August 2nd, 2007
Where Were You When “Appetite For Destruction” Came Out?
Rolling Stone’s latest issue has Guns N Roses on the cover from 1987 and mentions the fact that “Appetite for Destruction” came out 20 years ago. That makes me feel really old as my 8th grade yearbook photo is of me wearing a Guns N Roses “Appetite” t-shirt. Holy shit!
Just curious where all of you were when this album came out? Could you imagine what would have happened if Axl didn’t become so fucking crazy? And when is Chines Democracy coming out?
Dust off your cassette tape and put Appetite in your stereo now!
Written by Virgil Dickerson
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On August 2nd, 2007 at 8:20 am
Brad Holland said:
I was five years old, probably not giving much of a shit about anything. Never have been a big GnR fan…
On August 2nd, 2007 at 9:44 am
Pulsar said:
Amazing CD. I was 2 when it came out but I remember seeing the video for Welcome To The Jungle on MTV when I was like 7 or 8. I bought the album on tape when I was 10 and loved it, even though I hated other 80s bands. To this day, I love that CD.
On August 2nd, 2007 at 10:19 am
Frank said:
I was working at a record store and to this day I still remember the item code for this title - GEF 24148. Amazing…
On August 2nd, 2007 at 11:20 am
Ben said:
2 here too. Needless to say, I wasn’t aware of this release.
On August 2nd, 2007 at 12:33 pm
southpawnation said:
In 8th grade. i played the tape until it broke. the first cassette i ever wore out.
on my hall of fame for sure
http://southpawnation.blogspot.com/2005/05/southpaw-nation-hall-of-fame-work-in.html
On August 2nd, 2007 at 12:58 pm
AdamD said:
I remember being in 6th grade, and there was some sort of weird Lip-Synch competition. I remember at least four different groups doing Sweet Child O’ Mine and another three doing Paradise City. The kids who were already kind of stoner-metal heads (including the first girl I had a crush on) did some Metallica song.
I don’t think I did anything, if I did it was probably a Weird Al song.
On August 2nd, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Shannon said:
I remeber I got this CD for my birthday in 7th grade. My mother got it for me and I also got Bon Jovi that day. I remember how funny I thought it was to hear my then 5 year old brother sing about the grass being green and the girls being pretty. I can also still hear him singing Bad Medicine.
On August 2nd, 2007 at 11:07 pm
bill said:
I was in White Plains, NY in the Raw Deal (Killing Time) practice room and the guitar player Mike walked in wearing snake-skin cowboy boots. Clearly we knew we were in trouble.
Personally I’d like to find out where everyone was when Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction came out.
On August 3rd, 2007 at 3:11 pm
pgwp said:
I was in 6th grade when Appetite came out. I loved all the singles and I remember when I finally heard the album how stunned–stunned!–I was by “It’s So Easy.” The low voice first, but then when it got to “fuck off!” I knew I had life-changing contraband in the house.
That summer my family went to Ireland and I bought GnR Lies while we were there. I was the hit of all my friends when I returned home because there were no censor marks over the naked woman on the inside art. Rad…
On August 3rd, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Mickey said:
I was getting ready to go into high school. My sister (a sophomore at the time) was dating an “older” guy who was into metal. At the time I was listening to a lot of Beastie Boys and Run DMC. My sister kept trying to get me to listen to her boyfriends tapes. Everything from Peace Sells (MegaDeth) to some older Iron Maiden. She even tried to force the Dio album (released on the same day as AFD). When I finally heard Appetite, I went back and started to listen to all her other suggestions because I loved the Guns and Roses sound.
I eventually had to go buy the tape because my copied tape was so worn down. Thanks to Oprah, my mother went through my music and took GnR away. According to Oprah, the UziSuicide label on the inside was encouraging kids to kill themselves (which is a great business plan if you want a long and lucrative music career).
On August 4th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Howdy Doody said:
I was 10, so what’s that, 5th grade? I remember seeing the Jungle video for the first time, and remember opening the package from the BMG Cassette Club that contained this gem.
Still one of my favorite albums of all time. I put it in the top 5 rock albums ever. Truly a kick in the ass in the late 80s to mainstream music.
Still gets regular plays at the Howdy Doody Ranch.
On August 5th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Stephen Chilton said:
I was 4.
I don’t know when i heard it the frirst time, its one of those records that was so large that when ever I would have listened to the album for the first time I would have already know most of the songs. Kind of like the Beatles or The Stones, you just know the hits anyway.
PS How far did GNR fall? Went from top of the world to a fucking joke that makes Highschool bands look good.
On August 5th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Howdy Doody said:
Actually, the new “band” is tremendous. They’re excellent players, the songs all song great, Axl’s voice was never that hot live to begin with, so he hasn’t really fallen and, on top of it all, they still have massive drawing power live. They can sell more tickets to shows than most contemporary “big bands,” so I wouldn’t say they’ve “fallen,” that far.
On August 8th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Kubton said:
I still remember see the welcome to the jungle video the first time. I must have been a pissed off little kid because I loved it. It was like all the hair bands of the day. I was starting to get into more aggressive under ground stuff and always kind of associated with that kind of stuff. That might be weird but they weren’t a hair band like Posion and weren’t like those metal bands of the day with the silly satanic imagery. I took so much crap form my punker friends for defending that album. Ever track is great. It was just a rockin’ single and a power ballad plus fill like other albums of it day. To bad they fell a part they would have survived the shift toward alternative bands unlike the rest of the Sunset Strip brethren.
Now I feel old.
On August 9th, 2007 at 4:14 am
Nick said:
I was in college, and I hated that album. Junkie chic never interested me, I guess, and when the Ep came out a year or two later with the racist anthem “One In A Million” it just confirmed what I thought from the get-go: trash.
I saw them open for the Chili Peppers at UCLA at a New Year’s Eve show in 86 or 87 and remember asking myself who the bad Stones rip-off was.
Oh well, to each their own.
On August 15th, 2007 at 6:44 am
michael said:
i was born in 1987. lollin