Rock Band Weekly: Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy album

by Alexander Sliwinski on Apr 10th 2009 9:50AM

"Shackler's Revenge" was only seeking vengeance because it was lonely -- but, no longer. Next week's Rock Band Weekly will be Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy album, the groups first album in ... 15 years. The album has gone on to sell 3 million copies and is now ready to pick a couple more wallets in its Rock Band incarnation.

Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy (1600

/ $20 -- 200 Wii points apiece)

"Chinese Democracy" (160 / $2)
"Better" (160 / $2)
"Street of Dreams" (160 / $2)
"If the World" (160 / $2)
"There Was a Time" (160 / $2)
"Catcher in the Rye" (160 / $2)
"Scraped" (160 / $2)
"Riad N' the Bedouins" (160 / $2)
"Sorry" (160 / $2)
"I.R.S." (160 / $2)
"Madagascar" (160 / $2)
"This I Love" (160 / $2)
"Prostitute" (160 / $2)

All tracks are masters and will be available for Xbox 360 and Wii next Tuesday. PS3 owners can download the album on Thursday.

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Tags: harmonix, Microsoft, mtv-games, Nintendo, rock-band, rock-band-2, rock-band-dlc, rock-band-weekly, rock-band-wiikly, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (62)

Oooh a shitty album!

Yep, this is so not going to be bought by me because I don't care for crap.

I'm guessing Shacklers Revenge was one of the better tracks.. so I'm not buying, when that first came up I was like 'wtf'.. Velvet Revolver is way better.. personally I'd like fast heavy stuff on RB2, but alternate strumming just won't work for me (it's between lag settings & my RB1 wireless that's the problem - since RB2's aren't in europe yet..)

Shacklers Revenge is actually one of the crappier songs. I wasnt going to get the album off because of Shacklers, but someone bought it for me and it actually kicks ass

Lame.

No.

I thought it was going to take longer to come out

and I still don't want it.

It took Axel 10 years to put out this piece of sh*t album...i was hoping harmonix would take 20.

who are the 3 million idiots that bought this album in the first place? i'd like to beat some sense/taste into them.

and for the 2nd week in a row...no RB DLC for me.

I bought one and I'd like to see you try. It is actually a kick ass album but you'd have to play a real guitar to understand that I guess, not some plastic POS one.

Oh whatever, sure it's a different Guns 'N Roses than back with Use Your Illusion and Appetite for Destruction, but it still kicks ass. Also, Buckethead > Slash.

I liked this CD. When I get some microsoft money, I'll probably buy quite a few off of here or maybe even the whole thing.

Hopefully Appetite for Destruction will come sooner or later

Seriously, The only way this could be deemed a smart move is if the studios made them do it if they wanted Appetite on down the road.

Axl mentioned something about if this one sells well, he'd be interested in releasing Appetite. Come on RB fans, if you don't get the album at least grab a couple tracks off of it. It could help with future DLC.

You don't run your career in reverse, so why should I have to pay for shit when THIS isn't what made them rockstars?

I sure hope Appetite comes out one day. This album is NOT GnR, only Axl's crap. Guitar Metallica is great, but having drum fills at the start of turn the page is lame.

I'll be buying a good half of this. You can crap on GnR all day long, but getting to tear up some Buckethead and Robin Finck guitar parts is nothing short of "fun as hell".

I am still dreaming of the day they release full versions of Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye by Mastodon!!!

Just because the guitar parts are extremely technical, doesn't neccesarily mean they are fun. IMO Both Buckethead and Robin Finck are sh*t guitarists.

Just because you play your instrument very well, doesn't mean you're a good musician.

The whole Chinese Democracy album is so overproduced and riddled with complicated guitar solos from top to bottom, it's lost any structure whatsoever.

.. and that's all besides the fact it sounds like Limp Bizkit meets Rob Zombie.

awwww, come one. It isn't that bad. I'm not a huge fan of the guitarists work outside of this release, but I like the variation in parts across this album. I agree with it being overproduced and I can see the similarities between this and a lot of late 90's stuff.

Overall, I think it's a pretty ambitious release, and with all the homogeneous rock garbage that gets regular play these days, I'm happy when anything that borders on eclectic finds a mainstream audience.

Now... who wants to help me start a petition to get Mr Bungle's California released on RockBand :)

Closing statement:

It is that bad.

@ Mystile Armor - How much of Buckethead's own original music have you heard? You certainly can't judge him based off what he's done with GnFR, and he certainly isn't a sh*t guitarist as you put it.

"Just because you play your instrument very well, doesn't mean you're a good musician." Mmmmmmkay.

A good musician isn't about just knowing how to play your instruments, it's about melody, songwriting, chord progression etc. etc.

Just because he knows how to play a complicated solo on a frettless guitar, doesn't make him a good musician.

And I THINK he's utter crap. If you don't think so, that's great, that's your oppinion, not mine.

I agree that you can play well and be a terrible musician. I could write prose eloquently with excellent pacing and brilliant imagery and write a horrible story. But, from what I've heard from Chinese Democracy...it's crap. It's like someone took a crap and left it around for 10 years while others came around and crapped on that crap. Then, you take that original crap and nicely package it as to not really look like crap. Then, talk about how much unlike crap it really is and serve it to us, the unwitting public, who for the most part, forgot about caring about the crap in the first place. In short: it stinks.

Again, how much of Buckethead's own original music have you heard? It's not anything like the GnR crap.

I agree, Markez, Bucketheads other work isn't half as bad as the stuff he's done for GnR (and he shouldn't be measured by that), but it's still far from great...

But that's my opinion. I could name alot of music that I enjoy that other people think is horrible, I suppose.

I'm not going to get back in the argument we had about that DJ game (forgot the name of it), because taste in music is as subjective as it will ever be.

Haha, fair enough, pal, good call :P

I'll buy a few tracks. There are some good ones on there. That is if you can stop saying "oh this album sucks" and actually listen to it.

Couldn't agree with you more. So many people wanted to hate this album that when it came out, their self-fulfilling prophecy had them hating it right from the get-go. I bought it with an open mind, and while it's a different style than their old stuff (which is to be expected after a decade or two), I've quite enjoyed it.I'll be picking up these tracks even if it is cool to hate the album.

Well, I just saved 20$!

guess harmonix decided that they're done releasing good albums.

wtf guys?

I always thought it was funny that they felt some need to have "guns n' roses" on the cover in some form three times. Wait, what band put this out!?!

Why all the hate? it was actually a pretty good album.

it actually wasn't

Yeah, it was. Oh, boo hoo, Slash, Duff, Izzy and Adler didn't touch it. Cry me a fucking river. Of menstrual blood. Don't try to tell me Catcher In The Rye isn't full of win. For the record, Finck didn't record much if any, and DJ Ashba is the guitarist now. Day one buy for me.

Seriously?

Its easy to hate on, and its definitely not an amazing album, but I like it enough to purchase a couple tracks for Rock Band from it.

I'd rather have classic GNR as much as the next guy, but everyone needs to stop BAWWing because their favorite music isn't coming this week.

This is a very inconsistent album. I've listened to every single track on it, and some songs start out good, and end bad. Some start out bad and end up good. But a few start out bad, and keeps it up throughout the song. But overall, I would say its a decent album, but it takes a few listens to appreciate it. That's not to say, I love it, but most people here seems to hate it. But yeah there are some songs that are just plain awful, Shackler's Revenge comes to mind...

Your entitled to your opinion, but you're wrong.

Guns and Roses? What does axle roses solo project have to do with Guns and Roses?

Axl. Don't bitch if you can't even spell.

. . . One MORE week without any ska in sight.

"Sitting on and angry chair..." oops wrong album. Man you guys need to lighten up. I'm glad we finally got the full album, and if you don't like I guess you just saved your mommie and daddy some money since they don't have to buy it. Oh yes more content, horrible thing.......

That is a terrible album, and a terrible waste of rock band weekly downloads. When are we gonna get some new Radiohead?

thank you

Agreed. We need some real music!

Ok...so I enjoyed Journey coming to Rock Band. So sue me! We all live to be hypocrites in one way or another.

Yay! I just saved a bunch of wii point but not buying this Crap

Nothing to look foward to this week.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

GH: Metallica has spoiled me and It's going to be a long time before I play Rock Band or any other GH again. I might pick up Smash Hits... maybe.

I still love my RB2, but GH: M really is amazing...better than GH3 or world tour for sure...possibly better than GH2 or RB1.

You guys may be hating on it, but you forget that this means buckethead solos for us guitarists! Woohoo!

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