Appetite For Destruction

guns n roses halt idk

One of the greatest albums ever made

This is such a great record, ruined by a decade and a style. Slash is great; everything he plays gets to you. Axl has an excellent, if tiresome, voice. This record was made at a time of vice in LA, so it could have been a true representation of sin. But it's the lyrics that keep it from being good. Sweet Child O'Mine is excellent instrumentally, but o so terribly written. Same for Paradise City. And the production is so cheesy, so very hair-metal, each song somewhere between a corny ballad and a metal rocker. This record has all the right parts to work, but the way it's peace together fails.

I think Cobain said it best when he said that GNR had very little substance under maximalist hard rock. The legacy of this album is now captured in obnoxious and cheeky Marvel and Marvel-like movies.

Is it just me or do these guys have nothing to say at all? Like, I know it's essentially just pop music mapped to "hard" rock, but how do they have nothing to say at all? At least one or two songs kinda rock, so I guess 1.5 rounded up to 2/5

No, I can explain what the difference is between good-corny (Paranoid by Black Sabbath) and bad-corny (Guns 'n' Roses). But this is bad. I thought maybe the classics would redeem it, but welcome to the jungle is just kinda gross (only Sweet Child is any good). 1.5 stars, thanks only to the strength of sweet child. But Imma round down because I did not enjoy this experience.

For something so aggressive, it is a shock that this is so aggressively mediocre.

I know this album is quite saucy for when it came out, though it sounds not edgy at all now. What I find good about it is actually the musicality to bring to it--many of these sort of 'heavy metal' bands tend to have a way higher music theory knowledge than some other genres. So I tend to still have a lot of fun with it, even if there wasn't anything about the whole album that was inherently gripping for me. Maybe some of it is just playing guitar hero too much in middle school lol

Crazy guitar solos

I was very sceptical at the beginning but it's been so much fun! IT must have been great partying to this in late 1980s. Welcome to the Jungle and Sweet Child O'Mine are clearly the big hits and deservedly so (the latter is just incredible towards the end). There are some unintentionally funny/cringe parts with all the machismo (the unexpected whistle on Paradise City gets me every time) and the lyrics with vocals are probably the most annoying parts of the whole thing. But, the musicianship is great and tight and its just pure fun to listen to it. recommended for a heavy workout!

best from L.A. Guns and Hollywood rose, great album made of singles

Overall super solid but not my brand.

This thing absolutely cooks start to finish

Welcome To The Jungle // Paradise City // Sweet Child O’ Mine // 2.5/5

Argh, fine, it’s pretty cool.

De liedjes naast de bekende zijn wel interessant, klinken anders

appetite for "skip track"

Nah... all noise. Some things are timeless, this is plain dated. Not my cup of tea.

Absolute classic

Still electric after 35 years to hear that riff open the album. These guys ruled the world for a few months and got out just before Nirvana extinguished them. It’s easy to forget how fucking huge they were. Then they (Axl) got weird and stupid, like so many bands do, but you just need one classic album to live forever.

The best!!!!

Not a huge amount to say. Top class debut for the last of the US Hair-metal bands. What is it about US rock bands that most of the debuts are already the complete article? Was there never anything to improve or are they all manufactured? Anyway this isn't meant to be critical, it's a great album. 4½

💩

I’ve heard these

Great

Listened to this one dozens of times over the years. A very solid album - probably the best of the “sleaze-rock” albums - falling somewhere between the glam-hair metal and thrash coming out in the mid 80’s. And it’s definitely sleazy. Ranks up there as one of the best debuts of all time (hit singles, sales). Sure, a couple of made for radio hits but also some deep cut bangers. Every song is solid. No filler.

I wanted to hate this I really did. Between the album cover keeping top shop afloat for a decade or the big 3 songs making GNR the Coldplay of 1987 I had judged this album being it even started. I actually enjoyed it. There I said it. I wouldn't listen again but it's a high 4.

1. Kicking this generator off with an album and band I know, but haven't listened much. 'Welcome To The Jungle' has sections where the main singer doesn't sing (atonality), and those are always unique IMO. Wondering if there'll be more of those in the album? The breakdown with the junglelike drums (bongos?) was nice. 2. 'It's So Easy', deeper vocals than the song before, at least in the beginning. The chorus with the slowdown is a nice touch. Atonality/speaking again with the singing, nice. Otherwise, not *too* special. 3. 'Nightrain'... This one sounds familiar, even though I've not listened to it before?? Probably through Vinesauce Joel (Vargskelethor). This vibes, more melodic than the other ones in a way. 4. 'Out Ta Get Me', hmm. At this point, the sameness of the album is hitting: It's good, but not special in a way, you know? Yeah. 5. 'Mr. Brownstone'. Ooh, guitar slides and funky drums: Groovy. And the vocals are different again, having a jazz tone to them. At this point, my favourite track. 6. 'Paradise City', the longest track of this album. Very 80s drums. Liking the dual vocals in the beginning. Relatively chill to the other tracks, and it took a pace after the whistle. Side comment - the main vocalist's high singing slightly reminds me of ACDC's vocals, which is something I don't like (hot take), but here it's fine. Jamming tune. Interesting breakdown's start, and then it again takes in pace! Nice. 7. 'My Michelle'. The intro sounds ominous. Upon picking pace, it gains a groove, which seems to be this band's thing. Another case of sameness, but better than 'Out Ta Get Me'. 8. 'Think About You' has a rockabilly vibe with its vocals, but much faster. Interesting mix of regular guitar in the chorus. Yet another case of sameness (I am used to artists/bands that change tone/tune in each song, like Death Grips). The slowdown at the end is nice. 9. 'Sweet Child O' Mine', this one I know (as it's also the band's most known song, at least when looking at Spotify play amounts). This is one of those cases where the most known song sounds "the best" because you know it beforehand. Breakdown ("Where do we go now?") is quite nice. After listening to the track above, I took a long break (10+ hours, sleeping in the middle too), and returned to listen to the last three songs. Waking up, didn't really remember any of them (given that I listened to other music as well). 10. 'You're Crazy'... but this song really isn't, there's that sameness again. Seems to be a trend with this album. 11. 'Anything Goes'. This one has a unique guitar pattern in the beginning, and sounds reminiscent of cockroaches (one of those wooden instruments where you scrape a wooden stick?). The guitar with phaser effects in the middle sounds neat. 12. 'Rocket Queen', the second-longest track in the album, and the last one as well. The vocals with the phaser effects are unique. Atonal guitar sounds at around 2:00-2:50 tickle my ears pleasantly. The moaning sounds are something, too (I don't generally like them in songs, they make me uncomfortable). THOUGHTS: This one's, music, if that makes sense. Something you put in the background since it's good, but not that spectacular - one of the reasons this one sold so well? Or so I feel like. Out of the tracks, my favourite was Mr. Brownstone.

Your in the jungle baby !!

Second Almost Famous reference in a few weeks… but Lester Bangs declares Rock and Roll dead but says “at least you’re here for the death rattle, last gasp, last grope”. This feels like a serious death rattle of rock. 87 and people are thirsty for some straight ahead rock, meanwhile grunge is taking off and hip hop is about to replace rock as the most relevant genre. Another album that at the time probably felt refreshing, pure rock and roll, but almost 40 years later it just sounds like recycled garbage. At times fun garbage. Slash is good, and I’ve heard good things about Adler. The hits are good. Sweet Child of Mine has… 2.1 BILLION streams.

Hard to review this because the best songs (Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child) are all songs I'm now, at 35, very sick of. But if I were hearing them the first time right now though I'd be blown away. Problem is the other songs are almost all filler. I can only rank this based on how I remember feeling one time, probably around 17 or 18 (perfect age for GnR) blasting 'Paradise City' alone in my car as loud as it could go and feeling invincible. Three 5 star songs and the rest are 2s and 3s. Rounding up to 4 because i like to rock.

Okay, this is probably reputation suicide in this group (based on how previous, similar rock albums went), but ill give my genuine take anyway. This is likely the one of the best "hard rock" albums that I know of (Van Halen's 1984 is close). The lyrics are exactly as disgusting as you'd expect them to be and Im ignoring most of that because this is "fuck you" rock n roll where the lyrical content should be treated like the trash that it is. Sometimes I just like to scream about hot women or record people banging in the studio (brings me back to Prince's 1999 -- Lady cab driver) or how the drugs aren't strong enough -- fuck me right? (jonah hill meme) -- I thought this was America? These songs sound 10x fresher than Motley Crue or any of the cringey hair metal that came just a few years before it (not a hater, but its worth saying that the 80s were corny in a lot of ways and this still hits). Being their debut album and a sleeper for the first year, this feels as genuine of a work you can get in this genre. Not all the songs are completely trashy lyrically either. I think Mr Brownstown & My Michelle were great songs about drug addiction and shitty fathers, but that probably gets lost in the noise & misogyny. Last deet. I think we can all agree that Welcome To The Jungle is an All Timer™. Listen to this origin story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMZgq3stgPY You know where you are? You're in the Jungle baby...

The hits are super fun - as is Rocket Queen - but the rest doesn't really do much for me. I find Axl's vocals a little annoying. Somewhere between 3 and 4 stars on this. Might need to go listen to some Maiden.

Better than I remember. Great guitar riffs, but I can pass on Axle.

People talk a lot of shit about Guns N' Roses but it's undeniable; love them or hate them, they're juggernauts of the genre. This is their debut album and what a debut album it is. I'm not a great lover of glam rock but this is just a riotous good time from start to finish. That guitar intro on Welcome to the Jungle is on a whole other level. Of course, with songs like Paradise City and Sweet Child O' Mine, this is a fully loaded album, chock full of hits. The opening and closing songs hold together a consistent sound that is both timeless and boisterous, a classic rock and roll album. There are songs on here that will always be a favourite.

Hits in hits, sexual tension, talented hair metal. The only downside is the fact that this spawned butt rock.

nice

Fun. Disposable.

Super buzzy and high energy, paradise city a personal highlight Not something super memorable as an album but good if in the mood for it

Such strong 80's memories listening to this at scout camp with the big boys thinking it was height of rebellion. The singles are classic and still sound great.

Appetite for Destruction Questionable ethics and lyrics aside I love this album, the only hard rock album I actually like from start to finish. Obviously they are hair metal adjacent, but they always had some kind of alchemy that set them apart, the right blend of glam, punk, metal and blues with songwriting nous and a melodic ear. Rather than being slavishly devoted to purely metal influences their rock’n’roll bombast makes this a fun and exciting listen. Obviously Slash gets a lot of attention for his playing, but Izzy Stradlin is also great, his rhythm and occasional lead is such a big part of why this sounds as good as it does. McKagen is also a very good bassist with a nice tone and a sense of restraint. But I think Steven Adler is probably their secret weapon, he may not be the most technical, but he has a great swing to his playing, and he eschews ostentation or lumpen double kick drum metal cliche, giving the songs groove and motility, like the loping, broken pattern on Mr Brownstone or on Paradise City. Aside from the obvious bangers (Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City and Sweet Child o’ Mine), there are other excellent tracks; It’s So Easy, Nightrain, Out Ta Get Me, Mr Brownstone, My Michelle and Rocket Queen. And while Think About You, You’re Crazy and Anything Goes may not be at the same level as those other songs they are still decent enough album tracks, and don’t lack for energy or lasciviousness, and keep the mood of unpretentious fearful and angry griminess. Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City and Sweet Child o’ Mine would be enough on their own for this to be a classic, but well supported as they are by the rest of the tracks, this can only be a 5. 🔫🔫➕🌹🌹 Playlist submission: Sweet Child O’ Mine

The original cover for the album was abysmal - those shit cartoon affairs that you find on the likes of Iron Maiden or Megadeth albums, announcing the arrival of tedious soft rock masquerading as hard rock. Thankfully it was quickly changed for the iconic cover. But that's quite a fitting turn of events - because half of this would fit on the hellish cartoon album of dull rock platitudes; and the other half fits the iconic rock cover. I suppose that balances to a three - but the rock juggernauts, Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City and Sweet Child, are so iconic this does scrape a four.

I'm old enough to remember when *Appetite for Destruction* erupted onto the scene in 1987, it didn’t just challenge the glam-metal glitter dominating the airwaves—it detonated it. Guns N' Roses’ debut album was a visceral gut-punch of raw energy, blending punk ferocity, bluesy swagger, and unapologetic rock 'n' roll. It is a rare debut that transcends its era. It’s a album of contrasts—brutal yet poetic, chaotic yet meticulously crafted. Over three decades later, its songs still ignite mosh pits and singalongs, a testament to GN’R’s raw authenticity. For newcomers and devotees alike, this isn’t just an album; it’s a rite of passage.

Fundamental.

I knew a few songs on this album already, I actually enjoyed the whole album

What a debut! A classic of the hard rock history

Solid rock&roll

Atrocious lyrics and annoying vocals, but it's alright if you're putting it on as background music at a bar

Dette er et legendarisk album med mange sterke låter. Welcome to the jungle, Mr brownstone, paradise city, sweet child o mine. Albumet - og hele GnR (særlig slash) - var meget formativt for 13 årige Wilhelm som kjøpte elgitar i London. Men det er jo unektelig masete og ganske slitsom musikk for meg nå.

1. Welcome to the jungle 2. Paradise city 3. Sweet child o' mine Banger første låt, så mye rusk. Only so much Axl Rose jeg tåler.

Surprised by this. I expected more junk nostalgia mix, as I’ve come to expect from the list. What I forgot was that these guys are nerds for music theory and technique, and that makes the best rock/metal. Good stuff

One of those debuts where the band comes out fully formed and swinging. To this day after a forty year long career, these are some of their most iconic songs. Love or hate the bad boy image they build, you can’t deny that they do it better than anyone else (in this album anyway).

Most of these loved-by-old-people rock albums leave a sour taste in my mouth but the metal mixed into this really made this quite good. I’ve never really given GnR a chance and was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked it. Kudos to them as well for the self control with the guitar solos

I listened to this album all day! honestly, several bangers on this one

Great classic hard rock. Obviously some massive hits on this one. The rest of the songs were solid but didn't really stand out. Favorites: Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child O' Mine

About two years ago, of the first track, I remarked that “I have never and will never be a fan of Guns n’ Roses.” A bit harsh, but upon listening to the full near-hour of Appetite for Destruction, I’m hardly being convinced to rescind my statement. By Nightrain, you start to think that maybe this won’t be such a long 50 minutes after all - but that’s shattered by the grating triple feature of Paradise City, My Michelle and Think About You - among the worst that this sort of music has to offer, tailing off the stagnant 80s and still too early for the dirt and grunge revolution of the 90s. It repeats choruses that aren’t developed much further than a primary school music class, it squeezes in unnecessary expletives, it has that really rather horrible guitar and percussion double threat that plagues this breed of rock, and it’s just overall too drawn-out for its own good. I’ll bookend this with another quote from that Welcome to the Jungle review - that “Axl Rose can’t moan as well as Robert Plant.” Comparison may be the thief of joy, but here there isn’t all that much joy to steal.

Kinda standard-issue rock energy, not that I'm complaining. Some classics. I sometimes made the mistake of looking at the music videos of these tracks on YouTube, which are very silly.

Best intro to a rock album ever - this album broke us all out of the glam-hair-metal of the late 80’s and brought rock back.

5 - one of the greatest debuts of all time

The classic 99s album.

I don’t really dig this - the sound, the vibe, the attitude just aren’t for me much. Mostly it’s just Axl’s fucking raspy wailing, I just hate it. The album is very “rock n roll”, it’s grimey, rebellious, dirty, druggy, and sexual - just not in a way I find enjoyable. Musically I can dig some of it - Slash is a solid guitarist and McKagan is a more interesting bassist than I realized. They can get a loose groovy riff going. But then Axl’s voice just ruins my enjoyment. So not for me though I get why people like it.

Jaime: 3 Nuria: 4, manda Jaime así que un 3

This album makes me want to become a stripper. One of the greatest debut albums of all time. Turn it up & shake your moneymaker!

Banger after banger on this album. This will never get old

4.5.

This album was massive for me as a kid trying to piss off my parents. I still revisit this album, but I skip Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, and Sweet Child of Mine every time. I hit my limit years ago. Beside’s Dale’s brother’s family sings it much better than Axl, albeit a bit flat. Nighttrain is my favorite song.

fya

This is the album that first got me into harder rock music, therefore it will always have a special place in my heart. I am aware it is not perfect, but for this reason I can't give it anything less than a 9/10. Fave track: Paradise City? It's so easy? IDK.

Loved: Mr. Brownstone, Sweet Child O' Mine (of course) Liked: Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City (of course), Rocket Queen Didn't Like: Out Ta Get Me, My Michelle

Rock FM core. Tiene canciones buenas a las cuales ya me he hartado de oír, pero tampoco soy tan fan de esto como lo era de crío. Es buen disco, solo que los "Roses" tampoco me gustan tanto. Canción destacada: Rocket Queen

Rubbish

Not my style

Overindulgent and very poor imitation of Led Zeplin. Should never be listened to

Excellent first album! Welcome to the jungle, baby!

One of my least fav genres of music sorry it just reminds me of middle aged men and topshop band T-shirts in 2010s but saying that I did enjoy the hits and recognise that it is an objectively good album! Favs: Welcome to the jungle Paradise city - 5/5 luv this Sweet child o mine- meme but so good. Also thinking about the choir version that was on a bank advert or something

(PREFACE: as I have gotten older I do know OF COURSE the lyrics are gross sometimes) One of the best albums of all time - I still vividly remember finding this album properly on the plane aged 11. I still remember falling instantly in love w/ Paradise City but never being able to listen to it properly bc my brother kept changing the channel when it was on Kerrang. I remember playing Welcome to the Jungle on Guitar Hero for hours on repeat. I remember my brother surprising me with a Slash figure and me putting it on top of my CD rack bc he was the definition of music to me. AHHHH I LOVE THIS ALBUM WITH ALL MY HEART - alsooo this genre is everything to me, it is home in a lot of ways, it is one of the first rock sub-genres I fell in love with on my own, also I had sm piccies of Axl Rose on my Sony Ericsson (yet another long-haired man who changed my brain chemistry) - Love u forever Appetite For Destruction <3 <3 <3 (Also thank u to this album for accompanying me during my 3 month rebel phase when I actually sneaked out to go to a gig while wearing a leather jacket and black eyeshadow UGH I MISS BEING CRINGE AND 14). I'm not about to try and find standout tracks musicality wise, I am obsessed with every single track. BUT memories wise, the ones I hold closest to my heart are: - Welcome To The Jungle - Paradise City - Sweet Child O' Mine - Nightrain - Mr. Brownstone

Hät scho äs paar gueti Stuck uf dere Platte. Nach Jahre vom Zämespiele händs die usebraacht. Für das isches ebe doch nur Mittelmass. 1992 han ich Guns'n'roses im alte Joggeli gseh. Isch cool gsi, v.a. wellmer öppe z'Zähte ime alte Laschtwage anegfahre sind - über de Bözbärg - und de ganz Verchehr uufghalte händ. Äs hät Stunde brucht, aber luschtig isches gsii.

appetit fuer zerstoeerunggg welcome tot he jungle kenni norml, bin kein rieese fan, gitarre cool, axl sini stimm streeeng. gitarre bridge seeeehr geil. it's so easy singt nöd de axl? HUAH. glichi energy wie vorher und jo halt 80er rock. finds etz cool aber najaaa nightrain macht genaaau glich wiiter ich chum etz nöd meeega ine. out ta get me?? ok? afoch immer 3 gitarrespure glichzitig hä. her brrraunstein. meh gitarre als gsang irgendwie findi no speziell allgemein. de axl isch nöd so meeega im vordergrund. paradise city isch kinda en banger. au huuuere viel. my michelle ehner nervig. es tönt alles chli glich, finds fast chli basic. sweet child o min isch halt so öpis womer no geil findt wemmers zum erste mol ghört. und s zweite solo isch suuuper schön und melodiös. de harmonisch moll scheiss. anything goes talkbox solo seeehr geil rocket queen isch nöd so geil wnl. merci mueni wiedermol öpperem bim sex zuelose bi dene albe. brööder. yep sie hend actually sex gha im studio cool. so whack sorry. bi gad froh isch das album verbii.

weiss nöd öbi mi sött freue ahh welcome to the jungle kenni natürlich, sehr geil als ersts lied! hahah ich han de axl eifach nöd gern sie lieeebed cowbells sie hend ebe scho uuhuere vill berüehmti lieder ufem album, night train kenni au paradise city isch au daa druff??? insane michelle isch chli langwilig ja momentan isches entweder eifach es lied wo chli lauft ODER so es lied wo "mer" kennt sweet child o' mine als ihlaufmusig vo gc isch natürlich ih mis hirn brennt hahaha you're crazy isch eifach SO VILL jaa d stöhngrüsch sind nöd nötig axl imfall ich bin nachli überforderet, uf de einte siite het das debutalbum soo vill erfolgrichi/gueti lieder, glichzitig nervt mich de axl rose eifach

It's a classic. Not the best, not the worst.

Más divertido de lo que esperaba. Detesto Sweet Child con el alma, pero después no fue todo tan horrible. Ningún tema a listas pero igual. Nota: 2.9

You wanted the best, but they didn't fucking make it. So here's what you get. From Hollywood. Guns and fucking Roses! What an album. Pure rock and roll. Filth, danger, sex, swagger, groove, drugs, melody, hooks, sex, riffs, humour, drugs, sex, drugs, sex, sex, drugs, defiance, joy, sex, drugs and beauty all wrapped up in one iconic package. GnR grew to become a by-word for the sort of boring rock excess that they were sent to destroy, but this album is a record of them living in garages, squabbling with the law and screwing each others' women (resulting the album's best track) whilst loaded like a freight train and flying like an aeroplane. Favourite debut album ever. Favourite tracks: Rocket Queen, Out Ta Get Me, Night Train, Paradise City, Think About You, Sweet Child O Mine, Anything Goes, It's So Easy, Mr Brownstone, Welcome to the Jungle, My Michelle, You're Crazy

With the opening guitar riffs of "Welcome To The Jungle". Guns N' Roses ushered in the decline of 80s Glam Hair Metal Rock. The carefree celebration of rock 'n roll, filled with partying, sex, and drugs, was fading into the background. And it was being replaced with a primal, raw, gritty, and aggressive sound, reminiscent of early Aerosmith or AC/DC. Themes of decaying urban landscapes ("Welcome To The Jungle"), searching for an escape ("Paradise City"), and heroin addiction ("Mr. Brownstone") are central to the album. While thematically, it may not be groundbreaking, its lyrical and sonic qualities are unique. Axel Rose sang about fears and darkness, with an underlying vulnerability ("Sweet Child O' Mine."), wrapped in wailing high pitched anger. His distinctive voice is supported by the dynamic interplay of Slash and Izzy Stradlin harmonizing guitar riffs and solos. This album was released during my high school graduation year, and I clearly recall how it cut through the crowded pop music top-40 on the radio, being enthusiastically embraced by nearly everyone. At that time, I had no concept of the lasting influence this album would have. And while songs you've heard on the radio were played ad nauseum, they still stand the test of time. Most of the deeper cuts are also strong and still relevant, too.

Solid 80s rock 🎸

Man this really is just the worst genre of music. Sure there are some huge hits on here like Sweet Child O' Mine, Paradise City, and Welcome to the Jungle. But the rest is just so bad. Bumped from 1 star due to Sweet Child. That song is good. 4.5/10 (2.25/5)

Хайпово велком ту зе джангл

These guys are pedophiles

I think I've heard this before

A drug fueled rock n roll adventure with a few lightning in a bottle singles. Slash seriously saves the record and cements himself in rock n roll history with this album

Massively influential in bringing heavier music to a wider audience, it's just hard listening nowadays because of how massively overplayed this album is. Mr. Brownstone still goes hard, though.

Some bangers/classics, but the rest is just Axel yelling....

This is obviously Guns N' Roses at their absolute best - when I first listened to it years ago I thought "there's no way the whole album is as good as the Welcome to the Jungle" and it proved me wrong.

Love this album/ I hope people have watched steve Welsh’s 1 album 12 bands video on this. 5/5

Quintessential Jawn

Glaube macht Spaß wenn man sowas gern mag. Haben wenige gute Lieder

Classic album. Always loved playing this hungover the next morning.

An all time great rock album

Night Train remains an eternal banger. Timeless.

This brings me back to middle school. Man... some of these songs were on guitar hero so they were all I wanted at 13 or whatever. My tastes are not the same but I can help liking it even if it's 95% nostalgia. It's gotta get 3 just cause.

This is the "music for guys who think they're cool" final boss. Everything besides the singles (Sweet Child/Paradise City/Welcome to the Jungle), is just fine. It mostly feels like music from a fake band in a movie like Wayne's World or School of Rock. That said, it is exceptionally well produced and the performances are really solid. The songs are pretty standard rock/blues fare with not much more going on. It feels like the final nail in the coffin for Hair Metal before Grunge could really bear fruit. It's an album with some obvious talent behind it that somehow ends up feeling overtly stale. 7/10

I took the NIGHTTRAIN and met MR. BROWNSTONE who spoke of the magical PARADISE CITY. Initially, I thought he was OUT TA GET ME. But when we arrived, he proclaimed, "WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE!"

Extremely overplayed, but classic

Love my classic jams

Better songwriting than I would’ve originally anticipated but still not something I’d go out of my way to turn on by the album

Love me some sweet child o mine

The most 80s sounding album that was kind of fun

three great hits that I've been sick to death of for over a decade. I'm sure I would have rated this much higher when I was 17. Similar to my feelings on AC/DC and Ben Jobi

Some real classics here. The others were a bit underwhelming. Big zep influences.

despite all his theatrics axl rose remains one of the most disappointingly one-dimensional rock frontmen of note...he doesnt sound at home doing anything thats not annoying and offputting sleaze, and even then he truly does have one of the all time Worst Timbres Of Voice On A Human Being. the surrounding record is melodic enough to be rewarding if ur into the aesthetic goals, which i am not, once the novelty is gone theres like nothing here lol. white dude Urban Mythology is so empty, man. slash is close to a saving grace because i cant deny that he's fun, but he's most fun when he just sort of ignores the song and runs off to do his own thing...generally a fine combination of melodicism and technical flash from him but he leaves very very little impression on me after the fact. whether he needs better songs or a better band idk, but honestly maybe his limitation is just that outside a couple weird outliers (like the borderline jangle poppy flourishes on think about you), everything just sounds the same...he doesnt have the breadth of sonic/musical vocab that jimi hendrix or eddie van halen had. just kind of an empty album all around, one ive heard quite a few times in my life but that has failed to make a meaningful impression on me other than an annoyance that has grown stronger over time

7/10

knew a few of the tracks. didn't hate, didn't love. exactly what I expected from Guns N' Roses tbh

All the stars. So much loud fun. Death to hair metal. Chaos. Pure rock.

Lots of rock on this list huh. Not for me but I think if I hadn’t heard Paradise City or Sweet child o mine I would have at least thought they were interesting.

like with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the music is serviceable, but then the frontman opens his mouth and wrecks the vibe. unlike with RHCP, I'm much more actively annoyed by GnR's frontman. boomers will complain about not being able to understand a rapper on TV, then crack open a Budweiser with Axl Rose screaming in their ear on their home stereo, and not see the contradiction. a couple of these songs have a somewhat interesting structure, particularly opening track "Welcome to the Jungle," but beyond the singles, there's really not much to write home about here. it's the same group of stock hard rock riffs I've been hearing dozens of bands use over and over again, across decades of music history. the band portray themselves as being far more controversial than their music would actually suggest. light 3/10.

classic

20/1089 - I liked this more than I thought I would. Chromatic riffs were cool and the backing instrumentals had a great sense pocket. Wasn't a fan of the sex moans/noises or Axl's lower range. I really liked "Think About You." The new-wave-y chorus guitar on that one is a great sound.

The singles are ubiquitous for a reason.

Simplemente uno de los goats

Some really great classics here, but also a lot of filler. Many songs and the whole album could have been shorter and tighter to make it less tedious and more enjoyable. That's always been a problem with GNR for me.

sorry boy...

Great album - though this may be the first time I'm listening to it all the way through, I definitely just listen to the hits. It's such a solid rock mood booster album. Great to listen to in the background as well.

If you listen to one of their singles 12 times, you’ve heard Appetite for Destruction. Good but super repetitive

It is really solid music for the genre, and the well-known singles certainly are classics, but in general the sound doesn't appeal to me on a personal level.

One of my favorite “hair metal” albums. In a genre where most of it is complete crap, the guitar work and vocals here really shine and never really seemed as “corny” as a Bon Jovi or a Def Leppard. Best songs here are Nightrain, Mr Brownstone, Paradise City, Sweet Child O Mine, and Rocket Queen.

Trying to put myself into a place to think what it would be like hearing this album for the first time. From the opening welcome to the jungle through Mr Brownstone and sweet child of mine. Now classic it’s hard to imagine how hard they would have hit the first time. Even after repeated listenings throughout my life they’re still great if not a bit overplayed. Solid album.

Axl might be a dick but Appetite for Destruction is straight-up flawless. This isn’t just a great debut album; it’s one of the greatest rock albums ever recorded. It’s loud, dirty, unhinged, and absolutely bursting with energy from the first riff to the last scream. Guns N’ Roses sounded like a band with nothing to lose and everything to prove — and they proved it in 12 tracks. “Welcome to the Jungle” is a masterclass in opening an album — explosive, menacing, and iconic. “Sweet Child o’ Mine” brought melody and vulnerability without losing any of the band’s grit, and “Paradise City” is a full-blown anthem that somehow gets better the louder you crank it. Then there’s “Nightrain” — a whiskey-soaked, riff-heavy banger that perfectly captures the band’s reckless charm and relentless drive. Even the deep cuts go hard. “Mr. Brownstone,” “My Michelle,” “Rocket Queen” — there’s not a weak moment on the entire album. And let’s not forget Slash’s guitar work, which is nothing short of legendary throughout. Axl may bring the drama, but he also brings the fire. Appetite for Destruction is pure, unfiltered rock and roll — dangerous, unpredictable, and absolutely essential. Favorite song: Nighttrain

Super effective at being what it’s trying to be—music for teenage boys of a certain era—even if it does very little for me.

Can I just listen to Sweet Child O’ Mine 12 times in a row? No? Okay, this will have to do.

Actually good.

A rock classic

very cool, my mums fav band!

Quite a debut album and I recognize why it's on this list.

It may have been 20 years since I last listened to this album, and it was never really my thing. It’s ok, but nothing more.

This was my chill out record in the late 80's, in between all that thrash and death metal, which I find hilarious. I know this album quite well, only Lies EP exceeds the amount of listens this has had. I forgot how laid back rock 'n roll this actually is. The lyrical themes are all drugs, booze and debauchery, but the music is just rock 'n roll. Having just read Sami Yaffa's memoirs, I can understand what he is talking about when he mentions G'n'R.

Fun

I was a pretty big fan of Guns N Roses back in Highschool, which meant that I only listened to the singles so this is my first time listening to this album as a whole. First off, I just can't stand the singles anymore. Whenever I turn my car on it defaults to the radio before my phone connects and I swear 50% of the time it's one of these 3 singles and I just can't stand them anymore. Especially Sweet Child O' Mine; I'm going to lose it if I hear another cover band play this song. The deep cuts are fine, but don't really change my opinion on GnR. They are one of the best Hair Metal bands, but I just can't stand Hair Metal anymore. This would probably be a low 4 if I wasn't so sick of the singles. It's also funny how almost every single 5 I see talks about how they listened to it as a teenager, or how it is nostalgic to them. Mid 3.

10

Excellent album that I listened to when I was growing up. A lot of great songs and Sweet Child O Mine is still great even though I have heard it a million times. This album really rocks but has a few lame outliers in my opinion.

Merits a 5 for the quality of some of the songs and their longevity.

Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-knees, I love it. I won’t lie and tell you I was a huge fan of GnR back in my teenage years, I was more into Nirvana and MetallicA. But this is a top album. Sometimes Axl’s voice grinds me and the dead awful dancing in their videos is cringe worthy, but you can’t take that away from this ground breaking record. Slash paved the way for many guitarists and remains to be one of the must influential pros out there. His blues prowess gives their tracks some really oomph, his solos are not to be sniffed at. The sound and energy is ace. With so many top hits in one album and all songs being enjoyable you really can’t give this less than a 5, whether you’re a fan or not. Come on!

Nope

Welcome To The Jungle - 5/5 It's So Easy - 4/5 Nightrain - 4/5 Out Ta Get Me - 4/5 Mr. Brownstone - 5/5 Paradise City - 5/5 My Michelle - 5/5 Think About You - 4/5 Sweet Child O' Mine - 5/5 You're Crazy - 4/5 Anything Goes - 3/5 Rocket Queen - 4/5 Total score: 4.3/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Hanoi Rocks walked so GnR could run

Infectious energy and includes several big hits - Welcome To The Jungle, Paradise City, and Sweet Child O' Mine are great. Lots of albums throw together a bunch of distinct, unrelated songs, or they are filled with very similar songs that get repetitive. I think this album finds a good middle ground though.

My kinda rock & roll

not a big GnR fan but the amount of hits on this album cannot be denied. if you want fm radio/dad rock this is the peak.

I’m not sure how I’m meant to feel when I’m listening to this. Like it’s sort of angry songs in a major key? There are exactly three catchy songs on here and we’ve all heard them a million times. The rest are pretty turgid. I don’t know how they’re summoning all this energy to pour into these boring songs. Neil Young was doing a lot with a little yesterday, and these guys are doing the opposite. Like, it’s not even especially imaginative? The musicianship is very good but the songs all sound the same and the chord changes and arrangements are all just the first thing you would think of. Pretty amazing for a first album but I would be fine never hearing this again.

Loved it growing up and still love it! A classic. 🎩🎸

Nowt to shout about apart from welcome to the jungle and sweet child of mine

The hits are huge. Inescapable. I do really like Welcome To The Jungle, Paradise City, and Sweet Child O'Mine. I got really into classic rock as a teenager, and these songs definitely made the playlists. At one point I did decide to check out the full album, and I remember I didn't really like it that much. I feel the same way this time. The musicianship is there, but are the actual songs that good? Not in my opinion. If this album was stripped of those 3 songs, what remains would be a 2 or even a 1. So I'm going with a middle of the road 3 on this one.

Day 22: Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses. Guns N' Roses Album 1/1. Here we go with another really fun album! Guns N' Roses made a great introduction to themselves in their debut album by opening it with the fiery number, Welcome to the Jungle. Over the course of the album's 53-minute and 29-second runtime plays various catchy hits to give one a good time. I don't particularly find this album to be a must-listen, and it is somewhat corny, but I did enjoy it very much. I am quite biased towards hard rock and heavy metal. Although, Axl Rose's vocals can be an acquired taste, and their music may feel overplayed if you've spent a long time listening to rock music on the radio. I recall that my father loved Guns N' Roses. You may love them. You may hate them. Their music has an essence to it such that it simply feels great to listen to it every once in a while. This album is a very good way to mark one's debut into the world of music. Personal Enjoyment: 5/5. How Much It Belongs Here: 3/5.

Some great songs, some ok

The highs are real high, but there’s a fair amount of padding here. Plus anything they can do AC/DC already did better.

Good album

Okay. Look. I'm 50. Appetite entered my ears at precisely a critical period in my young life as I made the journey into high school and whatever that period of pre-adulthood that entails. The lyrics, the content, and certainly the behaviors of the band members tack incredibly problematic. Nevertheless, this album is seminal for so many, and it arrived like a sonic nuclear bomb. It changed things. I cannot separate myself from this album and really can't judge it objectively. It arrived four full years before Nevermind, though it didn't HIT (e.g. MTv) until 1989 or even 1990 for some. But *it* came first. Not Nevermind. Nevermind finished the job of "killing grunge and hair metal," but Appetite cracked open that door. To my experience and knowledge.

All the classics are here 4/5

This album is so hard to rate. I mean it's amazing that this is a debut album when almost all the songs are still playing all the time on classic rock radio (for what that's worth). I feel like the music is undeniably good and different enough from the other similar bands of the time to be notable. However, having heard this album over and over, usually not by choice, I think I'm kind of over it. It's not that I don't like it, it's just that I mostly don't want to hear the same songs over and over. I think the problem with this is that it was too popular and too commercially successful. And there are two problems with that - 1) it's massively overplayed even today, and 2) because it was such a strong debut record, they would never be able to live up to this with whatever they put out after. Maybe only November Rain was as good as any of this. So I guess as far as a rating, I'd give it like a 3.5 and begrudgingly round up to 4/5.

Ugh.. so cliche

Even back when this album came out, I wasn't a fan. The hits are far more fun to play than to listen to, and the deep cuts don't do much for me.

What cocaine sounds like.

Excellent. Haven’t heard it since the early 90s.

and to think that I didn't like this band when I was younger. I consider this album even better than Use Your Illusion. It has all the elements for a great hard rock album. It's not for nothing that Guns N' Roses is an iconic band in the genre.

Didn't care for it

One of my favourites when I was a teenager

Not sure if it's really that good or it's just the nostalgia talking

It was good but not one I will go back to I think

I don't need listening notes for this, since it has been a favourite album of mine since it was first released.

Good old rock n roll

10/10 - have not listened to this whole album in decades, my bad! No weak spots. Up there with any album ever. Too bad they couldn't keep it up.

Lovely album, full of recognisable bangers. Very good for livening up a journey to work. From what I’ve heard recently Axl has ruined his voice from years of harsh vocals. Would listen again

Didn't think an album could start as emphatically as "Nevermind" by Nirvana, but this gives it a run for its money.. and the fact I've been corrected on this point immediately with the next album suggests I actually know fuck all about music. For me the good songs were really good, but a few too many tracks just felt a little flat or like filler and I did drift out from time to time.

starts off as perfectly as one could hope an album could. Imagine being at a gig and thats the opening song? Fucking mental. Unfortunately that feeling didnt last, it was like that abit too much for me. Bangers standing out for me were the familiar ones… Welcome To The Jungle, Paradise City & Sweet Child O’ Mine. The rest of it was good, but I felt like it needed to slow down in places so that I could feel the speed increase when it came. Rather than the foot just being down to the floor the entire time. Torn between a 3 & 4. Will give a 4 because of how good the good bits are, and its short comings aren’t that the other songs are bad , just abit much to listen to all the way through.

Welcome To The Jungle is sensational. What a powerhouse of a song, easily my favourite of theirs. Great big dick swinging, explosive, stadium banger. I love those little notes in the bridge that sound like Slash letting off a Roman Candle. It just makes me want to do the Axl snake hips dance, but alas, I can't do it. It's So Easy, too much cowbell. Nightrain and Out Ta Get Me are a bit too ACDC for me, not my bag. I know Slash had to channel all of his magnificent testosterone somehow, but most songs are overloaded with epic riffs which I believe were played by Slash's cock. Mr Brownstone is alright to bob your head to, until you realise it's entirely derivative of Welcome To The Jungle. Paradise City is a country infused, call to Americana that bleeding heart Midwesterns can all be proud of. Another belter. Slash wanted the lyrics to be “where the girls are fat and they have big titties”, I'm with him. I watched half of G+R at Leeds Festival in 2010, it was basically only Axl in that lineup, I could hear them playing this over LCD Soundsystem, about 13 minutes of huge firework cannons blasting off with every chorus. I drifted off after Paradise City and I'm including Sweet Child O’Mine in that stint, it's been so overplayed and covered, I don't think I can hear it objectively anymore. There was something electric about this debut, sleazy, sex crazed, scruffy yet preened image, symbolic cover art, it all comes together in quite a cinematic way. I always associate G+R with 80s and 90s blockbusters, not just for soundtracking Terminator and Interview with a Vampire, but also because this style of music was used widely across the Action genre at the time. I think the weaker songs only earn this album a 2, but I'm bumping to 3 because of Slash's big cock, I mean hat.

These guys can certainly write a much better song than their contemporaries, to be fair though that’s not that hard when your contemporaries are mötley crüe and poison. Not to say they’re not good songwriters, they make that pretty clear, even with some sleazy lyrics. It’s solid, rock on and so forth

Sería interesante llevar el récord de cuántas veces al año escuchamos los grandes hits de este disco. Jungle, Child y Paradise son parte ya de la vida misma, y los hemos escuchado tantas veces que hasta pueden resultar algo cansinos, pero por algo se volvieron los hits que son. Muy buen disco, pero menor a los dos Illusion, a mi parecer.

One of the greatest debut albums of all time.

Absolute banger

No me interesan. Gran éxito que no comparto

I mean, what is there to say about this album? The best selling debut album of all time, one of the best selling albums of all time, you know most of the songs. It's ubiquitous. It's the evolution of bands like AC/DC and Aerosmith. It's not complex, it's rock n roll, and it's some of the best ever put to tape.

The hits are iconic.

Haven't listened to this all the way through until now. It's a great wave of music. The hits are great, some of the best hard rock anthems of all time. Artistically I don't think this is revolutionary but culturally it was sort of the last of the old guard to fall before alternative rock and grunge became the prevailing force. It's a great project for hard rock, even if the vocals are a little silly.

I have an oversaturation problem with Guns N Roses, which might be related to listening to the radio too much in my car commuting days. I view them as a "safe hard rock" band that what used to be classic and hard rock stations would play constantly. Welcome to the Jungle and Paradise City are good songs, but I have heard them so much in my life that I am entirely sick of them. They make me have a visceral negative reaction. The other huge offender is "Sweet Child of Mine" which has always sucked, thankfully. There are plenty of great songs on this album that aren't the songs I mentioned though. Nearly every other one is actually. Slash isn't "underrated" as it were but he really is an excellent guitarist. "Nightrain" and "Mr. Brownstone" (the latter a big single in its own right, but not nearly the offender the other three are) are complete 80's headbangers, "Out ta Get Me" has that awesome descending guitar flourish in the verse and a killer solo, etc, etc. There are a few stinkers toward the end - everything after "Sweet Child" is purestrain butt rock. You can smell the marlboros and bud lights from here. The only songs I hated were the three I mentioned and it's not because they're bad songs. There are three divisions to this album: overplayed nonsense, genuinely excellent 80's hard rock, and largely forgettable beer drinking music. I can't remember the last time I listened to this all the way through and it was nice to remember that it's actually a pretty ok album. It's not great but it is exemplary of the genre and there is a time and place for all of this. It's a bar you have to drive to in the midwest, unfortunately.

The guitars are great, the songs are interesting, and there are a lot of classics on this album. I cannot get over how much I hate Axle's voice. I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate his voice.

At least we got femboy hooters

For the fact that it produced 2 all time massive hits Sweet Child of Mine and Parade City I'll give this a 3

Good

Wat ik had verwacht, typisch zulke rock, hoge stem, gitaar die in 3 seconden elke noot speelt die bestaat. Niet per se mijn muziek, kan zien waarom mensen het leuk vinden, maar zelf heb ik het bij de meeste niet. Zou het niet zelf aanzetten, ook niet als achtergrond muziek. 5/10.

Dont care

Outside of the 3 hits the songs sounded good but nothing really stuck with me. Slash was shredding though.

Pretty clear why guns n roses are as big as they are, but I dont think this is very exciting. I thought the beginning was good but it was boring by the end and not bc the songs were bad just bc the genre doesn't have much to it

6/10 - There were some decent songs. All of the songs I knew I at least sort of enjoy listening to. I think if I had never heard any of theses songs then I would have rated it lower.

I’ll set the music snob shithead part of my personality aside here and concede that this was a fun album

Amazin

Gott rokk. Smá þreytt, en samt alltaf solid.

Yes

Guns N' Roses represent 1980s hair metal, Slash is a gifted guitarist and Axl Rose has an instantly recognizable voice but this entire era of music leaves me generally underwhelmed, even when I was a child at the height of its popularity I always thought that there was something cringe-inducing about the videos on MTV. "Welcome To The Jungle" was ubiquitous, "It's So Easy" with Duff McKagan on lead vocals was surprising but not consistently interesting, "Nightrain" is dull. "Out Ta Get Me" is melodic and engaging but that industry insiders are masquerading as outlaws in leather jackets is laughable. "Mr. Brownstown" sounds like "I Want Candy" (perhaps intentionally?) until it doesn't, decent ode to heroin addiction. "Paradise City (is seven minutes long?!), this is "Sweet Home Alabama" for California motorcyclists, every generation has its music of adolescent rebellion. My Michelle, cowbell! "Your daddy works in porno/ Now that mommy's not around/ She used to love her heroin/But now she's underground/ So you stay out late at night/And you do your dope for free/ Drivin' your friends crazy/ With your life's insanity" Sounds like every LA story in the 1980s and the genre's justification for continuing to have sex with every adolescent groupie from a broken home. "Think About You" is almost a tender transition song for "Sweet Child O' Mine" which is a great song. "Rocket Queen" is incredible!

6.5/10

I don't like this band, at all. Bad rec for me.

I had a GNR phase growing up but the hits off this are so burnt out. I'm very tired of their sound at this point but the deep cuts were more enjoyable and the album is a good package.

Somehow every song on this album seems to have the catchiest guitar riff you've ever heard. It's incredibly fun to switch off your brain and play air guitar to. Would be a 5, except that if you make the mistake of actually listening to the lyrics (which seem like they were written by a horny 14 year old) you'll want to cringe out of your body. If a instrumental version of this album existed it would be one of my favourite of all time

It's got some great singles. Great sound. 4.5 out of ten. Gonna round down though

Este es un álbum muy difícil de reseñar para mí. Por una parte, estoy harto de él. No hay cadena de radio de "rock" que no ponga canciones de este disco 50 veces al día. Casi la mitad de los temas, especialmente "Sweet Child O' Mine" y "Welcome to the Jungle", están hasta en la sopa. Además, la actitud hedonista de las hair bands de los 80 también me aburre bastante. Por otro lado, es un discazo. Rebosa energía, la voz de Axl Rose es una pasada, y qué decir de los solos de guitarra. Pues eso, puro hedonismo llevado a la música. Un álbum que me retrotrae a mis 15 años. La verdad es que, si lo intento escuchar alejado de esas emociones ya preconcebidas, sigue siendo un disco excelente. Así que, siendo objetivos, merece 5 estrellas. Aunque, visceralmente, me gustaría darle 3. Vamos a dejarlo en 4.

Very good, but the lyrics are ass if we’re being honest. Too many hits though so gotta give it five stars.

Yeah they kick ass, but I can’t stand Axl’s upper register. The hits are hits for a reason, the other songs are very much worth forgetting unless your coked out of your mind at a rock club.

der anfang eines guten jahrzehntes, in welchem guns‘n‘roses in sachen krachender rock wohl das mass waren. und bleibende monumente der rockgeschichte schufen.

Eines der besten Hardrock Album, ever!

Not usually a fan of heavy metal, but I sure do have a sweet spot for Guns N' Roses. Would I like this album if it didn't include Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, and Sweet Child O' Mine? It doesn't matter, because it does include these three masterpieces.

not really my style, but Slash’s guitar playing is INSANE so i gotta give credit for that

-this is not really my number one choice in music. that being said. it has some very impressive vocal work and some of the songs hit sooo hard -my god Welcome To The Jungle… phenomenal anthem. makes me want to run people over with a motorcycle -Favorites are Welcome To The Jungle, Out Ta Get Me, and My Michelle

Good guitar playing, terrible vocals on

Exactly what I expected from a GNR album. Knew around half the songs but the rest of the album doesn't mix it up all that much. I'd be happy to listen again but don't see myself seeking it out too often.

\m/

Nice classic rock. Amazing guitar riffs and Axl's iconic singing voice is unmatched. Lurv.

take me down to the paradise city

Classic 80's metal, fun good music. I love the lyrics to a lot of their songs. Mr. Brownstone and My Michelle were highlights for me 4/5

G&R gives me big American vibes. Sex, rock and roll and not giving a fuck.

I really don't like GNR. Never did, and maybe never will.

I always wonder how I'd rate old albums if I heard them for the first time in 2024. I can't be objective about this one: I remember how I felt when I first heard it, and I can't get past that. I'm tempted to give it five stars, but there are a few weaker tracks on it (My Michelle, Out Ta Get Me, Anything Goes), so down to four it has to go. Still, Paradise City, Welcome to the Jungle, Nightrain - absolute crackers.

This has a few too many outstanding songs to give it an average score. But the ones that aren’t outstanding are very average!

Pros: Attitude, snarl, sound, band vibe; guitar playing and vocal gymnastics. History: put Hair Metal in the rearview mirror. Cons: songwriting, misogyny, stupidity, Steven Adler (terrible drumming), and a couple of obvious filler tracks. It’s a shame because this should be a record I go back to. But I won’t.

iconico

Barrrrrrbaro

Como va a ser el primer disco jaja

I like, fuck my ex

It's incredible how many songs on this DEBUT album of all things are the ones that cemented the band's legendary status. Slash' guitar skills are amazing. It's just a shame that the lingering taint of misogny still resides in this album, and the other songs kind of blend together.

I am torn on this as it is emblematic of the unholy trinity of those bands that a certain type of boomer claims is "real music". It sits there along with metallica and ac/dc as that band your middle-aged, Harley-owning step-dad listens to and very little else. Nevertheless, the standout hits are good anthems with an unique unmistakable style. The strongest part of this band is Slash's guitar work on those hits. The in-between songs are quite standard hair-metal songs with lyrics that have not always aged well. If I'm being generous, it is that starting point for a development of a musical taste. But woe befall anyone who doesn't outgrow this.

Ωραίοι

nightrain and mr. brownstone should have been their welcome to the jungle and paradise city. this is one of the few CDs I've worn out to the point of not being able to play anymore. I would blast this and drive 40 in a 25 on my way to my shift at jc penneys in my red oldsmobile alero (Emma you remember) and felt invincible. truly a classic objectively and meant so much to me growing up

Better than I thought it would be, definitely brought me to the 80’s. I will give them credit for being surprisingly candid though. Particularly talking about chasing the dragon on Mr. Brownstone, this band stood out among a sea of boomer cis/het white men that is 80’s rock. 4/5, I would play again surprisingly.

This album made my hair bigger and my pants tighter. Never listened to the full album before. I like it.

The only thing worse than guns n roses in 1987 is guns n roses in the modern day. Axl Rose is the single most arrogant, untalented, and frankly embarrassing vocalist that’s ever recorded an album. He’s a stain on the music industry as a whole and the world is certainly a far worse place with him in it. His singing is annoying and unlistenable. The riffs on this record are boring and predictable. Slash’s talent is entirely just the fact that he memorized a basic pentatonic scale and used it for every single solo. The drumming is absolutely standard and also very boring. The bass is so low in the mix it’s hard to tell if there even is a bass guitar. There hasn’t been a worse album on this list yet, and I really don’t think there will be. Down with guns n roses. 0*.

I generally am very disdainful of sleazy meathead 80s rock/hair metal. But I have always had a soft spot for “Welcome to the Jungle” and especially “Sweet Child o’ Mine”. I simply love these songs. Most of the other tracks on this album I had never heard before, and understandably so. They’re pretty standard issue for the time and place. “Mr. Brownstone” and “Think About You” stood out to me, but for the most part it’s pretty meh. They do have a knack for writing a really satisfying bridge. If not for “Jungle” and “Sweet Child”, this would be a 2 ⭐️ for me, but the strength of those two bumps it up to a 3 ⭐️. YOURE IN THE JUNGLE BABY!!!!!

Monster album.

The only difference between the songs is that some has moaning in it and some doesnt. god i hate axl roses voice

It's been a while since this generator gave me a 'real' (as in universally recognised) classic. Quite enjoyed it. Micky Mouse sound alike Axl may be. And people criticise Knocked Loose...

A couple absolute bangers and a tiny bit of filler. 4.75

Some of the best work, of the 80's metal. Kicks ass.

This album is actually pretty great. I like the song 'It's So Easy' or whatever it's called. Guitar and harmonies are brilliant. Would listen again

Classic rock album. Great start to finish.

Full disclosure: This is a much better album than I expected. I've had a lifelong dislike/distain for GnR, and I was *dreading* seeing this come up for my daily album. But... it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought. In fact, I would choke back my own bile and say that this might actually be genuinely good. It's got a good sound, Slash is a very competent guitarist, and Axl has more range than you'd expect (granted he spends most of the album sounding like a nasal middle schooler but hey). My rating is me still not wanting to give the band credit (and finding a lot of the lyrics here to be, let's say "disagreeable") but also having to admit this is actually pretty good. Probably not going to listen to it again, though; out of choice.

Surprisingly fun

Utter Perfection!!! Sadly the follow us were subpar and the first 6 months of this tour were weak shows but they did improve.

4.3

The lyrics did not age well; lots of misogynistic and immature non-sense. That been said, it has some very good and iconic sons that defined a generation. The entire album is quite good, which is something difficult to find, particularly so early in a band's history. 9/10

Slash is so much fun to listen to, but otherwise I loathe Guns N' Roses.

The three hits from this really carry my enjoyment of it. Those three are very good, but generic, heavy metal or rock songs, while the rest of the album stays generic but is just unmemorable, using the most basic classic rock tropes. 5/10

Solid with a bunch of classics.

There are some obvious highlights here, the rest is ok, but nothing earthshaking.

F'n bangarz.

6.5/10. The highs are great but the loss are really bad.

i have a black denim guns n roses jacket i thrifted years ago with this huge embroidered design on the back. i love this jacket. so guns n roses brought at least one good thing into existence

Some high energy classics. Night train was a good one

Hate GNR.

Guns N’ Roses are obviously talented, but this just didn’t do too much for me outside of “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Sweet Child O’ Mine”.

So many amazing songs! A must listen for sure

Quintessential hard rock album. The good parts of the 80s hard rock (catchy songs, good mixture of metal and pop...) but with the punk/rock-n-roll vibe of AC/DC and the likes. Top-notch songwriting, killer raspy vocals, great guitar work... what else could we ask for? If this is one of the most popular albums ever, it is for a reason!

Classic one! what more can I say? Their best album

welcome to the jungle: i like the opening, ive definitely heard this before 3/5 its so easy: 2/5 nighttrain: 2/5 out ta get me: 3.5/5 mr. brownstone: 2/5 paradise city: i rlly like the guitar here 3/5 my michelle: 4/5 think about you: 4/5 sweet child of mine: 5/5 you’re crazy 5/5 anything goes 4/5 rocket queen 4/5

Boomers rejoice Nee sick hoor , iconisch album

Not sure I can finish this. This has been the real test of how much I actually want to do this

Okay....own it ..never listen to it...that's it

Back when axl could still sing

Sounds like a flex, or not true, but I was obsessed with this album when I was 5. My older cousin was a teenager and had me remember all of the skull faces on the cover by name. This disturbed my mom. Are some of these songs dated? Sure. Does it still fuckin' rip? Hell yeah.

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Welcome To The Jungle is a classic. It's So Easy has fun chauvinistic lyrics. Nightrain has good guitar work from Slash. Out Ta Get Me is favorite so far. Mr. Brownstone has a funk to it, nice change of peace. Axel Rose has a nice blues affectation across the album. Paradise City is an anthem for drunk retards. Overrated. My Michelle kind of annoying. Think About You has that horrendous clapping. Sweet Child O' Mine is overrated and annoying. You're Crazy is when the album is starting to wear on me. I'm glad they kept the balladry to a minimum and stuck with anthems. Anything Goes sounds like everything else from the album. Rocket Queen has some interesting guitar work. Has a switch up in the middle which I appreciate. A good closer and probably my favorite. Overall I found the album repetitive and vapid. There are better metal and hard rock albums of this era. I don't know why anyone would pick this over what Priest and Maiden were doing around this time. Screaming for Vengeance has more variety track to track and just as impressive guitar playing and vocal performances. This was enjoyable enough but I don't get the hype.

It has its moments. Doesn’t his throat hurt?

Five stars, well 4.75 as last track Rocket Queen is a bit sprawling. But just undeniable all the way through - and passes the 'no singles' test by missing out the three tracks nobody nears to hear again. Still a great album without them, with them, five stars.

an absolute masterpiece. nothing more to add. welcome to the jungle baby.

I have to admit that I never wanted to hear Sweet Child Of Mine ever again, because it was on Guitar Hero, which my roommate in college suuuuuuuuuuuuucked at. I had to hear this song stutter step whenever he fucked up the notes, which he so often did, so many times for that year that I was dreading having to listen to it once more. But I stuck it out. Welcome To The Jungle rips as always but I forgot how hard Mr. Brownstone rocks. Heroin never sounded so fun. Paradise City and Sweet Child Of Mine have been overplayed to death but still remain good songs. My Michelle shreds and the last three songs finish off a fantastic debut album. I can't let my biases towards the two mega hits mentioned above cloud my judegment. This album rocks

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this. This kind of ultra-macho guitar hero rock isn't even remotely my kind of stuff. But I have to admit, when it's well made, it's well made. Many great and iconic tunes here, and the deep cuts aren't too shoddy either. Key tracks: Welcome to the Jungle Paradise City Sweet Child O' Mine

You can sometimes forget how awesome Guns N' Roses were because the hits are overplayed and because of Axl Rose's general douchebaggery. But, listening to it after not hearing these songs for a while, you remember that this album is absolutely incredible. Head banging from beginning to end, to the detriment of my hearing.

Tracks reviews (my favourite segment): 1. Welcome to the Jungle - This is the most unserious song, and I love it for that, but in reality it isn't that good lol / 2. It's So Easy - It's a groove but the lyrics are vain and dogshit. In a funny way though. Very unserious song. / 3. Nightrain - what the fuck did he mean by this??? :skull: ALSO UNSERIOUS, I'm seeing a pattern... / 4. Out Ta Get Me - unserious, you get the idea / 5. Mr. Brownstone - idk man same thing / 6. Paradise City - I've obviously heard this before and it is of course also unserious but not really in the same way idk. Could go hard on a roadtrip on the radio but not really my jam. / 7. My Michelle - lmao / 8. Think About You - When you take away the funny you get corny lyrics and mid music / 9. Sweet Child O' Mine - Probably the most unique song so far (and the best). It isn't the greatest song ever and is the definition of overrated, but honestly, it's aight. 10. You're Crazy - he's yapping up a storm on this one 11. Anything Goes - LMFAO (I was going to leave the review at that but I wasn't paying attention at the start and then noticed that the squeaky sound is him fucking on a squeaky ass bed which is hilarious) / 12. Rocket Queen - they gotta be joking this ts istg / Overall, as my track reviews make obvious, this album is very unserious. That is not necessarily a bad thing, though here's what I have to say: I think that GNR makes funny songs on purpose, but I also find them more funny and the serious parts funny because, in their nature, I can't take them seriously. I think it's partly due to Axl's voice. When you take away the lyrics (which are really bad btw, but funny) you get very mid rock. It isn't good, but I really enjoyed it anyways, laughed quite a bit. I'm going to give it a 3, but you have to take it with context.

2.5

I don’t really know what to make of this one. I was expecting to find myself not liking the songs I had never heard before, expecting them to be a lot weaker than the huge singles they released. Not sure why I had that opinion. There were some weak songs but also a few that I quite enjoyed. I don’t imagine it’ll be on my playlist much though.

I played this album to death when I was a teen. There is nothing nuisanced about this, they are not saying anything of political importance, they are literally singing about sex, drugs and rock n’ roll. They do a damn good job of it, by playing raw, riff driven belters. Even more impressive considering how much drugs they were taking! Slash is a guitar legend and the whole band oozed coolness, which was in direct contrast to most heavy metal of the time. The albums yields 3 massive singles which propelled them to success, but the whole album is packed full of great tracks, with perhaps only Anything Goes a duffer. My musical tastes have changed a lot since then, and I don’t think history has judged the casual misogyny well, but this album remains a classic and is untouched in its genre. Top track: Paradise City

I don’t recall ever listening to the whole album before, albeit it felt like I knew more songs than the singles. Tbh I suspect that’s because a lot of the songs are to some extent quite similar. Is that a bad thing, I don’t think so in this case. I do now have a new found respect for the Slash/Stradlin combo, there are some great riffs and solos on this album. The song writing is pretty consistently good as well, albeit Axl’s lyrics can be a sit suspect and he can be annoying at times (basically the songs where he’s singing a lot, and not letting the band play). But all in all there are only a couple of weaker tracks, and it’s generally a very strong album, and one I’d be happy to listen to again, albeit not at my instigation I doubt. My main side point, and I have no idea how true it is. But this album did rather feel liked it killed ‘hair rock’. It might have been dying out anyway to some extent, but these guys just massively upped the metal game, and the super silly stuff died a death. Fair play to that.

No doubting the riffs and the voice but still a big hair band. Passed me by at the time, only aware of their singles so Nightrain was a revelation.

Appetite For Destruction is raw and full of energy. The riffs hit like a freight train, and the drums keep everything moving fast. It’s like Zeppelin on a caffeine binge, leaning into chaos but still feeling tight. There’s something about it that’s impossible to ignore.

I can understand why people with long hair feel cool / enjoy themselves when listening to this, but too many owows and aeeaeeas for my taste.

Certainly one of the classics of the late 80s.

Appetite for Destruction is one of my all-time favorites. It came rushing out of the Southern California hard rock scene like a speeding Nightrain. For my money it is one of the greatest rock records ever. https://tinyurl.com/55pbcea7

Couple jams but man do I dislike metal.

WHO DEY

The known songs, and there were lots of them, were great. The rest, less so.

i like rock. pretty good. picky about lyrics though...

A game changing album and band.

Favourite song - Welcome to the jungle

專輯第一首很吸引我，尤其是中間的呻吟，好像真的來到歡迎我的狂野叢林。

This is an existential crisis as a music reviewer. It just doesn't feel like something like this was ever designed to be evaluated? Yet, here we are. It is genuinely astounding the level of success they found on a debut album, with 3 singles clearing a billion spotify streams, and that's part of the issue for me. I came into this album already tired of it, in a genre that was tired before I was even born. I can't find anything wrong with it, the songs are varied and clever, the instrumental sounds and vocals are unique and play well together, I just cannot find it in my heart to care about this album and that's on me. There were a handful of tracks that I had never listened to in here, and of them "Think About You" is my favorite despite a bland start. I found myself subtly head banging to a rift with a surprisingly post-punk influence in the chorus. Ultimately, I won't be returning to this album intentionally but I think I can listen to it a little more favorably when I inevitably hear it out and about. The musicianship and creativity is undeniable, I'm the problem. 3/5

Would've been much better withour Axl. Sorry man, just kind of my opinion.

A favorite

It's fine. I'm always a sucker for Sweet Child of Mine when it comes on, and I like Mr. Brownstone, so I was actually kind of excited to listen to the whole album. It was fine. Nothing particularly caught me. It just made me want to listen to Alice in Chains instead.

"Oh my God." That's Axl's first line, before "Welcome to the Jungle" gets rolling. It's probably the best 3-word description of this CD. It is an "Oh My God" CD. Right from the get-go, it's extremely intense. Axl is a class-A singer, and he's on his game the entirety of this CD. Just on the opening track, "Welcome to the Jungle", he displays incredible range - in just the bridge and the last chorus, he nails lines over multiple octaves and totally different timbres. And of course he's an incredible showman - too many examples to count, but just witness the moaning at the end of Slash's main solo. Slash himself is as good a lead guitarist as Axl is a singer - he has multiple solos on several tracks, all of them stellar, and his lead lines are often just breathtaking. The conclusion of his solo on "Rocket Queen" before the outro gives me the chills every time, as does solo during the double-time section of "Paradise City". The rest of the band brings it all together to make a really "cool" sound. Steven Adler is the unsung hero here - he brings kind of a funk sound to the band just by having a fat, slow, and lazy guitar style. It's easier to appreciate once you hear earlier demos where they play at warp speed just how much better this makes their band. The segments where he just lazily bangs a cowbell, like the solo on "Mr. Brownstone", just perfectly anchor the chaos happening elsewhere, and it just sounds cool. The rest of the band, both rhythm and lead, just fills in the sound with so much syncopation and so much raw noise that you need a drumming style like that to even it out. And it works, it works perfectly. So many songs on here have become radio staples, even on the strength of those alone this is a five. But literally every song on here is pretty good, and some stretches of this CD are just incredible. I especially like the conclusion, with "Sweet Child of Mine", "You're Crazy", "Anything Goes", and "Rocket Queen". Several of those are in fact part of the canon, absolute bangers, but even "Anything Goes" is really fun, with funky riffs and a very novel vocal solo. I loved this album growing up. In almost every respect, it totally holds up. Re-listening to it now as an adult, is does stand out to me though just how crude the lyrics are. "Its So Easy" is blatantly, blatantly misogynistic. "My Michelle" appears to be airing the dirty laundry of a particular person that the band and their friends knew in the LA shithead scene circa 1987, probably a whore (I wonder if she knows she's the girl and now tells her grandchildren with pride, "I'm the whore in My Michelle"). "Out to Get Me" is incredibly juvenile and anti-social, and "Mr. Brownstone" blatantly advocates taking heroin. And then of course there's the mock orgasm in the middle of "Rocket Queen" (or maybe it was a real orgasm and they just recorded it right there in the studio, you never know with these guys). The mock orgasm does kind of work for that song, and it's an amazing song (they all are), but it's still pretty dumb. I don't really care, I'm not a lyrics guy. And some of the lyrics are nice - especially on the big hits ("Welcome to the Jungle", "Paradise City", all of the lines in "Rocket Queen" from after the fake orgasm). But they're not what you'd call positive or inspirational. Whatever. I'll take it any day.

I'm not sure what to rate this one. My main genre is metal. I've grown into focusing less on the lyrics and vocals and more on the riffs, guitar tone, drumming, etc. From this standpoint it's a 5 star album. When I focus on the lyrics it makes me feel ill. I did not sign up to listen to Axl Rose's sexual fantasies. Evens out to a 4 I'd say

Vaikka en mikään iso Guns N' Roses fani olekkaan niin onhan tää ihan pirun kova levy täynnä hittejä. Eka ajattelin että onko tällä yhtään kappaletta mitä en olisi ennen kuullut mutta kyllä niitä sitten kuitenkin jokunen oli. Parhaat: Welcome To The Jungle, Nightrain, Sweet Child Of Mine, Rocket Queen, Paradise City

What a classic 80’s rock album. One of the biggest & best of all time. We’ll likely never see bands of peak Guns N’ Roses’ calibre again in our lifetime.

Liked this a lot more than I thought I would.

Let's state the obvious first. Welcome To The Jungle is an all time banger. Maybe the best opening song on an album ever. Rocket Queen is also a banger and a great closer. If a couple of tracks were cut, this would be a perfect album. But I'm deducting a star for some outdated misogyny and Axl's somewhat petulant behaviour. But this is a rock solid album otherwise.

One of my favourite albums of all time.

Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child of Mine