What song got you into gnr / your first impression?

[Soori]

well being a heavy hip hop rap fan...i flicked through the mtv channels and saw this video with one guy on the piano and another guy with his guitar on top of the piano...i didnt know what it was..so i changed the channel...when i changed the channel..it was on another mtv channel....in 1 hour they played the video 5-6 times...the vocals from axl and the guitar riffs from slash were just fantastic...november rain was awesome!! that made me into a guns n roses fan. one of the greatest songs and videos of all time.

[russtcb]

I've always been into about every genre of music I could listen to ever since I was 3 or 4 years old.

As the 80s rolled on nothing changed. I would listen to Beastie Boys, then listen to Elvis, then Culture Club or Joe Jackson or something totally different.

One thing I wasn't very good at was actually finding new music on my own. Seeing as we didn't have cable television, I was pretty much confined to local pop and rock stations for introduction to new music and artists. I would also heavily rely on my older brothers for guidance seeing as they h ut it but it     ad access to things like cars and friends houses with cable and what not.

We were on our way to Cedar Point (because thats what people in Michigan do) and I saw a cassette in my brothers possession that said "Said G" & "Side R" on it instead of "Side A" and "Side B" per usual. When I asked about it, I was informed that it wasn't for me. There were things on there that I shouldn't hear at my tender age according to my brother.

Needless to say when we returned from Cedar Point I ran to Pace Warehouse with my sister (who didn't know any better) and bought Appetite on CD. Technically, the first GNR song that I heard was obviously Jungle but that's not the one that stuck with me. The one that stuck with me and had me coming back was Brownstone.

Just awesome, epic, pure rock and roll.

[jesuswithamullet]

You Could Be Mine, which is also the song that got me into rock music in the first place

[Rocksteady]

WTTJ when I heard it in the trailer for GTA: SA. I knew that this band was something special. Soon after that I bought all of their albums and have been a massive fan ever since 

[mdttkk]

i always knew welcome to the jungle but it was some song by some unknown band for me.  thank god velvet revolver came along and i was able to see where this "slash" fellow came from

[T_Roxie]

i always knew welcome to the jungle but it was some song by some unknown band for me.? thank god velvet revolver came along and i was able to see where this "slash" fellow came from

LOL thats what happened to me!

[Chief]

I don't know exactly which song but November Rain and Live and Let Die were early favorites from UYI I and then soon after Jungle and PC.
ahhh college days, it seems so long ago but only in 1995-1996!

that was so awesome , getting into that music for the first time!!!

[kyrie]

I am feeling reminiscent today, and this is possibly a dead horse topic....however...

What song got you into gnr? Was it WTTJ or SCOM or PC, or was it possibly a later song? YCBM perhaps and T2

Everyone has a story 




Edit: Edited subject because I merged two similar threads. /jarmo

Paradise City.

Man I was pumped for Illusions to be released. YCBM/Civil War T2 release did that (I didn't like Civil War much at the time but it grew on me).

Don't Cry became one of my all-time faves after Illusions finally came out.

[bazgnr]

Sweet Child O' Mine.  I can still remember seeing the video on MTV for the first time and being blown away, even in junior high.  GnR completely kicked the doors down and brought rock back to the forefront of music.  Paradise City followed, and Appetite became the only album I listened to.  All the rock magazines followed, as I read everything I could get my hands on...Welcome to the Jungle was the first song I learned on bass guitar.  Truly, GnR changed my life, and defined my high school years.

I remember not belieiving that it was Axl singing on Patience until I saw the video, devouring every song on "Lies" over and over, and feeling like the day the Illusion albums came out was a holiday.  I have several friends from high school that I still talk to today, and it's GnR - and those memories - that are the thread that keeps us connected.

Looking back, I think it's clear that Guns N Roses was the first band that showed me the power that music has to inspire.  They're the first band that made me want to pick up a guitar and write a song. 

It's funny how little has changed, even given the 10+ year absense.  Hearing "Better" for the first time this year was almost indescribable.  It took me back to that time in my life when Guns defined an era and spoke for a generation.  Axl's voice alone ("The hardest part...) plastered a smile on my face that couldn't be explained to anyone who wasn't there when GnR first broke.  Just to know that Axl was back, and even better - making great music - was an incredible feeling.

[nooz]

WTTJ - 1988 went to a band audition they asked me to sing WTTJ, it was breaking all over the radio in Dallas. I was like you can't be serious, that voice will never last. Yeah right... I went and saw them after that in Dallas then they vanished, Moved to London, came home they were back on MTV... Moved to LA to write rock operas with them a few years later. Never dawned on me that wasn't a good plan, since I didn't know them. Just figured I would find them.  Ah youth...crashed illusions and all at least my life has been lived....

WTTJ - Many Polaroid moments, and I still can't sing WTTJ but I can do that scream after living in LA, understand it all to well.

[RR Mafia]

Hearing Paradise City literally everyday on the old school bus. Singing "Take me down to the paradise city, where the weed is green and the girls are shitty"

"Take me down to Atlantic City were the girls are hot cause they got big titties"

[nooz]

Hearing Paradise City literally everyday on the old school bus. Singing "Take me down to the paradise city, where the weed is green and the girls are shitty"

"Take me down to Atlantic City were the girls are hot cause they got big titties"

The shit...

[icpillusions]

PC.... ownage of a song.

[Steel_Angel]

I am feeling reminiscent today, and this is possibly a dead horse topic....however...

What song got you into gnr? Was it WTTJ or SCOM or PC, or was it possibly a later song? YCBM perhaps and T2

Everyone has a story ?




Edit: Edited subject because I merged two similar threads. /jarmo

YCBM (T2 credits), I thought Axl's voice was just incredible, also what got me into the newer band was Madagascar (VMA 02 performance, woohoo).

[gummyfish]

the chorus of paradise city and the 3rd S.C.O.M. solo.
btw, that is the best solo of all time.

[no more patience]

Patience video.... the video was bad ass enough for me to become intrigued.... was about 7 when it came out....
never forget it...with slash and snakes and hos...axl and the phone...etc....

[Sober_times]

I heard a song coming from my sisters stereo, I go to her room and she yells what the hell do you want?? I said who's that on your stereo?? She replied Guns N Roses. I said "Guns and who??!!"... She screamed Guns N Roses!!!! My sister left later that day, and I went into her room and searched for the song that was playing...That song was called Rocket Queen. It was the first Guns N Roses song I heard. And I've been a fan ever since. ?

[fixintodie]

Though I loved what little I'd heard of Appetite, my friend Richard was a huge GNR fan when we were both 11(!). He played me UYI and I fell in love with Yesterdays and Don't Damn Me. He was a HUGE fan, had a guitar and bandana and absolutely idolised Axl and Slash. Sadly he died at 13 in an accident. I wish he was still around to check out this years shows with me.

[jazjme]

This is really easy for me to answer, its was back in the summer of 87, I was on vacation in CAli, visiting family. Back then Knac was a huge rock station on the airwaves. While chilling with my cousinf driving around soutern cali in his mustang, I would keep hearing this tune(SCOM), being played but never from the begining almostalways from the solo to the end , where do we go know part. And never after the tune did the DJ, say who it as, and I was like I foota know who this is, this is so awesome! On my way home to NY, I had my sony walkman on sitting on the play getting ready to taxi, and I hear the opening of the song, knew intinctively the tune, and finally bthe dj announces this is southern Californias, GUNS N ROSES and this is sweet child of mine!. And needless to say once I got back to NY , the next day I went out and bought AFD, the rest is history!

[jimb0]

the movie 'Lean On Me' was on HBO, I was probably six or seven in 89 and then they showed the run down school starting with graphite.  In the back they played welcome to the jungle, I convinced my dad to take me to the mall and bought appetite on cassette.  God the days of being young.  My life was forever changed.