Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived - Idolator Comments

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

NightRose — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:12:35 EDT

HUH guys please wait for the real whole thing to come out , im pretty sure that if you have any deepness of thought as well as good musical understanding , anything Axl chooses to release will impress the fuck outta you , all we heard so far is leaked demo version of a few songs and the fucking thing will actually include 32 songs so relax. I f you dont have faith in Axl as far as music goes then you dont know him for sure.You really think that with such a project Axl would let the best stuff leak???? if so its time you take your fucking meds.

GO AXL!

NightRose

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

Neely2005 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:19:38 EST

Wow - I love it! The first couple of times that I listened to it I was like Meh, but after listening to if a few more times I LOVE IT!

BTW: This is the official GN'R website:

www.gunsnroses.com

Until I see a release date on that website I'm not believing it's coming out.

Neely2005

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

Trackback — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:28:53 EDT

As everybody knows, we generally don't roll with the wham-bam-linked-you-ma'am style here. It's not without its appeal; it's immediate, and lively, and dynamic. It just generally ain't our thing. But moments like this call for an exception to the rule.

Trackback

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

rockerroller — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:57:15 EDT

sounds cool.... will this be the new single?
is http://www.newgnr.com the official site to this guns?

rockerroller

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

redballooon — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:15:01 EST

maybe Chinese Democracy would be better received if it hadn't been leaked...after 10 years of anticipation. second proposition: isn't the single typically the least exciting song on an album? if only the music industry didn't rely on leaks, hype, etc...

http://www.culturecloud.com/Articles/00002026/Supporting_a...

redballooon

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

Fluxus — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:52:01 EST

Already 13 years of promotion for this chinese album... and you already can listen to the songs everywhere although you can't buy them anywhere - this is ridiculous. GNR will never be as souvereign like in 1987 when they published the fucking damn best rock'n'roll album ever made. In fact, we all know that GNR are a dead horse.

Fluxus

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

Scratcher — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:29:14 EST

Good? Yes.
Ten years in the making good? No.

Scratcher

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

MTS — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:48:09 EST

25 years from now, when we have to condense 1997 to 2007 in a Rock History survey course, this song will be the perfect example of what happened to mainstream culture. Make sure to accompany it with a slide show of Britney, Paris and so on.

MTS

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

SterileEyes — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:52:29 EST

@ihatethekids:

Everything Jesse Hughes says in that interview is bullshit. According to Jesse, Tommy threw his bass at Axl and Axl threw it back during NOVEMBER RAIN, you know, the song where Axl plays piano...and he managed to catch a bass midair and throw it while playing piano? Show me a video.

Mr. Hughes sure is milking his 15 minutes from that whole incident. I've heard him say 15 times in the last 6 months that he doesn't like Axl, but um, whats the name of his album again? Where's he touring? Exactly. He's a sellout attention whore.

SterileEyes

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

Maura Johnston — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:21:19 EST

Oh my God, a Thrashing Doves reference?! Well played.

Maura Johnston

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

theHL — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:15:27 EST

@NickEddy: You're a skirt.

theHL

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

jusg17 — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:03:25 EST

whats wrong with you people??? this song is good, and if you were true guns fans you would know his music is much better live anyway ( since he is a GREAT musician ). i saw him do a few of his new songs this past year and it made me very excited for his new album. don't compair him to godsmack-ever! axl is the man and always will be- jg

jusg17

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

Ned Raggett — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:59:35 EST

@NickEddy: Beats "November Rain."

That was my reaction as well!

Ned Raggett

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

NickEddy — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:56:22 EST

Beats "November Rain."

Not as good as "Beautiful Imbalance" by Thrashing Doves. Or "Call Me Blue" by A House.

Could have done with some "Believe"-style vocoder.

NickEddy

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

King of Pants — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:48:59 EST

The thing is, the verse is pretty decent...it's the rest that's just WHAT. Like, I'd see some sadass opening band at the Viper Room play this and not even notice.

King of Pants

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

theHL — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:22:03 EST

@cerulgalactus: Well, at least you admit going to extremes for fucking Oohlas tickets.

theHL

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

rozsi — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:46:20 EST

its not bad at all, not a hit but its only 1 song on the album. as more i listen to it the more i like it

rozsi

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

nosebleed — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:21:55 EST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7PE5wIE4GM

Aaron North from Buddyhead (and NIN) interviews Jess from Eagles of Death Metal after they got kicked off the GNR tour.

Shoulda knew from back then that anything new by WAXL would honk.

nosebleed

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

KeBove — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:57:14 EST

Hell, I like it.

KeBove

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

cerulgalactus — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:52:48 EST

@theHL: But, but, but - that stuff is actually good. This is a just bland, pedestrian, overproduced bore. Hell, it doesn't even have violins.

cerulgalactus

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

Chernin — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:04:19 EST

Being not particularly high minded about music, I like what I like. I can't say definitively what's good or bad music (except my certainty that Nickelback are Beelzebub's hack progeny who employ amazingly inventive video directors). I liked it also. Hearing Axl's voice again was strangely comforting.

Chernin

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

pinder — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:37:25 EST

it's still better than Silversun Pickups. also, Stone Roses - Second Coming is severely underrated.

pinder

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

Kricket — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:58:32 EST

this song sounds about as good as axl looks now...

maybe even a little worse (i know, youll REALLY have to use your imaginations)...

Kricket

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

dylanw — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:19:15 EST

You know what this reminds me of? "Love Spreads" by the Stone Roses. Similarly delayed album, similarly horridly flat opening single, similar feeling of "I waited all these years for THIS pile of suck?"

Sad.

dylanw

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

Chris Molanphy — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:19:03 EST

I...um...I...

Um...

I kinda like it.

Overproduction and all.

(I feel like the guy in the skits on the second De La Soul album who keeps getting his ass kicked for saying, "I kinda like it, man...")

Chris Molanphy

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

Lisa91 — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:26:16 EST

I heard this song before and this is by far the best version. True Guns n Roses fans will love the new cd. Please don't compare Axl Rose to Velvet Revolver. Scott Weiland can only dream to be a great artist like Axl has always been.

Lisa91

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

noremac — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:08:28 EST

this is the suckiest pile of suck that ever sucked.

Did it get mixed on a Sony My First soundboard? i know this project started before protools & the internet was invented, but it sounds like he called it in from a soup can...the guy who covers sweet child on Guitar Hero II sounds more like axl than this douche.

noremac

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

mackro — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:45:31 EST

This should have been credited to Axl Rose solo. It just doesn't feel like "Guns 'N' Roses". I know, durhey. But getting those three letters out of my head, this isn't that bad at all. I'd rather listen to this than most indie crap these days. (I know, dial-a-cliche). Bold move to not double-track the vocals at all. In fact, the high voice thing reminds me of, um, dare I say Pinback? Very cold digital sounding, which isn't a bad thing to me.

Not sure about the guitar solo though. It basically screams "Slash, where are you man??!!". :(

mackro

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

FionaScrapple — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:16:18 EST

Big, ugly, way overproduced, and quite interesting.

Far from great, though.

FionaScrapple

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:47:23 EST

The voice is there, still, & the intent is there... But it just doesn't go, anywhere. It reminds me of less-crunchy Godsmack (c. '99), with near-east melody & breathy female vox in the bridge. As well, that opening seems almost tAtUine.

(& remember: nobody knows that Axl's a lesbian.)

... As it stands, Axl is one of those personalities who would definitely be best served as a soloist, & I think, when he's another ten years on, he's going to get the "Johnny Cash" treatment from some equal parts honestly appreciative & ironocontrarianly dismissive by way of "enjoying" producer. Not Rick Rubin, though. Probably one of those cunts from Buddyhead. That will be the suxXors.

& of course, there's always the b-side of Lies. That was clearly Axl's baby, all of it, Patience ---> One in a Million, & it is prolly GnR's best work (outside of Rocket Queen).

josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

mjclikesit — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:41:27 EST

I like it actually. Have you listened to the crap on the radio? This is 100 times better.

mjclikesit

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

theHL — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:23:44 EST

Crybabies. This is better than half the hipster shit you can't get a ticket to without sucking someone's dick at Bowery Presents.

theHL

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

drjimmy11 — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:03:37 EST

or to put it another way:

Worse.

drjimmy11

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

drjimmy11 — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:01:42 EST

better than what, exactly? Chlamydia?

drjimmy11

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

shovelingslop — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:01:18 EST

It's sounds very Chinese to me, like if Chinese metal band tried create rock Guns Roses replica.

shovelingslop

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

cerulgalactus — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:52:03 EST

Meh.

cerulgalactus

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

SterileEyes — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:39:57 EST

Great song. Great vocal melody. Great solo. It sounds like its been tinkered with for about 10 years, so it must be real. Now lets leak the whole album and force dude to finally release it!

Oh, thanks idolator for posting this. You'll be hearing from Axl's lawyers in about five seconds.

SterileEyes

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

BawstonSean — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:59:58 EST

I just got to "the breakdown", and I feel confident saying that this may be the worst song ever recorded. It's like Axl couldn't decide who was a bigger threat to his success, Dragonforce or Republica.

BawstonSean

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

beta.rogan — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:54:41 EST

My honest reaction to the first 30-60 seconds was "Hmmm interesting, kinda raw sound to the old voice, this might not be awful."

By the halfway point I was thinking about how many different mixes of this song there must be..how many engineers mixed and remixed, added different processors, took them back out...the overdubs, etc etc... It sounds overproduced, as you would expect it to. I bet if you took the same song and forced Axl to re-record it in say, a day, it would be better.

And there's really not a decent hook.

It's better than I thought, and at the same time, disappointing.

beta.rogan

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

johndrnle — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:45:18 EST

FUCK YES

I know this is hardly an erudite first comment but I'm hoping that the gravity of the occasion will permit me to just say OH OH OH FUCK YES this once

johndrnle

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

Jon W — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:44:38 EST

I like Buckethead's Bermuda Triangle better, and this is ok, but the new metal parts blow.

Jon W

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

30f — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:36:06 EST

This is very real. I heard this same mp3 from a label source when they put the track out to video directors. Maybe with a few more months, he could make it juuust a bit worse.

30f

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

Ned Raggett — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:20:06 EST

He needs to put an exclamation point at the end of the album title and make everything seem ridiculously up. Like on a crazy sugar high, and the tour should have the title spelled out in huge letters on the backdrop in gold sequins.

"CHINESE DEMOCRACY! YEAH!"

Ned Raggett

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

tigerpop — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:11:34 EST

This sounds exactly like I imagined it would: an amalgam of every passing fad (ska excepted) that's blipped through the popular music world in the past 10 years. Like Ross Robinson and the Matrix co-producing a track for a group made up of members of Godsmack and Justin Timberlake. A perfect trainwreck. Can't wait for the album.

tigerpop

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

brasstax — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:10:18 EST

It falls in line with the stuff leaked last year, so I'm pretty sure it's authentic Axl. But I'm with everyone else commenting... this is the best he could do with over a decade to work on it?

brasstax

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

GeddyLee — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:01:09 EST

Oh christ. This is sixteen years in the making? It's fucking awful. Those vocals are cringe-worthy.

Take it back, Axl. Seriously. Let's quit while we're behind.

GeddyLee

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

chrisb — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:59:07 EST

I hope it's a fake because it sucks! If it took him ten years to make that, YIKES.

chrisb

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

jmattingly33 — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:56:57 EST

All that time and this is the best he could do? Not awfull but extremely underwhelming. I'm sure somewhere Slash is having a good laugh. Velvet Revolver's first single was better than this.

jmattingly33

Leak Of The Year: Guns N' Roses' "Democracy" Has Finally Arrived

joe bananas — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:44:51 EST

"Welcome to the Jungle Gym"

joe bananas