The Garden (song)

"The Garden"
Single by Guns N' Roses featuring Alice Cooper and Shannon Hoon
from the album Use Your Illusion I
Released 1992
Genre Heavy metal, art rock[1]
Length 5:21
Label Geffen
Writer(s) Axl Rose
West Arkeen
Del James
Producer Mike Clink, Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses Single chronology
"November Rain"
(1992)
"The Garden"
(1992)
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door"
(1992)
Use Your Illusion I track listing
"November Rain"
(10)
"The Garden"
(11)
"Garden of Eden"
(12)
Alice Cooper chronology
"Love's a Loaded Gun"
(1991)
"The Garden"
(1992)

"The Garden" is a song by the rock band Guns N' Roses. It appears on the album Use Your Illusion I as track 11, and the compilation album Use Your Illusion as track 5. The song was written before the band released Appetite for Destruction, but was not included on that album. It was written by Axl Rose, Del James and West Arkeen.

Shock rock pioneer Alice Cooper is featured in the song, along with the former lead singer of Blind Melon, Shannon Hoon.

The music video for the song depicts various band members in sections of New York City, specifically Times Square and Washington Square Park, and was released to promote the Use Your Illusion Tour. Due to various scenes taking place in strip clubs, the video was not shown very much on MTV. The video appears on the band's Welcome to the Videos.

Personnel

Guns N' Roses
Additional musicians

References

Notes

  1. ^ #Davis 2008 pg 349-350, ""The Garden", an art-metal nightmare written by Axl, West Arkeen, and Del James, and sung by Axl with Alice Cooper and Shannon Hoon."