Chinese Democracy 2000
So i just randomly happened to listen to some early demos of Chinese Democracy on youtube and man, what a pity that Axl didn‘t release that album in that form at that time. I‘m sure it would have been huge… And I like the official release too, don‘t get me wrong. But, for example, I played an early version of this I love (with drums by Manta If I am not mistaken) and It‘s so much better, it‘s a real rocker, while the official version is more of a musical number. And I‘m like, wow, the production can really make or break a song. Again, I also like the maximising strategy of creating a bigger than life sound a la Queen, but most of the songs just sound way better stripped down. Man, I love the internet, ‚cause now I can appreciate even more Chinese democracy and can safety say that it‘s genius. I‘km just sorry for the music, because it will never reach a bigger audience. And there‘s something about these songs (the industrial/alternative/electronic sound) that reminded me of guns in their prime (Appetite for destruction), listening to this music, which again, is totally different, I felt again that danger and and eerie feeling that was absent in the USe your illusion era. What a pity really.