New Guns N' Roses - "Better"

November 17, 2008

New Guns N' Roses - "Better" • It's got a release date, a cover, and ... a 4-star Rolling Stone review? Maybe it's better than what's leaked. Try "Better" at Q 104.3.

Posted at 10:22 AM
Tags: Guns N' Roses

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9 Comments

So Axl takes 15 years to cobble together a half-assed retread of Appetite for Destruction and GnR Lives, and RS still finds need to give him a cookie and a pat on the head?

Posted by: tmushett

at 11/17/08 10:41 AM | Reply
Score = 0

*GnR Lies, my bad

Posted by: tmushett

at 11/17/08 10:46 AM | Reply
Score = 0

From the first paragraph of the RS review:

"At times, it's the clenched-fist five that made 1987's perfect storm, Appetite for Destruction; more often, it's the one sprawled across the maxed-out CDs of 1991's Use Your Illusion I and II, but here compressed into a convulsive single disc of supershred guitars, orchestral fanfares, hip-hop electronics, metallic tabernacle choirs and Axl Rose's still-virile, rusted-siren singing."

Wow, that sounds totally awesome and not at all dated. A vacuum of relevance, that is.

Posted by: oh. at 11/17/08 11:04 AM | Reply
Score = 1

RS also gave "High School Musical 3" a one star review. Shows what those fuckers know.

Posted by: m at 11/17/08 12:05 PM | Reply
Score = 2

Not having heard of this album, the description makes it sound like Axl enlisted Limp Bizkit to help him make a record. I'll just treat this record like the last three Star Wars movies and pretend that it doesn't exist.
4 stars was probably the starting score that Rolling Stone gave to this. Giving GnR that high of score is a given for that washed up rag. Same goes for Springsteen and the Stones

Posted by: Rob at 11/17/08 12:17 PM | Reply
Score = 2

don't you dare say that about the boss

Posted by: grover in reply to Rob's comment at 11/17/08 8:10 PM | Reply
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have any of the idiots on here leaving negative comments even heard the album? If you had, youd know it was nothing short of awesome.

Posted by: joe eggers at 11/17/08 4:51 PM | Reply
Score = -3

Having not heard the album, all I can say is that this review is a sprawling mess. Maybe Fricke didn't have an editor, or was building an homage to Axl's opus?

I _do_ have a morbid curiosity about this album, though.

Posted by: Cory Banks at 11/17/08 5:59 PM | Reply
Score = -1

Listen to the fucking thing, then talk. You can love it or hate it, but you can't deny it's an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink work of an utterly singular voice.

Posted by: Bo Jackson Jr Sr at 11/23/08 3:04 AM | Reply
Score = 0