Guns 'N Roses - Appetite For Destruction 1987 ORIGINAL COVER(Banned) Rare Mint
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The album's originally planned cover art, based on Robert Williams' painting Appetite for Destruction, depicted a robotic rapist about to be punished by a metal avenger. After several music retailers refused to stock the album, the label compromised and put the controversial cover art inside, replacing it with an image depicting a Celtic cross and skulls of the five band members with (designed by Billy White Jr., originally as a tattoo), each skull representing one member of the band: Izzy Stradlin, top skull; Steven Adler, left skull; Axl Rose, center skull; Duff McKagan, right skull; and Slash, bottom skull. In a 2016 interview, Billy White Jr. explained, "The cross and skulls that looked like the band was Axl’s idea, the rest was me. The knot work in the cross was a reference to Thin Lizzy, a band Axl and I both loved.”[9]

The photographs used for the back of the album and liner notes were taken by Robert John, Marc Canter, Jack Lue, Leonard McCardie, and Greg Freeman. The original cover was supposed to be on the 2008 vinyl reissue, though the record label replaced it with the "Skulls" art at the last minute.[10]

The band stated the artwork is "a symbolic social statement, with the robot representing the industrial system that's raping and polluting our environment."[11] In albums which were issued on double sided media (vinyl records and audio cassettes) the two sides were not conventionally labeled "A" and "B", but "G" and "R". Tracks 1–6 which compose side "G" all deal with drugs and hard life in the big city ("Guns" side). The remaining tracks, which compose side "R", all deal with love, sex and relationships ("Roses" side). In an interview with That Metal Show in 2011, Rose stated his original idea for the cover art was to be the photo of the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding, which was on the cover of Time magazine in 1986, but Geffen refused it saying it was "in bad taste".[12]


No. Title Length 1. "Welcome to the Jungle" 4:31 2. "It's So Easy" (Guns N' Roses, West Arkeen) 3:21 3. "Nightrain" 4:26 4. "Out ta Get Me" 4:20 5. "Mr. Brownstone" 3:46 6. "Paradise City" 6:46 7. "My Michelle" 3:39 8. "Think About You" 3:50 9. "Sweet Child o' Mine" 5:55 10. "You're Crazy" 3:16 11. "Anything Goes" (Guns N' Roses, Chris Weber) 3:25 12. "Rocket Queen" 6:13 Total length: 53:52



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