Nightrain
Sign in to save"Nightrain" (pronounced "Night Train") is a song by the American rock band Guns N' Roses. The song is a tribute to an infamous brand of cheap Californian fortified wine, Night Train Express, which was extremely popular with the band during their early days because of its low price and high alcohol content. The title is spelled differently, omitting a T and removing the space, making a portmanteau of the two words.
Key facts
- Song.type
- single
- Song.artist
- Guns N' Roses
- Song.B side
- Reckless Life
- Song.album
- Appetite for Destruction
- Song.name
- Nightrain
- Song.cover
- Nightrain by Guns n' Roses cassette.jpg
- Song.released
- July 1989
- Song.label
- Geffen
- Song.producer
- Mike Clink
- Song.prev_title
- Patience
- Song.prev_year
- 1989
- Song.next_title
- You Could Be Mine
- Song.next_year
- 1991
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Wikidata facts
- Genre
- hard rock
- Composer
- Steven Adler
- Performer
- Guns N' Roses
- Lyrics by
- Steven Adler
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- publication date
- 1987-00-00
- has characteristic
- drinking song
- form of creative work
- song
- title
- Nightrain
- language of work or name
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
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"Nightrain" (pronounced "Night Train") is a song by the American rock band Guns N' Roses. The song is a tribute to an infamous brand of cheap Californian fortified wine, Night Train Express, which was extremely popular with the band during their early days because of its low price and high alcohol content. The title is spelled differently, omitting a T and removing the space, making a portmanteau of the two words.
"Nightrain" is the third song on the band's debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction (1987), and was released as the album's fifth and final single, reaching number 93 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was ranked eighth on Guitar World's list of the "Top 10 Drinking Songs". The track was not included on Guns N' Roses' 2004 Greatest Hits album.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nightrain” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.