Guns 'n' Roses: Chinese Democracy

This album took 15 years, 12 band members, 6 musical guests and THIRTY-EIGHT recording engineers to complete. Maybe this is why every component of every song sounds like it was recorded by a person sitting alone in front of a computer.

After listening to the album a few times, I'm pretty sure I can break down the decade-and-a-half Chinese Democracy recording process into four distinct phases: