...oder wenigstens neun Tracks daraus. Erinnerungen an eine Plattenkritik...
"Last week, the Internet was rocked when California blogger Kevin Skwerl posted nine newly leaked Chinese Democracy tracks, including three previously unheard songs allegedly from Guns N' Roses long-awaited album. Skwerl - who used to work in the distribution department of Universal Music and is now a Web designer - runs the blog Antiquiet, and says he received the tracks from "an anonymous online source."
Yesterday Skwerl was surprised to find himself face to face with two FBI agents who paid a visit to his day job. "It was kind of an ambush," Skwerl tells Rolling Stone. "When I came back from lunch they were waiting in the lobby for me. It’s a little creepy they know where I work." Two young FBI officers, who Skwerl describes as "Mulder and Scully types," questioned him for 15 minutes about where he got the tracks and made plans to visit his house at 7:00 a.m. this morning. [...]" [rollingstone.com]
Man erinnere sich zurück an jenes Review vom 27. März 2006, geschrieben von einem gewissen Chuck Klosterman, Journalist beim amerikanischen Spin-Magazin. Kurze Zeit online, dann auch schon wieder verschwunden. Fake or not? Wie auch immer, wenigstens zwei der neun geleakten Songs - "Better", "Chinese Democracy", "If The World", "I.R.S.", "Madagascar", "Rhiad", "The Blues", "There Is Love", "There Was A Time" - finden darin Erwähnung...
"I get the impression most of the 13 songs were written between 1993 and 1999, and Rose merely spent six or seven years touching them up in the studio. One is forced to wonder if a track like "Madagascar" was only recorded 75 or 80 times, which calls Axl's alleged "maniacal perfectionism" directly into question. [...] "The Blues" might be Rose's crowning career achievement: It's an epic combination of mid-period Stevie Wonder, early Elton John, and side two of In Through the Out Door. This is the kind of gutter-glam boogie ballad that makes "November Rain" seem like a bucket of burro vomit warming in the afternoon sun." [Review - pdf, 53 KB]
"Chinese Democracy": Ein Mythos von Album. Noch dazu von einer Band, die eigentlich gar nicht mehr existiert. Zumindestens so wie man sie mal kannte. Guns N' Roses' einstige Front-Primadonna Axl Rose und der Bandname, mehr ist es nicht. Fazit: "Chinese Democracy is not the greatest rock album ever made." Ach nein?
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"Last week, the Internet was rocked when California blogger Kevin Skwerl posted nine newly leaked Chinese Democracy tracks, including three previously unheard songs allegedly from Guns N' Roses long-awaited album. Skwerl - who used to work in the distribution department of Universal Music and is now a Web designer - runs the blog Antiquiet, and says he received the tracks from "an anonymous online source."
Yesterday Skwerl was surprised to find himself face to face with two FBI agents who paid a visit to his day job. "It was kind of an ambush," Skwerl tells Rolling Stone. "When I came back from lunch they were waiting in the lobby for me. It’s a little creepy they know where I work." Two young FBI officers, who Skwerl describes as "Mulder and Scully types," questioned him for 15 minutes about where he got the tracks and made plans to visit his house at 7:00 a.m. this morning. [...]" [rollingstone.com]
Man erinnere sich zurück an jenes Review vom 27. März 2006, geschrieben von einem gewissen Chuck Klosterman, Journalist beim amerikanischen Spin-Magazin. Kurze Zeit online, dann auch schon wieder verschwunden. Fake or not? Wie auch immer, wenigstens zwei der neun geleakten Songs - "Better", "Chinese Democracy", "If The World", "I.R.S.", "Madagascar", "Rhiad", "The Blues", "There Is Love", "There Was A Time" - finden darin Erwähnung...
"I get the impression most of the 13 songs were written between 1993 and 1999, and Rose merely spent six or seven years touching them up in the studio. One is forced to wonder if a track like "Madagascar" was only recorded 75 or 80 times, which calls Axl's alleged "maniacal perfectionism" directly into question. [...] "The Blues" might be Rose's crowning career achievement: It's an epic combination of mid-period Stevie Wonder, early Elton John, and side two of In Through the Out Door. This is the kind of gutter-glam boogie ballad that makes "November Rain" seem like a bucket of burro vomit warming in the afternoon sun." [Review - pdf, 53 KB]
"Chinese Democracy": Ein Mythos von Album. Noch dazu von einer Band, die eigentlich gar nicht mehr existiert. Zumindestens so wie man sie mal kannte. Guns N' Roses' einstige Front-Primadonna Axl Rose und der Bandname, mehr ist es nicht. Fazit: "Chinese Democracy is not the greatest rock album ever made." Ach nein?
[gunsnroses.com] [myspace.com/gunsnroses]
wasix - 27. Jun, 20:54 - [2008 Xtras]