10 Best Rock Album Openers Of The 1980s
2. Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N’ Roses (Appetite For Destruction)
Appetite for Destruction was easily Guns N' Roses biggest ever album when it came out in 1987. Sure, it may have been their only album up to that point, but where's the lie?
Still considered to be their best studio effort, Appetite for Destruction marked GNR as ones to watch and entered several new standards into the big book of classic rock songs. Alongside Sweet Child O' Mine, Paradise City, and It's So Easy, the album also introduced fans to a little ditty called Welcome to the Jungle.
Inspired by Axl Rose's experiences living in New York as a young man, as well as the general feeling of living in Los Angeles, Welcome to the Jungle contains everything a good Guns N' Roses number should.
Shady lyrics? Tick. Axl showing off his pipes? Tick. Slash going top hat crazy on a guitar solo? Tick, tick, and tick.
The band could have released this one song and they still would have gone down in history. The fact that it serves as an introduction to such a great album, as well as the band's entire subsequent discography, just makes it even sweeter.