Paradise City Appetite For Destruction Guns 'N' Roses

Copyright 1987 Geffen
Taken from Wikipedia
"Paradise City" is a song written by the hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It is included on the 1987 album Appetite for Destruction and was released as a single in 1988. It is also the only song on the album to use a synthesizer. The song peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, the third single of the band's to go Top 10.


Slash states that the song was written in the back of a rental van as they were on their way back from playing a gig in San Francisco with the band Rock N Riders . He states that the band was in the back of the van, drinking and playing acoustic guitars when he came up with the intro. Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin started playing along. Slash started humming a melody when Axl Rose sang, "Take me down to the Paradise City." Slash chimed in with "Where the girls are fat and they've got big titties." but the rest of the band wanted to make the song more 'radio-friendly', so Axl sang the first line again, where Slash chimed in with "Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty." Axl finished with "Take . . . me . . . home!" The band then expanded upon the rest of the lyrics in rounds. Finally Slash wrapped up by coming up with the heavy riff that drives the song.
"Paradise City" is thought by some to be about Los Angeles and its corruption at the time. Some believe the song to be written about Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin's hometown of Lafayette, Indiana and the nearby Purdue University campus. During a 1988 interview, Rose told Hit Parader Magazine that "the verses are more about being in the jungle; the chorus is like being back in the Midwest or somewhere".
This song was often used as the band's show-closing song during the Use Your Illusion Tour and Chinese Democracy Tour.
It was also ranked #21 on VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs of All Time, #3 in Total Guitar Magazine's list of the 100 greatest solos of all time, and has won various similar awards over the years. It ranked #453 on Rolling Stones' "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

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[joshchappell2372]

i wish i was 18 in 1988

[notmygeneration]

I like listening to this song when I'm in class at school

[Flakesk8]

4 people are stupids

[MIKEY2193]

@Fabirocklive u got that from wikipedia

[TheSAINTANN666]

THE MUSIC THAT'VE NEVER GROWN OLD.

[metalhardrockerhead]

@MrAce2497 its called Heaven lmao

[Deltarogers]

"Appetite for Destruction" was released on July 21st 1987. I was 7 years old. My two older sisters were in to the whole music scene back then. I first heard and saw them on TV in the Spring of 88 (The Ritz Gig). They were so different from any band during that time. They were dangerous and exciting. I still have my original cassette of AFD from June of 1988, and the original cover "rape scene" LP (which was my sisters) still wrapped. It is now framed on my wall with an autograph pic of Slash.

[MrAce2497]

Only if Paradise City was Real..

[Fabirocklive]

Take me down to the paradise city! where the girls are fat and they've got big tities!

[lilskaters7]

As soon as I enter high school this coming school year, I'll be listening to this on the first day. :)

[euclidera]

me too @karenry14, i lose sex pistols, ramones...

[karenry14]

I live in wrong generation :((