Classic Rock

1 Welcome To The Jungle

One of the greatest album openers ever, Welcome To The Jungle compresses Guns N’ Roses’ entire essence into one ferocious four-minute mission statement. Danger, sex, violence, unhinged guitar riffs and sirenscreaming vocals, all amid a clash of metal and pop. And that’s just the first verse.

As Slash said in an interview with “This represents to me probably the first real Guns N’ Roses song, with Izzy, Axl, Duff, Steven and myself. The first real song we wrote together as a band. That was the product of the five of us taking an idea and making it our

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