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Guns n' Roses' massive debut album, the fierce hard-rocking Appetite For Destruction, tore into the U2 and Prince-dominated charts of 1987. But no story of Guns 'N Roses would be complete without mention of the controversies and problems which weave through the fabric of their career.
To put Chinese Democracy in some perspective: it arrives 17 years after the twin Use Your Illusion, the last set of original music by Guns N' Roses. Consider that 17 years prior to the Illusions, it was 1974, back before the Ramones and Sex Pistols, back before Aerosmith had Rocks and Toys in the Attic, back before Queen had A Night at the Opera -- back before almost anything that Axl Rose worships even existed. Generations have passed in these 17 years, but not for Axl. He cut himself off from the world following the trouble-ridden Use Your Illusion tour, retreating to the Hollywood Hills, swapping every original GNR member in favor of contract players culled from his mid-'90s musical obsessions -- Tommy Stinson from the Replacements, Robin Finck from Nine Inch Nails, Buckethead from guitar magazines -- as he turned into rock's Charles Foster Kane, a genius in self-imposed exile spending millions to make his own Xanadu, Chinese Democracy.
Condition:NEW. Marked upc
TRACK LISTINGS
Side A:
1 Chinese Democracy 4:43
2 Shackler's Revenge 3:36
3 Better 4:58
4 Street of Dreams 4:46
Side B:
5 If the World 4:54
6 There Was a Time 6:41
7 Catcher In the Rye 5:52
Side C:
8 Scraped 3:30
9 Riad N' the Bedouins 4:10
10 Sorry 6:14
11 I.R.S. 4:28
Side D:
12 Madagascar 5:37
13 This I Love 5:34
14 Prostitute 6:15
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