Song Review: Welcome to the Jungle, Written By: Guns N Roses

This song is one of my all time favorites. It is also the song that launched the career of metal band Guns N Roses. This and a number of other songs is what kept metal alive during those dark times when many different popular genres were being created. The year was 1986, and this song was spilling over the air waves to a young generation who didn’t yet have rock & roll heroes. AC/DC, Aerosmith and Motley Crue were the real super powers in metal at the time and were defiantly great in their own right but when Gun N Roses hit the scene they were heralded as the new rolling stones, the new bad boys of rock and roll.

The song did very well in the charts and won the Best New Artist category at the MTV Video Music Awards where they performed the song live. The song itself is technically brilliant with two guitarist working over time to produce a great sound that is clear, heavy and rocks. Great bass line, great drums and great vocals. The song is about LA and its dark side. The songs talks of drugs and how superficial the materialistic world of the city is. It is about the chaos and anarchy that you would find in a jungle and that deep down the city is no different. A great riff and a great solo. 5 stars for a metal classic.