Ok, so the second half of my BMG shipment has come in --- Yay!
And I finally replace the discs in my GNR collection after their long absence, I have a sinking suspicion that they exist within a former girlfriend's collection via adverse possession
After listening to Appetite for the first time in maybe a few years, this one is every bit the tour de force as it was back in 1987
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction: A++
What can I say that hasn't been said about this about this album, or maybe, what is there to say about this band that has lived up to this title including its own self-destruction about ten years ago.
I actually managed to see GNR during their opening five dates at the LA Colisseum for the 1989 Rolling Stones Steel Wheels Tour, and boy, they gave the Stones a run for their money --- and gave the press no shortage of things to write about. I went on the night that Axl took the mic and said there will be no GNR if some members in the band don't stop being with Mr. Brownstone
During my years in Los Angeles, there has never been, maybe there will never ever be again such a brilliant band which just combined so much attitude, rock, and style as GNR.
I guess listening to Appetite sixteen years later, I am still so amazed with the freshness of the sound even today. I've heard it compared to Stones' Sticky Fingers or to classic Aerosmith, but it also has the damn best punky hard rock sound that 1970s glam came close to --- but never pushed the envelope enough, that is, until GNR came and blew that door down
Swagger --- just listening to "Welcome to the Jungle", so much damn attitude yet the hard rocking sensibility to back it up. That's really the hallmark of this album, from the dark vibes on "It's So Easy", to the paranoid "Out Ta Get Me", to the hella groovy "Mr. Brownstone"--- its attitude, atmosphere and punch
The standout epics like "Welcome", "Paradise City", and "Sweet Child O' Mine" just show a brilliance in terms of punch, but also the ability to write compelling melody. It just showed that this band wasn't as one dimensional as some of its counterparts in that era in the LA scene --- GNR wasn't metal, wasn't hard rock, wasn't rocksy blues, wasn't punk --- it was its own sound that just took all these elements and blew your head off with how fROCking good it was. Even lesser known faves on this CD are so solid, "My Michelle", "Rocket Queen", "Think About You" --- top to bottom such a great collection of songs
On a funny note, I read somewhere that at the time there was a rivalry between Janes Addiction and Guns --- It sounds almost ridiculous, but they hated each other something fierce. What I can say about GNR is that its music has stood the test of time, its energy comes across as fresh today as back in the late 80s, but there always was that negative creative tension that threatened, and eventually did rip the band asunder
Yes, we did get two more original discs from GNR in 91, and got a repackage of material of Live Like a Suicide --- but GNR never reaches back and hits it out like they do with Appetite, top to bottom one of the best discs of rock music all-time.
And you would do a good service in our opinion to turn on your young to this music rather than let them wallow in the mediocre current state of nu-metal and lame alt-rock
Appetite, an unqualified classic of rock n roll, a brilliant masterpiece from LA's finest --- reunion? yeah right - Chinese Democracy? who cares.
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los guns n roses son los mejor q ha existido.
quiero que me mandes los ultimos albunes sacados