A guitar magazine (forgot the title, but it's UK based) interviewed Slash on what if he imagined that APPETITE would be this ICONIC, he mentioned that he just thought it was a good album not the sort that would be celebrated 20 yrs after.
Just some trivia i know.
1. The Tattoo cover is not the actual cover but the illustration inside that shows a LA girl that was raped by a robot
2. Sweet Child O' Mine has one of the suckiest guitar intros ever (but highly effective)
3. Paradise City's original lyrics states "Take me down to the paradise city, where the girls are fat and they got big titties"