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Greatest Hits |  | Artists: Guns N Roses, Guns N' Roses
Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  340 reviews
Sales Rank: 272
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
UPC: 602498613696
EAN: 0602498613696
ASIN: B0000TLA9G
Release Date: March 23, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Welcome To The Jungle | | • | Sweet Child O' Mine | | • | Patience | | • | Paradise City | | • | Knockin' On Heaven'S Door | | • | Civil War | | • | You Could Be Mine | | • | Don't Cry Original | | • | November Rain | | • | Live And Let Die | | • | Yesterdays | | • | Ain't It Fun | | • | Since I Don't Have You | | • | Sympathy For The Devil |
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If time is the true test, then Guns N' Roses' Greatest Hits confirms that they really were one of the greatest rock & roll bands in the world. While, in retrospect, fellow graduates of the class of 1987 are about as cool as poodle perms and spandex, the L.A. bad boys still rock like gods. Listening to the sun-drenched chords of "Paradise City" and the ensuing stadium-sized swagger is enough to make wearing leather trousers and bandanas seem like a good idea. Of course, it helped that for them sex, drugs, and rock & roll was a way of life, not a fashion statement. As Axl Rose wails "I wanna watch you bleed" on "Welcome to the Jungle" like a chain-smoking lunatic possessed, it's hard not to believe he meant it. Yet equally, it was his surprisingly poetic nature that made genuinely touching love songs of "Patience" and "Sweet Child of Mine." Though none of their subsequent albums matched the drug-crazed genius of Appetite for Destruction, they did, as the Greatest Hits reminds, have their moments. From the bloated Use Your Illusion I & II came ultimate rock ballads "Don't Cry" and "November Rain," along with the primal rage that was "You Could Be Mine." And while the covers of the The Spaghetti Incident? were largely forgettable, the fact that their final single was a seedy sneer through the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" seems spectacularly fitting. --Dan Gennoe
Product Description
Greatest Hits [Explicit Content] Guns N Roses Label: Geffen Records Release Date: 3/23/2004 1 Welcome to the Jungle - 4:31 2 Sweet Child O' Mine - 5:55 3 Patience - 5:56 4 Paradise City - 6:47 5 Knockin' on Heaven's Door - 5:36 6 Civil War - 7:42 7 You Could Be Mine - 5:43 8 Don't Cry [Original Version] - 4:45 9 November Rain - 8:56 10 Live and Let Die - 3:02 11 Yesterdays - 3:16 12 Ain't It Fun - 5:07 13 Since I Don't Have You - 4:19 14 Sympathy for the Devil - 7:35
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guns & roses greatest hits (use) April 10, 2010
James E. Hedrick (WENONA, ILLINOIS, US)
Great price shipped fast and cheap. The cd had scratches on front, case was in great shape and sounded great.
 For Very Casual Fans Only March 29, 2010
Bill R. Moore (Oklahoma, USA)
Guns `N' Roses is probably the best and most important rock band of the last twenty-five or so years, and their continuing popularity ensures a large Greatest Hits market. This CD's title may be strictly accurate in regard to hit singles, but after Appetite for Destruction, Guns rarely released their best songs as singles; indeed, they often made bizarre choices. This is therefore a very poor and distinctly unrepresentative picture of - certainly not a Best Of, as Greatest Hits usually claim to be. It is fine for extremely casual fans, as the first five cuts plus "November Rain" are the Guns songs most played on radio; anyone wanting those plus a few more can get them here conveniently and easily. Everyone else, though, is poorly served. First, hits or not, several cuts - "Yesterdays" especially - are not among the band's best. Second, the inclusion of five covers among fourteen tracks - more than one third of the total - is truly strange. Even stranger is that the last three cuts, as well as four of the last five, are covers. This is particularly exasperating in that many excellent Guns songs are missing. Their "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is of course a signature essential, and their "Live and Let Die" is played fairly often on radio and thus should arguably be here, but the rest should have been left off. Two ("Ain't It Fun" and "Since I Don't Have You") are from The Spaghetti Incident, a covers album universally considered the band's least good pre-Chinese Democracy effort. The latter is actually quite good, but the former's inclusion is simply inexplicable. Both should probably have been left off for Guns-written songs; at the very least, "Since" alone should have been included if each album was to be represented. The band's "Sympathy for the Devil" is also one of their lowest moments, a soundtrack entry presumably here only to attract those with all the albums. However, hard-cores will have it anyway, and no one else will care for it. There is indeed nothing previously unreleased or even fancy packaging to attract diehards, meaning only the extremely casual should even consider this. The low price is certainly attractive, but the bottom line is that Appetite is one of the greatest albums ever, and the Use Your Illusions have many superb moments. All three are essential, containing everything of real value here plus far more; they will cost a little more, but the investment is very worthwhile.
 Greatest band ever, greatest songs ever=greatest cd ever! February 20, 2010
TheOriginalFan
This is the best band ever. I know they didnt want this album to be released but hey they shouldve put out new material. Great cd.
I've had better January 10, 2010
DJ (USA)
The songs in the beginning are great then it gets boring. I had an album of theirs years ago and I thought this one was it, but it wasn't. So my search continues. This one is not worth the money.
little disappointed April 20, 2009
Alicia Martenia (chicago,il)
i will say that at one time in my life i owned all of GNRs cds but throughout many years many friends have "borrowed" them. So i often find myself going to buy new copies, around this time the Greatest hits was released. I was more then a little disappointed,more then three of the song choosen were covers. Popular songs like nighttrain and rocket queen were excluded. So people who didnt grow up listening to gnr dont get the full experience. i recommend for newbies just to get appetite and be happy
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