Guns 'N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Giving Axl Rose a critical kicking is as brave and difficult as leaping over a particularly shallow puddle but, having extolled the virtues of Rudebox, I'm on a hiding to nothing anyway. G'N'R aren't a particularly terrible band- the Use Your Illusion duology were home to many a splendid thing- but Appetite For Destruction is not only an overrated album, it's simply terrible. Hair metal is a tedious genre at the best of times, but this is simply puny against it's peers, and commits the cardinal sin of being both overlong and boring. November Rain is a much better ballad than the guitar-solo-in-search-of-structure that is Sweet Child Of Mine, and Paradise City is the best tune on the album, and unforgivably swamped by a lyric that would have to progress to be banal. As for Rocket Queen, the infamous hooker in the vocal booth is probably having a better time than anybody else. Motley Crue with a larger budget.