Vinyl Album - Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction - Geffen

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Guns N' Roses
Title:	Appetite For Destruction
Label:	Geffen
Country:	Europe
Catalogue:	924 148-1 / WX 125
Barcode:	075992414814
Date:	Aug 1987
Format:	LP
Genre:	Hard Rock
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	25 Own, 1 Wants
Price Guide:	$104
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PRICE GUIDE

$104

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Guns N' Roses	Welcome To The Jungle	Guns N' Roses	Rate
A2	Guns N' Roses	It's So Easy	Guns N' Roses, Arkeen	Rate
A3	Guns N' Roses	Nightrain	Guns N' Roses	Rate
A4	Guns N' Roses	Out Ta Get Me	Guns N' Roses	Rate
A5	Guns N' Roses	Mr Brownstone	Guns N' Roses	Rate
A6	Guns N' Roses	Paradise City	Guns N' Roses	Rate
B1	Guns N' Roses	My Michelle	Guns N' Roses	Rate
B2	Guns N' Roses	Think About You	Guns N' Roses	Rate
B3	Guns N' Roses	Sweet Child O' Mine	Guns N' Roses	Rate
B4	Guns N' Roses	You're Crazy	Guns N' Roses	Rate
B5	Guns N' Roses	Anything Goes	Guns N' Roses, Weber	Rate
B6	Guns N' Roses	Rocket Queen	Guns N' Roses	Rate

Notes

Made in Germany for European release.
All 3 Cat#'s shown above appear on the rear sleeve and spine, 924-148-1 being the most prominent. WX 125 was the UK cat#.

The album's original cover art, based on Robert Williams' painting "Appetite for Destruction", depicted a robotic rapist about to be punished by a metal avenger. After several music retailers refused to stock the album, the label compromised and put the controversial cover art inside, replacing it with an image depicting a cross and skulls of the five band members (designed by Billy White Jr., originally as a tattoo), each skull representing one member of the band: Izzy Stradlin, top skull; Steven Adler, left skull; Axl Rose, center skull; Duff McKagan, right skull; and Slash, bottom skull.

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Comments and Reviews


hiwatt1973 13th Aug 2023		I have added the sticker issued with early copies (Pre Censored Cover) size 147mm x 77mm. After the cover was censored the album was issued with an A4 sticker sheet that included the banned cover image.



kab2112 SUBS 17th Feb 2017		I've added a barcode, but I have another record with the same cat# with different label layouts and barcode, as can be seen on the back cover& label scans



Magic Marmalade 12th Aug 2016		Mind you... having delved a little in eBay's basement, a few of those with the banned sleeve contain coloured vinyls... and at least one of those describes it as "unofficial". Could the coloured vinyls in the banned sleeve be boots? The coloured vinyls in the corrected sleeve seem to have more legitimate labels.



Magic Marmalade 12th Aug 2016		Considering my previous comment... I wonder if the "banned" sleeve might not be that rare really... (it certainly seems reasonable available on ebay) ... by virtue of the fact that it was European issue, and not exclusive UK release. So even if stores refused to stock it, and requested the change, if it was not banned in other countries at the same time, they could have been available for a long time, and even shipped over to UK. (Might it be that the corrected sleeve - by this logic, being for a time at least, UK exclusive - might actually be the rarer of the two?)



Magic Marmalade 10th Aug 2016		What kind of numbers did the banned sleeve go out in, before being replaced?



kab2112 SUBS 15th Dec 2015		Magazine Advert added

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Linked Releases

USA - Geffen - 1987

Canada - Geffen - 1987

Yugoslavia - Geffen - 1989

USA - Geffen - 2008

Europe - Geffen - 2015

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