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  • I like this version better than the one on the actual album.

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  • Looked this up with a bad attitude then befor I hit play thought give it a chance halfway through I remeberd the reason I love GNR is Axls lyrics and vocals of course I love the original lineup waymore but this aint halfbad all bands change I bet youd all love this if slash played even though id be the same damn song

  • While I miss Axls "Mr.Brownstone" style vocals, I've gotta admit I think he sounds fantastic on this song. I hear a bit of both Appetite (Rocketqueen) and Illusion (November Rain) coming through here, but I agree this entire album is far-removed from old GNR. In my opinion, this is the best song on the album.

  • This song is awesome, some people's musical taste just need to develop so they can appreciate different sounds, some genuinely don't like it. It could have been Lulu from Metallica hahahahaha.

  • this song just makes me feel good. i dont no why

  • Сэлинджер ?

  • WTF does it matter? Axl's voice is gone baby, gone. I'm a huge GnR fan but Jesus....Axl sounds like shit now.

  • @badchicken30 Er...go and listen to the live tours in 2010 and 2011, and you will find that you are talking rubbish, and his voice is back to its near best.

  • @Kozzy06 yes! just seen them in Indy a few days ago, he was amazing, vocals, energy..& the band too!

  • @Kozzy06 I'm sorry but I've listened to his recent concert recordings and his voice is still completely destroyed. He sounds like he's pinching his nostrils shut while singing.

    Check out the 88 recording live at the ritz and you'll see what I mean.

  • I like this more than old school GNR

  • The final verse about the assassination of John Lennon gives chills every time.

    And like some other comments, this song inspired me to read the book. TBH though, I think Axl's lyrics are more a work of art than the book, which is nothing special really.

  • @MademoiselleChanel94 not like he hasnt written better lyrics than this (november rain)

  • @365metal Oh I agree, November Rain is my favourite song of all time. Estranged comes a close second. But that doesn't mean these aren't great lyrics too. I love his reference to the book with 'how a body took a body', I think it's quite clever. He's a much better lyricist than almost anyone in the top 50 (most don't even write their own songs anyway) Shame he doesn't get the recognition :(

  • IM TIRED OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO BLAME AXL OR BLAME SLASH GUESS WHAT THEY BOTH PLAYED A PART IN THE SPLIT GET OVER IT KNOW WHAT I DO I ENJOY THE NEW GUNS I LISTEN TO THIS CD AT LEAST TWICE A WEEK GUESS WHAT ELSE I ENJOY VELVET REVOLVER ,LOADED N ANYTHING ELSE OLD MEMBERS HAVE DONE STOP BITCHING N JUST ENJOY THE FUCKING MUSIC

  • 21 people are deaf due to listening to that Disney bullshit too much to understand what great music is.

  • Harold you gotta lay off the pot.

  • I wish I have a gun,love the lirycs,he is so cool  on music

  • That outro solo is tasteful as all hell.

  • this doesn't sound like the CD version, i love this song.

  • i only read the book because of this song

  • @pattyxpatrick how is the book, i might read it myself cause of this song.

  • i'm a 2 month old baby and i love guns AND roses

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  • i was watching battery farming stuff, and found my way here into chinese democracy? hahahahha

  • quite like the sound of this album!!

  • Im 15 and im from this new generation that doesn't listen to this bullshit songs nowadays(justin bieber, disney shits...) . I know that this is not the same GNR from 87-93(sweet child o mine, paradise city, november rain, dont cry, welcome to the jungle, many more!) but i still can't name 5 albuns in the last 5 years better than chinese democracy. Just listen to it as if is another band, not the traditional guns, that you will have a great time with these great songs.

    Sorry for the bad english

  • G N R---''CATCHER IN THE RYE''

  • This IS NOT GUNS N ROSES! I am not saying it is BAD. I think I understand what kind of aesthetic the original members in GnR were going for; more of a juiced up Rolling Stones/Aerosmith vibe (Live! Like a #*@% Suicide, Appetite, Lies,) where Axl was harboring an idea to span more sonic textures. Kind of Styx-ish, Queen, etc. Early on the BAND as a UNIT decided on the Sound it seems. As time passed and ego's grew, Axl THOUGHT HE was GnR. Which Has been debunked by the ralease of Chinese Dem.

  • @theguitarczar Look dude, Slash, Duff, Izzy, Gilby, Matt, Steven, or who-the-fuck you wanna say is GUNS N' ROSES, Their not in GN'R so therefore their not GUNS N' ROSES, Their done with GN'R, Their doing their own thing, They moved on, To be honest they don't care about GUNS N' ROSES. So fuck off. Axl Rose, Tommy Stinson, Dj ASHBA, Dizzy Reed, Ron "BUMBLEFOOT" Thal, Richard Fortus, Frank Ferrer, and Chris Pitman is GUNS N' ROSES. And Slash is an sell-out and why are you even watching a GN'R vid?

  • Not GnR. Axl and band maybe. I think we call this a solo album!

  • @azwildcats69 I think we call it "SHUT THE FUCK UP

    "

  • @azwildcats69 nope Axl started GNR so its his band ha not a solo nothing just guns n roses and truth slash didnt play in La Guns or Holly wood rose so he was never realy s real member lol

  • Not GnR. Axl and band maybe.

  • GREAT SONG! =D THUMBS UP FOR GN'R!

  • he had almost 20 years to fuck around with the album, its an ok album at best.

  • this is the best song off the album.. fo sure.. prolly in my top 5 GNR songs.. up there with roquett Queen and Bad Apples

  • This song reminds me of Fallout 3 =p..

  • i like this version better than the one on the record

  • this might be one of the greatest songs ever, most of you fools dont even know what its about so please dont comment on it

  • @rbanks34 I consider the Falun Gong to be dangerous and think that the is doing a rather great job. I do understand that everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but western media often simplifies stuff. It's always PRC = evil. So, the people buy it too.

  • Great song, but I would just hoped that axl would have sung the catcher in the rye part with a bit more power

  • Best book EVER! Also, I really want a cell phone, but my parents won't give me one, however, I'm 12 and already very responsible, like I even mow the lawn, wash dishes, take out trash, and I clean my room every day. However, my family IS financially stable and both of my parents have a cell phone, and I don't. Whenever I ask them for one, they say "No, it's a fashion statement." . Any suggestions of how I should ask them for one? Thanks.

  • @halofan981 start going out alot and staying out a little later than you normally would.. they will buy you one to be able to reach you when you're not home

  • @halofan981 No, it IS a fashion statement.

  • Nvrmind, i'm actually going today or tomorrow and buying it w/ my own moolah.

  • 17 years for this shit?????axl,guns n roses is bigger than you;call slash and izzy!!!

  • guys axl keeps on doing great stuff!!!!

  • fuck slash ego maniac

  • 2:00-2:15 synthsound is better in demo version than album

  • My fav song off the album.

  • well this is like the very first version of it

  • PERFECT *-*

  • Are you guys fucking deaf? This song, and the rest of the album is fucking awesome, a piece of art. It doesn´t sounds like Appetite for Destruction? of fucking course it doesn´t, Axl is not an angry 20 years old boy anymore. All the vocal tracks, lyrics, guitars riffs and solos, bass lines, drums, keyboards, Synthesizers, everything in this album is damned perfect... it worthed every second we waited for it

  • @Kurki Couldn't have said it any better.

  • @Kurki has a little bit of a yesterday feel to it eh

    but no absolutely you couldnt be more right. art at its finest

  • @1929full Damn right!!! I didn´t notice until you mention it, but you´re right, sounds a little bit like Yesterdays

  • @Kurki hes no longer a, angry 20 year old boy, hes a overweight 40 year old man who lost his talent

  • @Bobsmellslikeyourmom Reinvented his talent... it´s quite different. You may like his new style or not, but the guy is still a genius

  • @Kurki This isn't terrible but I think it's fair to say Slash's guitar carried a lot more emotion with a lot fewer notes and riffs. Most of these songs sound cluttered in my humble but correct opinion.

  • @ajdicks Agree 100%... Slash can do with 1 note what 3 guitarists can´t with 100, I´m not sayin´ this is better than the original GNR or real GNR or whatever you want to call it, but that´s the mistake: listen this record trying to compare it with the original GNR. Chinese D is a great record by itself, it´s the result of a genius mind, not better than AFD, Lies or UYI, but still a piece of art. Sure, it´s cluttered and overproduced, but I like it that way, and so did Axl, sounds amazing to me

  • @Kurki I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend to be one of those deaf-mutes.

  • @Kurki Awesome album yes, worth a nearly 20yr wait.. sorry I can't go there. Glad to have it after that time, HELL YES!

    As you said though, this is not the old GNR, this is GNR evolved, GNR with the youthful angst turned into more polished music, and damn is it great. I would have been disappointed had it just been like another AfD

  • @Kurki 14 for that ? C'MON!

  • @Kurki ye you are right

    this is not the old rock n roolllll of guns n roses

    but steal is fucking awasome

    so if someone want to coment in a bad way dont do that and go listen to some luzers like j.b.

  • @Kurki Yeah I meant he actually didn't take almost 20 years to release the album, he actaully wanted a break from music.

  • @Kurki Couldn't agree more, the album is just perfection.

  • @Kurki Agree with you but imo this song as others in cd (street of dreams, madagascar, this is love) sound so much like uyi. A nice calm intro going to a more angry and loud end, don't you think?

    I like CD, it's great, and even better live (ok not all songs, but some of them sound awesome live).

  • @Kurki

    Use your Illusions doesnt sound like Appetite... I mean people should be used by now that Guns experiment with different sounds.

  • @Kurki FINALLY a piece of intelligence in this world...

  • why people that dont like has to comment , fuck every single douche bag that does it .....if you dont like it dont listen bitches

  • muy aspera,,.,.,.,

  • On my album CITR is 7....

    <33

  • @RudaSobota yeah, CITR is the 7 on my album too. kkkkk

  • not so good.

  • Obviously it's not as good as the old albums, but hey it's at least listenable

  • too much fx's : /

  • every song on this album is so overproduced that the melody gets lost. I can tell theres a decent melody in there deep down, but its just buried under such a huge pile of shit, i can't seem to find it.

  • @mattcav221 This is one of the best produced records I've ever heard. The music is all the so crisp and clear it complements the vocals so well.

  • @Cyanarchy its the most expensive record ever produced.

  • @tjobrien323 I don't think it's THE most, but it's definitely one of the most.

  • @mattcav221 Not true, have you heard "This I love?" It's ingenious and there are no synths at all. Check it out.

  • this song goes on too long.

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  • I actually like this song a lot..

  • i liked more guns n roses that chinese democracy

  • how the heck did he get from Welcome to the Jungle to this??? this is just impossible to reconcile

  • @nate3010 Guns N' Roses sound is evolves, how did he get from WTTJ to Patience? Patience to Garden Of Eden? Garden Of Eden to Estranged? Estranged to Buick McKane? Buick McKane to Oh My God? Oh My God to There Was A Time? They've always experimented, and Chinese Democracy is no different.

  • @Cyanarchy this one is too extreme .. this is not cool.. it's just .... annoyingly perky

  • @nate3010 This is my least favourite song on ChiDem, but I still love it.

  • This is my least favourite from Chinese Democracy, and I still love it, it's so damn catchy.

  • WAIT ONE DARN MINUTE! Did GNR release this two years ago like in 08!?!?!??!?!?!?!?! I haven't been keeping tabs on GNR.....

    I have been mostly listening to Appetite for Distruction

  • reminds me of aerosmith :/ not a bad thing.......but seriously ditch the name then people might respect you axl

  • @SaulHudsonGibson Why ditch the name? Hes not the one that left.

  • It just isn't Guns n' Roses anymore :(

  • @Anonix123 Why?

  • i love the whole, album, i just wish Axl would let go of the name Guns N Roses, thats not Guns, and not just in a different style, Axl is the only original member left, so he should just stop calling it Guns N Roses

  • Only song I really like on the album.

  • Guns n' Roses is dead. Long live Slash :L

    Well a guess it's OK but I can't compare.

  • @RockAndRollEruption $la$h is a sellout, Guns N' Roses is still going strong.

  • @Cyanarchy I still pre-fair Slash's work to new Guns N Roses, so whether he's a sell out or not, his new stuff is better than Guns N Roses new stuff.

  • @RockAndRollEruption $la$h's new album has about 3 great songs, and the rest range from shit to good.

  • @RockAndRollEruption look up slashes new solo stuff HOLY CRAP

  • @loganpalmiter If you are talking about his solo album then I think it's brilliant. Not sure wither to interpret that message as a good or bad thing. Are you saying it's good? :L

  • @RockAndRollEruption its definitely not a bad album... just not the GNR im used to

  • @loganpalmiter Got that right.

  • @loganpalmiter Absolute sellout shit.

  • 18 years for this shit? seriously??? Axl cant even sing well live anymore!! His tour will make him look bad... and thats the price to pay for being such an arrogant, stupid prick. I can't wait to see how he fails. LOL

  • @alxkleyman 15 years, and I have a tip for you little girl, try actually watching some of the videos from the tour before you claim he sounds bad, it makes you look stupid when you're ignorant.

  • if the world ?

  • such an amazing song I love the lyrics.. beautiful mature love song. if you've really shared something close close with someone and had it fall apart this is what this song feels like. hope & sorrow

  • @DistortedDingo actually this is a tribute 2 John Lennon

  • cmon u cant polish a turd

  • this song is really awesome!

    axl rose is great singer :-bd

  • perfect song for the perfect book

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  • This is good, but i dont call this guns n roses. i refer to this as "Axl Rose" in fact when i wanna hear this song or any song from chinese democracy i type in "Axl Rose Catcher in the Rye" or "Axl Rose Chinese Democracy"

  • @TheJohnny990 Lineups always change in a band, GnR was Izzy and Axl, but this proves that Axl can still do great without Izzy.

  • guns n roses isnt dead slash may be gone but its all bout axel and hes still got it this is an amazing song

  • @Sk8erboiSam i never like GNR for axel... in fact i hated his voice... i love slash and the band

  • @loganpalmiter axl voice is really amazing!!!

    

  • this is prolly my favorite song off the new stuff. i have not listend to the new record however.

  • Awesome song, awesome album!

  • This song brings out the best in me.

  • This isn't horrible, but it is no where near their best. He just can't sing any more..

  • @xdcwproductions wrong. i heard him in a performance in japan. he was much older but he still sounded the same fantastic voice. my friend zach can do this voice hehe

  • @xdcwproductions watch?v=sSXFPzgnV9g

    Eat your words.

  • 5/5

    ;..(

  • It is really sad when you listen to Estranged..Then you listen to this...I really do not like this at all...Estranged and November Rain are Guns at their best.

  • @MrBluntsworth420 I put There Was A Time up there with those two.

  • @Cyanarchy Its funny to read my comment from 3 months ago....I could not stand it then.....Now....This album has grown on me...in unexplainable ways...haha seriously, I listen to Madagascar, Better, Sorry, and This I Love every day now. I have accepted that I love Axl Rose.

    Forever Estranged.

  • @MrBluntsworth420 Same for me.

  • All you fuckers who say this is nothing like the old gnr are you fucking serious? No shit sherlock!! This is 2010 not 1987 get with the times losers..this album is perfect for this era i wouldnt wanna have heard sum hair metal shit album at this time..

  • @car1no10 i would, n thats what im listening always cus the music back then are billion times better than now. Im a gunner but seriously this is by far their second worst album, Spaghetti Incident is the worst.

  • @car1no10 EveryThing In The World Changed The Day Axl Sat His Ass Down In Front Of A Piano And Started To Play....

  • @car1no10 man im the biggest guns n roses fan that i know and i couldnt agree more with you ,, i hate when people say " ugh its not the same as b4 " why would you want it the same as b4 that would just be boring and shit

  • This song is absolutely annoying...

  • onestly i like this song... but those are not the true guns n roses

  • There's nothing more irrelevant than this lame ass version of G & R!!

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  • Why, Axl? Why??

  • R.I.P JD Salinger

  • Guns N Roses is nothing without Slash

    i maybe like 2 songs off this album

  • we can't expect Axl and the GNR now to sound like what they used to back in the 80s; new members, new era, new everything.

    This isn't GNR anymore, but it's still good. like LouisAmStart said, it's more like a "Axl's band" not GNR anymore. Don't get me wrong; I still like the fact that Axl is still making music. But we just can't expect him to sound like the way he did in 80s. we'll just have to accept him.

  • Then call it the Axl Rose band and not Guns'N Roses.

  • @anvilofcrom OR....or....ooh or, stop crying about GNR. If you dont like it in it's current state, piss off n listen to slash, or better yet, the old albums. Repeating statements that've been posted a thousand times just gets annoying.

  • @jessdaman08 I'll say what I like, thanks. Now go bury your face back in Axl's spotty smelly arse.

  • @anvilofcrom woah now you're mentioning Axl's ass? How original :) have a great day! lol even if part of it is wasted on comments about a band you no longer enjoy, sad sad sad existence....

  • @anvilofcrom You still talking?...I thought I told you to bury your face in Axl's arse?

  • this a demo not the final version of the song but i like this one more

  • i love guns, but i miss the old guns. they don't sound like they use to do, they have changed their style, and axl's voice in't the same. it's not the same power as it use to be, but that's life, you geting older and your body change. when i think of guns i alwys think of axl, slash, duff, izzy and steven. want them back:(<3333

  • this aint punk its crap GNR is nothing whiout slash or the others

  • @gigesti no punk is shit like greenday or some bullshit band GNR are legends in rock punk is nothing compared with that

  • You think Greenday are punk?

    They are more like a pop combo with punk influence.

    Besides which G'n'R were the closest any American band came to a decent punk sound barring the Ramones IMO.

  • @flyingfliersflying66 lol greenday is punk and not even close to pop and u think gnr is punk??? *slaps*

  • @skarura greenday is pop, grn is rock. end of conversation/

  • @flyingfliersflying66 you're an idiot

  • @flyingfliersflying66 you must mean besides the fact that punk came from america? The Stooges were around years before the ramones

  • don't get me wrong nothing will replace what old gnr but have an open mind i was that way when i heard the album just wrote it off than the more you listen it's actually one of the few albums that i listened to repeatedly and for all the haters axl voice is back i saw some of his performances in 2010 and you can't argue with it not the same feeling with the guitar but axl got his afd and use your illusion voice back and can still hit the notes SO THE HATERS (FUCK OFF)

  • youre fucking right man

  • im a great fan on old guns, not a fan of the new one, and i really have to disagree with you, his voice is not back, wait, yuo say it's back, since he lost it, the when did he get his voice back? do you have a link of some songs where he sing old gnr songs were he gets the same voice he had when he was younger? thats 20 years from now.

  • Obviously, this doesn't sound like the Slash era G'N'R that most of us know and love, nevertheless, it is an awesome song!

    =D

  • i think its an okay rock album.

    but loganpalmiter is right.

    when you exprect gnr, youre wrong man. thats nothing like gnr ever sounds.

    listen to afd or use you illusion if you want listen to gnr, but this i call not gnr. its more like "axl's band"

  • MASTERPIECE ! ! !

    10 stars!

  • it sounds very.....'crowded' ...like axle tried to put just 2 many instruments in the songs

  • feliz cumplaños axel

  • great album, i love it.

  • WHAT HAPPENED TO GNR?!?!?! oh wait the talent left us :( not a bad album though. it definitely.... different

  • Un tema bien axl rose. En donde muestra su verdadero talento, su lado mas sencible. el mas desarrollado.

  • listen to it once, then accept the fact that duff and slash are gone and wont come back, listen to it again... And its fucken awesome. this album is pretty good but just different. Seriously I don't get what is supposed to be wrong with it.

    can't wait to see them live next mondaaaay ! :)

  • Yeah man...

    I got the same situation...

    They're coming to Lima Peru...

    Hope2see them :D

    greetings from here PeruLand 2the outside Lands Alliens!!!

  • wow.. this isnt nothing like there old shit. i still love em, but this is just. no its to new aged

  • I like it not the sameas there other albums but change is good like metallica when they released St. Anger it grows on ppl.... I cant wait to see these guys on tuesday in saskatoon without slash and izzy is a shame but still get to rock out to there tunes all night....PCE

  • slash and izzy made the band. lets face it we only like axels voice cuz its different not cuz its good.. :P i miss the old lineup. it was southern inspired hard rock... this is... NOT

  • I liked Appetite For Destruction, but it was all downhill from there. This album is horrible.