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Chinese Democracy - Guns n Roses
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64 out of 100

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8.3 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 325 Ratings

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  • Summary: The long-gestating Guns N' Roses album finally sees the light of day.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 28
  3. Negative: 2 out of 28
  1. The Onion A.V. Club
    91
    Here are the simple things about Chinese Democracy: Three of the songs are astonishing. Four or five others are very good. The vocals are brilliantly recorded, and the guitar playing is (generally) more interesting than the guitar playing on the "Use Your Illusion" albums.
  2. PopMatters
    60
    Yet even if it defies expectations, Chinese Democracy is not the masterpiece that it so desperately wants to be.
  3. Prefix Magazine
    35
    Even if it came out in 1996, it would still be self-absorbed, turgid, over-produced and soulless.

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  1. Positive: 106 out of 126
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 126
  3. Negative: 11 out of 126
  1. NeilP
    10
    I feel 13 again, as if I've just heard rock and roll for the first time.
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  2. Don
    5
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  3. SamJ
    3
    There's only 2 songs on it which didn't make me consider breaking the radio, and they weren't all that good.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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