Guns 'N Roses - Appetite For Destruction (Top 500 Countdown Update)

"Welcome to the Jungle" and "Sweet Child O'Mine" are standouts on this hard rock album and are really the only good parts of this album. I never liked the song "Paradise City" and now hearing it years later I still don't. Besides the two songs mentioned as standouts the rest of the album seems thrown together hard rock, with heavy guitars, good beats and a harsh vocals, but nothing that really catches me as being all that special. The thing I learned in reading up on this album is that this band was really a one hit wonder which I can't say I knew. They did release a two album follow up but apparently it was a very experimental affair and didn't really do that well. From there the band fell apart, Nirvana came along and they disappeared. The odd thing I remember about this album in particular "Welcome to the Jungle" and "Sweet Child O'Mine" is that everyone I knew liked these songs no matter if they were into alternative or mainstream music at the time. If the pop sensibility and emotion and anger of these two songs could have been captured throughout then I would say you've got a great album, as it is it is just OK.