Chinese Democracy is a 2008 album--the sixth studio album by hard rock band Guns N' Roses. Though it bears the "Guns N' Roses" name, a spade needs to be called a spade here--it is an Axl Rose solo album. Period.
The album was covered by Damien and Desmond Reddick on their podcast, Dropped D. To date, no other album they have reviewed has come even remotely close to being scored as low as this one (a collective 18% from the duo), and Damien has gone on record as saying there will absolutely never be another one that he will score lower. The album took fourteen years to come out, and was marred by inconsistent tunes, too many cheesy ballads (most of which were strung together), horrible industrial rock, and Axl trying desperately to copy the success he had in decades past.
Track listing (and a summary from the podcast)[]
- Chinese Democracy: "Little did I know this standard rock song would be one of the better efforts on the album." - Damien
- Shackler's Revenge: "Someone kidnapped Fear Factory and forced them to have group sex with a Nintendo." - Damien
- Better: "Then we get "Better", but that's a lie." - Damien
- Street of Dreams: "[This] feels like he wanted to go for 'November Rain' and settled for 'Overcast in September'." - Damien
- If the World: "Then we get Buckethead doing porn music." - Damien
- There Was a Time: "That chorus is so BUTTFUCKING UGLY. SO ugly. So ugly." - Des
- Catcher in the Rye: "[This song] is so bad, that I was forced to create an adjective for it: 'fucktacular'." - Damien
- Scraped: "This sounds like someone scraping their nails down a chalkboard, chopping that chalkboard in half, breaking it into smaller pieces, and then jamming it up the asshole of a screaming cat." - Damien
- Riad n' the Bedouins: "So terrible, it's almost dizzying." - Des
- Sorry: "Apology not accepted." - Damien
- I.R.S.: "Remarkably average." - Damien
- Madagascar: "The man who wrote 'One in a Million' sampled Martin Luther King, Jr. Fuck right off. Sitting there droning and trying way too hard. Go back to your Cheetos, you fatass. No points." - Damien
- This I Love: "This is so schmaltzy. That is the only word I can come up with to describe it." - Des
- Prostitute: "I'm drinking Mello Yello mixed with Coke Zero and it's going down better than this song did." - Damien