 Genius Meanings
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Guns N' Roses – Street of Dreams
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“Street of Dreams” is a song by Guns N' Roses featured on their 2008 album Chinese Democracy. The song is the third promotional song sent to radio stations but was not released as
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Guns N' Roses – Chinese Democracy
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Chinese Democracy is the lead single of Guns N' Roses’s 2008 album Chinese Democracy. The song was written around 1999 primarily by Axl Rose and drummer Josh Freese (guitarists
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Guns N' Roses – The Blues
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The early version of Street of Dreams was known as “The Blues”
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Guns N' Roses – If the World
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[Chorus] / If the world would end today / And all the dreams we had would all just drift away, ooh / You know, there's nothing more to say / If the world would end and our love
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Guns N' Roses (Ft. Sebastian Bach) – Sorry
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“Sorry” has been interpreted to be about Slash, the fans, other former members of GnR, the media, and everything in between. Vocalist/frontman Axl Rose himself said this about the
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Whitesnake – Here I Go Again
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[Verse 1] / I don't know where I'm going / But, I sure know where I've been / Hanging on the promises in songs of yesterday / And I've made up my mind / I ain't wasting no more
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Guns N' Roses – Madagascar
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The title of the song along with lyrics in chorus draw a parallel with the island of Madagascar off the coast of eastern Africa and a general feeling of being outcast from the
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Guns N' Roses – One in a Million
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Released as the final track on 1988’s GN'R Lies, “One In A Million” would prove to be one of Guns N' Roses' most controversial songs.
The song is said to be semi-autobiographical
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Guns N' Roses – Locomotive (Complicity)
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The song “Locomotive” was written in a house Slash and Izzy Stradlin rented in the Hollywood Hills following the Appetite for Destruction tours. It is often praised by fans because
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Guns N' Roses – Civil War
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Before its release as the opening track on the Guns N' Roses album Use Your Illusion II in 1991, “Civil War” first appeared on the 1990 charity compilation Nobody’s Child: Romanian
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Guns N' Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine
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“Sweet Child O’ Mine” is the 9th track of Guns N’ Roses’ debut album Appetite for Destruction. The song became GNR’s most successful single, topping the Billboard Hot 100.
The
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Guns N' Roses – It's So Easy
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In Steven Adler’s (band’s drummer) autobiography, he says that as the band got more popular, it became almost too easy to find a girl to hook up with after shows. He said girls/
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Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams
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“Boulevard of Broken Dreams” sees the album’s main character, the Jesus of Suburbia, aimlessly roaming the city’s streets with nothing to do and nowhere to go. After leaving his
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Guns N' Roses – Welcome to the Jungle
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Guns N' Roses introduces itself with a hard-hitting ode to a wild place that can tear anyone apart. No wonder it’s their usual setlist opener (except in the Chinese Democracy tour
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Guns N' Roses – Prostitute
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The final track on Chinese Democracy. Noted for symphonic elements. Rose described the blues-based guitar fills by Buckethead as some of his favorite parts of the album. Actor
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Guns N' Roses – November Rain
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This piano ballad grand masterpiece became the signature song and the centerpiece of their simultaneous twin double album releases Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II.
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Scorpions – Wind of Change
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The 4th track and 3rd single of Scorpions‘ 1990 album Crazy World. Written by vocalist Klaus Meine, “Wind of Change” is a power ballad about the various social and political
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Guns N' Roses – Paradise City
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A Guns N' Roses masterpiece, usually the last song in every setlist, “Paradise City” was the sixth track for debut studio album Appetite for Destruction, and upon its single
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Kendrick Lamar (Ft. MC Eiht) – m.A.A.d city
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“m.A.A.d” is an acronym for both “my Angels on Angel dust” and “my Angry Adolescence divided.”
“m.A.A.d” is also a reference to the 90s Compton based hip-hop group “WC and the
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2 Live Crew – The Fuck Shop
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“The Fuck Shop” was the third single from 2 Live Crew’s massive album As Nasty As They Wanna Be. A cleaner version of the song titled “The Funk Shop” (found on As Clean As The
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Guns N' Roses – Nice Boys
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This song was wrote for Rose Tattoo band. Rose Tattoo are a punk rock band, and Guns N' Roses (mainly Duff McKagan) was influenced by punk rock. And, this is a tribute to this
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Guns N' Roses – I.R.S.
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The song’s title is the initials of the “Internal Revenue Service.” However, the track itself appears to be referring to Rose’s former partners Erin Everly and Stephanie Seymour
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Guns N' Roses – Scraped
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The song is perhaps the most “Buckethead-y” of the songs on Chinese Democracy, with the bass and the guitar fills straight out of the playbook of the man who was raised in a coop
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Left Boy – Sweet Dreams
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[Verse 1] / Hanging from the chandelier / What you looking for is here, uh / I'll kiss you like I mean it / She says, "You must be dreamin'" / Maybe this is a curse, all these
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Guns N' Roses – This I Love
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A song that goes way back to 1993. In ‘93, Axl told Hit Parader:
I wrote and recorded a new love song that I want on the next record called “This I Love,” that’s the heaviest
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Guns N' Roses – Riad N' the Bedouins
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Axl Rose describing the song:
Riad is the name my one time momentary brother-in-law of Erin Everly went by when I knew him. Of part Lebanese descent and a former student of
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Guns N' Roses – There Was a Time
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An incredibly layered and complex song by Guns N' Roses, “There Was a Time” features a mellotron, violins, choirs and multiple synthesizers.
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Guns N' Roses – Catcher in the Rye
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J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher In The Rye might be hailed as a classic, but Axl here is talking about how it attracts misguided fans such as John Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman:
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Guns N' Roses – Move to the City
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This song was written by Guns N' Roses members, Del James and Chris Weber. Like other songs of GN'R Lies, this song was in Live Like a Suicide too.
It’s possible this song was
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Coldplay – Adventure Of A Lifetime
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The groovy fifth track on Coldplay’s dynamic A Head Full of Dreams takes a step into disco, with a simplistic song about life and love, backed by a funky dance floor beat. It
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