Appetite For Destruction

Day 90 You did the right thing, alternative Fav track: Paradise City

Not bad for a debut album, but they are not a band I have much time for

It started so promising... Welcome to the Jungle is a genius bit of hard rock. Just silly enough to keep it light, while still feeling edgy. Goes hard as well. Sadly the issues start creeping in instantly. It's So Easy should probably be called "It's So Sleazy." I appreciate these guys did have groupies and drugs and sex and booze, but I don't really care to hear about it, especially when it is neither particularly fun and carefree, nor introspective and self reflexive. A few standardly solid rock tracks follow. Nightrain is sort of okay. Just feel like someone could wind up idolising being the slacker arsehole of the song in a way which annoys me. Out ta Get Me is decent. Fuck the police is always a solid message, although I hardly think Axl is either as radical as, say, Rage Against the Machine or Public Enemy, nor as genuinely threatened and/or a threat as N.W.A. Mr. Brownstone is a pretty good groovy metal track. Has an actually interesting and introspective idea at its heart about how addiction is turning them into a worse band of divas. Sonically not usually something in my wheelhouse, but it definitely exceeds expectations Paradise City again plays that excess of the sound in a semi ironic way which works well. A little overblown, but a decent time. Then My Michelle has us right back in a lane which, regardless of what the supposed muse of the song may say now, I find myself agreeing far more with the sect of critics who find it a lazy and cruel piece of songcraft. Just rubbernecking at a sad car crash... Think About You is ultimately just lightweight fluff. I don't hate it, but I don't really think anything of it. Slash doesn't like it. It was written by the rhythm guitarist. Axl Rose compares it to Hanoi Rocks, but as proven two albums ago, Hanoi Rocks were fun, punkier, and sillier, with more fanciful ideas in their lyrics and sound. Sweet Child o' Mine is alright. Sonically I actually quite like it, but every hint of G'n'R's personality we get elsewhere on the record undermines the sentimentality of the piece, and it's been overplayed to hell You're Crazy just makes me think... hypocrites. She may be crazy, but we are about to hear you exactly the same in about 20 seconds Axl Anything Goes. Annoying yelping on here as Axl jerks one out over his lust, which then Slash imitates on the guitar. Less fun than that sounds. And then Axl tops it all by actually having sex on record. Not really objecting to that bit of Rocket Queen. It's everything else about Axl's judgemental nature while being a selfconfessed prick and fuckboy that cools me on the song. A reminder of why that LA scene had to end. Had to be killed by thoughtful rockers from college towns like Olympia and Athens, Boston and St. Paul who might have sometimes touched some feminist literature, or listened to some of the more meaningful punk and folk rockers of the 70s. If this is hair metal's high point, which I think it might be, it deserved to burn out

I can still remember when this album came out and it was larger than life with Axl, Slash, Izzy, Duff and Steve. There was big hair, makeup, and leather, I mean it had everything you needed right?! This album had several number one hits that came from it, but I actually think some of the better songs were not singles and that could just be based on the fact that the singles have been played so much over the last almost 40 years, that most people are tired of hearing them. There was a time I would have easily given this album 5 stars and called it a day as there would have been no reason to even discuss anything less, but now I can't say that. This album is dynamite for a bands debut album and is by far the best album GNR ever put out, but at the same time without the great guitar play from Slash, a lot of what is left is the same tired ass riffs and hooks you can hear on albums from many of the hair bands of the 80s. I am not saying that Slash was the only one talented in the band or on this album, but his guitar sure does make most songs shine much more than any other single member. Album is a solid 8/10 or 9/10 and I am giving it 4 stars.

This is the only band that gave me that 80's experience of listening to rock that my dad didn't like. Not as good as I remember, they're kind of the go to for cheesy 80's rock, but this album for its flaws has some proper bangers.

Don't like

(Re-listen) I was thinking about this album yesterday and coincidentally it was generated for me today, this was quite literally the only album in cd rotation in my dads car back in the day- so I have a long history with it but haven’t fully listened in a longggggg time. Easy 5 stars ⭐️ I’ve always enjoyed this since I was a kid standout tracks ‘rocket queen’ ‘welcome to the jungle’ ‘it’s so easy’

really liked the instrumentals really liked the vocals up my range of music four out of five star

5/5, amazing how good this is

Slash rules, the rest of the band is just trying to keep up with him. Axl's vocals work best when he goes as snarly as possible, anything he tries to actually sing on doesn't work for me.

High highs and low lows

No es mi tipo de musica, pero me gustó mucho. Me olvidé de lo mucho que me gustaba “Welcome to the Jungle” qué temón.

Best guns and roses album possibly thier only good one

Incredible debut album. I usually turn off GNR when they come on the radio, a little to high pitched (vocals and guitar) but I can appreciate how massive this was and to be fair it is a great rock album. Not for me for I totally appreciate what a game changer it was.

Maybe I've just heard the songs too much or something, but it was just fine. Somehow less than the sum of its parts?

This Hard Rock album feels like arriving late at a pub where the band is already playing at full volume and everyone else is several drinks ahead. At first, I wonder whether showing up sober was a mistake, but the infectious riffs and rowdy atmosphere soon pull me into the evening. It feels good to be part of the noise, with the band playing excitedly and the crowd feeding off their energy. But just when I start enjoying myself, the familiar routine returns: another round of the same swagger, another burst of excess, and that feeling of “oh no, they're doing this again.” The excitement is real, but the repetition gradually wears it down.

Kurt Cobain: “They’re really talentless people, & they write crap music, and they’re the most popular rock band on earth right now. I can’t believe it.”

7.5 / 10

It's fine. The big songs are anthemic, but there's a lot of bullshit, dated filler in the GnR canon.

Hair metal has never been a genre accused of originality. And yet in their debut album, Guns N' Roses really show the variety of styles present in the genre. Because "Appetite For Destruction" contains soundalikes of just about every popular hair band from the 70's and 80's. Of course, being unoriginal isn't the same as being bad. And these songs are for the most part competently put together. But there's none of it feels better than anything that came before or since. I struggle to find anything about this album that I couldn't find in dozens of better albums. The one song on here that doesn't feel like a B-side of Mötley Crüe or another hair band is "Sweet Child of Mine". Unfortunately, it's a song I absolutely cannot stand. I think it's mostly because Axl Rose is a bad singer and trying to listen to him attempt any sort of melody should be considered a crime against my eardrums. If you're a fan of this album, you should ask yourself if there really is something special there or if you just listened to it for the first time when you were 10 and too young to recognize when music is overly derivative.

This album desperately needed less Axl Rose. His vocals detract from almost every track and turns this into a worse album for it. I love the guitar work from Slash and it even overcomes Axl's vocals a decent amount of the time. I love Paradise City and Mr Brownstone. Nightrain is great and Welcome to the Jungle is a strong opener, though I really wish the vocals were just not there. All in all a solid 4 star album made 3 due to some atrocious vocals.

Bangers

Goat

Not sure how to rate - Grossed by elements, enjoyed the musicality... headbanged to Paradise City... 4?

Axl Rose tiene una voz tan característica y es justo lo que necesitan, para complementar la gran instrumentación del hard rock que el resto de la banda produce Favoritas indiscutibles las 3 más famosas del álbum que ni hace falta mencionar Lo demás tiene fuerza también, y entretiene, honestamente me hizo pasar un muy buen tiempo este álbum Dinámico y muy fácil de digerir, recomendado y reescuchable

I’m honestly a little mixed about this record. As records go it is the perfect mix of its influences (Blue Oyster Cult, Good Aerosmith, Good Kiss, and a dash of Def Leppard) mixed with Axl sauce and Slash Pepper to come up with a pretty listenable slice of pop metal. There are some punk undertones on a couple of tracks - notably It’s So Easy and Rocket Queen but in the main it’s a stadium ready rock album made to appeal to the masses and a surprisingly large number of strippers… I mean exotic dancers. When this came out on my numerous trips back home to Canada, when I hit the pub with my friends I heard the entire album so many times that you could associate various dancers with the songs they preferred. It was honestly a head trip seeing several dancers strip to Mr. Brownstone. That means a records good, right? Consequently, the record is actually a recorded cliche covering sex, drugs and rock n roll. But who cares, it’s great at parties. I’m not sure it belongs on this list to be fair as it really is not that revolutionary, influential or unique given the readily identifiable influences, but I’m not going to knock it down for that. 4/5

Mange bangers.

As big and dumb as it gets, listen to this every couple of years, grinning all the way.

Starts strong and fills the space in-between the hits with solid rock songs.

It's very good, unfortunately.

I love this album. Axl is one of the greatest rock lyricists of all time, and slash is fucking fire

Only mid-tier because I distinctly remember doing Michael Jackson dances with friends to this album on the classroom cassette player when I was in the third grade. Otherwise, eh - it's just what was around at the time.

This sounds really flat to me now, at least at first. I've probably heard this album 100 times and remember it being so much more bombastic. I hate how Welcome to the Jungle sounds, surely "the jungle" is untamed, wild? But it doesn't feel anything like that, immediately followed by Axl sounding bored out of his fucking mind on "It's so easy". Thankfully after that Axl seems to have woken up and the rhythms become much more driving and energetic, even hurried, panicked in places. Welcome to the Jungle still fuckin sucks though

Hun beste album

🤟🏻🤟🏻

9/10

3 great tracks

Itselle henkilökohtaisesti tää on sellasta musaa mitä fiilistelee ihan täysiä ekat 4min, mutta sen jälkeen se käy raskaaksi kuunneltavaksi eikä jaksais kuunnella sitä sen enempää.

Guns, Roses, Leather, Sex, Slash, Axl, Drugs, Rock, Hair, Pyrotechnics, Big, Dumb, Stupid, Aggressive, Fast, Frenetic, Energetic, Fun! You hear strong punk and metal influences, with a healthy dose of what I can only imagine to be coke-induced aggression in both the songwriting and the production. The highs are high, and the rest unfortunately hovers around ‘perfectly acceptable hair rock’. This is an album that’s carried by its hits in my opinion. You will find no accusations of snobbery or sophistication here. This is a record that – lyrically and thematically speaking – is an Animal Style Double Double cheeseburger: messy and sticky, and often distasteful but carrying mass appeal nonetheless. Slash is a supernova among stars, and his playing reminds you that a great performance can singlehandedly elevate an album. That’s to say nothing about Axl’s piercing falsetto riding your bumper from start to finish. Still, it’s everything you’d expect and ask for from the debutante ball (orgy?) of a legendary rock group. 7/10 Favorites: - Welcome to the Jungle - Nightrain - Mr. Brownstone - Paradise City - Sweet Child O’ Mine - Rocket Queen

Raw, aggressive, and quite distasteful yet so so good. The unpredictable nature of the songs and Axl & Co paired with the intensity of the production makes this one of the premiere hard rock albums of all time. Favorites/Song Notes: - Welcome to the Jungle is one of the all time opening tracks to an album. Explosive introduction with a killer riff yum. - Nightrain is one of the songs I was not overly familiar with and now it is one of my favorites. The dueling guitars and infectious riff make this a masterpiece. - Mr. Brownstone is another favorite. It's only right that a song about addiction has such an addictive sound itself. It courses through my veins like heroin. - Paradise City... not much needs to be said for one of the most recognisable songs in all of rock - Sweet Child O' Mine is another tune that encapsulates every I just mentioned about Paradise City. Rating: high 8/10 to a low 9/10

What else is there to say but 🤘🏽?

Me han gustado solo 2 canciones

Bon et 1000 fois mieux que Foo Fighters

Solid stuff

It was fine, I don't really dislike GNR, but they're pretty screamy and a whole album is a bit much. There were some good songs on the album though.

The intro of "Welcome To The Jungle" is one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time, but the rest of the album (and even the song itself) fails to match up to it. Not bad though. Fun fact: The ending of "Sweet Child O' Mine" where Axl Rose is singing "Where Do We Go?" was originally ad-libbed. They hadn't written any lyrics for that part yet, and Axl was literally asking the question.

Axl Rose has great range but an awful voice.

An 80s rock classic carried by the strength of paradise city, welcome to the jungle, and sweet child o’ mine. Stray too far from the tried and true and you’ll wonder how you got there, but you’ll at least have slash playing guitar for you.

Drop the needle and its intro to Welcome To The Jungle, what an opening. Cool riffs on Mr. Brownstone and Rocket Queen. My Michelle and Think About You were first timers that I liked too. Sweet Child O'Mine is forever a favorite of favorites and would have been insane as the closer. Yeah some of this feels like filler but most albums have it and the bangers absolutely bang.

can't deny it

It's good 80s rock but I never really got the full-throated acclaim and enthusiasm people have for the band. The music can be indulgent and repetitive (not quite November Rain indulgent and repetitive, but still) outside of the big hit singles. All in all, I'd prefer a Best of Guns N' Roses to Appetite though I can't say it's a bad album.

Schon ziemlich geil!

iconic shit

This album was probably a big deal at the time. I certainly have heard it being hailed as a landmark album. However I just don’t enjoy it that much, despite its objective technicality. 3/5

Album has some huge hits, that while overplayed, are still good listens. There's some great instrumentality throughout that is up there with the best of this genre/era of music. However, I have never really liked Axel Rose's and if you were to tell me this entire album was meant as a satire of the genre I'd say it doesn't work because it needs to be more subtle with making fun of its subject.

Enjoyment: 7/10 Replayability: 6/10 Cohesion: 8/10 Flow/Pacing: 7/10 Artistic Merit: 8/10 Weighted Average: 7.05/10 Review: Guns N' Roses have never really scratched that hard rock "itch" for me. Solid album with classic hits but the rest sounds like filler. Liked Song(s): Welcome To The Jungle, Nightrain, Paradise City, Sweet Child O' Mine Disliked Song(s): Mr. Brownstone, My Michelle Recommend? Yes Heard Before? Partly

Easy 5*, one of the best rock albums.

Bangerrrr

A very strong 4/4.5. Biggest rock debut ever, it’s an unmitigated, unmistakable classic. The hits are universal, and there’s really no filler at all. Knocking it just down from a 5 because it’s not the style of rock I’ve been drawn to as an adult, but it’s a beacon of the era and deserves all its plaudits.

I can definitely see why the famous songs are very famous. They are very entertaining and well produced. However, by the vibe of this album kind of outstays its welcome. I didn't get a lot out of the deep cuts of this album.

solo perché mi piace paradise city

Lite repetitivt. Överlag najs trevliga trummor och bas.

Here's the thing - Once upon a time as a spry, young adult I went to a Guns N Roses reunion concert and promptly FELL ASLEEP. I don't have the nostalgia for GNR like many do, I am years too young for that. I can appreciate the hits but I don't need to listen to complete albums of Axl Rose.

From the first few notes of Welcome to the Jungle, you know you're about to hear something awesome. It is the greatest lead song off a debut album of all time. It's a great song on a great album and was a massive hit. Plus, as I tell my son, if you listen to it before a game or lifting weights, it is scientifically proven to improve your performance by 11%. If GNR gets lumped in with "hair bands", they are head and shoulders (wink) better than the rest of their contemporaries. Paradise City is a jam. Sweet Child O' Mine rocks. The album tracks aren't as good as the singles but that's like saying you nieces and nephews aren't as cute as your own kids. These dudes love drugs and women...maybe in that order? Some of their songs make me think this is like Van Halen if they were into heroin instead of cocaine. Rocket Queen is the best album track and a great finish.

It's GNR with three of their best songs

This is easily a 5

2/3 Rocksito y ya

classic songs, cant be mad them

It’s good but I don’t love it. Everything between the big hits such as Welcome to Jungle, Paradise city and sweet child o mine, are a bit same-y and faded to noise.

1st listen, not bad but alot more rappy than I thought it was going to be.

So hard to be objective when Rose is a domestic abuser, homophobic racist whose voice is unpleasant at the best of times. These songs have also been drilled into my skull by teaching them to drum students - which also comments on their longevity and lasting appeal. Just listened to Is This It by The Strokes and gave it a 5. That was my first 5, and Derek and The Dominos would have been my first 0 if possible. These songs are better than that record by far. Ugh. I don’t know anymore. I fucking love 80s hair metal. Star score purely reflecting music if I knew nothing about Rose and his stupid misogyny and gremlin-esque voice.

It's a very rock and roll album. However, I think it only stands the test of time because of the stories surrounding it, the phenomenal guitar work, and their hit songs. Their four hit songs from this album are still talked about and played even in the modern day and they deserve it. Rocket Queen however does not. I don't think it's a good song and I think the moaning is extremely uncomfortable to listen to especially with the stories. Overall, the album deserves its standing as a historical rock and roll album but Axl's vocals have always been atrocious to me and their songwriting isn't actually all that good as a whole piece of work. The three hits are incredible and overplayed but they still garner respect. The album that contains them is good but has many many skips.

This album is shit. Sweet Child o' Mine is head and shoulders above all the other nonsense dross.

Lots of hits on this album and the band is very good at what they do, even on the more unknown tracks, but this is never going to be something I want to listen to an hour of.

Unpolished classic.

You get used to the scrotum voice.

Decent rock album. A lot of done that I still here on the radio. Axel has a unique voice, and I think guitar sounds stood out (or maybe I was just listening for those more). Hard to separate art from artist, so sure might be overcompensation

En banger som blivit väldigt uttjatad genom åren. Bra men blir lite tröttsamt trots variation i låtarna. De bra låtarna är riktigt bra, de andra låtarna är lite meh. Kommer inte åka in på iPoden men är ändå en klassiker

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The top review on this site does make a good point - if you listen to rock music then you've probably been oversaturated with the singles from Appetite to Destruction. But I guess that isn't GnR's fault. They created one of the best debut albums of all time and every song rocks - there's really no let up in the intensity for 53 minutes and even the longer tracks like Paradise City never feel like they're being padded out. Class

I usually listen to my daily album in the morning when I get up. And when I saw Appetite For Destruction I was kind of dreading it. Everybody’s heard the hits from this album and they’re decent but I just didn’t think it was for me. So I started listening to it and I haven’t heard any of these songs on a proper HiFi system until now, and I’m actually quite impressed. This has been a great start to the day. The songs are really in your face but they still feel spacious and clear. It’s a great mix. And the guitars and bass are dialed in really well. However, the album is like an upside down parabola. It starts quite weak, gets really good in the middle and then drops off again. With the exception of the opening track which I don’t mind but I’ve heard it a million times. The two tracks after Welcome To The Jungle are not memorable and just feel off. The fourth and fifth track is where things start picking up and then six and seven are easily the best. Unfortunately after that everything slowly declines and you lose interest. I found myself wanting to go back to Paradise City and My Michelle for the whole rest of the album, it really starts to drag on. I was really surprised by My Michelle as I haven’t heard it before and I’ve been missing out, it sounds so menacing and it immediately grabs your attention. The riff during the verses is groovy as hell and it completely lets loose on the chorus which provides a great contrast, keeping you more invested. This album has good and bad and everything in between, I think this would be great if you’re in the mood for some hard rock while doing another task just to have something in the background.

iconic hard rock

Everything GnR did after this album pails in comparison. This is really such a good record.

A great album.

Hits and filler

Welcome to the Jungle indeed. This is so much fun! Even the fillers on this album are great. Good times.

mkay. fun, campy but not essential

This is a really strange album. A lot of the 'great' tracks from it only really have a small section which are iconic. It's a lot of fun but really messy at times and sometimes really strange.

I was an early adopter for not liking this band. Having to endure any one of the massively over-played hits from this album gives me an appetite for destruction.

The mediocrity of this album has really inspired me to be more average

Fantastic!

El inicio de Guns N Roses, hermoso disco de principio a fin!

i can see it's a great album mas não é muito do meu gosto. não me incomoda ouvir, porém. algumas músicas são até legais e acho que a dinâmica do álbum é boa.

Really good album. Other than the hits, it is a bit samey, but that's just my taste.

Have I listened to this album before No How familiar am I with this album Pretty familiar, I feel like all the hits are on here How do I feel about this artist? Neutral, another band my dad loves Pre-Listen Thoughts: I’m a pretty big fan of Slash’s guitar style even if I don’t listen to Guns N’ Roses a lot. I think it’ll be funny but if it’s not my thing. Favorite track(s): Sweet Child O’ Mine (yes it’s over-played but this riff really holds up) Post-Listen Thoughts: This was solid. It’s not a 5 for me personally, but I can see why it gets a lot of 5s. It was kind of just banger after banger. Probably nothing I will revisit, but enjoyable.

Those three singles on here, fantastic, easy to see why they became classic staples of the hard rock sound and launched careers and a million little guitarists. But I’d so much rather just listen to them as three singles. As a whole album, it’s both probably about as good as you’re getting out of the 80s glam metal sound and also incredibly samey and tiresome and something that just totally washes over you. I could probably go my entire life without hearing those other 9 songs again, and still be able to piece the gist together by memory because I too have heard of and enjoy the concept of this thing called “sex”.

Carried by it's singles.

Some songs are so good others are just there

Yeah this album fucking rules. The lows are still pretty darn decent and the highs are all timers.

GNR is one of the canonized 'classic rock' bands that never really did it for me and when I would tell that to people in LA, they would look at me like I was crazy. I think the high flyin' Sunset Strip scene is baked into this album and it's legacy. The sex and drugs and attitude prevalent here may speak to a youth culture that needed a voice at the time, but years have not been kind to this record in my opinion. It is pretty standard hard rock/edgy glam, downstream of Aerosmith, Def Leppard and others. The tender sentimentality of Sweet Child O Mine comes out of nowhere among the grit and spit of the previous tracks and I see how that hit hard. I find some of this to be a bit cringe. I bet if you had a Pontiac, bottle of booze and a head injury, this shit slapped.