What genre is central to the covers album The Spaghetti Incident?

Punk rock is the genre central to the covers album The Spaghetti Incident?.

Released by Guns N’ Roses on November 23, 1993, The Spaghetti Incident? is built largely from covers of punk-rock songs. The track list reaches back to influential artists and bands including The Damned, the New York Dolls, The Stooges, the Dead Boys, Fear, the U.K. Subs, the Misfits, and Johnny Thunders.

The album is also commonly classified as hard rock, and not every song is strictly punk. Its selections include material associated with glam rock, hard rock, grunge, and even doo-wop. That mixture reflects Guns N’ Roses’ broad influences, but the album’s central identity is its punk-oriented collection of covers and its deliberately raw, rebellious attitude.

The record originated partly in sessions connected with the Use Your Illusion albums. It was initially considered as an EP before expanding into a full album. The title refers to a story involving Steven Adler, whose alleged code word for drugs was “spaghetti.”