Comments on: Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction

By: Initial Impression: Appetite for Destruction – Guns N’ Roses « Hey Lolita, Hey

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 01:00:59 +0000

[...] Looking at the album artwork, it has that metal feel to it. You see a cross with five skulls, each one representing one of the members of the band, which I thought was pretty cool since each skull has some sort of trademark from the band member (Slash’s top hat, Axl Rose’s bandana, etc.). After doing some research, I found out that this was actually not the original cover. The original consisted of a painting done by Robert Williams, also titled “Appetite for Destruction”, where a robot is about to be punished for raping a woman (pic). The cover stirred some controversy because of the rape scene which offended record distributors because they thought the cover was demeaning to women, so they refused to sell it and MTV refused to play their videos, which caused them to replace it with the cross and skulls cover (source 1, source 2). [...]

By: Frannnn

Frannnn — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 03:49:00 +0000

If I tell you guy that I found the original image! Bot a use my money in the Movie.. so I could not buy… I get so furious because the album with that image is veryu rare hre, in Brazil! ):

By: Chrisbutters

Chrisbutters — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:47:00 +0000

yea i remeber that pic you mean of the blonde with the black strip

By: Fdsd

Fdsd — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:16:00 +0000

The orriginal photo was dubber “Robo Rape”. They also had nudity in the Lies sleeve (of which I still own the cassette tape) but was later taken out.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:10:00 +0000

couldnt agree more mate when i was 6 years old my dad went to thailand and i told him to grab me appertite for destruction”excuse my spelling” so any ways my dad came back with the album lie s i never seen it before i cursed my old man but after to listing to it ,it was fucking magical.I stayed with dad on the weekends so one satarday at a music shop “dad buy us that shirt it s the shirt of that album you got me” no worries son got the best dad i could watch $ rated hooror movies at 5 6 yr s old,so went i went home i folded up the shirt and hid it from my mum a few weeks later my school had a FREE DRESS day and i was in the worst suburb of my city perth wa australia not no litttle country town,YOU WONT TO SEE THE LOOK S ON THE TEACHERS FACES MAHAHAHAH I NEVER FORGET chris”TURN THAT FUCKING SHIRT INSIDE OUT” YES MISS YOU BITCH BUT ANY WAY.My stepsister who wasnt bad looking 2 years older than me so she went out withthe whothought they why cool listing to use your illusion album raving on about it and never heard of appertite {and as we know use your illusssion is a ablum to buy your girlfriend than 3 montrhs ago this 35 yr old hard mother fucker is complaing about the concert and i say whats your favourite album USE YOUR ILLUSION ,i say no wonder thats not gnr thats some drug induced album,then i say” can you even remeber one song of appertite hes like “YEA YEA OF COurse” tick tick nothing then i say what about lie s the best album orginal know one song what about half a song which shouldnt be that hard having the hit”patiance” so i even pulled him downthat low i say “what about one line can you resight one line ten words in a row or either album” he couldnt i laughed at this bikie fucker thats why the concert was shit and 30 thousand people agree maybe his voice was a bit off buitt doesnt matter when you got those lyrics.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:41:00 +0000

Best album ever made from start to fininsh,its got fun and games and awesome guitars

By: Martyr

Martyr — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:38:00 +0000

Do not like the subject of rape glorified in art, music, movies or any sort and always despised this pictorial. And I say glorified because the artist made great effort to make the female look enticing and seductive. Probably a fantasy that he kicked around in his head.

By: Ando

Ando — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:57:15 +0000

It isn't clear from the picture that the second robot is going to punish the first robot. Could be it also wants to rape the woman.

By: duanebarry

duanebarry — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:13:28 +0000

A friend of mine had this on vinyl – I was heart broken, not because he had it & I did not – BUT BECAUSE HIS MOTHER HAD CUT OUT “CUT OUT!” THE RAPE VICTIM WITH A SCISSORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG DIE BITCH DIE –

I would have killed to own that & frame it like the poster above has. Underneath the coolness of the image it is a nasty cover & as covers go the safe option is more iconic as it is simple & uncluttered. That said I Prefer the original as a piece of art.

By: aitch

aitch — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:46:19 +0000

I read about GNR in Kerrang mag. They were reviewing Live like a Suicide, I went down to my record store and ordered it. They got five in, I bought 1 loved it and went back and bought 2 more. Then when Appetite came out, I went and bought 3 copies, I knew this was gonna be a big band. Still got all these LPS, one of each opened others still in plastic.

By: Neel

Neel — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:55:12 +0000

@wolf !!
WTF!!! u got the original gnr album in a fuckin fleamarket

By: Antonio

Antonio — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:11:10 +0000

The greatest album but the first cover (the one I got on my LP) was better than this..Antonio X lusini

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:59:26 +0000

The album is timeless. Amazing material, talent, attitude & production.

A lot of the hard rock albums for the same time sound dated now, but not Appetite. I read in Slash’s bio that they were very fussy and shopped around for the right producer, Mike Clink.

By: coco

coco — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:29:34 +0000

got the album the day b4 its official release as a cousin owned a record shop.still sounds as mighty as ever either cover is great.

By: philip mc kay

philip mc kay — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:01:08 +0000

The cross is the best logo, cause this is the greatest rock album ever!, and it should have rightfully been at no.1, but that’s the way people voted. It’s so colourful and iconic, rock on!!