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Originally Posted by ernie
Appetite is something like the third of fourth highest selling hard rock/metal album ever. It still sells a bunch every year to this day.
I find it hard to say the band was overrated when they are very clearly had one of the largest impacts in rock the last few decades.
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I've always felt they were mostly the last breath of mainstream hard rock before it started to become genre music. Which is a huge reason why they are remembered so fondly. If you're into that kind of rock, you can connect with people from all around the world with a GnR song, but not with a newer song. Even if it's actually better. (Except if it's AC/DC.)
Which is why I don't also see them as THAT influential. Every popular band is somewhat influential, and bands in their genre obviously take influences, but after them rock moved mostly into everything GnR was not. "Professionals" instead of "Bad Boys", "Down to Earth" instead of "Larger Than Life", genre fusions instead of classic sounds, socially responsible and political (U2-style) instead of "Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'roll".
You could probably make the case that their biggest influence was in the artists that wanted to be anything but like them.