Probably the best debut album in history. The Beatles or Rolling Stones didn't have first albums like this. Of course, Guns n' Roses didn't have the middle and end quite like The Beatles or Stones. Details.I didn't need to listen to this album to talk about it. I've listened to it, perhaps, 200 times. Listened to it today, 23 years after it was released, and despite its association with 1980s hair metal, it's sounds fresh. Like it could've been released last week. It sounds that good.
What I find most interesting while listening to it as an adult is that it's overall message and voice is entirely different from most rock albums.
Instead of creating some mold for how people should feel when they're partying, falling in love, breaking up, getting drunk or feeling angry, Axl Rose and Co. tear down the veil and almost literally tell you how they feel. You and I are insignificant to the Guns. It's all about them.
Most of the songs, if not all, are in first person. Axl Rose didn't create a model or rock personality to show you what loves feels like. He just tells you.
Guns n' Roses wanted to tell you what it was like being Guns n' Roses. And it's so easy.
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