Appetite for Destruction - released 25 years ago!!

[sstuckey]

One of the best albums of all-time!!!!!

[The_Underground]

Damn I'm getting old!

[sstuckey]

Damn I'm getting old!

Exactly what I was thinking when I posted this!! lol

[floodcitybrass]

I love this album.

Unfortunately I didn't like any other GNR albums.

[songsmith]

I love this album.

Unfortunately I didn't like any other GNR albums.

Exactly. Appetite, then nothing for me until "You Could Be Mine," then nothing for me since.

I have wondered, and I bet Slash has, too... what if Appetite was their only album. Bang, hit the scene with one of the best albums in rock and roll history, then... gone. They'd be up there with the Beatles and the Stones. Such a great record!

[f.sciarrillo]

I like a couple of songs off of Use Your Illusion I and II. But yes, Appetite was there best one.

[bassist_25]

There are some great songs on the Use Your Illusion albums. However, there's a ton of filler between the two as well (did we really need two versions of Don't Cry?). They could have stripped the half-ideas from each album and released one really tight single album. I think Axl. was trying to take them in an artsy, progressive direction with those albums; while some of it was awesome (e.g., November Rain, Estranged, Coma), a lot of it just sounded awkward in execution.

[Mysterytrain]

See I think Illusion I and II were freaking awesome. I liked all the different styles on both cd's.

I'd skip over November Rain and Don't Cry but the rest I loved.

The first song (right next door to hell) of Illusion I pretty much kicks your teeth in from the start. I think they made a pretty accurate point saying F**k you to the record industry (shotgun blues, get in the ring), to those who questioned the bands dedication to rock and roll (Don't damn me), and stayed true to the Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll rebellion.

But, back on topic...

It's hard to believe 25 years since Appetite. At the time a lot of my favorite bands were starting to sell-out to mainstream. Pretty much every metal band fagged-out except for a few. Mtv f**ked a lot up in music. GnR seemed to explode and stayed true to themselves. Hats off to them.

[sstuckey]

I too really liked the Illusion albums BUT...hit the skip button a bit too often. The have some really awesome songs, and then some really crappy songs.

[Mysterytrain]

I too really liked the Illusion albums BUT...hit the skip button a bit too often. The have some really awesome songs, and then some really crappy songs.

Yeah I know what ya mean, some took me awhile. I think once I got bored with my favorites I paid more attention to the others. Bad Apples particularly.

All this talk about them though makes me want to dig them back out. Every now and then I like to "blow out the Grateful Dead pipes" with GnR, Maiden, Pantera and/or Suicidal Tendencies.

[Mysterytrain]

Another thing I liked about I and II was the 3 voice layerings on Axl's voice, Slash's smokin' guitar tone, and the new drummer was pretty damn good too.

You could tell they had enormous amounts of studio time to make the albums. It's way tighter than Appetite with a lot more dynamics. Don't get me wrong, I like one-take recordings but you can hear how they improved as songwriters and musicians after their first album.

What a band as far a I'm concerned!

[Jasaoke]

Appetite is one of the albums that really got me into guitar. It's nice and rough; not over-produced or over-thought, but well beyond your typical chord progressions. Mysterytrain, I've often likened Izzy's rhythm playing to Bob Weir's in that they both rarely play chords. Izzy is more riff-oriented, but so is the record.

"Don't Damnable Me" is the greatest fight song ever.

[Mysterytrain]

GnR Live at the Ritz 1988 Full Concert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoSFhHAh-vw

[metalchurch]

I was around 8 or 9 when this album came out, and I remember my dad bought the cassette and he would crank it so loud when we would go somewhere in his '72 Maverick. When you're a kid, even sparkomatic 6x9's and an eq can get pretty loud in a small car.
I remember as I got older, around 11 or 12, me and my friend Paul each had our own copies of this album, and I was at his house with my parents visiting one time, and I remember us kids singing along with the album in his bedroom, take your pick which song,...anyway, as you all know there is some questionable language for an 11 yr old kid to be singing (not now a days), so of course our parents heard us spouting off at the mouth, so we all had to eat soap as punishment. Not much mind you, but it was nasty.

And of course it did not deter us one bit, as we continued to rock out to that album. I've loved it ever since, and it's always been one of my fav albums ever.
Funny some of the shit that you remember as a kid. But it was kinda nazi of my dad to introduce us to such cool music, but when we would sing along, we'd get in trouble.

Thinking back, I think that we were 'punished' because we were guests at Paul's parents house and it was sort of disrespectful to them for us to be singing You're Fuckin Crazy, while they are out there trying to have a conversation.
So then we put Ozzy's Diary Of a Madman cassette on, but that didn't fly with Paul's dad either, because Ozzy is a devil worshipper.
My dad was cool, because he gave me all of that stuff in the 1st place. I felt bad for Paul, but as he got older his dad lightened up knowing that Paul was going to listen to it anyway.
Just some tit for tat....