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Guns N' Roses: Greatest Hits

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Label: Geffen Records
Released: 2004.03.23
Time:
 79:18
Category: Hard Rock
Producer(s): Guns N' Roses, Mike Clink, Bill Levenson
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.gunsnroses.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Welcome to the Jungle (Slash/McKagan/Stradlin/Adler/Rose) - 4:32
[2] Sweet Child O' Mine (Slash/Rose/Stradlin/McKagan/Adler) - 5:55
[3] Patience (Stradlin/Slash/McKagan/Rose/Adler) - 5:56
[4] Paradise City (Stradlin/Slash/McKagan/Adler/Rose) - 6:47
[5] Knockin' on Heaven's Door [Bob Dylan cover] (Dylan) - 5:36
[6] Civil War (Rose/Slash/McKagan) - 7:42
[7] You Could Be Mine (Stradlin/Rose) - 5:44
[8] Don't Cry [Original version] (Stradlin/Rose) - 4:51
[9] November Rain (Rose) - 8:57
[10] Live and Let Die [Paul McCartney & Wings cover] (McCartney/McCartney) - 3:02
[11] Yesterdays (Rose/Arkeen/James/McCloud) - 3:18
[12] Ain't It Fun [The Dead Boys cover] (Chrome/Laughner) - 5:10
[13] Since I Don't Have You [The Skyliners cover] (Rock/Beaumont) - 4:18
[14] Sympathy for the Devil [The Rolling Stones cover] (Jagger/Richards) - 7:36

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W. Axl Rose – Lead Vocals, Percussion on [1,3], Synthesizer & Whistle on [4], Piano on [9]
Slash – Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar on [2,6], Lead Acoustic Guitar on [3]
Izzy Stradlin – Rhythm Guitar on [1-2,4-11], Rhythm Acoustic Guitar on [3], Backing Vocals on [1–11]
Duff Mckagan – Bass, Backing Vocals, Rhythm Acoustic Guitar on [3],
Steven Adler – Drums on [1-2,4,6], Backing Vocals on [3]
Matt Sorum – Drums & Backing Vocals on [5,7–14]
Dizzy Reed – Organ, Keyboards & Piano on [5–14]
Gilby Clarke – Rhythm Guitar & Backing Vocals on [12-13]
Paul Tobias – Rhythm Guitar on [14]

Shannon Hoon - Vocals, Background Vocals
Stuart Bailey - Background Vocals
Reba Shaw - Background Vocals

Paul Huge - Rhythm Guitar
Mike Staggs - Guitar

Robert Clark - Horn
Matthew McKagan - Horn
John Trautwein - Horn
Rachel West - Horn

Mike Clink - Engineer, Producer
Bill Levenson - Compilation Producer
Jim Mitchell - Engineer
Michael Barbiero - Mixing
Bill Price - Mixing
Skip Saylor - Mixing
Gavin Lurssen - Mastering
Ute Friesleben - Production Coordination
Ross Halfin - Photography
Gene Kirkland - Photography
Lee Lodyga - Project Assistant
Brendan Morris - Tape Research
Randy Aronson - Tape Research
David Foster - Tape Research
Amy Neiman - Photo Research
Ryan Null - Photo Research
Dana Smart - A&R Assistance
Vartan - Art Direction

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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.



Guns N' Roses' Greatest Hits may bear all the hallmarks of a hastily assembled compilation -- there are no liner notes, the cardboard packaging is flimsy, the remastering isn't notable -- but it does offer all the band's biggest hits: "Welcome to the Jungle," "Sweet Child O' Mine," "Patience," "Paradise City," "Don't Cry," "You Could Be Mine," "November Rain," and "Live and Let Die" among them. While there are certainly several noteworthy tracks missing -- charting singles like "Nightrain" and "Estranged," and essential album tracks like "It's So Easy," "Mr. Brownstone," and "Used to Love Her," for instance -- for listeners who want a collection containing the group's biggest hits on one disc, this disc will serve their needs nicely. (Of interest to diehards is the band's cover of the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil," previously only available on the Interview With the Vampire soundtrack and making its first appearance on a GN'R album here.)

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



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 - Amazon.com



"Ain't It Fun" was censored for the compilation: "Ain't it fun when you tell her she's just a cunt" became "Ain't it fun when you tell her she's just a–", with guitar notes at 3:36 instead of the final word in the line. This version had never been officially released before, but had been broadcast by most radio stations when it was released as a single in 1993. Nonetheless, other profanity on the compilation remains unedited [the word "bitch" remains on "You Could Be Mine" (with your bitchslap rappin' and your cocaine tongue/you get nothin' done), and "fuck" remains on "Since I Don't Have You" (yeah, we're fucked, right before the guitar solo)].
Notably, the songwriting credits for the tracks from the Use Your Illusion albums have been changed to credit the entire band, while the original track listings credited individual band members. For instance, "November Rain" was originally credited as an Axl Rose solo composition. On this compilation, the song is credited to the entire band (Rose, Slash, McKagan, Stradlin).

Wikipedia.org



Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the American rock band Guns N' Roses, released on March 23, 2004. Released by Geffen in part because of the delay in the making of Chinese Democracy, the album is subject to lawsuits by band member Axl Rose and former band members in an attempt to block its release due to its track listing. Despite the album having almost no promotion it reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and number three on the Billboard 200 chart upon its release. Greatest Hits re-entered the Billboard 200 at number three in March 2012, selling about 85,000 copies as part of a promotion by both Amazon MP3 and Google Play that saw the album sold for 25 cents for one day. The album has proven a popular seller, selling over 5.2 million copies in the United States, as of 2012.

Although the album received mainly positive reviews and sold well, fans criticized the track listing, citing lack of some popular songs and too many covers, as reason for complaint. Axl Rose immediately tried to block the release by suing Geffen, saying it would ruin his focus on Chinese Democracy and if he were to get the album finished and released sooner, the Greatest Hits album would be selling more, leaving the album unnoticed. Former bandmates Slash and Duff McKagan helped Rose file the lawsuit against Geffen, although they did not speak to each other in person. This failed and the album was released under Geffen Records' rights.
 

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