The Most Important Album of the Last 25 Years Isn't Nevermind, It's Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction

celebrityfx81

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GNR greatest band ever! : ) <3

Jean-Christophe Reynal

Sweet child o mine !!! Simple, efficient... All album fucking good , YEAH!!!

Viktor Salmi

The whole album is fucking awesome

Hernan Paz

Welcome to the jungle

Guillaume Le Guern

"Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. Oh, won't you PLEASE TAKE ME HOME!!!!!"

Dean Gallagher

Green Day,"Better than GNR"Geoffrey Fuck off.

Ben Sandilands

It was like a greatest hits album. Who else has produced an album with so many great songs. No one apart from G'nf'R.

Ignazio De Guglielmi

Paradise City... It's so easy close second, anyway.

Sarah Hart

Every Track!

Mel Rogers

Anything Goes.....tied up tied down up against the wall be my rubbermaid baby and we can do it all...my way your way...ANYTHING GOES tonighttttttttttttttt!!!!!!

Aristoteles Mejia

the whole lp...

Thomas Beltrame

Welcome to the jungle is the best song ever!

Mr.RichPeoples

"Mr. Brownstone" stands as the most straightforward heroin ode ever written...

Either @nicholasjamespell is not aware of a much more straightforward heroin ode, "Heroin" by The Velvet Underground, or Mr. Pell doesn't understand the definition of straightforward.

NicholasPell

@Mr.RichPeoples Rich, buddy, you've been away the last couple of articles. What gives?

Mr.RichPeoples

@nicholasjamespell Do you know the Velvet Underground song "Heroin"?

NicholasPell

@Mr.RichPeoples Nah.

Mr.RichPeoples

@nicholasjamespell Really, you're not going to attempt to defend your position claiming "Mr. Brownstone" as "the most straightforward heroin ode ever written"?

NicholasPell

@Mr.RichPeoples Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Mr.RichPeoples

@nicholasjamespell Even "There She Goes" by The La's is a more straightforward ode to heroin than "Mr. Brownstone".

NicholasPell

@Mr.RichPeoples The who now?

Narayan Ramsesh

the whole album is simply brilliant....

larisser01

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Appetite is pure genius. The album is rock and roll straight from the heart and soul of this band holding nothing back. It explores the rock star lifestyle: Battles with Mr. Brownstone, living in the jungle, women, sex, and even betrayal in Axl allegedly having sex with Adler's girlfriend while recording Rocket Queen. I love everything about it including the order of the songs and how the album progresses from hardcore to something that portrays a happy ending. In my opinion, it is the best album of all time.

NicholasPell

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@larisser01 Other than Boston's S/T, I'm hard pressed to think of a band that so thoroughly got it right straight out of the starting gate. If it's not the best debut album of all time, I don't know what is.

adamweinberg49

@nicholasjamespell @larisser01 easy pearl jam ten.

KikoJones

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@nicholasjamespell

Um, 'Are you Experienced?" and the first VH album come to mind.

adamweinberg49

@nicholasjamespell @KikoJones ok you truly are a pretty tasteless.

NicholasPell

@KikoJones Don't really care for studio Hendrix (I listen to Band of Gypsys like nuts, though), TBH, but the first VH record is steller. Not sure if this is rock and roll blasphemy or not, but I'm generally not a fan of VH covers, so "You Really Got Me" and "Ice Cream Man" slow it down a bit for me. Boston / AFD on the other hand, don't have a slow second on the entire album.

AceFaceAndrew

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@nicholasjamespell That other Roses band with a killer guitarist had a pretty good debut in '89.

Cínthia Ramos

Eu adoro esse álbum..é difícil dizer a melhor canção ...

Steffanie Nelson

I do love the whole album and Chinese Democracy is even better.

Henrique Thiago Lacerda

fuck nevermind...nightrain it's the best song

sirjippy

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Good thing Master of Puppets is 26 years old because it blows anything either of those bands ever did out of the water. Though ...And Justice For All does that as well and fits in the time frame.

AFD is the only good album GnR made. After that they were very hit and miss but had a good collection of singles.

Nirvana were garbage.

gregbear123

The Nirvana and Guns N' Roses debate again. Boring.

Trexx316

I live Guns n' Roses and Appetite for Destruction was actually voted the number 1 rock album of all time because EVERY hit they've had is on there aside from 5 to 6 other songs off of their other respective work. I disagree with the comment of turning off Nirvana on the radio when i hear it and counter your comment with anytime the overplayed "welcome to the jungle" or "sweet child o mine" comes on the radio, i don't get as enthused as when something of nirvana comes on.

Victoria Hughes

All songs on appetite are brilliant. They are all my favourites! Xx

Scott Rattigan

Fuck Nevermind... Rather go Ten anyday

Marija Morrison Rose

Rocket Queen

KikoJones

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Aside from their individual merits, both were 'right place at the right time' records. In the case of 'Appetite' it came at a time when, for the most part, you basically had to choose btwn the Metallica-Slayer-Anthrax contingent or the Winger-Warrant-Poison crap if you were into the heavy stuff. Then GnR came along and made the last great Aerosmith record, while the boys from Boston were mired in "Dude Looks Like a Lady" pap.

In the end, 'Nevermind' changed the mainstream rock landscape but 'Appetite' fired the first salvo. Both are equally important records and deserve all the accolades they respectively get.

ラファエルシルバ

No way!!! Nevermind is far better not only musically, but also culturally. And GN'R best albums are the Illusions 1&2.

David Kemp

I just want to be popular

Geoffrey Sttop

i swear greenday's dookie is better then this album ;)

gregormax

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I totally agree with the article. Who remembers Nirvana anyway? GNR is still in the radios, Nirvana is played really rarely. Besides AFD is just a much better record, period. And it influenced more people. Let's face it - Nirvana became so popular cuz Kurt shot himself in the face. This band had like 5 great songs and that's all while each song on AFD is a masterpiece.

Trexx316

@gregormax i think people forget that guns n roses had many year to cement themselves into history, nirvana did it in a shorter time...AFD was a better album but Gn'R was not the better band. Some people can argue In Utero just as good as Nevermind. That's why axl no shows events and kurt cobain killed himself before he became that much of a failure

sdgallagher27

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Nevermind literally broke down barriers that existed between Rock Stars and the every day musician. It showed that you could write songs with a few chords that were as good (and better) than anything on a GNR record. Kurt was one of the most brilliant songwriters and he did it with such simplicity.

These songs were not written in a studio with a bunch of producers (and studio musicians). They didn't give a crap about image. Nirvana destroyed the notion that you needed to spend millions on a record to make it and you didn't have to take 5 years recording it.

When it comes to the actual songs, it's not even close.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE APPETITE! Go back and listen to it. It's glorified blues licks with sexist (and awful) lyrics. Nevermind is clever. The lyrics were painstakingly written that way. The songs were constructed in a way to catch the listeners ear. Call it a glorified Pixies album if you want, but it's absolutely incredible.

You sir are completely wrong here. I suggest you step out of Hollywood/LA and come back to the real world.

thekid

@sdgallagher27 Yeas, the master of 3 chords. Kurt's songwriting is so over hyped its ridiculous. Any song on appetite blows away anything Nirvana ever wrote musically.

sdgallagher27

@thekid Fun fact: Appetite was written and performed by a bunch of studio musicians, and a handful of producers. I know the guy who did most of the guitar work on the album. The actual members of Guns N Roses are a bunch of actors...much like the Monkees. I'd love for anyone to dig up a single picture of GNR recording in a studio.

Also, when the Illusion albums came out, they "wrote them" without Axl because apparently he couldn't get along with anyone. There are no demos of the song existing before the album came out (Trust me I looked!)

The 80s were all about marketing to people who believed in image over actual music. They ruined everything that was established in the 60s and milked the hell out of consumers like ourselves.

As for Appetite being a superior album, (Which wasn't the debate) it's a bunch of blues riffs and power chords. Toss in a bunch of overdubbed guitar solos, some horrible lyrics and you have the album. The structure of the songs is not very complex (Nor is Nevermind for that matter...)

Kurt got away from guitar solos and tossed them out because they didn't serve a purpose for the song. Songs are about getting a message across, expressing an emotion, or creating art. Kurt was masterful by the way he cut through all the BS and got to the heart of what mattered.

Both albums are good. Kurt wrote his. Axl did a pretty good job on Chinese Democracy, even though it took him forever to write it...and he had to use a ton of studio musicians to get the damn thing done.

NicholasPell

@sdgallagher27 I've heard Illusion demos. Just curious if this conspiracy also involves your homies playing backstage at live shows.

ihaggerty1313

@sdgallagher27 Here's a fun fact. There's a ton of GNR pix of them in the studio from one Robert John, and some of them can be seen on the inside sleeve of AFD. One COULD make an intelligent stand on why Nevermind is a more important album than AFD on a few points, but calling GNR "actors" is not one of them. U sir... are retarded at best. If you could please put the business end of the nearest shotgun in your mouth and rid us of your stupidity like your hero did it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

benjybenjy121

@sdgallagher27 talk about BS. Before Illusion came out, I had old demos of some of the songs. These tapes I had were not rare finds, many people had them. I had an aucustic version of November rain,Dont Cry, Back Off Bitch and many others. That alone makes me believe your first comment is BS also. Move along troll

anujaxlannihilation

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@sdgallagher27 to tell u one thing Kurt would actually insist on the subjectivity and unimportance of his lyrics as he thought that the music and melodies were more important..on this basis any song from the Appetite record could blow up a Nevermind song.I'm a fan of Nirvana n i perform their songs too..but hey, nothing beats Appetite for Destruction in any way possible.Gn'R forever !m/,