10 Hard Rock Albums That Are Hated By The Fans

One of the unspoken rules in show business is that you always want to leave your audience wanting more. Even if you try to leave it all on the stage or lay it down in the studio, it's a priority to keep your audience hanging on your every word, aching to hear the next thing you have to say. That might mean only releasing albums gradually, but making them wait too long results in stuff like Chinese Democracy.

For most GNR fans, you probably saw something like this coming, with Axl Rose starting this project all the way back in 1994 and not releasing it until 2008, now with a whole new incarnation of the band. Now that we don't have Slash or even Duff McKagan on the record, this feels like a glorified Axl solo project, with different guitar players on almost every track and songs that feel like they've been stitched together from different fragments.

Even though there are some great songs that are close to done here like the title track and This I Love, the majority of this record still feels half baked, especially when you hear Axl's voice, which sounds takes that were recorded decades apart. He may have just been trying to keep the Guns N Roses name alive in the minds of fans, but for most of us, the magic was lost the minute that Slash walked out the door.