# Best song on Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction/554211 "2010-09-18T19:39:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction/554211/21 "2010-09-19T15:06:10Z")
Same thing is true about Paranoid, Dio. I think they’re exercises in subconscious thinking, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction/554211/22 "2010-09-19T17:12:51Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > I sympathize with all of you about how hard it is to pick just one song off this amazing, amazing album. > > Having said that, I’m kind of surprised that no one’s yet shown any love for the balls out aggression of “It’s So Easy”. “It’s So Easy” is good, but because there are so many good songs on the album, a few of which are better, it kind of gets buried. It probably would have fared better on another album, like “Use Your Illusion II”. My top four picks from “Appetite…” are: 1. Sweet Child o’ Mine 2. Rocket Queen 3. Welcome to the Jungle 4. Paradise City ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction/554211/23 "2010-09-19T17:46:07Z")
I will remember Paradise City as being our theme song during one crab season; we changed the words a bit… ‘Take me down to bairdi city where the guts are green and the gills are gritty…’ Sweet Child O’Mine/Welcome to the Jungle…hard call. Would probably go with Welcome to the Jungle as it’s a little tighter; I adore the other, but Sweet Child does sound like it’s wandering at one point. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction/554211/24 "2010-09-19T18:47:07Z")
This really is a toughy. Welcome to the Jungle, Sweet Child O’Mine, Rocket Queen, Mr. Brownstone, on any given day I could change my mind and pick any of those. If there wasn’t a much better version of Your Crazy on Lies, it would probably be up there too. For today, I pick Welcome to the Jungle. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction/554211/25 "2010-09-19T18:58:11Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Interesting that “Sweet Child 'O Mine” is the most popular choice (and probably the most popular song they ever wrote), since by their own account they wrote in 5 minutes and intended it just to be filler. Slash said he originally played that signature opening riff as a joke during a rehearsal (He called it “just a string skipping exercise,” and thought it sounded like “circus music”). Duff and Izzy immediately started improvising chords and a bass line to it, Steven started playing drums, and Axl jotted down some lyrics. > > At one point, they thought they needed a break, so wondering what to do, Axl said “Where do we go? Where do we go now?” They told him just to sing that, so he did, they jammed with that, and just like that, an iconic hit was born. There are a surprising number of truly great songs written that way. Great poetry, too. “Yesterday” came to Paul McCartney in a dream. He didn’t even think he wrote it. He was going around playing it for people and saying, “Have you heard this before? I heard it in my dream, and it must be someone else’s.” “Werewolves of London” was knocked out in a bar with Zevon and his buddies just riffing around having a good time. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction/554211/26 "2010-09-19T19:13:31Z")
I think the album is a rock masterpiece. I chose _Rocket Queen_ as my personal fav and though from the responses in the thread it seems many others agree, I’m surprised that the poll numbers don’t really reflect it. Actually though, the truth is, though the 2nd half of the song really does reach epic levels, the first half is kinda weak. I think if you cut the 2nd half off few would remember the tune at all. But as an album ender that second half really just leaves you feeling good. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction/554211/27 "2010-09-20T02:41:45Z")
Such an awesome record. It really took the metal of the day and skullfucked it. Lotsa great songs, but I picked Sweet Child, for the guitar solo near the end. Joe ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction/554211/28 "2010-09-20T06:22:07Z")
It’s tough but I’d have to pick Paradise City. It’s the most “pop” song, but if I only listened to one song off the album over and over, that would be it. Plus it really rocks toward the end. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction/554211/29 "2010-09-20T12:48:18Z")
Seeing this thread inspires me to listen to Mr. Brownstone every time I see it. Amazing how well this song held up over almost 25 years. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction/554211/30 "2010-09-20T12:59:54Z")
Yeah, that old man, he’s a _real_ motherfucker. ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction/554211/31 "2010-09-20T13:15:00Z")
I voted for Sweet Child, but I’m happy to see all of the love here for Rocket Queen, which would get my pick for second best. I thought I was the only person who really liked that song. I don’t care for Welcome to the Jungle at all. It was the first song of theirs I heard and I actually disliked it. I was shocked (shocked, I tell you) when I first heard Sweet Child and learned that it was the same band. ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction/554211/32 "2010-09-20T20:01:04Z")
I never expected all the love for Rocket Queen. I thought I was unique, but now I realize I am just a metal-hipster. Does anyone else agree that Rocket Queen would be much better without all of the fake moaning? ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction/554211/33 "2010-09-20T21:26:34Z")
> [@CaveMike](#): > > Does anyone else agree that Rocket Queen would be much better without all of the fake moaning? That was the hook, man! 🙂 Seriously, I found it, um, amusing, but yeah, the song could have done without it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-guns-n-roses-appetite-for-destruction/554211.md?page=1)