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
4.5/5 ·
Bomb Brigade
This album represents the epitome of what Hollywood and the rock n' roll scene had become in its later days:sleazy,dirty,raunch n' roll.Axl and the boys deliver an autobigraphical look at life in the all-too-fast lane. With it's screeching,fingernails on a chalkboard intro and a title borrowed from the lyrics of Hanoi Rocks' UNDERWATER WORLD,WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE throws the listener headlong into a world populated by prostitutes,pushers,junkies,whores(of the amateur sense),and everything else that was the underbelly of the Hollywood scene at the time.IT'S SO EASY cements the grasp that the almight G'N'R already has on the listener at this point,pushing its message of excess like a a dealer pushes his junk.Song after song,this album delivers blow after blow until finally settling on what is,arguably,the band's definitive anthem for its generation:ROCKET QUEEN.There's a reason that GUNS left this one as the send off to their debut album.ROCKET QUEEN is almost like a nod to Queen's BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY.A rock opera,if you will,that delivers its calculated punch in two parts and in epic form.A hard rock opera with Axl Rose as the protagonist,explaining to his listeners that he's seen it all by now,but,in the end,finds love and redemption in the arms of his lover. This is,without a doubt,an essential component to any rock and sleaze junkie's record collection,and,judging by the number of sales accumulated by this all-time best selling debut album,it already has its place in your catalogue.
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