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Greatest Hits |  | Artist: Guns N' Roses
Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Seller: People's Choice
Rating:  337 reviews
Sales Rank: 420
Format: Explicit Lyrics, Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.3
MPN: 602498613696
UPC: 602498613696
EAN: 0602498613696
ASIN: B0000TLA9G
Release Date: March 23, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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
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 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
 Guns N Roses Greatest Hits March 25, 2009
Deborah E. Hamm
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great CD if you like Guns N Roses. It has all my favorite songs on it from them.
 Three Cover Songs? February 27, 2009
SUPERMAN (THE 40 WATT IN ATHENS)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
How "great" is a band when 1/4 of the songs on their "Greatest Hits" album are covers? This band was grossly overrated and the world lost very little when they split.
Decent single Disc greatest Hits of Popular Hard Rock Band. February 21, 2009
James Simpson (USA)
This greatest hits serves as a decent introduction to the band,but hardly captures the band's essence properly.
If one really wants to hear this band,than the legendary debut is the way to go.
A greatest hits like this works best for kids and/or Radio listeners who are not very heavy minded.
The tracks included are decent enough,but the deep album cuts and fan favorites are entirely absent including "Rocket Queen","Mr.Brownstone","Night train","I Used to Love Her" and most of the Use Your Illusion albums are not very well represented.
There's probally too many covers,excepting the well done cover of "Knockin on Heaven's Door",there is also the pointless "Live and Let Die" and the boring cover of "Sympathy For the Devil",both of which serve no purpose on this compilation.
Still,at the price it's not the worst one disc compilation you'll find,and if it's the radio hits you dig,than you could do worse.
Note:The CD's design is a bit funny,all scratched up and beaten.Certainly to raise a few eyebrows to any that gaze over your music collection.
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