I started junior high in fall of 1988, and this record had just about reached the crest of the wave, so to speak. "Sweet Child O' Mine" was a hit that summer, and EVERY kid - with the exception of the total contrarians, like myself - was a GNR *freak* by fall. I eventually got into it as much as everyone else, and its now one of my favorite records, so there ya go. My favorites were always the non-singles, specifically "My MIchelle" and "Nighttrain", but nothing makes me resent the way the internet ruined music forever like "Sweet Child" and "Welcome to the Jungle" and "Paradise City." I'm half-drunk and not making much sense, but I figured this deserved an anniversary acknowledgement more than all that dumb 'summer of love' bullcrap.
So: Appetite. Whaddaya think?
― Handsome Dan, Monday, 30 July 2007 00:45 (eighteen years ago)
nothing makes me resent the way the internet ruined music forever like "Sweet Child" and "Welcome to the Jungle" and "Paradise City." I'm half-drunk and not making much sense
True...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 July 2007 00:46 (eighteen years ago)
"Nighttrain" wasn't a single?
― Sundar, Monday, 30 July 2007 00:58 (eighteen years ago)
I don't think so. I think "It's So Easy" was the fourth single, although it didn't have a video.
― Richard Wood Johnson, Monday, 30 July 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)
I dig GNR, but if I never again hear "Paradise City" in this life, the next one and the one after that, that'll be just fine.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 30 July 2007 01:25 (eighteen years ago)
I love this album. "Paradise City" : Appetite For Destruction :: "Mother" : Synchronicity, though.
And how the hell was "It's So Easy" released as a single? Are there really radio-edits of this thing?
Best album to ever begin with OMG at the beginning...
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 30 July 2007 01:30 (eighteen years ago)
Actually, according to wikipedia, Nighttrain cracked the Hot 100. I don't remember hearing it on the radio or seeing it on MTV - weird that Geffen didn't get behind it if that's true, 'cause it could've been a big hit. Rocket Queen would've worked too, though maybe it could've used a Light My Fire-style radio edit for the bit in the middle.
― Handsome Dan, Monday, 30 July 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)
Even the idea of this album makes me want to puke. But I wonder if any of it is really worse than the god-awful "Patience". If you put that on at a party I will leave and never come back and I don't care how much free beer you have.
― Bimble, Monday, 30 July 2007 01:51 (eighteen years ago)
but nothing makes me resent the way the internet ruined music forever like "Sweet Child" and "Welcome to the Jungle" and "Paradise City."
Explain what you mean here.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 30 July 2007 01:54 (eighteen years ago)
This very story is the cover on the new Roll1ng St0ne.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 30 July 2007 02:08 (eighteen years ago)
London, eight nights ago, Soho, 11pm: crowd in pub audible from street, all singing "Sweet Child of Mine"
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 30 July 2007 02:46 (eighteen years ago)
jeez, soon albums that are turning 20 will be younger than me :/
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 30 July 2007 02:50 (eighteen years ago)
That story about Adrianna Smith makes me want to join a Church of Christ.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 30 July 2007 04:54 (eighteen years ago)
I also started junior high in 1988, and "Appetite for Destruction" was the first album to represent a musical parting of the ways among my peer group. I was in the "anti" camp. I couldn't stand them. As the divisions became more pronounced, the kids who were into rap, or "alternative"/indie would engage in very spirited arguments on the school bus, and in the lunch room with the GNR fans. I can't believe that it was that long ago.
― j-rock, Monday, 30 July 2007 05:06 (eighteen years ago)
great album for sure
these day i'll be happy enough to skip right through to 'rocket queen' whenever i have the rare instinct to put the record on though.
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 30 July 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)
How old are you when you start junior high? I was 9 in 88.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 30 July 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)
i think i turned 6 that year.
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 30 July 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)
It just suddenly occurred to me that Mike Clink was kinda never really famous beyond this album and the Use Your Illusions. But his career seems to keep chugging along.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 July 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)
'rust in peace' is a fine credential.
the illusion records suffer from their production unfortunately
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 30 July 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)
That's quite a stunning non-observation, Ned. Boy howdy, those people that did something once and are still living and doing stuff, would you believe it.
― Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 30 July 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)
Hooray!
Well I meant it more in the sense that I would have figured someone like him -- you know, having produced One of the Greatest Albums Ever (tm) -- would have a higher profile resume in general just from eight million bands probably wanting to seek him out. But it raises an interesting question -- what producers are known just for one album above all else? (This has to have been asked before on here.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 July 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)
i dunno dudes, this camp freddy project looks like it's REALLY gonna lift him out of the mire
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 30 July 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)