Discography Guns N 'Roses: 1986-2014

At a time when dance music and pop metal were popular, Guns N 'Roses brought rock and roll to the charts. They were not good boys: good boys do not rock and roll. They were ugly and cruel misogynists, but they were also funny, vulnerable and sometimes sensitive, as their hit Sweet Child O 'Mine showed.

Music by Guns N 'Roses

Guns N 'Roses music was simple with a solid blues base. Musicians are scruffy, dirty and honest - all that good hard rock and heavy metal artists should have. There was something refreshing in the group, it could provoke anything: from devotion to hatred, especially since all the options were equally true.

Discography Guns N 'Roses

To date, the group has released 7 studio albums. It is worth noting that the musicians for the entire time the group has remained faithful to one label.

Album release of the group 1986-1993

Guns N 'Roses released their first EP in 1986, leading to a contract with Geffen. The following year, the debut album Appetite for Destruction was released.

They began to grow into followers, speaking at numerous live concerts, but the album began to be sold only a year later, when they began to broadcast Sweet Child O 'Mine on MTV. Soon both the album and the single took first place, and Guns N 'Roses became one of the most famous bands in the world.

Their debut single, Welcome to the Jungle, was reissued to be in the Top Ten, and Paradise City followed in his footsteps.

By the end of 1988, they released the album GN 'R Lies, which combined four new acoustic songs (including the Five Patience hit from Top Five) with their first EP. The song One in a million caused intense controversy when Guns N 'Roses slid into misogyny, fanaticism, and sheer violence. In fact, they somehow managed to dispel all forms of prejudice and hatred in one five-minute melody.

In 1990, the band recorded a cover version of Bob Dylan's Knockin 'on Heaven's Door. Performed by Guns N 'Roses Heavens door entered the "Days of Thunder" - an album-soundtrack to the film of the same name.

Guns N 'Roses began work on the long-awaited sequel to Appetite for Destruction in late 1990. After an almost one year delay, the albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II were released in September 1991.

Initially, these Guns N 'Roses albums sold very well, and it seemed like they were destined to set the pace for the coming decade, but it didn't work out that way.

Guns N 'Roses absolutely did not understand the change in hard rock in 1993 when they released the punk cover album The Spaghetti Incident, which received some positive reviews. The group could not catch the reckless spirit of not only the original versions, but also their own Appetite for Destruction.

In mid-1994, rumors surfaced that GNR was about to break up, as Axl Rose wanted to go in a new, more industrial direction, and Slash wanted to stay with his blues hard rock.

Calm time

Rose remained out of focus, becoming a hermit and doing nothing. He has also hired various musicians, including Dave Navarro, Tommy Stinson and former Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Fink, for unofficial jam sessions.

The rest of the participants were furious that Rose had included his childhood friend Paul Hyuug in new sessions, when both Stradlin and Clark were expelled from the group. And the Sympathy for the Devil remake of the Rolling Stones, in fact, was the last straw when Rose cut out the parts of the other members and put Hugo on the song without consulting with anyone else.

In 1996, Slash officially broke up with Guns N 'Roses. Rumors continued to spread, and there was still no new material, although Rose rewrote Appetite for Destruction with a new composition for rehearsal purposes.

The first new original GNR song in 8 years, the industrial metal track Oh My God finally appeared on the soundtrack for Arnold Schwarzenegger's movie "End of the World" in 1999. Shortly thereafter, Geffen expanded his Guns N 'Roses Live discography with Era: '87 -'93.

Album release group 2000-2014

The appearance of the Video Music Awards at the MTV 2002 helped to attract interest in the new line-up, but Rose’s mediocre performance and interview in which he announced that the new album would not be released anytime soon didn’t help the group.

That summer, GNR went on their first tour in the last 8 years. They managed to fulfill all their obligations in Europe and Asia. Unfortunately, they caused a violent and devastating riot in Vancouver when Rose did not appear at the first performance on their tour of North America.

Years passed, and the new album never appeared in the discography of Guns N 'Roses. The album was called Chinese democracy for a long time, and sometimes recordings of sessions leaked and got into Internet file hosting.

A fascinating article written by Jeff Leeds for The New York Times, published in March 2005, showed how confusing and expensive the album was. According to an article entitled “The Most Expensive Album That Has Never Been Released,” Rose began work on the album in 1994 and increased the cost of production by nearly $ 13 million. The producers involved in creating the album at one point or another included Mike Blade, Youth, Sean Beavan, and even Roy Thomas Baker.

In 2006, the album was almost released, as Rose began to appear in public and even took his band on tour to participate in several shows. The largest music industry bore fruit in 2008, when Axel presented the album, which was created over 10 years ago, adding to the discography of Guns N 'Roses.

Despite the fact that Chinese democracy received a lot of rave reviews, and critics were generally positive, the album did not live up to expectations, debuting at number 3 on the Billboard 200, released in November.

World tour

Sixx DJ guitarist Ashba: A.M. joined GNR in 2009, and the group continued to work on new material and play on the show, with some of the band's former members occasionally touring.

In 2012, the GNR classic was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Slash, McCagan, Clark, Adler and Sorum reunited and performed several songs from the Appetite for distruction era with vocalist Miles Kennedy, replacing Rose, who refused to participate.

In 2016, the GNR went on a tour called Not in this lifetime, in which Rose took part with a reunited line-up: guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan and several touring members.

An updated version of Appetite for Destruction appeared in Guns N 'Roses mp3 discography in 2018. It included the previously unreleased single Shadow of Your Love, recorded by the original cast.

Group videos

Guns N 'Roses clips have been released for the following songs:

• "November Rain". The plot of the epic video focuses on conjugal bliss, followed by the agony of lost love. Here, the viewer also sees a full-fledged back-symphony, some rather powerful visual effects of Slash pumping his guitar in a dusty churchyard, a gloomy funeral procession and Axel Rose waking up in a panic.

• Welcome to the Jungle. In the video, Axel Rose jumped out of the bus and ended up in the jungle. Welcome to the Jungle discovered that the singer is getting to know a whole new world filled with "fun and games." Quick shots were intended to portray the public’s fascination with sex, war and violence, as was shown on television, while shots from the band’s performance fill the rest of the video.
• Don't Cry. As part of the Guns N 'Roses video trilogy, Axel Rose is in a rather poor position in the Don't Cry video. Scenes of a bitter quarrel with a pistol, shots and helicopters with spotlights that hovered so close when the group protrudes above a tall building, setting the tone. The theme of jealousy, death and bad relationships also pervade the clip. The video ends with Axel looking up from the grave, which shows his name and the child leaving the bathroom.
• You Could Be Mine. It’s quite difficult to make a video on a soundtrack unless you include frames from a movie. But for the song You Could Be Mine, which plays in Arnold Schwarzenegger's blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the group does just that.
• Paradise City. The rise of Guns N 'Roses to the pinnacle of popularity was pretty fast, and this can be felt in their Paradise City video. In a short time, the group found its way to play in stadiums, and the video shows the space during the soundcheck, when the group prepares for a performance and some moments backstage.
• Sweet Child O Mine. There are no special effects or high concepts, but there is something significant. This is a black and white grainy-looking video. This is, first of all, a concert clip of the group rehearsing, while various members of the team and the environment are having fun.
• Patience. Life on the road can be a secluded place. Axel Rose whistles and sings thoughtfully about distant love, and viewers watch a series of hotel rooms, corridors and lobbies. Room service has never seemed such an interesting action.
• Estranged. The SWAT team breaks into Axel Rose's home when the singer lies unconscious, somewhere between reality and a state of sleep, where dolphins swim along the Sunset Strip. What does all this mean? You need to look and come up with your own interpretation.
• Live and Let Die. In the era of Use Your Illusion, there was no more attractive ticket than a ticket to the Guns N 'Roses show. Looking at the video of the band Live and Let Die, you can understand why. Axel Rose's frenzied performance, combined with one of the coolest bands on earth, has created a video clip that can be watched endlessly.
• Garden of Eden. Part of what made the early Guns N 'Roses era so great was pure, unflappable energy and the ability to fully capture their performance. You can see this in the Garden of Eden video when Axel Rose sings a fisheye lens in front of the camera lens while his bandmates sing along and jump behind him.

In each of them you can find something of your own and listen to them endlessly.