Guns N’ Roses are finally going to release Chinese Democracy

Yup, it’s apparently true. On November 23, 2008, Guns N’ Roses will release Chinese Democracy in Best Buy stores across the US. There is no mention on wether Best Buy stores in Canada will also be selling the album. And the rest of the world will have to wait on news on how they can get hold of the album without resorting to illegal downloads or buying copies off eBay. (Yeah expect a lot of sales on eBay as Americans try to make a few extra bucks by selling copies of the CD.)

To say that Chinese Democracy is long-awaited would be an understatement. I personally never thought it would actually get a release, and I still have my doubts. Right now as a I look out of my window I’m expecting a herd of pigs to fly by… The last GN’R studio album was Use Your Illusion, released way back in 1991. So that’s 17 years. During those 17 years the Guns N’ Roses line-up that everybody new and liked has broken up, and now basically all that is left is Axl Rose and a posse of new friends. GN’R aren’t really GN’R without Slash, Izzy Stradlin and Duff McKagan in tow.

Chinese Democracy will no doubt fly off the shelves, at least in the first week, but I have my doubts about how good the record will be. It seems like Axl Rose’s strategy was to lock himself away for a very long time trying to craft Chinese Democracy into a brilliant album, a classic. But I doubt it’ll even come close to touching the real classic GN’R album, Appetite For Destruction.

Brian, the editor