What song got you into gnr / your first impression?

[younggunner]

I know people like younggunner get bent out of shape when an older fan can't seem to embrace the new line up like they do the old lineup, but you can't understand what this band was from 87-93 without experiencing it.

Its not that I get bent out of shape if old fans cant embrace the new band. Its that when the old fans disregard the new lineup for ignorant reasons.

Its not my fault I wasnt old enough to experience old gnr. I wish I could have. With that being said Im fully aware of the impact they had. Trust me I am.

Im not expecting everyone to fall head over heels for this new lineup. They have to put up bigtime with the material they make. BUt I also dont have to hear people disregard them because peopel of the past arent here. The past is over and nothing can change that. Whether the band name stayed or was new, the same people would still think Axl broke up gnr and the band with him would still be thought of as replacing the old band.
If they ever get their act together and release the album then the music can do the talking and judging.

The new lineup will never have the impact old gnr had in regards to becoming so big. Even if the material is past expectations and is better than AFD or the Illusions. Its such a different musical climate no rock band can achieve what was once achieved. BUt this band can put out a great album. What if its better than AFD? Thenwhat? What does that mean in regards to the old lineup? They are chop liver? Axl is the reason?
To me it would mean GNR would have two completely different eras with 2 things in common. Axl Rose and  Great music. ANd when its all said and done, thats what its about. Great music.

[jbreezy]

I heard welcome to the jungle on the radio one day when I was in fourth grade and I've been hooked ever since, my mom even took me out of school to go and buy Appetite.  The greatest band in the world will soon return and give me back my faith in good rock and roll.

[journey]

When I was a kid (7 or 8 years old), my oldest brother used to buy blank cassette tapes and record one of his favorite songs over and over on that one blank cassette. Well, he had the Patience tape, which he played every time he had a bad fight with his girlfriend, which, was quite often. So, I was constantly hearing "Patience" coming from his room. And, it just grew on me and became one of my favorites as well.

[KeVoRkIaN]

I heard welcome to the jungle on the radio one day when I was in fourth grade and I've been hooked ever since, my mom even took me out of school to go and buy Appetite.  The greatest band in the world will soon return and give me back my faith in good rock and roll.

Your mom took you out of school to get Appetite?
My mom took my copy of Appetite and hid it in the trunk of my dad's vintage car... took me 3 months to find it.....

Damn.......

Your daddy works in porno
Now that mommy's not around
She used to love her heroin
But now she's underground
So you stay out late at night
And you do your coke for free
Drivin' your friends crazy
With your life's insanity

Now what's so wrong with that for a 14 year old boy in 1988?

[Court Jester]

Paradice city

I saw the video four or five years back on TV and i really liked it but i missed the first 30 sec so i didn?t saw which band played that song. Then i started to search that song from the net and i found out that it was a band called Guns n?Roses.
Then i found one GnR record which was Appetite for Destruction and it contained PC. I bought it and realized that it was the greatest fucking music on earth.

[MadmanDan]

For me it was the Terminator 2 movie. I was 7 years old and the music that kid was listenening on his bike was the best I'd evear heard.

[PunkRocker]

I bunked off of college one day in 2000 and i went on kerrang, and there it was 'Sweet child of mine' the song that got me hooked.   After that i had to find out everything i could about this band id never seen b4.( sad but true!) Been a fan ever since!!  

[Dayle1066]

I feel terible for the people who got into GnR in the late 90's and even after the new band formed. You have always know this band as the disapointment they have been recently. You never got to see GnR open for a band, only to watch them totally steal the show from the headliner. I was at an Aerosmith concert, in Aerosmith's hometown and watched them completely blow Aerosmith away.

I'm not trying to tear apart the new lineup, but you have never truely known Guns N' Roses as "The Most Dangerous Band in the World." I know people like younggunner get bent out of shape when an older fan can't seem to embrace the new line up like they do the old lineup, but you can't understand what this band was from 87-93 without experiencing it. I know most of the older fans have become "Rain Man" like historians of the bands past......but a DVD of the band at the Ritz in 88' just doesn't fill you with the same emotion as seeing them live in 88'.

I feel just as bad for the new fans as I do for the poor little retarded kid who finishes 2nd in the shot put at the Special Olympics on ESPN 8 'the ocho"

Ive been into GNR for about 3-4 years, and in no way can i appreciate the new band, not all the time they butcher the original songs. Im sorry but GNR isnt GNR without Slash, Duff, Izzy and Matt(so we get songs off UYI's too). Thats why there is no GNR n e more to me

[axl1962]

I remember my local radio station having a hot 9 at 9.  WTTJ was on the countdown for a while.  This was before Appetite broke.  And then thinking to myself I wish they would play that song WTTJ by GNR again.  Then suddenly it reappeared in the countdown just as GNR hit the big time.  It was so weird how I wanted to hear the song one day and then the next it was played and then the GNR we came to know and love broke big time.  I felt like a prophet.

[Kampsch]

Paradise city

[FragileVision]

I bought Use Your Illusion II on a whim during the winter of 2002... I wasn't paying much attention to the music scene, and I heard of GNR making a quasi-come back in 2002 with the tour. So I bought the album out of curiousity.

Right from the beginning, "Civil War" grabbed me, and then I heard "14 Years," and I knew that I'd found a very special talent in Axl, Izzy, Slash, and co.

As for New GNR, I downloaded Madagascar, and was totally blown away. I did some research, and discovered this little album called "Chinese Democracy" that was in the works...

Since then, I've bought and been researching anything and everything GNR.

[metallex78]

I remember seeing SCOM back in 1988 on Video Hits in Australia and cringing at it because I thought the singer looked and sounded like a knob! Little did I know that years later they'd become my favourite band in the world...

Fast forward to 1992 and YCBM was released to coincide with T2. I heard it a few times on the radio and taped it onto cassette, listening to it on constant repeat.
I couldn't get over how heavy and in-yer-face it was, but with this amazing hook, melody and catchiness to it. I then got UYI2 and worked my way back through all the albums.

Been a fan ever since.

[bolton]

paradise city
i heard pc on the radio show,hit of the decade 80's,paradise city was 2,first was our local band Riblja Corba(fish soup), and song "angel",more than 10000 people had voted

[cuikka]

I had heard Patience, SCOM and Paradise City and videos. But the thing that got me to gnr was an picture of axl on stage performing. There was something in his eyes, madness, or something. That made me to read more about them etc. Then one saturday night radio played new song " estranged" and iwas blown away.

[McGann]

I was on a bus for some kind of field trip in late '87.  A bunch of girls had a boombox and kept listening to George Michael...they had "Faith" pretty much repeating ad nauseum while they all sang along.  This one friend who was on the wrestling team with me said, "Fuck this....I've GOTTA listen to Guns n' Roses" and put a tape in his walkman.  I looked at him strangely...I'd never heard of Gn'R. The "Faith" girls were pretty hot, though, so I focused on them.
Few weeks/months later, I saw the vid for SCOM on MTV.  Thought the band looked cool, liked Axl's voice, but as a kid of 15, I didn't really get the "Where do we go now?" part and sort of blew it off, then found myself turning it up on the radio the next day and thinking, "Damn, this is a good song!"
Still wasn't into the band.
My friend Phil and I went to see Halloween IV in the theater, with Phil's uncle who was 19.  Phil put AFD into the tape deck in the car...I asked when SCOM was gonna play; he told me to keep listening.
"Out Ta Get Me" and "My Michelle" were the hooks.  They may still be my favorite Guns tracks.  They were my favorite band IMMEDIATELY upon hearing those songs.
That night, I became a man.

I married a girl from my high school class; a chick that was friends with Phil and me.  She still claims she doesn't get my Gn'R obsession, but I did catch her singing "Bad Apples" to the dog the other day.

/Mike

[Civil Attitude]

well for me it all began when i was roughly 6.......i was born in 85......and all i can remember is listneing to AFD with my lil bro....i could have been 7.i dont fuckin remember lol....my momy had the cassette and we played the fuck out of it.i loved the part in its so easy when he says to "fuck off"..and of course the sex noises in rocket queen......then as i got older i learned that they had a whole other bunch of songs and rediscovered Gnr bout 4 years ago.....

[Civil Attitude]

hey MCGann...im glad as fuck u married a girl that will altleast tolerate GNR the girl i was sjut with for 2 years hated them and made fun of them at every oppurtunity......needless to say...i peced her bitch ass out.........lol

[axlstillkicksass]

For me it was probably about 88 it wasn't so much a song it was AFD my mom had it and I was only like 2 and I loved it I didn't really know what it all ment but I would sing along to it I knew almost the whole cd. I remember bringing it in show in tell like in kindergarten. It was bring your favorite tape in. Most kids had like pop stuff or older stuff there parents liked. I had AFD and I remember the teacher telling me we can't play this and back then I didn't know why and thought the teacher hated me.

A few years later during that big pop thing with spice girls and stuff I listened to that a lot because all my friends did but I knew I loved GN'R more then the pop stuff but anyway I got like 200$ for my 10th birthday and I told my mom I want to go pick up cds. She gave me that look like oh what crap are you buying this week. So I walked in the store and got all the albums AFD, LIES, UYI 1&2 AND TSI.(I knew the albums because my mom had all the cassettes)My mom just smiled and said that's music and from that point on the pop shit stopped and I just went with GN'R and got into all types of rock. Definitely changed my life for the better and I stopped listening to the spice girls. LOL

[Malcolm]

PC

[Dr H Lecter]

I bought compilation tapes (remember those?) called "hits of the movies". They had the compilation divided into love songs and action songs. As a 13 year old male it was fairly obvious which of those I would be interested in. I remember reading the back of the cover and seeing Bon Jovi "blaze of glory" from young guns on it, I thought it was a decent enough song but by no means outstanding. I played the tape again and instead of fast forwarding I played it all the way through and I remember with crystal clarity this insane drum solo intro, shredding guitars and then a voice that sounded like it came straight from hell, uncompromising, unforgiving and it kicked the s*it out of anything else on there, even the so called "rockers", "You could be mine" and I was.