Bartender, I'd like two shots of drain cleaner please.

□ [Aien - "Silkworms"]

Well this is... uh...

The video was posted on Youtube on January 2, 2019.  It does sound more like an actual song, not like what we know it now.  The parts that are hard rock sound like an actual band, even if it's still not that interesting, but they're intertwined with soft synthesizer pieces that sound fine on their own.  The singer isn't great but not horrible and it's like he's actually singing for real, not just cramming a sound in and claiming that's singing.  There's more lyrics too.

Oh, you might be curious what the hell I'm talking about.  This was a cover of the then-little-known Guns'n'Roses song that's now called "Absurd."  The band seems to be Chinese - it's not clear - and they made an album called 10 Years of Democracy as well as a follow-up called Too Late For Democracy.

There are other videos on Youtube.  Right now I'm listening to "Madagascar."  The vocals are still annoying but it does sound more like an actual song.  I haven't been able to find any of the original "Silkworms" versions available on bootleg albums from the few times it was performed.  Did they cover the entire album?

I don't know how far I'm willing to go with this but I will definitely listen to "Catcher in the Rhye" next.

I have and I will have to say it's basically not any more interesting the actual version.  At this point, that's not a negative.  How the fuck does this exist?  Are these underground Chinese musicians speaking out to what they've heard from the land of the free?  Has the government just made some Axl clones?

"Shackler's Revenge" just sucks but that's where you can't blame the coverband, they didn't have anything to work with.  "This I Love" was about as tolerant as the original.

I'll give up after "There Was A Time."  It does sound too much like the original to be interesting on its own and despite being one of the better tracks on CD, the original wasn't that interesting on its own.  Nothing to compare with "Double Talkin' Jive" or "Night Train."

But now we live in a world where a cover band does something as interesting as Guns'n'fuckin'Roses.