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Chinese Democracy Survivor - Round 1


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Vote for your LEAST FAVORITE CD song to be evicted   

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  1. 1. Vote for your LEAST FAVORITE CD song to be evicted

    • Chinese Democracy
      1
    • Shackler's Revenge
      6
    • Better
      0
    • Street of Dreams
      1
    • If the World
      31
    • There Was a Time
      1
    • Catcher in the Rye
      2
    • Scraped
      80
    • Riad N' the Bedouins
      48
    • Sorry
      1
    • I.R.S.
      6
    • Madagascar
      0
    • This I Love
      7
    • Prostitute
      3

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  • Poll closed on 04/19/2022 at 06:00 AM

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Don't you try to stop us now !

Scraped is the only easy choice for me, all other rounds will be tough. And I agree with the others that the drum intro that Frank played at the 2009-2010 show should have been on the album as well.
Scraped was performed once in 2011, but I don't think there is a recording?

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51 minutes ago, Dean said:

I love that my opinions on a record by a band has merited this response from what I assume is a grown adult. Thanks for that! 

I think it was almost inevitable that this album be the most contentious. I love all of it bar the three I mentioned above. Maybe not in the same way as OG band stuff but I'm still a fan.

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46 minutes ago, BangoSkank said:

THIS I LOVE - This is the only song Axl has released that I actively do not like. Finck's solo rules, but holy God, the lyrics sound like a heartbroken 13 year old attempting poetry. 

I feel the same. But I voted for Scraped because I really love Robin's solo. 

And I love Riad. I know people will vote it out next round, but to me it's on the top 5 (it was on top 3, but I didn't like the changes on the final album version). 

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Not a huge fan of "Scraped", but at the very least I remember it. "Riad N' the Bedouins" never really made an impression on me. Additionally, the song is unique to me in that it's one of the few that I feel was substantially better in its earlier forms. Unlike many here, I actually like most of the "layers" added to Chinese Democracy over time (with a few exceptions), but all the changes on this song just make it even more of a slog. In earlier forms, it still does not leave much of an impression, but at least has a potency and urgency missing in the studio version. Also, I liked Robin's (?) janky solo on the older versions much more than Bumblefoot's additions. 

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I knew Riad, Scraped and If the World would have the early lead! It's funny cause I agree with the first 2, but always really liked If the World - it's like Axl's attempt at a Bond theme song. 

Riad is such an oddity in the GNR catalog, the early leaks made it sound so enticing, and the amped-up bass version on the Village CD's is actually pretty good ... but this poll is about the Chinese Democracy album itself, and there are 2 clear and obvious options here:

1. Scraped (my vote)

2. Riad & the Bedouins

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13 hours ago, BangoSkank said:

THIS I LOVE - This is the only song Axl has released that I actively do not like. Finck's solo rules, but holy God, the lyrics sound like a heartbroken 13 year old attempting poetry. 

 

Yea, the instrumental is great but the lyrics are just bad. It deserves to go after Scraped and Rhiad.

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15 hours ago, Gordon Comstock said:

 

Yea, the instrumental is great but the lyrics are just bad. It deserves to go after Scraped and Rhiad.

Agreed. I do think Axl sounded great on it when they did it live in 2010, but the lyrics are horrible.

 

And then there was DJ doing the solo.

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