Greatest Hits (Guns N' Roses album)
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Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Guns N' Roses. The album was released on March 23, 2004. It hit #1 in the UK and #3 in the US. Despite some criticisms towards the track listing by fans (even Axl Rose and ex-Guns N' Roses members, who filed a joint lawsuit to try and prevent the release of the album), the album has proven a popular seller, selling 3 million copies in the U.S. to date.
Universal Records' response to Rose's opposition to the record was that he had been given adequate time to supply them with a record but had failed to do so, and so they had produced their own Guns N' Roses record instead.
Critics of the compilation were somewhat disappointed, as many of the classics from Appetite For Destruction and G N' R Lies were neglected from this release (including songs such as "Mr.Brownstone", "Its So Easy" and "Nightrain" and Lies tracks such as "I Used To Love Her" "Reckless Life" and the acoustic "You're Crazy"). Fans were also slightly irritated by the inclusion of many cover songs, while other believed the covers clearly showed Guns N' Roses' talent at reworking older classics.
Track listing
- "Welcome to the Jungle" – 4:32
- "Sweet Child O' Mine" – 5:58
- "Patience" – 5:56
- "Paradise City" – 6:52
- "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" – 5:35
- "Civil War" – 7:41
- "You Could Be Mine" – 5:35
- "Don't Cry (Original Version)" – 4:51
- "November Rain" – 8:57
- "Live and Let Die" – 3:02
- "Yesterdays" – 3:18
- "Ain't It Fun" – 5:10
- "Since I Don't Have You" – 4:18
- "Sympathy for the Devil" – 7:38
Edited songs
The song "Ain't it Fun" (a cover that appeared on The Spaghetti Incident?) had a line that went "Ain't it fun when you tell her she's just a cunt." However, in this Greatest Hits album, it seems to be dubbed over, and the line is simply "Ain't it fun when you tell her she's just a" with a single guitar note playing and then going into a short riff. This version had never been officially released before, but was broadcast by most radio stations when it was released as a single.Trivia
Although not their original song, "Ain't It Fun" contains a line that goes "Ain't it fun when you've broken up every band that you've ever begun". This is ironic due to Axl Rose (a founding member of the band) having been cited numerous times as the reason the classic line-up of Guns N' Roses dissolved.
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