Guns n Roses - Welcome to the jungle

"Welcome to the Jungle" is the first track from Guns N' Roses' debut album, Appetite for Destruction, and also on their Greatest Hits album. The song peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming their first significant hit single.

"Welcome to the Jungle" was written by singer Axl Rose and Slash. (Slash considers it the first song the band ever wrote together.) According to Rose, the inspiration for the lyrics came from an encounter he and a friend had with a man while they were sleeping in a school yard in Queens. When they were approached by the "little black man", [1] he yelled at them, "You know where you are? You're in the jungle baby; you're gonna die!" This incident inspired the main lyrical declaration for the song. The eponymous line was also featured in the 1984 song "Underwater World" by the Finnish glam punk band Hanoi Rocks, whom Rose has acknowledged as inspiration.

While the New York incident inspired the lyrics, the song was written in Seattle, and described Los Angeles. In a 1988 interview with Hit Parader magazine, Rose stated, "I wrote the words in Seattle. It's a big city, but at the same time it's still a small city compared to L.A. and the things that you're gonna learn. It seemed a lot more rural up there. I just wrote how it looked to me. If someone comes to town and they want to find something, they can find whatever they want." [2]

Musically, Slash describes the development of the song in his autobiography. As the band was sitting around trying to come up with new material, Axl remembered a riff Slash had played while he was living in the basement of Slash's mother's house. Slash played it and the band quickly laid down the foundations for the song, as Slash kept on coming up with new guitar parts for it. He credits Duff McKagan as coming up with the breakdown. According to Slash, the song was written in about three hours, and was arranged virtually the same way as on the album right there. [1]

In spite of the early morning airtime, the clip caught viewers' attention and quickly became MTV's most requested video. The video and single received another boost of publicity when "Welcome to the Jungle" was featured in The Dead Pool in the summer of 1988.

The video starts with a shot of Axl Rose getting off of a bus in New York, wearing casual clothes, with an innocent demeanor. Slash can briefly be seen sitting against a wall, drinking from a bottle in a brown paper bag. Axl stops to watch TV in a store window. Clips of the TV shows that Axl is watching are interspersed with footage of the band playing live. At the end of the video, Axl has transformed into a city punk, wearing the appropriate clothing.

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[threepeice]

This description reminds me of that scene in American Psycho where he is explaining the subtle nuances of Phil Collins & Genesis -- It's like STFU & just kill the bitch! or in this case... PLAY THE SONG!

[XxYamiHiroshixX]

you know where you aaaareeee? you are in the jungle baby!! YOU`RE GONNA DIIIIEEEE!!!

[123xa9]

@orionfirestone Was in Caracas Venezuela

[deadman4324]

yeah this is best music video for welcome to the jungle, forget the official video

[StillBelgian]

@nicomors @orionfirestone It's from the Live Era: 87 -93 CD. The Show is in Argentina '93 (Check Wikipedia) but some of the vocals were re-recorded afterwards. You can hear the difference 'cause there are two voices: a high one and one with a lot rasp.

[orionfirestone]

Which live show was this?

[Neton16]

this video is much better than the official video! really dude!

[nicomors]

This isn't the version in AFD, is it?

When was this written??

[slash4853]

rock n roll

[mangcv148597]

Speechless!! juz cant go out of tune while listening 2this album,,,,, its damn awesum,,, dowloaded the entire album for free at DownloadMusic/./im , remove the slashes..