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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 to prevent the release of the album), the album has proven a popular seller, selling 4 million copies in the U.S. to date. Greatest Hits became Guns N' Roses second-longest charting album in their homeland (after Appetite for Destruction), finally dropping out of the Billboard 200 chart in November 2006 following a 138-week stay [1]. 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 other popular songs from Appetite for Destruction were neglected from this release, including "Mr. Brownstone", "It's So Easy" and "Nightrain", as well as G N' R Lies tracks such as "Used to Love Her" and "Move to the City". Also notable is the exclusion of the Use Your Illusion II single "Estranged".
[edit] Track listing
- "Welcome to the Jungle" (Rose, Slash) – 4:32
- "Sweet Child o' Mine" (Rose, Slash, Stradlin) – 5:58
- "Patience" (Stradlin) – 5:56
- "Paradise City" (Mckagan, Rose, Slash, Stradlin) – 6:52
- "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (Bob Dylan) – 5:35
- "Civil War" (Axl Rose, Slash, Duff McKagan) – 7:41
- "You Could Be Mine" (Rose, Izzy Stradlin) – 5:35
- "Don't Cry" (original version) (Rose, Stradlin) – 4:51
- "November Rain" (Rose) – 8:57
- "Live and Let Die" (Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney) – 3:02
- "Yesterdays" (Rose, Billy McCloud, Del James, West Arkeen) – 3:18
- "Ain't It Fun" (Peter Laughner, Cheetah Chrome) – 5:10
- "Since I Don't Have You" (Joseph Rock, James Beaumont, The Skyliners) – 4:18
- "Sympathy for the Devil" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 7:38
[edit] 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 had been 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.
Nevertheless, the spoken word line "Yeah, we're fucked" that appeared in "Since I Don't Have You" remains unedited.
[edit] Personnel
- Axl Rose – lead vocals, piano, keyboards
- Slash – lead guitar
- Izzy Stradlin – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (on tracks 1–11)
- Gilby Clarke – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (on tracks 12–13)
- Paul Tobias – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (on track 14)
- Duff McKagan – bass, backing vocals
- Matt Sorum – drums, percussion (on tracks 5, 7–14)
- Steven Adler – drums, percussion (on tracks 1–4, 6)
- Dizzy Reed – piano, keyboards, backing vocals (on tracks 5–14)
[edit] References
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