I feel I have to write in response to Una Mullally's review of the new Guns 'n' Roses album. Great rock music is timeless. Thus it shouldn't matter whether or not an album was due 10 years ago but only released this year. That is why, for example, Appetite is a timeless classic as much as Led Zeppelin 4. One of the main attractions of hard rock music is that it does not try to sound fashionable.

The new album is good, there are six or seven very good tracks, and 'Madagascar' will doubtless become the 'November Rain' of 2009.

Una forgets that those of us who buy this album are in our 30s or 40s and couldn't care less whether it is overdue or unfashionable, just as long as it is good. Una seems more keen to berate Axl over proscrastination than objectively reviewing the album. A bipolar perfectionist may be an easy target, but who cares? This is a great hard rock album. It's as simple as that. Everything else is incidental.

Kevin Goulding,

Blackrock,

Co Dublin.