1988年末，枪炮玫瑰乐队发行了第一张录音室EP专辑《G N' R Lies》，这张只有八首歌的EP专辑给人印象最为深刻的就是完全使用原声乐器演奏的柔情歌曲《Patience》，这首歌同样进入了单曲榜前五名，不过引起更大争议的则是另一首歌《One in a Million》，这首严重暴力倾向并且带有歧视色彩的偏激歌曲引起了相当大范围的讨论。尽管这只是一张的EP唱片，但是这张专辑依然在发行之后的1989年初冲到了Billboard 200排行榜的亚军位置，而同时枪炮玫瑰的首张专辑《毁灭的欲望》仍然高居排行榜前列，这是美国流行音乐历史上十五年以来第一次有同一个艺人的两张专辑双双进入了排行榜的前五名。最终这张普通的EP唱片也在排行榜上坚挺了53周时间，最终销量突破五百万张。据Duff McKagan讲，当时原本没有想要录制这张唱片，但是那天晚上整个乐队的成员都喝醉了，突发奇想想要录制些歌曲，结果正是在那酒醉之后的一夜里，这张唱片被录制了出来，并且很快就正式发行了。

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Once Appetite for Destruction finally became a hit in 1988, Guns N' Roses bought some time by delivering the half-old/half-new LP G N' R Lies as a follow-up. Constructed as a double EP, with the "indie" debut Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide coming first and four new acoustic-based songs following on the second side, G N' R Lies is where the band metamorphosed from genuine threat to joke. Neither recorded live nor released by an indie label, Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide is competent bar band boogie, without the energy or danger of Appetite for Destruction. The new songs are considerably more problematic. "Patience" is Guns N' Roses at their prettiest and their sappiest, the most direct song they recorded to date. Its emotional directness makes the misogyny of "Used to Love Her (But I Had to Kill Her)" and the pitiful slanders of "One in a Million" sound genuine. Although the cover shrugs them off as a "joke," Axl Rose's venom is frightening -- there's little doubt that he truly does believe that "faggots" come to America from another country and that "niggers" should stay out of his way. Since he wasn't playing a character on the remainder of the album, there's little doubt this is from the heart as well. And what makes it harder to dismiss is the musical skill of the band, which makes the country-fried boogie of "Used to Love Her," the bluesy revamp of "You're Crazy," and the tough, paranoid fever dream of "One in a Million" indelible. So, you either listen to the music and are satisfied or else listen to the lyrics and become disturbed not only by Rose's intentions, but by the millions of record buyers that identified with him.