“Nighttrain” by Guns N Roses

"Nightrain" is Guns N' Roses raising a glass to Night Train Express, a notorious cheap fortified wine out of California that the band swore by in their early days because it cost next to nothing and got you drunk fast. They jammed the two words together and dropped a T for the title, and slotted the song third on Appetite for Destruction in 1987.

All five of them, Axl Rose, Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan and Steven Adler, share the writing credit, and it plays like a gang anthem, hard rock with the sleeves ripped off. It was the fifth and last single pulled from the album and only scraped to 93 on the Hot 100, but Guitar World later ranked it eighth among the ten best drinking songs. Even so, it was left off the band's 2004 Greatest Hits.

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