It's hardly even close to the worst ablum of the year (that would be Cryptopsy's The King Beneath), but it's not worth the 13 million spent to make it. Hell, the Techno/Insustrial shit on the album sounds really dated (like 1998 dated.) In the end, I don't even think you can call it a Guns N' Roses album-it's just an Axl Rose (and his bloated ego's) solo/side project. Sure, he may have bought the rights to call it Guns N' Roses. Sure, it may be called Guns N' Roses. But it's not. It's just an overproduced, bloated mess, that has some good songs, and some really bad ones. Let's quit treating Axl with kid gloves and treating him like an misunderstood, underrated genius, because whatever good thing he had going for him went away with those terrible cornrows.