AFD is Gnr's best album. However, the Illusions broke Gnr and put them on a worldwide platform....AFD sales, like Nevermind from Nirvana, were mainly an American/North American phenomenon....possibly throw in the UK. Each UYI still went 7 times platinum in the US in 1998..a few years after the grunge thing died. So, all you naysayers can talk all th shit you want. UYI was a wildly successful project. Period. End of discussion. One studio lp recording session yielded over 30 million albums sold worldwide.  Pretty good return on investment...I'll take the ten best off UYI before the ten best off AFD. Now, if you have to take the top three most important Gnr songs, then you go with Welcome, Sweet, and Paradise....but, those are the perfect storm for hard rock singles. Almost nobody has ever matched three more perfect singles for a debut album.

oh, and ps, Gnr had the third most catalog sales out of any artist in 2007....more than the Beatles. They are selling a very hefty amount of records right now for an old school band....more than Zep in the US. The pop catalog chart might as well be the billboard 200 because the catalog chart is kicking ass way out of proportion to new music sold. That is an industry fact that they hide by not letting catalog sales be apart of the top 200 chart. Thriller would have topped the charts a few weeks ago with it's re release and Gnr's GH wasn't far behind. New music sales pale in comparison to catalog sales right now.:ummm: