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Appetite
For Destruction - 
at cdnow.com
Released:
1987
Produced and engineered by Mike Clink - Recorded at Rumbo Studios, Canoga
Park, California; Take One Studio, Burbank, California; Can Am Studio,
Tarzana, California.
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RELEASE NOTES
Guns N' Roses: W. Axl Rose (vocals, synthesizer, percussion); Slash
(acoustic & electric guitars); Izzy Stradlin' (guitar, background
vocals, percussion); Duff "Rose" McKagan (bass, background
vocals); Steven Adler (drums).
Already a legend in its own meagre lifetime, this startling debut shrouded
itself in controversy, from its original Robert Williams artwork to
Axl Rose's unblinking accounts of LA's underbelly. This mawkish storytelling,
combined with a brattish collective swagger and a surprisingly mature
approach to their songs, guaranteed Guns N'Roses a speedy notoriety
that was to serve their legend brilliantly. From the laconic "Paradise
City" to the achingly beautiful "Sweet Child O' Mine,"
or the furious "Welcome To The Jungle," the record brims with
a brutal integrity. An album they could never surpass even if they had
stayed together.
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» REVIEWS
Rolling Stone (11/89) - Rated #27 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best
Albums Of The Eighties" survey.
Q
Magazine (7/01, p.86) - Included in Q's "50 Heaviest Albums of
All Time".
Q
Magazine (8/00, p.127) - Included in Q's "Best Metal Albums Of
All Time" - "The sweariest rock album ever made...a riotous
celebration of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll..."
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ROLLING STONE REVIEW
There is
nothing like success in the face of extreme prejudice, and no other
band this year, metal or otherwise, mocked the music establishment's
utter lack of street cred and woeful misreading of fan psychology as
well as Metallica and Guns n' Roses. . . "And Justice For All"
went platinum within day of release, with virtually no commercial airplay.
And while AOR pooh-bahs hemmed and hawed about putting "Sweet Child
o' Mine" in rotation, Guns n' Roses T-shirts outnumbered Springsteen
and Bon Jovi shirts at least two to one on Jersey boardwalks this summer.
Programmers slept, critics yawned, but the kids voted with their allowances
in the only interesting electing this year.
Some Metallica
freaks complained that "Justice," even at nine tracks clocking
in over sixty-five minutes, wasn't enough of a good thing - too much
art, not enough aargh! But the fury of Metallica's speed 'n' slam is
compounded by the complexity of the band's attack. And while most other
metal bands were out there raving about the devil and their dicks, Metallic
singer-lyricist James Hetfield addressed censorship ("The Shortest
Straw"), our dying planet ("Dyers Eve") with the imagination
the music demanded.
The Guns'
appetite for sex and violence bears all the hallmarks of "Stick
Fingers," Stones and mid-Seventies Aerosmith, jacked up with punk
raunch that makes "Welcome to the Jungle" and "Out Ta
Get Me" sound like the work of a late-model New York Dolls. A couple
of songs like "Mr. Brownstone," have more attitude than ammo
going for them, but the band's way with a good melody ("Sweet Child
o' Mine") and the power they put in the posture of "It's So
Easy" and "You're Crazy" are proof aplenty that they
didn't hit the platinum bull's-eye by accident. (RS 541/542)
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