While the majority of people may agree with this i think it seems to prove the theory right rather than wrong.

As a "die hard" G n R fan i'm still undecided as to wethere CD of AFD is my fav, but..

As a "die Hard" U2 fan, myself and many other die hard fans, whilst enjoying the joshua tree and actung baby, prefer the unforgettable fire and War. Where as all "casual" fans all prefer the Joshua tree and actung baby.

As a die hard stone's fan i can categorically inform you that the majority of die hard stones fans prefer Beggar's Banquet, Sticky Fingers, Goats Head Soup and even Voodoo Lounge to the "casusual fan" favourite "exile on Main Street".

As a "casual" radiohead fan i do prefer the bends, my friend matt is obsessed with them and prefers Pablo Honey, he's about as die hard as you get.

His other obsession is Pearl Jam, wose album Bianural (or something like that, is his fav. I am a casual fan, who likes ten.

All die hard beatles fan's think of "Sgt Peppers" as weird tosh, and will site Revolver as the greatest album.

I am a die hard Metallica fan and I, along with many others would site Master of Puppets as their best work. Discussions with other die hard metallica fans produce arguments around wether "MOP" "ride the lightening" or "And justice for all" is their greatest work, and it is generally only casual fans who side Metallica (or the black album).

As for Nirvana, no die hard fan woould site nevermind in the top 2 albums, personally i dislike in utero, but that is the die hard fans favourite.

The best album is a matter of opinion, but you seem to have listed the albums by top bands which the casual fans who don't for part of their die hard fanbase like best as an argument against a point which it sorely misses.

Indeed. It has been a long long time since Kerrang was worth the fee.

There are some terrible review, Kerrang gave it 2 K's and gave Linkin bloody park live at milton bloody keynes 4 k's. It was just plain wrong.

The problem is axl's not given an interview in so long everyone believes the crap spouted by Slash. There was a great quote from weiland once he left VR. He said (and i paraphrase as i don't have the magazine with the interview here with me) "There was nearly a huge row in the press between me and axl that aros ecos one of the band (VR) had seen him and said he'd been slagging me off. I know now it's not true and having spent 5 and a half years in a band with these guys my opinion of axl has changed, I used to think it was him that broke up GNR but io don't believe that anymore".

A lot of my friends have really taken a dislike to the album, claiming that the music has no feeling or soul in it. All of which is complete tosh. Some of Finck and Thals guitar work is as soulful, if not more so, than the slash and izzy stuff. Granted the Solo's don't match up to slash, but who's do? guitar players that good are few and far between. There is still some excellent guitar work on chinese democracy, and as Slash himself said (and again I paraphrase) "Hearing Axl's voice on record after so long is great, he's still got the best voice in rock".

To me the Album itself is pure brilliance, It's the perfect mix of ballads, old school rock and newer influence thrown in to boot. It Gripps go by the ears from the balls riff which comes in over the weird build up in the title track rocks through Shalcklers Revenge, Elevates your emotions with Better then turns your world upside with Street of dreams, It starts to build back up with if the world and there was a time then he unleashed Catcher... Fast becoming my favorite gnr song ever. The segwar of Ctacher to Scraped to Riad could not be any better, solo to fast building, using musical progressions to link to the previous songs and then "sorry". Comes out of no-where, some venomous lines spat out in a way reminicent of Dylans idiot Wind on Blood on the tracks., IRS is just a sheer masterpeice which builds you up to a frenzy, At which point MADAGASCAR Brings you back down to earth and hits you with questions of humanity and the things that have gone before. This is followed up by this i love. A definate candidate for the greatest ballad of all time. And the icing on the cake is prostitue. What a closer that one is. It manages in one song to recap the emotions and sentiments of the 13 songs you've just hard and leave you at the same time completly satisfied but still eager for more.