First Time Hearing Guns N Roses Welcome To The Jungle Reaction - DEEP LAYERS OR JUST A PARTY SONG?!

[@rickwelch8464]

This album debuted in April of 87. Every song being is good as the next. The last of the true old school rockers before Grunge took over. I joined the Army just after that and this was heard throughout the barracks at a VERY high frequency in 88 once I got out of basic. This was EVERYWHERE.

[@metalmark1214]

Yep everywhere. A lesson in how a record company can promote and make an album successful.

[@correctlyrics]

No, it wasn't an instant hit. "Welcome to the Jungle" was their first single. The main song on Clint Eastwood's "The Dead Pool". It did nothing. Nobody paid attention. When "Sweet Child O Mine" was released, THAT'S when GnR instantly became huge.

[@rickwelch8464]

@@correctlyrics I should have made myself more clear. This ALBUM was everywhere by the time I was in the Army in 88. Instant hit was incorrect I suppose. Thanks.

[@vinniedixon1140]

It was released July 21st 1987 and got little attention until the following year after Paradise City and Sweet Child O' Mine were released. Do your research properly.

[@rickwelch8464]

@@vinniedixon1140 Listen tough guy, I admitted my mistake. Your toxic idiocy can f right off boy

[@AKSebi2]

Fun fact: When this aired on mtv, the phonelines ignited because there were so many calls, from an article with the bands manager (Also for Mötley Crüe) Tom Zutaut: “Basically,” Zutaut recalled, “he says, ‘The MTV switchboard blew up last night. Too many phone calls came in, it sparked the thing and it melted.’” The channel had never had so many calls - and requests for the “Welcome To The Jungle” video continued into the following day. “Every kid in America is calling them requesting this video,” Coury told Zutaut, “and they know there’s no way we could have paid that many people to do it.”

[@LN-Lifer]

I had worn out 2 cassettes before Welcome ever dropped. My best bud's (RIP) uncle showed up and said "check out this tape, I don't know who they are but the cover is cool" We popped it in and even before Axl finished the opening scream I looked at my buddy and said "this is the greatest band ever" And so it has been ever since My other friends went crazy when the video was released and all I could say was "see I told you!!!"

[@cindymccomb4531]

And they played on mtv Sunday at like 4 am

[@coffeetalk924]

You guys deserve a TV show. Reactions and comments are so dialed in and spot on! And such a down to earth genuinely cool couple. Enjoyed it again. Thank you

[@barsandbarbells2022]

Thank you! We really appreciate that! And we always appreciate your fantastic support on all our videos, coffee :)

[@joegreene7619]

Back when album sales were still the primary measure of success, this was the highest selling debut album of all time (still holds that record for physical albums).

[@Presice]

50 cent got that now

[@Tommysimonsen]

G`N`R Paradise city, the perfect summer song.

[@barsandbarbells2022]

Coming next!

[@kerrihennebury7616]

🎶 If you got the money, honey, we got your disease 🎶

[@correctlyrics]

Axl's natural voice is quite low. He used to sing with that voice. One day, he got mad and screamed a lyric in a higher voice. One of the band's gfs told him that THAT was the way he should sing. So ..he changed how he sang...and our Axl was born. If you listen to "Mr Brownstone", you can hear his more natural singing voice.

[@Laga98]

Dan McCafferty from Nazereth is what his vocal style is based off of. I believe it was Izzy at the time who overheard him singing in that voice and told him he should always sing that way. It became his signature from there on out

[@scsi_joe]

That's crazy, I always thought those lower vocals in many of GnR's songs were from a different band member

[@kimzwolinski9919]

Axl arrived in by bus in Los Angeles at 18 years old to pursue a music career. It's more or less about the immense culture shock he experienced. Forgot to mention he was coming from Indiana I can only imagine the adjustment would be huge.

[@jonlandin2440]

Yeah, Axl hitch hiked to L.A. with a backpack and thats it. The band even lived together in a storage unit for a while. Before the days of american idol, lol. Legend.

[@jco207]

I think it's in the Roxy 87 concert where Axl tells the audience that someone yelled "You're in the jungle baby, you're gonna die" at him when he got off the bus.

[@barsandbarbells2022]

To be young and adventurous again! 😂

[@kimzwolinski9919]

@@jonlandin2440 he actually took a Greyhound bus. Doesn’t really matter I guess I’m just glad he got there or we wouldn’t have the awesome music 😁

[@jonlandin2440]

@@jco207 The bus story is true, but it happened in New York at a different time. But he did write the song about Los Angeles. I know this because I am old.

[@randybaker6042]

I got to see them before they hit it big as an opening act for the The Cult and my friends and I walked out at the end of the concert saying they were going to be huge. They were obviously the real deal.

[@jayman58016]

I was 17 driving home from my part time job one night and this came on. That intro kicked in and I was hooked immediately and turned it up full volume!

[@txheadshots]

GnR literally EXPLODED onto the scene with this song and album in 1987 .. it was a fantastic cap to the Hair Band trend of the 80s, but the talent of Axl Rose (a classically trained pianist) and Slash (who makes most people's top 10 rock guitarists of all time and my personal top 5) showed they were so much more than a Hair Band

[@jamesnorthup7717]

The whole idea of the song was in the very beginning of the video, the cornbread country kid showing up in LA, or Hollywood and what it's going to do to you to make it! Are you willing to sell your soul???

[@imbubbymom]

First heard this song in a Clint Eastwood movie and I was like whoah wait what the eff was that. I stayed for the credits to see the name of the band and then went straight to the record store to buy their album Appetite for Destruction.

[@lisainthecold4287]

Axel is a legend and I love him so much! That voice and red hair! He was different, special, and one of a kind!!

[@rodb9275]

I've watched several of your videos and enjoyed them all. I am not sure why I hadn't subscribed yet, but I did tonight, finally. Great reaction! You are both so personable, well spoken, bright and both very nice to look at!!!!

[@barsandbarbells2022]

Awesome! Thank you for saying that! Glad to have you along for the ride!

[@rodb9275]

I loved everything on this album. This is always my favorite GNR song. 2nd favorite is "It's So Easy". Reactors RARELY do that one. I hope you'll consider it.

[@DJDOGG31]

Rare to have not heard this song before. They use it at sporting events a lot.

[@chasingbirds3073]

They just said they may have heard a portion of it at a sporting event. They never play the whole song at sporting events.

[@216Numbskull]

What a bunch of BS! Are people today really that silly to believe these 2 have never heard Guns n' Roses Welcome to the Jungle? Seriously y'all got to be kidding me right now. Here's a question for ya. "Ever wonder about those people who spend $3 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards." WTF Blah,ha,ha!!!

[@jennhurl]

"Rebel Yell" Billy Idol

[@lt.spears1889]

87’ I was 23 this song and this album just blew us all away, the last of the true rock bands, just in your face, gritty, bombastic with great hooks, harmonies, and musicianship as well as Roses vocals, GNR wow, those were the days.

[@rothed16]

18 here just graduated HS n working at the bowling alley. What they could have become had they not imploded within. Coulda be Zep status the way this Album hit. Egos, drugs and in fighting. Sad lol. This whole album was a banger.

[@robinbeerman4726]

One of thuer earliest songs. Lots of energy. About coming to la

[@nikkidearmas3733]

Guns n Roses have always been one of my favorites. The song is great. I listened to it so much even while I was pregnant with my 31 yr old. That when she was 8 yrs old she came to me said: mommy where have I heard this from? Lol! Overall it’s a great song and Slashes’s guitar solo gives me chills! Amazing song❤❤❤

[@jmhaces]

Yeah, song's about the singer's experience in moving to L.A. from Indiana and becoming exposed to the whole Hollywood/rock and roll lifestyle in that "concrete jungle," just like you pointed out. Drugs, sex, fame, etc. That line in the breakdown where he says "You know where you are? You're in the jungle, baby. You're gonna die!" is allegedly taken from something a homeless man told him shortly after he got off the bus when he first got to L.A.

[@TheNewRevolution]

I was looking to see if anyone told the story of the song. Looks like you beat me to it. 😊

[@michaelthornton311]

Actually, the homeless man sayin' "You know where you are? You're in the jungle, baby. You're gonna die!" story was in NYC. Axl tried NY first, briefly, before goin' to L.A. Pretty sure he bussed to New York, wasn't the right scene for him, then hitch hiked to L.A.

[@joegreene7619]

It's basically a recounting of the transformation from William Bruce Rose Jr. to W. Axl Rose.

[@dancrabbe6423]

"Do you know where you are? You're in the jungle baby! You're gonna die!" Before Axl went to CA, he took a short trip to NYC. When he got off the bus, an older gentleman saw that he was a bit out of place and said that line to him.

[@JerryRoppe]

From the day this album was released in 87 I stuck it in my car CD player and didn't take it out for close to 6 months. Over and over, didn't have to skip a track, every song rocked as hard as the last, no weak tracks. Turn it up to 11 and let it rip. One of the greatest hand full of albums ever released.

[@sashabertold3731]

When this album came out in 1987 I was 9 years of age and I didn't really understand. Years later in 1991/92 this album was still BIG and I understood and bought it. Every song on it just blows me away to ashes!

[@arnoldcox9128]

What was attractive to this band is their attitude for sure

[@leorobitaille3034]

Guns is kick ass. I’m down for this rabbit hole

[@MrSchmaaz]

I was stationed in Germany in 87, 88, 89. I had no clue what Guns and Roses was. A guy shows up to our unit, fresh from the states and says, you gotta hear guns and roses. He got laughed at until he put the CASSETTE on. We were hooked.

[@awesomelana7227]

Glad you liked it! I just saw them Live in Abu Dhabi, Slash switched guitars like every song, seeing him play guitar live is like, what I imagine people felt watching Mozart play the piano live. 🔥 🎸 ❤

[@LN-Lifer]

Going to see them for 5th time in September... but it will be my first time with Slash and Duff and I don't even care that Axl has been possessed by Mickey Mouse

[@Laga98]

I saw them in 2017 and again in 2021, they arent coming to my state in the US this tour though for some reason

[@andreaskarlsson5251]

The song was about Axl coming from the countryside to the big city and all that it brings. Sex, drugs and rocknroll. How overwhelming it can be and ruins so many lives in the city.

[@flippinpages6550]

I was working at a junior high when Guns and Roses came out. I always liked Bob Dylan and Led Zeppln but when I heard Axl I was blown away. Thanks for sharing.

[@ericgaudet5488]

Great job with your reaction to Welcome To The Jungle from Guns and Roses. All there songs are based on true events and things that has happened to them in the band ( except one I used to love her that one's a joke.) this song is about Axl Rose going to the city for the first time and meeting up with Izzy to form Guns and Roses.

[@jeffsargent8318]

Love your channel

[@SIXX2772]

THIS was our first glimpse ever of GnR...first hit fist video, remember like it was yesaterday because they made current rock revelent again at that time ..1987...after that the only other person/band that changed everything off their very first appearance/song/video was NIRVANA and Smells like Teeen Spirit!

[@GeraldWalling]

They were in concert here in the Birmingham, Alabama area many years ago. The Concert was held at the old Horse track, which is 4 miles as a crow flies from my house. The music was so loud that they shattered windows in stores just 4 blocks away from my house. I could hear the concert sitting on my front porch. The City decided there would be no more concerts at the track from that point on for all the noise calls that they got.

[@MartyMcK]

He’s singing about how dangerous it can be trying to survive in the sleazier parts of the big city.

[@stevewhubell3957]

Love your channel guys.

[@barsandbarbells2022]

Thx Steve!

[@TheEricthefruitbat]

To this day, I believe this is G'n'R's best song. This one gets into my soul like none of the others.

[@justme2]

Did you guys notice, at the beginning when he got off the bus, he was all green & knows nothing about city life. At the end he became something else.

[@ESUSAMEX]

The song is about the craziness Axl saw in LA after moving there from Indiana. If can see the reference to Indiana in the wheat in Axl's mouth when he is getting off the bus at the beginning of the video. He has said the people in LA were nuts when he first arrived. The song title (Welcome to the Jungle) came from a homeless drug addict who screamed at Axl: " Welcome to the Jungle. You're gonna die" while Axl was walking by one night

[@ugaais]

I was born in 1970 class of 1988…..this album was everywhere in 1987 on…the 80’s was an incredible time to be a teen..and our girls knew how to be…he is NOT saying the girls are high maintenance he’s saying whatever they take means they have hit their knees or bang..to make whatever they take a fair trade

[@detalhelocacoes9781]

Awesome analyses, well done!

[@HowardRollins-p7s]

This song is talking about a cloning center

[@80HD8]

Love this band, love this song. One of my favorites from this band is Used To Love Her. I'm not sure if there's a video, but even the audio is good. It's a fun, funny song.

[@TheStarcruiser]

Led Zeppelin Kashmir (live from celebration day)!!!👍

[@paulfernandez3747]

Perfect timing, the world needed a new super band in the late 80s, but then came METALLICA

[@ericgaudet5488]

The first Vocal note the Ahhhhhh part you hear from Axl Rose is in the Guinness book of World Records for the longest being Note.The last Note in Don't Cry is there for the longest Ending Vocal Note

[@metalmark1214]

Axl Grease always helps😆🤣😂

[@TheDivayenta]

He was so pretty back then. 😊I think Janis Joplin was an inspiration for his singing style.

[@jamessollazzo4860]

biggest band from 87-93!

[@lesliehagemann5755]

My very favorite band! I wore Appetite out on tape and I had to buy it again with my allowance. 😂

[@Gemini22-v4w]

Now this group and song and everything that this group does rules the world dudes and the meaning in this song is all about living life in this world it is about life

[@LN-Lifer]

I had worn out 2 cassettes before Welcome ever dropped. My best bud's (RIP) uncle showed up and said "check out this tape, I don't know who they are but the cover is cool" We popped it in and even before Axl finished the opening scream I looked at my buddy and said "this is the greatest band ever" And so it has been ever since

[@charleskell2858]

In the jungle way we play ..stood out for me..awesome

[@kylespeirs6510]

I can’t believe you haven’t heard this before. This song was iconic when it came out and played on the radio. Girl you are 🔥

[@jasonkart1651]

the line do you know where you are. you're in the jungle baby your going to die what the first thing Axl heard when he got to LA from Indiana. Some guy on the street saw him getting off the bus and said it to him. The entire song are all things he experienced his first few weeks in LA

[@benjaminwright1558]

I'm 64 and I cant believe you 2 have lived under a rock all your life and never heard any of the songs you've done on your channel

[@davidkessinger1581]

I saw GNR open for Alice Cooper in 1987. It was my wife's first concert ever. It was way over 100 for me though as I went to concerts in the 70's. I wanted her to see Alice Cooper's show and she loved it. It was easy to tell GNR was going to get huge.

[@rorybisson756]

Strippers wish they could move their hips half as well as Axl does. but in all seriousness, my hot take is that I can put Axl and Brian Wilson in the same ballpark of tortured musical geniuses when it comes to song composing. the drugs also moved that equal parts genius and breakdown at a neck-breaking pace in a 5-6 yr span. this album absolutely changed the music industry. you can easily draw a line from this album to grunge of 91 with the Seatle groups.

[@melvin768]

I sen them twice they were great here in central Florida

[@carriemichelle322]

Skid Row....Wasted Time was written by Sebastian Bach lead singer. Its about former drummer of Guns and Roses Steve Adler. Please check it out. Sebastian's voice will blow u away. Thank u😊

[@brianm1916]

Great analysis. Especially for a first time listen!

[@joelmcclatchey1863]

How fitting that it's the Northern Irish Troubles portrayed here in the music video. Also like a jungle for like 29 years.

[@Thedesertguy75]

The true wild west of hard ROck was this sound......that album is one the best hard rock records of all time for me.......

[@andrewbirrell2176]

Great song from a great album

[@chrisstone5868]

Rick Welch said all there needs to be said!! Go Rick!!!

[@jamiezaman]

Fastest selling Debut Album of all time I believe it's sold nearly 18 million albums in the usa alone

[@Gemini22-v4w]

This song and band rules the planet

[@kerrycronin256]

I've always thought it referred to the "concrete jungle" as well. Even before seeing the video. The video just enforced it for me.

[@calemobrien1139]

Very curious to know if you guys knew who Slash was before checking out GnR or just discovered him? Both his look & sound are legendary 😎

[@GT-mq1dx]

I was stationed in Long Beach when this album exploded. I used to hang out with some friends who had an apartment in Belmont Shores, always a party going on with a bunch of girls from Long Beach State. There was this guy that dropped by with a friend of ours who told us about hanging out with some of the band members totally loaded on speed balls during that time. Really crazy $h!t. Also, I walked into a used record store sometime in the summer of 88 on Sunset Strip just checking out what they had. The place was like a small warehouse with rows of records to look through. I noticed when I walked in that it was pretty much deserted except a girl and guy about my age, the girl worked there and I assumed that the guy was her boyfriend come to hang out. Anyhow, I found a record to buy and took it up to the register. As the girl was ringing me up I looked over to my left at the dude, and there sitting behind the counter was Axle Rose which was definitely a surprise. I’m not really into being wowed by celebrities, but I got an autograph just to show my shipmates…lol The 80’s were a very killer time to be young fur sure.

[@ESUSAMEX]

Both Axl and Izzy Stradlin -- the second guitarist are from the same town in Indiana. Another singer Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon was also from that same town and he knew Axl. Shannon Hoon is in the Guns N Roses video for "Don't Cry."

[@ceg2235]

"Sweet Child of Mine" is one of their best and most listened to of all time. The official music video has over 1.5 Billion views on YT. It's iconic.

[@darrellthorpe7654]

The Jungle Axl is specifically referring to in the song is Los Angeles…but it’s also any big city in the world that can & will eat you alive if you’re not careful🤘🏼

[@williamgallucci9913]

This is what a rock album should be every Trac on it brings it

[@Bekka_Noyb]

all time classic! ♥

[@kevinmarshall854]

Sweet child of mine is another great song from GNR.

[@thebjd]

Such a great band

[@otisthecanadianbulldog2400]

16 when this hit. Biker strip bars and booze. We were teenagers. And we did it. Ontario/ Quebec, Canada border. And still made it to school the next day.

[@garygriffin2244]

A country boy shows up in the big city, and has to learn fast how to survive

[@angelado3]

OMG I love this song !!!!!

[@briansohr2319]

Among the best rock songs of the eighties, no doubt...

[@MiguelLopez-is9te]

🤘😎🤘 According to R.I.A.A. - As of 2022 - GnR has sold 97.5 million albums. Not bad considering they've only released 6 albums.

[@stevored1989]

if you consider the following, it's good going, 1 V good (Appetite), 1 okay (GNR Lies), 2 overblown (Use Your Illusion i & 11) ,there's a decent album in there somewhere and 2 utter shite (Spaghetti and Chinese Democracy). To be fair to Chinese Democracy if it had be released about 10 years earlier than it was, it would have been in the okay category, but it just missed its time by a decade.

[@rickfairman5640]

Great tune

[@USGrant-rr2by]

When this hit.....the bottom dropped out!!

[@markcox731]

It's about a Midwest Hayseed going to L.A. to be a star , but realizes that it;s just a big city of failed dreams of being a star , He steps off of the bus as a normal person , but in the end he looks like he ran through all of the abuses of living in the Concrete Jungle with Tat's and teased hair lol

[@shack8110]

FOCKIN METAL! This was the hardest, but still melodic, music at the time. Highest-selling debut album ever.

[@kerrijohnson2303]

God they were so young here.! I was 17 when this came out. Back when G&R was good.

[@buffmaloney]

I didn't see it mentioned in the comments. Jim Carrey sang this in a Clint Eastwood movie.

[@jamiezaman]

Their new single PERHAPS has just dropped

[@georgequinn7325]

YES! (6:46 mark) Please do your hair like that. I would love to see you with a hairstyle from my day and age.

[@williamgallucci9913]

What can I say about these boys legend

[@williamgallucci9913]

By the way your channel is my favorite by far tu

[@metalmark1214]

Fronted by Mr. Hissy Fit himself.

[@tinamakaneole8866]

Axl most likely is Bi-Polar. Thus, all the drama over the years. But I ❤him!😊

[@rapozanoel634]

guns n roses - there was a time

[@jamessollazzo4860]

when axl arrived in nyc in the 80's, some old black guy saw him get off the bus and told him "do you know where you are? your in the jungle baby and your gonna die"!

[@AgenteusaRR]

and yet in 1990-91 we were discussing at school "why cant i put up my hair like that?" :P mand stupid but good times :P

[@jamesmorrison959]

This song was in a Clint Eastwood movie.. dead pool .. Jim Carrey was the singer.. sweet child of mine is a must.. many others

[@gregorybennett5640]

When the singer Axl Rose got off the bus from Indiana to L.A. a homeless man said to him, “You know where you are? You’re in the jungle baby and you’re gonna die.” That’s where the songs idea started.

[@michaelisles4756]

Mike & the mecanhics living years , tissues out ❤❤

[@jamescoleman8954]

But the song is kind of about how when axle moved from Indiana to LA in the whole culture shock that he got, and then added a lot of other stuff to it but that was the original meaning