Artist: Guns N’ Roses
Album: Appetite for Destruction
Ah, the opening track from Appetite for Destruction. I picked up my copy from the store that sells used CDs–I used to pass by every time I took the back way home, and I stopped in pretty much ever time to see what was new. (This would be part of the reason that I tried to take the highway home. If I took the highway home, I couldn’t drop $50 on used CDs.)
I stuck it in the CD player in the car immediately to listen to for the rest of the drive home. This being summer, I had the windows in the car open, and the stereo cranked. I also promptly got stuck in the traffic jam on the bridge, and got a ton of funny looks from the people next to me. (Evidently, blonde women in bright purple cars don’t normally listen to GNR.)
This was the album that made Guns N’ Roses huge, and rightly so; it’s one of my all-time favorite albums. There are very few albums that I just drop into the CD player and listen to from beginning to end. This is one of them, and Welcome to the Jungle is one of the best tracks in it.
The wonderful thing about Welcome to the Jungle isn’t just the degree of raw rock power that it exudes. It perfectly captures Los Angeles of the 1980′s–the wild, slightly threatening urban jungle that spawned hair metal in its purest form. Without the Los Angeles environment, the bubble world that made fame, drugs and sex its gods, hair metal could not have been what it was. This song brings that whole world back to life around you in four minutes and thirty-three seconds, no matter when or where you are when you listen to it.
This song also has the distinction of being my first ever 100% in Guitar Hero.
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Tags: Guitar Hero, Guns N' Roses