Anyone pumped about Chinese Democracy? I think it’s one of those albums I’ll probably buy because of the hype, listen to twice, and never really came back to again. Chuck Klosterman just reviewed it for the Onion. Most of the review is typical rock critic nonsense, but he manages to get off a couple of awesome lines. The opening:

Reviewing Chinese Democracy is not like reviewing music. It’s more like reviewing a unicorn.

And this hilarious description of Axl Rose’s vocal choice on one of the songs:

On the aforementioned “Sorry,” Rose suddenly sings an otherwise innocuous line (”But I don’t want to do it”) in some bizarre, quasi-Transylvanian accent, and I cannot begin to speculate as to why. I mean, one has to assume Axl thought about all of these individual choices a minimum of a thousand times over the past 15 years. Somewhere in Los Angles, there’s gotta be 400 hours of DAT tape with nothing on it except multiple versions of the “Sorry” vocal. So why is this the one we finally hear? What finally made him decide, “You know, I’ve weighed all my options and all their potential consequences, and I’m going with the Mexican vampire accent. This is the vision I will embrace. But only on that one line! The rest of it will just be sung like a non-dead human.”