Use Your Illusion

Apparently he's in the new Mickey Rourke movie, The Wrestler. That's this December, folks, 'witness the resurrection of....', oh whatever.

This is brilliant.

http://www.q1043.com/pages/news/gunsnroses/better.html The brand new 'single', if you want to call it that, from Chinese Democracy - Better. Now with new drum and guitar parts. Oh, you better believe it's fuckin' slick. This is the new Guns N' Roses right here.

That's a great closing line there. Awesome review, really positive. Not long to go now...

I haven't heard a Weiland song that makes any damn sense lyrically, VR minus Scott Weiland is a great thing. Impressions on the leaks, JAxl, when you get 'em. I'm still holdin' out!

Oh My God is pretty cool, although I don't think it's better than Slither. Put the music aside though, those lyrics are awesome. So it's leaked, hey? Not touching it until the album is released. I need *some* new material to listen to for the first time. UYI P.S Uzi, you bought into hype from SEBASTIAN BACH?

Sweet Christ I had the same dream. Minus the drunken Brit.

I'm talking about the one that leaked, and it doesn't blow. It's fuckin' awesome. There's something new to pick up and hear in that every time you listen to it.

...no, not 'of shit'.

Man, anyone who rips on Rhiad hasn't heard the final mix. That shit is a fucking tornado.

Well that all depends what you're willing to settle for while you are waiting for the next Axl Rose record.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=sSXFPzgnV9g&...feature=related Just for the 'voice is shot' kids.

Raped by reviews.

From the LA Times (review) "Snap judgment: Guns N' Roses' 'Chinese Democracy' (single) "Chinese Democracy," the first single from the ridiculously long-awaited Guns N' Roses album of the same name, is out, and can be heard below. Here are some thoughts the song inspired early this morning. No pop star has built a fortress as maze-filled and iron-clad as one W. Axl Rose. Not Michael Jackson, whose retreat was forced by scandal as much as by artistic crisis, and who seems ever more weakened by his reputation's slide. Not Zack de la Rocha, who (like Rose) went down countless collaborative roads before revamping the Rage Against the Machine template with his new project, One Day As a Lion. Not Garth Brooks, who also turned hermit, but craved the crowds too much to stay inside. Rose, the most ambitious hard rocker of the late 20th century -- shout-outs to your Trents and your Bonos, but Axl is the most vividly driven -- essentially quarantined the Guns N' Roses brand for 15 years -- unable, perhaps, to reconcile the sounds in his head with what is humanly possible. "Chinese Democracy," the title track from the album finally coming out in a month, hits like an offering pushed through a crack in a locked gate, hinting that those sounds, never completely apprehended, have now coalesced into something Rose can face. The sound is murky, ugly and evocative of a dark cityscape; you could call it "Blade Runner rock," because like that 1982 film, it's a very dirty vision of the future. Siren-like effects kick off the track, and then a slicing guitar riff (courtesy of Robin Finck, perhaps, or Buckethead -- the credits should be clarified whenever Rose deigns to do so) punctuated by squiggling, pedal-heavy licks, sets up Rose's multiple-tracked vocal. "It don't really matter," he sings. "You'll find out for yourself." As the cryptic verses unfold, it becomes clear that this is one of Rose's songs from inside the cage of fame, attacking external forces he despises but can't ignore or repel. Like "Get in the Ring" or "You Could Be Mine," this is Rose as the nastiest kind of punk. On one level, it's a protest song about Chinese state oppression. More important, it's a spit back at the audience that's been waiting for what has to be a masterpiece, if Rose is to survive artistically. The song builds like bile. It doesn't behave the way radio-friendly singles usually do. The chorus is just an extension of the verses, rising a little in pitch and compression. There isn't really a proper hook; the sweet release that Slash's solos always brought to the mix never comes. But the refrain sticks after several listens. "It would take a lot more..." is the key phrase, the one that Rose sings in still-powerful mid-range. More hate, more time. (There's a weird reference to masturbation too, that will have critics and possibly 12-year-olds snickering for a while.) These are the points when the song sounds the most like Nine Inch Nails -- a shot of aggression that somehow contains its own alienated retreat. "Chinese Democracy" also recalls "I'm Afraid of Americans," David Bowie's 1997 foray with NIN. Both songs have a suffocated quality, as if their makers are pushing through smoke to express these thoughts. It's the sound of florid, romantic rockers aiming for something cold and modern. But Rose can never really be cold. He's a Heat Miser -- whatever he touches starts to melt in his clutch. That's why these paranoid rockers never quite satisfy the way his grandiose ballads can. As real as Rose's anger may be, in song it starts to feel overly put on, in need of a sweeping chorus (or Slash-like ringing solo) to relieve the tension of the pose. Still, for all the pooh-poohing this song will inevitably earn because it's just been too long in coming to fulfill all hopes, "Chinese Democracy" brings back a passionate weirdness that the hard rock airwaves have lacked. However overwrought or undercooked the whole album may be, it's good to have this mad king venturing forth over his moat. -- Ann Powers" http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog...p-star-has.html

The Countdown has begun... http://web.gunsnroses.com/splash.jsp Guess that makes it officially official. Man, I need a drink.

Yeah, JAxl, finding that. I don't know what the hell people are expecting with this, what Axl could possibly deliver that they would say 'Hey, that's an awesome tune'. Beats me man, people are crazy. A friend of mine on a GNR forum has called up some places in Perth here in Australia and they have it, playing it tomorrow morning. The DJ himself said that he thought it was 'a bit shitty, but will play it anyway'. Whatever, this is Jungle 2008.

http://www.4shared.com/file/67924949/92fe6...le_Q_1043_.html Head there if you'd rather download it.

Some people seem to be calling through saying his voice sounds 'shot'. I don't get that, personally. They won't know what hits them, November.

Just heard it live on American radio. Man, are all your stations like GTA ones or something? Christ. Regardless, the new guitars are slick, that is one mean bitch of a lead single Axl's got there. Fuck yes, it's Chinese Democracy, baby! It's going to be a long month... Lived to see the day, JAxl. UYI

It's Australia.

You should hear the amount of GNR fans bitching about that friggen tracklist. I don't care what the fuck is on the thing, release it in November, spin off ten different covers, whatever - I'll buy everything.

This is all over the internet, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/extendedpl...n-roses-br.html I'm skeptical until I see it in black and white on www.gunsnroses.com, but this is looking pretty credible...I'll be damned, Axl Rose.

God, half of that cannot compete with the resounding IDONTCAREIDONTCAREIDONTCARE screaming through my brain.

I agree completely. But it's a cool jam.

Amen to that. The hate for 'Day' I don't get, I've loved it since my first listen, great tune. Does it also put me in the minority for loving the instrumental? People are so preoccupied with holding up against Ktulu & Orion that they don't stop to just listen to it and enjoy what it is. The break-down half-way through is bliss, man. I love Kirk Hammett.