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Appetite for Destruction may have just saved rock and roll future. The amazing debut album from Guns 'N' Roses came about at a time when hair-metal and synth-pop ruled the airwaves and was suffocating any true music to be released. What was to save the masses? The classic combo of sex, drugs, and rock n' roll, thats what. Right from the delay intro of "Welcome to the Jungle" GnRs sound is established: Slash and Izzy riffing away over the solid foundation laid down by Duff and Steven Adler with Axl Rose screaming his tales of LAs mean streets,sex and drugs use to top it all off.

While "Welcome to the Jungle", "Paradise City" and "Sweet Child O' Mine" became rock radio staples, every track is an instant classic. "Nightrain" chugs along like a drunk the morning after, "Mr. Brownstone" has become one of the most celebrated drug-odes in history and "It's So Easy" is pure GnR: dirty, raunchy, and completely unforgettable. What is quite possibly the best track on this album, appropriately, brings the album to the close. "Rocket Queen" is a song with all the perfect Guns 'N' Roses ingredients: classic riffing, sex laden lyrics, and a surprising sensitivity that comes out of nowhere.

Appetite for Destruction is one of the rare albums in rock(or music, for matter) that is perfect from top to bottom, no weak spots or dull tracks. No matter what you think of what Guns 'N' Roses became, to deny this album as a masterpiece is to deny the power of rock n' roll itself.

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