Washington: Guns 'n' Roses or GnR as they are popularly called have proved yet again that they are America's most successful hard rock bands.
In a poll conducted by Blender magazine, their Classic 1987 hit Welcome To The Jungle has been voted as the greatest song about Los Angeles.
The band’s 1987 debut album, Appetite for Destruction, earned them world-wide popularity, solidified by the simultaneous release of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II in 1991 and their subsequent world tour.
They have sold a whopping 90 million albums world-wide.
Second on the list was the genre-defining gangsta rap song Straight Outta Compton of the album of the same name by N. W.A.
The album was first released in 1988 and was a hip hop groundbreaker that went on to have an enormous impact on the evolution of gangsta rap. It was later re-released in 2002 in a re-mastered version with four bonus tracks.
The Eagles’ 1976 song New Kid in Town took the third place in the poll.
The song written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey and J.D. Souther, was part of the band’s 1976 album Hotel California.
It was also released as a single in 1976, and became a No.1 hit in the US. In 1977, the Eagles won a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement for Voices for the song.
The fourth place was taken by Free Fallin, an opening track from Tom Petty's 1989 solo album, Full Moon Fever.
Considered to be one of the more introspective songs in Petty's body of work, Free Fallin' uses a simple acoustic riff coupled with offbeat lyrics.
Malibu sung by Courtney Love took the fifth place.
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