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Rating: Why are the Guns considered sacred monsters? A lot of people say it simply because they hear it around or because they read it somewhere. The Guns were actually terrible. They were not particularly innovative, had little technique, no taste, and were inferior to dozens and dozens of hard rock bands. Therefore, in my opinion, one must develop a personal critical sense and not accept everything that is read or heard around. Just because everyone says the Guns are one of the best rock bands doesn’t mean it’s true.
Their first album, Appetite for Destruction, inexplicably sold 60 million copies worldwide, but there are few truly memorable songs on this LP. The album includes some rather good songs like Welcome to the Jungle and Sweet Child 'o' Mine, which showcases some fairly decent riffs by guitarist Slash, but just two successful songs don't necessarily make a good album, and as mentioned earlier, there are some songs so bad like It’s So Easy, Nightrain, and Out Ta Get Me that can be counted among the worst rock songs ever made. Axel Rose's voice is very annoying and whiny, as many know. Appetite for Destruction was\is a very common hair metal album, the only reason for its success is because similar groups had already been out of the scene for a long time, so they had little competition and the public was already prepared for this type of band and bought the album blindly without having listened to a minute of this LP. Thus, we are faced with a typical '80s hair metal record and nothing more, following the typical rock clichés instead of bringing something original and innovative.
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By Cornell82
A CD that, in my humble opinion, changed the history of Hard Rock and beyond.
Fantastic music that has the great virtue of surprising and moving at every listen without fading over time.
By AR (Anonima Recensori)
It brought back to life the triad of sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll in an era, the ’80s, when everyone was cheerful fools put there to say nonsense or have fun.
The compactness of the guitars... is among the best ever heard.
By roddick
It is the best-selling debut CD of all time, thanks to which the group topped all the charts.
It will forever remain one of the best rock CDs, perhaps the last truly significant one in the history of hard rock.
By BretHart
"'Welcome to the Jungle' is definitely a masterpiece of hard rock, decisive riffs, Axl Rose’s vitriolic voice, a solo as technical as rude."
"This CD might have sold more than warranted thanks to the Guns’ image, but it certainly does not deserve less in its genre."
By nikko89
It simmered with anger, bled with pain, shivered with terror, oozed with passion, sobbed with love, screamed with hatred, and stood up with a non-heroic attitude that automatically makes heroes.
The album was as fresh as a newly opened bottle of Jack Daniel’s.
