Reviews (page 13 of 15)
Won't listen again on purpose
I can see why people love it but it just ain’t for me. Welcome to the Jungle is a great opener and Mr Brownstone is pretty good but other than that I was a bit bored. Sweet Child O’ Mine is what Proud Mary is to Middle Aged white women but for smelly grebs.
Meh
Putting my biases out in the open here: When this album came out in 1987 I was a kid, but I was into skateboarding. Skateboarding was a huge influence on my musical tastes. Thrasher Magazine at the time, which I bought and read, had interviews and features on punk and hardcore bands; there were ads for Black Flag and Misfits t-shirts; Thrasher produced those Skate Rock tapes (the Noise Forest volume with that Pushead art!). The pokey little town where I grew up transformed the curling rink into a skatepark filled with half and quarter pipes in the summer, and punk and hardcore was always blasting in there. This was also a time of musical tribalism, and so while I was too young to be involved in all of that stuff, there were always rumours of fights going down between the skaters and the rockers. Guns n' Roses was of course rocker music. Those were the guys who were going to beat you up for riding a skateboard, and, fairly or not, the band has always carried that association to me. So I am predisposed to not like this, and even though I'm trying my best to listen to it with an open mind, I still don't like it. G n' R is a tight band, but this to my ears sounds like an amped up version of 70s butt rock that I also dislike. I guess in the context of the hair bands coming out of LA at the time I can see the appeal, this is tougher and ballsier and bluesier and more nihilistic than that stuff; though a lot of great guitarists came out of that era, Slash stands apart from the more technically-inclined shredders. But it's still all music for dudes who read guitar magazines. I wish there were more good riffs in here. I don't like Axl Rose's vocals; I like his lyrics less. I get they're trying to portray this gritty life of drugs, booze, and sex, but it doesn't do much for me, doesn't give me any kind of insight or understanding into living that kind of life.
Very horny. Driven by singles.
Groupe connu par quelques tubes, peu apprécié ('hard' rock trop mou). C'est donc la première fois que j'écoute un album entier. Il confirme mon opinion précédente sur le groupe : rock très standard et très mou. La même année Anthrax sortait 'Among The Living' (en plus il est dans la liste !), un album bien plus intéressant que j'écoute encore régulièrement presque 40 ans après ... Aucune chance que ça arrive avec 'Appetite For Destruction', qui sera aussi vite oublié qu'écouté, sauf peut être le riff de 'Sweet Child o' Mine' plutôt sympa. =>2/5
Doch überraschend besser als in Erinnerung. Nach langer berechtigter Distanz kann man es zumindest anhören. Nur zwei Sterne, weil immer noch guns n Roses. Mit November Rain wären es drei gewesen.
Es ist bekannt, dass ich GnR schon immer gehasst habe und bin jetzt trotzdem open-minded durch das Album gegangen, aber es ist immer noch schrecklich! Ich verstehe bis heute nicht, warum es diese drei Lieder auf dem Album geschafft haben zu Welthits zu werden und in jeder Kneipe hoch und runter gespielt werden. Intrumental repetiv, Gesang richtig kacke und der Text richtig bedeutungslos, wenn nicht sogar dumm. Hier haben sich Männer getroffen, die es super cool finden auf ihren Gitarren rumzuschranzen und übers Knattern und geile Frauen zu singen. Alles okay und auch soweit verständlich, wenn sie sich aber damit doch bitte auf ihre Garage beschränken würden. Die gesamte Musikrichtung bleibt mir ein ewiges Geheimnis, weil es wohl irgendwas härteres als Rock sein soll, aber Metal ist es auch nicht richtig. Da kommt das wohl mit "hard-rock" her. Ich schwanke zwischen ein und zwei (aus Höflichkeit und objektivem Erfolg) Sternen und muss morgen früh spontan entscheiden, wie die Stimmung ist, wenn ich das Cover nochmal sehe, aber ich befürchte wenig Gutes für GnR.
Para ser totalmente sincero, eu já vim para esse álbum esperando odiá-lo. Guns N’ Roses é igual AC/DC pra mim, no sentido que tenho um grande preconceito com ambas as bandas. Por motivos semelhantes, ambas possuem inúmeras canções que sou constantemente forçado a engolir à seco, sendo exposto e subsequentemente irritado profundamente por elas. Mas aqui mora a surpresa, e o meu choque. Eu não odiei este disco. Nem mesmo as canções que são tocadas o tempo todo em todos os lugares medíocres imagináveis. Nada aqui me causou repulsa semelhante ao disco Highway To Hell do AC/DC. Aquele sim eu achei verdadeiramente intragável e tive que me esforçar pra conseguir finalizar. Já esse aqui passou mais facilmente. Não se engane, tolerar não é gostar. Apenas tolerei esse álbum e suas irritações. A voz de Axl Rose é uma delas, a maior. O jeito que ele canta rapidamente irrita. Além disso, achei as canções em larga medida genéricas. É aquele Rock de colocar pra tocar e esquecer que está tocando. São músicas animadas, mas todas parecem seguir a mesma fórmula, tornando o álbum dolorosamente previsível. Os temas são tão esdrúxulos e toscos quanto se pode imaginar, mas isso não é surpresa, ninguém ouve Axl Rose esperando Bob Dylan. Canções bobas sobre coisas nada a ver. Não chega a ser ofensivamente ruim, mas é tudo bem morno e pedestre. Alguns dos solos de Slash são bons pelo menos, mas de resto, um disco bem mediano. Ia ganhar 3 estrelas, mas perdeu uma estrela por ter gemidos em uma das músicas. Há algo mais tosco nesse mundo do que isso? 2/5
Drunk festival music. Loud, chaotic, just not for me. Makes my ears yearn for silence
To be completely honest this album was just boring a few good songs but overall not eye catching at all.
There’s a reason you usually only hear the choruses of these songs. Genuinely liked It’s So Easy tbf.
I liked this album as a teenager, but then branched out and heard much better music. And then even later I started playing the game Burnout: Paradise City which used Paradise City as the theme song, and I got to the point and am still at that point where I cannot listen to that song anymore. I also don't really want to hear any of the hits on the album anymore either. The rest of the tracks aren't bad, but maybe that's only because I've heard them so few times?
This is the Guns N' Roses album that has all of the songs that I know from them (Welcome to the Jungle and Swet Child of Mine). My first introduction to them is guitar hero. I have never actually wanted to listen to their music beyond those songs but the album is ok! Very white dad rock to me. The instrumentals flowed together and I genuinely thought a couple of songs were just one song.
Not my bag
Sweet Child O Mine is fab. But the screechy vocals are wearing.
Christ on a stick I can't stand G&R. Never have. I'm down for inane rock and roll but good molly there's better inane rock and roll out there. The only reason I'm not giving it one star is the fact that Slash is undoubtably a guitar god. Just wish he played for a different band for this part of his career.
only giving this a 2 bc of welcome to the jungle which i did a dance recital to as a child
Not very good
UNCSLOP
Never really a GnR fan. SCoM brilliant. Rest shouty US soft rock.
Truly an album meant for 12 year olds. When you grow up hearing hair metal as the hardest thing you think GnR is a new face on the genre but hearing it again it just feels as stale as everyone else of that time. That's not to say it's all horrible - the musicianship is awesome and Slash is undeniably good. There's also hints of grunge and rock to come buried deep in the layers of the music. But between that and the god-awful lyrics this just can't hold up anymore.
Unfortunately, one great opening riff doesn’t make for a great album.
What can I say.... this album is what it is. I understand that it is full of 'hits' which is pretty incredible for a debut album but for me personally, I just can't seem to like this band. Never have never will. Welcome To The Jungle is ok but that's as far as a I can stretch in giving them a positive review.
Paradise city
-I don't like this band at all, but I understand why a lot of people do. They were able to transform the Sunset Strip sound (e.g. Crue, Poison, etc) into something a little less plastic. If the major labels never gobbled up the underground (i.e. Nirvana), this probably would have been the dominant sound of the early 90s and we would have seen a million photocopies. Thank G-d that didn't really happen. -Every song is an extremely competent stylistic impression of Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Van Halen, AC/DC, Ted Nugent, and/or ZZ Top. There's also a good dose of quasi-Stones/Dolls riffs played through a heavy metal rig. -Axl does his thing, which is really fucking annoying to me. -The guitars are mixed so loud it's like the amp is right next to my ears. Especially Slash's guitar, which is like a 2nd lead vocal on most songs.
Beyond the mammoth singles on this album there isnt a lot to listen to. The voice is grating and the playing is plodding.
3 stars: Sweet Child of Mine > Paradise City > Welcome to the Jungle. 2 stars: Everything else. It’s just not that good.
I'm of a generation where Gn'R were a constant presence in my musical life, at least from my tweens to early twenties. Never listened to an album, though, and on the evidence of a first Appetite listen, I don't think I ever will again. I don't know if it ever sounded like more than a hundred pale imitators and cover bands, but that's what most of it sounds like in 2026. A few shining examples of iconic songwriting aside, it's mostly just a plodding, expired mess of screech and blues rock
I had no appetite for this album when it came out, and it’s aged about as well as a head of cabbage. You know where you are? You’re in one of the circles of hell if they’re making you listen to this. Thank god grunge rendered this laughably cheesy band obsolete. But Axl Rose is a good follow on social media.
2/5 sanoitukset eivät miellyttäneet
Gross man
Meh
Just okay.
I unfortunately don’t like this type of music 🙁
The bangers really bang, but the others fall really flat.
Highlights: Welcome To The Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child O'Mine Besides the hits, I feel like this record is just a bunch of slop. It all sounds the same and the vocals get annoying after three songs in a row. For instance "Think About You" was almost 4 minutes of pure ass with no artistic or any other kind of value. It sounded vaguely similar to something I heard just 15 minutes ago. I'm just not impressed and feel like I was justified for not listening to the record in its entirety up until this point. It was kind of funny the way the record turned sexual by the end. Didn't expect that.
Going into this, I thought I didn’t like Guns an’ Roses - now, I know I don’t like Guns N’ Roses. I can respect it for its cultural influence, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. Call me simple, but I like music that actually sounds good.
I wanted to like this and gave it the best possible circumstance for listening to it. I hated them in high school and was expecting this would be a revisit where I changed long held beliefs. Nope. All the bad parts of Aerosmith on steroids. Squeely lead singer? Check. Generic blues based soft metal music with pitch perfect sound? Check. Every now and again I'd lock into a guitar riff and think "hey, that sounds good." Then I'd think "Nope, that's a Heart riff" or "That's Ozzie" or "That's (Insert another super famous rock artist from the 70s/80s)". What's good is borrowed. What remains is annoying. Not a 1, but not much higher.
a classic - not sure it aged super well
Really good for the genre but maybe just wasnt in the mood for it. Hard to be objective so ill leave it at 2/5
I understand what it is but it’s not for me
crazy how uncs think that twink white boy was hard
oh no. This is bringing back memories of buying this album as a teenager. I will never forget the disappointment I felt after the high of Welcome to the Jungle wore off. 20 years has not helped me to enjoy this album more.
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rate: 2/5 fav song: think about you I can understand why it’s such an iconic album, however it’s unfortunately not my cup of tea. obviously know sweet child o mine and paradise city but they just don’t massively do it for me. i did enjoy think about you though. also enjoyed rocket queen until the lady started moaning?? mr brownstone also deserves a mention though i need to listen to it a bit more to work out my opinion of it.
it was just okay. the gap between the big hits to it's lesser songs is quite big. The album does not flow well either. Not to take away from their hits, but this album is just meh.
Why is this up here??? It’s got some classic songs and has an unreal intro track. But I really wanted to skip through the rest of it
Wasn’t a fan in 1987. Still not.
paradise city … where the grass is green and the girls aren’t pretty - dad’s lyrics. i’ve heard this song my whole life 😭
just finished listening to the whole album, i only liked a few songs, good music just not my favorite, overall rating 6.5/10.
I have always had a strong dislike for this band. This is just not the type of music that I will ever be able to enjoy. The screeching vocals drive me nuts, the sleazy songwriting makes me nauseous, and the instrumentation is generic. I can at least recognize the commercial prowess of the album though. To have this many hits in a record is impressive.
Imponerande att kunna låta så töntiga och coola samtidigt. För några låtar och hitsen är det uppe på höga betyg. Men att höra ett helt album där varje låttext känns som en mellanstadiekille med dampmössans anteckningsblock blir lite väl mycket. Föll ner från en trea till en stark tvåa för mig.
Kul att återkomma till mitt favoritband i mellanstadiet. Kanske mest nostalgi som luras men hitsen kan jag digga. Dock låter hans röst rätt jobbig nu. Resten är inte så bra, lökigt och tråkigt.
this band is awful. there's so many radio hits on this album, and they're awful. some of them are dumb in a way that's a little bit funny. the Disturbed ooh wah ah ah ah of 1987. music: hated. (⌐■_■)
My wife is a reformed Guns N Roses fan, and luckily for me we had an hour’s drive yesterday so she had to listen to it with me. She said fairly confidently, “This is really their only good one.” She seemed to know all the words to all the songs. It was something to behold. Anyway if this is their only good one, I don’t think they have any good ones.
Even the hits are annoying. 2/5
nostalgia card declined: prendo paradise city, me la infilo sotto la felpa e me la do a gambe. almeno quella, in onore di quando ero alle medie.. la realtà è che non mi sono mai comprata la loro maglietta per paura che qualcuno mi fermasse per strada e mi chiedesse di dirgli dieci canzoni dei guns. conoscendone solo sette mi avrebbe certamente strappato di dosso la maglia e derisa pubblicamente.. sai, come di solito fanno i passanti qualunque..
Firstly, Axl Rose's voice is intolerable. Secondly, the big songs have been overplayed to death. Thirdly, the majority of the album tracks did absolutely nothing for me. Some good moments of interplay with the bass and guitars, Welcome To The Jungle, despite overplay, is still a banger. Other than that though, did not enjoy this and was bored by the end.
Couldn’t escape this record in my childhood and still find it very grating
This gets two stars just for having "Paradise City" and "Sweet Child" which are GREAT songs but the rest was not for me.
Better than expected some decent song writing but it’s still metal even if it’s metal lite.
Couple of good songs I like. Not my type of music though. 2/5
Guns n' Roses is a band that was hugely successful, but unfortunately for me it's to their detriment. Appetite for Destruction is heavily reliant on its singles, but I have a hard time enjoying any of them because they've all been played to death. Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, and Sweet Child o' Mine are decent enough hard rock songs, but they're just too everywhere. The rest of the album isn't great, a lot of fiddling with a very generic screams-of-the-80s sound with a lot of uncomfortably sexual songs that just don't do it for me. While I don't love the sound they're going for, I'll defend it a little from an engineer's point of view. It's very well produced and I think in terms of hard rock everything sounds punchy and full. That being said, it doesn't make up for the fact that the only three songs worth a damn on this whole record have been forever ruined for me by the MLB and 94.7 FM Dad Rock Radio.
Hard rocking and not very deep... but a good vibe overall. Spent many hours listening to this after it came out and remember getting pumped up by most of the songs. It hits different decades later. Less straight up rock, more posturing and pretentious. I can still sing along but don't feel much for it anymore.
Although I consider myself somewhat of a metal fan, there is something I really dislike about 80's heavy metal bands. This is no exceptions.
makes sense that theyre called guns n roses considering how much they BLOW!!!! thanks i'll be here all night
Great
Music is ok but I can’t stand Axl’s voice.
Algunas canciones me gustan bastante, pese a no ser mi estilo. Les penaliza ser hombres y cantar en inglés que me tiene un poco harta.
No es mi estilo, hay laguna canción que me gusta bastante pero les penaliza ser hombres y el inglés, que me tienen cansada.
Doesn't move me. However, a group I know did Sweet Child as a barbershop arrangement, which was hilarious.
Save for the hits, "Welcome to the Jungle", "Paradise City", "Sweet Child O' Mine", this album is kinda garbage.
So many hits but I can't stand them
Bei dieser Band (und dieser Platte) muss ich mich mal gegen die Schwarmintelligenz stellen. Wie das manchmal so ist: für mich auf den ersten Blick und Ton eine extrem unsympathische Band. Bon Jovi für Drogenabhängige. Natürlich für "Classic Rock" Sender unverzichtbar. Und leider hilft in diesem Fall auch keine Altersmilde bei mir. Wenn ich Guns.N.Roses oder Phil Collins im Radio höre hilft nur: umschalten :-D
Encore du rock quoi, boring 2/5
can't stand guns n roses. the album is so boring
Wow really getting the dogshit hard rock stuff back to back. This is a little better than Bon Jovi, but not by a lot to be honest. Terrible singer, he might be the worst ever, he's just ripping of Robert Plant, and not the good bits. I somewhat respect slash, although I don't care for this guitar style. They also probably were horrible people (from some of these lyrics). Yeah just totally rubbish. Favouirte songs: welcome to the jungle (I love the opening riff but its ruined by shit vocals and total shift to the verses. Overall around 3/10
The 2 Stars are for Welcome To The Jungle and Paradise City. I don't like Axl Rose's voice at all, and Sweet Child Of Mine bugs me. The rest of the tracks I felt nothing for.
Pas mon style
I don't like the genre, and AC/DC did it better anyway, but this album is so much better than the previous 5 albums on this list that I’m giving it a 2.
No.
3 great songs (the ones we know). But damn, the rest? Never care to listen through again - sex noises on a rock album are just embarrassing 🙈.
Three hit songs and many boring others.
Hate to say this but this is another case where one or two great songs don't make a great album. Sweet Child O' Mine is a brilliant track, love it, but other than that I could leave the rest... This gets a lot of praise as an amazing debut but it's more that it's got a good set of singles IMO.
Start your motorcycles gents and prepare your worn once leather jackets for a trip to your summer home. That’s right folks, we’re getting some boomer rock hooked right to our veins. Although this came out in 87??? Jesus some of the death metal I like is older than this. Damn. Maybe it is I who is the “old head.” The “unc” as the terminally online white kids have taken to saying. Whatever. This is an impactful album, but I can’t anticipate I’ll be all that happy about it. Welcome to the Jungle - Was this song ever an alarm for me?? Oh god I used to wake up to classic rock radio when I was a child (no I wasn’t popular, thanks for asking.) is there a rhythm section here? It sounds hollow. This song has always been the best Guns N’ Roses song, but it still contains insufferable vocals replete with obnoxious faux moaning and runs that nobody asked for. I will say, the whole “You’re gonna die” breakdown is pretty sick. A flawed song that I would never choose, but overall, a classic in its way. It’s So Easy - This sounds like the overly sexual rock that Nickelback tried to force in the early 2000’s and now “kink-positive” predators perform on instagram. The type of music that shows up in my irony laden reels. Nightrain - Isn’t this “Night Rain?” He keeps talking about rail transport but there is only one T. His snakeskin suitcase reminds me of that terrible undertaker promo where he says The Big Show went into the desert with a motorcycle and no gas and came back carrying the motorcycle and he also killed a snake and fashioned a new set of boots out of said snake. It was pretty funny. Out Ta Get Me - Alright, the riff here is pretty good. I don’t even think we’ve made any references to a “little mama.” Mr. Brownstone - I don my stocking cap and wearily carry my candle towards my chambers. Another day atop this lonely cape in this infernal lighthouse. The warmth of my bed envelopes me and is my vessel. A cure for the most insidious insomnia. Or was that this song? Whichever. Paradise City - Synths??? YOU SOLD OUT YOU SOLD OUT. This song was cool as hell when I was 11. By 12, I was a little embarrassed that I had enjoyed it. But here we are. Pushing 30 and sitting here listening to this. My Michelle - Oh no. I’m not looking forward to this. Hard riffs until the chorus which sounds like a song written for the end credits of a Christmas themed pornography. Think About You - UGHHHHHHHH. Nope. This ain’t good. Sweet Child O’ Mine - Oh goodness gracious child. ‘Tis another fine morn on the Emerald Isle. We here in the O’ Mine clan reject this song in its totality. You’re Crazy - Stop gaslighting me. See, I know what that means!! I’m not THAT old! Anything Goes - Nope. Oh Jesus this is disgusting. Why do people want to listen to this? I mean, if a see why it wasn’t a radio hit being introduced by Casey Kasem on the radio, but my lord this is embarrassing. You need to add (as long as my prescription comes in) for the target audience of this garbage. Rocket Queen - Really gross x2 I like to make fun of stuff, but it gets a little bit mean at some point. I feel like I’m punching down. If I imagine the worst peaked in the 80’s, grown up high school bully who thinks of women as accessories to his jet ski rock and roll fantasies, yeah this album makes me want to commit homicide. BUT, there is a cool riff here and there on this thing and I know decent people who like this kind of shit. Glam rock has definitely sounded WAY worse. Still. I don’t care for this. No amount of leather could make me feel otherwise. 2 HIGHLIGHTS: Welcome to the Jungle, Out Ta Get Me
1 connue **
I wasn’t listening to that type of music back then and and I’m still not
I understand these guys are important to a lot of people and few of these songs are obviously classics but man those guitar tones sound awful IMO.
Didn't love it. Was familiar with the hits but nothing else jumped out at me. Guitar riffs started to feel repetitive. Paradise City Def the standout track.
Never could get into Guns N’ Roses. With that said, you won’t find many more explosive debut albums with hits that even non rock fans are familiar with. From the moment the guitar comes in on “Welcome to the Jungle”, you know you’re in for a ride. I recognize the impact this album had for many listeners, but it just doesn’t do it for me.
Liked Sweet Child O’ Mine. Was not a fan otherwise. Listened with Mom—some of her rebellious music.
Jao lol, možda da imam 11 godina bi bila dobra ocjena, ovako 2/5,3/10
Loud old guys
Its a pretty good album, but i just really dislike guns n roses
Hard not to like sweet child o mine but the rest is too much screaming for me.
It’s hard to not make these songs not sound dated, probably because there are so memories associated with them. Starting with “welcome to the jungle” and memories of the Boulder County Fair and neon lights. Was the album overrated? Yes. Give me anyone of these albums released in 1987, over this album: Cult “Electric” Kiss”crazy nights” White snake “white snake”, Def leopard “hysteria” Joe Satriani “surfing with the alien”; sonic youth “sister” Pixies “hello pilgrim” *** not really in the same field but u2 “Joshua tree” was released this year. The songs that highlight this album are: "It's So Easy"/"Mr. Brownstone" Released: June 8, 1987 "Welcome to the Jungle" Released: September 21, 1987[1] "Sweet Child o' Mine" Released: June 3, 1988 "Paradise City" Released: January 1989 "Nightrain" Released: July 1989 12 songs total Starred: 5 Rating: 2.08 (5/12=2.08333)
This shit sucks major ass
Ahh 80s music! I routinely have a GnR phase that basically goes like: listen to It’s So Easy, You Could Be Mine, maybe Don’t Cry and November Rain, marvel at the singles from Appetite and remember being young enough to not entirely get their whole deal, but get enough of it to kinda know I’m not a GnR fan. Mostly because of how ubiquitous they were for about 4 years there. If it wasn’t the songs on the radio/mtv, it was Axl doing something cOntROvErSial (writing songs in character but in a way that seemed more a permission structure to have the n word in a song or spread some misogynist drivel), kicking people from the stage, blah blah blah. By the time they did their co-headlining tour with Metallica it was easy to root for those guys even if I’d soon move on from their music and Hetfield's sudden “actually the US military is cool” thing. Appetite itself, the singles are undeniable and if we were judging albums entirely by their singles, well, this is a 5/5...but there is quite a lot of filler here that exposes how thin the GnR repertoire was (and would only increase via the exhausting detail of UYI I/II).
Just bland nothing-rock of the sort dreaded coming across on this list. Heard all the singles before, the album tracks do nothing extra, just the sound of divorce.
Nah
Sighed out loud, stuck it on, enjoyed the singles more than I expected and the rest was fairly wank. Surprised myself by actually enjoying some of it, but it shan't be spun again today.
Nightrain is ‘n jam!
Like it's cool but just not my thing. IDK. Always big respect for Sweet Child o' Mine - that's always a really great song. 1.5/5 stars.
I used to listen to gnr in the early 90s, during their Use Your Illusions ubiquity. I told myself I liked it, but as soon as britpop came along, I knew it was really not my kind of music. Still isn't. Listening to this album I can't help but conclude Guns n Roses were a singles band: it has a ton of filler. If I had to pick a song I liked, it'd be Mr. Brownstone, with its borderline funky rhythm, but even that is ruined by that jock guitar sound. It's just not for me, you guys. Sorry.
Nostalgia and personal significance drag this one up from a 1 star for me. I understand the album's importance and its influence on a bunch of things that I like but I just can't.
I’m not a fan of the band or the album, I can’t listen to Axl Rose sing..
I fully understand why this album is included on the list, it’s a solid hard rock record with great playing all around, but damn, the singles are overplayed to death, the songwriting is shallow and basic, and I can’t stand Axl Rose’s singing. This is another one that I loved as an early teen, that just doesn’t do it for me anymore.
Some of the earliest rock I ever listened to on an old hand me down stereo. Had a copied tape of this album dunno where it came from. Kinda liked it back then but over time don't really enjoy it much anymore. Just not really my style of rock.
On the one hand, it’s dad rock. On the other hand, it’s iconic. It’s not something I’d typically reach for but I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
Some people mourn the loss of hair metal after the grunge explosion in the mid 90s. I do not.
Smells like spit and hairspray.
The album starts off with a bang. I think that might actually be one of the only songs I really know by them which is sad to admit (besides Sweet Child O’ Mine). Otherwise, I don’t love it. Feels like I’m sitting in my local dive bar surrounded by a bunch of boomers smoking menthols and wearing clothes they most certainly should’ve left in the 70s/80s. That’s just me being a brat though.
A lot of energy, but that’s about it
Dumb fun, but often not that fun. The Kia Sol speakers weren’t equipped for chunky electric guitars and plodding drums—it all turned into a shoegazey cacophony. Credit to Rose and Slash for their spunky imitations of Plant and Page.
The popular songs on this record are great. The rest of this album is decent at best. Favourite Track(s): Sweet Child O' Mine Least Favourite Track(s): Out Ta Get Me
Classic. Must have heard once, will continue to hear for the rest of my life. I do not know if I like that or not.
I don't like them. They're just a bit trash. Mainly due to a vocal issue.
The big songs are good, but the rest was difficult to listen to
okay
Otra vez recuredo del Guitar Hero, pero ya esta no me evoca mucho mas, se que es muy mitico pero es que todo me suena a lo mismo, es como comerse un brownie 12 veces, al principio esta rico pero al final acabas empachado y si te apuras hasta gomitas
Must I? Lots of screaming and wailing. Oh, and some some good guitar riffs...
I didn’t like it when it came out. I don’t like it now.
Was already sighing, when I saw this record being generated today. I own this record, bought it back in 2005 I suppose, being a teenager exploring rock and metal - yeah great record back then. Nowadays I perceive Axl Rose as a rather uncomfortable person, especially back in the Appetite days - not just his personality but his singing style and lyrics just don't do it for me. Yeah there are some timeless songs on this album, most of which have been overplayed to death, nonetheless I could live on perfectly without ever having to hear a GnR song again. An album I've completely outgrown.
I couldn't listen to most of this album due to little ears. The popular songs I knew. So, at least there is that. 2 stars. These boys should wash their mouths out with soap.
Surprised by the poor quality of the non single album tracks. Lyrically in particular. The glam in glam rock I can also do without
Guns N Roses - it’s all in the name really. These guys are not subtle and want you to feel every emotion at once while you sit on their thrill ride. It’s not to my taste but you can’t deny that they have countless hits under their studded belts. The singles are strong enough to transcend the naffness - they have star power. The album tracks do not benefit from this though and sometimes the lyrics are beyond tasteless, bordering on annoying.
It might have been a 1 if i hadn’t seen Wild at Heart yesterday
One good song. Otherwise Supergrass are much better version.
I think about you caused an inability to think. Had to skip it. The album isn’t my thing.
I guess there’s a reason I’d only heard those three big songs off this album. I don’t hate Sweet Child or Paradise City (I do not like Welcome to the Jungle)…but the rest of the album, yeahhhhh didn’t enjoy it even a little bit. I was expecting to have a lot more fun. Disappointing. Listened to The Emotron after.
Typical overrated hair metal crap. A couple of the singles are passable, but everything sounds the same and it's damn near impossible to listen to an hour of Axl Rose screeching. Since I'm not a 14 year old boy this holds 0 interest for me.
GnR has always been like this for me : I understand that I'm supposed to enjoy it, but Axl's voice just feels like nails on a chalkboard to me. This is further tainted by him being an absolute tool. I'd give this album 1 star, but the songs are actually good, plus Duff is cool.
Een stem zo ondragelijk als deze, is toch zo uniek irritant dat het zowaar werkt en de muziek naar een hoger niveau tilt. Ik las in de wiki dat ons Axl dit zin voor zin heeft lopen in blèren. Tergend. Hulde aan de recording engineer lui voor extreem geduld. Dikke anthems als Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City en natuurlijk Sweet Child O' Mine, die ik laatst nog langs hoorde komen bij een gitaarles in de wandelgangen, zoals dat ook bij mij ging toen ik 12 was. Nog steeds ultracool I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Ook de drums klinken hard met de dikste snares en een lading koebel. Bij een heel album neemt irritatie de overhand. Je kunt beter de 1e vier 'populair tracks' op spotify aanzetten, dan heb je ook November Rain erbij, en dan ben je al het gepiel en gegil waarschijnlijk weer helemaal zat.
feel filler, maar de hitjes zijn wel lekker hoor.
- lots-o-hits, I know but, with a little distance it's really just ok rock pastiche ..... -
2.5 stars rounded down, probably won’t listen to again, not really my vibe. I get why it’s notable, but I also get why the other songs aren’t as popular.
2.5 stars rounded down, probably won’t listen to again, not really my vibe. I get why it’s notable, but I also get why the other songs aren’t as popular.
Was alright. A predecessor to bands like Kaleo, Greta van Fleet. Fun sounding music, but a bit much if you’re not in the mood. Much more explicit than I knew Guns ‘n Roses was. My fault, but still knocks it down the list a little. Would’ve been a 3 if not for the lyrics.
I suppose I can appreciate the theatrics, dedication, and musicianship here... but I don't really want to listen to it.
It was fine i didnt finish it though, even this morning i didnt want to
1.5/shit just sucks man. there's one song worth listening to
V screechey
Not for me.
Boring. Anything remotely cool was cut short/interrupted by bad decisions (production, performance, or otherwise) Generally unoffensive hard rock, rendering it completely useless.
Average rock album
In this album you have the hits: 'Welcome to the Jungle', 'Paradise City' and 'Sweet Child O' Mine'; and then you have the rest. The hits may be the most overplayed songs of rock history, and they can make listening to this album more difficult, depending of how tired you are of them. In my case, listening to 'Sweet Child O' Mine' was a bit troublesome, specially because of the guitar melody... So, if you don't like those songs, this album doesn't have anything more to offer. The last 3 songs are painful to listen to, the last one being the worst thanks to the use of moans; and the rest are just formulaic songs. So, is this a 2 stars album? I don't know, and honestly, I'm very conflicted on what score to give to this album, because at the end of the day, it is a bit fun. I'm certainly not giving it 4 or 5 stars, and 1 star is too harsh, so I'm stuck with 2 or 3. Did I like it? Mmmmm... not really. Axl's voice is a bit annoying, and there's songs that I don't want to hear anymore; but, production-wise, it sounds good and they are having fun... Screw it, I'm giving it 2 stars. At the end of the day, this is not my type of fun.
doornee hair metal...het is niet omdat het populair is, dat je het MOET gehoord hebben... behalve de singles die al duizend maal door je strot geramd zijn, is de rest instant vergeetbaar... 2.5 sterren
I am a certified Guns N' Roses hater. Really don't like anything about them. I have to give them points for succeeding at what they set out to do on this album -- writing music that boils down classic rock into its most palatable, radio-friendly, inoffensive (that is, while playing to the stereotype of "offensive rock musician") version of itself -- even if I personally am completely uninterested in it. 2/10
The "last good band" according to my dad. Everything on here worth listening to has been absolutely played to death. It's a pretty cookie cutter rock album and there isn't much creativity on display here. Kinda slaps in places, I never want to hear it again though. My favorite part was once it was done Spotify started playing The Wall
I dont like Guns and Roses
There are three tracks worth hearing on this album, and they happen to be the top 3 most streamed GnR songs on Spotify. I don't even need to name them - it'd be literally impossible for anyone reading this to guess wrong. And it's true, they're all-time great songs. But the rest of this sounds like Visiting Day from The Sopranos got a record deal. Putrid stuff.
I generally loath this band but the holy trinity of lead singles on this record simply cannot be denied. Nor can it be ignored how tight the sound is all the way through this album. Personally, I find those in between tracks repetitive, but as a debut, the praise this album gets makes sense. Also, listening to Paradise City calls up some truly fond memories of logging into Burnout with my buds after school. I’d award a 3/5 if I’d left it at that. But the writing on some of these lesser played tracks is so crass and tasteless that it loses another star. (“Oh, panties 'round your knees with your ass in the breeze”). Stay classy G N’ R ⭐️⭐️
This is some rock music
I liked My Michelle, Think About You, Sweet Child O' Mine. I didn't really like the rest of the songs.
Liked this exactly as little as I expected
Four solid anthems padded around with shrugs.
Surprisingly boring. Tracks are not memorable
1. jungle - 3.5 2. eazy - 1 3. night - 1.5 4. get - 1 5. ztone - 1 6. city - 2.5 7. michelle - 1 8. think - 1 9. mine - 3 10. crazy - 1 11. goez - 1 12. queen - 1
Eh
Gefällt mir nicht
3 phenomenal hit songs and 9 mediocre to bad songs does not make a great album. This sound is so dated. If only they were more consistent in writing better music as a whole. I’m glad hair metal is dead.
A lot of the songs on this album are either forgettable or straight up grating. Sometimes the way he sings just annoys me. Still there were a few tracks I liked and I love Sweet Child O’Mine. Favourite Tracks: Sweet Child O’Mine, Nightrain, Paradise City
Listening to this album was a chore. Axl Rose's screechy voice assaulting my ear drums from start to end, Slash's sloppy guitar work, and over played riffs that spark the intrigue of under developed musicians. Never been a fan of GnR and was hoping to give them a chance, but this just reaffirmed my opinion.
1- Has one of my all-time favorite songs: Sweet Child O' Mine. 2- Most of the songs I am very familiar with, to the point of annoyance unfortunately. 3- I enjoy a lot of the instrumentation, but the lyrics I am not a fan of. 4- I'd overall rate it a 2.5. Not my favorite album from them.
Not for me.
Так, я не люблю Guns n' Roses, хоча ні, не так, я терпіти не можу Guns n' Roses. Чому? Ну подивімося на їх найбільш успішний дебютний альбом (та що там - на один із найуспішніших дебютних альбомів взагалі) трохи уважніше та з'ясуємо що з ним не так. У 70-х існував прекрасний, сповнений артистизму та цікавих ідей жанр під назвою Glam Rock, а його найбільш яскравими представниками варто вважати такі гурти як T. Rex, Kiss, Sweet, Slade, Roxy Music New York Dolls, шикарний Ziggy Stardust від David Bowie та напевно що найбільш наближені до наших сьогоднішніх героїв - Hanoi Rocks. Це були справді гарні та цікаві гурти, що досліджувала нові межі музичного мистецтва граючись із театральними та епатажними артистичними образами. Guns n' Roses, яких часто записують в один ряд до відразного hair metal 80-х, якщо брати до уваги лише музику, мають до нього все ж опосередковане відношення. Вони як раз є прямими нащадками того самого глем року, але із більш hard rock-овим та рок-н-рольним підходом. Але що стосується загальної естетики, то це hair metal "чистої води". Їх тести - відразні, мізогінні та відверто сексистські, а "прямо лоба" іронія та кічеві, "ніби дотепні", образи виглядали просто крінжово. В контексті музики - вони цілком відповідали своєму "кічевому" образу - це не було цікаве переосмислення ідей рок-н-ролу минулого десятиріччя, вони просто брали найбільш впізнавані прийоми та ліпили із них шаблонні, нехай і хукові композиції. Кожну пісню на цьому альбомі, окрім хіба що Welcome To The Jungle та Sweet Child Of Mine міг би зараз із легкістю написати ШІ. Додаємо до всього цього неймовірно дратівливий та верескливий вокал Акселя та отримуємо "хіти на всі часи". Враховуючи, що Hair Metal був тоді на піку популярності, не дивно, що подібний "збочений гібрид" спадщини 70-х та моди 80-х дуже швидко та легко "проковтнули". І мене бісить найбільше, так це те, що альбом подавався як "справжній рок-н-рол, як він є", тим самим спаплюжив усю спадщину цієї прекрасної музики, який тепер у багатьох асоціюється із Guns n' Roses. Це звісно абсолютна дурість, адже та музика на яку вони спиралися та яку "пародіювали" - часто була набагато глибшою та розумнішою. І кращим доказом цього стало те, що заєбавший людей hair metal, відносно швидко "віддав Богу душу", а його місце зайняла альтернативна музика, виконавці якої справді вміли цікаво переосмислювати спадщину 70-х. Підсумовуючи - Appetite for Destruction це Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, а Guns n' Roses це limp bizkit свого часу - одна із найгірших речей, яка могла статися із рок-музикою у 80-х, перетворивши її на низькоякісний примітивний сітком.
Meh
Not a fan of GnR
It just sounds really sexually aggressive and not in a consensual way. Just gross. The vocal is distractingly bad. I thought it suffers from being overplayed and hoped sitting through an album would unlock some charming b sides, but it's just 50 minutes of shit. Its a shame because I think I'd love the instrumental version. As soon as that nasal creepy whining starts I just check out mentally.
Some people must like this,
One star for Paradise City, one for Sweet Child. The rest of this is truly worse than I remember.
It has 3 classics and one good suprise but the rest is pretty bad. About 4/10
meh
2 songs. Not so much for the rest of album. So many sound the same.
Axl Rose id an abysmal front man, and the music is not much better, apart from "Paradise City" which I like. 2 stars
Late to the party
Has to be one of the most iconic opening tracks to any album ever. But let's be honest, GnR are whack. It's metal for people who don't like metal.
Is it just me or do these guys have nothing to say at all? Like, I know it's essentially just pop music mapped to "hard" rock, but how do they have nothing to say at all? At least one or two songs kinda rock, so I guess 1.5 rounded up to 2/5
For something so aggressive, it is a shock that this is so aggressively mediocre.
appetite for "skip track"
Atrocious lyrics and annoying vocals, but it's alright if you're putting it on as background music at a bar
1. Welcome to the jungle 2. Paradise city 3. Sweet child o' mine Banger første låt, så mye rusk. Only so much Axl Rose jeg tåler.
About two years ago, of the first track, I remarked that “I have never and will never be a fan of Guns n’ Roses.” A bit harsh, but upon listening to the full near-hour of Appetite for Destruction, I’m hardly being convinced to rescind my statement. By Nightrain, you start to think that maybe this won’t be such a long 50 minutes after all - but that’s shattered by the grating triple feature of Paradise City, My Michelle and Think About You - among the worst that this sort of music has to offer, tailing off the stagnant 80s and still too early for the dirt and grunge revolution of the 90s. It repeats choruses that aren’t developed much further than a primary school music class, it squeezes in unnecessary expletives, it has that really rather horrible guitar and percussion double threat that plagues this breed of rock, and it’s just overall too drawn-out for its own good. I’ll bookend this with another quote from that Welcome to the Jungle review - that “Axl Rose can’t moan as well as Robert Plant.” Comparison may be the thief of joy, but here there isn’t all that much joy to steal.
fya
Rubbish
Not my style
appetit fuer zerstoeerunggg welcome tot he jungle kenni norml, bin kein rieese fan, gitarre cool, axl sini stimm streeeng. gitarre bridge seeeehr geil. it's so easy singt nöd de axl? HUAH. glichi energy wie vorher und jo halt 80er rock. finds etz cool aber najaaa nightrain macht genaaau glich wiiter ich chum etz nöd meeega ine. out ta get me?? ok? afoch immer 3 gitarrespure glichzitig hä. her brrraunstein. meh gitarre als gsang irgendwie findi no speziell allgemein. de axl isch nöd so meeega im vordergrund. paradise city isch kinda en banger. au huuuere viel. my michelle ehner nervig. es tönt alles chli glich, finds fast chli basic. sweet child o min isch halt so öpis womer no geil findt wemmers zum erste mol ghört. und s zweite solo isch suuuper schön und melodiös. de harmonisch moll scheiss. anything goes talkbox solo seeehr geil rocket queen isch nöd so geil wnl. merci mueni wiedermol öpperem bim sex zuelose bi dene albe. brööder. yep sie hend actually sex gha im studio cool. so whack sorry. bi gad froh isch das album verbii.
Man this really is just the worst genre of music. Sure there are some huge hits on here like Sweet Child O' Mine, Paradise City, and Welcome to the Jungle. But the rest is just so bad. Bumped from 1 star due to Sweet Child. That song is good. 4.5/10 (2.25/5)
I think I've heard this before
Glaube macht Spaß wenn man sowas gern mag. Haben wenige gute Lieder
Lots of rock on this list huh. Not for me but I think if I hadn’t heard Paradise City or Sweet child o mine I would have at least thought they were interesting.
like with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the music is serviceable, but then the frontman opens his mouth and wrecks the vibe. unlike with RHCP, I'm much more actively annoyed by GnR's frontman. boomers will complain about not being able to understand a rapper on TV, then crack open a Budweiser with Axl Rose screaming in their ear on their home stereo, and not see the contradiction. a couple of these songs have a somewhat interesting structure, particularly opening track "Welcome to the Jungle," but beyond the singles, there's really not much to write home about here. it's the same group of stock hard rock riffs I've been hearing dozens of bands use over and over again, across decades of music history. the band portray themselves as being far more controversial than their music would actually suggest. light 3/10.
If you listen to one of their singles 12 times, you’ve heard Appetite for Destruction. Good but super repetitive
It is really solid music for the genre, and the well-known singles certainly are classics, but in general the sound doesn't appeal to me on a personal level.
It may have been 20 years since I last listened to this album, and it was never really my thing. It’s ok, but nothing more.
I’m not sure how I’m meant to feel when I’m listening to this. Like it’s sort of angry songs in a major key? There are exactly three catchy songs on here and we’ve all heard them a million times. The rest are pretty turgid. I don’t know how they’re summoning all this energy to pour into these boring songs. Neil Young was doing a lot with a little yesterday, and these guys are doing the opposite. Like, it’s not even especially imaginative? The musicianship is very good but the songs all sound the same and the chord changes and arrangements are all just the first thing you would think of. Pretty amazing for a first album but I would be fine never hearing this again.
At least we got femboy hooters
Wat ik had verwacht, typisch zulke rock, hoge stem, gitaar die in 3 seconden elke noot speelt die bestaat. Niet per se mijn muziek, kan zien waarom mensen het leuk vinden, maar zelf heb ik het bij de meeste niet. Zou het niet zelf aanzetten, ook niet als achtergrond muziek. 5/10.
Guns N' Roses represent 1980s hair metal, Slash is a gifted guitarist and Axl Rose has an instantly recognizable voice but this entire era of music leaves me generally underwhelmed, even when I was a child at the height of its popularity I always thought that there was something cringe-inducing about the videos on MTV. "Welcome To The Jungle" was ubiquitous, "It's So Easy" with Duff McKagan on lead vocals was surprising but not consistently interesting, "Nightrain" is dull. "Out Ta Get Me" is melodic and engaging but that industry insiders are masquerading as outlaws in leather jackets is laughable. "Mr. Brownstown" sounds like "I Want Candy" (perhaps intentionally?) until it doesn't, decent ode to heroin addiction. "Paradise City (is seven minutes long?!), this is "Sweet Home Alabama" for California motorcyclists, every generation has its music of adolescent rebellion. My Michelle, cowbell! "Your daddy works in porno/ Now that mommy's not around/ She used to love her heroin/But now she's underground/ So you stay out late at night/And you do your dope for free/ Drivin' your friends crazy/ With your life's insanity" Sounds like every LA story in the 1980s and the genre's justification for continuing to have sex with every adolescent groupie from a broken home. "Think About You" is almost a tender transition song for "Sweet Child O' Mine" which is a great song. "Rocket Queen" is incredible!
I don't like this band, at all. Bad rec for me.
Good guitar playing, terrible vocals on
Pros: Attitude, snarl, sound, band vibe; guitar playing and vocal gymnastics. History: put Hair Metal in the rearview mirror. Cons: songwriting, misogyny, stupidity, Steven Adler (terrible drumming), and a couple of obvious filler tracks. It’s a shame because this should be a record I go back to. But I won’t.
The only difference between the songs is that some has moaning in it and some doesnt. god i hate axl roses voice
Slash is so much fun to listen to, but otherwise I loathe Guns N' Roses.
Hate GNR.
Welcome To The Jungle is a classic. It's So Easy has fun chauvinistic lyrics. Nightrain has good guitar work from Slash. Out Ta Get Me is favorite so far. Mr. Brownstone has a funk to it, nice change of peace. Axel Rose has a nice blues affectation across the album. Paradise City is an anthem for drunk retards. Overrated. My Michelle kind of annoying. Think About You has that horrendous clapping. Sweet Child O' Mine is overrated and annoying. You're Crazy is when the album is starting to wear on me. I'm glad they kept the balladry to a minimum and stuck with anthems. Anything Goes sounds like everything else from the album. Rocket Queen has some interesting guitar work. Has a switch up in the middle which I appreciate. A good closer and probably my favorite. Overall I found the album repetitive and vapid. There are better metal and hard rock albums of this era. I don't know why anyone would pick this over what Priest and Maiden were doing around this time. Screaming for Vengeance has more variety track to track and just as impressive guitar playing and vocal performances. This was enjoyable enough but I don't get the hype.
2.5
I can understand why people with long hair feel cool / enjoy themselves when listening to this, but too many owows and aeeaeeas for my taste.
Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child of Mine
welcome to the jungle (intro), is a pretty good background song, like its not a song where i listen intensely to it, just kinda enjoy it in the background its so easy, is more my style, like the voice a bit better here - still not a fav a bit boring
Yeah I guess it was fine. Boring.
Perfekt för en amerikans roadtrip med så en EXTREMT rak väg där man bara kan bränna på i så 200km/h. Va INTE i det mindsetet alllllls när jag lyssnade. Kommer möjligtvis åka fram under gubbsommaren när man tycker att man är mycket coolare och bryr sig mycket mindre än vad gör. Lowkey beskriver hela albumet. Ja e ROCKARE och ja e COOL och ja knullar fett med tjejer WWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Remember when paradise city came out everyone thought it was such a dumb song and decades later I still think that. Tom waits "going out west" is harder than any gnr song
Boring. Never liked G'n'R, and this did not change my mind.
not my style 🤷♀️
Couple brighter tracks, but for the most part a depressingly stupid listen.
Glaube macht Spaß wenn man sowas gern mag. Haben wenige gute Lieder
Not my preferred kind of music. Some good guitar licks here and there. I really don't care for the lyrics/vocals. Top 3: 3. Paradise City 2. Nightrain 1. My Michelle
No can do i
This album doesn't really offer anything more than the three classics that still get play. Sweet Child and Jungle are great songs on their own, but the deep cuts just don't have a hook, so it just feels like a lesser version of the good stuff.
Siis tosi klassinen peruskaura-albumi mut emt... Ehkä mun historia KISSin kaa ei anna mun sydämessä tilaa muille vanhan liiton rock-bändeille </3 oisin kauheesti halunnu antaa 2⭐ mut on gunnarit nyt parempi ku edellinen radiohead
Before he took up residence in the deep end, Axl could rip it (though a little screechy), and Slash was right there with him (minus the crazy). They can be a little unimaginative and repetitive, though at their best there is a nice freewheeling energy to follow.
I never listened to this album when it came out, apart from the popular songs on the radio. I was hoping I'd like it more than I did. I wanted to give it points for nostalgia but even that feels forced.
Own the vinyl not listening to it all the way through but already love welcome to the jungle, Paradise city and sweet child of mine. Very loud
Hits zijn goed. De overgebleven nummers zijn te repetitief.
Outside the well-known highlights/hits, all the songs sound the same, like an AC/DC album. Axl’s voice is more annoying the more I hear it. Highlights: sweet child o mine, welcome to the jungle, paradise city
Dad rock
Not my type of music, don't like the vocal style and not a lot of redeeming qualities here. Some "hits" for sure but nothing to sway me back. On the 2 side of a 2.5.
Your older brother's best friend's favourite album. YEEEARGH! 🤘😎🤘
Yeah, I knew full well that I wouldn’t like this, and I don’t. I despise the vocals, they are so obnoxious and irritating. The guitar playing was pretty good, but that was far from enough to save the album. If you had to listen to an album with excellent guitar playing, but a fish making fish noises into a microphone over it, would you enjoy the album? The obvious answer would be no, but I honestly believe I would like the fish-rock more than this. The fish doesn’t think it’s a good singer. It didn’t choose to sing. Axl Rose, however, was fully aware of what he was doing when he decided to bless us all with his grating yelps. I think I have made my case clear.
Possibly the most iconic album of the "hair band" era proves why the genre was a bad idea to begin with
I tried so hard to finish it but couldn’t do the last 2 songs. The masculinity oozing in every song was over in your face, and just too much for me. I know people love a bunch of these songs and I know them too but so many GNR songs in a row just destroyed me. It was too much. I could someone listening to these songs to pump themselves up before an interview or presentation. Fueling on the testosterone….barf. Ha.
Cannot believe Paradise City is almost 7 minutes long. Also thought I wasn’t crazy but Guns n Roses told me otherwise 😔 Pretty close to the middle on this one but I think I have to lean negative, it’s pretty shrill but in a calculated way more than a really effective or emotional way. Not my cup of tea Nonetheless pretty tempted to listen to their other albums “”The Spaghetti Incident?”” and “Chinese Democracy”
band sucks, this is their only good album and you could argue that it's 'fun' but imo it's actually not fun at all and rather sucks shit
Prior to this listen, I never realized their biggest hits are not only on the same album but that album is also their debut release so I'll give 'em that. This is a very solid first release but it's a lot of screeching guitar and screechy singing and I've never been a big fan of them. I do recognize that they can shred and the cover art is fun but this isn't really for me.
Three bangers and a bunch of hair band screeching with guitars a Slash-ing. Not being a fan of GnR, not as bad as I expected. Still don't get the huge following but decent debut. I will give AXL Rose some clever points for the BJ scramble...on par with Mr. Mojo Risen...2.2.
Interesting to hear songs other than the 3 popular ones. The guitar, vocals, mixing are all good, but the lyrics are mid and it's a not very original.
Welcome To The Jungle - 9 Meaning: The song Welcome To The Jungle exposes the dark side of Los Angeles, where so many people go to persue fame. The group use to live in a house they called "Hell House" on Sunset Boulevard. The house was often filled with drugs, alcohal and groupies. The songs message is one of warning and defiance. It's So Easy - 5 Meaning: The song It's So Easy is about how it became too easy for the band to find a girl to hook up with after shows. The bands drummer said girls/groupies would line up backstage for a change to be with them. Nightrain - 9.5 Meaning: The song Nightrain is about how the band was so crazy, reckless and poor that the only drink they could afford was nightrain wine. They came up with the lyrics and chorus while walking home after getting drunk on the wine. At the time they were living in Los Angeles and playing gigs on the sunset strip. Out Ta Get Me - 7 Meaning: The song Out Ta Get Me is about how Axl Rose got harassed by the police for things that he didn't do. Mr. Brownstone - 9.5 Meaning: The song Mr. Brownstone is about the bands heroin addiction. Brownstone was a slang term for heroin at the time. Paradise City - 9 Meaning: The song Paradise City is about the bands life in Los Angeles. The verses deal with the rough life on the streets, but the chorus is based on Axl Roses memory of the Midwest, with images of green grass, innocence and possibility. My Michelle - 6 Meaning: The song My Michelle is about a woman named Michelle Young, who was a friend of the band and asked them for a song about her. The song does not sugar-coat her life at all, rather it talks about her very hard life and her struggles. Think About You - 7.5 Meaning: The song Think About You is about falling in love. It was written by Izzy Stradlin before he joined Guns N' Roses. Sweet Child O' Mine - 10 Meaning: The song Sweet Child O' Mine is about Axl Roses girlfriend at the time, Erin Everly, the daughter of Don Everly of the Everly Brothers. After dating for four years, they got married at a quicke wedding, but the marriage was annulled nine months later. The reason was due to Everly claiming abuse. You're Crazy - 4 Meaning: The song You're Crazy is about Axl Rose berating a girl who's out of her mind and/or excessively horny, that wants to have sex all the time. Anything Goes - 2 Meaning: The song Anything Goes is about sex, and how anything goes in sex. Rocket Queen - 7 Meaning: The song Rocket Queen is about a woman who hung out with the band in their early years. The sex noises in the song were between Axl Rose and the drummers girlfriend at the time Adriana Smith in the recording studio. Overall: 7.1/10
Well - good fun, good hits but I don’t think I’ll ever actively seek Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City and Sweet Child of Mine in the foreseeable future.
A bit meh
Ist nicht meine Musik, für mich klingt jedes Stück gleich
Would never intentionally listen to this, but don’t hate it when I hear Sweet Child O Mine at a bar.
If you had asked me if I liked this album before this listening I would have said, "hell yeah!" Now, upon listening with my adult ears, I have to say "nope!" I don't know if it's my tastes shifting or what but I just don't dig it anymore. I still like Sweet Child but the rest was just noise to me, even Paradise City was sadly not as good as my memory says it should be.
2.5 pyöristyy alaspäin. Vaikka levyn hittibiisit ansaitsevatkin statuksensa, on ne soitettu puhki Guitar Heroa myöten.
I never was a fan and will never be one in this life
i dont like this at all look, i dont like them anyway, but meh. some of the singles are good, obviously Sweet child is good, but overplayed to the absolute max. Paradise City is good too. Not big on Welcome to the Jungle, its a bit crap. But the album tracks stink. Think About You was a real moment when i was like... do i listen to the rest of this or just leave it. No Me gusto
I've never been a fan of Guns N' Roses. What's with all the moaning haha. I just can't take bands that sing like this seriously. Some of the songs on this record seem like the direct inspiration for shitty conservative country rock.
Ah man. Gun N' Roses is my absolute favorite band to dunk on. Its some of the corniest shit on earth. On one hand its incredible and on the other hand it's like unironic hot garbage. It feels like they took all of the building blocks of rock music and pumped it full of cocaine and viagra. There's so much of this record I almost like. They'll have a cool blues Bo Diddley riff and I start to groove and then Axl just starts screeching and I start hating it. Its the same with Slash too, he's such a good guitarist but its alllllways over the top. Its like he played a guitar solo once and then band was like "What if you just do that the ENTIRE time?" and then he agreed and it stops being good. I've said this before, but Sweet Child O' Mine is the peak and decline of Hair Metal. That song is objectionally amazing, right up until it isn't. The whole final third of the song feels like Axl and Slash are competing against each and it ruins the whole song.
It's at this point that I'm regretting previous scores. Namely giving utwo a 2. They didn't really deserve that high a score. This offering is so much better, but is it worthy of a 3, nah I don't think so. The famous tracks are very good and the rest are OK, but I still don't feel it is due a 3. 2.6 or 2.7 yes but it's no 3.
Wow. Makes me feel like putting on spandex and headband, and chugging a bottle of Jack Daniel’s… which I don’t want or need. A lot of borrowed chest hair on this one. Interesting history of the band though.
Never cared for G’n’R. Cartoonish version of Led Zep mixed with the vulgarity of hair metal.
- Welcome To The Jungle 6,5 - It's So Easy 5,5 - Nighttrain 5 - Out Ta Get Me 5,8 - Mr. Brwonstone 6,4 - Paradise City 7 - My Michelle 6 - Think About You 5,9 - Sweet Child 'O Mine 8,3 - You're Crazy 6,3 - Anything Goes 6,1 - Rocket Queen 6,4 Als album in het geheel: veel lijkt op elkaar. Verder zijn de gitaren en de drums geweldig. Het stemgeluid van Rose is vreselijk. Ik zou zeggen 2/3 sterren. Dit komt wel door de hits Paradise City en Sweet Child O Mine omdat die goed klinken.
Might be the most overrated band in history. I like “Mr. Brownstone” and the opening to “Welcome To The Jungle” but otherwise no thanks.
Some classics, but nothing else.
La única razón de la por qué le di dos estrellas a este álbum es porque los singles de este LP son canciones radiales legendarias que, todas las personas, hemos escuchado al menos una vez. Algo tiene que ver su aparición en el Guitar Hero. Buenas composiciones, buen rock, pero la voz de Axl Rose se hace intolerable. La relevancia de este disco es que, con justa razón, enterró a un género que estaba muriendo.
Not just dad rock, but like cargo cult dad rock. stuff that came out late enough in the (boomer) dads' lives that it can't be dismissed as a nostalgia thing
reminds me of my of old job. I didn't like it alot.
Welcome to the jungle and paradise city are great tunes. Classic rock songs. Axl Rose has one hell of a voice. The songs do feel dated for me and a bit too stadium. The songs are long with no end in sight and they all feel very similar to me. Favourite song: Paradise city Least favourite: there is a lot of filler on this album. Album artwork: Cool cover
Some classics but kind of bloated for me.
This album is what it feels like to drive a Firebird at double the speed limit down the freeway, coked out of your mind, cigarette in one hand, someone else’s girlfriends pony tail in the other. America. Also Paradise City is a good song.
Guns N Roses isn't a band I can listen to without feeling like i'm doing it a little bit ironically. Some bangers on here but I feel exhausted listening to the whole album. My HS drama teacher used to always tell us that we needed dynamics in our performance - if you start out too high/intense, you'll have nowhere to go. Axl Rose is always too high. Duff McKagen is the best part of Sweet Child o Mine.
I know this album is important, I know this album was well received. I know this album is seen as good, but I have never been this bored listening to an album. Its good but I'm spoiled, at the time this was lit but now I can appreciate what it did, but I won't come listen to it again. People agree with me given the Spotify listening count is sparse except for the big 3 songs.
I have no appetite for destruction. The most credit I can give this record revolves around fellow Hoosier Axl Rose’s intriguing two-tone voice—he can sound like two different people depending on which octave he occupies. That’s kind of nice, but he’s apt to spoil the treat with irritating imitations of his female partner’s passionate sexual utterances. Anyway, two stars for two tones.
Jeg kan ikke lide den... Jeg kan godt anderke at det er imponerende som debut, og jeg anerkender at de har ramt noget med deres rå attitude, genkendelige riffs, og simple tekster. Når det så er sagt... Den skærebrander vokal gør mig rasende. Teksterne er så åndssvage, og tæt på barnlige. De var selvfølgelig også unge da de skrev det, men det holder bare ikke idag.
It’s just noise. Very talented, well orchestrated, technically impressive noise. Struggled to listen through the whole album.
A few pretty iconic era defining songs, other than that I really did not enjoy anything else on this album.
The best thing 80s rock had to give us was to serve as a foil for 90s grunge and alt rock bands to contrast themselves against. This gets a bonus start for Sweet Child being a genuinely good song with fantastic guitar, but otherwise this is a wasteland.
peak dad core
Sweet Child of Mine is ok as a middle-of-the-road pop-rock song. Never been a fan of Axl or his voice. Take or leave, mostly leave the rest.
Whilst it's pretty incredible for a bands debut to have three iconic hits, the rest of the album unfortunately falls a little flat for me. There's certainly some very tastefu guitar-work thrown around, with almost every track featuring a ripping guitar solo at some point, but I found a lot of the vocals and riffs outside of these to be quite lackluster. 'Turn everything up to 11 and play some chords' seems to be the modus operandi for a lot of the less popular tracks from this, which is a shame as the band were clearly capable of some seriously good stuff - the intro to 'Welcome to the Jungle' is iconic and can't help but bring a smile to my face. It's a shame this energy couldn't carry on through the whole album.
Oh. It *is* that bad.
That was a slog to get through
I didn't enjoy this album at all - this style of rock has just never been my thing. Axl's voice is irritating and one dimensional and I found the whole thing pretty hard to get through.
look out the window and see snow, shadows bleak concrete floors but i dont want to see more. this city is rotten at its core but words of kindness float above it all, like vapor from fungi gorge or an upside down shore. flightless birds are a bore, necessary to grow bindless from this prison where im born. highness glistens throught the core, its an image beautiful, unexplicably so. i let the dog out the street door. this album sucks btw
Nah, not mine. Extrapoint for the wonderful „Sweet Child of Mine“
#164. What is there to say here, but oof? Hair metal is up there on the list of the worst musical genres for sure. Also, I didn't know this was their debut album. I assumed it took a few albums to devolve into this absurd caricature of themselves, but no, they jumped straight out of the gate sounding like this. Why? They're definitely the Ac/DC or Nickleback of their era. Straight garbage. 2/5: people like to shit on nü metal, but hair metal is really the biggest blight on the metal genre as a whole. I fucking hate this shit.
It's alright, not really feeling it though. Good guitar skills.
I like it more than I thought but I'd probably never go back to it.
i want them to smooch me but also highkey mid best songs are welcome to the jungle and sweet child o mine like thats it update: after letting it marinate it was super boring actually i think i could've lived my life without listening to it
I’ll give it this: even though I still don’t think it sounds very good at all, I do think it sounds *slightly* better than most of the other hard rock/hair metal from this era that I don’t care for. The drums are the only instrument consistently drowning in reverb, which I appreciate. I just don’t have anything positive to say after that, though. This music isn’t fun or badass to me, and Axl Rose is absolutely in the running for my least favorite front-person of all time. Every now and then, an intro to one of these songs will almost resemble a 70’s Aerosmith or AC/DC song that I can kind of dig, and then…he sings, and it’s ruined. I can’t stand the sound, nor the attitude, of his voice, and that’s not taking his dreadful lyrics into account. Every pinch harmonic and pick slide makes me roll my eyes. If I could never hear “Welcome to the Jungle” and *especially* “Paradise City” ever again, I’d be a happy man. 2/5
Samey and not for me, but not entirely insufferable
Not for me. Sorry.
Sweet Child O Mine is so overplayed that we played it in my high school marching band in the early 90s.
This just ain’t it for me. Welcome to the jungle is great opening. Sweet Child O Mine is pretty great but the rest I could take or leave, even Paradise City didn’t do much for me when I was listening critically
Not a big hair metal fan, but I do like a few Guns N’ Roses songs-just not the ones on this album. Found myself skipping through the songs.
I've heard this more times than I want.
At least he's putting his all into it and stuff, but I personally am not a fan of the lead singers' voice. I also am not a massive fan of the lyricism. The actual instrument part is pretty cool though, although not like tippity top for me.
Never have been a fan nor will I ever be a fan.
Still not my thing.
Loud but not very interesting.
It's so fun to hate on hair bands, especially given how terrible their behavior was. This album deserves is legendary status, but I would absolutely never put it on for fun. It was interested to hear some tracks that I never had before, but think I'd be happier listening to almost anything else.
For sure there are three songs on this that have seeped into the popular culture. It kinda needs to be on the list. But this is aggressively not my thing. I tried convincing myself for years that I liked it. But I don’t. Plus, I don’t know if I’m alone in this, but this music sounds like completely uncool people trying to be cool. I guess it worked. But beyond having to hear these songs in every grocery store for the rest of my life I won’t seek them out. 2/5
Mysogenist as hell. These dudes are gross. Small doses only. I can acknowledge that the guitars and percussion are great, occassionally epic. Lyrics and singing, no thanks.
Unpopular opinion, but Axl's voice gets quite annoying after a couple of songs. Not a big fan.
Even by "hair metal" standards, Axl's vocals are abrasive, and that's being polite. I realize I am in the minority here, but I never got in to GnR and re-listening to this album only solidified this position. It's too bad because the rest of the band is great.
if they only had a singer
Outside of the real hits this album lacks significantly. Rose’s voice is really grating on most songs, and musically they don’t stand out against other music of their time. 2/5 Won’t listen again
A lot of good tunes but the metal is too heavy for me.
Overplayed