Does Guns N’ Roses’ “Chinese Democracy” single even need to be any good?
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It’s all about comebacks this week, innit? You can now legally listen to new Guns N’ Roses material, folks. “Chinese Democracy”, the lead single from the-apparently-now-not-apocryphal-at-all album of the same name, is available for streaming here.
The initial reactions from the Twittersphere weren’t particularly positive, but you know what occurred to me? It’s been so long since anything was heard from Axl and whoever he’s playing with these days, I’d forgotten to form any expectations whatsoever of their new stuff.
And let’s face it, the first single from Chinese Democracy could just have been the sound of Axl sitting down to some chow mein and it would still have been the biggest musical happening to occur on the internet on that particular day.
Sometimes an act’s new material is so keenly anticipated that it matters little what it actually sounds like. Think Oasis’ “D’You Know What I Mean” from Be Here Now - eight minutes long, much of which was taken up with morse code and feedback. Think Michael Jackson’s “You Rock My World” from Invincible. You know what I’m saying - huge singles, shit albums.
So what do you reckon to “Chinese Democracy” the single? I’ll need to listen to it at least five times before I can even hear it properly, I think, so I’m withholding my judgment for the time being…
Listen to “Chinese Democracy” (the track) here
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he’s left it far too long! “D’You Know What I Mean” was only 18 months after “Don’t look back in anger”, this is 15 years. Not sure many people will give a rat’s arse about this…which is sad as he was king of rock for a brief time.