There is no denying that this album is one of the best debut albums of all time. I think it’s also common knowledge that the start of the band was the coming together of Axl Rose’s band, Hollywood Rise, and Tracii Guns’s band, LA Guns. In true Axl style, he proceeded to fall out with all of the members from LA Guns, and replaced them with the rest of the Hollywood Rose guys. The rest they say his history, except it nearly wasn’t, as the band went on a west coast tour which nearly killed them and set new heights for what a human body could handle.
Geffen released Live Like A Suicide just before the band went into studio to record this – just to keep the buzz going. I don’t think anyone was expecting the quality of songs on Appetite to be as good as they were, and I think a big part of that was producer Mike Clink. He managed to capture the car crash nature of the band, and yet, at the same time was able to bring out the all of the awesome in the songs. Five singles were released from the album and they were away and running. The band would never release anything near as good as this piece of work. Sure, they had some great songs, but nothing that would come close to Appetite.
I think you will agree that this is a definite 10/10 from The Grooveman.
