1987 Christmas morning I woke up to the greatest Christmas present ever from my mother and father it was in stocking wrapped Hulk Hogan wrapping paper I opened it and there it was! The appetite for destruction cassette i played get In the ring a million times because of all the curses lol
I'm on the fence with GNR. Great band at the time, and I think I have all of their albums, but their biggest fans would make you think they were the next coming of the Beatles. They were not.
No. I'm the perfect age to not be biased towards them. I'm not old enough for them to have been at their peak during my teen years, therefore they hold no nostalgia value to me, but I'm also old enough to not believe that they are some cool or classic rock band or that everything before my time was better. I'm at the perfect age to realize how much they absolutely sucked.
I thought I read every post but I must have missed the ones where we were talking about a pair of toms???
I think my grandparents may have given me a ride to the store. I recall buying the cassette myself...which that probably wouldn't fly these days.
I'm pretty sure Appetite for Destruction was the first tape I owned with the "f" word on it. I was about 8 years old at the time and absolutely wore that thing out in my Walkman. For that time period of the late 80's into the early 90's before Nirvana & Pearl Jam came on the scene GNR was tops of their game. It's too bad Axl is such a d-bag, I think they could've had a little bit of a longer run than they did. When they fell off the map and Metallica released the Load & Reload albums it opened the door for grunge to take over. That's really when Nirvana, STP, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and others came on the scene and got big. Appetite for Destruction remains one of the best pure rock albums of all time IMO. You can listen to it from start to finish and every song is great.
Axl was a joke in the late 90s early 2000s. He actually seems like a pretty mellow dude and seems to have everything in line these days.
hooker is a smart guy, and makes many great points, I gotta admit that. BUT G N R friggen rocked!!!!! I agree with Justin, you can listen to Appetite for destruction from beginning to end. its the only rock I have on my ipod. time to stir the pot a bit though... IT COULD be worse...we could all be hippies, hemp smoking, non shower taking, tree hugging, tom wearing, fruity veggy eating, el-natural PHISH HEADS.....LMFAO!!!!! only phish can turn a guitar tuning session into a 10 track album with meaningless words....and yet all those mentioned people buy it.
I'm not a huge jam band guy, and Phish fans are among the most annoying people on Earth, but again, I'll listen to the crappiest 27 minute Phish song over the best GnR song.
Cody... Coma is one of my favorites as well. That song hardly gets and recognition. Remember "My World?? It is one of the few GNR songs I don't like.
Same here. I really like "Breakdown" too. It's easily one of my favorite GN'R songs. I think it's right up there with Paradise City honestly, but it never gets hardly any recognition.
Growing up in the 90's I listened to my share of GNR, but now they a little past their prime - Axl Rose 2013
