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Greatest Hits
by: Guns N' Roses

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 6 to 9 days Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602498621080
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Polydor Group
Manufacturer: Polydor Group
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Polydor Group
Release Date: June 02, 2008
Running Time: 79 minutes
Studio: Polydor Group
Sales Rank: 269

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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

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'.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Excellent Companion Set to the 1st Album
This is an excellent set collecting together in a convenient single disk the best of G'n'R. But if you want an introduction to the band you should purchase the 1st album no question as its one of the greatest rock albums of all time. What this Greatest Hits collection does is bring together all the best bits from the other 4 albums plus the odd single. There are only 3 'taster' tracks from the first album here so its no hardship to buy the 1st album and this one together (especially as the former is so inexpensive). That's why this is the perfect companion set to the first album. If you are still hungry after that then dive into the others. No serious fan of hard rock, or for that matter any fan of contemporary music, can afford not to have ... Read More:

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- Irrelevant and pointless, here's why....
Now I am a massive Guns `n' Roses fan and have been since about the age of 10 when I first heard Paradise City, I then went and got all of their albums from my local music store. Now the problem with this CD isn't the quality of the songs, tracks 1-9 and track 11 are fantastic, but...

1) Irrelevant because it isn't even a greatest hits. Some of the tracks are extremely poor and have no place here, for example `Since I Don't Have You', `Ain't it Fun', `Sympathy for the Devil' and `Live and let Die'. Now although these songs are good when you consider some of the songs not included on this so called greatest his such as `Estranged', `Breakdown', `Rocket Queen', `Don't Damn Me' and `Dead Horse' the songs included have no place on this ... Read More:

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- Amazing!
This is my first album from Guns and Roses and I love it!
Every track on here is one in which you can easily find yourself playing again and again!
Although I like every song on this CD, my personal favorites are the legendary "Sweet Child Of Mine" and "You Could Be Mine".
You really couldn't ask for a better G and R greatest hits CD than this, it's brilliant rock music!
A solid overview of the band and a superb introduction to a newbie fan!

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- 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 ... Read More:

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- 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.

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