Chinese Democracy Survivor - Round 1

[History2010]

HOW IT WORKS: Each round, you vote for your LEAST FAVORITE of the options. The option with the most votes gets eliminated in the next round, and so on, until only one song remains.

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[SoulMonster]

IF THE WORLD!!!

[jacdaniel]

So many options to choose from here but I'll have to go with This I Love. 

Cringeworthy song and I remember some fans wanted it released as a single and be in the twilight movies...

[Mendez]

Scraped bc of Axl, not bc the instrumental

[LlamaRenegade]

Easy first round. Bye bye Scraped

[SoundOfAGun]

Surprised myself! I thought it would be Shackler's Revenge but went with Rhiad because it is a car crash of a song.

[Atlas19]

Riad

[alfierose]

Just realised I'd forgotten Scraped, If the World and Riad are on this album because I just don't listen to these three. 

Scraped first.

[Alexmee239]

Now here it gets interesting!

[slash23579]

IRS for me. I dont dislike the song but it is definitely my least listened to song on the album

[jamillos]

Once we’re done, please let’s not forget about the outliers, singles etc., before we do some final face off or whatever. 
Sympathy, OMG, SOYL, the latest singles, I’d even include stuff like Heartbreak Hotel, Dead Flowers etc. 
(On the other hand, one that’d I’d definitely avoid would be making a poll about (or including them somewhere else) the Village tracks. As if we haven’t had enough of those lists...)
 

[Tom2112]

Now this album is gonna have some real tough choices first 3 or 4 will be straight forward for me though. Rhiad

[We love Axl Rose]

Scraped

[Free Bird]

Riad, than Scraped

[YOUCOULDBEMINE.]

Scraped. Although I did like the alternative intro the few times they played it live in 2010.

[Kardeshma]

54 minutes ago, Oldest Goat said:

Yeah agreed. Do an outliers poll comprised of:

Sympathy for the Devil

OMG

SoYL

Hard Skool

ABSURD

Heartbreak Hotel

Free Fallin'

Salt of the Earth

Dead Flowers

Sailing

I Feel Good

Wichita Lineman

Black Hole Sun

Dust in the Wind

It Tastes Good etc etc

And an AXL/DC poll.

 

P.S. Riad

Live Covers and demos should not be included, because non of these are offical releases. Some of the Songs you mentioned where not even Player by the whole Band.

 

But the 5 offical Songs, Sympathy,  shadow, OMG, absured and Hard skool should get Theorie own litten vote.

[janrichmond]

All of them 

Voted This I love

[GNRmello77]

I find Riad one of the ugliest songs in GN'R catalogue so yeah that's easy, I prefer scraped and ITW above it

[Dean]

Scraped. After it’s gone, I’ll struggle with the rest.

Riad is my jam at the minute. What a great fucking song that I never appreciated enough back in the day when all we had were the live performances.

I’ll throw this in here too - to my ears, Chinese Democracy is both Axl Rose and Guns N’ Roses at their very best. What a fucking album.

[Homefuck]

Loved the live versions of madagascar and street of Dreams (the blues) (from RIR I suppose) when I downloaded them from napster/limewire/whatever back in the day. The studio versions doesn't hold up. Still better than the majority of the songs on CD. Voted Riad.

[Free Bird]

19 minutes ago, Dean said:

Scraped. After it’s gone, I’ll struggle with the rest.

Riad is my jam at the minute. What a great fucking song that I never appreciated enough back in the day when all we had were the live performances.

I’ll throw this in here too - to my ears, Chinese Democracy is both Axl Rose and Guns N’ Roses at their very best. What a fucking album.

No wonder you fuckers vote like you vote. Your taste's terrible 

Riad... ... Chinese the very best GNR

Edited April 18, 2022 by Free Bird

[Spoon87]

28 minutes ago, Dean said:

 

Riad is my jam at the minute. What a great fucking song that I never appreciated enough back in the day when all we had were the live performances.

 

Same here, I went through a pretty long CD phase a few weeks ago and it was the first time I really got "Riad". What a kick ass song with such a punch. Back in the day I really disliked it.

I have to say, CD as a whole really grew on me over the years, I even enjoy stuff like the watered down "IRS" (compard to the first leak) or "If the world".

Anyway, I voted "Scraped". At first I really liked the kick ass and fuck off factor of it, but now I view it as kind of childish. I remember it being played before commercial breaks on a small German sports tv channel for a few weeks. That was basically all the promo the album got back then.

[martinb33]

Shackler's Revenge. Unbearable chorus.

[GNRfanMILO]

Has to be Scraped.

It wouldn't be my first choice if the song didn't have those cringy screams. The Frank drum intro from 2009-2010 should've been on the album.

[lilacmess]

Scraped.