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Appetite for Destruction is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It was released on July 21, 1987, by Geffen Records to massive commercial success. It topped the Billboard 200 and became the best-selling debut album as well as the 11th best-selling album in the United States. With about 30 million copies sold worldwide, it is also one of the best-selling records ever. Although critics were ambivalent toward the album when it was first released, Appetite for Destruction has since received retrospective acclaim and been viewed as one of the greatest albums of all time.
Axl Rose stated that many of the songs on the album were written while the band was performing on the Los Angeles club circuit, and a number of songs that would be featured on later Guns N' Roses albums were considered for Appetite for Destruction, such as "Back Off Bitch", "You Could Be Mine", "November Rain" and "Don't Cry". 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).
I never thought. I never cared. It never bothered me. But then I saw how I helped a senseless system of suffering. Taught not to care. No reasons for the lives we steal. Taught not to care. We don't need to trade a life for a meal. A selfish way that we don't need (We don't need it). A diet based on lies and based on greed. Who are we to give ourselves the right? We have no right. We've tried to justify our ways for so long. Living in denial. Believing that nothing is wrong. The truth is wrapped in a clever disguise. We buy and eat their fucking lies. We can't continue to live like this. Thinking only of ourselves is so destructive. Just continue to waste the food. Waste the lives. Waste the land. The blood is on your hands. The blood is on your hands