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Who have I become now that I enjoy GNR?
It’s a very fun album. Every member has clear talent and the songs are very well written. As overplayed as many of these songs are, they aren’t ruined for me personally, though maybe that’s because I’ve only been alive a little more than a third of the time this album has existed. I think Sweet Child o’ Mine is one of the best songs of the 80s, but the songs between it and Rocket Queen create a bit of a slump for me. Speaking of which, Rocket Queen is a pretty good cut off the album, but I can’t listen to the moaning part. This is a personal thing, but I used to immediately turn off a song if it included moaning because it made me viscerally uncomfortable. I got over that because I realized that it was just going into the studio and making weird noises at a microphone, but knowing what was happening in the studio for that song just makes it impossible for me. 4/5
A few masterpieces on here, a couple songs sounded a tad repetitive though. That being said great album especially in regards to the guitar hooks and iconic vocals.
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.
Not for me, but I get it.
first time listening I enjoyed this album! I found Axl Rose’s vocals very weird and awesome. probably one of the beat classic rock n roll albums i can think of. 8/10 enjoyment ranking
Rated this at the time. A great debut and something a bit different in the heavy/metal genre. Some big tunes if the odd track has become a bit cringe. 4.5/5.
This was great I didn’t like all the songs but it was very good and I have been putting off listening to guns and roses so thank god I did this was great
Rock de toda la vida
Duh! One of the greatest debuts of all time and one of the most formative "forbidden" albums from my childhood.
Ok but I've never been a big Guns fan.
Nicht so mein geschmack
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
It’s icon selection of rock songs probably won’t be beat
Pretty good listen, I'll give it like a 4/10, not a massive rock fan but I can definitely appreciate the riffs and Axl's vocals (who doesn't), highlights are 'Sweet Child O' Mine' (obviously), 'Welcome To The Jungle', 'Rocket Queen'. Low-light is probably 'My Michelle'. Was playing 'Pizza Game' same time as listening, what a good pairing (the climaxes of the song sometimes fell in sync with the game).
this has bangers but it’s a little overrated
Some nice songs but a bit repetitive and boring
3.4 3x fun album
I stayed in a place in Costa Rica that was legit in the jungle. The whole time staying there I had Welcome To The Jungle in my head. As I listened to the massive sound of the jungle itself with its symphony of noise emanating from creatures everywhere, I realized the sounds Axl makes sound like actual jungle sounds. Since then, I've wondered if this is what Axl was actually going for. Welcome To The Jungle in part legit sounds like the jungle, which is badass. It's So Easy is perfect GnR and does everything they do best. And this came out when "the F word" really struck and meant something, so the "it's so easy, so fucking easy" portion brings a certain excitement whenever I hear it like when I was a kid in the 80s hearing cuss words in music and being totally awed. My Michelle is another perfect GnR song. Sweet Child is also perfect GnR even after hearing it 4.9 billion times. Shit, Mr. Brownstone is damn-near perfect GnR as well. Rocket Queen is an excellent closer for the album. Some tracks are more typical of hard rock of the era, like Nightrain, Out To Get Me (though still pretty great), Think About You, Anything Goes all fit in with other stuff happening when this came out and are generally passable. But each of the other tracks puncture through the noise. Even Paradise City, with its white trash-ass chorus, sounds bigger and brighter and more charged than anything else at the time. I can't hear this album without shit loads of nostalgia. I love listening to it and it still does a lot for me, but I can't tell you if it's, like, actually overall good or not. If you were there, you probably have at least some fondness for it if not love it, but it you weren't, ehhh maybe not so much.
Used to have this on tape back as a kid. Been a long time since I listened. The singles are standouts, the rest standard 80s hard rock to my ears. Could have dropped a couple of tracks easily. 3.5 rounded down Heard before? Yes Owned: Yes: 70/280 (25%) Will I get: Already have
1. "Sweet Child o' Mine" 2. "Nightrain" 3. "Welcome to the Jungle"
A classic hard rock album. Well produced.
A classic of Hard Rock. First half of the album is all bangers. Second half has Sweet Child and Rocket Queen. Other than those the second half is nowhere near as good as first
It wouldn't be a four if it weren't for the bangers. There are so many on here, but the filler does grind a bit.
Overall an enjoyable & easy listen. Favorite track was Mr. Brownstone. It's an influential and very well-made album, but it's hard not to cringe at how 80's it is!
If this was my first time listening, I’d easily give it 4 stars. But I’ve heard these songs a million times…they are so overplayed. So I’m giving it a 3 but I don’t know if that makes sense haha
Sólido álbum debut, no es mi estilo.
Never listen to this music but still three songs i know a Vladivostok classic
When I was in middle school, there was a kid who used to urge us to listen to all these obscure metal bands that he would find, sometimes ordering them out of the back of magazines. So many of them were so bad that eventually we just started ignoring his recommendations. I distinctly remember laughing at him when he told us about this band Guns N' Roses and raved about their debut album. This would have been in 1987, before they had even hit MTV. I sometimes wish I could go back and apologize to that kid. He got this one right.
El primer disco que me compré en mi vida
¡Un álbum, variados climas! crudo de origen, hooks inolvidables y esos riff de Slash para cantarlos son de lujo! Disco que mantiene su identidad y no suena repetitivo. con esas guitarras construye tensión y release!!
It’s like Motley Crew trying to be Aerosmith or AC/DC and trying to look really hard and dangerous but failing at that.
50
A perfect encapsulation of rock and roll attitude. Lightning in a bottle. This album just has so much energy, and intensity. Wild abandon? It isn't pure chaos, but it is music on the edge of breakup and that's very exciting to hear. It's hard for me to hear Axl singing here without picturing him as a leering, eyes-bulging cartoon wolf. GNR is what happens when you take the excess and attitude of 70s Aerosmith to its logical conclusion. And it is gloriously unhinged. FOUR STARS
Iconic
Might be the most 80s album that ever 80s.
5 stars. No notes. Well….. as a rock and roll experience? As a 13 year old? A 23 year old?? An angry young man??? Yeah, 11/10 As a rock purist it is arguably one of the absolute best debuts ever. 10/10 As a 50year old feminist leaning father of 2….. ummmmm …… a little harder to hear now. There’s some stuff lyrically that is downright wrong and unacceptable. However, I’ll rate it based on historical sensibilities minus half a star for Axl and his blatant misogyny. Bonus point: I’m not sure there is another bass player in rock that is as undervalued as Duff McKagan. 9/10
I don’t know if this is just because of my age my mom, my brother and myself combined, but it’s just awesome! His voice is different than everyone’s and so many of the songs are catchy, but not in a pop way.
Classic hard rock album! Everything’s there riffs,guitar solos
This was much more fun than I want to admit to. I think it all boils down to "this sucks" with a smile on my face
Hmm...Which way should I go on this one? We've got 3 all time classics, a few total duds, and a couple alright to good tracks. I guess we're going 3.5 rounded to 4 because of how great those 3 tracks are, but nobody would fault you for going to 3
Hair Metal/Cock Rock are amongst my very least favourite genres but luckily this album is so far above the rest of that pack it just about transcends it, becoming instead just a very good rock album. Kind of glam, kind of punk, full of far too much confidence and machismo but overflowing with riffs and attitude and it quality. Lightning in a bottle that was never recaptured.
Hard to know how to rate a kind of same-y album of a genre you don't love that also features one of the best songs ever written ...
Good
Guns N' Roses wrote 'Welcome to the Jungle' and then tried to do it again 11 times more on the same album without anyone noticing. Fortunately for them, it was a banger of a song and hard to make unlistenable. Unfortunately for them, by the time the first song is over, you've heard everything this album has to offer.
Gut
ist einfach nicht so meins
Ein sehr gutes album. Meine standouts : Welcome to the jungle Nightrain Mr Brownstone Paradise City Sweet Child of Mine
The big songs from this album are classics for a reason, but again I’m running into the ‘all the songs kind of sound the same’ wall.
I mean you just can’t go wrong with some banger guitar riffs
good to discover guns’ songs that i’ve never heard to even though this album contains 3 big hits from the band good album but i aspected more
hopefully this is not public but as a non American, i honestly thought guns and roses has a fanbase full of rednecks, trump supporters, 🦅🦅🦅🦅, all that. So i just never really felt the need to give them a listen but this album was pretty lovely
Fucking legendary. Hair metal at its best. "Sweet Child O' Mine" might be overplayed, but I still think it's one of the greatest guitar solos of all time -- in the convo for #1. Slash is exceptional the whole album, and even though Axl Rose is a tool-fucker who burned out his voice in a couple years, he's exceptional and unbelievable here. 53 straight minutes of pedal-to-the-metal bangers. I have nothing bad to say. Edit: okay, maybe hair metal at its best is still pretty damn repetitive. Grr. I stand by most of everything I said.
This was a good one for the most part. The hits hit the hardest, but I was surprised how different the non hit songs were from the singles. Not that they were totally different, but a lot of this album feels like filler between masterpieces.
Something I've learned about myself through this process - I'm fine with sex talk in music (see Prince), but really don't like misogynistic lyrics. Certainly some rock 'n roll classics here, most of them overplayed, if you ask me, but I can't look past the misogyny.
Who doesn’t know at least one song from this album? Such a cool album, but maybe I’ve heard the songs too much
I liked the songs I already knew, but didn't love the songs I hadn't already heard.
Too insanely overplayed for me to really enjoy it beyond having a basic level of respect for it at this point.
Its rock, its metal, its pop and its camp as Christmas.
wether you like them or not, I think almost everybody heard this band and seen this album art. That is in it self a really good reason for it to be on this list. It has had a huge cultural impact. Personally growing up on classic rock this is a really good album to me that i never took time and listen through. The hits are legendary but even the tracks i haven't heard seems solid.
Some of their biggest hits
Some memorable songs and some weak songs.
Tiene buenas canciones y sweet child o mine así que se merece un 4 por tremenda obra de arte
Really don't care for Rose's voice. Some solid songs but mostly pretty worn out.
One of the great debut albums of all time. They transcended the awful genre of hair metal to produce one of the best ever rock/metal albums ever. Every song is a classic. If you don't like this album, you've never been a teenager (or at least a white male suburbanite teenager). My one major beef with this album though is why was the ending guitar solo in Paradise City so low in the mix? Best Tracks: Welcome to the Jungle; Nighttrain; Paradise City
Rock and roll legends. Loved listening to them in the car with my Dad growing up.
Lo escuché por partes
Great album that deserves all the accolades it has gotten over the years. It smokes from beginning to end. Too bad everything after this album pretty well sucked from them. I was 14 when this came out and it kinda bubbled under the surface for awhile. Then they went on tour opening for Mötley Crüe and stole the show. I was witness to that in Huntsville, Alabama. GnR was enough Hollywood Strip to appeal to the hair metal crowd, but grimy and heavy enough to appeal to the thrash crowd. They really had an authenticity to them that won lots of people over from diverse musical interests. 4.5/5 rounded to 5.
More like Bums N’ Hoses. BANGER AFTER BANGER. So good.
Ett poäng för wellcome to the jungle
legalzinho
I want to respect it but atp I hear some songs and they’re just too overplayed for me… anyways the first song reminds me of the time I went on a pub crawl with some friends and we ended up at this arcade bar and we went down these dark stairs which led to a door that had a sign that was like “welcome to the jungle” and we went in and there was like at least 30 middle aged guys who just stared… idk what that was all about but it was a tad creepy lol
Album #79, Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ As most young boys who loved hard rock, I loved this album. It was probably one of my first real musical obsessions. They were singing about sex and drugs and using curse words, so what wasn’t to love at that age? And at the time, they felt properly heavy. I hadn’t really gone back to it in years, so I was curious to see how it would hold up. It’s a great record, it really is. The riffs are brilliant. It’s very hooky throughout, especially the singles, which are all iconic. There are a few forgettable tracks like “Out to Get Me”, which I think is poor, and “Anything Goes” doesn’t do much for me either. I also think the chorus of “My Michelle” is a bit weak. But everything else is pretty great. The two stars of the show are obviously Slash and Axl Rose. Slash’s guitar playing is just incredible. I don’t know much about the technical side of guitar, but it sounds so precise and powerful. But the real standout is Axl Rose. His voice is unbelievable. He has to be one of the best singers of his generation. The range, the control, the multiple voices, it’s all there. Some things haven’t aged well, though. On one hand, I do think the lyrics are strong in terms of storytelling. There are loads of little vignettes about down and out characters and addicts. That side of it works really well. But it’s hard not to take some of the misogyny at face value. Unlike the Slim Shady LP, which I reviewed yesterday, where it clearly feels like a character, here it feels more like this is genuinely coming from Axl Rose. That does leave a bit of a bad taste. Also, “Rocket Queen” is one of the best songs on the album, but that sex scene in the middle is just cringey and creepy and has aged terribly. It kind of ruins what is otherwise a brilliant track. The best song on the album is “Sweet Child O’ Mine.” It’s a bit of an outlier compared to the rest of the record, but it might just be the perfect rock song. The riff, the solo, the melody, the vocals, everything is absolutely spot on. I don’t find it cheesy at all, it’s just a genuinely great love song, even if it feels a bit at odds with the rest of the lyrics on the album. Was great to revisit it!
When you first hear Guns and Roses, it sounds like a series of impersonations. Axl does his best Robert Plant in “Welcome to the Jungle”. Duff channels Ozzy in “It's So Easy”. Slash brings Jimmy Page, AC/DC and others into his guitar styles. But, all of these influences blended together have sort of become the GnR sound. Full disclosure: I'm not a big GnR fan. I used to make fun of the over-the-top cheesiness of their songs (and videos, looking at you “November Rain”). I never took them fully seriously. I mean, they're one of the main offenders of hair rock. But to be completely fair to them, they can write some great songs, and obviously Slash is a class guitarist. “Welcome to the Jungle” is a great song. The intro does such a good job at building anticipation. And then straight into that fantastic riff. Let's just brush past the gall of Axl’s Robert Plant impersonation, and all of his “sha-na-na-na-na-na-na knees knees”. The breakdown in the middle of the song, building back up to the main riff is genuinely really great stuff. While Jungle still sounds quite Zeppelin, “Paradise City” is where that GnR sound starts coming out. The lyrics are cheesy and cringe as hell, but the chorus is seriously catchy. To be utterly predictable, “Sweet Child” is the third standout track on “Appetite for Destruction”. Sure it's become a trope. You can just imagine Fintan the accountant at his office Xmas party, rolling up his sleeves to show off his air guitar skills. But let's get past that. The riff is iconic for a reason and the song, underneath the parody it's become of itself, is genuinely good. The rest of the songs on the album act as filler to these three hits and, on the whole, they're pretty dull. I could happily live the rest of my life knowing I wouldn't have to listen to them again. But those three big-hitters are a different story. They’ve been so overplayed, so parodied, so absorbed into the world of “Fintan at the Christmas party” that it feels embarrassing to admit they’re good. But they are.
Highlights: Welcome to the Jungle, Nightrain, Paradise City, Sweet Child O’ Mine, You’re Crazy
One of my favourite albums . Listened to a lot of GnR as a child and this is certainly their best.
Absolute banger, if you love wailing guitars you will love this album.
gained one star for sweet child o mine.... i want young slash so bad
In an otherwise trying-to-be-tough album, 'Think Of You' is strangely endearing and candid. Not a massive fan, but they did come out with some of the most iconic riffs.
Uno de los álbumes debut más poderosos de la historia. El sueño de cualquier banda de rock debería ser sonar tan urgente, pulcro y logrado como este disco. Es la biblia del hard rock. Tomen y beban todos de él. Poderoso, implacable, salvaje, y con una de las intros más perfectas de todos los tiempos. Un 10/10 sin lugar a dudas.
Just an incredible rock album. Great bands, great singer, what could possibly go wrong
Best Song: Paradise City. If more of the GnR oeuvre had the same insane, frenetic energy as the last two minutes of this song, they'd have been a much better band. Worst Song: It's So Easy. You can really perceive how edgy they felt by adding "fuck" into the lyrics. Overall: The hits are gargantuan cultural staples but I've never much of the rest, which gives the whole album an uneven balance when listening to it 40 years later. That said, the middling tracks do have a characteristic "Guns N' Roses" quality that is in a way refreshing; this is a band that always lets you know who they are. The album is fine to listen to on a lark, but it feels dated in the way that a lot of old hip-hop is dated. I appreciate them for what they contributed to rock, but they've since been far surpassed by those they influenced. Also, like Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", I think I would be fine with never hearing "Sweet Child O' Mine" ever again.
Solid rock album with a good mix of hits
Absolutely awesome. A classic for a reason.
Nope
I hate guns n' roses
I have a lot of great memories of Guns N' Roses, mostly from the early 90s. They used to play "Welcome to the Jungle" in my sport class. Pretty much every song on this album is great. I couldn't help but think that GnR was a bridge between hair metal and grunge rock (which was my favorite genre as a high schooler). So, I googled it, and it seems that there are articles written about this subject. Especially for a debut, this album is really good overall.
Debut album. Featuring green gras and pretty girls.
A really fantastic album, but there are a few low spots that keep me from personally giving it 5. It’s a 4.5 still to me.
A few great songs, and several mediocre ones
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
i like paradise city and sweet child o' mine
Fun throughout; high energy. In addition to the ones I knew, liked Brownstone, Out to Get Me, and Think About You.
Oh the flashbacks.
great album .. good remember of my teen years
Stupid cock rock or songs I've heard a million times at sporting events
Sweet Child of Mine, Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City. I'm so bored of hearing these songs. Interesting to hear the other tracks that aren't these stand outs though. Still, not my favourite way to start this journey. 4 out of 10 Artwork review: Crucifix with their skeleton-a-fied faces, one for every band member. They were young when this was released though. Guess I'd think it was cool if I was 22 too.
Not really my sound….seems very dated now too..
It has the hits. I’ll give a 3.5 in reality.
Paradise City...Welcome to the Jungle...Sweet Child of Mine. Those are three monster tracks to have on the same album. The rest ain't half bad either.
Iconic. Unforgettable. Undeniable. Unbelievable. It was dangerous and it was memorable. They were L.A.'s bad boys but they could write songs, man. A truly perfect record from the opening note to the closing fade-out.
Это абсолютное золото и классика глэм-рока. Максимальная атмосфера крутости и 80-х, секс драгс энд рокнролл как говорится. Легендарный альбом, таких больше не делают.
Great melodies, great energy, the lyrics are absolute garbage and we all found Axl's twee vocal tricks ridiculous even at the time. It'll be in permanent rotation on radio until the end of time for all the wrong reasons. I'd erase every copy of Sweet Child O Mine before getting rid of Mr. Brownstone.
Tiene 3 de las mejores canciones de Guns and roses, no le doy las 5 estrellas porque no lo considero al nivel de los álbumes que si las van a tener
This is one of those big albums. It's hard not knowing some of these songs, it's so classic even if you hate it, you probably kind of like it. At least, that's how I feel about the album's opener, so I came into this with an open mind. We know the songs we know, all the singles and the radio-play classics. There's a couple of songs I hadn't heard before, and they weren't a chore to get through. Listening to this as an experience, Slash is probably the main reason for this band's constant success, though the lyrics and vocals do have a classic timelessness to them. It's definitely a must-listen record, but I wouldn't buy it. It's got too many cringe moments for me to play it regularly. 3.3/5
overrated
A guitar hero amount of points for you Slash
Okkkk we got some classic rock. GNR definitely followed/updated the glam metal/rock template to a T. Probably a bit too much because they all sound the same. I think there's a reason why the two songs here are overplayed.
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.
Needs more cowbell!
2/5 Die paar guten Songs zu oft gehört, der Rest ist durchschnittlich.
cried while thinking about my dad. danced and sung too.
+++
No. 157 From start to finish pure energy and aggressive sound, with some of the most iconic riffs you have ever heard.
i have the poster on my wall
🤘🏻
Front to back, best Hair Metal album of all time
Guns N' Roses' music reminds me a bit of KISS, though I was more into KISS than Guns N' Roses, so I'm only giving this album 2 stars. It's not bad music, but it's nothing special to me...
Good if you like/aren’t sick of hearing Sweet Child O’ Mine.
L’album è bello, ci sono delle perle come paradise city, sweet child of mine e welcome to the jungle che meriterebbe solo per loro 5 stelle, ma il resto delle canzoni, sempre sullo stesso ritmo e sugli urli, dopo un po strazia le orecchie e finiva per annoiarmi un po
non il mio genere ma album che bisogna conoscere, spero un giorno di apprezzarlo di più
È chiaramente un sound che hanno fatto assolutamente proprio. Non il loro miglior disco assolutamente. Non ha grandi cambi di ritmo e di tono in termini musicali. Sicuramente c'è varietà dal punto di vista narrativo, ma un rock così forte la fa passare in secondo piano. Si perde l'eterogeneità lirica e rimane solo un ritmo costante.
This album likely informed my basic knowledge of rock growing up with how much the mega hits occurred in various times. It continues to be an excellent rock album including all the songs I had never heard before, its clean and a constant enjoyment to go through. Between Izzy and Slash creating guitar riffs that live on in my head forever and Axl's vocals that wrap it all up in a sense memory of times with friends and places that are now long passed it holds a special place for me.
Three hit songs and a bunch of shit I didn't want to listen to
10
mid.
It was always going to be difficult to not give this album a perfect score. With the first song being welcome to the jungle, and later songs including night train and paradise city and sweet child of mine. This album is just non stop chaos in a good way, and the songs are so great. 10/10
eh
Hard rock
Stellar debut from Guns'n'Roses, still one of the best hard rock albums of all time. It has it all, with just a dash of 80s glam influences. More focused than the (great as well) two Use Your Illusions.
jujuuuuu discado!!! 4/5 "you're crazy" es mi canción favorita
this album is so f*cking good, one of my real introductions into actively listening to rock music, saw guns n’ roses in perth australia in 2016 it was so awesome
No. 388/1001 Welcome To The Jungle 4/5 It's So Easy 3/5 Nightrain 4/5 Out Ta Get Me 4/5 Mr. Brownstone 3/5 Paradise City 4/5 My Michelle 3/5 Think About You 4/5 Sweet Child O‘ Mine 5/5 You're Crazy 3/5 Anything Goes 3/5 Rocket Queen 4/5 Average: 3,67 Good listen.
Dig it, know 3 songs well, all good
I thought it was OK. Sweet Child O Mine, Welcome to the Jungle, Rocket Queen, Paradise City, Mr. Brownstone, and Its so Easy were the only good songs on it. Overall, I would give this album a 3.6/5!
The hits are great. Hits for a reason. The rest was to me more grating and meh. Not a fan of Axl’s voice. Slash makes this record for me. 3.5/5
album mid, i guns non sono nulla di che e la voce di Axl rose è fastidiosa
This is a fun album and is obviously influential. I have a bit of a hard time giving it an unbiased listen because of how overplayed many of the songs on this album have become. It definitely has cool elements and is still a fun listen.
Couple real good songs. Enjoyable in the right setting, but I don't think I would regularly sit down and listen to this one front to back. Wouldn't go out of my way to add the vinyl to my collection even though it is a classic in many ways.
Fine, the guys were fun but this rest of this just sounds the same.
High highs, but the rest is same-y and not my vibe
A dreat album! I was skeptical towards it, always making assumptions based on their biggest hits, but the album turned out undexpectingly cool. The instrumental part is fucking amazing, especially solos, and I got used to the vocals after two or three songs. The riffs are very catchy, and the percussion is very interesting too (I really liked the drums in "Anything Goes"). My highlingts are "It's so easy", "Out Ta Get Me", "My Michelle" (THE INTRO IS SO GOOD!) and "Anything Goes", although I don't thing there are any skips on the album.
me fait penser à Maude mais pas trop mon style
Uno de los mejores álbumes de rock con temas icónicos Puntaje: 8/10
I initially thought that this one was a classic 5*, but as i listened through I realized how tiresome Axl Rose’s voice is. Slash’s excellent guitar riffs carries a lot of the music. There are many great songs, but also a few overplayed ones. Favourites: Sweet Child Of Mine, Mr Brownstone, Rocket Queen, Nighttrain.
wasnt my type of music
No es para nada mi estilo. No conecte.
es un álbum que rompe con el estilo de música que siempre escucho, por lo cual fue difícil acostumbrarme a todo lo que fue el sonido, instrumental y letras fuertes. Sin embargo me gustó, lo considero un buen disco, que a mí, personalmente, no me voló la cabeza, pero entiendo la adoración que se puede tener por el. Welcome to the Jungle (4:31) me gusto mucho el instrumental, muy power i like ittttt 8.8/10 maybe playlist It's So Easy (3:21) buena pero me aburrio un toque je 7.5/10 Nightrain (4:26) no es muy mi estilo pero estuvo buena, maybe playlist 8/10 Out ta Get Me (4:20) me agrado bastante, maybe playlist 8.3/10 Mr. Brownstone (3:46) eee nose esta buena 8/10 Paradise City (6:46) me gusto m,e gusto 8.4/10 My Michelle (3:39) eeeeee 8/10 Think About You (3:50) me gusto playlist 8.5/10 Sweet Child o' Mine (5:55) god 8.8/10 You're Crazy (3:16) npc pero buena cancion 7.5/10 Anything Goes (3:25) ñe 7/10 no es mi estilo Rocket Queen (6:13) 6/10
Hay que tener 13 años en 1987 para aguantar todo este disco a Axel y Slash.
Could argue that this is more of a 4.5 but I’m in a good mood today apparently
not as bad as I remembered but Axl's inststence on adding extra "ay-ay-ays" onto most words ending in y eg "cry-ay-ay, sky-ay-ay" got on my nerves. I can only say: goodbye-ay-ay
One of the top premieres , and top hard rock albums in history of rock n roll
Basically a Greatest Hits compilation as a debut album.
Отакої))) Та всеодно не дуже вонимені заходять)
Y’all…this is purely stupid trash. Axl Rose’s voice is truly grating and i could not imagine listening to even just this record on a regular basis let alone the bands whole repertoire. If this were just the instrumentals it would still be just okay but definitely a whole lot better. This gets a 2 though for the big singles being at least tolerable and the entertainment value of all of Axl’s weird vocal affectations.
Yuck
Pretty solid hard rock album. I've been finding that most debut albums are pretty average, but this was a really great debut. Fun.
Guns ‘n’ Roses. Guns ‘n’ fuckin’ Roses. G’ ‘n’ f’ ‘n’ R’ ….. This band frustrate the shit out of me. They are the dangerous band that it’s safe for normal people to like. They are the band that people who don’t listen to rock music think are a good rock band. They are the favourite band of people who like to bust loose and listen to Planet Rock instead of Radio 2 on the Friday night drive home. A band who has had a decades long career based on three great songs and two-and-half albums of filler. One of my friends who is not a rock fan watched their Glasto headline set from a few years ago and said they were “sporadically brilliant”. I guessed it was Paradise City, Sweet Child O’ Mine and Welcome to the Jungle where the brilliance lay, and he somewhat sheepishly admitted I was correct. Ok, the album - well, it has those three great tracks but the rest is just ok, no better or worse. It’s fine, but despite having owned a copy of this album for nearly forty years, I have listened to it a handful of times.
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.
Yes these are some of the most overplayed songs of all time and they’re glorified cock rock, but they’re undeniably masterfully written and represent the logical culmination of 80s heavy metal. Still, I prefer Chinese Democracy. Fight me.
Makkelijke 5
Having welcome to the jungle, paradise city and sweet child o’ mine on one album is crazy. Even if they’re not my thing. The rest of the album all blends into one though.
Ha. Good one, Generator. I know what day it is. This is an April fools joke right?
I have so thoroughly outgrown this band it's insane. I used to love these guys when I was 18 or so. Couldn't get enough of Axl's voice, or their Sympathy for the Devil cover, or just their general vibe. Fast-forward about six years, and I finally heard Appetite for Destruction for the first time in full - I didn't get it at all. How was this something I so thoroughly enjoyed? It was overblown, stuffed with gross lyrics (when they named this blues-tinged offshoot of hair metal "sleaze rock" they weren't kidding), and Axl's voice shot between too nasally and just plain annoying. Five years still later on, revisiting the album for this challenge, I'm left with just as many questions. This band does absolutely nothing for me anymore, and while the three biggest songs on here definitely still have some kind of aura to them, everything else is totally disposable and uncomfortably sleazy for me. I'm gonna be the hater in my group this day - 4/10, because some of the songs are still kind of cool, and no more.
What a classic. Welcome to the Jungle might be one of the best album openers ever. Perfectly sets the tone for what’s an overall fantastic hard rock album full of great guitar throughout. Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, and Sweet Child O’ Mine are all absolute all timers. Slash is awesome and Axl Rose surprisingly doesn’t get annoying on this album; his voice fits the music well. I don’t want to be the person who gives out 5 stars to albums based on three songs alone… but those three? Okay fine I’ve talked myself into it.
Now that's some *premium* boomer rock!! 🔥🔥 Even if my first reflex is to hate it, some songs have a secret sauce that I can't help but rock out to....... Standouts: My Michelle • Sweet Child O' Mine • Anything Goes
I usually hate this type of shit but I am always presently surprised how well this album holds up. While there are some lyrical low points like on It's So Easy, it never musically lets up. Axl Rose might be an asshole but he has the perfect voice for this type of music too.
jak miałam 12 lat to dostałam od świętego Mikołaja dyskografię Guns'n'Roses, i "Appetite for destruction" było przez dłuższy czas moją ulubioną płytą... aż do czasu poznania nowej obsesji tamtych lat, tzn. Nirvany. Znienawidziłam G'n'R bo, jak przeczytałam w jednej z niezliczonych biografii Kurta, Axl go obrażał i zwyzywał. Moja pierwsza dziewczyna kochała Axla, czym specjalnie wzbudzała moją zazdrość. Ten ogromny ładunek emocjonalny znacząco może wpłynąć na moją opinię o tym albumie
Some classic rock tracks here but a couple stinkers here as well. Axl is a dweeb and some vocal effects applied are lame. 3
Certified bangers, I can’t rate it a five because sometimes his voice is grating, but the hits are absolute hits.
Transformative rock… really enjoyed all the way through. 4.1
It’s insane that this was a debut album. So many hits that remain in constant rotation even today. And the album does rock. I have to admit, though, that Axl Rose’s singing grates on me after awhile. 8/10 Most Excellent
Ok, every knows Appetite for Destruction is an all-time great. It was (and still is) played absolutely everywhere. Not surprised to see this here, and I haven't given it a spin in a long long time, so I'm excited to give it another run through. The one thing that hurts this album is the overexposure everyone's had to it. I know a lot of these songs like the back of my hand. That said, it's just good classic hard rock, if a little bit dad-rock at this point. Sure I'm sick of some of it, but to be fair they're still good songs. Standouts this time around that aren't the absolute hits are: "It's So Easy" "Mr. Brownstone" and "My Michelle" - I hateee the lyrics but the chorus is stupid catchy. Sure the lyrics are a little cringy and gross these days, but this is a pretty great and influential rock album. Slash's guitar work is iconic, and Axl is, well, Axl. It's a front to back listen and I got a lot of time with this one in my youth. I think it's gotta be a 5.
One of a handful of albums I remember exactly where I was first time I heard it. Every song is a banger
Bueno pero ciertas canciones no todo el álbum
Muy buenos temas más allá de los hits.
The hits are ok but the rest is so corny. Everything they do Judas Priest did so much better. 2.9/5
2.3 I've never been able to dig GnR. If we exclude the fact that Axl is a massive bellend then we're still left with a cringe worthy act that are massively overrated. Annoying vocals, simplistic intro riffs, and just a general air of wankery. The only thing saving them is that Slash can really shred in parts. Him in a good band would have been unstoppable. Paradise City and Jungle the only really good tracks here, Sweet Child of Mine is grating after a while and the rest are clear album fillers. Happy to not listen to GnR again after this.
You wanted the best? Well they couldn't fuckin' make it. So here's what you get. From Hollywood. Guns N Roses.
4/5 - Strange rating for this one because every song individually is fantastic, but Axl Rose's voice becomes too grating over a full album's length for me.
10 stars
Oof, huge album today. Wow. haven't listened to this album before, but Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child O'Mine on one album is crazy, and it's their debut album. Obviously GNR have had a very successful, long career, but it has to be weird peaking on your debut album, and even weirder as your career goes on. Like they're never getting away from these three songs. Hard to say why their initial reception wasn't good. Wiki says it's because sex and drugs were taboo topics but I can't imagine it. Drug use was HUGE in the 80's, or maybe it was just the late 80's with the Wall Street boom? Hard to say, I wasn't there, but looking back now, it just feels like GNR fit right in with all the other "controversial" rock groups. Good album, classic "dad rock" as they say but it's just undeniable how good The Big Three singles are on this album. Anyone reviewing this can say what they want about "dad rock" but they will 100% rock out to Sweet Child o Mine when it comes on. Unfortunately, the other songs on this album just don't live up to the rest, but they're not bad, they just aren't so deeply ingrained in our culture.
It was a challenging listen overall. I understand it was a debut album and some further refinement and commercial song craft was clearly learned for later albums .. before it all fell apart. But for me there was very little light and shade in the music - it was mostly flat out lthrash, which I guess was the style they were aiming for. It also felt like the three big singles were given much more studio production time and effort than the rest of the album .. combined … so they stick out markedly from the rest. Not a bad effort but I would stick to the greatest hits collection.
Fire album loved it
The popular songs are bangers. The other songs are generic butt.
First tape I bought myself with my own money! I was 10 or 11. It was good then and it’s good now! Do you know where you are? In the jungle baby!
An sich überhaupt nicht meine Musik. Aber hat irgendwie ganz gut zu meiner Stimmung gepasst. Montag genervt auf der Arbeit, wenn alles mal wieder schief läuft und man eigentlich nur sauer ist! Hab’s nicht ganz gehört…
Iconic.
Best album ever
Slash Guns and Axl Roses
Some absolute bangers, some very much not
not a big fan of the lyricism, but i loved the 2 opening tracks, paradise city and sweet child o' mine
1987. Debut studio album. Most of the album's themes reflect the band's personal experiences and daily life, including their youth.
jag är tyvärr inte en pistoler och rosor man </3
Welcome to the Jungle is one of the greatest opening tracks to any album, ever. Perfect guitar playing and an awesome energetic song. The rest of the album, sadly, doesn't really match the opener. I find Sweet Child O' Mine to be a mostly overrated song with a kickass riff. But this album also has Paradise City on it, which guarantees it at least a 4 out 5.
YO CRECI CON ESTA MÚSICA Y HASTA LA FECHA ME SIGUE PARECIENDO EXCELENTE
I like a couple songs off this album, but it is mostly not for me.
There is nothing more I can Say about this record that hace been said before. It's a Master piece!
Have never listened to GNR album before but some of the songs are memoranle. Favourite tracks Welcome to the Jungle, Mr Brownstone and Sweet Child o Mine.
Ok someone needs to explain this one to me. Lyrically inane and musically obvious. And it’s not even a “oh but you have to listen to it with 1987 ears” situation because AC/DC was doing this 10 years prior! “Fun” I could see. But “important”? “Classic”?? Why??? 2 stars cuz Sweet Child O’ Mine kinda goes.
Great album with a lot of energy!
5 stars for sweet child o mine
Solid from beginning to end with no weak spots. Also, Welcome to the Jungle is perhaps one of the most fitting/iconic opening tracks on any album.
Zoals
Ein Klassiker, den ich vorher nie am Stück gehört habe. Solide, viele Tracks seltsam grunge-ig, Stone Temple Pilots DNA. Für 1987 sehr modern, mittlerweile etwas überholt, trotz der großen Hits.
Great debut album from GnR
Before listening: I don't know much about Guns' N Roses other than that they're a rock band. I'm more excited to listen to this one. I always get bored halfway through listening to albums...I liked the two first songs. Overall, good album, fun sound, gets a bit repetitive. Songs saved: My Michelle, Sweet Child O'Mine 3.5/5
Better than I expected but not my type I can listen to for so many songs back to back
Some lyrics are flat out abhorrent, but for pure rock n roll and some catchy tunes it’s a four. Slash and Axl Tose individually kick ass.
Unironically good until Axl Rose’s “cat’s tail being stepped on” vocals kick in, every single time. Except when he wails, he’s rather good at that.
Overall, I thought Appetite for Destruction was okay. I can see the appeal, as Axl Rose's falsetto scream works pretty well in "Welcome to the Jungle" but is grating in everything else. Honestly, listening to this album in one sitting is simply not the way to do it: most of the tracks blend together into a shout-and-power-chord slurry. It turns out that I'm a certified Guns N' Roses normie. My favorite tracks were "Welcome to the Jungle," "Paradise City," and "Sweet Child O' Mine," which are, by far, the most popular Guns N' Roses songs, with over morbillion plays combined. But maybe it's a "wisdom of the crowds" thing, or that I've heard those tracks are the ones I've heard most often and have come to appreciate due to familiarity. Though I did also like "Mr. Brownstone" and "My Michelle," which aren't exactly deep cuts or sleeper hits, but are still (arguably) not normie picks. It's a little wild that this was the band's debut album, given that some of its tracks are THE most popular ones in the entire discography (at least, that's what Spotify says).
Listened previously. Expectations: Mid - Verdict: Alright - There are some great songs but an awful lot of forgettable filler. Welcome To The Jungle might be overplayed but it is very good in fairness. I also like Nightrain and have since I was about 8. SCOM is iconic but I would be very happy if I never heard it again and Paradise City is fine I guess. I understand this album being on the list but not brilliant for me. Anything Goes is alright.
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.
You're in the Jungle, Baaaby!
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.
Gotta give some love to Guns N' Roses, this album was on constant rotation growing up. It brings a lot of nostalgic energy that I love. A quality example of what Rock should ve
I spent most of this waiting for the big singles but boy did they deliver. Guns N’ Roses will always remind me of my mate who passed away last year. He was a huge fan and saw them with his dad 10ish years ago. RIP Milan x
Welcome To The Jungle - 4/5 It's So Easy - 4.5/5 Nightrain - 4/5 Out Ta Get Me - 4.5/5 Mr. Brownstone - 4.5/5 Paradise City - 5/5 My Michelle - 5/5 Think About You - 4.5/5 Sweet Child O' Mine - 5/5 You're Crazy - 4/5 Anything Goes - 4.5/5 Rocket Queen - 3/5
Hard rock. Some classics but the singer’s voice grates on my ears after a while.
If power chords and cowbell are your thing, this is the album for you.
not a fan
This album basically looked at hair metal and said "you're all cosplayers, this is what sleaze really looks like." People think of grunge as what killed hair metal, but Appetite for Destruction struck the first blow. The lowest point here is probably "Think About You" but the rest are represent the best of 80s metal. Not an album I listen to much, but it's impossible to deny how great it is. 5/5
A banger.
One of the greatest rock albums of all time.
Great album with classic songs
Absolute banger
Won't listen again on purpose
Welcome to the Jungle is immediate 4/5 Most of the rest of the record is more on 2/5 Settling this with a very uneasy average.
The album that introduced alot of people to GnR . Fun straight forward over indulgent rock with iconic hits. Fun to listen to again!
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.
Its arguably great but not for me. Mr brownstones good though
Weird one this for me as the band is not really my type of thing as i think they are pretty corny.. ...But this is a cool and great album to be fair to them. For a debut too its tight as fuck with banger after banger on it.
Anthem after anthem. I prefer the Use Your Illusions tbh But you cant argue its a monster of a debut. Should be part of every lad's music education.
Good album that. I know people will hate it because the singles are over played but it’s great to bang on
Not particularly my thing, but you can clearly hear they’ve put their heads together and worked hard on this. Reminds me of a mate’s dad who insisted on playing this in his car at every given opportunity.
I bought this on vinyl back in ’87, with the original banned cover, and honestly, nothing since has quite matched that first needle drop. Appetite for Destruction still feels like a feral animal of a record—dangerous, swaggering, and absolutely alive. The opening one‑two punch of “Welcome to the Jungle” and “It’s So Easy” is still enough to jolt your nervous system, and Slash’s guitar work across the whole album remains untouchably iconic. Listening now, decades on, I can’t ignore that some lyrics carry the same kind of misogynistic edge that’s put me off certain hip‑hop albums. It’s part of the era and part of the band’s posture, but definitely a blemish through a modern lens. Still, the musical impact is undeniable. The riffs, the attitude, the sheer velocity of it all—this is hard rock at full power. Flawed? Yes. Essential? Absolutely. And for me, even with its rough edges, it’s still a five‑star record all day long.
Meh
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN CHA! It was exciting until I remembered I can't stand Axel Rose's voice and I don't want this in any of my personal playlists. Still, it's got some great songs and it made quite the impression on 10-year-old me back in the day so I'll give it a 4. Mr. Brownstone is my favorite song on this album.
5 stars - This was one of two CDs I bought with my first official ever paycheck (the other was the Robin Hood Prince of Thieves Soundtrack, yeah I know two totally different albums). I absolutely love this album and think it is one of the greatest ever made. Complete from top to bottom with no bad songs on it.
Aside from the 3 big hitters, this is such a strong album. Think About You, Nightrain, My Michelle and You're Crazy are all bangers. Really enjoyed this, right up my street. Slash is a God.
Just classic after classic throughout this.
lame
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.
More songs than I expected though were kinda simple/repetitive. But obviously a lot of classic songs, and incredible guitar!
Absolutely classic
So so so good
Very horny. Driven by singles.
Great album! I was rocking out while taking my mandatory corporate compliance courses. Of course, Sweet Child O’ Mine and Paradise City were favorites, but I also really enjoyed Nightrain and My Michelle.
The singles are classic but the non-singles haven't aged too well. Kind of a country twang to wild whooping on vocals. He does the falsetto for a full concert? So hard on the voice. Still, it does have the edge if you squint hard enough.
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
Grumpy Aerosmith. Or America's Oasis. They serve up regurgitated mashed up comfortable and easily identified rehashes of obvious pre-80s reference points but undeniably have some big tunes. It's a shame this came out just as the CD era had hit full swing. If it had come out in the vinyl era they likely would have trimmed the fat and lost some of really ropey filler.
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.
Groundbreaking album. some mediocre tracks.
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.
classic
That opening guitar on the first song is legendary. Perfect album no further notes.
Like most bands of their era, GnR are carried by their hits. Fortunately for me, and unfortunately for them, most of those are on this album.
Banger after banger after banger. Fantastic album. It’s a no skip for me. Guitar shredding never sounded better. I’ll never get bored of Sweet Child O’ Mine, Welcome to the Jungle and Paradise City. But the deep cuts like Nightrain and You’re Crazy are great too. Loved it
I'm not a fan of GnR, but this is one of the greatest debuts and classic rock albums of all time. The performances are top notch and the songs stand the test of time. As far as I'm concerned, they never rose to this level again. 5/5
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.
overall not my style of vocal so I definitely wouldnt find myself listening to most of these songs again. however I can recognize that its very well done, they're extremely talented and made a very entertaining album
Här är alla hits samlade. Hade aldrig hört dom andra låtarna, en eller två ganska bra som var nya för mig. Skivan tydligen ha en sida "guns" och en sida "roses". Inget jag märkte. Lyssnade heller inte så noga på texterna. Lite tröttsamt med Axl:s röst. För mig är det inte bättre än en 3:a (men inte alls dåligt).
Great opener. Love the rhythm, the energy and power. Throughout the album, there’s a lot of background instruments that are unique to me, and they really enrich the sound. The lyrics are clear and well written. There is a lovely blend of “catchy singalong” lyrics and deep, emotional storytelling. I’m surprised that I’ve slept on this album for so long.
Definitely an album that has marked a generation with some of their greatest hits ever recorded; utterly enjoyed it ❣️
Knallis rock, æ får det ikke til å være gøy
I like guns n roses. Sucks about the allegations though. I think famous people back then were allergic to being good people. Great music though. Always classics. Just hootin and hollerin. Welcome to the jungle indeed. Why is he whimpering. I honestly don't think he's actually in the jungle. Yeah I mean it's nice it's a good rock album pretty classic. Favourite: Sweet Child O' Mine Least favourite: My Michelle
Classic album
A really good rock album by guns and roses quite a few banging hits in the album and and songs you could listen to again and again
The anthems of a generation. The precursor to grunge. The best parts of hair band rock. Interesting arrangements and musicianship. Easily more than half of these songs are legitimately great and a front to back listen is required. 5
Det e så knallis rock og æ klare ikke synes det e artig.
Вайбит той самой девочкой-зажигалочкой, особенно той, которая жгла фотку иранского лидера и подкуривала с огня
This album somehow sets itself apart from the 80s and yet helped define the 80s. An album like this really bridged a gap between 80s hair/pop metal and the more down to earth so-called "grunge" rock that would follow. It was still a bit of that 80s metal. I mean, just look at Axl's teased-to-the-ceiling hair on the Welcome To The Jungle video. But they quickly abandoned that look which helped set them apart. The other thing was songwriting. The songs were somehow more complicated yet catchier than anything else on the radio. It was dirty, it was wildly raw in production and attitude. Axl's vocals were unique and Slash's status as a guitar hero were solidified. (Again to illustrate the point, Rocket Queen has a recording of the drummer's girlfriend fucking the singer. And they put it on the album. You can't make that shit up) Speaking of Rocket Queen: the last two and a half minutes of that song is better than 90% of the pop that was being pedaled at the time. This is easily a 4 star album, but its place in music both historically and culturally places it higher.
Love a cheeky bit of guns n roses this one has all the famous songs
My favourite album of all time. Most bands would be happy having this many huge songs in their entire career, these guys did it in their debut album. Sen-fucking-sational. The most 5* album ever.
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
Banger
As someone who grew up worshiping Nirvana, I had a natural dislike of Guns N' Roses. I hated Axl Rose and saw the band as a misogynistic cock rock band. Whilst I think 'Welcome To The Jungle', 'Paradise City' and 'Sweet Child Of Mine' are overplayed, I knew deep down they're good tracks and know they were better than a lot of the much you got on rock radio at the time. Most bands don't have hits that strong on their debut album! When I finally listened to the album, I discovered that 'Nighttrain', 'Mr. Brownstone' and 'My Michelle' were the real bangers. They have hooks with an edge to them. 'It's So Easy' sounds like an Alice In Chains song if they were around in the eighties. Axl and crew are so much more dangerous than the glam metal bands came before them. Not every song is a hit single though. 'Think About You' is rather generic outside of the colorful jangle riff that colours the chorus. I find myself dipping after we are done with 'Paradise City'. The last handful of songs feel like filler, but the first half is so good that I can forgive it.
Like everyone, I have heard the singles from this album too much. I have never listened to this album front to back until this list. This is a solid rock album. I forgot this was their debut. That makes it all the more impressive.
++*: Welcome to the Jungle ++: Out ta Get Me, Mr. Brownstone, Paradise City, You're Crazy, Anything Goes +: It's So Easy, My Michelle, Think About You, Rocket Queen +-: Sweet Child o' Mine -: Nightrain 7,6/10
Favourite tracks: It's So Easy, My Michelle, Think About You, Rocket Queen Don't think there's a single *bad* song on here. Sure there are some tracks that don't hit as hard as others but I can sit down and listen to it all in one go without feeling fatigued. Great riffs, great vocals, and great energy. I normally dislike older rock records but this still holds up in this day and age. 4/5
Pure kunst. Een klassieker, nooit vergeten te mogen worden.
This album changed my life. It's release when I was about sixteen opened up a whole new world of music to me, which opened up a whole new world of gigs and parties and people and jobs and life. I can remember the first time I saw the video for Paradise City on TV, and the second half of it, where it goes black and white, blew my mind and I knew right then 'Yep, that's for me.' So you see I am extremely biased when I give this album a giant 5, but if I try to be objective I'd be hard pressed to find any reason it wouldn't be a 5 for most people. It's great, start to finish and really did change the musical landscape for a lot of teens in the later 80s. I love it.
AfD wastes absolutely no time in showcasing Axl Rose’s vocals, with a fry scream you’d almost mistake for some sort of vocoded instrument. The drumbeat is repetitive and simple in Welcome to The Jungle but Slash’s constant pentatonic fills add so much complexity to the silence between beats you’d hardly notice it. Lovely natural vibrato in the solo and great use of octave chords. Not sure if those are pinch or natural harmonics at the end of the solo but adds a real far-out dreamy effect before jumping into the final chorus. Great walk down and fade out to the first track. This one really sets the tone for the album. It’s So Easy has a fast but tension filled build-up that leads into an absolutely ridiculous breakdown. Bass is really understated in the breakdown because it’s following the same rhythm as the guitar but you can still feel it. There’s so many layers to the tracks on this album and It’s so Easy is no exception, intro, pre-chorus, and chorus could almost feel like completely different riff sections from different songs but they’ve somehow been blended perfectly. It’s So Easy has a short first solo in Slash’s characteristic pentatonic style but the second solo is really where his ability to play around the boxes really shows, humbly however, as it’s really there to complement Axl’s vocals over the top. Nightrain kicks off with some great staccatoed octave chords before going into a very crunchy blues riff with some great Low E bends by the sounds of it. Very bassy bends anyways wherever they’re played. Axl’s vocal switch between the verse and the chorus is phenomenal. Completely effortless switch between low and high octaves. The solo in Nightrain, particularly the start, has a fairly unforgiving guitar tone, relatively clean compared to Slash’s usual style, showcasing his control over the dynamics and clarity of his notes. Lovely run of pinch harmonics towards the middle of this solo. Extensive use of them throughout actually. Out Ta Get Me builds layers progressively but quickly throughout the intro if you’re using a stereo headset. Only in a GnR song would the intro solo feel understated but it is. There’s real clear layering of the guitar playing the main rhythm in the verses/pre-chorus with some minor note changes between guitar. Real understated tone in the guitar solo almost pushing it behind the rhythm in certain places, less so in the second half of the solo as Slash moves high up the fretboard. Not sure if this is double tracked or just the use of an octaver but there’s 100% some sort of track duplication going on here. Works great on the stereo output. Mr Brownstone starts with great use of percussives on the guitar tone back up the drums before kicking in to one of the bassiest riffs on the album, giving off a real jazz-blues fusion with the main breakdown. Axl’s tempo increase on the vocals in the chorus provides a bit of relief from the sluggish bass of the breakdown. Lovely use of wah in the solo of this one. Slash loves to hit notes in these solos in such a way that it lays perfectly on top of the rhythm (guitar or drums that is). Outro licks also perfectly track to Axl’s vocals. Paradise City offers quite a changeup in guitar, with the first hint of strummed open chords being used on this track. Of course immediately backed up with power chords reminding us that this is a hard rock song and GnR haven’t forgotten their place. Disgustingly dirty breakdown before the first verse. Such a harsh harsh contrast from the open chords at the beginning. I mean disgusting in the BEST way. It’s just such an aggressive contrast. The bridge has a fun moment where the backing instruments fall away leaving a bit of an exposed alternating guitar riff, I quite like that. Outro solo is pretty iconic, again though, shockingly understated behind the vocals, especially considering its technical complexity. One of the most technically impressive solos on the album, just an absolutely ridiculous run of arpeggios and box work. Darker turn with the intro to My Michelle, with an almost acoustic feel to it. Doesn’t give away at all that it’s the build up to an extremely bass heavy intro breakdown. I genuinely cannot get enough of the double tracking of guitar in this album. It just makes everything sound SO full. Again just a disgusting breakdown. You can’t help but screw your face up when you hear it. Love the octaves jumping around behind the main melody in the chorus. Fun jump into a major(?) progression in the bridge before going straight back into a pentatonic solo. Think About You feels a little bit more ballad-y than previous tracks on the album, providing a needed teaser before the experience of Sweet Child of Mine. Honestly probably one of the weaker tracks on this record. I do enjoy the almost Warrant-feel to the main chorus, the guitar particularly. The solo section is definitely one of the more boring ones Slash produces for this album, a little bit too boxy to be interesting or unique to be honest. Yeah really a crazy Warrant feel to this track for me, especially the outro too? Reminds me almost of Uncle Tom’s Cabin? One of the most recognisable guitar intros of any song starting off isolated before introducing the backing rhythm. A true ballad this time round. It’s easy to see why this song became one of their more mainstream hits. Axl is given the opportunity to showcase his extreme vocal range and Slash is able to show a splash of his talent. It’s well known this was Slash’s least favourite track on the record and it’s easy to see why, it doesn’t afford him any room to perform his almost improvisational box work for fills and licks, opting instead for slow repetitive lead sections. He is however given a bit of a reprieve with the solo, although that being said it’s definitely one of the slower ones on the record, but probably has a bit more of a soulful character and still gives him the odd opportunity to walk up a scale. Real throwback to WttJ’s natural vibrato in the lead with this one. Slash’s second solo returns a lot more to his own style even if it is short, but nicely wraps up their #1 performer on the album. You’re Crazy is such a change from the previous track that it’s honestly hard to adjust to it. It’s also a bit more repetitive than earlier tracks with a bit less layering which makes it even harder to pay attention to. There’s not really a huge amount to say about this song other than you sort of snap back into it after the first solo begins. Definitely feels like one of their shorter tracks in the album despite its length just on the basis of its simplicity. Anything Goes gives Axl another chance to show off his long drawn out screams in the intro. This one has another great build up in the intro before being followed with a breakdown, albeit, slightly more understated compared to the breakdowns in previous tracks. Crazy use of a talkbox on this. There’s some sections where you’re seeing a really fun question/answer effect between the talkbox’ed and non-talkbox’ed guitar tracks. Rocket Queen has probably my favourite riff on this album in the intro. Low E string and A string hopping around the first and second frets isn’t just extremely bassy but also so fun to play, there’s a real groovy feel to it. Understated fills in the background of the verses provide a nice contrast to the bass of the main riff. There’s the story of how Axl apparently had sex in the recording booth for this track however given how well the ad-libs tie in with the main melody I’d honestly call bullshit on this and assume it was recorded after the fact intentionally. Love the vocal outro on this track, really feels like a closer to the album. All in all a phenomenal record with absolutely zero skips. Choosing the best of this album is extremely difficult with so many of the tracks vying for top spot. If one HAD to be chosen I’d verve marginally on Rocket Queen overall but My Michelle could potentially beat it on the basis of its aggressive breakdown. If I were to pick the weakest of this album it would have to be You’re Crazy but in all fairness this could hugely be affected by the fact it’s directly after Sweet Child of Mine. Amazing album overall. 5/5 stars.
Drunk festival music. Loud, chaotic, just not for me. Makes my ears yearn for silence
The hits are bangers but the rest feels samey and, honestly, pretty immature. I thought this might blow my mind as an overlooked germ, but I think I paid it the right amount of attention at the time.
To be completely honest this album was just boring a few good songs but overall not eye catching at all.
10/10
I’m familiar with a few songs on this album already. I will always love Welcome to the Jungle!!
This was my friends father's favorite band. He took his life when she was 12 so it was never fun to listen to, more mournful. This is the first time I am listening to a full album. Lots of classics. His voice is a bit grating.
Album full of all time classics
This album was the death knell for hair metal, liberating everyone from too much hair spray and an overabundance of neon. It's a greasy, straight ahead rock and roll album, but it's got punk attitude and the band plays with a Faces like swagger. The whole album is worth the listen, there's nothing that disappoints. And sonically, there's not many albums like this one. The bass is so incredible throughout. Easy 5 stars!
Really good album, realizing that I only really know 3-4 songs on it . There are a few less than great songs on it—-but the good ones are phenomenal
This album was great when I first heard it when I was 10 in Eric Brown's basement and it's still great now.
7/10
2,5
It's a classic with some legendary songs on it but has it aged well?
Fun
Super solid. Splash is well-known for a reason and Axl Rose has quite a powerful, distinctive voice. I didn’t realize that “Welcome to the Jungle”, “Sweet Child O’ Mine”, and “Paradise City” all came from this same debut album.