This is one of the most riotous album reviews I've ever read. You've been more creative in slamming this record than it sounds like Axl was in 14 years of making it.
rwcass
· 1 year ago
I like the irony of a simple, inexpensive bicycle being featured on the cover of a $13 million album. When was the release date set? I thought this review was another April Fool's-type joke at first.
rwcass
· 1 year ago
Never mind. Now I see that the date was announced late last month. How long is the album, though? 79 minutes and 59 seconds?
Jeff Vrabel
· 1 year ago
Thanks, Jon, although to be fair I had EIGHT YEARS TO LISTEN TO THESE SONGS.
Seriously, dude. Borat. - J.
Ken Shane
· 1 year ago
The album may suck, but at least we all get a free Dr. Pepper.
mojo
· 1 year ago
Thank you. Applause. A popdoser gets another one right.
MatthewBolin
· 1 year ago
I actually think the last Who album grew on me. It's at least better than the two albums with Kenny Jones on drums.
This, though, just sounds a a turd in the punchbowl.
Ted
· 1 year ago
I've never really been a fan of Guns 'n' Roses, and after listening to the lead track on some site that was streaming it with an audio watermark, I found the audio watermark placements more interesting than the song.
And I agree with Matthew on the Who. Some of the songs on Endless Wire really sucked, but there were a few very good ones tucked in there.
billy budapest
· 1 year ago
The staggering part of your review was the use of the word "disappointing" to describe this release. Was there ever any real hope that it would be anything but? You need talent before you can make a worthwhile contribution.
DwDunphy
· 1 year ago
The biggest problem with this album is that it crawls up the anus of a major time paradox and disappears. Part of the time Axl tries to recall the old sound, part of the time he's trying furiously to sound modern, and mostly in between, he's captured in every stage of recording mimicking the style of the day, hence the absurd nu-metal tropes.
This is the rare specimen that has arrived sounding dated, but no single particular date will do.
Old_Davy
· 1 year ago
What? No tracks to download? No matter, I'd ignore them anyway. Bleh. I would never listen to this pile of crap. Axl is the most irritating vocalist to ever land a recording contract.
jefito
· 1 year ago
Hmmm...most irritating vocalists -- there's an interesting idea for a post. Axl would certainly be on my list, but I think John Popper would rank higher up.
DwDunphy
· 1 year ago
I'd stick Morrissey in there too. Sorry, Moz fans but I just can't handle the guy.
DwDunphy
· 1 year ago
What? I posted a track! 4/01/08!
rwcass
· 1 year ago
Ugh ... you're so dated, Dw.
DwDunphy
· 1 year ago
Uh... Um... er... that's rad, right?
Darren
· 1 year ago
The one great thing about this album is that it has brought out the best in all of my favorite music reviewers (jeff being one of them). Sure, its kinda "shooting fish in a barrel", but seeing how much pure joy some scribes take in describing this disaster definitely makes for some great reading.
Nick LaRocca
· 1 year ago
What's hysterical is reading reviews within a day and a half of the album streaming that run the gamut from "this is a masterpiece" to "this is absolute shit". I don't think Popdose knows what it's listening to here, but it's fun to watch a little blog look idiotic next to a review in Rolling Stone that tends to get the record a little better.
Yeah, these songs suck. And Hinder's first record was a masterpiece. It's been so long since good music has surfaced that Rose would have been better off letting the tunes stay stripped down like Appetite for Destruction. Then, at least, goofballs like Popdose would have been able to like the record.
But it isn't just that Axl doesn't give a shit. It's that you're wrong, man. There isn't a band out there right now that could even COVER half these songs, much less write anything at once as ferocious, experimental, and melodic as just about every song on Chinese Democracy.
And by the way, Axl Rose can sing. The review doesn't even discuss his voice, which is at the center of the record. It's like discussing a new album by Sade or Christina Aguilera without discussing the singer. I don't even know what to say abot that.
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Seriously, dude. Borat. - J.
This, though, just sounds a a turd in the punchbowl.
And I agree with Matthew on the Who. Some of the songs on Endless Wire really sucked, but there were a few very good ones tucked in there.
This is the rare specimen that has arrived sounding dated, but no single particular date will do.
Yeah, these songs suck. And Hinder's first record was a masterpiece. It's been so long since good music has surfaced that Rose would have been better off letting the tunes stay stripped down like Appetite for Destruction. Then, at least, goofballs like Popdose would have been able to like the record.
But it isn't just that Axl doesn't give a shit. It's that you're wrong, man. There isn't a band out there right now that could even COVER half these songs, much less write anything at once as ferocious, experimental, and melodic as just about every song on Chinese Democracy.
And by the way, Axl Rose can sing. The review doesn't even discuss his voice, which is at the center of the record. It's like discussing a new album by Sade or Christina Aguilera without discussing the singer. I don't even know what to say abot that.