GNR was nothing more than an MTV product. It was all packaging with zero substance.
I wholeheartedly agree.
I think I preferred Anthrax’s Among The Living (or anything they did in the 80s) over GnR. I used to hate GnR, but gradually grew to tolerate them. Just because it was a popular album, does not make it “best”. Its really a stupid idea to put that label on one out of hundreds of thousands of CDs that were released over a ten-year span.