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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Geffen Records
Salesrank: 536
Released: March 23, 2004 |
| Our Price: $7.44 |
| Used Price: $4.75 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Greatest Hits 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
Editorial Review:
It may surprise some to realize that Guns N’ Roses released only four full-length original albums, and two of those debuted simultaneously. But they were enough to forever change rock ‘n’ roll. Even more shocking is that one of the great bands in rock history, with its last studio album issued 10 years ago, has never had a "best of" compilation. Now it has. Welcome to the jungle with Greatest Hits (Geffen), released March 23, 2004. With 14 selections housed in a digipak, Greatest Hits features all eight of the band’s Top 40 Billboard Hot 100 tracks (five of them RIAA-certified "gold," i.e., sales of more than 500,000 units). Along with spanning the group’s five album releases, Greatest Hits also marks the debut on a Guns N’ Roses album of the band’s cover of the Rolling Stones’ "Sympathy For The Devil" for the 1995 film Interview With The Vampire.
Description of Greatest Hits:
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
Greatest Hits Reviews:
little disappointed 
2009-04-20 - 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 
2009-03-25 - This is a great CD if you like Guns N Roses. It has all my favorite songs on it from them.
Three Cover Songs? 
2009-02-27 - 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.
2009-02-21 - 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.
Best GnR CD.
2009-01-17 - This is an awesome CD. It has hits like Sweet Child O' Mine, Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Knockin' on Heavens Door, Live and Let Die, and a few others. The lyrics are great and Slash just rocks on the guitar. Drums are great and bass is cool too. All in all If you enjoy good ol' 80s rock then this is an excellent CD for you.
