Guns N’ Roses - 01. Appetite for destruction [1987] | Текст песни

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• 01. Appetite for destruction [1987]

Side 1
1. Welcome To The Jungle
2. It's So Easy
3. Nightrain
4. Out Ta Get Me
5. Mr. Brownstone
6. Paradise City

Side 2
1. My Michelle
2. Think About You
3. Sweet Child O' Mine
4. You're Crazy
5. Anything Goes
6. Rocket Queen

Состав:
W. Axl Rose – lead vocals, percussion on \"Welcome to the Jungle\", synthesizer and whistle on \"Paradise City\"
Izzy Stradlin – rhythm guitar, backing vocals, lead guitar on \"Nightrain\" and \"Think About You\", percussion on \"Paradise City\"
Slash – lead and rhythm guitars, acoustic guitar on \"Think About You\" and \"Sweet Child O' Mine\", talkbox on \"Anything Goes\"
Duff McKagan – bass, backing vocals
Steven Adler – drums

Лэйбл: Geffen Records ~ GHS 24148

Информация о альбоме:
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction is the debut studio album by Guns N' Roses, released in July 1987 on Geffen Records. It was well received by critics and topped the American Billboard 200 chart. As of September 2008, the album has been certified 18 times Platinum by the RIAA, accumulating worldwide sales in excess of 28 million as of October 2008. The album is featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

The album's original cover art, based on the Robert Williams' painting \"Appetite for Destruction\", depicted a robotic rapist about to be punished by a metal avenger. After several music retailers refused to stock the album, the label compromised and put the controversial cover art inside, replacing it with an image depicting a cross and skulls of the five band members (designed by Billy White Jr., originally as a tattoo), each skull representing one member of the band. The photographs used for the back of the album and liner notes were taken by Robert John, Marc Canter and Jack Lue. The original cover was supposed to be on the 2008 re-pressing of the vinyl, though the record label replaced it with the \"Skulls\" art at the last minute. The re-pressing of the vinyl, though, is the first Guns N' Roses release to have the Parental Advisory label printed on the artwork. Previously, like on the CD, this was a sticker on the cellophane wrap and later (on the CD and cassette releases) on the case itself.

In albums which were issued on double sided media (i.e., vinyl records and audio cassettes) the two sides were not conventionally labeled \"A\" and \"B\", but \"G\" and \"R\". Tracks 1-6 which comprise side \"G\" all deal with drugs and hard life in the big city (\"Guns\" side). The remaining tracks, which comprise side \"R\", all deal with love, sex and relationships (\"Roses\" side).

Axl Rose stated that many of the songs featured on the album had been written while the band had been performing on the Los Angeles club circuit, and a number of songs that would be featured on later Guns N' Roses albums were considered for Appetite for Destruction, such as \"Back Off Bitch\", \"You Could Be Mine\", \"November Rain\" and \"Don't Cry\". It is said that the reason for not putting \"November Rain\" was because they had already agreed to put \"Sweet Child 'O Mine\" and thus already had a ballad on the album (however, both Use Your Illusion albums would contain more than one ballad).

While Kiss' Paul Stanley was considered for producing the album, he was rejected after requesting changes to the songs. Engineer Mike Clink was chosen instead to make his debut as a producer. After some weeks of rehearsal, the band entered Daryl Dragon's Rumbo Recorders in January 1987. Two weeks were spent laying down basic tracks, with Clink splicing together the best takes with his razor blade. Clink worked eighteen-hour days for the next month, with Slash overdubbing in the afternoon and evening, and Rose cutting vocals until the sun came up. Slash struggled to find a guitar sound before coming up with a Gibson Les Paul copy plugged into a Marshall amplifier. He spent hours with Clink paring down and structuring his solos. The total budget for the album was about $370,000.

While the songwriting credits are credited to all five band members, many of the songs began as solo tracks that individual band members wrote separate from the band, only to be completed later. These songs include \"It's So Easy\" (Duff McKagan) and \"Think About You\" (Izzy Stradlin). \"Rocket Queen\" was an unfinished Slash/McKagan/Adler song that was written from their earlier band Road Crew, whereas \"Anything Goes\", written by Hollywood Rose and included in their compilation album The Roots of Guns N' Roses, was later re-written for Appetite.

Other songs on the album reflect the band's reaction to the debauchery of the L.A. rock and roll underground, such as \"Welcome to the Jungle\" the lyrics of which Rose wrote after he encountered a man near the highways of Manhattan in 1980 shortly after arriving there from Indiana. Lyrics to some of the songs focus on the band members' younger years, like \"Out ta Get Me\", which focuses on lead singer Axl Rose's constant trouble with the law as a youth in Indiana. The band also based song lyrics on their assorted female companions, reflected in the songs \"Sweet Child O' Mine\", \"My Michelle\", \"You're Crazy\", \"Rocket Queen\", and \"Think About You\".

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