Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
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Artist: Guns N RosesBrand: Geffen
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Published: 1987
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Geffen Records
Product features:
- GUNS N' ROSES APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION
- Welcome To The Jungle
- It's So Easy
- Nightrain
- Out Ta Get Me
- Mr. Brownstone
- Paradise City
- My Michelle
- Think About You
- Sweet Child O' Mine
- You're Crazy
- Anything Goes
- Rocket Queen
Music reviews of Appetite for Destruction
Music Review: An undisputed classic
Rating: 5 Stars
Rock went though a bit of a low point in the mid-to-late 80s. Aerosmith had gone commercial, Roth had left Van Halen, and it was not an era of the Rolling Stones, Ozzy, or Motley Crue's best work. In `86/'87, the most popular up-and-coming rock bands in the mainstream were Bon Jovi and Poison. In the mid-to-late 80s, rock really needed a shot in the arm.
In the summer of 1987 an album was released by a new band in LA. At the time of its release, no one could have guessed that it would one day be regarded as arguably the greatest hard-rock album of all-time. The day the album came out scores of people were not lined up to buy it. It didn't get a world premier broadcast. The day it was released, it was just another album among many. Outside people familiar with the Sunset Strip scene, no one had ever heard of Guns N' Roses. However, in just a few short months, all of this would change. With just one album, "Appetite for Destruction," (1987) Guns N' Roses quickly became the baddest, loudest, raunchiest band in the world.
"Appetite for Destruction" has sold over 15 million copies in the US alone since its release. Almost every song on the album is well-known to people who aren't even rock fans and over half the album's songs remain radio staples to this day. "Appetite for Destruction" was the rock n' roll bible for a generation of kids growing up during the Reagan and Bush I eras. And now, almost two decades later, one can still spot kids sporting a Gun N' Roses t-shirt. The success of Guns N' Roses "Greatest Hits," Velvet Revolver's "Contraband," (both 2004) and the fever pitch anticipation of the legendary forever upcoming "Chinese Democracy," is a testament to the legacy of Guns N' Roses and "Appetite for Destruction" in particular.
So what's so great about "Appetite for Destruction"? What separates "Appetite for Destruction" from a million other albums? Why is it held up on such a pedestal? Two reasons that immediately come to mind are (1) its authenticity and (2) its great, great songs.
In the annals of rock, there have been so many poseurs over the years. There have been so many people acting all dangerous and badass, but without the credentials to back it up. At the time of "Appetite for Destruction," an obvious offender that comes to mind is Bon Jovi. A generation later it was Bush. And then it was Limp Bizkit. When you watch a video by any of these bands, you'll notice that it's just a pose. Whether it is Jon Bon Jovi, or Gavin Rosdale, or Fred Durst, they're totally inauthentic. They all sing about being outsiders and misunderstood, but they're nothing but candy-asses, or in the case of Fred Durst, illiterate apes. What made Guns N' Roses so great is that they were real. They were genuinely a bunch of f@#k-ups, misfits, and societal outcasts. When you listen to "Appetite for Destruction" the songs strike the listener as genuine and lived in, which accounts for why the album has struck such a chord with generations of teens and will no doubt continue to do so in the years to come.
The most obvious answer for explaining the success "Appetite for Destruction" is of course, it has killer, killer songs. But what made these songs great exactly? The answer is "Appetite for Destruction" is the perfect blend of classic rock, punk, pop, and metal. The duel assault of Slash and Izzy Stradlin was a fiercer, more intense update of the classic styling of Keith Richard/Ron Wood and Joe Perry/Brad Whitford. While most guitarists from the 80s tried to emulate the hammer-on technique and rapid-fire tapping of Eddie Van Halen, lead guitarist Slash was a return to the blues based playing of yore. Slash, a huge Aerosmith fan, and Stradlin, a huge Stones fan, brought the classic styling of those bands into the GN'R sound. Bassist Duff McKagan, a native of Seattle and a player of that scene, brought an element of punk into GN'R's collective stew. Drummer Steven Adler, while not the most technically proficient drummer in the world, gave the songs on "Appetite" an extra kick. His drumming had real soul and helped give the songs their groove. While "Appetite for Destruction" can be labeled "hard rock," or "metal," the songs had an undeniable pop-sensibility, but without loosing its balls-to-the-walls metallic edge.
While the musicians of "Appetite for Destruction" no doubt erupted tremendous instrumental firepower and was a force to be reckoned with, it was lead singer W. Axl Rose that put the songs over the top. While the chronicles of rock are no doubt filled with countless legends, never before or since has their quite been a singer like Axl Rose. To his detractors he is a racist, homophonic, self-indulgent prima-donna. To his legions of loyal fans, however, he is more than just a singer or even legend. To the faithful, he is a tortured, messianic genius. Guns N' Roses music seethes with so much emotion; anger, fear, nihilism, loneliness, defiance, and insecurity. So much feeling can be felt though the blue-collar street poetry and singing of Axl Rose, it is no small wonder why fans still hungrily await for their hero's return, despite having been virtually MIA for the past decade and a half.
From the opening chords and siren wail of "Welcome to the Jungle," one is immediately swept into the drug and crime-ridden underbelly of LA's Sunset Strip, circa 1987.
The classic opening track epitomizes and is no doubt the most powerful song of the 1980s LA metal scene.
Duff McKagan shows his punk roots for the blistering "It's so Easy." Axl Rose is at his defiant prime. It's not just what he says, it's the way he says it. With his baritone angry growl, when he says "why don't you just, f!#k off!," you know he means business.
"Nightrain," a tribute to cheap wine by that name, demonstrates to the listener, just what life is like at the edge, with nothing left to lose. I've listened to Slash's blistering, over-the-top solo towards the end of that song a million times, and I never tire of hearing it.
A timeless theme in rock n' roll is defiance. So many songs have been written which tell of its protagonist's plea to be free from persecution. But never has anyone sounded more genuine in this belief than Axl Rose in the Sex Pistols meets Aerosmith appeal "Out Ta Get Me."
Adler shines with his groove-laden intro in the ode to heroin "Mr. Brownstone." The choruses of "I used to do a little..." is so infectious, it's hard to forget once you've heard it only once.
Rose tells of his sickness of the harsh world and desire to find peace in the arena-rocking anthem "Paradise City," a definitive rock classic of the 1980s.
Rose sounds course and harsh, yet equally sensitive in the sweltering "My Michelle."
The elegant but rocking "Think about you" is probably the most underrated song on "Appetite for Destruction." The first of two ballads, it is no doubt overshadowed by the song that follows.
Rose completely lets his guard down for the sensitive "Sweet Child O' Mine." More than just another generic love song, it's a song about finding true love, solace and peace, in a world and society gone mad. Slash's classic intro and stunning solo remain some of the most memorable guitar work ever, in the rock genre.
The okay-but-not-great lighting fast "You're Crazy" and the obligatory ode to sex "Anything Goes" are the only songs I often skip over when I listen to AFD. They're not bad, they're better than most songs of its type, it just that they pale in comparison to the rest of the album.
GN'R saved one of the best for last with the Zeppelin like "Rocket Queen." With its killer groove, monster solos, intense rhythm section, and insolent, cocky, but ultimately sensitive delivery, "Rocket Queen" sums up all of "Appetites" qualities in one foul swoop.
While I am a big fan of Guns N' Roses entire catalogue and love the artistic epics on the "Use Your Illusion" (1991) albums, for a no-holds-bar, kick-ass, rock album, I always turn to "Appetite for Destruction" to deliver. Along with Nirvana's "Nevermind," (1991) the Doors self-titled debut album, (1967) The Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Are You Experienced," (1967) Led Zeppelin's "Zoso," (1971) and Jane's Addiction "Nothing Shocking (1988), "Appetite for Destruction" it is one of the finest hard-rock recordings of all-time.
Description of Appetite for Destruction
Contains a voucher enabling the purchaser to download MP3 versions of the songs within. Tracks, Welcome To The Jungle; It's So Easy (Explicit); Nightrain (Explicit); Out Ta Get Me (Explicit); Mr. Brownstone (Explicit); Paradise City; My Michelle (Explicit); Think About You (Explicit); Sweet Child O'Mine; You're Crazy (Explicit); Anything Goes (Explicit) and Rocket Queen (Explicit). Universal. 2008.A glimpse of the future, and not because of its huge influence and umpteen million sales. The poor-little-rich-boy protest "Out ta Get Me" intimates that Axl Rose's egotism and martyr complex were soon to grow bigger than his head; still, Appetite's night-train wreck of punk and metal sounds and sensibilities make it more than just an emblem of its time. Whether GN'R are dancing with Mr. Brownstone, penning a callow kiss-off letter to some chick named Michelle, or passing out on somebody else's sofa, this was and remains a savage journey to the heart of the American--or at least the Hollywood--dream. --Rickey Wright
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