2. Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_9UmxG4mgQ Track List: 1. Welcome to the Jungle 2. It's So Easy 3. Nightrain 4. Out ta Get Me 5. Mr. Brownstone 6. Paradise City 7. My Michelle 8. Think About You 9. Sweet Child o' Mine 10. You're Crazy 11. Anything Goes 12. Rocket Queen There's not much left to be said about this undeniable classic. One look at the track-listing alone is enough to let you know you're dealing with a band who set the bar ridiculously high from the get-go. It is no surprise that an album this accomplished and so fully-formed was honed while the band performed relentlessly on the L.A. club circuit, it is only through endless gigs and the opportunity to follow your own path that music this confident and assured can arrive this fully-formed and so completely world-conquering in its intentions. There can be no argument that "Welcome to the Jungle", "Mr Brownstone", "Paradise City" and "Sweet Child o' Mine" are stone-cold classics; unequivocally perfect in execution. Amazingly, Axl Rose has gone on record stating a number of songs that would turn up on later Guns N' Roses albums were considered for Appetite for Destruction, including, "You Could Be Mine", "November Rain" and "Don't Cry". Can you imagine if those classics were also on this record? Frankly, it's astonishing to think that songs of such calibre were already written and simply saved for later. These guys were on a creative roll that many bands would sell their soul for and to achieve all this through an alcohol and drug-induced haze stands as testament to the creative juices which were flowing out of this band at an incredible rate. Appetite for Destruction remains an awe-inspiring debut from a band that really should of given us so much more. At least we have this debut as ample consolation for their all-too-soon demise. No more superlatives, anybody who's heard it (surely that's everyone) knows exactly why it remains a genre milestone to this day but why isn't it the Greatest Rock and Metal Debut Album of all time? Well, four random blokes from Birmingham released an album in 1970 that happened to be even more groundbreaking....
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I love Heavy Metal, and generally anything that involves a guitar and loud noises, so I figured it was about time I put all the useless information in my head to good use and start writing a few things. Most of the time I'll be writing nonsense but occasionally I may surprise myself and appear half-way knowledgable.....but you can be the judge of that. Thanks for your fleeting attention!
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