Appetite For Destruction

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.

Ugh.. so cliche

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

All the same sounding L. It was not bad and some of the songs were very good -> sweet child of mine and welcome to the jungle.

Not my type of music. I recognized a few songs for sure.

Somehow even more lyrically shallow than I thought it was. Paradise City slaps, though.

A couple of familiar songs, but this was more my style when I was a young person. Now it reminds me of a screaming group of kids.

I’m glad Nirvana killed this genre. Even the skulls on the album are accessorizing. Two belts with skin tight leather pants? Prancing around in star spangled lulu lemons? Yuck. I can’t see into the future but I saw these guys as their current versions of themselves back then. LA junkies. The only thing that really is astonishing about this album is the guys review where his praise is so high he says Axl is charismatic. Jesus H Christ. An ashtray after a Steel Panther show has more charisma than this POS. I can see why people like it and I’m also glad I can easily see those people.

The hits of Guns & Roses are so omnipresent it's interesting hearing the lesser-played tracks. Not much else is unfortunately as amazing as their biggest ones, but a few ones are definitely worth adding into the rotation

PURE UNADULTURATED COCK. The late 80s were seemingly just a slot machine for music and what gets popular. In an alternate universe, this album and GnR fall into obscurity while some other random glam metal band takes up their place and literally nothing changes in the grand scheme of musical history.

Ne

I don't hate Guns N' Roses. They're cheesy and kind of obnoxious, but I've never seriously disliked them when they've come on day-to-day. Re-listening to Appetite, the near hour straight of their goofy hard rock and Rose's shrieking vocals starts to test my patience though. It's like a caricature of rock. *Heard before.

Apart from the singles, poor! Cannot stand his voice, it's just irritating, but music is OK, especially the guitar

If you like hard rock it’s great. They have a few songs I like but I’m just not the intended audience… nothing at all like Nora Jones. Haha 2 of 5

If you are a 14-year-old white boy with a mullet in 1987, I’m sure you got a boner the first time you heard this album.

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.

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

Lyrically hilariously bad. Music bonkers but it wasn’t too offensive surprisingly

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

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

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.

Could’ve been a 3 if not for all the weird moaning

It's good, just played way too much.

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.

Screamy metal with occasional delights…but mostly screamy metal.

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.

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

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.

yuck

It was great when it came out. Then it got overplayed a million times.

6/10 Ça crie, ça crie un peu trop pour moi 😉

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.

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.

Beaucoup de bruit, pas mon style

i like some hair metal, but this is annoying 2

Bit too heavy for me.

Fine, it’s so easy stinks. Thought it’d be overrated going into it and still agree. 4/10.

Fav Songs: Welcome To The Jungle, It’s So Easy, Paradise City, Rocket Queen Least Fav Songs: Out Ta Get Me, Think About You

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.

Some cool instrumentals, interesting to hear such a funk/alt metal influence overall. But man Axl Rose is annoying. 2.5/5

Filled with culturally significant tracks. Movie trailers would not be the same without this album, but it's just not my taste.

They play real well good. Arenarocknroll.

Lil nicko would’ve gone sicko mode for it

This would be a 5 star album if it only consisted of welcome to the jungle, paradise city, and sweet child o mine. As it is, this is a 2 star album

Boa, übles Axel Rose Gejaule und Dicke Eier Gitarrenparts aufs Übelste. Tausendmal besser von Aerosmith, AC/DC usw. gehört. Bekommt nur 2 Punkte wegen Welcome to the Jungle/Sweet Child O´ Mine.

Interesting to listen to this straight after Aerosmith…and I think I prefer Aerosmith. I am betraying my demographic here, but I’ve never liked Guns and Roses. It might be that I really have never liked Axl Rose’s vocals, despite enjoying the music. I think this album just overstays it welcome for me….I mean ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ is great and ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ is terrific and earns it’s place in the Gen X Book of Standards, but why not just finish there? Three tracks of filler to finish off, couldn’t wait for it to finish. One star for ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ and one star for ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’.

Ahh the Gunners.... how can they be ignored? My 1st actual album listen. starts off sounding solid ... lets go trackj bvy track this time... 1. Jungle. I know this one. 2. "It's so easy" is an angry rape anthem. Nope. 3 &4 . "Night train" & "out to get me" are a copy of ACDC with a Kiss chorus. 5. Mr Brownstone opens like a Stone's track ,but then he starts to sing and it's over. Skip. 6. Paradise City. That's more like it. This is their sound. All energy. And great whaling. Easy catchy chorus. Good one. 7. My Michelle. Dumb/flat. 8. More filler.... flat/Skip. 9. Sweet child of mine. Ah! Iconic 80s big rock music ....instantly recognised. Signature track. The opening guitar, love it. How can lyrics that say so little imply so much? The defining song of the album. And the joy is prolonged by an actually *good guitar solo*. Top stuff I have mostly though of this band as "ok" etnertaining, Halloween fun with garish Costumes included. heavy rock people sing along to after a few drinks... Now that I have actually listened to a whole album, my opinion of them is lowered, they're ok ... but "Sweet Child of Mine" is very good as an 80s anthem that captures soemthing of the big carefree celebratory zeitgeit of big rock acts of the day. (But the debased portrayal of rapey sex and misogyny of some of the lyrics on other sings can't be ignored.) trivia: But they sold 100 millions albums (matching Fats Domino, how funny) , made the most expensive album in history (14 million) and the most successful tour by a US Band (dwarfed by U2 and Rolling Stones and even Ed Sheeran and Elton John). They sure left a mark. An icon. But...

I know there are people who worship this album. And I can see that. Sitting down to listen to the entire album, I attempted a mental exercise to embody someone who loves it. I overdosed on meth before the album finished. I wish I could go the rest of my life and never hear any of these songs again.

There’s such a legacy behind this album - commendable as a debut, and for a record to have so many hit singles packed in there only happens once in a blue moon. Can’t completely agree with this one though. The songwriting does seem corny and despite some skilful playing, that guitar sound I find kind of annoying. Maybe this is another version of all the hits being overplayed that I couldn’t fully be captured by them on this listen. Welcome to the Jungle is kind of a banger, even just for ‘shanananananananana’. Two and a half overall.

born to listen to kid rock, forced to listen to GNR

I came close to my perfectly acceptable ALL METAL IS SHIT approach, DO NOT LISTEN. But GNR always had a little more. I'm not sure what this is. All the usual metal tropes are there: screaming vocals, no soul, everyday sexism. It's only the singles that stand out for me. The rest is just noise. And pretty dumb stupid noise at that. No ta.

So tired of about half of this album. The other half is okay. 2.5

2 Groan. Here we go. Probably the cock rock-iest of all the cock rock bands. If there’s any one frontman I would punch in the face… it’d probably be Gary Glitter. BUT, if we’re talking those without heinous sex crimes, it would be Axl Rose. The dude is a pompous diva, and everything he says and does makes me want to punch him in the face. As Kurt Cobain said himself, “The guy is a fucking sexist and a racist and a homophobe, and you can't be on his side and be on our side. I’m sorry that I have to divide this up like this, but it's something you can't ignore. And besides, [GNR] can't write good music." Honestly, where’s the lie? If you disagree with the claims of bigotry, look at One in a Million (Google the lyrics, don’t give this fool a Spotify play). Alternatively, look at any comment he’s made towards a woman. As far as bad music goes… well, Axl certainly is no Bob Dylan. Out Ta Get Me quite literally ends with the line “So you can suck me, Take that one to heart”. That being said, I realize that’s not what this album is about - it’s about sex, drugs, and rock n roll, and I can’t argue that the album succeeds in that regard. I mean, there’s a reason it’s considered a rock classic, especially with three of the songs here being staples of any rock radio station. The production is incredibly clean, the songs are both catchy and commercially palatable, and I’ll even admit I had Welcome to the Jungle and Sweet Child O Mine on my first MP3 player… yet I don’t find myself listening to them (or anything else by the band) anymore. Maybe I’ve heard the songs too many times, but really I think I’ve just grown kind of jaded. The further into music I’ve explored, the more I feel like the band is the most superficial side of the art form, like they only learned their instruments to get girls. There’s no real substance here, and honestly, it’s really same-y, like every song that isn’t one of the big three is trying to sound like them. Also, I really don’t feel like there’s anything landmark about this album - just about every other hair metal band you can think of was doing this before GNR, and honestly are probably all better. I really couldn’t tell you what makes people put this band on a pedestal in comparison, but I guess there’s something about them that just really speaks to the kind of crowd that’s likely now drinking Miller Lite out of protest for Bud Light becoming “too woke”. I debated a 1, but I can’t confidently say this is a bad album. I can however say that it and the band itself are both largely over-inflated in musical history.

every guns and roses album ever made. s catchy but also why.

everything sounds the same

I'm not a fan of Axl's voice or lyrics. The riffs are skilled, sure, but also sound just okayish to me. So, I think, for what it is, and if not trying to be influenced by how popular it was, it's a strong 2.5 for me. I'd even call it a bit uninspired on its deep cuts.

This is a tough one to rate. Sweet Child O' Mine is fantastic, Welcome to the Jungle and Paradise City are fun. Lots of misogyny sprinkled through the other songs and not really the same hooks as in the hits.

I am not a fan of classic rock, and a lot of the songs on the album are pretty lame.

This brand of edgebro 80s rock has really lost it's hold on me since my childhood, I gotta say! The closer is really cool though, never heard that one before.

I don't like this band

terrible lyrics decent-ish lickz couldn't finish listening

Axel rose is the worst, like listening to a prepubescent teen trying to fuck a cat. Rest of the band is good

The popularity and success of this band mystifies me. Sure, they put out a few decent singles, but this album is dull AOR with the guitars turned up.

GNR sound like the unintended consequences of a coke fueled orgy hosted by Aerosmith, and attended by AC/DC, Def Leppard, and a bunch of groupies.

Unfortunately, I came to this album with prejudice. I've had enough of that cover-friendly butt rock for middle-aged rockers with dubious body hygiene. And it was exactly that. I already knew the hits and none of the "lesser known" stuff really made me pay attention at all. I'd listen to Led Zeppelin all day before ever playing a GnR record. The only upside this record has in my opinion is that it came out in '87, thus filling a relative void in commercial rock.

Voice like nails on a blackboard

Reminds me why I didn’t like them then either

Alright I finally listened to it again after 25 blissful years of NOT. Honestly, this was peak dangerous rock and roll at the time. But it got dated fast, and has sounded nothing more than obnoxious ever since. It's... ok, but god damn those big hit singles were fucking terrible. I can't believe people ever bought into that crap. And still do.

Never really understood guns n roses, let’s see how this goes Welcome To The Jungle - absolute banger apart from OTT vocals and cheesy ending 8.5/10 It’s So Easy - decent intro, vocals too much in the opposite direction, boring. Steady on with the cowbell. Weak chorus, ok riffs and solo. “Fuck off” lol 5/10 Nighttrain - arsehole cowbell again. like the vocals here, nice thick guitars. Solid chorus. Best solo yet, awkward fade out 7/10 Out Ta Get Me - meaty intro, good vocals again, Iron Maiden vibes pre chorus, AC/DC vibes in chorus. More awkward fucks. Not bad, bit boring 6/10 Mr. Brownstone - nice drum intro, nice groove, bit funky this one. They’re doing the bo diddley thing. Shit vocals. Solid track 7/10 Paradise City - classic intro, superb. Headbanging time in the verse. Much better vocals overall. Massive chorus, such a good hook. Like the funky bridge and double time ending. Actually drags on a bit at the end. Kinda sick of it now 8/10 My Michelle - Like the sound of this intro a lot, something different. Oh nevermind, it’s just the same again. Nice enough riff. Cowbell again. Dog shit chorus. 5/10 Think About You - Honestly fuck off with the cowbell man. All sounds a bit flat. Clumsy vocals and lyrics. Fucking horrible guitar in the chorus, does not fit at all, horrific on headphones. See what they’re trying but no. Yawn 4/10 Sweet Child O’ Mine - never been a big fan but sounds incredible after the last couple of turds. Guitars fantastic, legendary riff, sweet bass. Still find vocals a bit grating. Chorus simple and to the point. Ending is class. Best yet, massive for a reason 9/10 You’re Crazy - fun upbeat track, one of the better vocals. Not much to say, good solid tune. 7/10 Anything Goes - sounds decent, kinda like the vocoder/talk box thing, must be where Dave grohl got the idea. Cool back and forth with the guitar solo. Another solid track, no problems with this 7/10 Rocket Queen- riff sounds a bit awkward and goofy. Gone a bit flat again, vocal effect sounds like shit in chorus. Not much of a closer. No need for the moaning, especially in a song this ugly. Jangly indie guitar actually works at the end here. Wtf this is decent why not make this a separate song? All over the shop 5/10 Still don’t get it. I can see why the big hit singles are so popular, and they were chosen as singles for a reason as nothing else stands out at all. A couple decent upbeat jams towards the end but pretty average overall. Not sure what makes them stand out amongst all the other bands that sound like this, and Axl Rose has a brutal voice. Some brilliant stuff from Slash and the rest of the band to be fair. Nondescript lyrics all round, nothing jumped out and not sure what any of the songs were about. Won’t come back to this, not my cup of tea. 6/10 because the high points are very good.

Listening to this record was like shaving your balls whilst drunk. Sure, some parts are smooth and satisfying, but mostly it's an absolute shitshow of blood and mangled pubes. After the initial euphoria has worn off, you're left with pain and itching and a mess all over the bathroom floor.

nikad ih nisam volio, nikad mi nisu pasali, znam da se ovo smatra klasikom, ali ne u mojoj knjizi.

Words cannot describe how much I dislike guns n' roses' music. Their songs sounds like a fork scraping a plate. I'd rather listen to a baby cry for an hour than listen through this album again. The lyrics and vocals makee want to claw out my eardrums. The guitar and drums are cool tho. I made it about half way through before becoming overwhelmingly irritated by the shrill screeching that is this album. I like rock music, but not them. Maybe I could find myself enjoying one or two of their songs, but their overall discography fills me with rage fueled by the power of a hundred suns.

Meh. Didn't do anything for me, and I don't like Axl Rose's singing.

I should first mention, I do NOT like Guns N' Roses! I think they are one of the most overrated bands of our generation and I just can't see the appeal of this parody of a "heavy metal" band, if you even call them that. I don't have any issue with most of the band members, except Axl Rose, who is the definition of a douche, I can't stand him! As for the music, it's nothing special, Aerosmith pretty much covered this territory a lot better decades ago. If you are a fan or want to hear what the big deal is, Appetite For Destruction is their so-called best album and has their familiar tunes. I did listen to the whole record and though it didn't rock my world, it was at least listenable. If you haven't heard, Welcome to the Jungle, already a million times at sporting events or the radio, you are a very fortunate person. If you wear a Guns N' Roses t-shirt, do not talk to me and stay away, I've judged you already.

Har har. Got into this album at that tender pre teen age. It seemed angry enougth and was peppered with enougth swears and attitude. Listening today is a chore it all seems so obvious and well a bit slow. Even the big hitters of sweet child and paradise city grind on too long. I see this as kinda of a gateway drug leading on better more fucked up things!!!

Predictable and really a bit shite, but fun enough at the time I suppose

They mix Aerosmith boogie with Sabbath sludge and AC/DC brattiness. Dumb (not a bad thing) and provocative (a good thing). Though the latter's only because Axl is such a convincingly jacked-up threat to women. And because so many of the tunes slap.

Not a big fan of GnR but I get why people like them. It all sounds a bit the same to me.

Popular songs are good but a bit annoying. The unknown songs are obnoxious.

Couldn't get onboard, no room to think. Did enjoy the track 'Think about you' though.

I must have been present to hear this full album at some point when Appetite For Destruction was new. I had friends who loved Guns N' Roses. I had a hard time with the persona Axl Rose was trying to play. I guess I still do. Rose has talent, but I don't buy into the tough-guy persona. Having seen their videos doesn't help my distaste. Another detractor from Rose is his injection of additional sylables ("mow-ah" = more; "lie-ee-ine" = line). All of that distracts from the fun that Slash provides on guitar ("Welcome to the Jungle", "Sweet Child o' Mine"). I don't like this album.

There's so much to like about GnR but I cannot stand Axel Rose's screech. Music is brilliant. Fun lyrics. Shit vocals. Embarrassing sex sounds

Some thunderous riffs and ultimate rock moments in this album, and it goes without saying that hand full of tracks are obviously classics. But there's no escaping how naff it can all get at times, is it the music? The lyrics? the delivery? I'm not sure. I won't be listening again to find out. 2/5 - Cheesy as fuck.

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Ich frag mich echt wie self-aware das ist weil die lyrics sind so unglaublich stupide. Also generell dieses ganze Genre basiert auf so idiotischen Ästhetiken irgendwie, weil unironisch „I‘m on the Nighttrain“ zu schreien und das badass zu finden ist einfach nur Ultra Level Comedy. Bei welcome to the Jungle funktioniert das noch einigermaßen, da kann man es zumindest auf die „Rockstar welt“ beziehen aber beim Rest ist das so dumm so Texte hab ich mit 13 mal geschrieben. Es geht echt um gar nichts außer ein seltsam mondänes Bild von Coolness zu produzieren und damit unfreiwillig lächerliche Momente zu erschaffen. Das sieht man ja schon in den Covern dieser Alben das es wirklich reine Ästhetik basierend auf alteingesessenen Paradigmen ist, was ja erstmal nicht schlimm ist aber die sind halt komplett uncool. Mir fällt rr keine andere Musik ein die auf so infantilen und albernen Grundlagen basiert. Also ka ob das nur retrospektiv so ist aber wie kann man diese Inhalte ernst nehmen, insofern MUSS da doch ne gewisse Self-Awareness dabei sein, weil dann wäre es ganz witzig. Manche Songs sind ganz cool musikalisch.

Add this to the list of massive bands I somehow missed when they were huge. I was in college when this album came out, yet I don't remember listening to any of their music until maybe 5 years later, and even that didn't happen often. So, weirdly, this is my first full listen-through of this album. It's...fine, I guess. Definitely has that big 80s stadium-rock sound, which even back in the 80s I mostly avoided, or at least selectively avoided. A few of the songs on this album got a lot of airplay back then on radio and MTV, so I recognized a handful of big hits. It's not bad, it just doesn't interest me much at all.

ganska kass va

"I used words like police and niggers because you're not allowed to use the word 'nigger.' Why can black people go up to each other and say, 'Nigger,' but when a white guy does it all of a sudden it's a big putdown? I don't like boundaries of any kind. I don't like being told what I can and what I can't say. I used the word 'nigger' because it's a word to describe somebody that is basically a pain in your life, a problem. The word 'nigger' doesn't necessarily mean black. Doesn't John Lennon have a song "Woman Is the Nigger of the World"? There's a rap group, N.W.A. – Niggers With Attitude. I mean, they're proud of that word. More power to them. Guns n' Roses ain't bad . . . N.W.A. is baaad!" "Rose initially stated that he was "pro-heterosexual" and "I'm not against them doing what they want to do as long as it's not hurting anybody else and they're not forcing it upon me"" Brain damaged rock for apes. Prefs: Paradise City, Sweet Child O'Mine, Rocket Queen Moins pref: Out Ta Get Me et Axl Rose en tant qu'être humain

Listened to it when it first came out and disliked it then, airplay of the popular tracks only served to reinforce that dislike. 34 years later my feelings still haven’t changed towards this album

Enjoyed it more than i thought i would, but still not much. Hair rock vocals do my head in a bit.

2.5

Appetite for Destruction by Guns N’ Roses (1987) One cannot decide if this appetite for destruction is a subliminal warning or a superliminal wallow, but in any case it cannot be both. It is stuck in liminality. It is incommensurable. But it still rocks. There’s an interesting coherence and organizing principle in this album, as the first side (Side “G” for “Guns”) is lyrically dark and dangerous, while the second side (Side “R” for “Roses”) is sentimental and lustful. It’s all unified by an overarching adolescence. Depravity protesting its innocence fittingly deserves a glance, as a listener can’t help but wonder where the artist finds contentment. Money, sex, booze, drugs, and the misogynistic infantilization and reduction of the woman to an instrumentality are all tried and failed. The failure remains unacknowledged. In “Mr. Brownstone”, the heroin addict regards his dependency as a nuisance that nevertheless has its positive side. And the pornosonic “Anything Goes” is expressive of the unending hunger for new sexual experiences. All this is well performed and recorded in the hard rock métier, but the compositions and arrangements are, disappointingly, rather standard. It must be said that lead vocalist Axl Rose has a fine rock voice, and lead guitarist Slash is supremely adept. But in the final analysis, this record amounts to a talented delivery of biker bar tunes. If that’s your thing. 2/5

Im not too big a fan of their music

Eg orkar ikkje.

Yeah, might've been different if you asked me like 4 years ago. Just don't really care for this aside from the insanely overplayed (but still good) Welcome To The Jungle and Sweet Child O' Mine. Not much else compelled me here Already Saved: Welcome To The Jungle; Sweet Child O' Mine Saved After Listening: Out Ta Get Me*

Quite a bit of swearing, but good riffs.

Overrated

Still no.

There are only 3 decent songs on this. The rest is bang average 80s bloke rock. the good songs are good though. 2/5

At this point the GNR logo looks about as corporate to me as Oral-B and Dove. But it doesn't sound like I would expect an album from either of those companies to sound. No, this brand campaigns for grumpy teenagers' rights, and distributes tinnitus to all those who need it. Despite this being very loud and fork-scratching music, the thing I like about this album is the rythmic sluggishness within the pure energy, which is on almost every track.

Some classic songs that I liked, but mostly not my type.

boring

Meh, its not really my type of music. I can appreciate how it has contributed to culture. I hadn't listened to this since high school

Sounds the same as the last G and R album

Nogal wild. Niet iets voor mij

Aw it's just far too much all the time but SLAESH

Mye småkult. Noen bangers, men ikke nok for å holde en interessert. paradise city og sweet child of mine er tøffe.

Mange kule ikoniske rockesanger her som påvirket mange av de som kom etter. Tar man bort de få klassikerne, er det ikke mye bra her. Ganske kjedelig og repetitivt. Bedre enn mye av den andre standard rocken fra 80-tallet, men likevel for monokromt for min smak. Ingenting som stakk seg ut.

it's just as bad as i remember it being. fuck, i hate axl rose.

Pretty awful. I'll give it 2 stars just because I think the guitar work is not bad.

Sounds like two cats in an alley. Sounds thin. I will give it another attempt one day though.

Too hard rock for me

His voice is so whiny. A few classic songs that I like probably because I've heard them so much. If I heard this without knowing how popular it is, I probably would pick out the 2 good songs and move on.

It's just not my thing. While G&R were better then most hair bands of the 80s, it's still butt rock. And I don't listen to it much these days.

meh pop rock

Two

Maybe one of the worst albums of all time by definitely a bottom 5 band of all time

1987 was a bleak year 2/10

Have you ever eaten Whoppers? The chocolate covered malt balls, usually found at the movie theater or on the grocery store aisle next to the Worthers caramels and butterscotch? If you've ever had them you know where this is going. The first couple pieces are great, they're rich chocolate and nice crunchy malt foam in the middle, by about the 4th or 5th one your stomach starts hurting, it's too sweet and there's a layer of thick tacky sugar coating your teeth, you dont want to eat any more but they came in a really weird package that you can't close. Each bite gets worse and then you bite into one where the foamy malt never developed, it's just a hard tack in the middle of a giant fake chocolate chunk, it just about cracks your tooth but you manage to stop biting before you ensure your dentist visit. By the end of the box, you have a stomach ache, wondered why they still make these candies, and are disgusted with yourself for even endulging in them. This album is like that. With maybe 2 songs that stand out as great GnR songs, you can't help but hear the age and it all goes down worse knowing who Axl Rose has become and what he to his band members during and after the life of this band. Fuck GnR and fuck Axl Rose. 3/10

me not hungry

i lost my appetite

This is not the sound of music I like

Buns. Has two fun songs

Dated. Mostly unlistenable. Slash's hat and whatever the lead singer is called and his late 80s flamboyance make the whole thing unpalatable.

I hate guns n roses

Guns n Roses can simply fuck off. Axel's stupid whiny nasal stinging has always irritated the bollocks off of me, which is a real shame as the rest of the band are clearly talented.

Fy fan Skippar många av låtarna av ren självbevarelsedrift

Oh this is just crap and has dated terribly.

FFS…among the very worst music ever created by human kind, one star. Tom.

I don't like this album at all. The "classics" of this album are annoying and the deeper cuts are no better. I don't like Axl Rose's voice and there isn't really anything interesting about this. 3/10

When I was seven or eight years old I had a Lightning McQueen MP3 player loaded up with classic rock songs. “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Sweet Child o’ Mine” were probably the coolest songs I’d ever heard. Put enough drinks in me nowadays and I still might sing along. But the rest of this album sucks, man. Pure white hot drug-fueled rock ‘n’ roll excess. Macho in all the wrong ways. Maybe that’s your thing, but it ain’t mine.

Nkt my thing

not for me

Please, God, let it stop.

Ughhhhh. God no. I get that it was a cool debut or whatever but it’s so bad. I didn’t like any of it

Completely packed with hits, yet completely devoid of any character… a remarkably annoying debut… if I had to pick any album to be characterized as a product of its time exclusively, this would be the one! 2/10

I just hate it.

Absolute shit

I do not like this album. I guess no fault to them, but I hear these songs constantly at sporting events and don’t love listening to it as an album.

Det finns en sångare jag absolut inte klarar av, som är värst av dom värsta, som kan förstöra vad som helst. Det är Axl Rose! Det finns säkert en del bra rocklåtar här, mycket tyder på det. Men det spelar ingen som helst roll. Jag kan inte lyssna på Lars Roos kokainhajpade bror. Det är fysiskt omöjligt! Freddie Mercury kom tillbaka allt är förlåtet.

no me gustó

DONT love rock

can i evaluate without prejudice what ive been calling crap my whole life? theres always a first time for everything turns out i was: right i dont fw all this want to look cool by trying so hard to be bad vibe, the music dont really help either i just dont connect with any aspect of this and everything comes too uninspired to me, i dont think i will remember any of these riffs tomorrow, i was calling the drum fills as they happened and that mfrs voice irritates tf out of me i could keep going but that would be just mean, hope i made clear that i dont like this

Bit too theatrical for me. Excellent if you’re from the USA, I bet

What an abomination of an album, and the human race that was alive in 1987 should collectively have had their heads examined for allowing this garbage to become popular. Axl Rose is a little bitch, and no matter how much posturing he does to try to convince us otherwise will never take away from the fact that he's just a little bitch. The music is cookie-cutter and formulaic, and listening to this I can't help but come away convinced that Slash might be one of the most overrated guitarists of all time. There's absolutely nothing redeeming here, even the best song is still one that I wanted to skip halfway through its runtime. God, Axl is such a little bitch.

Hard Rock isn’t really my thing, couldn’t listen to the whole album. It’s also not my generation, so it doesn’t hit the same „rebellious” nerve for me that it might’ve hit back then. Also the Wiplash from seeing vague social criticism back to back with Axl Rose moaning in the Welcome to the jungle mv was too much for me lmao (I like the sha-na- na-na-na-na- knees part tho) Favourite Songs: Out Ta Get Me, Sweet Child O’ Mine

50

Nope

poslušao u više navrata jer je bilo mučenje... znao sam da će biti loše, ali nisam mislio ovoliko... vokal mi je u sjećanju bio trunku podnošljivije i pjesme su mi sve u svemu bile kraće, ovo je strašno

Stupid cock rock or songs I've heard a million times at sporting events

Started listening to this even though I knew I hated them just in case I had been too harsh on them. Less than half way through I realised I had been too generous.

Hard rock

Fine, the guys were fun but this rest of this just sounds the same.

No es para nada mi estilo. No conecte.

Yuck

These guys really seem to hate the life they're living. Their music drips with contempt for their surroundings, their peers, and of course, the women who fuck them. That contempt initially gives the album a propulsive force that tricks you into thinking the music might be good, but it's so empty that half way through you just want it to end. Having enjoyed GNR at parties or on the radio, I was surprised how difficult it was to get through the whole album. This music is made for radio (where the emptiness can't catch up with the rawness) or an arena show (where the hormonal stew of all the headpushers and the girlfriends they hate get you temporarily drunk). Oh look, I can be contemptuous too! Mr. Brownstone was kind of interesting, the second half of Rocket Queen is legit good, and the guitar work on all the big hits is fun, but the rest is such a slog that I can't recommend it at all.

Ha. Good one, Generator. I know what day it is. This is an April fools joke right?

Now I feel bad for giving Black Crowes 1 star. This is equally as derivative but shittier in execution. If you want blues-based hard rock, listen to 70s Aerosmith. If you want Sunset Strip sleaze, listen to Motley Crue.

Still love Sweet Child. Otherwise still find this unlistenable.

I was prepared to cut it some slack because Slash gets some respect and it sounded ok in 1988 (that is, better than Crüe), but no, it's garbage.

not a fan

lame

I hate this so much. Cringy and terrible when it came out and somehow even more so now. I don’t understand how people enjoy this. I wish it would disappear so I wouldn’t have to hear it again but it always seem to pop up.

Due to the era I grew up I knew all of the singles off of this album which was a large percentage. I hated them so I was really bummed to have to put this on. After listening all the way though I can say with more confidence that I just don't like Guns N' Roses. I think it's a cheesy manufactured edge. There's no dimension or component to their sound that can't be found in a more interesting or competent act sometimes a whole decade or more before this was released. My favorite part was the song where Slash or whoever is using a talkbox and Axl Rose is making is little stuck pig sounds and there's a brief period where it gets hard to tell which one is which.

I really hate this

I ain't listening to that.

"Body parts don't have sounds" ASS:

would have rather watched paint dry than listen to this

BAD.

i have a cold and somehow this is far worse

Vague atmosphere in this I guess ? That's about as much kind as I can say about it and it's an atmosphere I don't find pleasant so.

I have an appetite for destruction of this fuckin album off this list. Nothing about this band appeals to me. I don't like Axl Rose and his whiny little chipmunk voice. I don't like Slash and his stupid hat. I never enjoyed even playing their songs in Guitar Hero. And Guitar Hero makes any song as least 2x better.

actually hated this one lmao. the only redeeming song is sweet child o mine. hard to like guns n’ roses anyway

The vocals are awful and the instrumentals are super eh, I really didn't like any of it other than Sweet Child O Mine but that was also ruined by the vocals

No thank you

tengo un odio inexplicable a esta banda