After the original line up split Guns N’ Roses lost a lot of their lustre, it’s easy to forget just how big the band’s debut album was. Appetite For Destruction is the best selling debut album to this day and is one of the best selling albums of all time. Guns N’ Roses brought an edge to rock music inside and outside the studio that hadn’t been seen since the Rolling Stones days.
Appetite For Destruction features the singles “Welcome To The Jungle”, “Sweet Child O’Mine” and “Paradise City”, which all made it to the top ten in the US charts. The opening of "Welcome To The Jungle" perfectly captures you by teasing with light echoing guitar before building and then exploding into the blues-grooving main riff.
Some songs featured in Guns N’ Roses’ later albums such as "November Rain" and "You Could Be Mine" were written, and originally intended, to be recorded for Appetite but these were not used for different reasons. Rather then having a Side A and Side B, Appetite For Destruction has a G and R Side, with the Guns side featuring the songs on drugs and life in Hollywood and the Roses side comprised of songs on love and sex.
The original vinyl release had a different cover to the iconic Celtic cross with the skull of each band member. The first release of the record featured artwork by Robert Williams of a woman being sexually assaulted by a robot and a monster about to attack the robot. Stores refused to stock the album and the record label replaced the artwork with the one we all know.
The version with the banned artwork isn’t hard to find if you look through online auction sites, but you should expect to pay at least double what you would for the same album with the reissued artwork.
TRACKS:
1 Welcome To The Jungle
2 It's So Easy
3 Nightrain
4 Out Ta Get Me
5 Mr. Brownstone
6 Paradise City
7 My Michelle
8 Think About You
9 Sweet Child O' Mine
10 You're Crazy
11 Anything Goes
12 Rocket Queen
FULL ALBUM:
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