This Thursday (January 9, 2025) Alice Weidel and Elon Musk will meet on X for a virtual talk. The party headed by Weidel was already trending on the anti-social network on Thursday morning. AfD, or rather, with the hashtag, #afd.
As a rule, you will also come across other nonsense content on X under #afd. Collected under something like “NurNochAfD”, or: #NurNochAfd. However, some people come across the right-wing agitation collected under such hashtags rather involuntarily. Because they weren’t looking for the largely right-wing extremist party. But after Guns N’ Roses.
The oversight becomes noticeable every time the band around Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan goes on a concert tour. The email starts in the USA before Guns N’ Roses come to Germany in July. GN’R’s most famous album is called “Appetite for Destruction”, and it’s also well celebrated live. And fans shorten the album title to X like this: “#afd”. So in the initials of the record.
This is how an Argentinian Guns N’ Roses fan club ends up in the timelines of AfD fans – and vice versa:
Really hard clashes between good music from America and inhumane political aspirations from Germany take place regularly in July, when “Appetite for Destruction” celebrates its anniversary:
Whether American or Finnish, most international Gunners fans of course don’t know which party they are putting on the timelines with their postings. We can only hope that even after the Musk-Weidel talk, the hashtag #AfD, viewed from a global perspective, will remain occupied by Guns N’ Roses, not the party.
The best hard rock albums of all time: Guns N’ Roses – “Appetite For Destruction”
Today no one wants it to be. But back then there were quite a few people who thought Guns N’Roses were an average hard rock band whose debut wasn’t much better than Faster Pussycat’s.
“Appetite For Destruction” received three out of seven points in METAL HAMMER in 1987. It was recommended to buy “Electric” by The Cult instead. Everyone now knows that – alongside “Born In The USA” and “The Joshua Tree” – it was the rock album of the decade. One of those records that everyone can agree on if necessary. And it’s not because of the hairstyles or tattoos. Or the rather silly slogan of the “most dangerous band in the world”.
Of course it’s because of the unforgettable songs
From the opening scream of “Welcome To The Jungle” to the intoxicating tales of “Nightrain” and “Mr. Brownstone” to the anthemic “Paradise City” and the moans of “Rocket Queen”, “Appetite” is a succession of hits.
No other album describes life between rock clubs and strip joints so harmoniously. In the middle of dealers and easy girls. In a cloud of hairspray and whiskey haze. And they also had love songs. Especially “Sweet Child O’Mine”, with whose riff Slash suddenly became immortal.