Appetite For Destruction

Great for what it is

Was in Paradise City where Anything Goes listening to this. You’re Crazy if you don’t agree.

I was never a fan, but there's no denying this was a huge album.

Welcome To The Jungle is a fantastic way to open an album. Big hair blown out with Slash carrying the bulk of the burden here. Era defining sound. Mr. Brownstone is another favorite of mine. So tonally different from the rest of their stuff, but so great. My Michelle is a fun one. Lots of classic rock staples in this hour of runtime: Welcome to the Jungle, Sweet Child of Mine, Paradise City, Mr. Brownstone. Certainly encapsulates the hair metal sound of the 80s in opposition to the thrash metal sound of Metallica and more glam rock acts (Def Leppard, etc.). Hair metal isn't my favorite among these choices, but this album is classic for a reason. The song writing is solid and the big-room production certainly gives a larger than life atmosphere to Slash's work on the ax. For me this is a 4 / 5 -- not something I would pick to listen to frequently, but solid through and through without much in the way of excess.

An album that I completely memory holed the fact that I have listened to it many times before. Some good old fashioned American rock. Axl Rose's voice can get pretty annoying sometimes, but you can't deny that the guitar absolutely shreds. Welcome to the Jungle and Paradise City don't do so well as stand alone songs because of the massive overplay of them. As part of the album though they are awesome. Sweet Child O' Mine never fails to be a jam as well at any time. Nothing wrong with getting your shred on sometimes. This is just a bang on 4

I like this album. I like lots of the songs on it. I get why it may not be for everyone.

A ballsy and unapologetic hard rock whirlwind. Every song has a punishing energy that you can't help but headbang to. But I do think there's almost too much testosterone on this album, and it would have been even better if there was a song that wasn't about sex or girls. But a really fun listen regardless. Top tracks: Welcome To The Jungle, Nightrain, Sweet Child O' Mine

4-5

Clássico demais. Nunca tinha ouvido o álbum, mas preciso dizer que é muito bom.

Solid 80s rock

Tough one to tie a grade to. But I did like pretty much every song. And the three singles can’t be overstated, though they’ve been overplayed to death. I think this is quite the achievement. I’ll give it 4.

Crazy that Bleach came out only 2 years after this

Mr. Brownstone Brings It Down.

Che bellino

Love the album cover. Great heavy metal-rock album.

Definitely not my thing, but I can recognize that this band was hugely successful and that this album drove a lot of that. Tough to go lower than 4 when the album has hits like Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, and Sweet Child of Mine.

Man, this is a tough one! A few legendary songs and the whole thing rocks…I just don’t know that it’s quite at that 5 status for me. Also quite a shame that Axl Rose is now a cartoon of himself. 4.5

Welcome to the Jungle 4.1 It's So Easy 3.5 Nightrain 3.7 Out ta Get Me 3.6 Mr. Brownstone 4.3 Paradise City 4 My Michelle 3.8 Think About You 3.7 Sweet Child o' Mine 3.6 You're Crazy 3.4 Anything Goes 3.5 Rocket Queen 3.7 Score: 3.741666667

Not always in the mood, but when I am it's a pretty solid album!

This is a bit of a blind spot as far as never checked out, can't say I've had strong feelings against it, but never got around to it. I got two songs in before I had to pause for work and "It's So Easy" was already in my head. Fuck it, I'm at "Paradise City" and I'm gonna re-start the whole thing. I'm already losing count of how many times I do that Axl Rose slither move. Obviously, a lot of hits came from this. Even the ones that didn't, like "You're Crazy," are pretty good. Definitely catchy. I think "Anything Goes" is the best example of what crappy bar rock bands have been trying in vain to capture since 1987. She's not gonna fuck you, bro. That and "My Michelle" are probably the low points of the album for me. It's no 9 Shocks Terror, either the Lip Cream release or the Clevo band, but it'll do.

Surprisingly good for work. Not as heavy as I expected fairly tame basically foo fighters 0.5

Packed with goodness. The first one I would actually listen to after this

I enjoyed that. Probably wouldn't listen to this more than once a year, but still a lot to like here. Not all killer, but perfect examples of a genre. A landmark of an album. Four star-ar-ar-AR-AR-ar-ars.

Definitely a classic. I've heard many of the songs through other media rather than directly. Songs like Welcome to the Jungle, Sweet Child O' Mine, and Paradise City. Anyways, the album for the most part keeps the beat going pretty quickly which is nice. The vocals have a fairly distinct pattern and tone to them which gives the music that characteristic Guns N Roses sound. The guitar work is powerful and keeps the music interesting. It all does start to sound a little repetitive however, like every song is "samey". The chord progression of My Michelle was quite interesting and caught me a little off guard at first. I love the use of of chromatic 3rds. Melodically, probably my favorite on the album. Sweet Child O' Mine is interesting in that it changes up the vibe of the album a bit. There's stronger usage of acoustic elements and it takes on a happier tone. The opening lead is iconic. The closing bridge is a nice change in pace in the song itself as well. Probably overall my #1 on the album, which is unsurprising given just how popular it is. Anything Goes was fun, especially in its use of güiro for rhythm at the start. The usage of female moans in Rocket Queen caught me off guard. Reminds me of Welcome to the Jungle and how Axl threw in a few moans. The other songs just don't quite sound as distinct to me. The opening song maybe? Anyways, it was still enjoyable to listen to. 3.75

Such an iconic album from my youth and really of all time. Really, really great stuff.

It’s wild how much of a difference it makes when you know some songs on an album! I’m not a GnR fan by any means but they’ve definitely got some good songs in their collection. Knowing a few of these songs definitely helped with my overall enjoyment of it. Yeah Axl’s voice is kind of irritating but that’s also kinda part of its charm?

Legendary. So many hits in one debut album.

Absolutely deserved of this list, especially as a first album. GNR has so much rightly earned fandom for a band that really only had 5 albums. Hit after Hit on this album. Between Axl's unmistakeable vocals and Slash's unbelievable guitar work, this album belongs in a time capsule to perfectly describe late 80's rock.

This may not be the greatest album of all time, however their is no better album out there to flex in the mirror and do karate moves to and I believe that is worth something!

bello e basta

Che bellino

This is so influential. I do hate the misogyny on display here but also there is some archetypical badassery that transcends the through the music

I kind of hate these guys but also found myself rocking out to some of this album.

Good album, it's just held back by a few songs and Axl Rose's singing; he sounds like he sings through a harmonica for his high notes and it's rather annoying. 4/5

Album 476 of 1001 Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction Rating : 4 / 5 Favorite Tracks : Welcome to the Jungle / Paradise City / Sweet Child of Mine (The Usual Suspects from this album) Great debut album. I didn't listen much to this genre back in the day. While I enjoyed the hits, I never took the time or had the interest in pursuing further. It isn't that I don't like it, I just find a lot of it repetitive. I liked this album more than I thought I might. Several of the less known tracks were fine while others, less so. Good album. One I would put on again.

Sweet Child O' Mine is great. Slash is a legend. The other hits are fun. Axl Rose's vocals are something you have to be in the mood for to enjoy because they're quite silly. Very memorable. I can do without the moaning.

This is the band that rose above all the '80s hair metal Glam metal labels. But when it comes down to it, that's what they really are. There's still a lot of talent here and a lot of classic songs. I just don't feel like it holds up as much anymore.

It’s been a while since I’ve listened to this all the way through (like I was probably single digits in age still) so it was at least interesting to hear as an adult. For the 3-4 classics on here it’s a pretty uneven album overall with most of the non classics being incredibly lame and forgettable. This has rightfully been relegated to the pits of dad rock but if you haven’t heard it in a while sweet child and you’re crazy at least still pack some punch, paradise city and welcome to the jungle maybe less so for me.

hard to be for nostalgia and just rock at its best

Can't really say much about it. It's iconic and it's got a decent amount of bangers. It has kinda soured on me over the years but it is not bad. I don't think it's a masterpiece but it still rocks as hard as you think it would. Best - Welcome To The Jungle, Paradise City, and Sweet Child O' Mine (MPF) Worse - no bad songs tbh but it feels like a majority of these songs just flow the same. Make of that what you will. 3.50-3.75/5

It’s hard to argue with an album that can boast Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City and Sweet Child O’ Mine but it does have a handful of middling songs in there too in my opinion. Obviously it’s iconic and was a pretty important album of its time that inspired generations of future guitarists and subgenres.

The classics are still classics and I’ll always be nostalgic for them but there is some drag to Appetite For Destruction. At 54 minutes, 2 or 3 filler tracks could be cut and the album would be miles better. Even still, the good tracks rip and I’m still here for them. 4 stars

Pretty fun so far. Some of the songs drag and they all blend in to each other. Surprised by all the classics in this one, they are pretty fantastic. Enjoyed it more than I expected! 4

So good, they should really re-record it with a proper singer. With absolutely stonking guitars from Stoke's finest, the throughline from this to Generation Terrorist is clear as day. The drumming is incredibly powerful, and the melodies on the big hitters are surprisingly complex and beautiful. Seriously though, get a better singer in.

This shit gas. I like 3 and 1

The singles on this are everything you want from hair metal, proper anthemic, huge solos, timeless. The album tracks never really reached the heights of the big songs but there were some good riffs here and there. Given I give a lot of rap a hard time, this was full of misogyny, seems they kept it out of the hits. GnR are a singles band really but this album is important in rock and definitely deserves to be included.

The album (and band) only really got big due to a sustained press effort, which gives you an indication of the type of songs these are. Radio-friendly, plenty of jangly riffs, and they never really outstay their welcome. You're Crazy is the best of the non-commercially successful songs. I really enjoyed it - the music knows what it is, and doesn't try too hard or to be anything more. Axl Rose sounds fantastic, and Slash is brilliant.

Favorite Tracks: Mr. Brownstone Welcome To The Jungle Paradise City

Feels like every song on this album could have been a hit. Don't like the hits as much on it since they're so incredibly overplayed. Great essential piece of hair metal though, probably all the hair metal you will ever need.

Hell yeah.

Objectively speaking, this is one of the most ridiculous albums from one of the most ridiculous bands ever. I can't even imagine. A classic for sure.

I like Guns N’ Roses? Who knew ??

really good album, will consider it giving 4.5 stars but there's no option

“I’ve got an alligator suitcase under my arm” Take hair metal but make it actual music! Surprisingly enjoyable.

I know how important this record is and how talented they are. But ive heard almost all of the songs already. Other than the mediocre songwriting this is a great debut

Potencia, mucha potencia

I understand why this album is on the list, but it's probably not the Guns N' Roses album I would have chosen. I think Use Your Illusion I is probably a more memorable album, even if it has less of their hits. Guns N' Roses has always had some pretty problematic lyrics, and there's definitely some stuff on here that made me cringe. However there are still a lot of good songs. "Mr. Brownstone," "My Michelle," and "Sweet Child O' Mine" are probably my favorites. It's still a good album, but not their best.

A cult classic that has aged surprisingly well. Yes, the hits are overplayed on the radio, but that’s just testament to what great songs they are.

I can see how this album was influential and can also imagine being the parent of a teenager in the 80s and absolutely LOATHING it. Unapologetically vulgar with stark lyrics about addiction that would push boundaries even by today’s standards. Wicked guitar work of course. I’ve never intentionally listened to Guns N’ Roses and certainly never heard any non-radio hits. Will I go back and listen again or would I have sought this out if not for the 1001 albums site? Probably not, but it was a fun way to spend the morning and I did add Welcome to the Jungle to my running playlist.

The album is elevated by the epic singles, that make it deserve a 4 star rating overall. My issue with G&R is that there is such a narrow formula that the album tracks just seem to follow the same path. A bit of copy and paste at times. Great to have on rumbling away whilst you’re pottering about, and then turned up to 11 when Sweet Child comes on.

This debut is packed with hits that I've heard too many times but the rest of the album is pretty deep with decent tunes. Hair metal is a genre I generally look at as being vapid and cheesy but it can be good fun in the right mood and I think these guys represent some of the best of the genre.

Amazing guitars and so many classic songs! Will never get tired of paradise city! Axl rose’s voice isn’t my favorite.

great snarling attitude throughout, loads of rock, not much roll, with a handful of cracking songs. the work of Izzy Stradlin's guitar, holding things together and swinging is not always celebrated, but he is the secret weapon of this album. it does run out of steam towards the end, but the highs are pretty high!

Rock un filo peso per me

Classic album. One of the first cds I bought.

There are a lot of great songs on this, and it definitely deserves its place on the list, but man are the best songs overplayed. I don't really need to hear them ever again.

Have not listened to this record in its entirety for a very long time. A few good surprises (Mr Brownstone) in particular. And some duds TBH. The 3 big hits are timeless.

Great music with a lot of energy.

What is there to say about an album that's been on repeat on rock radio stations ever since it got released in 87? Released at the right moment in time when Rock 'n' Roll was in need of a good kick up the ass because it had become stale and goody-goody. and Guns 'n' Roses did just that. No, it's not the best album in history, but Hardrock like this is about the attitude, and this band brought it.

It's got 3 classic songs on it, so 4/5. I didn't love the other songs. They all had a similar style.

Jeg er mest imponeret over, at den aldrig rigtigt taber pusten selvom det er et langt og ikke særlig varieret album. Det er bare den samme sang 12 gange, men det er en god sang. Jeg missede de sidste par minutter - stoppede den sidste sang da der dukkede en sex scene op (????), jeg lytter til det her på arbejde!! Guns n' Roses er klar det 80'errockband, der er ældet bedst, og det siger nok en del om den genre for det er ikke ældet mega godt. 80'er rock var en total Weimarrepublik, staklerne vidste slet ikke at Nirvana ventede i kulisserne og var klar til at ødelægge deres karrierer

giver mig lyst til at hvine så højt jeg overhovedet kan og tage noget dumt tøj på! pissefed!

Banger! Vanvittig debut, måske lidt for lang, men langt de fleste sange kan stort set stå for sig selv.

This was an iconic album in 1987, and defined late 80's hard rock. I own 3 GnR songs, and all are on this album. However, they haven't really aged all that well. The songs don't really stand up to the insane amount of overplay they've received (at the time or on through today). And it doesn't help that their lead singers is, by all accounts, one of the biggest A-holes in the industry, whose singing voice actually detracts from the music. But this album belongs on this list for sure. It was huge when it came out and made a lasting impression. This, along with Def Lepard's Hysteria, defined 1987 hard rock. That said, neither band has aged especially well. This isn't my favorite, I've never felt the need to dig deeper than the 3 songs I've owned. Today's listen-through of this album supported my previous position, beyond the big hits it is pretty generic. But this still gets a 4/5. because you can't deny its impact, and the big hits are BIG.

Yes 🤘

This album falls in the better than I first thought and not as good as I remembered category for me. I'll enjoy it should I hear it again but won't yearn for another listen if I don't.

Es realmente bueno el disco. Medio monótono, pero la calidad es indiscutible.

YYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS my michelle new discovery on this album. i like it

tätä kuullut lapsuudesta saakka. oli myös ensimmäinen bändi johon tyrmistyin kun ymmärsin yhtään mitään musiikista. slash on vitun tylsä kitaristi ja axl rose on paska versio robert plantista mutta ehkä epä pedo versio pelkästään huume hörhö emt en jaksa tietää... tässä albumissa kuitenkin parasta tuotantoa mitä bändiltä nyht on ja en objektiivisestsi en voi liian alas mennä vaikka subjektiivisuus on mitä on mutta ei häkellytä ei missään nimessä vaikuta arviointiin millään lain.. ihan syystähän tässä miljardibiisejä monta kappaletta. geneerisyyden huippu welcome to the jungle

Legendary

The Most American Album by The Most American Band (note: I said Most, not Best)

The bangers still slap. It's a mixed bag lyrically, but you really can't deny what a breath of fresh air this seemed at the time.

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10 years ago I would’ve given 5 stars, but Guns N’ Roses’ importance to me has declined over the recent years, but still a collection of some of the greatest 80s rock songs

gotta love Axel's snarl on this record. Rockin' tunes for sure. heads above anything else released that year.

I really liked it. It was quite good and didn’t go gentil on the rocky-ness.

This is Nihilism set to music, and as a theory is great stuff. I loved this album when it debuted in 87, and still listen to several of the songs regularly. They certainly lived the Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll lifestyle to the extreme - but 40 years in when we look at Axl Rose can we really say that was a good thing?

Fast nur Hits drauf, aber für die 5/5 reicht es trotzdem nicht so ganz. 4,25

Classic rock album. Doesn't get more iconic than their vocal and guitar one-two punch.

4. 80s hardrock/metal isn't usually my cup of tea, but there's something about this album I really enjoy.

It is what it is, the pinnacle of dusty dad rock, you’ve heard every song here a million times. Still it’s listenable and it deserves its acclaim.

8/10. Slash covers non singles. Singles are all bangers. If other songs had better vocals and lyrics probably would bump

SWEET CHILD O MIIIIIIIIIINNNNNEEEEE

7/10. The most up and down album so far. High highs and low lows. Probably the band that I like their mainstream stuff and don’t like their deep cut stuff the most (outside of Nirvana, but I like Guns N Roses more than them all around).

4.5 Very good stuff. Very recognizable.

You come to this album for the hits. I could take or leave the rest, but the hits are SO damn good, they bump up the overall album score in my estimation. Songs like “Sweet Child o’ Mine” and “Paradise City” have so much more musicality than the heavy metal bands of the day, while songs like “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Mr. Brownstone” give GNR a much grittier appeal than the hair metal bands that ruled the airwaves. This album struck the right balance to appeal to me at that time, even though the lyrics were far over my head.

This is the best of what the hair metal era had to offer and I still can’t give it a five. For all the strength of the hits, a few of the tracks are just absolutely nothing.

4.5 Some all time bangers, mixed in with not as good which drags it down from being a 5.

Better than I thought.

got some bangers

I actually decided to give this a listen, and it’s been so long, it was like a breath of fresh air again. I try my hardest to listen to every single album on this generator, but some of these albums, live heard SO MANY times over the years, there is nothing left to get out of them at this point, and I thought this would be one of them. But for whatever reason I decided to play it on my way to work, and it’s been so long since I’ve heard these songs, I actually enjoyed them the way I did back in the 90s when I was a kid hearing this stuff back when it was new and fresh.

no escuchaba este disco desde los 12

before the bloat

Great album…..reminds me of childhood memories. One of the albums Trace had on repeat back in the day so always going to enjoy it.

You're in the jungle baby You're gonna dieeee

I loved it. Of course I did. I couldn't decide between 4 and 5 stars but had to had to had to settle on 4 because I've rated some of my faves at a 4. So 4 it is.

Denk mn favo albumopener ooit. Was vaak wel wachten op de hits, maar die hits zijn dan wel best of the best

Pretty good

Hard to settle on a number for this one - when this came out the only people who liked Guns and Roses were older than me and/or massive bogans. Hair metal is a funny beast - ridiculous in so many ways. And yet… there is still an appeal to this album for me. I enjoy the music (sans singing) and sweet child of mine was a big enough hit at the time that it has burned a space into my brain such that I got a pleasant sense of nostalgia. Against my better judgement I enjoyed a play through and found myself letting it go for a few extra repeats, while having to look over my shoulder and make sure I wasn’t caught listening to it at work.

This album was such a big deal to me and the band I was playing in when it came out. There are some awesome, energy filled tracks and listening to from start to finish takes me back to my teenage years instantly!! Welcome to the jungle has one of the best intros and although overplayed I have a soft spot for sweet child of mine. Love it!

I’m not a huge listener of this era/genre, but this album is pretty great. There’s a couple of clunkers in Its so Easy (especially) and Out ta Get me, but the hit rate is pretty high. Welcome to the Jungle is on the short list of greatest album openers.

Enjoyed.

“Welcome to the Jungle” sets the scene perfectly: chunky riffs and Rose in full Plant / Lee Roth mode. And young Saul can play a bit. “Paradise City” is terrific and the album as a whole, just, well, rocks. Don’t play it to your mum.

Four stars for Sweet Child of Mine, alone. 4*

Hard to argue with this one!

I can't stand Axl's wailing.

Has all three of the vitamins: sex, drugs, and rock n' roll. My favorite tracks were not only the singles of "Welcome to the Jungle", "Paradise City", and "Sweet Child O'Mine", but also "Mr. Brownstone", "It's So Easy", and "Rocket Queen". This album, their next 2 EPs and 2 full length albums would be a major reason that the overwhelming presence of rock was propelled into the early 1990s.

Welcome to the Jungle to open tells you all you need to know about what's to follow. Axl Rose was a muthafuckin' vibe.

Great album, especially for a debut

Damn good album, arguably deserving 5 stars, but I'm going to give it 4.5 and round down to 4. Here's why. Call it petty and lame if you will :) This is the pinnacle of redneck rock. The people that loved this album the most are the same ones that thought Poison was great hard rock (it was not). These people drove big trucks, thought wrestling was the pinnacle of sport, that camouflage print was the pinnacle of fashion, and that mullets were the pinnacle of hair styles. All while ignoring that a band like The Cult had already put out multiple albums far better than what any big hair band had done. (Side note: when Nirvana came along and shut the door on big hair music, Nirvana was offered the chance to tour with GnR and said, "No, thanks; not interested.") This album, out of context, is very good and arguably deserves 5 stars, but given some of the baggage, I'm giving it 4.5 stars and rounding down.

Only had heard the big three, but the album is solid. Not amazing but good

Some absolute ground breaking classics, and sime average at best cuts.

Classic album

Really good! Rocket Queen is my favourite.

I wish I could yell and have it sound bad ass like that.

Guns N' Roses' debut album still holds up quite well, even though there is a clear gap in quality between the three monster hits (Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child O' Mine) and all the rest. It's a worthwhile listen from time to time anyway. 4/5

Welcome to The Jungle - 10/10 It’s So Easy - 8/10 Nightrain - 7.5/10 Out Ta Get Me - 8/10 Mr Brownstone - 8/10 Paradise City - 9/10 My Michelle - 7.5/10 Think About You - 8/10 Sweet Child O’Mine - 10/10 You’re Crazy - 7.5/10 Anything Goes - 7.5/10 Rocket Queen - 8/10 TOTAL - 99/120

I almost gave this a 3. Except for the three biggest songs, I didn't find the songs that special. They all kind of blended together. But I understand why this album is on this list and how popular the album is.

Probably as much of an apex album of this hair metal bad boy style as possible. Nightrain was a personal favorite growing up. Thought the back half of the album gets a little more languid in its excess, take away any track and you really lose a piece of the statement they were going for imho. for me its not a 5 star album but, for millions of Boomer dads, this is tops.

I thought this was going to be a nailed on 5/5 album. It's Appetite for Destruction by Guns 'N' Roses. Everyone knows the three huge singles and a handful of other tracks, which all slap. But there is a fair bit of filler as well. Stop at the end of track 9 and it's a masterpiece. Rating: 4/5 Playlist track: Welcome to the Jungle Date listened: 05/03/24

Haven’t heard this for 34 years, when I heard it about eleventy billion times as my then boyfriend loved it. And with good reason; it’s really stood the test of time in my opinion.

Their signature album and the best one

3.8 - over played, but that’s not their fault. Actually enjoyed it a lot more in album form

Actually much better than I thought it would be.

I actually quite like this album... always have. Axl Rose's voice is annoying for sure, and its all way over the top, but its over the top in an impressive way. The singles are really well crafted pop songs with a stadium rock veneer. Think About You's chorus almost sounds like a new wave song. Fave Tracks: Welcome to the Jungle, Nighttrain, Paradise City, Think About You, Sweet Child O Mine. 3.7/5

Temperamentvolles Heavy Metall Album mit den Mega Songs “Paradise City” und “Sweet Child O Mine”. Leider sind die anderen Songs recht gleichartig und lassen so zu wenig Facettten aufblitzen für einen fünften Stern. Trotzdem zur Wiederholung geeignet.

JUNGLE BABY

Surprising, did not expect to like guns n roses. this album is just straight rock. A good amt of bangers on here, Sweet child o mine is such a great song

Classic.

It's stupid, misogynistic, devoid of depth and loud and I love every second of it. I'm about 120 albums in and I've had rock classics like Sabbath and others and they've left me cold. This does not. Admittedly I had this on cd when I was 13 and so I put it on loud and sang every lyric at the top of my voice. Great, foot stomping, lyric shouting, head banging nonsense.

Iconic.

It's got some bangers on it that's for sure

It’s shockingly fun. Not world changing, but I get why people like the band so much. The greatest offense is how overplayed the singles are, also we did not need the orgasm

There are a few songs on here that are so entirely connected with driving down to the Jersey Shore for prom weekend... my first taste of beer, the first time I saw a girl blow smoke into a guy's mouth while making out, staying with a friend while our dates were around but not with us... They were doing their own thing... and we were trying to get with them somehow... Anyway the rest of the album is relentless to the point of it being kinda boring, but I knew when Paradise City came on I couldn't give it less than a 4.

I mean okay. Guilty pleasure but I don't need much more of this. "Feel my serpentine" is something else.

This album slaps. Turns out I’d have been a rocker if I was alive in the 80s.

Damn this jams. This makes me want to steal my old dead beat alcoholic step dads grey and black striped 1967 mustang Shelby GT500 and peruse the town with the boys in search of the ever elusive poon tang. Is this one of the best debut albums of all time?? I mean to have three of the most iconic rock songs of all time on your first album is unreal. What amazes me is that you could tell me any other song besides those three are iconic and I would believe it. They all just have such a dope, confident and slick sound. An interesting exception to the rule of lack of variety which usually brings me down on an album but somehow despite most of these sounding relatively similar, each song has a unique vibe. Slash is shredding and axl has the voice of a dark angel.

Great stuff. The hits are spread throughout, unlike a lot of the albums we’ve had that are very front loaded. One of those albums that feels very American. I still remember the first time I saw Slash. He just permeated cool and needed no introduction. Kinda like a rapper in that he was one of those guys that you never saw without his sunglasses on. I still think I’ve never seen his eyeballs. He really is like an anime character. Welcome to the Jungle was the introduction song for GH3, so anytime someone turned on the game they heard that first riff. It’s actually hard for me to believe this album came out only 6 years before I was born. I would have guessed way earlier. An all time great.

It’s wild that a band’s debut album has three of the most well-known rock songs of all time on it. An iconic band and Axl Rose has an iconic voice. It rocks the whole way through and was a gritty but fun listen.

This one probably melted faces when it came out. What a debut. Three masterpieces that have been played to death accompanied by tracks that kind of fly under the radar, but still fly high. Somehow hard to rate today because of the overall weariness, but I guess I can give it the most rock solid solid rock rating: 4/5.

Some of the lyrics are problematic, but otherwise this shit just fucking rocks. Sweet Child O' Mine is a banger, Welcome to the Jungle is insane. This album is definitely Hall of Fame worthy, but it's not quite inner circles Hall of Fame, if that makes sense.

A couple of years ago I thought this album didn't really hold up to the "test of time," maybe it was just album burn out. Now listening to this again, and what seemed like fresh ears this album is STILL a banger.

This is THE G&R album. These famous rockers made a career out of these songs and still are the ones people want to hear. Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, and Sweet Child of Mine. I personally don’t care for Axels voice but love Slash’s riffs and solos!

This one is a little tougher to rank. Because, while songs like "Welcome to the Jungle", "Paradise City" and "Sweet Child o' Mine" are undeniably legendary rock tunes...gosh, am I ever tired of hearing them ("Mr. Brownstone", though, has not yet been overplayed for me, and I dig that track plenty). Anyways, what is there to say? Slash is one of the greatest guitarists of our time, and he comes up with some great riffs here. Axl is in fine form (even if the lyrics aren't so hot). The whole band sounds powerful, if a little too steeped in that 1980's cheese. This is maybe a 3.5 star record for me personally, but I'll bump it up out of respect for its reputation.

Solid rock album. No wonder it's onenof the best selling ever.

I’m not a huge Beatles fans so I have a hard time rating their music. I respect those who enjoy the music but Ive always had a hard time getting into anything by them.

It took me some years to get into GnR but I definitely got there. Slash is unbelievable.

As is the case with most GnR albums, a few really great songs displaying Axl’s range and Slash’s talent but also several songs which are downright awful.

Holds up pretty well compared to their contemporaries - especially the singles The album tracks are pretty stock standard fare

Classic hard rock album.

could i write poetry to this? y i am fairly certain that i did in fact write shitty middle school poetry to it

I was surprised by how many big hits were on this. A lot more enjoyable than expected and i might revisit it

Classic album!

Clássico!

Cracking album

True to their name, like a rose growing from a pile of manure, this band grew out of the detritus that is 80's hair metal, to create a surprisingly strong, genre-redeeming, nay, genre-defining album. The only hair metal worth listening to, and it is worth listening to. 4 roses out of 5 🌹🌹🌹🌹

I think this is as close to a guilty pleasure I have. It's just all so stupid. All these clumsy euphemisms for things but then every other word is fuck? So stupid. I can't help but love it. Will I ever listen to the whole album again? No, but some of the songs are amazing.

Twelve-year-old me thought these guys, especially Axl, were so badass. Over-forty-year-old me thinks they are talented though theatrically (and actually) trashy, and that Axl Rose, has through the years, remained a petulant manchild. I played this cassette, any singles and GNR Lies on repeat back in the late 80s/early 90s, because I, an actual petulant child, found a kindred soul with dirtbag adult Axl Rose. It is no wonder that Trump's favourite music video is reportedly "November Rain." Guns N' Roses speaks to the petulant dirtbag kid in us all.

Formative album for me that I overlistened to in HS. The hits are overplayed, and everything else is great.

A classic, hard rock album full of fun, energetic tracks.

This is a great hard rock album. While not that fond of most of the 'hair metal' genre this is so much better than most of their contemporaries efforts. Sweet Child of Mine is an instant classic that stands comparison with the best rock songs of any era. Welcome to the Jungle and Paradise City are the other standouts. while Mr Brownstone and Michelle are the best of the rest. Slash's riffing and soloes are sublime throughout

Every song of theirs I’ve ever heard was on this album. Either they achieved perfection or just suck.

So many bangers.

Bunch of songs that only work with Axl, a few songs that would be good if it were anyone but Axl. The hits are unreal

Hyvää rokkia, ehkä vähän liian samanlaisia biisejä, Axl vähän ärsyttää ja hitit. Mutta ei-hitit kuulostaa tuoreelta!

I love the opening to Welcome to the Jungle. I really like this old 80 rock sound. There's something so nostalgic about it. I think I would have had a lot of fun if I were born just 10 yrs earlier 4 stars.

Guns N Roses are pretty good for rock music.

4.1

A great album that reflects a return to metal rock. Too bad Axel is such an asshole.

Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, and Sweet Child O' Mine? So many Dad Rock classics I feel like I'm at a barbeque!

Excited to listen to this. Never really heard this album fully. Welcome to the Jungle is such a classic rock song. One Out ta get Me. Other songs between this song and Jungle were alright. Nothing special. At this point, this album just becomes a classic. I am not too big of a GNR fan but when you listen to an album like this one, you know why it is a classic.

Big thanks to slash and the other members of G&R (not axel rose) for this album lmaoooo

yes

Good stuff. Arena rock isn’t my favorite style of rock but there is no denying that most of these tunes are classic bangers.

Fabulous choice.

How can you not like the singles from this album?? Solid album and love the guitar sound. The other songs on the album are a bit unspectacular though.

This hits hard in my office working on excel models. I heard axl rose fucked princess Diana and that's why mossad had to take her out. Didn't realize paradise city was on this album, prob my fav guns and roses. They're an interesting band cuz I think they came a little bit after the heyday of rock and roll but kind of brought it back. Axl rose even sang for acdc after that beret guy died I thing. I remember a bunch of edgy elementary school kids with guns and roses tshirts from their older siblings when I was growing up. Ultimately this album rocks cocks but it's a little before my time, kinda one dimensional for my taste but if I were at a concert or in the middle of a drinking montage there's nothing else I'd want to hear.

One of the most iconic and well known albums of all time. Some of the most recognisable rock n roll songs and guitar parts ever created. Simple rock music for the radio done perfectly. While not as good or as interesting as some of the genres other heavyweight bands were releasing at the time, it’ll go down as one of the greats due to its ease of access and ability to draw in casual fans. So while it is an album the everyone should hear at least once, its simplicity, which gives it its success, keeps it from being a perfect album for me, it just doesn’t have enough interesting, new or unique parts that keep me going back. The absolute definition of radio rock by the numbers, but it is probably the best to ever do that exact thing.

So many great tracks, but not an album i listen through in its entirety very often.

It’s all about the riffs. Goosebumps on the build up.

It’s good. Think about you and Out Ta Get Me are the worst tracks. Tons of bangers.

Het betere gillende-gitaren-en-krijsende-zangers-werk. Alle aankleding met doodshoofden en de ongetwijfeld overwegend donkere teksten kunnen niet verhullen dat hier vooral een potje energiek muziek wordt gemaakt, waar je eerder blij van depri van wordt.

Altijd fijn, een potje 80s (glam)hardrock 'n roll. Lekker tempo erin, scheurende gitaren. De hits zijn wel verreweg de beste nummers, het zijn ook allemaal evergreens geworden. Ik ben persoonlijk meer fan van de use your illusion cd's denk ik, maar dit album hoort natuurlijk absoluut in de 1001 thuis.

The first album that deserves a good rating. Some decent songs that you can listen to until the end.

i love guns n' roses so much, one of my favourite rock albums

Awesome

Gillar ju inte genren egentligen men det går väl inte säga annat att det faktiskt är ganska bra.

Hitsene er fortsatt noe av rockens største banger og resten høres egentlig ut som ganske like sanger. Men ett album med så mange geniale sanger og ingen dårlige er ganske sykt. Var revolusjonerende når det kom ut, nå er det ikke helt det lenger, men det er jo legendestatus. Dødsbra, men bortsett fra hitsa ikke 100% min greie. p.s. siste låt har live recordinger av lydtekniker som har sex.

Dette minner meg om puberteten, haha! Men fra spøk til revolver: dette er jo et jævlig fett album som fanger hvor utrolig merkelig rock var på denne tiden. Føler Guns N Roses fanger pent opp hvordan rockebands gikk fra dype låter og røykfylte øvingsrom, til "brands", og det er det sikkert mange som har mye å si på -- men jeg har alltid likt Slash og flosshatten.

High energy and a lot of fun with great riffs. Great debut!

I clearly remember when I heard this album for the first time. I was around 10 years old and at a church summer camp. I’m pretty sure it was during the year this album became huge. The camp counselor who was in charge of our bunkhouse told me and the other kids “you guys gotta listen to this” and played us a cassette of this album on a boombox. We played that album a lot during that camp. The counselor’s name was Steve, which I only remember because they were fascinated that someone with a common name like Steve helped make this album with people with uncommon names like Axl, Slash, Izzy, and Duff. The big three songs on this album are solid five star songs, among the greatest songs of the 20th century, and Paradise City might need to be played at my funeral. I know this album was everywhere for a while, but I still haven’t tired of those three songs. The rest of the album is fine. I listened to this album over lunch at work, and I got choked up a little bit during Paradise City when the bridge or faster whatever part starts about two thirds in. What is this 1,001 project doing to me?

What can I say about this album? The opening track "Welcome to the Jungle" sets the scene for a great album, and the massive "Paradise City" and "Sweet Child o' Mine" confirm the greatness. It's just a shame that Axl Rose is such an egotistical twat.

This album is a lot of fun.

Now I know why the parents wanted to ban Rock n Roll made me want cause a ruckus

5 bangers and, 5, more, bangers

It's difficult to rate this album objectively with it having some of the most overplayed songs ever. I think most of this albums hovers around a score of 3 but the strength of the 3 big songs elevates this to a strong 4. Slash's playing is great throughout. Vocals sounded a little off in places, like they were spliced together. Incredible for a debut album.

I feel like I’m watching an episode of Headbanger’s Ball the last 2 days. Axel Rose has aged along with me. :). Strange to think he is just a bit older than me. He seemed so much older when I was in late HS and early college. TD said Sweet Child of Mine was the song to which he used to think of me.

-YEAHHHHH ANOTHER ROCK ALBUM -some mf GUNS N ROSES -welcome to the jungle is SO good -nasty perfect guitar in this song fr -i might be messing with fate and the spirits for saying this but i might like guns n roses better than metallica -just because i had a metallica album the other day so i can compare -lead singer of guns n roses is DOING IT FOR ME! awesome voice -nightrain is also really good -omg obsessed with the day in the life we are given in mr brownstone -i am really enjoying all of these songs -overall this is a GREAT album and is getting four stars from me

Classic! Great album! 4-4.5/5

- Absolutely nothing beats Welcome to the Jungle - Shit bangs - Vocals and guitar are fantastic - 4.5

- some real classics on here - didn’t love some of the other songs tho

People say that Nevermind killed hair metal, but I think the beginning of that started with this album. This is not hair metal even though they had similar looks. This was straight ahead hard rock closer to AC/DC than Poison. There is a serious rawness of this record which helped the overall album. It can also not be understated on how big this album was when it was released. Nothing was like it.

I loved this album when I was around 18 years old and listened to it a lot. It's a great debut album with so many hit songs. The hits are the best here. Probably I wouldn't like this album that much if I lived in the US and listened to these songs every day on the radio...Sweet Child'O Mine is played in Europe a lot, but that's one song that I will never get tired of. I am not a fan of late 80s hair metal but this is more hard rock. It's a 4 from me overall.

One of the best most shaping early rock and roll albums with hits like "Welcome To The Jungle", "Sweet Child O' Mine", and "Paradise City" some of the greatest hits of rock history still played today

Amazing rock album

The overall impact on the music and especially hard rock of this album is really high. It mends old hard rock with modern hard rock. Important stuff.

Massive hit album for GNR. Most of their best known songs were all off this album. Signature Slash sound on all the tracks. 53 straight minutes of Axl Rose's voice was a little much though.

Something to move rock away from hair metal. The hits rock. The misses miss, but not by much.

I liked how his voice went up and down. Really good album, loved the guitar.

better than i realized it was

A few heavy hitters in an otherwise mid album. An impressive debut.

All time debut rock album. Great guitar throughout. Maybe a little derivative of other stuff though

I thought this was a really strong album, so many classics. I hesitate to give it 5 stars but it's so close in my eyes. Some songs are a bit grating but this album rocks overall.

Un 4, pero porque tiene Sweet Child Of Mine.

Three HUGE hits in one album: Paradise City, Welcome To The Jungle, Sweet Child O' Mine. Good stuff overall

I can't say I was excited to listen to this album, thanks to the ubiquitous nature of classic rock. You can't escape it. Commercials love it. TV loves it. Movies love it. It becomes the background music for a new vacuum cleaner or Tide Pod. Listening to the album reminded me of where it started. Snake boot wearing, long haired, drugged out party animals giving a skull-ringed middle finger to the very lifestyle that their music now is inextricably associated with. Appreciation for this album had been planted. I'm glad I listened to this today.

Welcome to the jungle baby! This really brings me back! A staple of my youth that I haven't listened to in ages, this should be fun! Still a fun listen didn't exactly age that well but still worth a listen

Cool

Classic, metal, 80’s genre defining

Good album. The hits are huge, and the non-hits are good too. I've listened to the full album a few times before, so this was an easy listen.

A quintessential 80's rock album! It is everything that embodies 80s rock - it is loud; it is fast; it is rude; it'll get your heart pumping and your head banging all day long.

really good. like REALLY good. idk if I’m skewing my results bc this is the very first day that I’m doing this but i am a huge fan. awesome aesthetic.

This record is undeniable and also I don’t know if I ever really need to hear it again.

I like how Axl's voice is not always the same.... he's so fun with his voice. Overall, I Love watching these guys live.... LOVE!!! But I'd never sit back and listen to the album... but they are some of the best musicians that ever were... so... 4

WAT WILLEN WIJ? Blijkbaar meer Rock albums... Guns n Roses, een van de favoriete bands van mn tante. Zo op het eerste gezicht ken ik hier in elk geval 3 nummers van en is dit hun meest bekende album. Benieuwd of de andere nummers een beetje in de buurt komen van de bekendste! De tering dit album rockt echt als een gek. Ik vind de zang altijd wel geinig van hun ofzo? Het is echt ontzettend jaren 80, in de hoek van AC/DC en misschien ook wel Aerosmith. Van die bands vind ik persoonlijk Guns 'n Roses het beste te pruimen, misschien gedeeld met AC/DC. Pfoeee die gitaarsolo bij Paradise City, genieten man. Waaaaaarom zit er een kreunende vrouw bij Rocket Queen. Waaroooooooom. Verdere best wel vermakelijk album! Ik zou dit dus 3,5 ster geven, maar ze krijgen dan net een beetje mazzel en 4 sterren bij dezen. FAVO: Welcome to the jungle, Nightrain, Paradise City, Sweet Child 'o Mine

Solides Album mit vielen Klassikern, Top: Welcome To The Jungle It's So Easy Paradise City Sweet Child O' Mine Flop: My Michelle

This was fun! Listened to it flying home, didn't realize the lead had a similar voice to Damiano

Not my favorite genre of rock but pretty close

its a classic

Album 5/1001 Best song: Mr. Brownstone

Appetite for Destruction is the debut album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. Initially receiving little attention, it wasn't until a year after release, touring, and radio airplay that this album received the commercial success it deserved. This album topped the US Billboard 200 and US Top Hard Rock Albums charts almost a year after release, and it has since been certified 18x platinum in the US (among certifications in many other countries). It became the best-selling debut album of all time, and the seventh best-selling in the US (which makes it one of the best-selling albums globally). This hard rock album stirred up the current rock scene at the time by incorporating similar genres of music such as metal, punk rock, glam metal, and old school blues rock. Guns N' Roses have not produced an album this commercially successful since this debut album, which makes this breakout album all the more unique. Appetite For Destruction is a wild, fun time. It's a classic in the hard rock genre with a few staple songs that everyone should know. It was a blessing to finally listen to this amazing album all in one go. Don't miss out on this album and give it a listen!

7.5

This was fun, from the first dick punch of 'Welcome to the Jungle' opening the album, to the songs I didn't know but really liked (It's so Easy, Mr Brownstone), to the familiar songs I still know the words to (you know the ones.) A few clunkers but mostly a fun listen.

Such a great album. So much classic songs. Slash is rocking his Les Paul, Axel is in top form. 4 stars

I think I've heard half of the songs on here 5,000 times and the other half once. 4/5

4+/5

dakika 1 gol 1 guzel album 👍

Pretty good, although many songs sounded the same

Früher gehasst, heute gerne gehört. Mehr 80‘ Rock als Metal

Classic album. I’m just over it.

Okay

listened to again the album isn't incredible overall, but there's so many memorable hits tho

lovely

I wasn’t expecting much from this, and I was pleasantly surprised. In reality it’s just ok, but it has fun energy, and memorable tracks. More of a guilty pleasure. Cool!

Un 4, pero porque tiene Sweet Child Of Mine.

if I hear "paradise city" one more time... but in all seriousness, I think the overplayedness of three of the tracks really took me out of it because I'd heard them all the time, especially growing up with my dad in charge of the AUX. other than that, "my Michelle" is a bop, and slash is a musical genius.

Loved this as a kid. Straightforward hard rock with a ton of hits. Nothing groundbreaking, but great at what it does.

Yup I have this one, classic album ofc. Always liked no 2 and 12 apart from the obvious hits.

In the 80s I played this over and over. Now I still love several songs but don't enjoy the album as a whole enough for full marks.

i am *really* not a hair metal girlie but there was a lot to like in here. except for the outro i can’t stand sweet child of mine. overplayed. welcome to the jungle will always be my nostalgia baby though.

I’ve been meaning to check out Appetite for Destruction and I can’t really say I was disappointed. A grand, fun rock record with some brilliant riffs and addictive tunes. On the most part I’m also a fan of Axl Rose’s vocal performances minus some tracks. Don’t get me wrong I don’t think this is exactly a revolutionary rock record like some people do and the last few tracks are pretty plain (wtf are them sex noises on Rocket Queen?!?!?) , but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t really enjoy listening to this record. RATING: 7.7/10

30th August 2023 Listened during the day - took Dusty to be registered, first bath and had tomari g. Some stone cold classics elevate an otherwise pedestrian album. But what classics, the song crafting is great.

Rocks. As one of the most iconic rock albums, it still holds up after over 30 years.

Alfa Slash guitar. My Michelle is the best song. “Take me down to the Paradise City Where the girl are fat and they got big titties”

alfa it's so EZ giving this a 4

The hits are great, some of the others felt like filler songs.

They became famous despite having Axl Rose as their singer. This album was one of the first I bought as a kid, so I played it a lot. Over the years it's moved to the bottom of the stack and I hadn't played it for years until now. I didn't remember all the songs. That means not all of them are great. About half of the record is awesome, the other half is just OK. Favorite song: Welcome to the Jungle.

Some solid classics in there. All-around good album.

very very nostalgic, such a good album, even tho it doesn’t fit my style

Decent

Thought about half were forgettable and half were all time classics. Great debut album. Rating: 4.3

guitar hero music. I feel like I lived through the era where this album reclaimed its final large part of cultural significance. Its impact on middle school boys and boomer dads alike is unheard of. jammed with classics but a couple forgettable tracks, none bad though.

Obviously a classic but some of the lyrics have NOT aged well. Despite that, the gritty guitar riffs hit hard and will hype you up as long as you don't pay attention too much to the lyrics.

4.5 pretty epic!

timeless, does anyone not like this?

Wasn't expecting to like it as much as i'm doing rn!

Really solid acdc esque

I thought would love it: honestly slightly underwhelmed by an album with so many (3) hits. I just thought that all the other songs would hold more meaning and creativity to them. I get many would call this a banging debut from the holy grail of rock bands but I was left with a feeling of slight confusion on where the hype was.

GNR are an overrated band but it’s difficult to deny the significance of this record, a debut no less. Lots of bangers that still hold up to this day.

good old LA sleazy street rock

One of the biggest rock bands of the 80’s-90’s. I am familiar with the biggest hits of this album but I never listened to the whole thing. Overall the non-famous songs were good to ok. Axl Rose is a cunt.

GnR still Rick. There's a reason this album was such a big hit. There are 3 perfect songs and every other one is a 8 or 9 out of 10.

Hard rock/heavy metal lektira 1. 5 2. 5 3. 4 4. 3 5. 3 6. 5 7. 3 8. 4 9. 6 10. 3 11. 4 12. 5 4, 17

wow, did guns n' roses go hard on their first full length album or what? they opened with "welcome to the jungle," which is a banger of an opener and is still so great after all these years. this album does contain three of their biggest hits, and in these kinds of situations with previous albums, the other songs typically are lackluster. that didn't happen here--gnr went all the way, even on sentimental tracks like "think about you." i say sentimental, but you know what i mean. even songs that aren't hits, like "mr. brownstone," are absolute bangers. appetite for destruction (an amazing album title if i ever heard it) was a fun album, plain and simple. it didn't invite deep discussion like bob dylan or leonard cohen's music does, but it's enjoyable, as music should be. 3.5

Damn, what an outstanding debut album. It's hard to believe that a band could churn out such absolute timeless jams as "Welcome to the Jungle", "Sweet Child O' Mine", and "Paradise City" all on their first album, but Guns n' Roses did it. The other songs on the album, though not as big of hits, are also consistently excellent. GNR is just one of those bands that had a winning formula from the beginning. This isn't a particularly "deep" album; it's just fun music!

I'm not the biggest Guns N' Roses fan, but the amazing thing about this record is how they burst forth fully formed right from the start. Some bands start out tentative and take off over time. Some bands have a great first record and evolve. GNR is definitively already an iconic band on track 1, side 1 of their first album. It's pretty remarkable.

love it. quintessential rock, made me look into their history more, and not sure what to think of axl rose (axl rose husband, is the only thing I am thinking), great tunes, and insane debut album. but sweet child is just so overplayed. every cool kid plays that shit over and over again. still great song tho so...

A bit of a reaction to the bland, "good vibes" hard rock of the era. This is a mix of gritty and dark lyrics with music to match. Axl's vocal range is the stuff of legends. Sounds a bit too much like Aerosmith, too often for my tastes, and the lyrics haven't dated well (unless you still enjoy heavy doses of misogyny). Still, it's a groundbreaking record and the band probably would have been even bigger than they were if it weren't for another music scene ready to redefine the genre on the short horizon.

This album is pretty darn good. Had some nice recognizable hits on it. Was fun to listen to. Here are my individual song reviews... Welcome to the Jungle (8/10): Such a banger. The Axl Rose moans are classic. It's So Easy (6/10): Sounds like a Guns N Roses song, but didn't have anything special to set it apart. Pretty solid but only slightly above average. Nightrain (7.5/10): I liked the feel of this song. It was pretty upbeat and felt like more of a feel-good song. Out Ta Get Me (5.5/10): Decent feel, didn't really stick with me in any way. Mr. Brownstone (5.5/10): I believe this song is about some sort of drugs, so I can't really say I relate. Had a nice sound to it though. Paradise City (9/10): TAKE ME HOMEE absolutely love this song. My Michelle (6.5/10): I got into this one a little bit, I didn't really expect to. Pretty decent. Think About You (7.5/10): I never heard this one before, I really thought it was kinda good actually. Sweet Child O' Mine (8.5/10): OK yeah this one is a little overplayed but still a beautiful song. The riff on this one is a classic. You're Crazy (8/10): This one had me up and dancing! Did not expect this so be such a banger. Anything Goes (7/10): I liked it! Not out of this world or anything but it was a good song. Rocket Queen (7/10): Great song!

contains certified classics

Haven't listened to this whole album in ages but it's a classic. Bangers all the way through. On Out Ta Get Me right now, and it hasn't slowed down once yet. A little bit AC/DC-ish in the bit of sameness from song to song, but man do GnR know how to execute. And a good reminder of why I always loved Slash as a guitar player. Yep, excellent album. Classic, loud, in your face rock music. Awesome guitar work, and tons of attitude. Glad to have a reason to revisit this one.

Listened to it many times. It's a classic but not what I'm into anymore. That bad boy excess lifestyle rock is old news but not in a retro way.

For a first album to have so many hits that still play 40 years later is impressive.

I have never listened to a Guns’n’Roses album before. Pity. This was a real surprise. I don’t know quite what I expected, but above all, this is just really good rock’n’roll. I have a couple of their singles, including Sweet Child O’ Mine, which I always liked. And like anyone who was alive at the time, I was familiar with Paradise City, which I also liked. But there’s so much here that I really enjoy - the opening 2 tracks set a fierce pace &, really, it just rocks all the way. Slash is terrific. The music never gets boring. Who knew? Not me.

Man, I really want to hate this album... but it is a catchy hard rock romp. I mean, it's objectively terrible, but far and away best in class, and sort of fun. Marc Burrows in Drowned in Sound writes (in 2018): "There are several moments during Guns N’ Roses recent Download Festival appearance where the phrase ’The Most Dangerous Band In The World‘ pops into your head. Not because it’s apt, but because it’s hard to square that much-touted tagline with what you’re seeing – a three-hour plus set overblown with classic rock covers, fronted by a rock n’ roll Liberace, rings dripping from his fingers, fringed jackets swapped every three songs. But every once in a while, just for a few seconds, the polished surface cracks and you get a glimpse of the exhilarating scum underneath. A reminder of the band this once was. Every time that happens, without fail, it’s during a song from Appetite For Destruction. When GN’R crawled out of Hollywood in the mid Eighties they were fucking feral. Penniless gutter rats, three of them strung out on smack, all of them boozehounds, all of them messed up in some way. In LA’s thriving glam scene, amid the pretty-boys of Poison, Mötley Crüe, Ratt and Great White, GN’R were from another, scuzzier planet. … From the very beginning GN’R were a rare real-deal in rock n’ roll. A perfect storm of punk, metal and sleaze-rock with an unexpected sideline in epic ballads… Appetite for Destruction, their three-decade-old debut was the perfect representation of that band. You can taste the scum. " This reminds me of Thin Lizzy's Live and Dangerous (a clear influence). They have an amazing rock'n'roll outlaw swagger (that they backed up with some real life bad behaviour), but does anyone REALLY believe they are all that dangerous? And I never really bought the 'punk influences'; I mean, they covered a bunch of punk songs over their career, but their sound is consistently hard rock/lite metal. The rhythm section has a lot more swing than most bands of the genre, which I appreciate. Big choruses, catchy riffs, high energy and bit more authentic rock attitude than most of their contemporaries, this is an album I secretly enjoy. They later self-inflated into a bloated pomp-rock behemoth, which was occasionally amusing, but usually best ignored. But here, they are lean and mean, and (somewhat) dangerous to know.

Difficult to give this album a rating. One part of me wants to give it a 2 and complain about how I've heard these damn songs on the radio for 30 years. How Axle can't sing, and it's garbage music. But then I hear Sweet Child O' Mine and something tells me to give this album a 5. How they managed to fit all these bangers on their debut album is really incredible. So I transport myself back to 6th grade, and think how I felt hearing Welcome to the Jungle and Paradise City. They captured lightning in a bottle on this album.

Maybe i'm a little bias because I grew up with a lot of these songs, but this album was a great listen from front to back, even if it did sound a bit similar at times, it kept me engaged and felt shorter than its runtime, which usually is a good thing, and it definitely was in this case. The classic hits still hit just as hard as they always did, such as Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, and Sweet Child O' Mine, timeless cuts like those never lose flavor. And even deep cuts such as It's So Easy, Nightrain, and Rocket Queen stuck with me after the full listen of this album. Overall, a very pleasing listen and definitely a staple album in the genre (despite me not being familiar with the genre itself, this surely has to have some mark or staple on it, surely.)

I was really expecting this one to be the hits and a bunch of crap but it was actually a really good and energetic listen

Just pure bangers

Reminds me of university. I can hear how professional it is, still not sure how much I like this version of rock.