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While i think Guns n Roses were a better band than a lot of their haters suggest, they really don't warrant a lot of the attention they're currently getting. I bought Appetite at the time because it was a great antidote to what I was generally listening to in the mid-to-late 80s (Sonic Youth, Swans, Big Black, Butthole Surfers, etc.) It was a good fun alternative-to-the-'alternative' if you like. No more and no less. They had their moment but let's not elevate them into something they simply can't fulfil. Keep listening to Appetite (the only thing of any real merit they ever did) but let's not fool ourselves into believing that GnR were a 'great' band; they simply weren't.
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