Appetite For Destruction - 20th Anniversary Thread!!

[Neemo]

Post some AFD facts to celebrate! (well known or obscure doesnt matter) or if you don't want to post facts just tell us your fav song from it or something

AFD has been kicking our ass for 20 years! holy crap! may fav tune on the album is SCOM

I'll go first with the facts too, YCBM was originally going to appear on AFD but unfortunately it was unfinished by the time the album was due so they left it off to finish up later, instead they put "with your bitch slap rappin' and your cocaine tongue you get nothin' done" in the liner notes.

[The Catcher]

congratulations appetite for destruction on july 21st, my birthday!
that date brought two wonderful things into the world!

[Jezza103]

well i bought the Classic Rock Mag to read about the 20th aniversary of Appetite and i dint no that Axl wanted to November Rain and Dont Cry on Appetite and i also didnt no that they had wrote Perfect Crime in the early days of that album aswell.
also Slash says his fav appetite song is Paradise City (cant argue with that) and his least fav was Think About You followed by Anything Goes.

great to see it selling more and more copies even after 20 years ROCK ON GNR!

[crash_diet]

well. i disagree with Slash, Think abou You is my favourite track of AFD! 

well-known fact : the cross in the cover wasnt the original album cover, which was a robot raping a young woman  , and it was banned

well-known fact :  Slash hated SCOM back then...he thought it was a joke - and it really was ,he came up with the riff as a joke... Axl liked it and took it and made it the song we all love 

[snakepiter]

the synth in the intro to paradise city was a surprise for band members until they heard in the finished recording....axl didnt told them about the adding of synth.

[Six Strings]

well. i disagree with Slash, Think abou You is my favourite track of AFD!?

well-known fact : the cross in the cover wasnt the original album cover, which was a robot raping a young woman? , and it was banned

well-known fact :? Slash hated SCOM back then...he thought it was a joke - and it really was ,he came up with the riff as a joke... Axl liked it and took it and made it the song we all love?

'Slash started playing that kinda circus music and I said: Dude, do that one again. Then Axl came with the lyrics. We didn't know by the time that it was going to be such a huge hit.'

This was said by Steven Adler regarding SCOM. Great song. 

[freedom78]

I'm not certain what my favorite song is, but there's a good chance it's Rocket Queen or Nightrain.  RQ has such a killer groove to it, and Nightrain was always my favorite as a kid. 

[madagas]

Slash103, I would have to agree with Slash. My least favorite AFD songs are Think About You and Anything Goes-always skip both. I really wish Geffen would do a special remastered, reissue of AFD now with the original cover artwork and bonus songs/outtakes/alternate mixes from the sessions. At least do a remaster with the original artwork. That painting is dead ass perfect for the album cover.

[don_vercetti]

Izzy does just two solos on AFD.  The solo from Think About You, and the first half of the first solo of Nightrain.  Otherwise, it's pretty much slash the whole way. 

[ibelieveinaxl]

all songs end on a hard note, except nightrain...it fades out...................

[ibelieveinaxl]

well i bought the Classic Rock Mag to read about the 20th aniversary of Appetite and i dint no that Axl wanted to November Rain and Dont Cry on Appetite and i also didnt no that they had wrote Perfect Crime in the early days of that album aswell.
also Slash says his fav appetite song is Paradise City (cant argue with that) and his least fav was Think About You followed by Anything Goes.

great to see it selling more and more copies even after 20 years ROCK ON GNR!

"Bad Obsession" was written about a year before "brownstone." they wanted to get out the harder stuff first, so thats why "bad obsession" and "don't cry" were not on appetite...

[guns_n_motley]

I have no least favorite song on the album. I love all of them.

although, anything goes has some interesint lyrics "panties down your knees with your ass in debris"

[BlowUpYourVideo]

Rocket Queen is definitely my fav. It has a great ending and finishes the album perfectly.

Fun fact: if you mix up the first letter of every song, they can be used to spell out such phrases as:

WON MY ARMPITS
MOWN MY RAPIST
PAINTS MY WORM
WIMPY MAN ROTS
and
STRIP MY WOMAN

[14 Yrs Of Silence]

Does anyone have a comprehensive list of all UYI songs written (at least in some version) before AFD was released?

[Smoking Guns]

The moan during rockett queen was supposed to be axl fucking some girl.

[Jay Tea]

I was 7 years old and the Williams painting scared the shit out of me! Robot rape nightmares for months!

[Chief]

Just curious - does anyone have access to recent (2007) soundscan sales figures of AFD?  it must be in the 18 million ballpark for the US by now!

[Jezza103]

The moan during rockett queen was supposed to be axl fucking some girl.

it is axl fucking a girl it was steven adlers girlfriend she is also interviewed in classic rocks mag. ppl should buy it. its a great read. she said that axl and steven always had a rivalry and this was just something she did, she said she got a bottle of beer out of it and that was it.

[russtcb]

Does anyone have a comprehensive list of all UYI songs written (at least in some version) before AFD was released?

I'll attempt an answer to this:

Don't Cry
November Rain
Back Off Bitch
and
You Could Be Mine

were all contenders for Appetite at one time to my knowledge.

[nyd]

Truly great album 

Includes three US Top 10 singles "Sweet Child O' Mine" (#1), "Welcome To The Jungle" (#7) and "Paradise City" (#5).