List of songs recorded by Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band originally formed in 1985 by members of Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns. After signing with Geffen Records in 1986, the band released its debut album Appetite for Destruction in 1987. All songs on the album were credited as written by the full band, composed of vocalist Axl Rose, guitarists Slash and Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler, while "It's So Easy" was co-written by West Arkeen and "Anything Goes" was co-written by Chris Weber, formerly of Hollywood Rose. The following year saw the release of the band's second album G N' R Lies, made up of all four tracks from 1986's Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide EP and four acoustic-based tracks.

Following a period of touring, in 1990 Guns N' Roses replaced Adler with Matt Sorum, and keyboardist Dizzy Reed was added to the lineup. On September 17, 1991, the band released its third and fourth studio albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II. The songs on the albums were credited to their individual songwriters rather than the band as a whole, with Rose, Stradlin and Slash contributing to the majority of tracks. Other band members besides Rose performed lead vocals on a number of tracks, and the albums also featured a range of guest musicians including Shannon Hoon, Michael Monroe, and Alice Cooper. Stradlin later left the band and was replaced by Gilby Clarke.

In 1993 the band released "The Spaghetti Incident?", an album of cover versions and the band's first release to feature Clarke. Among others, the album featured recordings of "Raw Power" by The Stooges, "Since I Don't Have You" by The Skyliners and a medley of "Buick Mackane" and "Big Dumb Sex" by T. Rex and Soundgarden, respectively. The following year, Clarke was replaced with Paul Tobias and the band released a cover of The Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for the Devil" for the soundtrack to the film Interview with the Vampire. This would prove to be the final involvement for long-term band members Slash, McKagan, and Sorum, who would later leave at various points over the next few years.

In the years after the release of "The Spaghetti Incident?", Guns N' Roses went through a number of lineup changes during the recording of the long-awaited Chinese Democracy. In 1999, the song "Oh My God" – the band's first original recording since the Use Your Illusion albums – was released on the soundtrack for End of Days, featuring Dave Navarro and Gary Sunshine on guitar. Chinese Democracy was eventually released, after a number of delays, on November 23, 2008, over 17 years after the release of Use Your Illusion I and II. The album featured contributions from most of the members the band had featured between 1994 and 2008, including vocalist Rose, bassisst Tommy Stinson, guitarists Buckethead, Robin Finck, Richard Fortus and Tobias, drummers Brain and Frank Ferrer, and keyboardists Reed and Chris Pitman, with a number of these performers having co-written songs on the album. Slash and McKagan rejoined the band in 2016 (alongside new member Melissa Reese, replacing Pitman), and a remastered box set of Appetite for Destruction was released in 2018, preceded by the lead single "Shadow of Your Love". From 2021, the band started releasing re-workings of Chinese-era songs, with "Absurd" and "Hard Skool" coming out that year, and "Perhaps" and "The General" in 2023.

Appetite for Destruction sessions

 * "Bring It Down Home" (leaked)
 * "Cornshucker" (recorded during the Sound City Studio Sessions produced by Manny Charlton, as well as the GNR Lies sessions, leaked)
 * "It Tastes Good, Don't It"
 * "Just Another Sunday" (leaked)
 * "Too Much Too Fast" (leaked)
 * "Sentimental Movie" (leaked)

Use Your Illusion sessions

 * "A Beer And A Cigarette" (Hanoi Rocks cover, potential use on "The Spaghetti Incident?")
 * "Bring It Down Home"
 * "Crash Diet" (co-written with West Arkeen, Danny Clarke and Del James, leaked, Recorded by Asphalt Ballet for their second album Pigs (1993) and by Wildside on their 2004 The Wasted Years LP.)
 * "Down on the Street" (The Stooges cover, potential use on "The Spaghetti Incident?")
 * "It Tastes Good, Don't It"
 * "Just Another Sunday"
 * "Too Much Too Fast"
 * "Untitled" (played during the Making of Estranged video, later reworked as "Back and Forth Again" on It's Five O'Clock Somewhere by Slash's Snakepit.)

Chinese Democracy sessions
In 2019, 19 discs of demos and rough mixes from the Chinese Democracy sessions were leaked online after a fan purchased a storage locker (believed to belong to label rep Tom Zutaut) that contained them. Many previously unknown song titles were revealed from the discs, although the titles may be working titles.


 * "As It Began" (instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "Atlas Shrugged" (featuring Brian May, leaked in 2019)
 * "Better Gone" (a remix of "Better" by Brain, leaked in 2013)
 * "Billionaire" (instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "Blood in the Water" (a remix of "Prostitute" by Brain, leaked in 2013)
 * "Circus Maximus" (instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "Curly Shuffle" (instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "D Tune" (instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "Devious Bastard" (instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "Down by the Ocean" (co-written by Izzy Stradlin)
 * "Dub Suplex" (instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "Dummy" (instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "Eye On You" (leaked in 2019)
 * "Going Down" (sung by Tommy Stinson, leaked in 2013)
 * "Ides of March"
 * "Inside Out" (instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "Me and My Elvis" (featuring Marco Beltrami, instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "Monsters" (leaked in 2023)
 * "Mustache" (instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "Nothing" (leaked in 2019)
 * "Oklahoma (instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "P.R.L." (instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "Prom Violence" (instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "Quick Song" (instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "Realdoll.com" (instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "Seven"
 * "State of Grace" (leaked in 2019)
 * "The Rebel" (instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "Tommy Demo #1" (sung by Tommy Stinson, leaked in 2019)
 * "Tonto" (instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "Thyme" (featuring Marco Beltrami, instrumental leaked in 2019)
 * "Zodiac 13" (instrumental leaked in 2019)