Welcome to the Jungle

:This article is about the Guns N' Roses song. Welcome To The Jungle was also the alternate title for the movie The Rundown.

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"Welcome To The Jungle" is the first track of Guns N' Roses' debut album, Appetite For Destruction. It was re-released in 2004 as the first track to Guns N' Roses' Greatest Hits album.

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Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction - 2004 - Greatest Hits album

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Perhaps one of the most well-known rock anthems of the late 1980s, the song is still regularly played at sporting events. It was famously used during the Operation Just Cause invasion of Panama in 1989 by the troops that surrounded the Vatican embassy where Manuel Noriega was holed up. However, whether playing loud music had any influence on him is debatable. The song is also the theme for syndicated sports radio program The Jim Rome Show.

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1980s - Operation Just Cause - Panama - 1989 - Vatican - Embassy - Manuel Noriega - The Jim Rome Show

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The song is played in both commercials for and in the 2004 PlayStation 2 (2005 PC and Xbox) video game, '. A parody, "Welcome To The Summer", was used as the theme song of Australian radio station Triple M during the late 1990s.

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2004 - Parody - Australia - Radio - Triple M - 1990s

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