and I hate it. Horrible, horrible album.

I agree, aside from "better" which sounds a ton better in the new release than it did before, but the rest of the songs suck ass.

Unimpressed.

the review was crap. I expected more from Time Magazine

NorCalLos: the review was crap. I expected more from Time Magazine

YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

Time Magazine is NOT a reputable source of music knowledge.

Or didn't the fact that they were reviewing a pirated CD seem "less than ethical" to you.

Time reviews Axl.
FAIL meets FAIL.

FeedTheCollapse: downstairs: I get the sense most of it was written/concieved in the late 1990s, so that may be why.

last I had heard, and this was around the time that track from the End of Days soundtrack was released, it was very in-debt to NIN and Ministry. Now, I like both of those bands, but even by the mid-90s (End of Days soundtrack, you'll forgive me if I forget the track's name, was late 90s) both NIN and Ministry had moved on beyond industrial rock.

Oh My God has grown on me a little bit - I have an instrumental version of it, that I think really helped on that. I bought the End of Days soundtrack, listened to it once, and lost it. I wasn't sad, except for my loss of $18 I think CDs cost then.

Unfortunatly NIN moved onto total sucktastic.

The new Guns material sounds like Use Your Illusion 3, really, although not quite as big - all these supposedly "awesome" musicians that Axl hangs around with can't hold a candle to Slash and Duff and Steven/Matt. (as drum driven as Appetite was, I really think that Steven had a lot more into Appetite than the others have let on) Buckethead, Finck, et al, seem to be pretty damn lame. Studio musicians. Like Bob Rock's performance on St. Anger. Capable, but .. Yuck.

My problem is the often incoherence of the lyrics.

The record company should just stop giving Axl money and repossess all his stuff until he gives them the damn record. He's recorded several LPs now but just waffling on releasing them 'cause the label's not breathing down his neck and he's an insecure egomaniac.

scope1000:Time Magazine is NOT a reputable source of music knowledge.

I agree. But it runs deeper than that. Barring the Led Zep references, and the inclusion of words like "histrionics" and "biatch," the whole thing reads like a fourth-grade essay. I mean, FTFA:

"This is a really good song."

"Then Axl and the guitars break in, hard. It's catchy and rocking and modern sounding, and his voice sounds all over the place, in an impressive way."

"The song actually starts with every person in China talking before there's any music."

"This is that crappy song the band played when I was at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards and they sucked and he was fat and out of breath and I kept saying I was pretty sure it was a fake Axl Rose."

Of course, there's this, which sounds right out of The Onion:

"Pretty good for a metal ballad. I can almost picture the hot, big-haired, leather-pants girls I went to high school with having sex to this. With me. Because I have Chinese Democracy."