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NFT: Appetite for Destruction released on this day in 1987

Greg from LI : 7/21/2017 12:34 pm
Hard to believe it's been 30 years.
where do we go, where do we go now, where do we go....  
Britt in VA : 7/21/2017 12:39 pm : link
.
That album  
Moondawg : 7/21/2017 12:40 pm : link
just cut through so much of the crap in 80 rock. A classic.
A perfect album  
Don in DC : 7/21/2017 12:47 pm : link
and one of the best of all time. Absolutely great from top to bottom.
I get up around seven...  
djm : 7/21/2017 12:57 pm : link
Get outta bed around nine...
Do you know where you are?  
speedywheels : 7/21/2017 1:08 pm : link
You're in the Jungle, baby......you're gonna die...
The album that got me through  
JonC : 7/21/2017 1:14 pm : link
12th grade.
RE: The album that got me through  
mfsd : 7/21/2017 1:16 pm : link
In comment 13534783 JonC said:
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12th grade.


Seriously - was moreso junior high era for me, but that was a big part of the soundtrack for those nights we snuck booze from the liquor cabinet, went to our first HS parties, pregame locker room mix before football games. Just awesome
Sirius XM just opened a Guns N' Roses channel  
GiantBlue : 7/21/2017 2:13 pm : link
Channel 41..............Must listen!!!!
I wore that cassette OUT  
feelflows : 7/21/2017 2:29 pm : link
there was literally NO font left on it!!!

I can't believe that was 30 years ago. ugh
ch 41  
Carl in CT : 7/21/2017 2:35 pm : link
is it a perm channel?
that's insane  
santacruzom : 7/21/2017 2:40 pm : link
In 1987, The Doors' first album was 30 years old. Would a modern-day teenager view Appetite through from a similar perspective that I viewed The Doors from at that time?
apparently, two years later on Jul 21 1989  
Greg from LI : 7/21/2017 3:12 pm : link
Do the Right Thing was released in theaters.
Ready to crash and burn  
Bobby Humphrey's Earpad : 7/21/2017 3:18 pm : link
I'll never learn...I'm on the night train.
We've been dancin, with Mr Brownstone  
mfsd : 7/21/2017 3:41 pm : link
He's been knocking, he won't leave me alone

Always loved the song...took several years to figure out what it was about
RE: that's insane  
Moondawg : 7/21/2017 4:24 pm : link
In comment 13534975 santacruzom said:
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In 1987, The Doors' first album was 30 years old.


Wow, that's true but somehow puts it in a perspective that I wasn't appreciating.
wait, no. It was 20 years old  
Moondawg : 7/21/2017 4:25 pm : link
that's why it sounded so odd.
Top 5 albums  
Carl in CT : 7/21/2017 4:39 pm : link
Of all time. Period!
RE: A perfect album  
jnoble : 7/21/2017 5:43 pm : link
In comment 13534729 Don in DC said:
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and one of the best of all time. Absolutely great from top to bottom.


Not just musically but audio/production wise, it's fantastic. You can hear every instrument clearly in the mix, it's not a wall of noise like a lot of today's brickwalled recordings.

Funny thing is it still has yet to get remastered and re-released because even with how good it sounds, a remaster of the orginal tapes with todays technology would make it sound even better. I think since GnR got back together now it's an option because I read in Slash's book that due to an unrelsolved legal issue between them and Axl over copyrighted material, nothing new could be released or done with the existing material or putting out a "new" live album of all the concerts they have in the archive.
if I was to nitpick..  
jnoble : 7/21/2017 5:45 pm : link
...I'd have to go with Think About You as the only weak link on the album because it's more of a generic love song that doesn't really fit the rest of the album and seems like filler which I think it was.

Also, Axl did have You Could Be Mine and November Rain written but it was left off AFD and saved for future use.
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