Guns N' Roses Album: “Greatest Hits”

If you're a Guns N' Roses fan, there's only 2 reasons why you should buy this album...

- You're a G'N'R collector

A true fan already owns at least "Appetite For Destruction", "Use Your Illusion I & II" and perhaps "Lies". "The Spaguetti Incident" was just a plain bad album, but if you liked "Since I Don't Have You", you might as well go to ITunes or Napster and download it.

People on the previous posts complain a lot for this album not including more songs from "Appetite For Destruction" or "Use Your Illusion" but let me remind them... THIS IS A HITS ALBUM!! ...which includes pretty much every single song played on the radio. There's a lot of fan favorites not included here, but that's just because THEY WEREN'T HITS!

Yet this is a great pick for anyone who is just about to get introduced to this band. Guns N' Roses could have been the biggest thing since 'The Beatles', but we all know how that story ends. So don't even bother to wait for 'Chinese Democracy' to come out.

While other reviewers put down this Guns N' Roses collection for various reasons, I still felt since their biggest hits are included in this package (even if some are cover versions) and remastered I'm not complaining. I also picked this cd up at a local store for an extremely low price so I felt I got alot of music for the money! Hits such as "Paradise City", "Welcome To The Jungle", "Sweet Child O' Mine", "You Could Be Mine", "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" (a Bob Dylan cover), "Live And Let Die" (a Paul McCartney And Wings cover), "November Rain", "Don't Cry" and "Sympathy For The Devil" (a Rolling Stones cover) are here plus five more songs. The sound quality is excellent due to remastering and it's all put together in an attractive digipack. If you enjoy eighties rock such as Poison, Cinderella, Motley Crue and Dokken then you'll enjoy this collection.

First off, a Greatest Hits album is, by definition, a compilation of a band's greatest 'hits'. So, quit complaining about the omission of tracks like Mr Brownstone and Nightrain, because although they are great songs, they were never released as singles!

To the kid who called Guns n Roses 'just another 80s hair metal band with no talent', i'd like to invite you to take your infinitely great taste in music elsewhere in future. Guns n Roses were the Led Zeppelin of thier time (though somehow i doubt you know who Lep Zep are..).

Now, on to the album; i'd call this an adequate collection that showcases the different sides to GnR; sometimes raucous, sometimes sweet; always brilliant. The only weak songs are the final few tracks, where the GnR veteran listener is left wanting more of the earlier sound and not the decidedly average [but still listenable] music from GnR's twilight years.

Overall, a good album. From the rockin' Welcome To The Jungle, to the beautiful November rain, this album provides a decent collection for the first time/casual fan

GNR was the greatest band of its time, and their music will last as long as rock n roll. Most people still don't realize how good they were.

However, most of their albums had 3-7 junk songs, with 3-4 great songs. So they really needed a greatest hits album, bringing together their most popular music on a single album so that we can listen to it all back-to-back without changing CDs. I really appreciate this album for that reason, although I own most of their originals.

Some of the haters complain that a lot of the songs here are covers. Well, who cares? We can buy the Stones doing "Sympathy for the Devil" if we want to, there's no reason not to appreciate GNR's version. "Knockin'" and "Live and Let Die" were some of their greatest hits to be sure, and it would be foolish to omit them just because Bob Dylan or the McCartneys wrote them.

Let me share a great moment with you: in Ho Chi Minh city (also known as Saigon) in Vietnam, there's a popular ex-pat bar called "Guns N Roses Bar." I was in there one night, and "Civil War" came on, and many of the people in the bar (Aussies mostly) sang along with the music. It was a time to realize that this band's music (like other great bands before them) reached around the world and touched people everywhere, and it's one of the things that we have in common.

If you happen to be someone who somehow doesn't know about GNR's music, I really hope you'll get this.

One thing people overlook about the band is how socially conscious they were. They put out "Civil War" about the time of the First Gulf War, one of the only protests to that war that I know of. "Welcome to the Jungle," "Paradise City" and "Live and Let Die" all have similar social concerns. When I was a kid, I was part of the fundamentalist Christian community that objected to this music so strongly, but now I realize that actually these guys had a conscience and wanted to make us think about society and make us create a better world.

Hey, I just can't say enough good things... if you've got the money, buy this album and enjoy it.

This album is exactly what its title indicates, a collection of the group's greatest hits, and not necessarily of their best work. Being more of a casual GnR fan, I have been waiting for something like this to be released for nearly six years. This has all of the songs that were popular for the band during the late 80s and early 90s. And yes, of course a few cover songs are included along with a number of their own original songs. But I remember both "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" and "Live and Let Die" being very popular when they were released on the "Use Your Illusion" albums. At the time I did not realize that they were cover songs, but that knowledge in years since has not reduced GnR's interpretation of these great songs. All in all, I found this album to be exactly what I had been waiting for, but the die-hard GnR fan looking for a "Best of"-album will likely be disappointed.