<![CDATA[Idolator: the more you know dept.]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Idolator: the more you know dept.]]> http://idolator.com/tag/the more you know dept. http://idolator.com/tag/the more you know dept. <![CDATA[The Hidden Messages Lurking In Axl Rose's Nom De Rock]]> axlfinger.jpgToday 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]

]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/the-more-you-know-dept%27/the-hidden-messages-lurking-in-axl-roses-nom-de-rock-306023.php http://idolator.com/tunes/the-more-you-know-dept%27/the-hidden-messages-lurking-in-axl-roses-nom-de-rock-306023.php Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:01:11 EDT mjohnston http://idolator.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=306023&view=rss&microfeed=true