Appetite: The First Time!

[mega_music]

Damn so long ago! It would of been around 87-88 when MTV was playing the hell out of Welcome to the Jungle. I was 7 my sister picked up the cassette, and I instantly stole it. After a couple months of non stop play I remember begging my mom to buy me another copy because the damn tape player ate the cassette. She was hesitant because of the explicit lyrics sticker lol! I remember that tape being held together by masking tape  . I was hooked from the first listen. Mr. Brownstone was played over and over, hell the tape eventually had a drag in the song from being over played.

Who: MTV and my sister
What:  AFD on cassete
When: I was 7 in 1987

[Is he struggling?]

Who? - Alone
What? - Cassette
When? - Spring 2000
Where? - On the train ride home from Central London
Why?-  I had just started buying albums, and I already knew that I liked Paradise City and Welcome to the Jungle. Whilst choosing the one album that I was going to buy that day (I didn't have a lot of money), I eventually narrowed my options down to AFD and Muse's 'Showbiz'. I think I made the right choice.

[don_vercetti]

Who? - With a good friend of mine

What? - Compact Disc

When? - Summer 2006

Where? - In my friends bedroom, listening to music and generally chilling.

Why? - My friend had tried to introduce me to Gnr about a year earlier, but using Greatest Hits.  This hadn't really caught my attention much, as (in retrospect) it's a pretty poor playlist really.  But this time, he made me listen past WTTJ (quite a boring song imho) and we then got to It's So Easy.  This was much more like it, and with the amazing fury, anger and also the confidence.  Nightrain, Out Ta Get Me, Mr Brownstone.  What can I say, I was a hooked man.  Have been ever since. 

[crow316]

I remember watching MTV to catch Aerosmith and Def Leppard.  I was 10, and just getting into music.  I would stay up late and watch Headbangers Ball, and I believe that was the first time I heard WTTJ.   I taped Liva at the Ritz on my vcr, and thats how I learned all the songs.  Thats how I would listen to Appetite.  It was monthes before I got the tape.  I think I had a buddy dub it for me.  I remember thinking, "These songs dont sound right"  because I was so used to hearing the live versions.  Anyway, the rest is history. 

[Dead N' Bloated]

I had heard a few songs from it like WTTJ, SCOM, Nightrain, PC, ect in late 1992 . My mum's friend went to Bali in early 1993 and brought me home a present, Appetite For Destruction (about a week before GN'R played here).
I listened to it by myself on tape as soon as she gave it to me. Every morning before I went to school I would listen to it. I could normally get to PC before I had to go so for like a month after I got AFD I thought the Mailman would be at my joint coz I could hear the Whistle in PC but I thought it was coming from outside. LOL. I felt so stupid when I finally realised it was in the song.
I was 8 years old turning 9 and now I'm 23 and this album still kicks the arse of anything else in my collection.


 

[isa]

WHO?: On my own

WHAT?: Cd

WHERE?: In my bedroom
 
WHEN?: Summer '98

WHY?: Its groove, the rithym, the sound, everything. N it's Appetite For Destruction

I ended up fallin' in love with everything, the image, the band, the lyrics, I listen to it everyday. It's my vains, my head n in my heart, that was the real GN'R!

 

[14 Yrs Of Silence]

First time I heard AFD all the way through was July 88 on vacation with my family and family friends.? I was 11.? My parent's friend's son played it for me.? I was already very familar with WTTJ which I thought was great.? However when I heard Its So Easy for the first time I was blown away.? Had never heard something like "why don't you just, fuck off!" on record before.? Got my own copy a few weeks later and the rest is history.

[Chief]

let's see... 11 or 12 years ago.. i had already heard UYI I and some other random stuff, i think Lies too... anyway, i wasn't fully into them yet and i bought AFD in some used record store around here.  i still have that copy and it grew and grew on me after that.  I didn't like some songs at first, of AFD and the other albums but eventually i got into most of them and from then on, the myth and legend grew and here we are....
its hard to believe its been 20 years since appetite came out!

[SLCPUNK]

Me and my buds

Tape

Car we were in

88-when MTV played music all day!

I had never heard anything like WTTJ before and wanted to hear more from the band.

[lynn1961]

Who - by myself

What - vinyl album - still have it

Where - my room (living back with my parents, again)

When - Summer of 88;  I was 26 yrs old

Why- Heard SCOM on the radio and thought this band was the greatest thing I'd ever heard - was going to be up there with the Stones & Zeppelin; THEN I saw the video and was done, bought & sold!  The tophat, the leather, the cool T-shirts, the bandanas, the tattoos, the long hair.  That was IT!   Biggest, bad-ass, band I'd ever seen! 

Bought the album, the very next day,  and loved every second of it, from the start!   

Still love it!  AFD is, hands down, for me, the best R&R album ever made.   

 

 

[Vitor_Icewall]

i cant remember... too much kid!!

[LunsJail]

It was September 88 and I was 9 years old.  I got my parents to buy me the tape at the mall.  My mom gave the cover a good hard look (this was in the PMRC days and everyone was paranoid about this "devil rock" the kids were listening to) but she let me get it anyways.  I told them to play it in the car on the way home.  First song, WTTJ, no problem.  Then It's So Easy comes on and it's just a barrage of F-bombs towards the end.  Most people wouldn't even flinch today but in '88 at 9 years old that was a pretty shocking thing.  I'm thinking "oh shit" my parents are going to take this tape away from me.  But they were totally oblivious.  Probably the only thing from that age that I still listen to.

[Jackamo!]

I remember not liking It's So Easy right away. i thought it was a different singer.

[RoCoKiN]

I remember not liking It's So Easy right away. i thought it was a different singer.

Me too, I thought it was Slash!!

[gnrrock]

Who:  My cousin and father
What:  Vinyl
Where:  Living Room
When:  1988--I was seven years old at the time
Why:  Cousin thought the record was really cool so he bought it over for my dad to hear.  Been hooked ever since!

[King Axl]

Bought the 'Appetite For Destruction' cassette at the mall on October 10, 1987 after seeing the "Welcome To The Jungle" video on MTV. After listening to it once, I knew this band was going to be something special. I was 16, and was the first person I can remember in my school who got into GN'R early on. I recall sitting in study hall with my Walkman listening to it, and one of my classmates asked me what I was listening to, I told him Guns N' Roses. He was like, "Who are they?"

Pretty soon though, more people in my school discovered GN'R, especially after the video for "Sweet Child O' Mine" premiered. That song really catapulted sales of 'Appetite', and by the time I had returned to school for senior year in September '88, the album had hit #1 and the "SCOM" single had hit #1 as well.

That cassette wore out a long time ago, but the memories remain.

[duga]

Except for hearing Paradise City on radio a couple of times:

Who:  Class-mate
What:  CD on a portable CD-player. I listened to WTTJ and It's so easy and thought it sounded kinda strange but cool 
Where: Class-mate's bedroom
When:  Probably 1991
Why:  Class-mate thought they where good?

[R.A.W.]

When:1987,  How:Casette, Did it change me: Forever,  I went from a 12 going on 13 year old straight kid to a Long haired metal lover.

I first started growing my hair then came the tight black jeans and Gunners shirts, then the ear pierceings, then the cigarette smoking

Then finally the Guns N Fucking Roses Tattoo's. It is fair to say this Album and Band changed my life forever. I grew out of the hair and tight

jean thing a fair while back now, but that dosn't stop me from still cranking Appetite out of my $8000 stereo in my work van at least once a week.

I love this band with a passion and I get so jealous reading about the people who met Axl on the Australian tour, because all I wanted when

I was a teenager was to grow up and be Axl Rose.

Oh and I forgot to mention, my bedroom walls and ceiling was covered 100% with magazine pictures of my Idols ( GNR FOREVER)

[wadey]

When: 87' 
Who: Mr Jack Daniels   
Where: At Home
What: Vinyl
Why: Because Nothing Else Fucking Compared!!

[bolton]

when:1990 (ihad 11)
who:my friend ivana gave me a cassete where was paradise city,a dayafter she gaved me whole apetite
what:cassete
where:in my home