Dec 23, 2009 Best of Guns N' Roses: Subscribe here: Music video by Guns N' Roses performing Sweet Child O' Mine.

The 1987 release of ’ debut album, Appetite for Destruction, was a pivotal moment in rock history. Elvis Presley Money Honey Mp3. With Guns N' Roses – vocalist Axl Rose, guitarists Slash and Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler – rock music rediscovered its edge, rage and sense of danger. Guns N' Roses rank alongside a handful of hard-rock bands with punk-rock attitudes – including the, and - that shook and shocked the world. Guns N' Roses formed in Los Angeles in 1985 and Appetite for Destruction, which was released on Geffen Records two years later, would ultimately enjoy a 147-week run on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In 1991, Guns N' Roses released two volumes of Use Your Illusion on the same day. It was a remarkable outpouring of music, totaling 30 tracks on two CDs.

Use Your Illusion I and II each sold 7 million copies and reached Number Two and Number One, respectively. By 1997 only Axl Rose remained from the original Guns N' Roses. However, a rather stable lineup has existed under his leadership since the late Nineties and released Chinese Democracy in 2008. Here, the Rock Hall suggests 10 essential Guns N' Roses songs. 'Welcome To The Jungle' was the opening volley of an assault on the rock and roll mainstream of the Eighties.

The first track on 1987's Appetite for Destruction, 'Welcome To The Jungle' was the antithesis of the pop-metal that was heavily favored by rock radio of the era. Rose's lyrics painted a portrait of Los Angeles far removed from the glitz and glamour more commonly seen and heard, instead singing of the town's dark, seedy side ( Welcome to the jungle we take it day by day / If you want it you're gonna bleed but it's the price to pay / And you're a very sexy girl that's very hard to please / You can taste the bright lights but you won't get there for free). For Indiana native Rose, it was an honest account of his introduction to a cruel metropolis and the scenes he witnessed. His screeching vocals – including the bone-chilling opening to the song – reflected a despondency and anger, while the song's gritty, distorted verse riffs and declarative rhythm section gave the track a muscular backbone. The production was loud and brash – just like the band members themselves. This was the song that helped make the Gunners superstars, peaking at Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1988 and helping take sales of Appetite For Destruction to more than 18 million. If “Welcome to the Jungle” displayed their hard rock edge, then “Sweet Child O’ Mine” showed more emotional range, but without dipping into the metal power ballad territory mined by so many of their contemporaries.