Description
Label Review.
1987 album remastered. Also available on 2CD, 2LP and deluxe box set editions.
Our Overview.
‘Appetite For Destruction’ was probably the biggest rock album of the late 1980s and for a debut to hit so hard made the group too hot to handle and after what amounted to a quadruple album of a follow-up (1991’s ‘Use Your Illusion I + II) the band began to splinter and after a cover’s album, 1993’s ‘The Spaghetti Incident’, lead singer W.Axl Rose was left with the keys to the band after guitarist Slash quit in 1996. Rose finally issued a new Guns ‘N’ Roses album in 2008 in the form of ‘Chinese Democracy’. Today, Slash has returned and while there hasn’t been talk of a new album, it seems amazing that their 30 million selling debut hasn’t been reissued and expanded until now.
The original ‘classic’ line-up of Guns ‘N’ Roses formed in the spring of 1985 and after tearing up the west coast of the US, they won a big contract with Geffen Records within a year. However, the label were not hasty with getting a record out. Indeed, it wasn’t until the end of 1986 that their debut EP ‘Live ?!*@ Like A Suicide’ was issued which wasn’t live at all but four demo recordings with an audience dubbed on!
Their first album proper was recorded in early 1987 with producer Mike Clink and after debut single “It’s So Easy” was released in June the album followed a month later. The record was slow to move at first but gradually began to gain momentum and a year after its release made No.1 in the States. By now, the rest of the world was catching on and they made headlines in the UK when two fans died in a crush during their appearance at the Donington Festival in 1988. By 1989 ‘Appetite For Destruction’ had completely crossed over, attracting music fans of all stripes with their combination of metal, glam rock and punk topped off with bluesy riffs and memorable melodies.
This new package sees the album remastered for the first time and plenty of bonus tracks added for good measure.