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Rating: The Guns N Roses absolutely embody everything I hate about music, like the excessive "eccentricity" typical of the most obnoxious hair metal. They, as a band, are simply terrible on every single level. It's hard to find worse music than this.
"Welcome to the Jungle" tries to inject the same level of grit and toughness as thrash metal, failing miserably. "Paradise City", a tasteless song with a riff stolen from Zero The Hero by the Black Sabbath, jumps from one terrible idea to another. "My Michelle" tries to be country glam with tempo changes but is terrible. "It's So Easy," "Nightrain," "Out Ta Get Me," "You're Crazy" all sound like a bunch of generic hard rock riffs combined with melodramatic and laughable solos by the overrated Slash; the remaining songs are more or less at the same embarrassing level, then there's the famous "Sweet Child o' Mine" which is perhaps the only one saved a little, and indeed wasn't written by them since it's a plagiarism, copied from Unpublished Critics by the little-known Australian band Australian Crawl.
In short, one of the most overrated bands in history, this thing never ceases to irritate me. The songs are shallow and poorly written, the guitars are awful, the screaming voices are painful to listen to, and indeed the album as a whole is really pathetic.
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