Appetite For Destruction - 20th Anniversary Thread!!

[stolat]

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.

No you're wrong:

It is was definately-
Take me down to Paradise City
Where I know a girl
Who's gonna grow nice titties.

Sweet Child, you idiots!

[Jezza103]

your both wrong coz if you watch nevermind the bizzcocks with slash on it. for those who dont no what that is. its a music quiz show in the UK. they ripped slash to fuck on the show but he held his own. but there was a question which asked him to finish the lines to the intro to paradise city. and he said the origional was

take me down to the paradise city
where the girls are fat
and they got big titties

here is the link just for the doubters? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3YDO1pDLsc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNG5mKKEtZ4&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW1VnF1CQd8&mode=related&search=

[King Axl]

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

It shot to # 1 VERY quickly after that!!?

Actually, it took approximately six months to reach the U.S. Top 20 (February 1988). I know this because I was working for a department store at the time, and their record department always displayed the top 20 albums. It did not hit #1 until August of 1988, shortly before "Sweet Child O' Mine" hit #1 on the U.S. singles chart.

[King Axl]

This is how the story goes with the "Welcome To The Jungle" video:

At the time the video for "WTTJ" was released, MTV was trying to drastically cut back on its' airplay of all the hair metal bands. So initially, it put "WTTJ" on light rotation, during the overnight hours when hardly anyone was watching. As a result, sales of 'Appetite' were soft, so executives at Geffen contacted MTV, begging them to play the video at a time when more people were tuning in. MTV gave in, and one morning at 5 AM, played the "Welcome To The Jungle" video. Reportedly, so many calls were made to MTV immediately after the video aired, the circuit board in their phone system was fried. That is when MTV put the video into moderate, then heavy rotation.  Though not officially released as a single until the following year, the video for "WTTJ" became an MTV staple for more than six months in late '87/ early '88.

[isa]

Amazing!

[surforia]

Don't know if this is true or not, but I'd heard from random, independent sources that Paradise City is about Louisville, KY b/c Axl was from West Lafayette, Indiana, and he and his boys used to roll down to Louisville for the strip clubs (which were pretty sweet for Indiana boys from the sticks)...  BTW, Louisville still has cool strip clubs!

[burnz007]

your both wrong coz if you watch nevermind the bizzcocks with slash on it. for those who dont no what that is. its a music quiz show in the UK. they ripped slash to fuck on the show but he held his own. but there was a question which asked him to finish the lines to the intro to paradise city. and he said the origional was

take me down to the paradise city
where the girls are fat
and they got big titties

here is the link just for the doubters  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3YDO1pDLsc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNG5mKKEtZ4&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW1VnF1CQd8&mode=related&search=

that's interesting... never knew that...
Now why would it be a paradise city if all the girls were fat?  I guess it depends on your preference

[freedom78]

Don't know if this is true or not, but I'd heard from random, independent sources that Paradise City is about Louisville, KY b/c Axl was from West Lafayette, Indiana, and he and his boys used to roll down to Louisville for the strip clubs (which were pretty sweet for Indiana boys from the sticks)...  BTW, Louisville still has cool strip clubs!

Nothing pleases me more than when someone refers to my home state as "the sticks." 

If there was a "Fuck You" smiley, I'd put it here. 

[surforia]

Don't know if this is true or not, but I'd heard from random, independent sources that Paradise City is about Louisville, KY b/c Axl was from West Lafayette, Indiana, and he and his boys used to roll down to Louisville for the strip clubs (which were pretty sweet for Indiana boys from the sticks)...? BTW, Louisville still has cool strip clubs!

Nothing pleases me more than when someone refers to my home state as "the sticks."?

If there was a "Fuck You" smiley, I'd put it here.?

LOL... sorry bro!  I've lived in Indiana for four years (South Bend), and it has a special place in my heart, but even you gotta admit that there are lots of parts of Indiana that are def "the sticks."

[freedom78]

Don't know if this is true or not, but I'd heard from random, independent sources that Paradise City is about Louisville, KY b/c Axl was from West Lafayette, Indiana, and he and his boys used to roll down to Louisville for the strip clubs (which were pretty sweet for Indiana boys from the sticks)...  BTW, Louisville still has cool strip clubs!

Nothing pleases me more than when someone refers to my home state as "the sticks." 

If there was a "Fuck You" smiley, I'd put it here. 

LOL... sorry bro!  I've lived in Indiana for four years (South Bend), and it has a special place in my heart, but even you gotta admit that there are lots of parts of Indiana that are def "the sticks."

Yeah, but there are parts of every state that are "the sticks."  Either way, Lafayette isn't really...not a great town, but between it and West Lafayette, it's not much shy of 100 K people. 

Of course, the real insult is that Indiana is the sticks, and Kentucky somehow is not. 

But I do agree that Indiana strip clubs suck, since they're only partial nude clubs.  BOO! 

[fuckin crazy]

he and his boys used to roll down to Louisville for the strip clubs (which were pretty sweet for Indiana boys from the sticks)... BTW, Louisville still has cool strip clubs!

Could be ... as everyone knows , the girls an 7th St. Rd are quite large .

[Thorned Rose]

Yes this is truly one of the best albums of all time. It was the perfect album for 1987 too. I wish they would re-record the album or release something to celebrate it. We all know they won't though.

[Jim Bob]

Yes this is truly one of the best albums of all time. It was the perfect album for 1987 too. I wish they would re-record the album or release something to celebrate it. We all know they won't though.

never say never.  the album was recorded again at some point in the late 90s according to Axl.   i'd love to hear it.

[GNRreunioneventually]

Happy aniversery

ik i'm a bad speller



stilll a great fucking album

[russtcb]

Yes this is truly one of the best albums of all time. It was the perfect album for 1987 too. I wish they would re-record the album or release something to celebrate it. We all know they won't though.

never say never.  the album was recorded again at some point in the late 90s according to Axl.   i'd love to hear it.

I would definitely love to hear the one the new guys recorded.

[Ines_rocks!]

The following quotes were taken from "The Band that Time Forgot" by Paul Stenning. Enjoy 


Regarding Sweet Child O?Mine Axl once said: "I had written this poem, reached a dead end with it and put it on a shelf. Then Slash and Izzy got working together on songs and I came in, Izzy hit a rhytm, and all of a sudden this poem popped into my head. It just all came together. A lot of rock bands are too fucking wimpy to have any sentiment or any emotion in any of their stuff unless they?re in pain. It?s the first positive love song I?ve ever written, but I never had anyone to write anything that positive about, I guess."

Regarding Paradise City Axl once said: "The verses are more about being in the Jungle. The chorus is like being back in the Midwest or somewhere. It reminds me of when I was a little kid and just looked up at the blue sky and went `Wow, what is all this? Its so big out there.?Everything was more innocent. There are parts of the song that have more of a down home feel and when I started putting down the over-layers of my vocals (I put five tracks on there), it seemed that it came out like some Irish or Scottish heritage."

Axl on the album: "I want this to be the biggest selling debut album from a rock act ever!"
                             "The whole album is about someone we?ve known and hung out with or something we?ve done."

Axl on Rocket Queen: "I wrote this song for this girl who was gonna have a band and she was gonna call it Rocket Queen. She kinda kept me alive for a while. The last part of the song is my message to this person, or anybody else who can get something out of it. It?s like there?s hope and a friendship note at the end of the song. For that song there is also something I tried to work out with various people- a recorded sex act. It was somewhat spontaneous but premiditated; something I wanted to put on the record... It was a sexual song and it was a wild night in the studio."

... on Welcome to the Jungle: "I wrote the words in Seattle. It?s a big city, but at the same time, its a small city compared to LA and the things you?re gonna learn... I just wrote how LA looked to me. If someone comes to town and they want to find something, they can find whatever they want."

... on Out Ta Get Me: "Like every time you turn around, someone is trying to screw you over financially, or the cops are banging on your door and you didn?t do anything. It?s just being railroaded into something and trying to get out from underneath it. You know, parents, teachers, preachers... everybody. The last verse Slash and I put together as a joke ?cause we were talking about how we get in fights sometimes, and how some people get pissed off that you?re drunk. But they?re the ones that bought the bottle of whiskey to get your drunk on. Some people say I got a chip on my shoulder."

... on My Michelle: "I know this girl named Michelle and she became a really good friend of the band?s and I was going out with her for a while".
                             "It?s a true story. Slash and some other members of the band said that?s kinda too heavy to say about poor, sweet Michelle; she?ll freak out. I?d written the nice sweet song about her, and then I looked at it and tought, `that really doesn?t touch any basis of reality?, so I put down an honest thing. It describes her life. This girl leads such a crazy life with doing drugs, or whatever shes?s doing at the time, you don?t know if she?s gonna be there the next day. Every time I see Michelle I?m really relieved and glad. I showed her the lyrics after about three weeks of debating, and she was so happy that someone didn?t paint just a pretty picture. She loves it. It was a real song about her."

Well that?s it... my hands hurt now but I think it?s worth it... this was kinda my humble homage to one my favourite albums of all time 

[Chief]

thanks for posting, that was a good read. its been a while!!

[vicente]

Not a post with a fact about the Album, but about the Anniversary. July, 21st, this year, is the date of the Osaka show, in Japan.

Man, I wish I'd be there...

: : Vicente : :

[Ines_rocks!]

thanks for posting, that was a good read. its been a while!!

u welcome!  I just loved reading that book so I thought it would be cool to share some quotes with the forum members

[irishtwilight]

Does anyone think Axl or the record company will do anything special to celebrate the 20th Anniversary? I mean could we see them do the whole album from start to finish or maybe a one-off reunion of the original  band members on MTV or something big like that.