Wednesday, January 23, 2013

You Guys Owe Me Some Better Picks

So I don't know if any of you have listened to Chinese Democracy. It's kind of a hot mess, but in a good way. After 15 years or however long it obviously couldn't live up to any hype it had, nor does it compare to any of the work with the original lineup. But the songs are so big and so far out there that it's certainly a curiousity worth listening to. Choice quote from a Rolling Stone review:

"Most of these songs also go through multiple U-turns in personality, as if Rose kept trying new approaches to a hook or a bridge and then decided,'What the hell, they're all cool.'"

So I don't mind ending with a Chinese Democracy track, though I would have loved a total of 12 songs so I could have taken an extra VR song and another Use Your Illusion song as well. I'll take this song, which is perhaps the most straight-forward on the disc and also probably the most catchy: I.R.S.

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