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Free Music Review: Feed Your Appetite!
Hit: 5 Stars
I am a 21 year old college senior. I grew up in the era of nu-metal, and mainstream hip hop. However, this is not my cup of tea. Back in 1997 at the tender age of eleven years old, I turned on VH1 (which still played music videos from time to time) and came across a song that changed my life forever. The song? None other than "Welcome To The Jungle" by Guns N' Roses!!
Words truly cannot express how much that song changed me. I went from a kid who was a fan of Limp Bizkit, Korn, and yes, the rap of the time, to becoming forever immursed in 80's metal! It was in-part due to "Guns" that my musical interests have expanded to where they are today.
Thus, we are here to review what I believe is the best debut album of all-time! That's right I said, THE BEST and I firmly stand behind those words. When "Appetite For Destruction" hit the world, there was no telling just how far "Guns" would go in such a short amount of time. I will say right here and now, if you like metal, or hard rock of any sort, than "Appetite For Destruction" is a MUST to own!
1. Welcome To The Jungle - The song that started it all (both for the band, and me). This song is quite possibly the best rocker of all-time! Killer guitar work by Slash, amazing, powerful vocals by Axl, the rest is history. It is also THE BEST song to open a concert. When I saw them in Worcestor back in 2006, they opened with this song and blew me away!! Amazing! 5/5
2. It's So Easy - One of the weaker songs on the album, if you could even consider this weak. I appreciate it more having heard it live, but I can say other than the hard-hitting guitar work, this is perhaps one song by Guns that never really kept my attention. Still fits the album, and pretty good placement overall. 3.5/5
3. Nightrain - Amazing song. Where "Easy" may let you down, "Nightrain" picks you right back up. Awesome vocals, and guitar work that hits you so hard you'll be on the floor! Powerful drums that just brings everything together! This song begins to show the true partying side of Guns N' Roses! 4/5
4. Out Ta Get Me - Again, "Guns" back a punch with this tune. The vocals are truly top notch, and the drums and bass harmonize so well on this track that you'll be pumping your fist and not even realize it! Hard-hitting mayhem that never stops rocking! 5/5
5. Mr. Brownstone - This song again is designed to show the partying lifestyle that GnR lives! However there is a little underlying message to it as well. a song about addiction and how, if they don't stop, the band could be over sooner than it began. Hmm...any predictions people? One of the best songs ever by the band with a good message in a truly rockin' way! 5/5
6. Paradise City - Ah, the anthem! Perhaps the best song "Guns" is known for. What can I say about this song that hasn't been said? It truly is a masterpiece and one of the best rockers of all-time! A killer way to end a concert too!! 5/5
7. My Michelle - This song believe it or not took me awhile to get into. When I saw it done live as a duet with Sebastian Bach, it brought new meaning to it. There is a sort of dark, depressing feel about this song as it seems that what is being said is true! May take some time, but it truly is a rocker that suits this album well. 4/5
8. Think About You - This song is rocking. No lie, this song rocks, but it also may become repetitive to you after a few listens as well. The guitar work is very, very solid and that might be what truly saves this track. The vocals (while strong) seem a bit forced in parts, which creates a sense of shoddy production. Seems as though this track was one that JUST made the final cut. Very solid overall, but not the best. 4/5
9. Sweet Child O' Mine - The ballad. Every 80's band had to have at least one ballad on each of their albums, to play towards the female fans, and thus boost record sales even more! The difference between this and most other ballads? This one still rocks! One of the strongest vocal performences by Axl, and an awesome intro to begin it all! 5/5
10. You're Crazy - Another, pure, straight-up rocker! I remember when i first heard this song acoustically and in the end it made this version so much more rocking. After hearing, you may turn to your significant other and just shout....YOU'RE CRAZY!!! 4.5/5
11. Anything Goes - Another ode to the lifestyle of "Guns!" Also, another pure rocker. The guitar is so solid on this track it may send shivers down your spine! A perfect track, and perhaps an under-rated gem from the band! 5/5
12 Rocket Queen - The best way to end a debut album! Well, if your band's name is "Guns N' Roses" that is! Complete with strong vocals, killer guitar, slick bass, and top notch drumming..throw in some overtly sexual noises and you have Rocket Queen!! Awesome song that sadly did not get represented at the concert! 5/5
There you have it, perhaps the best hard-rocking debut album, EVER! As i said, this is a MUST OWN for any fans of the 1980's and/or hard rock, and metal! Truly a piece of history that deserves to be perserved for years to come!
Free Music Review: Blew my 12 year old suburban mind...
Hit: 5 Stars
Oh, it was something all right. This loud, chugging, brutal nasty song on the radio about a jungle that made us want to jump up and down. My siblings and I were mesmerized in our little adolescent world and fascinated by the music. The television jumped with a video of this gross yet oddly beautiful frontman on his knees while the audience tries to drag him into the maelstrom he created. The lanky bass player gives us this knowing wink on the downbeat while a top hated guitar player and some bored looking gypsy coax monstrous sounds out of their guitars. And it made our little suburban life look so dull. Our joy and elation knew no bounds the day our dad came home from work with a slight detour at Turtle's Records and Tapes (ask your grandparents, kids) to buy something called a CD of that band's album. Rejoice, we thought, for musical enlightenment was moments away. We went berserk inside while my audiophile father put on the disc and turned the volume knob up unreasonably high. The thundering, echoing riff tore through our house and we danced with glee. The song finished, we giggled and grinned as the next song started and my whole outlook changed. It sounded like a train having a bullfight with a tornado. Sister in a Sunday dress? Why is the singer's voice so low and murky? Is that sleaze? Why isn't he high-pitched? Standing up? Think I'm so cool? Well of course...Oh my God....what did he just say?
And then I saw the look on my father's face change, and knew it surely matched the look on my mother's face while she was loading the dishwasher, trying to ignore the din from the den. My father's hand nearly tore the knob off the volume as he cut off the music and shuttered us out of the den; we knew our little party was over. I'm sure my mother's stare sent daggers at my father while we were ushered over to the kitchen area. Why? Who knows, perhaps they wanted to observe if we were about to mutate into something hideous and barbaric like the music that had played just moments ago. I can't debate the merits of my father letting us listen that night. I just knew that from then on, things were different. We snuck into the den before my parents came home from work and listened to the album again and again. We copied it onto tapes to carry with us and listen to in our rooms when our parents thought we were sleeping. Music became this new, huge, menacing beast. It could be a release, a celebration, a call to arms, or whatever I wanted it to be. I knew of this place called LA, I just didn't know it could be so gritty, so unappealing, and yet so alive.
Nearly twenty years on, I can look back and say that this record changed me the way it changed everyone else here. Suddenly, a life that I never knew about was achingly clear in these songs. And yet, it didn't turn me into a hooligan, drug dealer, Satanist, misogynist, troubled youth, or any other assorted thing that parents seemed to fear about this band. Maybe I had good parents who taught me a difference between what you hear and what you do in life. Sure, maybe if I had been older and in LA I could've fallen into a vortex like that, but from my own perch, this album lived it's own life for me, and I wore out the CD player and taped copy in my walkman listening to these booze soaked tales of struggle and survival, heartbreak, rage, and misunderstanding. Nearly every song is a gem and deserves a good listening before written off as a "weak" track.
And like every defining group, you'd go back and source their influences. I knew about the Beatles, but not really the Rolling Stones. Aerosmith? Weren't they in that video with Run DMC? What's a New York Doll? Things like this weren't clear to a 12 year old, and learning how Izzy crafted his sound in search of a Keith Richards vibe, or Slash's blues burn based on a Boston band, made music that much better, and helped define this album on it's own merits.
At the risk of heresy, I'd say this album was as important as "Nevermind the Bollocks...Here's the Sex Pistols" and defined an era just as well. America was confused, bored, occupied, and in a deep malaise and the result was this record.
I stopped borrowing the old, worn out CD a while ago, dismissing it as unsophisticated dinosaur rock in an age of grungy plaid flannel, trip-hop and BritPop. And yet when I think about how many bands formed and made music just as important and life-changing because of the influence of Appetite for Destruction, it makes me miss it that much more. I'll be ordering my own copy soon. Will I let my daughter listen to it when she reaches 12? Probably not, but you never know. She may figure out how the work the CD player one night when her mother and I are asleep...
Free Music Review: One of the, if not THE BEST Glam Metal Album of the 80s!
Hit: 5 Stars
Appetite For Destruction(1987). Guns N' Rose's First Studio Album.At a time when Metal like Poison, Bon Jovi, and Def Leppard ruled the airwaves with their metal that meant nothing but a good time, Guns N' Roses broke onto the scene. With Appetite For Destruction, Axl Rose and Crew spit out some of the fastest, harshest, and down-right mean music of the 80's. And you know what? IT WORKED! Upon the release of Appetite For Destruction, it received little attention until the breakout sucess of "Sweet Child 'O Mine", which, along with Appetite For Destruction, rocketed to the top of the charts. Soon after, "Welcome To The Jungle", an ode to the wastelands of Urban Los Angeles, and "Paradise City" broke it big,each respectively reaching the Top 5 of the Billboard 200, and Guns N' Roses became the most unlikely superstars of the year. According to Billboard, Appetite For Destruction was #1 for the years of 1987, 1988, AND 1989!!! That instantly rocketed Guns N' Roses to Rock N' Roll superstardom, and their legacy was engraved in Rock forever. To this day, the radio constantly plays "Paradise City", "Welcome To The Jungle", "Sweet Child O' Mine", and sometimes "Mr.Brownstone" on a regular basis. With the success of Appetite For Destruction, GN'R went on to have more smash hits with albums such as GN'R Lies, Use Your Illusion I and II, and the Spaghetti Incident, but this was the album that started it all. With Izzy Stradlin and Slash's duel guitar attack, Duff's unforgiving bass, Adler's breakneck speed drumming, and Rose's hostile lyrics and vocals, the stars were all aligned for them. Read on to find out why this album is one of the Greatest of All-Time(No Small Feat)-
Appetite starts off with Welcome To The Jungle, a track that instantly hooks the listener like any opening track should with Rose's charismatic vocals and Slash/Stradlin's guitar mastery. It's So Easy is a nasty, hate-filled track that breaks the tension during the light chorus, but soon it hits you full-throttle in the head again. Nighttrain is a straight-up Glam Rocker that will stick in your head, with Rose's cheesy(Yet good) lyrics and the equally catchy chorus. Slash and Stradlin's riff is one of the most memorable on the album, and it's a wonder this wasn't a bigger hit. They're Out To Get Me is a fast-paced Metalfest that weaves a web of Paranoia and sucks the listener in with Rose's contemptuous vocals. Mr. Brownstone, a sarcastic ode to heroin, combines one of the most addictive riffs of the album with Rose's casually sarcastic vocals, and it proves to be the stand-out track, and it's a wonder this didn't become a bigger hit.You won't be able to get this one out of your head! Adler's drumming is a highlight! Paradise City is the most instantly recognizeable track here, a rocker that starts off slow and builds to mind-bending speeds and loudness. The guitar work here is phenomanal, and along with Rose's vocals will have you humming right along. My Michelle, with it's doomy riff and spiteful vocals, truly make the listener want to break something(Or bang their head)! Think About You stands out because of the soulful chorus, which reminds us all of a relative who passed away, and builds up to.. Sweet Child O'Mine, a dizzying ballad that only gets better with age, much like red wine. Stradlin/Slash's 2 Chord guitar riff, one of the most memorable of the 80's, and Axl's From-The-Heart vocals truly want us to pull out our lighters and Dance The Night Away. You're Crazy, Anything Goes, and Rocket Queen all end the album on a high note, and by that, I mean, THESE SONGS ARE SOME OF THE HARDEST, STRAIGHT UP METAL SONGS OF THE 80'S. If you skip these tracks, you are a moron!
Overall, every song is a 10/10 effort, and this album is as great as you've heard.I waited until the end to mention how great Slash's solos are on Appetite For Destruction, because it would be pointless to say so in every song, but Slash and Izzy serve up some of the best guitar work I've ever heard! One of the few albums that lives up to its hype, Appetite For Destruction stands as one of the most popular and Best Metal albums of all time, and if you disagree, as Axl says,YOU'RE F***ING CRAZY! A CLASSIC!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! ONE OF THE BEST METAL ALBUMS, AND A PERFECT
ALBUM FOR FANS OF 80'S ROCK, METAL, AND PEOPLE GETTING GUNS N' ROSES.GNR NEVER TOPPED APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION, AND NOR DID ANY OTHER BAND AROUND THE LATE 80'S(Except for Metallica). TRULY A CLASSIC!
Also Recommended-
Use Your Illusion I and II- Guns N' Roses
Pyromania- Def Leppard
Metal Health- Quiet Riot
Thanks For Reading!
Free Music Review: The Greatest HARD ROCK album of all-time!
Hit: 5 Stars
Thank you very much for reading my post.
This is in my personal opinion the best hard rock album of all-time.
"Appetite For Destruction" came out in the late 80's and basically took the
world by storm. The names of gunners Slash(lead & rhythm guitars), Izzy
Stradlin(rhythm & lead guitars), Duff Mckagan(bass), Steven Adler(drums),
and especially Axl Rose(vocals) became household names. You know a band
rocks when average people know the names of the band. This record was an
onslaught of old school classic rock, a ton of rhythm & blues, garage rock, glam,
a tiny dose of punk rock, and even a little bit of country if ya believe it or not.
Rarely does one have an album that can stand the test of time. While trends come and go as
do musical genres it's nice to have music that never gets old and can just flat out stand the
test of time. AFD is just simply a hard rock masterpiece.
Let us look at the impact this record has had on the history of rock. This cd basically
kicked all the other bands right in their faces and showed the world how to rock hard.
There is a very good reason why GNR was dubbed "the most dangerous band in the world"
for the fact that they were real and not superficial like most other bands then and now.
With the gunners there was no bs & what you saw was what you got. Case in point was their
music that showcased each members individual strenghts and weaknesses as a complete hard rock
monstrosity. Listen to the old school classic sound despite the fact that at the time they
were a hair band. Hear the punk rock influences and garage rock roots. This was not your
typical rock band this was a supergroup that took the best of the best from two local LA bands
"Hollywood Rose" & "LA Guns" that allowed them to unleash the beast that is GNR.
Before this record there was no question that as far as mainstream Hard rock was concerned there was no
doubt in most people's minds that Motley Crue was the best. That all changed after GNR released
their first and best record ever. The songs unleased propelled the band to become at
the time the sort of Beatles of the modern Hard rock world. Imagine a band that almost
everyone liked. I still remember as a teen that the Country music people liked them, the
punk rock community liked them, the top forty teeny popers liked them, and others for the fact
that they were so universal sounding. Hell even the Hip Hop & Rap fans liked them!
And even their harshest critics then can not disagree now with the impact that GNR has had on
the history of Rock. Think about this can you name me one band in hard rock that has been bigger,
rawer, or better than Guns N' Roses? There has not been anyone since then in hard rock that has
been this good. Anyone who even dares to imply Nirvana is a moron. I don't remember anyone
spending all their time to play the guitar like Kurt Cobain as 1,000's have to Slash.
The music speaks for it's self. The best thing about this record was the ingenuity of the band
that made their songs sound like two totally different songs within each one. For example listen
to "Rocket Queen" as proof how the first part and second half are almost completely different
yet a like. Songs such as "Sweet Child of Mine" & "Welcome to the Jungle" sound just as good today
as they did back in the late 80's. This is the type of record that everyone that lives and dies
with rock music has to have. Your collection is incomplete without it. From the opening screams
of "Welcome to the Jungle" to the punk rock outro in "Paradise City" and to the guitar onslaught
of "Sweet Child of Mine" one can not deny the power and fury of AFD. The songwriting, the
musicianship, the raw production, & ingenuity are all here. There are no songs that you
need to skip or fast forward like on most cds this is the type of record you have to hear from
start to finish over and over.
My advice to you is if you don't already own this cd then please"
GO BUY, BEG, BORROW, OR STEAL THIS ALBUM NOW!
Cheers!
COKE08
The Greatest Album of All-Time?
Hit: 5 Stars One afternoon in 1986, I was relaxing in my bedroom after a long day at school when a song came on the radio that changed my life forever. Between the glorious screeching of the lead singer and the unforgettable guitar riffs, it sounded like nothing I'd ever heard. When the song was over, I listened intently until the DJ said, "That was `Welcome to the Jungle' by a band out of L.A. called Guns n Roses and they've just released an album titled Appetite for Destruction." I immediately called up my friend, Chris, and told him I'd just heard the most incredible song and filled him in on the details.
Chris could always be counted on to do the right thing so I wasn't particularly surprised when he showed up at my parents' house that night in his beloved beige Ford Escort with a brand new cassette in its tape deck. We picked up our Smiths-loving feminist friend, Cynthia, and headed down to Hampton. As `It's So Easy' blasted out of the Escort's cheap speakers, Cynthia's face turned crimson and she became enraged, "What is this crap?" she yelled.
"It's our new tape by Guns n Roses," Chris said in his most soothing voice, "Just relax and enjoy it."
"Turn around btch, I've got a use for you!," ordered Axl.
That was all Cynthia could take. "Turn that misogynistic sht off," Cynthia screamed.
Chris and I couldn't help but laugh. Cynthia was a good friend, but not that good. I mean we had just discovered perhaps the greatest album of all time and Cynthia wanted us to cut it off due to a few of Axl's more colorful turns of phrase. She'd have to endure it. And endure it she did - until "Rocket Queen" ended and we started it all over again. Probably not a night Cynthia recalls fondly, but Chris and I sure enjoyed it.
Then over time, a funny thing happened. "Welcome to the Jungle" became a hit and "Sweet Child O' Mine" became a cultural phenomenon. All the girls (Cynthia included) who previously despised Guns n Roses fell madly in love with them once they heard Axl serenading Erin Everly's eyes in song. Even our classmate Jenny, a Kate Bush fan whose Sapphic tendencies were just beginning to blossom, began raving incredulously about Axl being a poet after hearing "Sweet Child O' Mine" on the radio. Yes, those were pretty weird times and we have Axl, Slash, Izzy, Duff, and Steven to thank for them.
Appetite for Destruction provided me with a musical identity. I'd spent the first few years of high school in the classic rock scene because that's what I heard on the radio and I didn't own any music of my own. My mom and dad listened to classical and country, respectively, at the time and it just didn't seem possible to bring rock music into our house. For one thing, I never really had much spending money so I just quietly listened to the radio in my room hearing the same classic rock songs over and over. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed them, but when I heard Appetite for Destruction, it was like a void had been filled within me. As a shy person myself, Axl shouted all the things I and countless other kids like me in America wanted to shout but couldn't. Even if I wasn't dancing with Mr. Brownstone, taking the Night Train, or dating a girl whose daddy worked in porno, at least I knew Axl was. References to GnR became commonplace in and around our high school. I can't tell you how many times Chris and I told Cynthia she had "nothing better to do" and that we were "bored". At the McDonald's in Lightfoot, John Martin leaned against a refrigerator, inhaled deeply, and claimed to "smoke his cigarette with style."
With Appetite for Destruction, more than for any other album in my collection, the stories and memories are endless. For better or worse, it helped make me the person I am today. I have always been willing to accept that different people have different opinions on music, but I remember being horrified in the 1990s when GnR became a punchline for alterna-brats. Only a handful of bands have revolutionized popular music. We treat the others (Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana) reverentially, why not GnR as well? As far as I'm concerned, Appetite for Destruction is the best record released during my lifetime and probably the best rock record ever made. "Take that one to heart."