What songs shouldn't have made the cut?

[WilliamAlanBailey]

So I finally had a chance to hear what is close to presumably the final version... I've been a rabid fan like most of us for a long time, but I still see that not all the songs are exactly worth the 13 year wait....  If I was Axl I would have released the album with quite a few less songs:

1 Better
2 The Blues (refuse to call it street of dreams)
3 There was a time
4. Catcher in the Rye
5 Scraped
6 Rhiad and the Bedouins
7 Madagascar
8 This I love
9 Prostitute

Guess it couldn't be called 'Chinese Democracy' though.   If you were Axl what would the track list be?

[Ruiner]

I wanted to hear a finished silkworms

[guns_n_motley]

Nothing....theres not a bad song on this album....some weaker than others, yes...but not a song that I would skip..

[Vorail]

this i love should be taken off the album,shit on and flushed down the toilet,never to be heard again

and the old version of citr should replace the new muddled overdone version

Sheesh, take it easy man, its not that bad. Its pretty good in my opinion.

In my opinion, I like the album the way it is.

[deadxsouth]

me too

sorry
i have a very strong opinion regarding that song

Funny
I have a very strong opinion regarding sorry...

[Vorail]

me too

sorry
i have a very strong opinion regarding that song

It's cool. I like it because lyrically it reminds me of many important people in my life, some of who aren't with me any longer, I think that its one of the songs that half will love it, and half will have a deep burning hatred for it! lol.

[cpaxlvacy]

Sahcklers Revenge in my opinion is a mess, the worst song...i would love to hear Silkworms.

[jamarketing02]

I'm glad this thread was started.  First off, let me say that this isn't BASHING, BEING NEGATIVE, HATING, on anyyy of the material.  I'm a diehard and it's a non-biased, constructive criticism kinda thing.
My biggest dissapointment is and will be CITR.

That song from 99' was AMAZING.  08' Version, AVERAGE at best.  Way to many guitars and overproduced.  
If the World is an obvious filler and This I Love IS NOT AMAZING like some people believe.  Is it good?, Sure, just not GREAT.
Chinese Democracy, THE BLUES, Prostitute, IRS, Better...all great.
If i had to rate i would def say 4 or 4 1/2 out of 5.

Again, biggest dissapointments are CITR and If the World.

[MrB]

Rhiad
Shackler's Revenge
Catcher In The Rye

I also would have cut the shredding solos.

[bucketheader]

replace Rhiad with OMG (the redone one. Mr Fortus we're looking at you!)
replace If The World with Silkworms.

and for god sake replace the overproduced TWAT with the old 2002ish one. The one that had thundering piano, none of this church crap.

oh and agree about CITR too.

[deadxsouth]

Rhiad
Shackler's Revenge
Catcher In The Rye

I also would have cut the shredding solos.

I would have  cut all of Ron's solo's....

[BarryTheBastard]

Love Rons sleazy rhythm , not keen on the arcade noises though

[dave-gnfnr2k]

TWAT was better before Ron Touched it.
Ron and robin butcher the CITR solos, not sure why he didnt just use the leaked version just the clean version
I think this i love is great,not sure why people dont like that track.
Chinese went from being a GREAT album (the leaked version of the songs) to a very good album.

[rds.06]

Not keen on If The World from the old leaks I heard. Ill be able to tell more next Friday  .