Appetite: The First Time!

[RoCoKiN]

Since it is the week of Appetite for Destruction, why don't we all recollect on the very first time we heard it!  The 5 W's: Who? (if you were with someone) What? (...er what format did you buy it in Cassette, LP, C.d.) Where?  When? (time, a general date, age)  Why? (what made you wany to listen to it) etc...

And so here it goes:  I was 14 years old and it was in Aug/Sept 87' and I remember sitting in my bedroom on the floor listening to it on theis little piss ass stereo.  I loved Jungle from the moment I heard it on the Pepsi Power Hour on Much Music and I knew I had to have it.  And honestly, when It's So Easy and Mr. Brownstone played, I thought for sure it was Slash singing    I just imagined that that voice had to come from him....and I didn't realize it was actually Axl until I saw them live in Halifax in May 88' and they opened with ISE and I was like WTF?  .  Hearing GN'R for the first time was a life changer...I had to have every Hit Parader, Circus and Metal Edge magazine with GN'R in it....I had the band plastered on my walls...crazy shit...  Man it's a Great album!  I also remember everytime Axl swore I was like "oh, shit" better turn it down before mom hears. 

[GNRreunioneventually]

by my self

CD

in my room

about 7 8 years ago

because i fucking felt like it

[Verse Chorus Verse]

Who: parents
What: CD
When: Christmas 2005
Where: My house
Why: I felt like it.

[Bill 213]

I remember seeing Welcome To the Jungle on MTV in early 88 and that was it...I was hooked.  My mom bought me the tape and I rocked out.  Then Sweet Child O' Mine hit the singles chart and the rest is history.

[D]

Heard SCOM on an old show that came on WTBS called 'Night Tracks'


I fuckin hated it.

Heard it the next week, Kinda liked it


I remember coming home from the record store with a .45 of SCOM and my brother came home an hour later with a .45 of SCOM

I still own SCOM, WTTJ and PC on .45 vinyls.


We were poor growing up and didnt buy a whole lot of Full albums. SIngles were real cheap though so Id just buy those.


Anyhow, i saved up my money when UYI's were comin out, A friend of my brothers was tellin me about it and how awesome they were gonna be.

I bought UYI 2

Fell in love with the band and bought the other Cassettes right after.

Appetite was amazing.

First time i heard Out ta Get me, I was floored. Rocket Queen for the longest time was always my favorite song on AFD.

[stolat]

Age 14 (1980s)
Where: blasting from my brother's bedroom on his tape recorder
Got him in trouble for having the music so loud.......

1988- school friend vidoetaped SCOM, watched it over and over again in music class (all girls catholic school).....

[norway]

 
A friend in school borrowed it to me in 1st grade

[Rainfox]

Flipping the TV with no sound on at my Dad's. Sleeping on the sofa. They keep showing a video of this band at a huge venue. Obviosly they're not the headliner but they're OWNING that gig. Everything is chaos. Immediate. There's a surge. They look, feel, are genuine.

I turn up the TV.. and it's Paradise City. I'm floored.

Get back home and hurry down to the old record store in town. Called Skiven ("the disc"). Us rock n rollers, intellectuals, punks, beatniks and everyone inbeteween shopped there and NOT at the mall with the suburdan crowd. Nah.

I knew the owner and came there frequently. "There's something... you GOT to hear," she said.  She pulled out the last copy from in the back, under G. Original Williams cover (this was 1988).

"Funny you should mention it... , what's it about?"

"Well," she continued, "it's about the RETURN of rock n' roll as we know it and these guys won't last long so hear them NOW!".

Bought it, went home.. from the first moment Jungle hit... I was flying.

Been flying ever since.

 

[MYWIFEMYLIFE]

i saw wttj on mtv early 88 and was like whoa whadda fuck is that! it was among with other clips of bon jovi,cr?e,poison,whitesnake and some lame hair bands shit that i cant recall their names and looked like totally out of this world.

at the time i was a maiden and heavy metal fan but this one video made me forget about them, after a couple o'weeks i found and bought afd cassette and the first tune i listened to was iso cuz the shop played this a zillion time and i forgot to rewind, i didn't mind and kept listening, i was shocked with all songs bcuz it was like nothing i heard b'fo. i ran to my friends' house and make him listen to it and we both became obsessed with gnr that day. i went back home and wrote gnr big to my two white tshirts with marker pen.

btw i became very popular at school to discover this band cuz boyz were more into poison and bon jovi,girlz into boy bands adn cheesy pop bandz, but in a short time being a gunner became very popular and i was like the firestarter

[pollyblue]

i first saw and heard 'paradise city' in 1989 on mtv. it blew me away. the intro with the high voice, the drum roll, the attitude, the clothing, ... it just had everything i never even heard off but loved from the first minute i saw it! the white jacket that axl wore with the gn'r circel-logo on it, slash with his top hat, i couldn't get enough of it. i went to the record store and bought the single on vinyl, copied it to a cassette so many times after each other until one side of the cassette was filled with PC! rewinded it and turned it so many times whole day long! i was in love with the intro. not very long after that, i bought AFD on cassette and went nuts! so did my parents haha because i listened to it every day, every time. and now 20 years later, i still blast that record (on cd now  ) out of my stereo every once in a while.
fan for life!

[cyllan]

Alone
LP
At home
'88
On the recommendation of Kerrang!?? ??

[masterrecorder]

I'd love to read the reply of mysteron 

[faldor]

I remember my older sister like Guns N' Roses when I was about 8 or so, she was 15.  It wasn't cool to like anything your older sister did, so I decided I hated Guns N' Roses.  That didn't last long, since they soon became my favorite band.  I remember listening to AFD in my parents car, again probably 10 years old or so.  I was with my friend and I was worried that after Jungle, It's So Easy was coming on and that didn't have the most appropriate language for a 10 year old to listen.  I think I told my parents to fast forward through that song.

[CocaineTongue22]

I remember the opening strains of Welcome To The jungle on headbangers ball when i was 12. Changed my life. 20 years later, I got to see Axl perform for the first time. I think I may have owned 5 different copies of that album in LP, casette, cd and mp3 formats. I played the tape out so much I broke the fucking thing. I thik every song was my favorite at some time or another, but Rocket Queen remains my favorite because of the ending. That record is perfect. Every song. Every note. Every lyric. To think, five rats off the strip managed to survive their circumstances and eachother long enough to produce one of the most memorable recordings of all time. Thanks, guys. I taught my four year old girl to sing Sweet Child O' Mine. Her favorite part is "Where do we go?" Think I'll wait to play her the rest of the album, uh....another 30 years or so.

Peace.

[willow]

I think it was Mtv. But our local rock station played them too. All I know was, I was blown away. Still am!!! I have to admit I wasn't a huge fan at first. I didn't want too love this band. I thought they all were going to end up dead the way they were going. And with good reason (I thought that) But when talk started about the Ill's. I just couldn't take it anymore and fell deep into it!! I would have to say what totally did me in was the Article Axl first did for the cover of Rolling Stone!!! That article brought out shit I had been hiding inside for years. After reading it, I couldn't hold it anymore. Like a lot of gnr fans I could relate to some of the shit Axl was going threw. And it always helps to here it from someone else.
Sorry I kinda changed the subject on this one...
peace out amyl

[F*ck Fear]

Hearing Paradise City for the first time when I was 7-8 years old. That would be in between 1993 and 1994. I'm 21 now and still listen to this album all the time

I had my parents buy it for me after hearing that one song.

[JDA]

It was 1987, I was 7 and I was in the car with my Dad, my brother and his friend.   My brother said listen to this and put in the tape.  Right when I heard it I thought wow this is amazing.

[greendog]

Who: Parents
What: CD/Cassette
When: 3 years old, '89.
Where: In a car.
Why: Because I was a toddler that hated pop music. 

[Wheres Izzy]

I remember really liking GnR as a real little kid, say 6-7 cause my older brother did. And based off the NR video I just thought they were really cool. Fast forward to Christmas of 93'. I'm 9 years old and my aunt gives me a gift card to the wiz. I went there and decided to pick up Appetite simply cause it had the most songs I recognised hearing before. It was the first album I had ever bought. I listened to it non-stop on my sisters cd player for days. I just couldn't remember ever having been so into something before. And the funny thing is I've had the same copy for almost 15 years and it plays perfectly. Does not skip or anything. Compare that to some cd's I ended up buying 3-4 times.

[ForeverGNR]

Who: Myself
What: CD
When: Around 2004/5 i think???
Where: In my room I guess.
Why: Because I liked Greatest Hits.