Heres a bakers dozen of Guns N Roses most explosive and memorable music videos from 1987 to 1993 and what a lesson they provide in the early evolution of visual style on MTV. Looking back it seems Guns N Roses embraced almost every "type" of music-video setting: "Welcome to the Jungle" for instance finds rapid images of the bands stage performance interspersed with a semi-narrative featuring Axle Rose as a newcomer to the big bad city. "Paradise City" is set against an arena sound check while "Sweet Child O Mine" is structured around the now-threadbare idea of a video documentary about a video production. A couple of obsessive themes emerge from this anthology the starkest involving love and watery deaths ("Dont Cry" and "November Rain"). Most interesting is the opiate-like distortions of "The Garden" and the surreal "Since I Dont Have You" starring Gary Oldman as a grinning devil ... >>