a molotov cocktail with a match to go: the APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION Poll

this album still sounds pretty great.

Can't do it. CAN NOT DO IT!

Oh, okay...Sweet Child.

it's really hard for me not to go for "welcome to the jungle." it sort of did everything they could do, which was a whole lot there for at least a little while, and it sounds mean and hard and sexy. but top to bottom it's pretty hot. the back half is maybe underappreciated, "sweet child" aside. "my michelle" is straight punk rock and "you're crazy" is bad-ass.

i really love this album.

Rocket Queen

yeah "rocket queen" too. that song moves. there's so much boogie in the rhythms on this record, which is maybe why it sounds like the end of something. even they sort of forgot how to do it after this one.

paradise city, although jungle is pretty great. never dug sweet child all that much

well it's just gotta be 'welcome to the jungle'

but what a record. easily eclipses anything else they ever did. extremely solid from start to finish, not wildly erratic like the illusion records or underdone like lies

Nothing worth voting for here. Probably one of the most overrated albums ever.

"Patience" and "Civil War" were great though.

Watch-me-hit-you-you-fall-DOWWWWWWNNNNN

The first half of "Rocket Queen" grooves mightily and is my favourite; but halfway through it turns into a completely different song, not grooving but plodding. A puzzling turn of events that ultimately costs "Rocket Queen" its vote. Second best groover is "Mr. Brownstone" and just barely gets the nod over "Sweet Child", the power ballad to end all power ballads (I wish). (Even tho it's not really a power ballad, as I've argued before)

Best rock/metal album of the '80s? Yep, even though I hated it (them) at the time, it very likely is! Somewhat amusing story: Slash once sold me a copy of the Village Voice at the newsstand he worked at for a while back then.

"Rocket Queen" just barely over 5 or 6 of the rest.

sweet child pwn obv

Brownstone, I don't ever want to hear Welcome to the Jungle again. It's entering Stairway to Heaven territory.

Best rock/metal album of the '80s?ever

Fixed

I can get behind that.

I don't ever want to hear Welcome to the Jungle again. It's entering Stairway to Heaven territory.

really? i hear it less than i hear "sweet child" or "paradise city." i love all the different bits and pieces in "jungle" -- one of the greatest openings in rock'n'roll ("oh my god", with that peeling guitar run and axl-introduced-to-the-world yowl), the quasi-bo-diddley feel in the main riff (made more explicit in the actual-bo-diddley "mr. brownstone" obv), the tom-tom metal-rumba in the middle section ("you know where you are? you're in the jungle, baby"), the gothy rise and fall in the chorus, the pastoral break ("when you're high you never..."), and the sexiness of it all ("my...my...my...my serpentine"). i think it's more or less perfect.

I'm not saying it's not a good song, I'm just sick of it.

"Best rock/metal album of the '80s?ever"

This is good, but it doesn't come close to my pantheon "metal" albums, if it even can be considered that.

i sort of think of it as the last great rock'n'roll album. it comes out of a straight line from chuck berry and bo diddley to the stones and aerosmith. i have no idea whether it's "metal" or not.

i'm going to give "Thing About You" some love

Think

"Think About You" is great. It's like the "And Your Bird Can Sing" of this record.

"Rocket Queen" is great, but I'm still traumatized by the fact that it's really Axl fucking Steven Adler's girlfriend in that song.

"Welcome" has worn out its welcome. "Sweet Child" is still great, but I'm going with "It's So Easy". As a fifteen year-old, I used to imagine Husker Du covering it, with Bob handling the verses and Grant on the chorus.

I used to have two friends who claimed to have re-written "Out ta Get Me". They changed "aeroplane" to "arrowplane".

Top Three Axl Enders:

3.) E-yowza!
2.) Take that one to heart!
1.) What's so civil about war anyway?

"It's So Easy" is by far and away my favorite. If not for that, it would be "Sweet Child o' Mine"

Sweet Child o' Mine

i sort of think of it as the last great rock'n'roll album.

I went with "Mr. Brownstone" and i gotta agree with the above comment. Nothing real captures that style of rock like this album did. Not in the last twenty years anyway.

I voted for Brownstone figuring no one else would!

damn this is hard. it's so easy...rocket queen....think about you.....every song is amazing...also trying to imagine that i hadn't heard "welcome to the jungle" a zillion times...

As overrated as the day is long, but I'll go with "It's So Easy."

A year or earlier and I would have immediately voted for Sweet Child O Mine, but ever since I heard how the band was basically playing jerk-off filler and then Axl brought out his love poem, I can't get quite as enthusiastic about it when its NOT playing, though it still works when I'm in a bar and it comes on. So I guess I'm going with "Jungle."

you could make an argument for almost every track, though

nightrain

"Jungle". Best rock/metal album of the '80s? It's hard to be objective, because as people upthread have said, we've all heard it a million times. Every time I hear "Jungle" now it's not like I'm hearing the song at all, just reminding myself "oh yeah, Axl was sleeping rough in a schoolyard and this guy came up to him and said...". But yeah, it beats just about any other rock/metal album from the same period.

maybe mr. brownstone?

nightrain!

One of Jim Carrey's finest moments

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"Paradise City", for the great stomping ending. I could have voted for anything except probably "You're Crazy", which is still pretty great too.

'think about you' is the sort of track you learn to play on acousitic guitar so can play and sing it to your first girlfriend.

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That's so bizarre.

makes me happy, even though i voted "jungle." "it's so easy" is nice and rude.

i'd vote for 'think about you' if i had the opportunity again. it's such a great song and seems to have "single" written all over it.

I just did a quick google search and discovered that no one has documented the common epithet for this band from my neighborhood in the late 80s, so here you go:

Grits N' Posers

And in the present time, the band has moved on to selling furniture

https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/gnr-box-2.png?w=1400&h=&quality=80&strip

https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/05/guns-n-roses-to-release-deluxe-edition-of-appetite-for-destruction/

considering their original goal was for Generation Terrorists to outsell Appetite for Destruction, the Manics opening for them on the anniversary tour is almost poignant

I dunno man, that deluxe set seems pretty sweet (and appropriately excessive/overstuffed)

Oh yeah. Don't get me wrong. I'm stoked about the remasters and extra music and would love to check out the book. I just do not have a place in my house for a jewelry box specifically dedicated to Guns n' Roses.

that box is a thing of beauty !

including Suicide but not Lies is a terrible move

(bcz it leaves Lies orphaned, the last remnant of the classic lineup, not in need of its own expanded reissue)

I think chances are One in a Million that “G N’ R Lies” will ever be reissued...

https://gnrmerch.com/collections/appetite-for-destruction/products/appetite-for-destruction-locked-n-loaded-edition

I’m glad it comes with a “certificate of authenticity,” so you know you have not purchased the world’s most elaborate bootleg.

think chances are One in a Million that “G N’ R Lies” will ever be reissued...

kinda torn in that it sucks & deserves to not be sold, but when you're being comprehensive enough to dig for "New Work Tune"...

(Lies is still in print afaict, though, which makes it even weirder)

I do think it's a great album, that one song notwithstanding. And I guess also "I Used to Love Her" notwithstanding. OK, and the acoustic take of "You're Crazy" is kinda superfluous.

...fine -- "Patience" and Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide are great!

so how is the remaster??

i like it!!

It didn’t sound very different to me. I didn’t listen attentively though.

not a lot i think, more definition in the guitars, more body to the bass, drums feel a bit more grounded

I saw the 2CD deluxe edition at Target this weekend - it comes with an iron-on patch. Surprisingly, that was not enough of an inducement to get me to buy it. But other people must have - it was the last copy.