GUNS N' ROSES — Appetite For Destruction (review)

GUNS N' ROSES — Appetite For Destruction album cover Album · 1987 · Hard Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
Pekka
Having started their recording career the previous year with a so-called live EP and then blown most of their recording advance money on drugs, producer Mike Clink was finally able to make these five problem children show up in the studio to record their first full length album. At that point probably nobody saw what was coming as the end result of those sessions is nowadays known as the most succesful debut album ever in the history of popular music.

And I dare say deservedly. The album is raw, decadent, powerful, even tender at times and just plain fun. It probably sounds just like the lives the bandmembers were leading at the time. It's about twisted relationships, life in the big city, love, longing for home and dancing with Mr. Brownstone. And the songs rock seriously hard, breathing and living, played by real people. That's Slash there in the other speaker playing his stuff and Izzy in the other, Duff and Steven holding the package together and Axl wailing on top of this all rock n' roll fun.

With classic rock songs like Welcome to the Jungle, Nightrain, Paradise City and Sweet Child o' Mine the album was bound to become something, but the big thing about this disc is that pretty much every single song is just as good as these timeless anthems. It's So Easy, My Michelle, Think About You, Rocket Queen, brilliant every single one of them, and there's more to come.

The most succesful debut album ever in the history of popular music, and deservedly so. If you don't own this album already, go out now and don't come back without it.
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