Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction

The debut album by this hard-rock band (that dominated the metal scene of the late '80's and early '90's) was clearly a hit.

Right from the start, the album was very well received by critics and listeners and soon became the best selling hard-rock album ever (18 times platinum in the US!).

The best known singles from the album are Paradise City, Sweet Child o’ Mine and Welcome To The Jungle, but the album is full of impressive songs with Slash's cutting, Gibson Les Paul-sound and Axl Rose's bitter lyrics.
An ideal introduction to the Slash concert later this evening.

Introduction by Pieter Jan Symons, journalist at De Morgen.

33 1/3 – Classic Album Listening Sessions

The idea behind Huis 33 1/3 is as simple as can be: music lovers gathering to listen to a 'classic' album - uninterrupted and in the most ideal circumstances possible (technical equipment, surroundings,..) - always introduced by an adept of the album in question.

With this new series, we want to offer an alternative to the way the musical experience has evolved over recent years. By listening to considerably compressed mp3’s, YouTube films, or to sites like Spotify with small small earplugs or via laptop speakers, we obliviously miss essential elements of the music.

Many albums were created as an artwork in themselves and so deserve to be listened to in their entirety. A great deal of attention was often paid to obtaining the best possible sound quality, the artwork, the order of the songs, the mood of the songs and the ‘story’ the artist wanted to involve the listener in. In many cases, no effort was spared to record the albums in the best studios, in order to make use of the best sounding mixing tables, microphones, pre-amps, compressors, reverbs, etc... All of this is completely destroyed in a few mouse-clicks.

During the 33 1/3 sessions will will listen to an album in its entirety - without interruption and with the best possible technical means -and in this way attempt to experience the album as it was originally intended to be heard when it was recorded, mastered and released.