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With over 30 million copies sold worldwide, it is also one of the best-selling albums globally. Although critics were originally ambivalent toward the album, Appetite for Destruction has received retrospective acclaim and been viewed as one of the greatest albums of all time.
- January 18 – June 23, 1987
- Mike Clink
- July 21, 1987
Following the release of the single “Sweet Child O' Mine,” Appetite for Destruction became a huge hit, and is now not only one of the best-selling rock albums ever, but also the biggest debut...
Jul 16, 2017 · Appetite for Destruction. Guns N’ Roses. 1987. 10. By Maura Johnston. Genre: Rock. Label: Geffen. Reviewed: July 16, 2017. The debut from Guns N' Roses was a watershed moment in '80s rock...
- “Welcome to The Jungle”
- “It’s So Easy”
- “Nightrain”
- “Out Ta Get Me”
- “Mr. Brownstone”
- “Paradise City”
- “My Michelle”
- “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
- “You’re Crazy”
- “Anything Goes”
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Axl:I consider the first song to be the most representative [of Guns N’ Roses]… I wrote the words in Seattle. It’s a big city but at the same time, it’s still a small city compared to LA and the things that you’re gonna learn. It seemed a lot more rural up there. I just wrote how LA looked to me. If someone comes to town and they want to find somet...
Duff:A song West [Arkeen] and myself wrote. It’s an account of a time me and him, and also the rest of the band, were kinda going through. We didn’t have money, but we had a lot of hangers-on and girls we could basically live off of… things were just too easy. There’s an emptiness, it’s so easy. Axl:I sang in a low voice ’cause that fit the attitud...
Slash:‘Nightrain’ is just like ‘… Jungle’. It’s very indicative of what the band’s all about. I remember when it first came together, we’d hitchhiked to the Rainbow and were walking down to the Troubadour and just started yelling ‘Nightrain’ ’cause we were drinking it… Duff: We were living in the Gardener Street studio, this place where we had one ...
Axl:The lyrics are saying, “I’ve always been in trouble but I’m still handling it.” Like every time you turn around, someone is trying to screw you over financially, or the cops are banging on your door and you didn’t do anything. It’s just being railroaded into something and trying to get out from underneath it. You know, parents, teachers, preach...
Axl:When we moved out of our place on Fountain and La Cienega I was the last one to leave, and found this piece of yellow paper wadded up in the corner where Izzy’s and Steven’s room was. It had the lyrics to ‘… Brownstone’ on it. I read it and went, “This is great.” They said they had music for it and we ended up starting to rehearse this thing. S...
Duff:The chords to that song I wrote when I first moved to LA, when I didn’t know anybody and was kinda feeling a little down. So that kinda came out, like reaching for something, you know. Slash: The best songs we do, they’re collaborations. The best way to do it is to have the whole band sit there and listen to everybody else’s ideas, and put it ...
Axl:I know a girl named Michelle and she became a really good friend of the band’s and I was going out with her for a while. It’s a true story. Slash and some other members of the band said that’s kinda too heavy to say about poor, sweet Michelle: she’ll freak out. I’d written this nice sweet song about her, and then I looked at it and thought, “Th...
Axl:I had written this poem, reached a dead end with it, and put it on the shelf. Then Slash and Izzy got working together on the song and I came in, Izzy hit a rhythm, and all of sudden this poem popped into my head. It just all came together. A lot of rock bands are too f__king wimpy to have any sentiment or any emotion in any of their stuff unle...
Slash:When I play that song I don’t even know what I’m playing. It’s just such a kick in the ass for me, so I run around. I try to concentrate on the music and keep kinda stationary, except on that song. I don’t play the same solo every night ’cause I’m not on the same wavelength as other nights.
Axl:We [used to do it] so fast. Then wrote another version about our times at the old studio and we kept that for a while. But then when we came down to record it, we didn’t want to. But Tom [Zutaut, Geffen A&R man] was very adamant about wanting that song recorded, so we figured, “We’re gonna have to rewrite it.” In pre-production we came up with ...
Read how the band members of Guns N’ Roses described the songs on their debut album, released in 1987. Learn about the influences, experiences and meanings behind hits like Welcome To The Jungle, Sweet Child O’ Mine and more.
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Listen to the 1987 hard rock classic by Guns N' Roses, featuring songs like "Sweet Child O' Mine" and "Paradise City". The album is raw, rude and unflinching, capturing the band's dark and sleazy side.
