Guns N' Roses ' album Appetite for Destruction turns 34! For many, the group's debut, recorded between January and June 1987, is their best album to date – even though the group has since released five other albums.
The discussion about which is the band's best album brought up different points of view here at Wikimetal , so, as is tradition, we decided to ask our readers for their opinion, and the answer may not surprise many people. Appetite for Destruction was chosen, by a landslide, as the group's best album.
Appetite for Destruction was released on July 21, 1987, and the following year it broke into the mainstream, becoming a huge success. Featuring the band's best lineup to date – Axl Rose on vocals, Slash on guitar, Izzy Stradlin on guitar and backing vocals, Duff McKagan on bass, and Steven Adler on drums – the album spawned the hits "Welcome to the Jungle," "Paradise City," and "Sweet Child o' Mine," considered great classics of the band and of hard rock in general.
The album received 69% of the votes from Wikimetal , leaving Use Your Illusion I (1991) with only 10% of the votes and Use Your Illusion II (1991) with 9%. The least voted albums were G N' R Lies (1988) with 3% and The Spaghetti Incident? (1993) with 1%. Chinese Democracy took 8% of the votes. See the full results below.
What is the best Guns N' Roses album?
- Appetite for Destruction (1987) (69%)
- Use Your Illusion II (1991) (10%)
- Use Your Illusion I (1991) (9%)
- Chinese Democracy (2008) (8%)
- GN' R Lies (1988) (3%)
- The Spaghetti Incident? (1993) (1%)
