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Hot take: Slash is a very good guitar player. Hotter take: this band needed a better front man and better songs. Unlike the Aerosmith album, there was something that redeemed this. Slash pulled this album up to a 2 single handedly.
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What can I say about this album? The opening track "Welcome to the Jungle" sets the scene for a great album, and the massive "Paradise City" and "Sweet Child o' Mine" confirm the greatness. It's just a shame that Axl Rose is such an egotistical twat.
The singles are great. There’s definitely a reason that this is one of the biggest selling albums of all time. The other songs are pretty unimpressive. I am probably biased because I don’t really like glam/heavy/hair metal. I get that people like it and I can kind of understand why, but it really doesn’t speak to me.
Allt låter lite lika. Vissa highlights
Une chance qu'il y a tout les bangers de Guns N' Roses, sinon ça serait vraiment un album creux
The singles are Rock classics, no doubt about it. But if you wanna discover if there are some gem deep cuts inside, don't bother. Strong 2 to light 3
Sweet Child O’ Mine is a much better song than I remember. Overall, listening to this album was not a negative experience, but I found myself losing focus to it as it progressed. I also would zone back in during some moments of vulgarity that were not my favorite, which typically doesn’t bother me, but I would not say it was a bad album by any means. Definitely found myself nodding along to the songs. Metal rock album, as expected.
I'm not a big GnR fan, but even I admit this was a pretty impressive debut, I think it has most of their bests songs. So relistening this, I was happy to hear songs like Welcome to the Jungle and the other sings, but some of those deep cuts are not good at all. I always get thrown off by It's So Easy, because it sounds like Axel Rose isn't the primary vocalist, and often have to go check my music isn't on shuffle. Standouts: Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child O' Mine
Classic, for me this has some serious nostalgia, I can’t even say it’s aged or not since I keep it in rotation. Good drinking music, the cowbell just rips on some tracks. I wouldn’t be surprised if other folk thought giving this 5 is too much, but to me it’s just so good.
Perfection. Doesn't have a bad song.
I have to give this album a lot of credit, Slash, Axl Rose and the rest of the group sounds fantastic, the vocals are on point. The guitar tone is great. There is high production value. There is no doubt these guys can play. I really enjoyed the highs of this record, unfortunately there still felt like a lot of fluff. The lyrical content is a bit drab, and Slash solos that don't hit are just kinda noodle-y. Since it was blandly received, I wonder how it compared to the contemporaries of 1987. Still, not bad for a debut album. I don't have the relevant information in my noggin to compare the era Poison, Bon Jovi, Twisted Sister, Hair Metal/Glam/Arena Rock to give it its proper rating. Review of Reviews: People appreciate the musicianship, but it's quintessential boomer rock. Best Track: Paradise City
This album is a lot of fun.
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boomer mode
Now I know why the parents wanted to ban Rock n Roll made me want cause a ruckus
A lot more cowbell on this than I remember. Pretty one dimensional album but the highs are so high, some of the greatest arena rock songs of all time on here
5 bangers and, 5, more, bangers
Burnout Paradise groomed me into liking this. The songs are a bit too long so I got tired of them eventually. Holy fuck, there's a 3 screens long review on the global page, do I read it? #𝟴𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹 (𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐡)
I'm only on sweet child of mine but this album pisses me off so much I have to rate it now all these bands, groups, singers, artists and albums sound the exact fucking same I had to search up who made "Run to the hills" because I they sound identical to half the songs on this album i want to rate it a 1 out of protest for how bad it is but it's still not Beatles tier bad but me rating it a 2 does not bring me joy the last straw was the WOAH WOAH WOAH MY MICHELLE MY MICHELLE MY MICHELLE MY MICHELLE and I'M THINKING ABOUT YOUU YOUUU UUU UUU UUU YOUUUUUU screaming
Another ridiculously strong debut, killer throughout. Taking cues from Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and so many others but making all sound new and fresh. Great from start to finish.
i can't tell if it's because i have been inundated with these songs my entire life or if i genuinely dislike this stuff so much, or both. but i'm sorry, this sucks so bad. i usually do not mind non-conventional singing voices but axl rose's voice is so shrill and awful. the music is so beyond cliche and the production is so flat. the only people who are into this are teenage boys and middle aged men longing to be teenage boys again. no in-between. i can't imagine listening to this and thinking it's awesome. it just is the antithesis of what i like in music. no thanks.
Не очень моё, но сделано круто и правда очень интересно слушать
Lyrically hilariously bad. Music bonkers but it wasn’t too offensive surprisingly
So much energy in this album. Axl and Slash at their best. Definitely the best Guns N' Roses album
Loved this album as a kid. Its aged well
One of the easiest 5/5 i'll ever give. Every song is top drawer. All time classic.
5/5 - One of the best metal albums ever made, iconic.
It's difficult to rate this album objectively with it having some of the most overplayed songs ever. I think most of this albums hovers around a score of 3 but the strength of the 3 big songs elevates this to a strong 4. Slash's playing is great throughout. Vocals sounded a little off in places, like they were spliced together. Incredible for a debut album.
This album tells you everything you need to know about itself, the band and where their career would go within the first two songs. Welcome to the Jungle is ripe to spill out of the open doors of every Trans Am, I-ROC and Mustang in the parking lot. You can hear how many thought they were the United States heirs to AC/DC: sex and indulgence obsessed. A dash of Aerosmith but harder as they put another button on their jean jacket and saved up cash from their part time job for tickets to the coliseum-arena show. And yet by the conclusion of It's So Easy any attentive listener is aware that Axl has enough casual misogyny and lyrical carelessness to go around that many of these songs will not age well. The more prescient among them might even be able to see that if given enough leash this dog is going to tie itself up and make a mess out of everything. And, while It's So Easy isn't as musically lazy as You're Crazy or Anything Goes it gives the listener an idea of where the floor of this album might be. I will try to not hold the diminishing returns of GN'R Lies, Use Your Illusion I, Use Your Illusion II, The Spaghetti Incident?, and Chinese Democracy against this record i.e. over the course of their career Guns N' Roses has proven itself to be nothing more than a one or two-star band. There is enough evidence on Appetite For Destruction alone to warrant the assignment of 2 stars despite a handful of era defining singles and the record being 18x platinum. There will be plenty out there who think that I'm wrong, but I write this review after listening to the record twice in a row today to give it my honest re-assessment and I admitting that when I first heard it coming out of the open door of my older sister's friend's Camaro at an impressionable and tender age I was absolutely thrilled.
r o b e r t s p o s i t iv e r e v i e w c o r n e r! lot of people have been saying thay iv been acting mean on these album doohicky reviews, but i just wanna set the record straight nd tel the folks that im a positive person! and i dont just mean hepatitis! therfore this will be only positive review! so no bad gravy. okay! good. i lieik guns n roses because this album has three really good songs on it i liked the album about spaghetti because the cover has a picture of spghwtti noodles on it i dont like any of the songs but thays okay i do love me some spaghetti! ¿¿With?¿ - garlic bread with - parmesan (mmmm) AND, dont froget, lots of love in ery bowl.)) now gnr lies had all those genuinely hateful and sincere n words and f slurs in it but they really made up for it with chinese democracy! everyone liekd that! we'll get em next time boys they said i like their greayest hits because 35.71% of the songs are other peopels songs so anyway guys that was my robert positive album review yaaaaay
An iconic album - the hits are great when I'm in the right mood for them, but they are definitely overplayed. Most of the rest of the album is a chore to listen to. It's alright.
A classic album from when I started listening to more rock during middle school. Still good, but I think my tastes have matured? Axel Rose has pretty insane vocal range.
There are no better baseball walk-up songs than “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Paradise City”. I knew someone who was a huge G&R fan when they originally came out. Not for the music, but for their authenticity. They thought that all the hairbands in the 80s tried to look like they were heroin addicts, “but these guys really ARE heroin addicts!” And that was enough.
Yup, this album totally bounced off me. It’s not *awful,* and I don’t begrudge anyone for loving it as many clearly do, but it repulses me more than it attracts. A combination of things… maybe it’s the lead singer, whose skrelt-y lines are a big turn off for me and make it hard to take this seriously. The general feeling of sleaze and excess you feel burdened by listening to this record… maybe I’m projecting that, and maybe I’m just stuck up, but it feels like that late-80’s turn where the arenas keep getting bigger and the songs get more excessive. I’m not even saying the music is overproduced, it just isn’t super exciting to me after listening for a while. Right around this year (88 or 89?) is where I start getting off the hard rock train and feel like things take a turn for the worse. I don’t think Sweet Child of Mine is even that great, or at least great enough for me to start having fun for any of the rest of the album. I might just be wrapped up in all the places I’ve heard Guns N Roses play, what I associate them with, maybe that’s what’s doing it for me. But other albums we’ve had have had me start out with extreme prejudice against, and they won me over! No, there’s just something I feel repulsed by, and I can’t explain it. Sorry it took me two paragraphs to come to that conclusion… 2/5
4.5/5
It's been a while since i've really heard an album I hated. That's mostly because i've listened to a lot less music that's new to me this year, and when I do i've stayed in familiar territory. Unfortunately I decided to start listening to more music again and started the 1001 albums list more seriously. Good because I get exposed to more music I like, bad because there are some real significant hitters that I know I hate and don't want to hear. I got this one after an eight day streak of good albums, as if my luck was tempting fate and I had to be batted back down into submission. I've obviously heard this album before, and besides that I, like anyone else vaguely familiar with popular music and a general interest in rock music or anything pushing heavier, have heard the bigger cuts from this a good thousand times. I don't think I ever really loved, or so much liked this band, despite enjoying Sweet Child o Mine back in the day, but that was probably more thanks to having started learning guitar than having any huge interest in the worst end of "hard" rock. Nowadays, though i've been on a drought of it for a while, I love heavy metal and old people rock, though i've still got a little distaste for the weaker hard rock elements in those early trad albums. This is barely hard rock, definitely not metal, and lacks pretty much all of the elements of the good attempts at both those genres. I don't think i've heard an album as lyrically embarassing as this. I mean it's hardly the first rock album with a lazy single-minded focus on sex and women while half-heartedly attempting to look "cool", but i've not found too many that really take this much of the cake. If i'd written "It's So Easy" i'd have burned the paper it was written on to save myself the sheer embarassment of even the idea someone else would read it. I've scarcely seen a lyric as bad as "I see you standing there/You think you're so cool/Why don't you just fuck off". It's not the only forced swear attempt that just comes off as a 12 year old's first day knowing the word fuck. "Out ta Get Me" for example is one of the better actual songs on the album (not that that means much) but mars itself with more embarassing lines like "I'm fucking innocent" and "'Cause I got something I've been building up inside/For so fuckin' long" and the extra-gold "So you can suck me". That's not even touching on Axl's vocals which are really poor. They make no real impact, aside from grating, they're vaguely high-pitched in the vein of some great 80's metal vocalists but with absolutely zero of the actual worth or intrigue of those (thinking Bruce Dickinson or King Diamond). Instrumentally there's mostly nothing going on. I think the best stuff is the guitar on Sweet Child o Mine, which is also probably the best song here, but even then it's running too long. The last minute of that song is them singing "Where Do We Go?" repeatedly, as they know as much as anyone how go-nowhere the songwriting is, and how artificially extended each song is. Why is "Paradise City" nearly 7 minutes long? Who on this planet needs to hear 7 minutes of that song? Also just to top off the lack of ideas, two songs here with moans in, and both male and female just so they can fill the market of both male and female listeners who enjoy sexual moans permeating their music. At the end of the day it's a very popular and successful album so i'm clearly not the majority opinion, and that's fine, so long as that majority keep this album away from my ears for the forseeable future.
Like some of the songs, again not really my scene. 3/5
This album, aside from its singles, doesn't have much meat on the bone. This band gave us Slash and some great songs, from this album and others, but overall not as big of a musical moment as far as I'm concerned
Een van de allerbeste rocknalbums ooit, als je welcome to the jungle als eerste nummer hebt ben je ene hele grote
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I feel like I’m watching an episode of Headbanger’s Ball the last 2 days. Axel Rose has aged along with me. :). Strange to think he is just a bit older than me. He seemed so much older when I was in late HS and early college. TD said Sweet Child of Mine was the song to which he used to think of me.
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-YEAHHHHH ANOTHER ROCK ALBUM -some mf GUNS N ROSES -welcome to the jungle is SO good -nasty perfect guitar in this song fr -i might be messing with fate and the spirits for saying this but i might like guns n roses better than metallica -just because i had a metallica album the other day so i can compare -lead singer of guns n roses is DOING IT FOR ME! awesome voice -nightrain is also really good -omg obsessed with the day in the life we are given in mr brownstone -i am really enjoying all of these songs -overall this is a GREAT album and is getting four stars from me
Ok so this sucks. But if you forget how much it sucks it's a lot of fun.
One of my favourite parts of recorded music in general comes at about 1:53 into Nightrain, when Rhythm Guitarist Izzy Stradlin gets to play his only solo of the album, delivers 8 bars of the most underwhelming pentatonic nonsense ever recorded, panned to the left side of the mix as if they engineer was saying ‘It’s alright, this is just the Rhythm Guitarist’ before Slash comes in, blows Stradlin away with like two bends, and basically doesn’t stop shredding for the rest of the fucking song
Yeah, ok
Classic! Great album! 4-4.5/5
- Absolutely nothing beats Welcome to the Jungle - Shit bangs - Vocals and guitar are fantastic - 4.5
- some real classics on here - didn’t love some of the other songs tho
Några riktiga klassiker men också flera halvbra låtar.
Mycket som är bra och svängigt, men även en hel del låtar som är sådär. Faktiskt de flesta. Blir ändå en stark 3:a
#1 otroligt bra (klassiker) #2 svagare #3 bra #4 bra #5 bra #6 mästerverk #7 svagare #8 bra #9 mästerverk #10 ok #11 ok #12 bra Svagare avslut. Tre riktiga höjdare!, odödliga låtar. En del svagare. Några bra, men kommer aldrig lyssna på igen. Blir nog runt en trea. Kommer inte återvända till albumet på samma sätt som Muse och Kendrick.
Slash är otroligt bra. Axl lite ojämn men överlag bra. Stabil rockplatta.
Ett av de bättre hårdrocksalbumen som gjorts och GnR:s bästa.
People say that Nevermind killed hair metal, but I think the beginning of that started with this album. This is not hair metal even though they had similar looks. This was straight ahead hard rock closer to AC/DC than Poison. There is a serious rawness of this record which helped the overall album. It can also not be understated on how big this album was when it was released. Nothing was like it.
I loved this album when I was around 18 years old and listened to it a lot. It's a great debut album with so many hit songs. The hits are the best here. Probably I wouldn't like this album that much if I lived in the US and listened to these songs every day on the radio...Sweet Child'O Mine is played in Europe a lot, but that's one song that I will never get tired of. I am not a fan of late 80s hair metal but this is more hard rock. It's a 4 from me overall.
I see the appeal obviously, but GnR have never really done much for me. Apart from a couple of songs (Welcome to the Jungle and Patience) they mostly bore me. There is some good guitar playing on here and they certainly have energy, but nothing on this album changed my mind.
a begrudging 5 stars
Could’ve been a 3 if not for all the weird moaning
It's not my preferred genre, but it is an exemplary example of it.
Rock n Roll at it’s finest. Their first album and they come out like this?!?!
5/5 nothin else to say
I can understand how this would be regarded as an iconic album. However, in my opinion, that is purely based on three excellent songs which served to be three of the bands biggest hits. Around those songs there was nothing that stood out to me at all upon first listen, I thought the other songs were pretty insignificant.
One of the best most shaping early rock and roll albums with hits like "Welcome To The Jungle", "Sweet Child O' Mine", and "Paradise City" some of the greatest hits of rock history still played today
Heel erg cliché maar wel vibe
There's something crusty, dusty, and nostalgic about this music to me, which recalls memories of hearing these songs playing on low volume in the background from radio stations in old stores and rundown ski chalets. Favourite song: Welcome to the Jungle, Nightrain
It's good, just played way too much.
lots of hits
I knew the hits going into this, Sweet Child O Mine is one of the standouts to me but the songs are too long to me. And some of the lyrics are very lame. I also liked Paradise City and It’s So Easy but this didn’t make me into a GNR fan.
Amazing rock album
The most iconic mainstream heavy rock album of the 80's. When you consider Steven Adler is an amazing time keeper and is the "least" talented musician of the group let's you know just how good this crew was.
The overall impact on the music and especially hard rock of this album is really high. It mends old hard rock with modern hard rock. Important stuff.
There's at least 4 hits on this album, Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Mr. Brownstone, and Sweet Child O' Mine. That right there is pretty impressive. This album was huge, I remember it being played constantly at the time. It seemed to bring metal more mainstream at the time. Huge hit for a debut album, overall it's still pretty good
I'm not going to listen to this again. It's fantastic. Top of their game. So unbelievably sick of GnR. Four out of Five -- these guys were doing their thing in the metal genre about as well as anyone ever has. But I refuse to pollute my music streaming algorithm with this album.
Massive hit album for GNR. Most of their best known songs were all off this album. Signature Slash sound on all the tracks. 53 straight minutes of Axl Rose's voice was a little much though.
Screamy metal with occasional delights…but mostly screamy metal.
"Welcome to the Jungle" - what a way to start this project! "Paradise City" is one of my all-time favorite rock songs. "Sweet Child o' Mine" is a stone cold classic. Rest of the album is good but none of the songs particularly stands out. "Rocket Queen" sounds just like "Welcome to the Jungle."
Hoo boy, THE Guns N' Roses album. With hits like Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City and Sweet Child O' Mine this album delivers that classic GNR that everybody knows. It's also GNR at their peak which is kind of funny considering it's their debut album. I don't really know of any other mainstream band that peaked at their debut and released mediocre album after mediocre album but still somehow managed to stay relevant for years to come. Other than the 3 mentioned hits I don't really see myself coming back to listen to anything on this album so for that this gets a 3/5.
If you want to bang your head then its a great album. Fast paced, great guitar riffs and solos etc
Probably the greatest debut album ever made One of my all time greats Best I’ve heard from this list yet as well
Honestly really lame except for welcome to the jungle. But otherwise really secular and not my jam
The big songs still hold up, although all of them are longer than they really should be (Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child O' Mine). The deep cuts weren't revelatory at all, and by the end of this I was ready for it to end. A bit too much wailing, a bit too much riffing, a bit too much of everything. It feels excessive and verges on headache-inducing by the end of its bloated runtime.
Something to move rock away from hair metal. The hits rock. The misses miss, but not by much.
Repetitive, very generic. Guitar riffs are forgettable. The best thing I can say about Guns N' Roses is how good they are at tricking people into thinking screeching counts as singing.
There's not a better hard rock album. GnR distilled everything good from 70s/80s rock and channelled it through a world-historical dose of cocaine and ego to put out a record that nobody can top - all written and recorded in like a month or something. So many all-time great riffs, licks, solos, and hooks - incredible songwriting. Slash comes in like a squal - blasting constant leads and squealing pinch harmonics all over the place (even while the verse is going on). His playing is blistering but also that much more melodic and memorable than the 80s shredders and the sound is so huge. The rhythm section is rock solid - Duff Mckagan's punk background means the energy never drops. Axl's range is all over the place, starting with a gruff growl and ending up with a glass-shattering scream. He has a really playful articulation, stretching out words or rampaging through them with almost a rapper's cadence - pure rock charisma. This, not grunge, killed hair metal - why bother with anything else once you've heard this?
The sun isn’t greater than the parts. Good talent and styles mix together and the results feel mixed. Best when they create space for some varied landscape in the songs but at times it feels over produced and lacking emotion beyond the wavering wail of Axl a few great songs and many that are lesser reflections of the good ones. Proof… love Buzz by Nirvana came on after the last song and I thought it was from appetite and thought oh wait a second this sounds interesting….
Outside of the singles this album is a snoozer.
Not for me.
Ok, some classics
Excellent debut!
I liked how his voice went up and down. Really good album, loved the guitar.
Someone please tell me that the world will never again have to experience the true awfulness that is an 80's hair band.
better than i realized it was
Classic album that still holds up
A few heavy hitters in an otherwise mid album. An impressive debut.
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Man. I wanted to hate on this one but I just can't. The songs are so well composed. They're long without being tedious and showy but within good taste (for the genre). This album is the culmination of all the heavy metal and arena rock that lead up it. Every track is solid and the only bad thing to say about the singles is that they're overplayed. I hate how much this became the peak commercialization of rock music but hot damn if it didn't deserve it. Take my 5. It deserves it even if I don't want to give it.
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Favorite songs: Sweet Child O Mine Slash riffs so hard in this song. I don't really think other songs on the album come close. Paradise City maybe. Overall the album is pretty ok.
Still good after all these years
All time debut rock album. Great guitar throughout. Maybe a little derivative of other stuff though
LFGOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I haven't heard this full album start to finish in quite some time and it's a great reminder of why Guns N Roses were GOAT for so long. Welcome to the Jungle remains able to get you out of your seat like nothing else, and Sweet Child O' Mine remains a true classic, alongside Paradise City. I'd forgotten about Night Train, another great rock song. While a lot of the other tracks feel almost like 'filler', a filler for Guns N Roses still maintains an epicness that other bands lack. That said, repeated listening also reveals a simpleness to the lyrics (which may be a contributing factor to its success).
Cool rock songs
Honestly entirely composed of bangers
Oof, I know there's a lot of hits on this album, but as a cohesive album, it didn't really capture my attention and seemed pretty phoned in
I really want to hate this more than I do. Sometimes you just have to acknowledge that a few standout tracks (you know the ones) and a great set of pipes on Axl is enough to sort of carry an album in an awful genre. Really hated the artificial vocal effects like on 'Rocket Queen' (yuck, by the way).
I honestly think that Guns N’ Roses never made a single truly great albums. They are a greatest hits band (mainly). But what a greatest hit album that is. The fact that this album includes “Welcome To the Jungle”, “Paradise City” and “Sweet Child O’Mine” is beyond insane. Honorable mention to “Think About You”. I’m just a sucker for that chorus. The rest of tracks range from plain boring to outright annoying. But Rose’s pipes and those few absolute masterpieces are just difficult to really hate.
I thought this was a really strong album, so many classics. I hesitate to give it 5 stars but it's so close in my eyes. Some songs are a bit grating but this album rocks overall.
The cover art is a popular t-shirt design, so of course the average rating is over 3.5. Guns N' Roses were like a movement. This album was like the culmination of hair metal. It was an album my brother always played super loud on cassette and made my parents mad. To me these songs are just memories. They have little to offer me after being so ingrained into my brain. Mr. Brownstone is probably the best one that hasn't been overplayed on radio, in movies and during sporting events.
it's alright, would have liked this better in my teens
Didn't enjoy this much. Although I enjoy some heavy rock, this is a bit too heavy for me and I'm not a fan of Axel's voice.
Un 4, pero porque tiene Sweet Child Of Mine.
Three HUGE hits in one album: Paradise City, Welcome To The Jungle, Sweet Child O' Mine. Good stuff overall
I can't say I was excited to listen to this album, thanks to the ubiquitous nature of classic rock. You can't escape it. Commercials love it. TV loves it. Movies love it. It becomes the background music for a new vacuum cleaner or Tide Pod. Listening to the album reminded me of where it started. Snake boot wearing, long haired, drugged out party animals giving a skull-ringed middle finger to the very lifestyle that their music now is inextricably associated with. Appreciation for this album had been planted. I'm glad I listened to this today.
Woo, they sure are rocking aren't they. Good for them.
yuck
Welcome to the jungle baby! This really brings me back! A staple of my youth that I haven't listened to in ages, this should be fun! Still a fun listen didn't exactly age that well but still worth a listen
a bit boring but I like sweet child o mine.
Pretty mid. Welcome to the jungle, sweet child o' mine and nightrain ate. The moans rocket queen ✨🙏
Cool
Some classic songs but I just can't enjoy his voice.
Classic, metal, 80’s genre defining
Not a big GnR fan
Good music but not my preference.
Good album. The hits are huge, and the non-hits are good too. I've listened to the full album a few times before, so this was an easy listen.
Something has always rubbed me the wrong way about Guns & Roses. Maybe because the lead, Axl Rose, was always in trouble at their height when I was a kid. However, I remember how popular the first track, Welcome to the Jungle, was. I’ll admit. It’s catchy. Hard rock just isn’t my thing. However, this music isn’t bad. Mr. Brownstone is decent. As are Paradise City and Sweet Child O’ Mine. Honestly, the entire album is good. I can see why Guns & Roses is one of the best hard rock bands ever. The musicality is definitely there. Not my favorite genre, but I get it.
Absolute class
So good. Gets better with age.
Some of the greatest hits from a generation that played it to death
Found songs that I’ve never heard before. The one I like most is Thinking About You. It’s got punk elements and then there is acoustic k we the top which is kind of amazing… love it!
Brilliant
I already know this one. Just legendary. The OGs. Incredible Solos. Amazing production. My teenage years were blessed by this album. Paradise city solo is probably what caused a bit part of my passion for guitar. Mr Brownstone is just so catchy Sweet child o' mine of course is just a classic
A quintessential 80's rock album! It is everything that embodies 80s rock - it is loud; it is fast; it is rude; it'll get your heart pumping and your head banging all day long.
girlboss
Axl is a good vocalist (yes I really think this), his register switching and performance is so great and memorable. The guitars solo and drums are incredible. Paradise City is the best song ever. But some songs here on b-side are so void of anything fun, the album gets wack. Anything Goes and Rocket Queen especially suck
Személyes kötődés is van, de remek, alap rock-lemez. 4,7
really good. like REALLY good. idk if I’m skewing my results bc this is the very first day that I’m doing this but i am a huge fan. awesome aesthetic.
This record is undeniable and also I don’t know if I ever really need to hear it again.
I'm a self-confessed Gunners fan. I just can't help myself.
It was great when it came out. Then it got overplayed a million times.
I like how Axl's voice is not always the same.... he's so fun with his voice. Overall, I Love watching these guys live.... LOVE!!! But I'd never sit back and listen to the album... but they are some of the best musicians that ever were... so... 4
Classics that make me want to put a gun to my head if I have to hear them again
ALREADY LISTENED TO IT. ALL TIME FAVORIT
WAT WILLEN WIJ? Blijkbaar meer Rock albums... Guns n Roses, een van de favoriete bands van mn tante. Zo op het eerste gezicht ken ik hier in elk geval 3 nummers van en is dit hun meest bekende album. Benieuwd of de andere nummers een beetje in de buurt komen van de bekendste! De tering dit album rockt echt als een gek. Ik vind de zang altijd wel geinig van hun ofzo? Het is echt ontzettend jaren 80, in de hoek van AC/DC en misschien ook wel Aerosmith. Van die bands vind ik persoonlijk Guns 'n Roses het beste te pruimen, misschien gedeeld met AC/DC. Pfoeee die gitaarsolo bij Paradise City, genieten man. Waaaaaarom zit er een kreunende vrouw bij Rocket Queen. Waaroooooooom. Verdere best wel vermakelijk album! Ik zou dit dus 3,5 ster geven, maar ze krijgen dan net een beetje mazzel en 4 sterren bij dezen. FAVO: Welcome to the jungle, Nightrain, Paradise City, Sweet Child 'o Mine
Scheurende gitaren, die onmiskenbare stem van Axl Rose, het werkt allemaal goed samen. De dynamiek op het album vind ik wat beperkt, er is voornamelijk vol gas te horen. Een paar iconische nummers zijn hier te vinden, waarvan ik de opener van het album ook direct het meeste impact vind hebben. De rest van de hits is voor mij misschien wel een beetje overplayed. Het voelt af en toe wel een beetje als een homogene massa, meer van hetzelfde. Eigenlijk is het precies wat ik van een Guns N'Roses album verwacht had. En voor vandaag is dat genoeg Favorieten: Welcome to the Jungle, Think About You
Solides Album mit vielen Klassikern, Top: Welcome To The Jungle It's So Easy Paradise City Sweet Child O' Mine Flop: My Michelle
Guitar hero / rock band iconic
This was fun! Listened to it flying home, didn't realize the lead had a similar voice to Damiano
6/10 Ça crie, ça crie un peu trop pour moi 😉
Not my favorite genre of rock but pretty close
Nah, couldn't finish this. Just dreadful.
The big singles (welcome to the jungle, paradise city, sweet child of mine) are laser guided great rock songs The rest isn’t too shabby either
its a classic
Album 5/1001 Best song: Mr. Brownstone
Appetite for Destruction is the debut album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. Initially receiving little attention, it wasn't until a year after release, touring, and radio airplay that this album received the commercial success it deserved. This album topped the US Billboard 200 and US Top Hard Rock Albums charts almost a year after release, and it has since been certified 18x platinum in the US (among certifications in many other countries). It became the best-selling debut album of all time, and the seventh best-selling in the US (which makes it one of the best-selling albums globally). This hard rock album stirred up the current rock scene at the time by incorporating similar genres of music such as metal, punk rock, glam metal, and old school blues rock. Guns N' Roses have not produced an album this commercially successful since this debut album, which makes this breakout album all the more unique. Appetite For Destruction is a wild, fun time. It's a classic in the hard rock genre with a few staple songs that everyone should know. It was a blessing to finally listen to this amazing album all in one go. Don't miss out on this album and give it a listen!
It’s an ok classic rock album
7.5
I think this album is particularly standout and occupied a huge and enduring space in the rock scene
The singles on here are good. V sonically coherent
This was the year my family arrived in the US. It took another few years before I was interested in music in general, and specifically in hard rock. I was more into GnR around the time they released the Illusions. Agreed with others that it’s more like 4-5 great songs among filler. They do have a very consistent sound throughout the album. And I don’t know if Mr Brownstone is considered one of the greats but I love that song.
Three or four songs that deserve 4 or 5 star rating. On an otherwise 2 star album.
This was fun, from the first dick punch of 'Welcome to the Jungle' opening the album, to the songs I didn't know but really liked (It's so Easy, Mr Brownstone), to the familiar songs I still know the words to (you know the ones.) A few clunkers but mostly a fun listen.
A tough one. A landmark of 80s metal to be sure. The glam genre taken to its furthest extreme. It is full of excess both in hedonism, layered big arena music and grime and hate. It’s that hate - hate of women and other that drags it down. A double edged legacy.
It's So Easy, Mr Brownstone and Paradise City remind me of a delightfully misspent youth. Incredible debut album, 5 / 5 stars.
Yeah, it's alright. I was never super into GNR growing up, but everyone around me seemed to be so I know most of these songs by heart. Listening to this again this week did nothing to endear them to me more. Can't really diss the guitar playing too much, it's about as good as this big rock style of playing gets, though it has a super dated tone, but man did I find the drums boring. So, I have nothing against it necessarily, but since I would never choose to listen to this again, it's getting a 2 from me.
Honestly, pretty meh on this album. I'm sure it made a big impact, but it's not a fun listen for me in 2023. Maybe I'd like it more if I hadn't heard the singles a million times. I dunno. 2.5/5
Never totally understood the hype for this album, it doesn’t sound that different from most other hair metal albums from the time, just with one of the most obnoxious singers ever. There are moments where I get the hype of this as the best of hard rock, like “My Michelle” and chunks of “Rocket Queen”, but I’d rather listen to the Aerosmith albums they ripped off. C+
Such a great album. So much classic songs. Slash is rocking his Les Paul, Axel is in top form. 4 stars
Probably the first true rock album I listened to! Awesome 🤘🤘
The 3 main songs are still good - the rest are only okay.
I think I've heard half of the songs on here 5,000 times and the other half once. 4/5
lots of familiar sounds,sick guitar
too much bite. sweet child pnice tho
Another that's probably a good 75/100 but can't warrant giving it 4*.
Yeah, so many good jams on this one.
Hard to take this seriously. He sounds so goofy and the music keeps doing unexpected things. Who’s singing kn track 2? Is that still Axl? “It’s so Easy” pretty terrible. Night Train is better. Bread and butter kinda song. Darkness vibes. Slash is a talented guitarist! Mr. Brownstone pretty fun. Paradise City is great. Much better than Jungle. The verses and bridges in these songs are like I’ve never heard them before. I guess they get used selectively in movies/tv. My Michelle has a great riff but it’s goofy as soon as he starts singing. Is this camp? Straight guys dig this? Think About You is straight up a Spinal Tap song. Sweet Child absolutely undeniable but what is up with these guys’ bridges. You’re Crazy is hilarious. I like when it slows down at the end. You’re fucking crazy. What an edge lord. Playing the squeaky toy in anything goes. Basically free jazz metal. Ok. I came around on Anything Goes. Fun song. Alright, last one. An interesting modern Christian groove to start. This one is very silly but they think it’s serious. Nevermind, morning and groaning. The upbeat coda is supremely silly but it’s my favorite musical moment on the album. Coulda played this at church camp. Overall, this is a surprising album but it’s just too dumb.
I was surprised how many songs I knew on this album. BUT I Guns an’ Roses just isn’t for me.
4+/5
Beaucoup de bruit, pas mon style
Heard before: yes I try to be as unbiased as I can when I start listening to these records. But I could not wait for this to be over. Sure, it’s a really skillfully made record. I just hate this band, and they make me feel like a worse human when I listen to them. So I guess, mission accomplished, eh boys? Top tracks: Sweet Child O’ Mine, Paradise City, Mr Brownstone
dakika 1 gol 1 guzel album 👍
i like some hair metal, but this is annoying 2
Bit too heavy for me.
Good first half, bad back half
Pretty good, although many songs sounded the same
Früher gehasst, heute gerne gehört. Mehr 80‘ Rock als Metal
Classic album. I’m just over it.
Lots of hits
Fine, it’s so easy stinks. Thought it’d be overrated going into it and still agree. 4/10.
Okay
listened to again the album isn't incredible overall, but there's so many memorable hits tho
lovely
I wasn’t expecting much from this, and I was pleasantly surprised. In reality it’s just ok, but it has fun energy, and memorable tracks. More of a guilty pleasure. Cool!
Its one of the best
Probably the perfect record.
Un 4, pero porque tiene Sweet Child Of Mine.
if I hear "paradise city" one more time... but in all seriousness, I think the overplayedness of three of the tracks really took me out of it because I'd heard them all the time, especially growing up with my dad in charge of the AUX. other than that, "my Michelle" is a bop, and slash is a musical genius.
heard a million times. great album
Loved this as a kid. Straightforward hard rock with a ton of hits. Nothing groundbreaking, but great at what it does.
Ok... This is just the best album of all times according to me, so for the rest i will have absulutly not objectivities what so ever. #1 in the Billboard, 30+ millions sales, countless awards, a nearly perfect critical sucess, best and more sucessfull debut album of all times ect ect. THE most dangerous album ever made, it have so much to offer. This album was made in 1987 bythe best band of all times: Axl Rose, the unpredictable, insanly charismatic, energetic singer who could sing like no one and probably the best frontman (with Freddy Mercury). Slash, the badass, the man in the hat with long black hair, shades, a guitar genius, and the most iconic guitarist of the 80's. Izzy Stradlin the mysterius rythm guitar player, more reserved but yet so important in songwrting, he is behind a lot of their best songs. The Pirate style-punk guy: Duff "the king of beers" Mckagan, from Seattle he brings the touch of Punk rock that everybody need and he's just so cool and magnificent. Finanly the drummer Steven Adler wich i think is inseparable fo the sucess and perfection of this reccord, with his drums style, but he is just so cool, fun, good vibe and nonchalent, he's perfect too. All Togheter bring a unity and a colaboration of the best elements of the sunset strip at the time to create a monster of decadence and Rock N'Roll. Without talking about the music, this album have a very unique story and origin that make him even better when you know the context behind those songs. Before this album was made, Guns N'Roses was a struggling band, living in a house label "the hell house" bevause of all the decadence, drugs and depravation in it. They were starving, living gigs to gigs, but that create a chemestry so powerfull that explain why this album is so good and feel so real. They release it and nearly a year after its release the sell were bad, like 200 000, and Mtv won't play them, but their label convice Mtv to play the video of Welcome to the jungle at 4 am, and soon after it was the most require video of Mtv and they blow the fuck up music history with Sweet Child O'mine a couple week later alowing it to became so succesfull to this day. The cover is just iconic, the title fit so well the content of the album, and the cross was inspired by a tatoo of Axl who was himself inspired by Thin Lizzy. It was supposed to be a painting named Apetite For Destruction, but it was judged too violent and explicit so they changed it. It was a good move, this cross is so beautifull and well done. Track by track this album is good, like no song are there for nothing, they all mean something, have a story to share and bring more to Apetite. On the vinyl: Side G (Guns) song about violence, drugs, sex and their dangerous lifestyle with brutal riff and lyrics. Welcome to the jungle: When we think of GN'R we have to think of this song, this song just represent them at perfection. Musically is just pure hard rock with a soft bridge, brutal intro, solos, and the bass part, the drums, musically its perfect. The lyrics about the life in a big city like L.A, the drugs, the sex all other vices of a city who just feel like a jungle. This song is also one of their most famous and the diffusion of the video on MTV launch their carrer in 1988. Its so Easy: This is a badass song, about rock n roll lifestyle, and more specifically the sex and all the girls arounf them at a time they were more and more famous, but not yet rich, but they still manage to get all womens around them and have sex with groupies all the times. It was written by Duff, with a cool bass intro that start nearly all their gigs since 1987 and to this day. Some say its mysoginistic, but i think is just what they were living with brutal honnesty. Nightrain: An ode to alcool consumtion and cheap wine that get you drunk in a second. The music is so good and perfecly fit the subject, aparently one of Slash's favorite song to play live. Out ta Get me: A brutal song about Axl's judicial struggle when he was a teenager in Indiana. The riff is one of the more hard/ heavy of the album and show how talented and diverse they are. Mr. Brownstone`: A song about the habbits of the band, comming late to gigs, and their heroin (Browstone is a slang for heroin) addiction with lyrics about drug tolerance. This song is globaly on of the best, honnest and brutal drug song, just direct and no B.S. Musicaly this song is also one of the best with the magnificent intro, riff and solo. Paradise City: Another of their most famous song with an intro recognisable in a thousand, with extremely good guitars part. The verse are about the life in the street of L.A and the chorus is about life in the Midwest and show how they can have a major commercial hit, but will talking about their reckless lifestyle and their unique background (Axl and Izzy are from Indiana) Side R (Roses) While still talking about sex drugs and rock n roll but with a more romantic and semtimental side, like a rose. My Michelle: Its the life of a friend of the band Michelle Young, who have a very dark life, with drugs and death but tell with honnesty and truth that made their reputation. Think about you: "a quick song about Love, Sex, Drugs and Hollywood" -Izzy. A very underated song on the reccord, kind of a sentimental and softer version of Welcome to the Jungle. Sweet Child O'Mine: probably the reason why this album was so sucessfull, this song just show how this band could be sentimental with beautifull love lyrics but not in a cheesy way. The iconic intro, the perfeclty excuted solo, lyrics and the voice (inspired by Lynyrd Skynyrd) made this song still they most acclamed and know to this day. You're Crazy: Originally you're fucking crazy, a weird song probably about a crazy girl who was involved with the band, but still this song show theur reckless style of telling their stories. Anything Goes: Clearly about sex and sexuall submission, still a very badass way to exprim it as they so good to do it. Apparantly one of their oldest song from the Hollywood Rose era Rocket Queen: Rocket Queen: This song is incredible, seprate in two part with a briudge between them. The intro is so fucking cool, the riff is brutal, the bass is leading the song and the lyrics about Barbi Von Grief a girl who was helping the band to survive in their clubs days, it talk about her wish to have a band who was suposed to be call Rocket Queen. The bridge is the little thing that made this song, this reccord and this band the greatest of all times, in that bridge will the guitar solo rage on, we could ear the real sexual moanings of Adriana Smith, the girlfriend of Steven, she was mad after him and Axl propose to reccord while they have sex. The rest of the song in a poem about love and hope with a magic guitare solo at the end. 12 song that make this reccord the most dangerous album of all time, all those song were written by the best, in a very particular moment in times that make them so damn accurate. I think overall this album merge the best influences in rock history and combine them to create the perfect rock n roll reccord: The hard rock music of AC/DC, Kiss, Led Zeppelin or Aerosmith, the commercial sucess of glam metal band of the times like Van Halen, Mötely Crüe or Bon Jovi. But they come from the street of L.A, and they still keep the undergound vibe, the dark subject and dangerous lifestyle of undergound band like Hanoï Rocks, the Stooges and the New York Dolls. With Duff music and their rebel attitude they have a lot of punk influences like the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, The Damned or Johnny Thunders. Their sentimental and glam (rock) style is also inspired by Queen, David Bowie, T.Rex and others. I think they perflecy combine all thoses legendray bands, but still with thei unique indentify and style that they don't copy but create something ot thei own. They not enough space or enough world for me to descrivbe how much this reccord mean to me, i try the best in can to find anything bad to say about this album but i can't. GN'R is polarising, but no one can denied that this album change the game and blow up the rock scene at the time, this album gave us timeless classic and a way of Rocking that no one ever did before. Why this album is so much better than the other heavy metal album or band at the times (Skid Row, Poison, Mötley Crüe, Ratt and other) is because of all of this but more simple, they were just b etter, more honnest, more real, more bad boys, more good looking (with less makeup and flamboyent clothings), more charismatic and better musicians overall. That why i will give it 5/5, if it was one a hundred it would 100/100, 1000/1000 ect. I really hope that some of you will discover and fucking enjoy this reccord and forever remeber it.
Yup I have this one, classic album ofc. Always liked no 2 and 12 apart from the obvious hits.
Took a bit to get back into. Songs are sometimes a little too straightforward but mainly great, and this is a pretty flawless, timeless rock album.
Especially during the Use Your Illusion period I liked this band a lot more than I do today. I can still appreciate the musicianship and energy, but it is not really my thing and Axl Rose's voice can get quite annoying after a while.
In the 80s I played this over and over. Now I still love several songs but don't enjoy the album as a whole enough for full marks.
Fav Songs: Welcome To The Jungle, It’s So Easy, Paradise City, Rocket Queen Least Fav Songs: Out Ta Get Me, Think About You
i think im too young to fully connect with this. but Paradise City..... i also depise everyone who loves this band. you know who you are.
Very pop rocky and songs had a clear formula that got extended for wayy too long, obviously has insane classics, maybe 3-4 songs are actually enjoyable
i am *really* not a hair metal girlie but there was a lot to like in here. except for the outro i can’t stand sweet child of mine. overplayed. welcome to the jungle will always be my nostalgia baby though.
If I had a boner in the 80s, I might have been into this. Never liked Guns N Roses. Still don't! 2/5.
Ok but not good. I can’t really stand this combo of alt rock and hair metal. Thank god Nirvana came onto the scene and blew this shit away.
63/100
I’ve been meaning to check out Appetite for Destruction and I can’t really say I was disappointed. A grand, fun rock record with some brilliant riffs and addictive tunes. On the most part I’m also a fan of Axl Rose’s vocal performances minus some tracks. Don’t get me wrong I don’t think this is exactly a revolutionary rock record like some people do and the last few tracks are pretty plain (wtf are them sex noises on Rocket Queen?!?!?) , but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t really enjoy listening to this record. RATING: 7.7/10
Pre-listening notes: Ok I got eager and looked at my new album at midnight and boy oh boy I let myself down hard. This album fucking OPENS with welcome to the jungle, one of my least fav songs of all time. However, I will give it the benefit of having Sweet child o mine, which is a really great song. I do not think I will enjoy this album tho. Guns N’ Roses is not for me lol. I have now made the vow to only look at my new album in the morning because I don't want to wake up dreading what I have to listen to lol. Post/during listening thoughts: I skipped Welcome to the jungle bc I just... cannot. That song will knock this album down a point alone. It's So Easy and Nightrain are like... good but yeah very Guns n' roses. I think that's how I'll feel about most of this album. Like is it objectively good? Yeah! Is it for me? No! Also let me say I HATE this album cover. Sorry, it's ugly. Mr Brownstone was pretty good, nice melody line. Ohhhh yup I know Paradise City lmao. It has a really nice start to it. I hate My Michelle. Jesus. Sweet Child O' Mine is a classic BUT only bc I think of Stepbrothers. Listen it may sound like I'm actively trying to dislike this album and that's not true. I'm trying so hard to LIKE it. I just cannot stand Axl Rose's voice. Tf is the moaning in Rocket Queen?! Yeah it's exactly what I expected. Gotta listen to some music I enjoy more to cleanse my palette. 3/10. Top Tracks: Mr Brownstone, Paradise City, Sweet Child O' Mine
Better than I thought it would be. Unlikely to listen again but a few hits on the album so it nudges to a 3
Yeah, now we're talking! Obviously this was going to be here. It's hair metal at its finest - It's heavy, it's energetic, it's oh so much fun. Being British I'm lucky to not have been utterly bombarded by these songs at every hour on every radio station, so nothing here sounds too overplayed for me. I'll really show my age here and make people feel old. One of the first exposures I had to this album was in the form of Paradise City being the theme song to Burnout Paradise on the PlayStation 3. I got it for my 10th birthday alongside a DualShock 3. Good times. I think that probably set me on the path to really being into this album. I'll give Criterion credit for that, it's amazing driving music - Luckily I'm a better driver IRL than in the game where crashing into things and causing damage was a core game mechanic. But I digress. This is just an amazing album. Some of the lesser-played songs from this may not be so memorable to me, but they never miss. It's a total hair metal rush for the full 54 minutes. Favourite: You're Crazy
The definitive 1980s hard rock album. Still brimming with swagger, full of great songwriting, memorable riffs and awesome solos. It all fits together amazingly well.
This album has Welcome To The Jungle, Paradise City, and Sweet Child of Mine, but it's a sound I can't fully get behind.
I have never been the world's biggest Guns N' Roses fan, but I grew up listening to this album. This is just real, hard rock and roll by a band that favored debauchery. There isn't a bad song on this album, though one minor complaint would be there isn't a huge change in tempo or a slowed down song. Now, of itself, that's not a huge issue because every album doesn't have to have balladry on it to be essential. Knowing how the band could write and play an incredible slower song, it is just a bit of a shame.
30th August 2023 Listened during the day - took Dusty to be registered, first bath and had tomari g. Some stone cold classics elevate an otherwise pedestrian album. But what classics, the song crafting is great.
Rocks. As one of the most iconic rock albums, it still holds up after over 30 years.
Alfa Slash guitar. My Michelle is the best song. “Take me down to the Paradise City Where the girl are fat and they got big titties”
alfa it's so EZ giving this a 4
The hits are great, some of the others felt like filler songs.
It’s weird how the good songs are so good and the rest are solid crap.
lovely lovely lovely
They became famous despite having Axl Rose as their singer. This album was one of the first I bought as a kid, so I played it a lot. Over the years it's moved to the bottom of the stack and I hadn't played it for years until now. I didn't remember all the songs. That means not all of them are great. About half of the record is awesome, the other half is just OK. Favorite song: Welcome to the Jungle.
Some solid classics in there. All-around good album.
very very nostalgic, such a good album, even tho it doesn’t fit my style
Banger. So many good tracks. As music should be made, by young, angsty artists.
It's like Moyley Crue, but with good songs. 6/10
Ik word boos van Axl Rose. Verschrikkelijke manier van zingen heeft die man. Dat maakt Guns & Roses lastig om naar te luisteren. Al met al viel het me uiteindelijk dan toch mee. Echt genieten kon ik er niet van, maar ik zie nu wel in waarom andere mensen het wel gaaf vinden. Voor mij slechts 3 sterren.
Appropriate for end-of-week entry. Many fantastic tracks, but everything else is very meh! Nice dash of 80s glam rock to set me off for the weekend.
Absolute massive rock album, GNR are still dineing out on this debut, it’s that good they still can.
Too happy.
Decent
Thought about half were forgettable and half were all time classics. Great debut album. Rating: 4.3
guitar hero music. I feel like I lived through the era where this album reclaimed its final large part of cultural significance. Its impact on middle school boys and boomer dads alike is unheard of. jammed with classics but a couple forgettable tracks, none bad though.
Zero stars. Axl Rose's voice is awful.
Highlights: "Welcome to the Jungle," "Sweet Child of Mine," "Mr. Brownstone" Axl Rose's falsetto is beyond parody. That has to be put aside before judging this. "Welcome to the Jungle" is a very well-constructed song, with all the makings of a hit. Can't say the same of the other hits on here. Van Halen and ACDC had been around for a decade; Metallica and Celtic Frost had been around for five years. It's just impossible to justify this pic unless this list were "1001 Singles You Have Probably Already Heard Before You Die". Slash's talent is holding this together, but the album is always some combination of samey, repugnant, and laughable.
Obviously a classic but some of the lyrics have NOT aged well. Despite that, the gritty guitar riffs hit hard and will hype you up as long as you don't pay attention too much to the lyrics.
4.5 pretty epic!
It's not something I will listen to again, with the best tracks overplayed on radio, but there is worse hair-rock
I spent a large portion of my teens loving GnR. Can't deny that it's been played out to a large extent, but i'm not removing stars over that.
Some cool instrumentals, interesting to hear such a funk/alt metal influence overall. But man Axl Rose is annoying. 2.5/5
Meh, only this many stars because of the song trinity
This is not my favorite style of music or band, but it does take me back to being about 8 years old and jamming out with my cousin to this on cassette tape.
A great album.Almost the entire album is bangers.It slopes off towards the end but that doesn’t matter. It has welcome to the jungle,sweet child o mine,paradise city,nightrain and its so easy.which are all amazing songs.The guitar work is amazing and Axl roses vocals are great.Super catchy songs with great energy.Some of the best rock music ever made.
hmm…okay…this album would probably get 4 stars if it was like…3 songs shorter. cut It’s So Easy, Out Ta Get Me, and Think About You. pretty great as far as 80’s guitar music goes. tons if iconic Slash riffage. a little dated but there’s some monster classics here nonetheless. lot of corny ass lyrics, thanks Axl (everyone needs love, you know that it’s true) haha. ya pretty cool i guess.
One of, if not THE, greatest debut albums ever.
Even though this album has some of the biggest hits in rock history (Paradise City, Welcome to the Jungle and Sweet Child O’ Mine), I found much of the rest of the album annoying and overly aggressive. Now, I understand that being bothered by the aggression of a GNR album is a dumb thing to say, but I found all of the non-famous tracks, like My Michelle and Out Ta Get Me, just really not great. An album I would not come back to even though I plan to hear the singles in arenas and on movie screens for the rest of my life. Can’t get away from those!
This was the first album I bought on CD and I know it front to back, though I haven’t listened to it all the way through for the best part of 30 years. What’s changed? I don’t remember noticing Izzy Stradlin’s fantastically louche rhythm guitar when I was a teenager. The misogyny was apparent to me even then, but I’m annoyed by it a lot more now. Some of the lyrics are smarter than I would’ve given credit for. This is a strong set of songs, if you can put up with the hackneyed LA sleazebag posturing: going through the track listing, the only song I couldn’t remember from the title was “Anything Goes”, and playing that again I thought it a fun, minor rocker. By my count, there are 7-8 songs I’d put in their top tier, and the rest aren’t far behind the others. Cartoonish fun, I have left this behind, but I cannot fault it for what it is.
timeless, does anyone not like this?
This has to be one of the most overrated albums of all time. The fact that this has sold 30 million puts into context the 74 million Americans who voted for Trump. Clearly a large chunk of the country is filled with mindless trolls that want to drink Bud Light, listen to Paradise City and objectify women. Sweet Child of Mine is probably the only decent song despite its ubiquity. Everything else sounds like a rip off of better bands that came before.
Wasn't expecting to like it as much as i'm doing rn!
Filled with culturally significant tracks. Movie trailers would not be the same without this album, but it's just not my taste.
Insulting that there’s options besides 5 stars. No skips.
5.0
Despite some hits, not really my taste
Really solid acdc esque
I find him to have one of most insufferable voices in popular rock n roll, maybe only better than Brian Johnson. I would like to please never hear their overplayed hits ever again.
I thought would love it: honestly slightly underwhelmed by an album with so many (3) hits. I just thought that all the other songs would hold more meaning and creativity to them. I get many would call this a banging debut from the holy grail of rock bands but I was left with a feeling of slight confusion on where the hype was.
GNR are an overrated band but it’s difficult to deny the significance of this record, a debut no less. Lots of bangers that still hold up to this day.
good old LA sleazy street rock
Slash is good, Axl can't sing tho
Hey look it's every classic rock station from when I was a kid (it's fine).
overrated 3/5
One of the biggest rock bands of the 80’s-90’s. I am familiar with the biggest hits of this album but I never listened to the whole thing. Overall the non-famous songs were good to ok. Axl Rose is a cunt.
They play real well good. Arenarocknroll.
GnR still Rick. There's a reason this album was such a big hit. There are 3 perfect songs and every other one is a 8 or 9 out of 10.
10/10
Yeah, this is a full 5. Great rock from start to finish with great groves, rifts, bass lines, and singing. Plus, it was a album that change the music scene at the time. Favs: Rocket Queen, Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise city, Sweet Child O' mine, It's so Easy, Mr Brownstone.
1. 5 2. 2.5 3. 3 4. 4 5. 3.5 6. 5 7. 2.5 8. 3 9. 5 10. 2.5 11. 3 12. 4 =3.6 Objektivno je ovaj album čista 5ica, sve pjesme su generalno jebene. Neke ocjene su slabije čisto iz razloga što nisu baš moj đir, ali jako sam uživao u albumu. 4.5/5
Hard rock/heavy metal lektira 1. 5 2. 5 3. 4 4. 3 5. 3 6. 5 7. 3 8. 4 9. 6 10. 3 11. 4 12. 5 4, 17
Yllättynyt ei mainstream biisien laadusta... hyvää työtä tytöt...
#62 all time artist on my last.fm This is a debut album. A DEBUT. And arguably their best.
Þetta er þrælskemmtilegur nostalgíu-bunki.
wow, did guns n' roses go hard on their first full length album or what? they opened with "welcome to the jungle," which is a banger of an opener and is still so great after all these years. this album does contain three of their biggest hits, and in these kinds of situations with previous albums, the other songs typically are lackluster. that didn't happen here--gnr went all the way, even on sentimental tracks like "think about you." i say sentimental, but you know what i mean. even songs that aren't hits, like "mr. brownstone," are absolute bangers. appetite for destruction (an amazing album title if i ever heard it) was a fun album, plain and simple. it didn't invite deep discussion like bob dylan or leonard cohen's music does, but it's enjoyable, as music should be. 3.5
Damn, what an outstanding debut album. It's hard to believe that a band could churn out such absolute timeless jams as "Welcome to the Jungle", "Sweet Child O' Mine", and "Paradise City" all on their first album, but Guns n' Roses did it. The other songs on the album, though not as big of hits, are also consistently excellent. GNR is just one of those bands that had a winning formula from the beginning. This isn't a particularly "deep" album; it's just fun music!
I'm not the biggest Guns N' Roses fan, but the amazing thing about this record is how they burst forth fully formed right from the start. Some bands start out tentative and take off over time. Some bands have a great first record and evolve. GNR is definitively already an iconic band on track 1, side 1 of their first album. It's pretty remarkable.
love it. quintessential rock, made me look into their history more, and not sure what to think of axl rose (axl rose husband, is the only thing I am thinking), great tunes, and insane debut album. but sweet child is just so overplayed. every cool kid plays that shit over and over again. still great song tho so...
A bit of a reaction to the bland, "good vibes" hard rock of the era. This is a mix of gritty and dark lyrics with music to match. Axl's vocal range is the stuff of legends. Sounds a bit too much like Aerosmith, too often for my tastes, and the lyrics haven't dated well (unless you still enjoy heavy doses of misogyny). Still, it's a groundbreaking record and the band probably would have been even bigger than they were if it weren't for another music scene ready to redefine the genre on the short horizon.
I love this album. I hate this album. Appetite for Destruction came into my life at a crucial point. I was probably 11 years old and just starting to discover my own masculinity. Being an overtly masculine group Guns n' Roses had an immediate appeal to me along with Motley Crue and Def Leppard. This was a drastic shift from my early pop obsessions like Boy George, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Paula Abdul, and Michael Jackson reflecting my newfound identity. For a whole summer loud, macho bands were all I wanted to hear. It was only another year or so before the hair metal era ended and my tastes changed again. Nirvana, The B-52s, Pearl Jam, and The Violent Femmes challenged notions of portrayals of masculinity in popular music. This was a deeper thing and I moved on from GnR's overt butchness. I cringed at how cool I thought Def Leppard looked and strutted. But isn't that what adolescence is? Cringing at the person you were only six months ago? Revisiting this album now I am able to reconcile all of this art that I liked. Appetite For Destruction is over the top with masculinity but it also has everything that makes a great record: well-crafted songs, brilliant performances, listenable production. I hate this album. I love this album.
Culturally, one of the most important albums of a generation.
classic
Pretty all right.
Bangers is bangers but everything else a bit samey
Painfully samey
fucking state of this cunt's voice man
Takes me back to the summer of 1987, a year before this album was played everywhere. Me and my friends got it on import with the original album art (that got banned I think?) and for one year we got to play it to death before it was a hit in the UK. It's a great debut album, even though some tracks are covered too much by other bands and get too much radio play. That doesn't seem like a valid reason to knock off a star though, so it's the full 5-stars from me, even though it's not a genre (hair-metal) I normally appreciate, it's just such a great album!
I could quite possibly sing most of the lyrics on this or at the very least list the next track on most of this
All-timer!
I will never understand how an entire generation of girls fell in love with this man's irritating voice.
Another all timer. This is 10 stars. What a smash.
Multiple times during this project, I've found myself going "man, it's really good that I haven't really bothered to listen to mainstream music much in the past ten or so years," because man, I can understand being SICK of these songs. When I still lived with my dad, he'd put country radio on, and god damn, I quickly decided that modern country wasn't my thing, I tell you what ... Anyway, where were we? Oh right, overplayed drivel. Appetite for Destruction is the first time during this venture in which I've wondered if that would even matter. Oh, I understand why Welcome to the Jungle and Sweet Child o' Mine are well beloved, but understanding and finding enjoyment myself are two different beasts. What is now ambivalence would surely be groan inducing pains and hair pulling if I was more in the loop in regards to radio play. I did not mention Paradise City yet, because I ... actually like it? I don't know what the science is behind this, so I'll just roll with it, I guess. The rest is similarly a hit or a miss. Rocket Queen was a fun ending, and Nightrain was a blast, but this album altogether just feels pretty average. Pretty alright.
This album is pretty darn good. Had some nice recognizable hits on it. Was fun to listen to. Here are my individual song reviews... Welcome to the Jungle (8/10): Such a banger. The Axl Rose moans are classic. It's So Easy (6/10): Sounds like a Guns N Roses song, but didn't have anything special to set it apart. Pretty solid but only slightly above average. Nightrain (7.5/10): I liked the feel of this song. It was pretty upbeat and felt like more of a feel-good song. Out Ta Get Me (5.5/10): Decent feel, didn't really stick with me in any way. Mr. Brownstone (5.5/10): I believe this song is about some sort of drugs, so I can't really say I relate. Had a nice sound to it though. Paradise City (9/10): TAKE ME HOMEE absolutely love this song. My Michelle (6.5/10): I got into this one a little bit, I didn't really expect to. Pretty decent. Think About You (7.5/10): I never heard this one before, I really thought it was kinda good actually. Sweet Child O' Mine (8.5/10): OK yeah this one is a little overplayed but still a beautiful song. The riff on this one is a classic. You're Crazy (8/10): This one had me up and dancing! Did not expect this so be such a banger. Anything Goes (7/10): I liked it! Not out of this world or anything but it was a good song. Rocket Queen (7/10): Great song!
Just wonderful
When I was 16 I was OBSESSED with Guns n' Roses. But the strongest fall the hardest, and my obsession turned into a severe hatred. Even now, almost 10 years later I can't listen to GNR without cringing. And the fuckers are everywhere still. So there is no way I can be objective about this track. 3.5, because I can't deny how great their debut album is, but if I have to listen to Sweet child o'mine or Paradise city one more time, I'll blow my brains out.
Incredible album that defined hard rock/metal for a generation. Its hard to look at anything past and see that it still shines despite knowing what we do now about the artists and the environment, but this album does indeed continue to shine. 5/5
I cannot stress enough what a breath of fresh air this album was in '87-88. Music, especially hard rock and metal, was awash in spandex, party tunes and power ballads, bereft of real feeling. At the edges, you had the cracklings of change that would happen a few years off, but from the vantage point of what you heard on the radio, there was little there that wasn't more of the same old. This was an album that came out of left field, spreading like wildfire by word of mouth and passed hand to hand on cassette. Thanks by the way to Amy Meyer for passing this album to me. Windows down, full volume, we had a blast. So, this little masterpiece. What made it special? GNR actually made blues rock and metal sound vital again. They share as much DNA with Aerosmith and the Rolling Stones as they do with AC/DC and Van Halen, with a dash of glam and even punk. It's raw-edged and mean, assertive, scuzzy, riffy wonderfulness. There's also a strong sense of melody and songcraft just under the grime that makes these songs catchy and memorable as hell. All you need to hear is a few opening notes to "Sweet Child O' Mine," and that song will live in your brain for days. And you want it there, it's so damn good. Before the band imploded under their own weight, GNR had the world in their hands for a time, and it was good. Very much of its time, but the album has aged well, as all classics do. Fave Songs (All songs, from most to least favorite): Welcome to the Jungle, Sweet Child o' Mine, Paradise City, Mr. Brownstone, Rocket Queen, You're Crazy, Nightrain, It's So Easy, Out ta Get Me, Think About You, Anything Goes, My Michelle