Appetite For Destruction ~ Guns N Roses (1987)

If you're a true rebellious teenager, you'll have listened to this album at full volume, trying to imitate Axl Rose's screech. The atmosphere of chaos and devilish shenanigans that surround this album's sound just appeals to the teen's sense of "screw the man", or whatever kids today say. (I honestly have no idea what they say.) Kids don't rebel anymore; they just sing about sex, money, and other disgusting music. I can't stand it.
Now, I can't defend GN'R to the point of saying that their music isn't about the same subjects, but the lyrics are just so much more brilliant. But all that aside...
Appetite For Destruction is the top-selling debut album of all time. Any idea how hard it is to claim that? Back in the 80's, it would require serious word-of-mouth to generate that kind of fanbase for a debut album. With all the swearing in the songs, I highly doubt that many songs could have made it onto the radio, and they had no music videos in the beginning, so MTV had nothing to show.
This album blew up like it did for good reason. The talent presented on it is clear. From all five of them. I want to clearly state that GN'R is probably one of the most under-rated bands of all time. Well, the lineup of Axl, Izzy, Slash, Duff and Steven is. Almost every song on this album could at one point or another make it onto my 'favorite songs' list.
But if I had to pick one...
It feels sacrilegious to say any of these are better than any other. Whenever I need to listen to this album (like, absolutely need to) I listen to the whole thing, front to back. No excuses.