And *I* don't care what anybody else says, Chinese Democracy was one of the most needlessly over-bashed albums albums ever released.
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But it didn't sound the same!!! Where's Paradise City 2!!! Where's the guy with the tophat!!!
If any other band had released the album exactly as it was, it would have been considered good, if not great. If it went to Avenged Sevenfold? "Omg what innovation in their sound did you hear that high note in There Was a Time?!" Rise Against? "Omg it's like a concept album!" It would have been a critic's darling.
But since everyone still wants to hear another Welcome to the Jungle, it gets bashed.