Guns 'N' Roses
Appetite For Destruction

I've only recently started visiting this site... and arghhh I immediately noticed that you haven't reviewed a single (and I mean A SINGLE) album by the magnificent Guns N' Roses!!!!! (Too bad I arrived late because I wanted to review an album on Soundgarden)... let's get to the point.

It's 1987: From the "City of Angels," America, Guns N' Roses burst onto the music scene with their incredible debut album of hard "street" rock known as Appetite For Destruction. Axl (vocals), Slash and Izzy (guitars), Duff (bass), and Steven (drums) brought to life in this album a sound that's raw, melodic, dirty, angry, and captivating, which immediately made their songs "immortal." A CD that, in my humble opinion, changed the history of Hard Rock and beyond. A milestone of undeniable beauty, a gem that even now, 17 years later, continues to make waves, amaze, enchant, without losing its enormous charm.
Perfect: It's an adjective of disarming banality, but in its simplicity, it best describes Appetite For Destruction, a timeless masterpiece. 12 songs of supreme beauty interpreted, played, and produced magnificently. In this album, you can easily transition from heavy sounds to more melodic ones without ever lacking quality solos. The guitars are always heard in the foreground with their rhythmic riffs and solos that are sometimes fast and furious, sharp as razors, (Get Out Ta Me, Paradise City, and You're Crazy) sometimes more melodic and slow as in the fantastic Sweet Child O' Mine: a superb slow, melodic and powerful at the same time.

The Guns N' Roses prove to be a real band by not offering listeners 12 identical tracks. Each track is a story of its own, a piece with its own characteristics. The common thread remains the always convincing sound with quality solos, Axl's voice, and the great bass and drum work that set ever-changing rhythms. Thus, for example, one goes from a bolt like You're Crazy to the "beastly" (yet slow) Welcome To The Jungle without any problem.
Fantastic music that has the great virtue of surprising and moving at every listen without fading over time. Fading over time... Many albums fail to remain etched in memory like this one but tend to lose vigor and power listen after listen, accumulating year after year on the cover the dreaded dust: the symbol of the death of a work. This does not occur with Appetite For Destruction because the music offered by these 5 Los Angeles guys is pure, not dictated by mere commercial interests. In these 12 songs, you can hear the sound of the street. You can feel the searing disappointments, the pain, the love, the hopes lived in first experience that find resonance in today's reality as in that distant 1987. Simple, direct lyrics like a punch, perhaps a bit raw, also form a simply perfect combination with the sound that Axl, Slash, Izzy, Duff, and Steven offered us in this debut album.

The musical proposal of G N'R is often defined as street rock due to its raw belonging to the streets of the Los Angeles metropolis. The sound of the guitars (both the lead and rhythm ones) and Axl Rose's voice are true trademarks that contributed to making this group so popular.
But thanks to the singer (a big jerk) a great band fell apart... also according to me... he got carried away by the rock star life and messed it all up. His first mistake was to kick out Steven Adler and then all the others including SLASH (A great guitarist... A LEGEND). He made a big mistake in keeping the rights of the guns and indeed, as you can see, Slash, Matt, and Duff (oh god, I'm not saying that Velvet Revolver with their debut album is a masterpiece... but at least they're doing something) kept playing while he ended up with his ass on the ground with the new G N'R members who are a bunch of hacks! ...anyway, I have all the respect for Axl, he's still a great singer and writer and credit has to be given to him, Slash, Izzy, Duff, Matt or Steven for the GUNS N' ROSES phenomenon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!