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Guns N' Roses, McCartney albums are on Myspace

by Egan Orion  on Nov 21, 2008
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"Fatso. Skinny legs. Four-eyes. Touchy words can be best left unsaid or sometimes very amusing to bring up. In any case everybody has a deep inner flame that is like a ticking time bomb, waiting to ..."
By richardszabo
 
Godot arrives
Social networking website Myspace will be hosting the debuts of ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney's and Guns N' Roses' latest music albums from today.

Guns N' Roses' album Chinese Democracy has taken the poodle rock band more than a decade to produce, lead singer Axel Rose has fired every other original band member over the years, and the MAFIAA music labels have thrown millions of dollars at the long hangfire effort that they might eventually recoup only if the album goes multi-platinum like a rocket.

Copies of the new opus will appear in Best Buy stores in the US on November 23rd.

McCartney's project group The Firemen is launching its latest album, Electric Arguments, which will be released in stores on November 25th.

Myspace users will be able to listen to tunes from the two albums online before they appear on ecommerce sites like Amazon and in high street shops, but the music reportedly won't be available for download. Instead, punters will be able to order the ex Beatle's offering online at Myspace Music, but not Mr Rose's.

The Big Music MAFIAA that owns Myspace Music – Sony Music, Vivendi's Universal Music, and Warner Music – and the record labels releasing these albums, apparently don't realise that a lot of today's yoofs already have music hijacking software that can save anything and everything that crosses their computer systems.

Most of the tracks on the very long-awaited Chinese Democracy have already appeared as bootleg copies, including on the Internet. µ

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richardszabo
Dec 2, 2008 9:20 PM
 Fatso. Skinny legs. Four-eyes. Touchy words can be best left unsaid or sometimes very amusing to bring up. In any case everybody has a deep inner flame that is like a ticking time bomb, waiting to explode.

Today if you asked China’s ruling Communist Party what its most touchy word is, it would probably reply “Chinese Democracy” - the title of Guns N’ Roses’ long-awaited and controversial new album.

Days after its release Chinese state-run media published articles, accusing the band of “viciously attacking” China. Chinese bloggers responded to these articles with highly nationalistic overtones, similar to that seen when protests shrouded the Beijing Olympic Torch relay. Comments such as “bull,” “despicable” and “American trash” could be seen. Some even went so far as to criticise Westerners for their obsession with “sex, drugs, and violence.”

But let’s not forget the true intention behind the song was not to be hostile in the slightest. Anyone who has seen the music video and knows their history is likely to say that it blends footage of the Iraqi war, Tiananmen Square protests and some Falun Gong exercisers, to give hope that one day there may be a true democracy in China with more personal freedoms.

Why is the Chinese leadership so touchy about this song then? Part of the answer lies in the 17-year delay in the song’s release. Nowadays few young Chinese deeply understand both sides of the highly propagandised 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre events. Many of them also feel uncertain over the potential success of a Chinese democracy, even though many will admit they felt intrigued and even a bit excited about the US presidential debate.

China’s biggest sore point, however, was the reference to the state’s arbitrary detention and relentless thumping of exercisers practicing Falun Gong, a banned and suppressed spiritual practice resembling tai chi or yoga, based on truth, compassion and tolerance. “You [i.e. the Chinese leadership] think you got it all locked up inside, and if you beat them all up they’ll die,” the lyrics read.

Despite this, it seems that more Chinese are mustering the courage to openly criticise bungles and corruption at the hands of their own government officials. A couple of bloggers urged others to be more “open-minded” and conceded that both the Chinese government and its people are “indeed imperfect.”

Perhaps I am a bit of an idealist in how I try hard not to lose hope that people will be able to overcome their touchy side, admit people have faults and, in turn, become more accepting of others.


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