Guns N' Roses - Greatest Hits (2004) WMA320

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Guns `N Roses is probably the best and most important rock band of the last twenty-five or so years, and their continuing popularity ensures a large Greatest Hits market. This CDs title may be strictly accurate in regard to hit singles, but after Appetite for Destruction, Guns rarely released their best songs as singles; indeed, they often made bizarre choices. This is therefore a very poor and distinctly unrepresentative picture of - certainly not a Best Of, as Greatest Hits usually claim to be. It is fine for extremely casual fans, as the first five cuts plus November Rain are the Guns songs most played on radio; anyone wanting those plus a few more can get them here conveniently and easily. Everyone else, though, is poorly served. First, hits or not, several cuts - Yesterdays especially - are not among the bands best. Second, the inclusion of five covers among fourteen tracks - more than one third of the total - is truly strange. Even stranger is that the last three cuts, as well as four of the last five, are covers. This is particularly exasperating in that many excellent Guns songs are missing. Their Knockin on Heavens Door is of course a signature essential, and their Live and Let Die is played fairly often on radio and thus should arguably be here, but the rest should have been left off. Two (Aint It Fun and Since I Dont Have You) are from The Spaghetti Incident, a covers album universally considered the bands least good pre-Chinese Democracy effort. The latter is actually quite good, but the formers inclusion is simply inexplicable. Both should probably have been left off for Guns-written songs; at the very least, Since alone should have been included if each album was to be represented. The bands Sympathy for the Devil is also one of their lowest moments, a soundtrack entry presumably here only to attract those with all the albums. However, hard-cores will have it anyway, and no one else will care for it. There is indeed nothing previously unreleased or even fancy packaging to attract diehards, meaning only the extremely casual should even consider this. The low price is certainly attractive, but the bottom line is that Appetite is one of the greatest albums ever, and the Use Your Illusions have many superb moments. All three are essential, containing everything of real value here plus far more; they will cost a little more, but the investment is very worthwhile.

by Bill R. Moore

TRACKLIST:

01 - Welcome To The Jungle.wma
02 - Sweet Child O Mine.wma
03 - Patience.wma
04 - Paradise City.wma
05 - Knockin On Heavens Door.wma
06 - Civil War.wma
07 - You Could Be Mine.wma
08 - Dont Cry (Original).wma
09 - November Rain.wma
10 - Live And Let Die.wma
11 - Yesterdays.wma
12 - Aint It Fun.wma
13 - Since I Dont Have You.wma
14 - Sympathy For The Devil.wma

WMA 320Kbps 44100Hz STEREO

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