Appetite For Destruction - 20th Anniversary Thread!!

[ibelieveinaxl]

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.

and "Bad Obsession."

[marknroses]

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.

For the record, Appetite For Descruction is the greatest Rock Album of all time because it capture an energy and mood better than any true Hard Rock record. It is a very cool energy that is infectious and never grows old. From the bongos in Mr. Brownstone to the chick getting fu**ed in Rocket Queen, the sounds, the percussion, the wails, the backup wails, the voice and the base combine for a music that fits the message and the mood.

I can only wish that somehow that album could be re-released or that MTV would play some of their videos again, because there will always been an audience for that record, even when all the Rock N' Roll bands today fade away.

Songs like Mr Brownstone and My Michelle and Rocket Queen - at first I didn't care much for them, but after watching GNR and Axl performing them on stage in the Live Era 1987-1993 on DVD and hearing them on the album, they are incredible in their own rights. My favorite song is Paradise City because it is the most inspiring GNR song ever written.

The coolest thing about AFD for me is that the album really spanned 6 years - from when the first song was written (1984 - "Anything Goes") to the end of the Appetite for Destruction tour in 1989. The album seems the capture the band from start to finish when they had hit it big with Its So Easy, which is probably the last song and one of the coolest to make it on the record,
 
MNR

[isa]

An AFD fun fact, for me it would, I read that one night they were walking at sunset strip to sunset blv. n they all were singing, n drinking Nightrain, n that way they wrote the lyrics, pretty funny .

N very nostalgic if it see 'em, now 

Congratulation!!!!

[estrangedpaul]

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

Don't Cry
Perfect Crime
Bad Obsession
Back Off Bitch
November Rain
Knockin' On Heaven's Door (they had been playing versions of this from 1986)
You Could Be Mine

I believe Yesterdays and the Garden (the two songs written with James and Arkeen and McCloud)were written around time of AFD, not sure why. For one thing Yesterdays was played live by the drunk fux just six months after AFD's release. The acoustic demos of these songs which exist also sounds like it could be from AFD era - the demos from UYI are slightly more polished. Not 100 % sure though.
Also, according to gnrsource.com, The seed for the song "Pretty Tied Up", came one afternoon when Izzy was about 19 (1981).

[Jackamo!]

If "Anything Goes" and "Think About You" were scrapped for later- and "Don't Cry" and "You Could Be Mine" were added- it would have been perfect.

[Vicious Wishes]

Not 100% sure of these, but I know I read them at some point:

Hyatt On Sunset
8401 Sunset Blvd

Also named "The Riot House," the Hyatt on Sunset is legendary for many reason. Led Zeppelin used to ride their motorcycles up and down the hallways and rent entire floors for massive parties. In 1986, Axl Rose tossed sizzling steaks to fans below. Later, the fire department showed up to halt his balcony barbecue.
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Tower Records
8801 Sunset Boulevard

This is the famous Tower Records on Sunset! What makes it so famous? Who knows? It's just like any other Tower with overpriced CDs. However, Axl Rose worked here as a night manager in the early 80's!
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Rumbo Recorders
20215 Saticoy
Canoga Park

This is where a majority of Guns N' Roses "Appetite For Destruction" was recorded and demoed. When you drive past today, there is a security gate and razor wire.

[isa]

thanks pretty cool

[guns_n_motley]

the reason appetite is so great, is because its raw and captures the sound of a "live" rock band. its like a live cd without being one. Most bands, Kiss, aerosmith etc. havent been able to capture their "live energy" in a studio album form.

But appetite is a live energy. You can almost imagine being in a club listening to them play this in the cathouse or something. with axls hair teased out, women flashing the band adn Booze everywhere. you can almsot sence being in a rehearsal room with lyrics written on a pizza, slash drunk out of his mind. cockroaches all over the walls.

its not overthought, yet its not underthought. its just good ole RNR

[Mr. Redman]

First lyrics for PC were;
Take me down to the paradice city,
Where the grass is green,
And the girls got big titties.

[doooodickiebr]

Its so easy - my fav tune from gnr ever!  It also sounds great live!  Does anyone know if there is a video of the entire set from the paradise video?  I'm sure they were opening for Ozzy then...

[doooodickiebr]

Funny story bout Paradise City:  when AFD was released I was dating this girl who had a HUGE mole on her back.  Her name was Andrea.  It really grossed me out!  Anyway, my friend and I wrote weird-al like parodies of songs then.  Needless to say, "Take me down to Andrea ciyy where all the girls have an extra titty" will never be forgotton.  Thought ya'll would find this funny!!

[freedom78]

Funny story bout Paradise City:  when AFD was released I was dating this girl who had a HUGE mole on her back.  Her name was Andrea.  It really grossed me out!  Anyway, my friend and I wrote weird-al like parodies of songs then.  Needless to say, "Take me down to Andrea ciyy where all the girls have an extra titty" will never be forgotton.  Thought ya'll would find this funny!!

So...it was as big as an extra titty?  What...are we talking A-cup, here?  Or B, C, D, DD? 

[Mr. Redman]

Its so easy - my fav tune from gnr ever!  It also sounds great live!  Does anyone know if there is a video of the entire set from the paradise video?  I'm sure they were opening for Ozzy then...

Video doesn't exist. And they were tourin' with Aerosmith.

[gunsnfnroses]

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Tower Records
8801 Sunset Boulevard

This is the famous Tower Records on Sunset! What makes it so famous? Who knows? It's just like any other Tower with overpriced CDs. However, Axl Rose worked here as a night manager in the early 80's!
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I think this was supposed to be the meeting place for Axl and Vince Neil's showdown!

Could've been an amazing moment in rock history!

[freedom78]

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Tower Records
8801 Sunset Boulevard

This is the famous Tower Records on Sunset! What makes it so famous? Who knows? It's just like any other Tower with overpriced CDs. However, Axl Rose worked here as a night manager in the early 80's!
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I think this was supposed to be the meeting place for Axl and Vince Neil's showdown!

Could've been an amazing moment in rock history!

Given that great pic of Axl with the boxing gloves, I know who'd get my bet! 

[doooodickiebr]

Funny story bout Paradise City:? when AFD was released I was dating this girl who had a HUGE mole on her back.? Her name was Andrea.? It really grossed me out!? Anyway, my friend and I wrote weird-al like parodies of songs then.? Needless to say, "Take me down to Andrea ciyy where all the girls have an extra titty" will never be forgotton.? Thought ya'll would find this funny!!

So...it was as big as an extra titty?? What...are we talking A-cup, here?? Or B, C, D, DD??

bout an A...regardless it was disgusting.

[Loaded NightraiN]

Appetite took 9 months to reach the top 100 in the states!!!!!

It shot to # 1 VERY quickly after that!! 

[stolat]

My first intro to AFD was at the tender age of 14 when I could hear it being blared from my brother's bedroom. I tapped on his door and asked: "who's that bro!?" From that day on he made it his duty to draw my attention to GnR sightings at music awards cermonies and film clips on tv.......

He has now gone into teaching American politics so it is also quite funny to remember the day he made me sit in front of the telly to watch the film clip to civil war. He was real serious about it.......Good one bro!!

[Rocker_GNR]

Happy Anniversary,  GUNS N' ROSES, THE REAL!!

[Smoking Guns]

First lyrics for PC were;
Take me down to the paradice city,
Where the grass is green,
And the girls got big titties.

Close, It was

Take me down to the paradice city,
Where the bitches are fat,
And got big ole titties.