The Hidden Messages Lurking In Axl Rose’s Nom De Rock
Today there’s an Irish Times article on the fate of Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy that goes so far as to draw parallels between the long-in-the-works album and the Stone Roses’ Second Coming, which seems to me a flawed comparison if only because, you know, the latter album actually came out eventually. Anyway, tucked into the story–which seems like it was subject to a lot of verbal taffy-pulling in order to make it fill out column space–was this little unbeknownst-to-me-before factoid:
Axl Rose (his name is an anagram of oral sex; isn’t he a caution?)
Wait, what? How had I never noticed this in my 20 years of owning Guns N’ Roses albums? To check and see if I was just dumb, I sent this piece of trivia to Jess; what followed were lots of all-caps IMs, as well as the two of us uncomfortably chuckling at our extreme naivete/nimrodness. Honestly, this is way, way more embarrassing than the day a few years back when I finally figured out how to properly pronounce “Taime Downe.”
Is the world finally ready for Guns N’Roses’ Democracy? [ireland.com, via ONTD]
