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It's So Easy
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| "It's So Easy" | ||
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| Cover for Appetite for Destruction | ||
| Song by Guns N' Roses | ||
| from the album Appetite for Destruction | ||
| Released | July 21, 1987 | |
| Genre | Hard Rock | |
| Length | 3:21 | |
| Label | Geffen Records | |
| Producer(s) | Mike Clink | |
| Appetite for Destruction track listing | ||
| "Welcome to the Jungle" (1) |
"It's So Easy" (2) |
"Nightrain" (3) |
"It's So Easy" is a song by the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It was released on their debut album Appetite for Destruction on July 21, 1987. While GN'R were performing this at the Monsters of Rock concert, two fans were trampled and killed in the audience. "It's So Easy" is a song discussing womanizing and brutality. The song is also frequently played by Velvet Revolver.
The band wrote the words after witnessing a car crash while on tour in New York. A local man saw the expression on Slash's face after witnessing it, and said to him, "Don't worry, it happens all the time around here. Cars are crashing every night." According to Axl Rose, this is what inspired the lyrics for the second verse:[citation needed]
Cars are crashing every night
I drink and drive
everything's in sight
I make the fire
But I miss the fire fight
I hit the bullseye every night
On his May 6, 2006 interview on the Eddie Trunk radio show in New York, Rose stated that "It's So Easy", as originally written by Duff McKagan and West Arkeen, was the "hippie ya-ya song" with a slower, more laid-back tempo. It took on a harder form at a concert at the S.I.R. club in Los Angeles, when Rose and Slash decided to sing and play it differently on the spur of the moment.
On many Guns N' Roses live performances and on the Use Your Illusion Tour, "It's So Easy" was frequently the opener.
Manic Street Preachers released a live cover version of the song on their compilation; Lipstick Traces (A Secret History of the Manic Street Preachers)
40 Below Summer also covered this song on their CD The Last Dance.
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