Amazingly, Appetite for Destruction was not a huge success out of the gate. It topped the Billboard in August and has since become one of the best-selling rock albums of all time. Like most things that are worth doing, the making of Appetite for Destruction was a hard-fought battle. The band faced a myriad of problems, including excessive drug and alcohol use within the group, the search for a producer, and an increasingly impatient record company. But the songs that did make the final tracklist are the stuff of legend.
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At the time that Appetite For Destruction was originally released, on July 21, , the group was interviewed about the making of the record. Listen to the super deluxe edition of Appetite For Destruction right now. It seemed a lot more rural up there.
Arguably the greatest debut hard-rock album of all time
It was released on July 21, , by Geffen Records. The album was released to little mainstream attention in It was not until the following year that it became a massive commercial success, after the band had toured and received airplay with the singles " Welcome to the Jungle ", " Paradise City " and " Sweet Child o' Mine ". It topped the Billboard and became the best-selling debut album of all time, as well as the eleventh best-selling album of all time in the United States. With over 30 million copies sold worldwide, it is also one of the best-selling records of all time. Although critics originally were ambivalent toward the album, Appetite for Destruction has since received retrospective acclaim and been viewed as one of the greatest albums of all time. In , it was re-released as a remastered box set to similar acclaim. After heavy touring of the Los Angeles club scene, the group signed with Geffen Records in March It is said that the reason for not putting "November Rain" on it was because they had already agreed to put "Sweet Child 'O Mine" on it and thus already had a ballad on the album however, both Use Your Illusion albums would contain more than one ballad.
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