Song · Guns N Roses
“Nice Boys” by Guns N Roses
From the album G N’ R Lies (1988)
“Nice Boys” by Guns N Roses appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1988 on the album G N’ R Lies. Its best result is #994 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,429 hard rock song of all time.
Guns N' Roses didn't write "Nice Boys": the credit belongs to Angry Anderson, Mick Cocks, Geordie Leach, Dallas Royall and Peter Wells, and the band borrowed it for G N' R Lies, their second studio album, which Geffen put out in 1988. The title fits them like a sarcastic grin. Axl Rose sings lead, Slash and Izzy Stradlin play electric guitars, Duff McKagan plays bass and Steven Adler drums; the band produced it themselves, Hanspeter Huber recorded it, and Huber mixed it with Alan Niven.
Lies is a short, sharp shock, the band's briefest studio album at 33 and a half minutes, and it still climbed to number two on the Billboard 200. It was also the last full album with Adler, who was gone by 1990, and the last they made as a five-piece.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 994 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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