Product Description

This is the first 'Greatest Hits' collection from notoriousrockers Guns n' Roses and spans their career from the late Eighties through to the early Nineties. The album features all their classic rock moments including 'Sweet Child O' Mine', 'Paradise City', and 'November Rain'.

Track Listing

1. Welcome To The Jungle
2. Sweet Child O' Mine
3. Patience
4. Paradise City
5. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
6. Civil War
7. You Could Be Mine
8. Don't Cry (Original)
9. November Rain
10. Live And Let Die
11. Yesterdays
12. Ain't It Fun
13. Since I Don't Have You
14. Sympathy For The Devil

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #289 in Music
• Released on: 2008-06-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 79 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
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 LA 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

Customer Reviews

Greatest Hits, sure... Best Of, no way!
This does what it ways on the tin, it is a compilation of GN'R's biggest hits (meaning biggest selling singles, not best songs) hence features stuff from their Spaghetti Incident LP(okay but not great) instead of stuff from when they were rather unknown like Mr Brownstone. Plus, the BAND themselves (even Axl) tried to stop this being released by Geffen when they saw the track listing. I mean, Since I Don't Have You on their greatest hits cd? Come on geffen, whatever.
Lots of their best songs were not released as singles, so don't get a look-in, such as Locomotive, Pretty Tied Up, Out Ta Get Me, Rocket Queen, the list goes on and on.
Tip: Buy Appetite for Destruction and maybe, if you really like them, Use Your Illusion one and two. Skip the greatest hits.

A bit dated now
I've gone down musical memory lane many times now, but never have I been so struck by how an old favourite has not aged well. Buy this if you've still got long hair, spandex trousers and play air guitar.

Young boy with big thoughts...
Please, all diehard Guns n Roses fans, ignore some of the other reviews putting this album to shame. I am only just turned 13 and i have heard all the songs by guns and roses from paradise city to your crazy and there is nothing crazy about buying this album. The best song is welcome to the jungle closly followed by the next track, Sweet child ' mine

Guns N Roses are one of the greats and without this album you will have a hole on you for the rest of your life