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Appetite For Destruction |  | Artist: Guns N' Roses
Label: Polydor Group
Category: Music
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Rating:  134 reviews
Sales Rank: 786
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 53 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 008811928629
EAN: 0008811928629
ASIN: B000026E3O
Release Date: March 20, 1999
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Welcome To The Jungle | | • | It's So Easy | | • | Nightrain | | • | Out Ta Get Me | | • | Mr. Brownstone | | • | Paradise City | | • | My Michelle | | • | Think About You | | • | Sweet Child O' Mine | | • | You're Crazy | | • | Anything Goes | | • | Rocket Queen |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This is a glimpse of the future--and not because of its huge influence and umpteen million sales. The poor-little-rich-boy protest "Out ta Get Me" intimates that Axl Rose's egotism and martyr complex were soon to grow bigger than his head; still, IAppetite/I's night-train wreck of punk and metal sounds and sensibilities make it more than just an emblem of its time. Whether GN'R are dancing with "Mr. Brownstone", penning a callow kiss-off letter to some chick named "Michelle", or passing out on somebody else's sofa, this was and remains a savage journey to the heart of the American--or at least the Hollywood--dream. I--Rickey Wright/I
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The best December 19, 2006
Mike Cormack (Aberdeen UK)
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
I'd give this album twenty stars if I could, it's that important to me.
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br /With the ubiquity of music TV these days, it's actually quite hard to remember that heavy metal was hard to get a hold of in the late 80s. Pop and dance ruled the airwaves, you only had TOTP, The Chart Show and The Tube (I hadn't heard of Later, or The Old Grey Whistle Test; was but a nipper in those days). I hadn't even heard of MTV - that was an American thing. But one day a music shop opened in my little hometown, which showed MTV, and that's where I first heard and saw "Paradise City" and "Sweet Child O' Mine". A real epiphany; nothing was the same for me ever again, after getting in in 1988 for my 9th birthday. (The only real comparison has been hearing The Beatles' 67-70 album, and "Smell Like Teen Spirit"). I'm 27 now and have never ever tired of it.
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br /GN'R might have lived the life, but musically they knew exactly what they were doing; they knew their musical history, and had a breadth of taste which "Appetite" only hinted at. Their forebears were, as they well knew, were Aerosmith, so much so that they explored Aerosmith's own influences, so that they are far more than 'Smith ripoffs, even on their first album.
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br /GN'R were melded together in the deperate struggle for recognition and success that was the LA rock scene. Then dominated by Motley Crue and lesser bands like WASP and Ratt, GN'R came along and blew them away. Where Motley Crue had acheived success by having a crossover appeal (covering "Helter Skelter", a Beatles song, even on their heaviest album, "Shout At The Devil"), GN'R did it by tapping into an older, heavier tradition. They weren't pop-rock, they were hard-rock - much more visceral, with punk-rock's attitude, rock music's musicanship and with a live show of extraordinary magnetism.
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br /"Appetite" is their purest statement. "Paradise City" is a metaphor for their ambition to be the biggest band in the world - "Take me down to the paradise city". "Sweet Child O' Mine" might have been their crossover moment, but rather than being a schmaltzy soft-rock anthem (as Poison etc had managed), it's a yearning, tender opener which modulates to a storming finale, with I think the most hair-raising guitar solo eve recorded. "It's So Easy" is the ultimate expression of young-man arrogance and testosterone, with Axl singing at the bottom of his range and the riff exploding out at you like a Molotov Cocktail of belligerent intent. "Nightrain", a song about a cheap tonic wine (like Buckfast) tells you about their days - "Said I'm a mean machine, been drinking gasoline and honey you can make my motor hum". "Rocket Queen" is a superb closer, starting with a brilliantly sleazy riff (and supposedly verite sounds in the middle), but ending on a storming, rousing, optimistic closer.
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br /Axl sings brilliantly throughout, Slash's solos are magnificent, Duff's bass sounds much better than on "Use Your Illusion" - but the songs are never dominated by one band-member as they are on UYI. It's always a coherent, band album. It's the greatest metal album I know, and I've been into metal ever since I got this album.
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In effect the best of Guns N Roses September 6, 2005
PeterD (Stratford Warks)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This for me is the very best album i own and i would advise anyone to get it. There simply isnt a bad song. Its badass rock n roll at its bestkiller riffs from slash N Axls awesome vocals shine and the quality of the material is fantastic. This and lies for me is the best of GNR with this being the best they have ever done. Axls ego hadnt yet kicked into overdrive spliting original members apart leading to the monstrousoty in 2002 and they were not yet falling apart due to excess but reveling in it. They sticked to what they were good at rather than trying pure crap like My World in the illusions. There is NO filler and every song is 9+ for me. The best songs would have to be Mr Brownstone, Paradise city, Sweet Child and Night Train yet the albumns throughout high quality could allow any to be your favourite depending on taste. If you love music youll love this album.
The best debut album in the history of ROCK December 12, 2006
K. Upadhyay (UK)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is one album I nver get tired of listening to. All the songs kick some serious ass. Kerrang had its top 100 rock albums of all time, and this was #1. the grand daddy of all the hard rock albums. The only album which comes near to it is back in black. Every song is a rock masterpiece. go and buy it now.
the best rock n roll album, by every aspect September 3, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
what can you say to describe this album? words can't sum it up, you really have gotta listen to it to believe it. from the opening riff of welcome to the jungle, to the amazing ending solo of rocket queen, this album rocks! theres not one bad song on this album, and thats an impressive feat. 12 tracks and 12 classic, timeless songs. filled with aggressive, hard hitting rock n' roll songs like 'it's so easy' and 'outta get me', to the slower, melodic songs with emotional lyrics you enver thought could come from a band like this, such as 'sweet child o' mine' and 'think about you', and the amazing 'rocket queen', which starts off as a rock song with a killer riff, and transcends into a slower, more emotional song. slash is an immensely talented guitar player, and can play dirty rock and bluesy licks, without any effort at all. combine that with the fantastic talents of duff and izzy, axls ferocious singing, and the hard hitting drumming of steven adler, and you got the formula to one of, no, THE best rock n' roll album ever made. a timeless piece of rock, matched by noone, yes really, NOONE. aerosmith, ac/dc, van halen etc, may all be great rock bands, but they're just not guns n roses. so go buy this album, cos theres a reason y its the biggest selling debut album ever, and that is, IT ROCKS!! brso get this album, and also the illusions albums, theyre not appetite, but theyre great albums all the same.
An Album Guaranteed To Please June 4, 2007
Unifrog
19 out of 22 found this review helpful
During the apparent onslaught of the LA hair metal scene in the mid to late 80s (bands like Poison and Motley Crue), one band was formed in 1985 in Los Angeles by two desperate musicians - Axl Rose and Tracii Guns, who decided that it was time for the age of big hair, glitter and makeup to come to an end. And Guns N' Roses did just that. Though Tracii left to form his own band, LA Guns, Axl stayed behind and recruited four talented musicians: guitarists Izzy Stradlin and Slash, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler. Together, these four, along with Axl Rose, literally shoved aside hair metal with the release of their first major label debut Appetite For Destruction and started to bring the "true" metal back to the mainstream. Within a year of its release, it had sold over 25 million copies and went to #1 in the USA. Though they did release a self-produced EP titled Live ?!*@ A Suicide in '86, GNR made rock history with Appetite For Destruction a year later.
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br /Let me start off by saying that every (yes, EVERY) rock fan, from Hendrix to Green Day, needs to own this album. From the gritty sleaze-rock "Welcome to the Jungle" to the trashy headbanger "You're Crazy" to the punk rock "It's So Easy," every song on here is a masterpiece. Though it contains a few fillers ("My Michelle," "Think About You" and "Anything Goes" being the best examples), Appetite For Destruction is one of those CDs that you don't have to skip songs to get to the good ones. Too bad the original band lineup featured on this CD isn't around anymore - now GNR has Axl's whole new set of musicians that just isn't the same. In addition, is it any wonder that Axl can't sing like that anymore. I mean, listen to his vocals on such songs like "Out Ta Get Me," "Paradise City" or "Sweet Child O' Mine." And what about Slash? GNR's new guitarist, Robin Finck (Nine Inch Nails), doesn't play with the same style Slash played with, and doesn't sound like him at all. So I guess that just proves that things just come, go and pass and you should enjoy them while you can. My point here is that Appetite For Destruction is one of THE GREATEST ALBUMS EVER RECORDED and that one like this comes along once in a great while.
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br /But boy am I glad I bought this album when I did. But like most people, the only songs I heard from this album before I purchased it were the three hits that brought GNR to fame worldwide: "Welcome to the Jungle," "Paradise City" and "Sweet Child O' Mine" (sadly the only ones from this album to make it to Guns N' Roses's Greatest Hits CD). But the remaining tracks are NOT to be ignored. Don't get me wrong, those 3 are great - "Paradise City" probably being the best out of the 3 - but the highlights as far as I'm concerned would have to be "Out Ta Get Me," a rebellious, mean, 4-minute explosion that features some of Axl's best growls and snarls; "Mr. Brownstone," one of the songs that could have made it to GNR's Greatest Hits without complaint from anyone; the sadly underrated "You're Crazy," a thrashy tune that will get you "air guitar"-ing in no time flat; and the album closer "Rocket Queen," a great and catchy tune that starts off really grungy but eventually transforms into a great hard rock anthem. So if you can't afford the entire album, buy those 4. And if those alone won't do it for you, purchase also "Nightrain," another great hard rock headbanger.
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br /Guns N' Roses's 1987 release Appetite For Destruction. Absolutely incredible. Amazing, superb, fantastic, any other postive adjective that you can think of will perfectly describe the astonishingly great music of this album. It will blow anyone away, from the most die-hard hard rock/metal fan to a guy who's never bought a rock album in his life. You know occasionally along comes an album that never gets old no matter how many times you listen to it (other examples being Def Leppard's Hysteria, Led Zeppelin's IV and Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime)? Well if Appetite For Destruction isn't on your list then you are missing out on something that nothing ever has, can or will replace as one of the greatest rock albums of all time. No joke.
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