Guns N Roses - Welcome to the Videos

Here’s a baker’s dozen of Guns N’ Roses’ most explosive and memorable music videos from 1987 to 1993, and what a lesson they provide in the early evolution of visual style on MTV. Looking back, it seems Guns N’ Roses embraced almost every ”type” of music-video setting: ”Welcome to the Jungle,” for instance, finds rapid images of the band’s stage performance interspersed with a semi-narrative featuring Axle Rose as a newcomer to the big bad city. ”Paradise City” is set against an arena sound check, while ”Sweet Child O’ Mine” is structured around the now-threadbare idea of a video documentary about a video production. A couple of obsessive themes emerge from this anthology, the starkest involving love and watery deaths (”Don’t Cry” and ”November Rain”). Most interesting is the opiate-like distortions of ”The Garden” and the surreal ”Since I Don’t Have You,” starring Gary Oldman as a grinning devil.

Video listing:

”Welcome to the Jungle”
”Sweet Child o’ Mine”
”Paradise City”
”Patience”
”Don’t Cry (Original Version)”
”Live and Let Die”
”November Rain”
”Yesterdays”
”The Garden”
”Dead Horse”
”Garden of Eden”
”Estranged”
”Since I Don’t Have You”

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2024-08-08

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