Appetite For Destruction

Dont like guns and roses

La maggiore opera del gruppo e un disco di riferimento nella storia dell'hard rock (contiene le 3 hit del gruppo "Welcome to the Jungle", "Paradise City" e "Sweet Child O' Mine"), ma per gusto personale non gli posso dare più di 3 stelle: troppo americano.

3.8

It would she's been wild to be at the tour for this album . Nasty rock!

Cool for two weeks when I was 14.

É talvez um 3.5 ou com jeitinho um 4 só pelos class clássicos, mas está um bocadinho gasto para mim

felt 60 years old listening to this

Some rockers, some ham fisted clunkers, GnR were definitely a thing though. Three and a half.

It’s not bad, I like it. But I do not love it, and I do think it is a bit overrated

welcommeeee to the jungleeeeee

Kinda full of bangers

I enjoyed this

It was fine

Banging tracks really.

I acknowledge the impact of this album, but I've just never enjoyed Axl's voice.

The classics are great, the other ones a bit less so.

Undeniable how classic the hits are, albeit overplayed. Somehow one of those albums that I'd heard 5 tracks a billion times but not sure if I've ever heard it all of the way through. Like much of this brand of music, the misogyny is on a high tier, and in this modern world, it thankfully sounds dated and inappropriate as song content. That definitely brings it down to a 3.

Cool album. i really do love classic rock but guns n’ roses isnt my favorite so far. i would say 3/5.

Never listened to this album before. The hits really do hit but man, there's some gross tracks on here. I've got a better appreciation for Duffs bass playing now though!

Twelve year old me loved this album back in the day. Now that I’m approaching fifty, I can take it or leave it. Axl Rose’s screeching vocals do get irritating over the course of the album. That being said, “Paradise City” and “Welcome To The Jungle” are both great songs.

3 good songs

Классика, что скажешь

can be fun

I listened to majority of the album, I enjoyed every single song so far! I will definitely listen to it again. I felt like by the end of each song, the energy transferred onto the next song? it’s a lovely, exciting album. I will gate-keep it :p jk, I would recommend it to someone who is new to metal/rock music, like myself.

its good

Great hits, rest was decent

A classic hard rock album from Guns N' Roses. Very catchy and has some pretty strong hooks, and plenty of iconic moments. An extremely conventional and commercial type of music but still quite enjoyable. It's a very entertaining listen, even with some misses it still keeps attention. It's more interesting than most other commercial hard rock albums from this era. It is extremely unadventurous though and many of the songs are not particularly special. Still though this album has a good energy and there is some very solid instrumentation. Slash is a pretty good guitarist and has some solid riffing and fairly impressive solos that give this album it's sound. This album has incredible amount of staying power, still being rather relevant to this day. Axl Rose's voice can get very annoying at points though and the vocals don't really add much of anything to this. My favorite song here is probably Nightrain.

Not for me, but I get it.

Rock de toda la vida

Nicht so mein geschmack

3.4 3x fun album

Used to have this on tape back as a kid. Been a long time since I listened. The singles are standouts, the rest standard 80s hard rock to my ears. Could have dropped a couple of tracks easily. 3.5 rounded down Heard before? Yes Owned: Yes: 70/280 (25%) Will I get: Already have

Overall an enjoyable & easy listen. Favorite track was Mr. Brownstone. It's an influential and very well-made album, but it's hard not to cringe at how 80's it is!

If this was my first time listening, I’d easily give it 4 stars. But I’ve heard these songs a million times…they are so overplayed. So I’m giving it a 3 but I don’t know if that makes sense haha

Never listen to this music but still three songs i know a Vladivostok classic

It’s like Motley Crew trying to be Aerosmith or AC/DC and trying to look really hard and dangerous but failing at that.

Hard to know how to rate a kind of same-y album of a genre you don't love that also features one of the best songs ever written ...

Guns N' Roses wrote 'Welcome to the Jungle' and then tried to do it again 11 times more on the same album without anyone noticing. Fortunately for them, it was a banger of a song and hard to make unlistenable. Unfortunately for them, by the time the first song is over, you've heard everything this album has to offer.

Gut

The big songs from this album are classics for a reason, but again I’m running into the ‘all the songs kind of sound the same’ wall.

This was a good one for the most part. The hits hit the hardest, but I was surprised how different the non hit songs were from the singles. Not that they were totally different, but a lot of this album feels like filler between masterpieces.

Something I've learned about myself through this process - I'm fine with sex talk in music (see Prince), but really don't like misogynistic lyrics. Certainly some rock 'n roll classics here, most of them overplayed, if you ask me, but I can't look past the misogyny.

I liked the songs I already knew, but didn't love the songs I hadn't already heard.

Too insanely overplayed for me to really enjoy it beyond having a basic level of respect for it at this point.

Its rock, its metal, its pop and its camp as Christmas.

Some of their biggest hits

Some memorable songs and some weak songs.

Lo escuché por partes

legalzinho

I want to respect it but atp I hear some songs and they’re just too overplayed for me… anyways the first song reminds me of the time I went on a pub crawl with some friends and we ended up at this arcade bar and we went down these dark stairs which led to a door that had a sign that was like “welcome to the jungle” and we went in and there was like at least 30 middle aged guys who just stared… idk what that was all about but it was a tad creepy lol

When you first hear Guns and Roses, it sounds like a series of impersonations. Axl does his best Robert Plant in “Welcome to the Jungle”. Duff channels Ozzy in “It's So Easy”. Slash brings Jimmy Page, AC/DC and others into his guitar styles. But, all of these influences blended together have sort of become the GnR sound. Full disclosure: I'm not a big GnR fan. I used to make fun of the over-the-top cheesiness of their songs (and videos, looking at you “November Rain”). I never took them fully seriously. I mean, they're one of the main offenders of hair rock. But to be completely fair to them, they can write some great songs, and obviously Slash is a class guitarist. “Welcome to the Jungle” is a great song. The intro does such a good job at building anticipation. And then straight into that fantastic riff. Let's just brush past the gall of Axl’s Robert Plant impersonation, and all of his “sha-na-na-na-na-na-na knees knees”. The breakdown in the middle of the song, building back up to the main riff is genuinely really great stuff. While Jungle still sounds quite Zeppelin, “Paradise City” is where that GnR sound starts coming out. The lyrics are cheesy and cringe as hell, but the chorus is seriously catchy. To be utterly predictable, “Sweet Child” is the third standout track on “Appetite for Destruction”. Sure it's become a trope. You can just imagine Fintan the accountant at his office Xmas party, rolling up his sleeves to show off his air guitar skills. But let's get past that. The riff is iconic for a reason and the song, underneath the parody it's become of itself, is genuinely good. The rest of the songs on the album act as filler to these three hits and, on the whole, they're pretty dull. I could happily live the rest of my life knowing I wouldn't have to listen to them again. But those three big-hitters are a different story. They’ve been so overplayed, so parodied, so absorbed into the world of “Fintan at the Christmas party” that it feels embarrassing to admit they’re good. But they are.

Highlights: Welcome to the Jungle, Nightrain, Paradise City, Sweet Child O’ Mine, You’re Crazy

Best Song: Paradise City. If more of the GnR oeuvre had the same insane, frenetic energy as the last two minutes of this song, they'd have been a much better band. Worst Song: It's So Easy. You can really perceive how edgy they felt by adding "fuck" into the lyrics. Overall: The hits are gargantuan cultural staples but I've never much of the rest, which gives the whole album an uneven balance when listening to it 40 years later. That said, the middling tracks do have a characteristic "Guns N' Roses" quality that is in a way refreshing; this is a band that always lets you know who they are. The album is fine to listen to on a lark, but it feels dated in the way that a lot of old hip-hop is dated. I appreciate them for what they contributed to rock, but they've since been far surpassed by those they influenced. Also, like Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", I think I would be fine with never hearing "Sweet Child O' Mine" ever again.

A few great songs, and several mediocre ones

i like paradise city and sweet child o' mine

This is one of those big albums. It's hard not knowing some of these songs, it's so classic even if you hate it, you probably kind of like it. At least, that's how I feel about the album's opener, so I came into this with an open mind. We know the songs we know, all the singles and the radio-play classics. There's a couple of songs I hadn't heard before, and they weren't a chore to get through. Listening to this as an experience, Slash is probably the main reason for this band's constant success, though the lyrics and vocals do have a classic timelessness to them. It's definitely a must-listen record, but I wouldn't buy it. It's got too many cringe moments for me to play it regularly. 3.3/5

A guitar hero amount of points for you Slash

Okkkk we got some classic rock. GNR definitely followed/updated the glam metal/rock template to a T. Probably a bit too much because they all sound the same. I think there's a reason why the two songs here are overplayed.

Needs more cowbell!

L’album è bello, ci sono delle perle come paradise city, sweet child of mine e welcome to the jungle che meriterebbe solo per loro 5 stelle, ma il resto delle canzoni, sempre sullo stesso ritmo e sugli urli, dopo un po strazia le orecchie e finiva per annoiarmi un po

non il mio genere ma album che bisogna conoscere, spero un giorno di apprezzarlo di più

È chiaramente un sound che hanno fatto assolutamente proprio. Non il loro miglior disco assolutamente. Non ha grandi cambi di ritmo e di tono in termini musicali. Sicuramente c'è varietà dal punto di vista narrativo, ma un rock così forte la fa passare in secondo piano. Si perde l'eterogeneità lirica e rimane solo un ritmo costante.

The hits are great. Hits for a reason. The rest was to me more grating and meh. Not a fan of Axl’s voice. Slash makes this record for me. 3.5/5

album mid, i guns non sono nulla di che e la voce di Axl rose è fastidiosa

High highs, but the rest is same-y and not my vibe

es un álbum que rompe con el estilo de música que siempre escucho, por lo cual fue difícil acostumbrarme a todo lo que fue el sonido, instrumental y letras fuertes. Sin embargo me gustó, lo considero un buen disco, que a mí, personalmente, no me voló la cabeza, pero entiendo la adoración que se puede tener por el. Welcome to the Jungle (4:31) me gusto mucho el instrumental, muy power i like ittttt 8.8/10 maybe playlist It's So Easy (3:21) buena pero me aburrio un toque je 7.5/10 Nightrain (4:26) no es muy mi estilo pero estuvo buena, maybe playlist 8/10 Out ta Get Me (4:20) me agrado bastante, maybe playlist 8.3/10 Mr. Brownstone (3:46) eee nose esta buena 8/10 Paradise City (6:46) me gusto m,e gusto 8.4/10 My Michelle (3:39) eeeeee 8/10 Think About You (3:50) me gusto playlist 8.5/10 Sweet Child o' Mine (5:55) god 8.8/10 You're Crazy (3:16) npc pero buena cancion 7.5/10 Anything Goes (3:25) ñe 7/10 no es mi estilo Rocket Queen (6:13) 6/10

Отакої))) Та всеодно не дуже вонимені заходять)

Guns ‘n’ Roses. Guns ‘n’ fuckin’ Roses. G’ ‘n’ f’ ‘n’ R’ ….. This band frustrate the shit out of me. They are the dangerous band that it’s safe for normal people to like. They are the band that people who don’t listen to rock music think are a good rock band. They are the favourite band of people who like to bust loose and listen to Planet Rock instead of Radio 2 on the Friday night drive home. A band who has had a decades long career based on three great songs and two-and-half albums of filler. One of my friends who is not a rock fan watched their Glasto headline set from a few years ago and said they were “sporadically brilliant”. I guessed it was Paradise City, Sweet Child O’ Mine and Welcome to the Jungle where the brilliance lay, and he somewhat sheepishly admitted I was correct. Ok, the album - well, it has those three great tracks but the rest is just ok, no better or worse. It’s fine, but despite having owned a copy of this album for nearly forty years, I have listened to it a handful of times.

Yes these are some of the most overplayed songs of all time and they’re glorified cock rock, but they’re undeniably masterfully written and represent the logical culmination of 80s heavy metal. Still, I prefer Chinese Democracy. Fight me.

Now that's some *premium* boomer rock!! 🔥🔥 Even if my first reflex is to hate it, some songs have a secret sauce that I can't help but rock out to....... Standouts: My Michelle • Sweet Child O' Mine • Anything Goes

jak miałam 12 lat to dostałam od świętego Mikołaja dyskografię Guns'n'Roses, i "Appetite for destruction" było przez dłuższy czas moją ulubioną płytą... aż do czasu poznania nowej obsesji tamtych lat, tzn. Nirvany. Znienawidziłam G'n'R bo, jak przeczytałam w jednej z niezliczonych biografii Kurta, Axl go obrażał i zwyzywał. Moja pierwsza dziewczyna kochała Axla, czym specjalnie wzbudzała moją zazdrość. Ten ogromny ładunek emocjonalny znacząco może wpłynąć na moją opinię o tym albumie

Some classic rock tracks here but a couple stinkers here as well. Axl is a dweeb and some vocal effects applied are lame. 3

The hits are ok but the rest is so corny. Everything they do Judas Priest did so much better. 2.9/5

First tape I bought myself with my own money! I was 10 or 11. It was good then and it’s good now! Do you know where you are? In the jungle baby!

An sich überhaupt nicht meine Musik. Aber hat irgendwie ganz gut zu meiner Stimmung gepasst. Montag genervt auf der Arbeit, wenn alles mal wieder schief läuft und man eigentlich nur sauer ist! Hab’s nicht ganz gehört…

Some absolute bangers, some very much not

not a big fan of the lyricism, but i loved the 2 opening tracks, paradise city and sweet child o' mine

I like a couple songs off this album, but it is mostly not for me.

Have never listened to GNR album before but some of the songs are memoranle. Favourite tracks Welcome to the Jungle, Mr Brownstone and Sweet Child o Mine.

Zoals

Better than I expected but not my type I can listen to for so many songs back to back

Unironically good until Axl Rose’s “cat’s tail being stepped on” vocals kick in, every single time. Except when he wails, he’s rather good at that.

Overall, I thought Appetite for Destruction was okay. I can see the appeal, as Axl Rose's falsetto scream works pretty well in "Welcome to the Jungle" but is grating in everything else. Honestly, listening to this album in one sitting is simply not the way to do it: most of the tracks blend together into a shout-and-power-chord slurry. It turns out that I'm a certified Guns N' Roses normie. My favorite tracks were "Welcome to the Jungle," "Paradise City," and "Sweet Child O' Mine," which are, by far, the most popular Guns N' Roses songs, with over morbillion plays combined. But maybe it's a "wisdom of the crowds" thing, or that I've heard those tracks are the ones I've heard most often and have come to appreciate due to familiarity. Though I did also like "Mr. Brownstone" and "My Michelle," which aren't exactly deep cuts or sleeper hits, but are still (arguably) not normie picks. It's a little wild that this was the band's debut album, given that some of its tracks are THE most popular ones in the entire discography (at least, that's what Spotify says).

Welcome to the Jungle is immediate 4/5 Most of the rest of the record is more on 2/5 Settling this with a very uneasy average.

Its arguably great but not for me. Mr brownstones good though

Not particularly my thing, but you can clearly hear they’ve put their heads together and worked hard on this. Reminds me of a mate’s dad who insisted on playing this in his car at every given opportunity.

Grumpy Aerosmith. Or America's Oasis. They serve up regurgitated mashed up comfortable and easily identified rehashes of obvious pre-80s reference points but undeniably have some big tunes. It's a shame this came out just as the CD era had hit full swing. If it had come out in the vinyl era they likely would have trimmed the fat and lost some of really ropey filler.

Groundbreaking album. some mediocre tracks.

Like most bands of their era, GnR are carried by their hits. Fortunately for me, and unfortunately for them, most of those are on this album.

overall not my style of vocal so I definitely wouldnt find myself listening to most of these songs again. however I can recognize that its very well done, they're extremely talented and made a very entertaining album

Här är alla hits samlade. Hade aldrig hört dom andra låtarna, en eller två ganska bra som var nya för mig. Skivan tydligen ha en sida "guns" och en sida "roses". Inget jag märkte. Lyssnade heller inte så noga på texterna. Lite tröttsamt med Axl:s röst. För mig är det inte bättre än en 3:a (men inte alls dåligt).

Knallis rock, æ får det ikke til å være gøy

I like guns n roses. Sucks about the allegations though. I think famous people back then were allergic to being good people. Great music though. Always classics. Just hootin and hollerin. Welcome to the jungle indeed. Why is he whimpering. I honestly don't think he's actually in the jungle. Yeah I mean it's nice it's a good rock album pretty classic. Favourite: Sweet Child O' Mine Least favourite: My Michelle

Det e så knallis rock og æ klare ikke synes det e artig.

As someone who grew up worshiping Nirvana, I had a natural dislike of Guns N' Roses. I hated Axl Rose and saw the band as a misogynistic cock rock band. Whilst I think 'Welcome To The Jungle', 'Paradise City' and 'Sweet Child Of Mine' are overplayed, I knew deep down they're good tracks and know they were better than a lot of the much you got on rock radio at the time. Most bands don't have hits that strong on their debut album! When I finally listened to the album, I discovered that 'Nighttrain', 'Mr. Brownstone' and 'My Michelle' were the real bangers. They have hooks with an edge to them. 'It's So Easy' sounds like an Alice In Chains song if they were around in the eighties. Axl and crew are so much more dangerous than the glam metal bands came before them. Not every song is a hit single though. 'Think About You' is rather generic outside of the colorful jangle riff that colours the chorus. I find myself dipping after we are done with 'Paradise City'. The last handful of songs feel like filler, but the first half is so good that I can forgive it.

++*: Welcome to the Jungle ++: Out ta Get Me, Mr. Brownstone, Paradise City, You're Crazy, Anything Goes +: It's So Easy, My Michelle, Think About You, Rocket Queen +-: Sweet Child o' Mine -: Nightrain 7,6/10

The hits are bangers but the rest feels samey and, honestly, pretty immature. I thought this might blow my mind as an overlooked germ, but I think I paid it the right amount of attention at the time.

2,5

Enjoyed this one more than I expected.

Extra punt voor de hitjes

A couple of tracks had some early grunge vibes. The big songs were alright, have been overplayed and stick out on the album. All together it was pretty fun.

Never listened before. I knew it was a classic, but hard rock is usually not my thing. A pleasant surprise.

Sometimes it’s just nice to know what you’re getting here. Especially when what you’re getting is some good solid glam rock metal.

This was better than I expected! I’m not a fan of metal (in its various guises) but while these songs had some of the usual traits I dislike, including macho lyrics, screaming vocals and show-off guitar playing, I did appreciate the ‘attack’ or urgent feel of the songs and the rhythm guitar in particular. In places it almost sounded like punk rock.

I've never really listened to Guns N' Roses other than their hit songs so I was pleased to hear that they're good head banging heavy metal. It's not a genre I normally listen to a lot but it's good for an occasional dabble. Good solid guitars and drums with screaming vocals. The screaming vocals don't do much for me but again once in a while they're OK.

not as bad as I remembered (I got sick of hearing them in the early 90s), but I couldn't listen to sweet child again. Axl's vocals get a little grating after a while, but some of the tracks are reasonably well structured & interesting. An echo or two of the stones at times

cool

a bunch of legendary tracks, but looking back this feels like a theatrical stereotype of 80s glam pop rock metal-ish waiting. can't fault them for making music that stands the test of time though. 3.5/5

So many songs are what I think of when I hear Guns N' Roses

"Appetite For Destruction" is the soundtrack to the Gravitron ride at every small, hick-town county fair.

Bleh

The hits are great, the other tracks are fine

Boomers are gonna be mad that I don't give this 6/5

A classic that I grew up hearing on repeat. Not my thing personally but not bad by any means. This album would be more nostalgic if the songs weren't still being played into the ground. Favorite song: Sweet Child O' Mine

When Guns N' Roses crashed onto the Sunset Strip with Appetite for Destruction, they didn’t just revive sleazy hard rock—they weaponized it. The band’s 1987 debut is a snarling, streetwise blast of attitude and excess, fusing the bluesy swagger of Aerosmith with the ominous heft of Black Sabbath, then injecting it with a jolt of punk volatility. The result is a record that feels both indebted to its forebears and brazenly forward-looking, laying groundwork for the late-’80s and early-’90s hard rock explosion. “Welcome to the Jungle” kicks things off with coiled menace and explosive release, a high-energy opener that still sounds dangerous decades later. “Paradise City” stretches into a fist-pumping epic without losing its grit, while “Sweet Child O’ Mine” tempers the grime with one of the era’s most indelible riffs—less a power ballad than a radio-conquering anthem that proved the band could channel vulnerability without sacrificing edge. Appetite may not reinvent rock & roll, but it plays it with enough hunger and menace to remind you why it mattered in the first place.

you gotta admit SWEEET CHIIILD OF MIIIINE is sick lol, 3.5

This brings about vivid memories as a young boy. Putting my hockey gear into the 2001 Acura MDX that had been warming up in the driveway and listening to GnR, Motley Crue and Metallica while chowing down a sausage egg and cheese from Dunkin polished off by a red bull. The sausage egg and cheese from Dunkin, like many other fast food items in this country, has gone down hill. The egg used to be a scramble patty with peppers and onions and now it’s a weird almost fake egg over hard. The sausage is now bland as well they used to have a lovely blend of spices in the sausage. Anyway the album is fine..

A few classics, but some are honestly a bit overplayed. Still was a decent listen though

What did I know about this album/artist before I listened? I know these dudes were huge in the hard rock/heavy metal scene of the late ‘80s. I’ve heard the singles a bunch and know about their personalities. I’m presuming that, as a whole, it’s not going to stray very far from what I’ve heard so far - I assume that the singles are very good indicators of what the album sounds like as a whole. What are my first impressions? “Welcome to the Jungle” is a great opening track. That guitar delay gets your attention and forces you to tune in, and by the time you know it, the entire band is playing and I imagine this sets the tone for the album. It feels both gritty AND over the top. What genre(s) come to mind as I listen? Are there any specific artists that are evoked? Hard rock, absolutely. There are parts of this that don’t sound very far apart from glam metal (“Nighttrain”), which I feel like would be something GNR would be mad about being associated with (if they even had an opinion about that kind of thing). “Paradise City” is like basically just Aerosmith. I never noticed that before. I would have slotted them to be a little more “metal” overall, but these riffs are filled with blues-based boogie that you don’t generally hear in metal. “Think About You” screams 80s new wave in the chorus. Is the production appropriate for the sound/era? I like the production. It sounds a little dirtier than a lot of the metal that was on the radio at the time, but it also fits alongside it very well. The clean guitar that kept popping up in the second half of the album was nice. A clean guitar playing a lick over distorted rhythm guitar is a sound that always sticks out to me, and I wasn’t expecting in that “Think About You” chorus, but it mixed the sound up in a way when the album really needed it. None of these songs needed to be 6+ minutes, let alone three of them. What did the lyrics evoke? What did the singer sound like? Were the lyrics more simple or clever, direct or vague? Axl has more swagger in his voice than I think I gave him credit for. He sounds build for radio rock, but also has personality and attitude in his vocals. That swagger allows him to get away with some grace notes in a few songs that clearly clash with the chords, but aesthetically work. The lyrics seem pretty straightforward, ruminations from a derelict who thinks he’s on top of the world now that he’s moved to LA. Let it be known that these dudes always said what was on their mind, consequences be damned (let’s not talk about “One in a Million” from the following album). What is your favorite track/why? Least favorite/why? Most - “Nighttrain”, “Paradise City” Least - “My Michelle”, “Anything Goes” What sort of situation/vibe would you find yourself playing this album in? Playability factor? I’d probably listen to this again, but to be honest, I don’t know when. Maybe if I need something at work that’ll keep me moving. Final summary? I think this is the kind of album that I like and appreciate more than I would ever specifically listen to. I enjoyed jamming to these singles again, and some of the deep cuts were fun, but I don’t really see myself returning to this album very often, if at all. I wonder if hearing a good chunk of this album on the radio for decades makes the rest of it feel anticlimactic in a way? Like, there were few surprises coming into this. It does the job it’s supposed to do. I’m sure this was a game-changer back in ‘87, but it’s hard to hear that now.

Kind of a classic dad rock album (which I guess tells more about my age). Still has enough a sleazy sound to add some transgression; which the lyrics don't really help with. Still has three of the greatest classic rock songs of all time on it, so that helps to balance out. However, outside of SCoM, PC, and WttJ, its just too much of the same and the songs sort of blend together.

Their sound, and production, is tight as hell, and the whole band were dialled in for sure. But it does just feel a bit boring at times, I don’t know if that’s because the obvious suspects have been overplayed beyond belief by the “real rock radio!!” types maybe? It does just run out of steam very quickly I found on a re-listen. That said, I love Nightrain, that’s a real powerful, take no prisoners track for sure. Also Slash will always have a place in my heart, his sound and style fully got me into playing guitar, the man is a legend.

Historically Î understand this is the transition from hair metal to the harder alt rock scene of the 90s. At the same time, not my favorite. I do like Mr Brownstone tho.

Meh. I don’t love Guns n Roses. I don’t mind the ballads, but I like “nice” songs better. I like what’s his butts voice on those. The album is too ‘vulgar’ for me I guess? I sound like such an old prude.

It’s just not for me. I know GnR are massive and they have their lovers, and the album at the time was era defining … but personally I would say, it’s a lot of filler, chuff, and above all, copy and paste. It’s an undeservingly generous 3 out of 5 for me, based only on the hits, 1 single point for Welcome to the Jungle, another for Paradise City, and the final point for Sweet Child of mine … Naturally. Bang average.

3/5

Just yeah

you’re in the jungle BABAAAAYYYYY

This is so fun to listen to. Sweet Child O' Mine is a very sick riff. Also some filler that was kinda boring. And every song probably doesn't need to be 6 minutes long, but I guess Slash needs his solo time somewhere!

Bello, repetitivo pero me gustó

Basically GnR's greatest hits. Hard to judge because these songs have been on the radio all my life, so the songs seem dated and cliche, but I love how dirty their sound is compared to a lot of other stuff that came out at the time.

meio louco pensar q é um debut album

This album is massively carried by 3 outstanding songs and they are the 3 songs that everyone knows. The rest of the album is just slightly edgier, but ultimately generic 80s hair metal. There is no doubting of the ability on display here. Honestly those 3 songs are so good that it's a shame the rest of the album is (to me) so average. 3/5 stars, purely for those 3 songs, you know what they are, I don't need to say them.

I didn't listen to this as much as I would've liked. Based on the first song it would've been a great solid album, as it's a classic for a reason. The other songs served to fade into the background for me.

I think this album was alright. I've probably just heard Sweet Child O Mine and Welcome to the Jungle too much, but the album didn't really hit me with anything I loved.

I like them in spurts.

Good for gym

This was hit or miss for me but I’ve got more respect for Sweet Child O’ Mine and liked Think About You

3.4 good album but thats easy to do when you make basically the same song 12 times over. faves: rocket queen, welcome to the jungle

Very, very low three star. I think of this as less an album and more a vessel for the singles by GnR that everyone knows. A few extra points for breaking into the mainstreams and creating timeless classics.

annoying voice good songs

This was an interesting listen; I think I had only heard a little over half of it before but the half that I had heard as been burned into my brain. I've never been a huge fan of GNR but you have to respect how fully-formed of a debut this is. I can't imagine how this crazy would have sounded back in 1987.

Vg

It’s wild that this was their debut album with this many hits. Is it my jam? No. Will I ever listen to it again? Also no. Good for them though.

Def some iconic songs on here

Never cared much for GnR, and while I recognize the “importance” of this album, it’s still not for me.

Haven’t listened to this album since years ago in college when I was exploring different genres of rock music. This is filled with well known songs that are all huge classic rock hits. Overall, that 80s heavy metal/hard rock isn’t my favorite but plenty of it is catchy. This seems better than a lot of other 80s rock. Some of still rocks and holds up. Kinda album where I love some of the songs, but then don’t like the deeper cuts. It all really rocks out and is really fun at times, but wish it was shorter. By the time You’re Crazy rolls around you feel like this should be the closer. It’s probably a solid 3, maybe can push to a 3.5/4, not sure. Just not my kind of rock really anymore.

A couple classics, but the others don't really do anything for me.

That’s a lot of hits on the debut, and maybe it’s the radios fault but I can’t stand any of these songs.

Не люблю хэви-металл, но иногда нахожу для себя интересные песни. Этот альбом таковым не стал.

Idk how to do this. But if I'm personally rating this album, its 7/10. Other songs are just not in my type of music..?? but some songs are really like.. the vibe.

Good, great even but a victim of its own success that it gets ovrplayed to the degree that I’ve heard nearly all of an album I’ve never sat down to listen to.

If I could give the just Slash 5 stars I would cause that guy is fucking killing it. Even on the songs I wanted to skip Slash is over there just blowing it out of the water. Axl Rose's voice is too much like Geddy Lee of Rush and both make me want to pull my hair out. My friends older sister had their posters on her wall but she was in her prime when this came out. I've always found Axl kinda gross so it goes down to a 3 for me. 5 for Slash, Axl gets a 2 and the rest of the band holds it down so a firm 3.

I mean it’s fine

There were some really great songs on this album! But so many sound very similar so they didn’t always stick out to me. I enjoyed Mr. Brownstone as well as Think About You and Sweet Child O’ Mine the most!

Review - The big singles are pretty good but the rest of ihe album is a bit filler-y. I didn't know Axl Rose sings in a deeper voice sometimes, interesting that all the singles are his Bon Scott but falsetto-y style. Rating - 5.5/10 Need to hear? YES

It is impressive that this is the debut album of GNR, including songs like Welcome to the Jungle or Sweet Child of Mine. It is hard to go wrong with a nice guitar rift and Axl's unmistakable voice. However sometime you can do too much (Paradise City) or too little (most of the album is filler, forgettable songs). Adding all that and you have an ok album, but not much more than that.

This is the cd I used to listen to to amp myself up before math club competitions

3.42

This album is too rock for me and it lacks a few melodious tracks to get a 4th star

Funny, I played this album to my daughter about a week ago, and it was the first time I’d listened to it in almost thirty years. Back then, Guns N’ Roses clearly ruled the glam rock / metal scene. The intro to Appetite for Destruction is legendary, and some songs like It’s So Easy still hit hard. The downside are most of the other songs, … well, overall it’s clearly not my kind of music. Still, as a genre peak, this album does the job, and with at least three massive hits, it leaves some pretty solid memories. But I don’t like Axl Rose’s voice and the many cheesy riffs though…

Pop metal with an actual edge to it. All the instrumentalists can play well, and the vocalist has a very unique voice, for better and for worse. The hits are the hits for a reason, and all the other songs don’t hit nearly the same highs.

Крутое звучание, но не мой вайб

Actually a very sweet album. While the band name is akin to a 1999 AOL username (“choose something you like”, see mine: poniesdogs because horsespuppies was already taken). I enjoyed how it felt from the heart in certain songs.

(69/100)

Wow, I forget what a big deal it was when they came on... They really had a distinct sound that hit big. I forget how beautiful a song Sweet child of mine is.

Another album I don't think I would have experienced without this project... I can recognize this is good, don't have particular strong feelings about this album, myself, though.... Finding myself really appreciating drums and the instrumentals 🥁 Paradise City was fun

some fun guitar solos, some lyrics r just so goofy standouts: nightrain mr. brownstone sweet child o mine liking this more than i thought i would, but probably wouldn’t put it on — kinda blended together at a point

Classic, epic opening to the first song. Pretty good overall.

Nostalgic & fun album.

Never have been a huge fan, but still slaps

This rock was a little too hard for me

My predictions: Julia: 3 Rachel: 2 Steven: 2 Patrick: 4 Paul: 4

I have mixed feelings about this record. Once upon a time this was everything I hated about mainstream music. I'll give it credit that it has an edge, and they get some cred from having Duff in the band. I think at times Axl is the weak link to their recorded output, with the screeching and whatever else he does. But I get that he's necessary for the mystique of the band. A good mix of real Glam, Aerosmith, and The Stones. When they get it right it’s enjoyable, but that’s few and far between. Ugh Welcome to the Jungle, pass. It’s So Easy is so good. And should have been the opener. My standout track for the album. Night train is just ok. Out ta Get Me/ Brownstone/ Paradise is a killer for me. OTGM is very forgettable. Brownstone is the worst of Aerosmith ripoffs, and Axl’s mumble vox are not good. It's too peppy to be about heroin. Paradise City is a song I could go without listening to again. Side two does more for me than the first. Nice groove riff in My Michelle, Think About You gets it right. Sweet Child is another overplayed single, but the solo is pretty good. You're Crazy can stay. Another filler track with Anything Goes, Rocket Queen closes strong, I love how it slows down at the end to wrap it up. 2.5, rounding up because It's So Easy is a great song and side 2 pulled me back in. Not enough to keep it in the collection though.

6/10 Favourite: Sweet Child O' Mine Least Favourite: Out Ta Get Me

Welcome to the jungle- Already knew this song, super iconic. Not my favourite as its very repetitive. 3.5/5 its so easy - different vocal performance than what I associate with acdc. Really shows their versatility early in the album. nightrain - Paradise city: Fucking fire. absolute banger and really fun to listen to. 4/5 My Michelle - Felt the first big vibe change here and yeah it was a decent song, pretty catchy, not super special tbh 2/5 Thinkin bout you - Haven't heard a super rock-ey ballad before. Fun switch up. 3/5 Scom - super hypocritical but I love this song even though its so overplayed. The electric solo intro with the slow incorporation of the lower guitars really just feels refreshing. 4.5/5 you're crazy - cool song Anything goes - fun, sexy song, feels the most like im at a dive in the 90s. Rocket queen - cool vocal filter, the breakdown at the bridge was so good, definitely my favourite part. Good song to end the album on, the outro does feel like I'm walking into the sunset waving goodbye at all the friends I made along the way as credits roll. Definitely not close to being my favourite album but I'm just not the target audience! Will say that I have major respect for the fact that this was a debut album, and it holds a pretty consistent standard. I really respect their whole "we wont rewrite a song for anyone" attitude because that is where true art comes from! You couldn't get an album this genuine from some fuckass steamrolling production company.

Absolutely massive album in terms of success. But I’ve long since outgrown it

3.5, got bored

I listened to it a lot when I was 10~12. Now i find it a bit juvenile (the lyrics). I had a nostalgic listen. I still like the sound of "Paradise City".

3.5⭐️/5 01.06.2026

Music to kiss your dad on the lips to.

Couple of 4 star songs does not make a 4 star album.

Knew sweet child of mine

3.1

bagus, tapi jujur gak ekspek sama lagu yang rocket queen

Hier ga ik dan wel een stuk beter op dan die gezapige Metallica plaat, maar ook dit is buiten de giga-hits om toch wel een beetje mwah

Please make him stop singing

Personal favourites: sweet child o mine (of course), night train, paradise city Though its not my go-to genre I generally enjoyed it

i listen this album a long time ago

Definitely a good classic, and I love some of the songs on there. Overall not too much for me, but still great.

His voice still grates but have to admit the quality of this album. Paradise City waaaaay too overplayed but there were better tracks on here I’ve not heard before.

Liked sweet child of mine Little too rock for me

3.5/5, good classic rock sound and I like their hairstyles

Welcome to the jungle and Sweet child of mine still hold up really well tbh. Track 2 is also really good and sounds like it might have influenced stone temple pilots and I also think I heard some QOTSA in there but I might be crazy. The rest of the album kinda fell flat for me and sounded like the same thing. Paradise City doesn’t hold up for me. Kinda goofy.

The three best tunes they ever put on record, but not much else has aged particularly well.

Satisfying, energetic riffs. Feels like the origin of corny lyrics though Fave tracks: Nighttrain, Mr. Brownstone, Paradise City, Sweet Child O’ Mine, Rocket Queen

I had high hopes for this album that weren't met. The hits from this record are timeless, and can really display G&R peak lyrical and musical abilities (Sweet Child of Mine is the clearest standout) but so many other tracks are mindless, poorly written or just bloat the runtime. If this was a 35 min album comprised mostly of key tracks this score would have been higher. 3/5

Can be fun every once in a while but a little too Man With a Lot of Confidence for my vibe usually. Overall is fun, great guitar, obviously.

Pretty good, most were a little too rock for me.

This was an interesting one to get for 100. It's crazy to me that "Welcome to the Jungle" "Paradise City" and "Sweet Child O' Mine" are not only on the same album, but that it's their debut album. "It's So Easy" and "My Michelle" are also alright, but holy fuck these songs are overplayed. This isn't really my style of music, but I'm not gonna pretend like these songs aren't at least decent, but goddamn it's been almost 40 years I think we can stop playing these songs on the radio.

Pumps me up in the gym. Not a huge fan of Axls voice.

How many guitar solos does one album need? Honestly, give me the hits from this bad boy (and there’s a lot of them!) and nothing in between. What an album to knit to.

Klart det är en rökare, lyckas nästan(!) bli 12 igen när jag älskade det här. Har albumet åldrats dåligt? Vet inte. Har jag åldrats dåligt? Vet inte. Hitsen gör iaf att det landar på en stabil 3a.

Zwei dinge: Fergie > Axl Welcome to the jungle-trailern för GTA: San Andreas 😮‍💨

3a pga vissa bangers

Finns väl inga andra som låter så här? Riktigt bra GTA-musik

Unexpectedly I liked this better before I listened to it for the list. It's really just Sweet Child O' Mine and maybe Mr. Brownstone that hold up to what I remember and the rest is...pretty bad outside the singles. Went in expecting this to get a high rating but I don't think it will. this is unfortunately not trying too hard Guns n Roses, it is sewer people Guns n Roses already in collection

3 classsic Rock songs on this. Slash is an incredible guitarist and axel’s vocal range is pretty incredible. I like more song then I thought I would, but the songs sounded similar.

Reminds me of high school

just not my typa music

Mrh

banger

Crazy this is a debut album, the three big songs on here are instant classics. Not sure the rest of the album holds up

Det är ett rockalbum, inte så mycket mer än så dock. Kan vara ett av de mest överspelade albumen någonsin dock vilket det absolut tappar poäng på.

the one guy i knew who really liked gnr turned out to be a scumbag, so that really clouded my initial thoughts on the album, but to give it a fair listen: three or four very good songs and the rest are definite scumbag music

Not a fan of the sound. Guitar is great, drums are solid, singer is just bad. Wouldn't listen to the whole album again, but there's a couple tracks that are solid

it was ight

7/10, good album.

Okay

It appears I’ve grown up and away from this album.

This is a hard one. A good portion of the songs on this album are nearly ubiquitous in pop culture to the point of being cliche and uninteresting. However, at the time this album came out, it was a punch in the mouth to the glam metal scene.

Yup, it's Guns N' Roses. Yup. Favorite track(s): Actually kind of a tough one. "Welcome to the Jungle" is a fun track, but I'd probably have to go with "Sweet Child O' Mine." These are some crazy huge hits to be on an album together. Unfortunately, even though I like these tracks, I'm not really in love with them or with this album as a whole.

Pretty good album with a lot of notable songs.

Hmm. Reminds me of an old friend I had in the 80s.

3/5

Pretty solid first album, obviously best songs from it have stood the test of time. My Michelle was an underrated classic and one of my top ones apart from the other obvious 3 greats that come from this album.

i loved the instruments and the background vocals and ad libs. this was very like i expected it to be which is definitely not my favorite but not the worst. my favorite was mr brownstone.

The first few opening tracks irritated me with their straight macho vibe, but the second half has many bops with a very interesting sound.

Not my cup of tea, but you can't ignore the sick guitar riffs

I'm curious to see what the sentiment is like for this album in the present day. Is it still timeless or overrated now? This has always been a revered album even whilst I was growing up and getting exposed to all sorts of music. Crazy that this was GnR's debut too. Every human being has heard the three big singles here. They're in your face, they rock hard, and are pretty emotional. I'd argue most of the rest carries as much emotion as the aforementioned singles, but in a more cheesy and goofy sense unfortunately. Like I cringed at some of the lyrics in these other tracks. The high parts of the album rip, don't get me wrong, but the rest was a bit forgettable.

Decent listen.

slash is great! axl rose is great at times. really tight debut album. if im feeling particularly grumpy i could see this album slipping to a 2-2.5 due to axl being annoying. 3.5

Some decent tracks but the lead singer guy is really annoying.

Another album where I had heard the hits but not the full album. The hits are hits for a reason. I enjoyed those but didn’t really see too many standouts outside of them. Incredible though, that a single album produced literally all the songs I know by a very popular band.

As great as a handful of these songs are, this band is spectacularly overrated. Even their best songs--Welcome to Jungle, Sweet Child of Mine, Paradise City--have parts of them that suck, mixed right in there with brilliant parts. And several songs on this record are straight-up filler. So some stars for the Sweet Child riff, the intense intro and cool longing ache of the bridge in Welcome, the pastoral weirdness of Paradise. And damn does this band like a coda.

I was working a temp job in 1987 just as this album was breaking, and my slightly older teenage coworker told me a story about partying with Guns n Roses which I wish I had written down. Anyway, this has not held up very well, imo. A lot of the songs sound, well, juvenile. It’s getting three stars because it also has three enduring classics.

I never understood the hype surrounding Guns N' Roses. The music is rather ordinary. I also can't understand the repeated praise for Slash's supposed virtuosity on the guitar. Maybe it's because I don't play the guitar myself. Anyway, I find this album ordinary too. It played in the background and at least didn't bother me. 3/5

I don't know what it is but I have really been wanting to check out Guns N' Roses for a little bit now, I am not even a huge fan of them or anything but something inside me has been craving this cheesy Hard Rock sound. This album screams asshole in every which way I can imagine it, whether it is that asshole neighbor who revs up their motorcycle at 5am on a weekend or this being a 12 track anthem for a deadbeat father who loves Natural Light. In all seriousness I think that aspect comes from Axl Rose being the frontman of this band, he has one cool vocal trick he can do and he pulls that out whenever he can to assert some kind of dominance over all the scruffy and not nearly as vocally ranged lead singers of the time to seem like he is the best one out there. Maybe on a hypothetically technical level yes he is, but Axl Rose is not using his skills in any sort of interesting ways here outside of suiting that late 80s Hard Rock mold to a T. I think one of the main reasons this album is looked so fondly upon is because of all the hard work Slash does to make this one killer project for the ages with those consistently top notch and meaty guitar parts that make me water each and every time I hear them. There is literally no reason why Guns N' Roses should be given any sort of serious attention other than the fact that Slash is in their band. This project is a perfect example of just how good and bad Hard Rock can be all together in a 53 minute album by one of the worst mainstream bands out there.

I have the alternative cover vinyl of this, although it is a bootleg. That said, I'm not a huge GnR fan... in the dispute between them and Nirvana back in the 90s, I fell firmly on the Nirvana side and perhaps that tainted my view of them. I came to enjoy GnR later but largely the singles and for me, that's where they excel. The rest of the album ranges between ok and good. It's one I play very occasionally and very much need to be in the mood for, otherwise, they're a playlist band for me.

I can’t listen to this without reflecting on what became of GNR in the years and decades after. We’re still kind of paying attention to these guys 40 years later off the strength of this one album alone, and really just off its three major singles. The rest of their discography is mediocre at best (UYI) and unlistenable at worst (everything else). While it obviously hits for a huge number of people, it just doesn’t do anything for me. Maybe spending my childhood watching the videos on constant MTV rotation desensitized me to their swagger and ferocity, or whatever.

Enjoyed- iconic album but I just can’t deal with the voice… so I don’t think any of it will be making my playlist… Sunday 23/11

Singles are bangers, rest is boring

3.5 pretty good

Phenomenal guitar work.

Probably overexposed to this from that era and the constant reuse of tracks on sports broadcasts and so on It holds up better than most American metal from this period. But that’s not saying much. Between 3 and 4. The overexposure drops it

в основном - минус вайб.

Reviewing an album 38 years after its release when you also listened to it on release is always a little dicey. It's a little more challenging for me to be objective when nostalgia is in play. In this case, I think much the same as I did in 1988: Lots of really catchy hooks (the opening riff of Welcome to the Jungle remains a classic), but too much of the rest of the song (and most of the remaining tracks) just sort of taper off.

Some hits, but two solo's a song? I'm glad Kurt killed it off.

Axel rose har en fed stemme, men det blir meget repetitivt hurtigt. Troede dog jeg ville hade det mere, fun riffs

An excellent, enjoyable album.

Not my cup of tea though there are some iconic songs on here

#1 Classic for a reason. Bright guitar riffs.

The obvious tracks are all time classics. The rest is kind of forgettable. Axl’s voice grates after a while. I don’t think the production does the material a lot of favors, makes the non hits sound a bit muddy somehow. Mid

I’m just so tired of this guy’s voice and sweet child o mine. Apart from that, music wise this stuff rocks though, composition is fire and rightfully so quite some songs are absolute hits.

Heard it before! Also during my classic rock phase in hs. Didn’t really age well for me though but still a solid album.

Pretty good album, but a lot of butt-rock too.

Certains classiques. Pas mon pref

Three or four incredible songs and then what sounds like the same song repeated 8 times.

3 great songs and meh

I’ve personally had a tumultuous relationship with G N’ R. I feel like pop culture has made me revere them for this particular album that shifted the paradigm of popular music at a time when most of our rock bands were dressing like women and singing ballads. But Guns, at their core, are a hair metal band. And appetite for destruction is a continuation of that genre but with less makeup. Some great songs but I’ve personally checked out on this band long ago.

Some classics, mostly meh, not much of an impression left. Liked “My Michelle” - good energy behind. Rest of album comes into it’s own from here… patient listener is rewarded with this one. Sweet child of mine always a winner! This was my intro to “rock music”.

Three absolute classics is impressive for a debut album

This one hit the stratosphere, with a couple of bombs that cement the crew into legendary rock god status. What a shit show, but it worked for a while, and most of these studs are still alive and picking. And then there’s Tracii Guns, who formed the band that carries his name, only to leave it before recording a note. Luck for the band. Not so lucky for Guns. Never really carried much for hair metal and leather pant, but I can see the appeal.

Tbh feel like I’ve kind of lost my taste for this one

The pre-Buckethead era of Guns'n'Roses leaves a lot to be desired, but makes for a banging soundtrack to Axl Rose's Legal Issues wiki section. Might have to play it twice to get to the end tho.

I think this album is a little overrated. There are 3 great songs and the rest is pretty forgettable.

I don’t like this genre, but I think this is a good example of it. The band is super tight, and the hits hold up. But the deeper cuts don’t.

A few good singles, but the rest sounds the same. Good riffs, meh lyrics. I did have Radiohead twice this week, so at least it wasn't more of that. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): Welcome To The Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child O' Mine ⭐⭐⭐: Liked it. Saved some tracks.

Je pensais adoré, mais en réalité j'ai été un peu déçu, je crois que je suis pas vraiment fan du style

connais pas

Solid album, based ——————————— Liked: — Welcome To The Jungle — It's So Easy — Out Ta Get Me — Think About You

- Heavy metal/hard rock album - Fun, upbeat, head-banging album - Nothing particularly stood out to me

The album that showed arena rock still lives. Contains three iconic monster hits. The album owes a lot to the styles of AC/DC and Kiss but with a much funkier swagger or swing than those two bands. Excellent production, mix, and stereo stage. Perfect to rock out to. Slash channels Page a few times. A good bit of filler on this record though, and not a lot of lyrical depth. Mostly typical bad boy stuff. Favorite song: Mr. Brownstone.

Cumming in the jungle baby yeah

Slash deserved to be in a better band. If I could delete a song from history it would be Sweet Child O’ Mine, otherwise this is a decent album if you’re in the mood for hard rock

J’ai beaucoup écouté deux de leurs albums pendant mon adolescence (Use Your Illusion), mais pas le reste de leur discographie. Celui-ci est plutôt du côté bof des choses. Ordinaire, tout au plus.

Unnecessarily vulgar.

I'm surprised You're Crazy isn't more widely known. Best song on the album - those guitars!!! Have to say a couple of their songs are pretty bad - but overall a really fun listen.

6.8 (Welcome to the Jungle was the only one I liked)

this is obviously iconic and loaded with bangers, but it was just ok to me. sorry!!!

Para mi esta medio mid, o sea, si tiene canciones muy iconicas y super de culto eso lo entiendo peeero yo no soy un gran fan del clasic rock and roll. Lo tuve que escuchar dos veces para intentar ver si alguna cancion se quedaba conmigo y no paso. Entiendo que para mucha gente esta album sea lo mejor de la musica contemporanea pero para mi no fue mucho. Tiene buenos riffs de guitarra y las vocales si estan chidas, pero fuera de las canciones iconicas no me quedo con nada del album.

This album was a constant on my small-town high school era soundtrack: house parties, tailgates, football games, and, regrettably, the occasional tire-fire in the woods (not proud of that carbon footprint). It fit perfectly as a Rock & Roll anthem for that place and time. And, if I’m honest, it still holds up. Also, G&R will always remind me of my 16 year old bedroom poster ‘Buns & Roses’. My god, who was I?

This was the first rock record I remember hearing with a curse word in it, ("I'm fucken innocent" from "Out Ta Get Me" [maybe it was "It's So Easy"?]). Anyhow, I discovered this one on a second-gen cassette dub from my neighbor during the fabled "Butt Rock Summer" of 1987. It was a summer that I was riding my skateboard around the Conejo Valley in Southern California while listening to Def Leppard, Warrant, The Lost Boys OST, and these stupid fucks. The following year I graduated to Metallica and Maiden, leaving hair metal in the dust.   I always thought Axl Rose sounded like someone's grandmother on vocals, (both him and Geddy Lee from Rush, actually, although Lee sounds more like your great aunt). Revisiting this, I gotta say, when it rips it totally rips. And when it doesn't, it is as boring as hell. There is also enough cowbell on this thing to cure Christopher Walken's fever five times over. Opening with "Welcome to the Jungle" and all that reverbed guitar riffage is a strong fucking statement that holds up all these years later. That said, what follows is pretty uneven. The most solid tracks here are the singles: the aforementioned "Welcome to the Jungle"; "Paradise City," which goes into total showstopper zone at the end, "Sweet Child O' Mine", which is about as saccharine sweet a song a bunch of drug-addles sex abuser rockers could ever craft, and that's about it. "Mr. Brownstone" and "Night Train" get close but in the end are just pretty fuckin silly. I never liked "It's so Easy." "Rocker Queen," however, is one of the more solid and underrated tracks, and a decent way to close this thing out. After all the sex, drugs, and degeneracy celebrated on every song leading up to it, they put a coda on this symphony of misogynistic debauchery by just letting you know they're actually real sweethearts who just really care. How nice. As for the album art, it's inarguably and simply iconic. Not as provocative and creative, say, as the original eponymous Robert Williams pop surrealist painting that originally graced the cover, but a decent runner-up. In hindsight, actually, this compromise (read: censored) design solution referencing tattoo flash actually better communicates the vibe of this record in ways the Williams art circumvents. It feels more dangerous and rock 'n' roll. Probably the skulls. Also much easier for legions of dirthead fans to get tattooed forever after.  PS I will forever be confused why Slash and Duff were always photographed wearing cool punk band t-shirts but also played shit like this. So weird. 2.5 stars deserving, rounded up to 3 for legacy I guess.

3.5

Appetite For Destruction is the crowning achievement of a genre of music that I hate. Hair metal, glam metal, whatever you call it, Guns N' Roses kicked the genre into overdrive, bringing a heaping tablespoon of grit to the glitz and hairspray of bands like Ratt and Poison. And then glam metal pretty much immediately fell apart under the weight of shifting trends. Now that isn't to say that G N' R didn't use some hairspray themselves. Basically, while I do have good things to say about this album, it's still hair metal at the end of the day, and while I can appreciate Appetite For Destruction on some level, it will really never be "my" album. Let's start with the fact that this was an absolute hit machine. Welcome To The Jungle, Mr. Brownstone, Paradise City, and of course, Sweet Child O' Mine are mainstays in the canon of rock and metal. However, no matter how catchy, well performed, or potent these songs may be, I could live the rest of my life happily without hearing any of them again. Sweet Child O' Mine has it worst, I was almost embarrassed when I heard that fucking riff while driving today, it was a jumpscare. Paradise City is a close second place, especially because I don't think it's ever a song I ever really liked all that much to begin with. Mr. Brownstone isn't quite as overplayed as the rest, it just also happens to be a single I don't like all that much, but I still think it's firmly in the "overplayed" category. That leaves Welcome To The Jungle, which it turns out I have a little room in my heart for, even now: it's a good song, and I'll leave it at that. Escaping from the singles, this has good and bad. I actually really liked It's So Easy, it swaggers, it pummels and it's catchy too. Nightrain and Think About You also have enough momentum to keep the fun up. I'd also like to include My Michelle as a highlight, just because I think it's a pretty good song and I appreciate G N' R having the guts to drag their cool uncle party metal album somewhere a little darker for a song. As far as what's left, I could really take or leave it. There isn't a whole ton here I see myself returning to here, but there is some value to Appetite For Destruction. I understand this album on at least some level, even if I don't like it all that much. I'm gonna let G N' R pull a 3 here, but just barely.

Mediocre at best, a couple good songs

3 out of 5. Nothing to really say here. It's not the worst, we know what it is and so do they.

A hit machine yes, but a best album of all time? It's not like they did anything new...

Such impressive singing and playing in a style that’s not made for me.

I used to like this album a lot but it feels very tired now

Another favorite! I remember them bursting on the scene. It’s been 30 years since I listened to this album. Slash is one of the top guitarist ever. Axel Rose had an absolutely unique vocal style. Excellent example of a hard charging rock genre.

This is the sound of 80's America. Probably should be more than a 3 as the classic tracks still sound amazing, felt the rest of the album has dated a bit.

The Guns N Roses album. It has their biggest hits and is the most recognizable of all their albums. Still not my cup of tea. 6/10

Didnt think i was going to enjoy this album, due to the overplayed, manufactured nature of the singles, the deep cuts were surprisingly more enjoyable.

7/10

surprisingly average sounding? though this album is full of iconic hits! Tracks to Track: Paradise City, Sweet Child O' Mine

I've owned this album for over 30 years and can guarantee I've never listened to the whole thing. To me, this was always a 3 song album. The first listen through confirmed why I felt that way so long ago, and while it feels harsh, I rated it 3 stars. Listening through again, I can bump it up to a 3.5ish, but in the end it keeps falling to a 3 because so much of the album doesn't do much for me. And this project is 'Albums' to hear before you die, not just 'listen to the hits off of an album'. And while I laud GNR's ability to drop some literally timeless tracks on their debut album, as a whole, it's hits and misses for me.

It's fine. Axl is so lame. Acting cool and tough is the lamest shit ever. When I was a kid I thought Guns N' Roses was the best band name ever, I cannot see the world the same way that kid did anymore. Had a sick ass Gn'R logo baseball cap back in college that I wore mostly for the design having ceased enjoying any of their music by that time. The singles are all I'd ever want to listen to going forward but I've already heard them hundreds of times and that's enough.

Suffice it to say it rocks but I never want to listen to it again.

Don't like, but gotta respect!

Christ, I haven’t listen to these in a minute, me and max grew up with albums like this one in the car for most car journeys so coming back to it feels pretty nostalgic, but also tricky cause Gun N’ Roses are one of the rock bands that I’ve never really gone back to, I was never that interested generally in there catalogue. I found some enjoyment in the Use Your Illusion albums but other than that I didn’t go near them, so listening to this album borderline felt like listening to a new album for the first time (minus obviously the big hitters), and damn what a pleasant surprise. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy this tbh. I thought this was gonna be 50 minutes of what would nowadays be considered overplayed and of its time pure cock rock, and there is a bit of that, but I really enjoyed the lesser heard tracks on this album, forgot how hard Mr Brownstone goes that songs opening fucks so hard. The cowbell being ever present from back to front on this album as a drummer is never unwanted, and Axl Rose really had some set of pipes in his heyday (almost as good as he sounds now). But in all honesty the parts that dragged me out with this album were actually the hits, Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City and fucking Sweet Child O Mine. That’s probably because of how popular they are, but I couldn’t help but skip them after the halfway mark, I just can’t stomach them they feel almost superficial with them being some of the most important songs in the change from 80s to 90s hard rock. So yeah overall enjoyed this album except for the popular ones (I’m not like other boys) 3/5 FTW Third Banger in a row lets fucking go ! Before I start this review i'm aware Axel Rose is a diva and a prick. Talk about a legendary debut album, its big, loud and that gorgeous mixture of gritty and flair that makes 80s Rock so fucking delicious. This album is pretty consistent and for that reason I will only really be touching on the tracks that I have the most say about. Opening tracks don't really get any better than Welcome to the Jungle and come on you can see why, that echoing grizzly guitar riff, slowly building up with a rough cry from Rose, the backing guitar, bass and drums all helping to build up to that crescendo of "Welcome to the Jungle, We got Fun and Games !". Say what you want about Axel Rose, I have several negatives, but his vocals on this track fit so well with Slash's screaming guitar. This track for a debut album shows us exactly what Guns and Rose's are, the bluesy rock influenced sound you're gonna hear, the attitude and the grit, its everything Guns and Roses. Its so Easy is a solid track, hearing more bassy notes from Rose, definitely most heavy in the Blues Rock influence, some great licks and solo from Slash but thats to be expected not a bad track just kind of there. Night train is one of my favourite tracks on the album, bopping guitar riffs, you can see why it was one of Slash's favourites to play life, funky basslines with hammering drums, its iconic GnR, very fun track. Paradise City holds a special place in my heart, I remember my Dad showing me this track on CD and being blown away by the build, it felt epic, then in comes Slash with that all familiar screeching riff then at the blow of whistle, in drops the heavy riffs with matching drums and bass, Rose's high pitched vocals cut through it, easily best track on the album in my opinion and it wouldn't be GnR without a face melting guitar solo from Slash. When I was a kid I thought Sweet Child of Mine was the greatest song ever written, now I've grown up I realise its a tad overplayed, not a bad song but definitely one I've heard to death, even the riff is a meme at this point, I still enjoy it maybe once a year mainly for the guitar solo which I will admit is class but yeah take it or leave really. You're Crazy is a great track, that fast paced aggressive 80s gritty rock n roll, all high pitched screams and distorted heavy guitar, probably the track I found myself enjoying most on a relistening of this album, it doesn't overstay its welcome, solid end. Its been interesting listening to album again in full after quite a few years of not really listening to GnR, its a fantastic debut album don't get me wrong but other than a few tracks here and there I didn't really get the same flair from it I used to, still worth a listen every now and then but yeah wouldn't be a regular listen from me. 2.8/5 MTW