Guns N’ Roses-Greatest Hits

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First-Time Ever Vinyl Release of Multi-Platinum Collection: Guns N’ RosesGreatest Hits180g 2LP Spans 1986-1993, Includes “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” “Civil War,” and 14 More Classics

Guns N’ Roses’2004, multi-platinum best of compilation hits vinyl for the first time! Previously only available digitally and on CD,Greatest Hitsis available here onaudiophile 180g 2LP. The vinyl edition also features the band’s single “Shadow of Your Love,” which hit No. 5 on the Mainstream Rock chart. Originally recorded in December 1986, the song made its debut on the 2018 box setAppetite For Destruction. In 2004,Greatest Hitsreached No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and in 2007 hit No. 1 on the Catalog Albums chart. Featuring all eight of the band’s Top 40 Billboard Hot 100 tracks (six of them RIAA-certified Gold),Greatest Hitsspans the group’s five album releases, including their cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy For The Devil” for the 1995 film Interview With The Vampire.

The first full-length album fromGuns N’ Roses, 1987’sAppetite For Destruction, is one of the most popular hard rock albums in history and has been on the Billboard Top 200 albums or Top Pop Catalog chart for a total of 746 weeks. Certified 18 times platinum in the U.S.,Appetite For Destructioncharted No. 1 for five weeks and includes three Top 10s: the anthem “Welcome To The Jungle” (No. 7), the frenzied rocker “Paradise City” (No. 5) plus their platinum selling No. 1 single “Sweet Child O’ Mine.”

1988’sG N’R Lies, comprised of songs from the group’s independently-released 1986 EPLive?!*@Like A Suicideplus new studio recordings, followedAppetite For Destructionup the charts, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The Grammy-nominated album (for Best Hard Rock Performance) was five times platinum (each platinum level connotes sales of more than one million units) and claimed the gold No. 4-charting ballad “Patience.”

Then, on September 17, 1991, with one of the most anticipated releases ever in music, bothUse Your Illusion IandUse Your Illusion IIdebuted.Use Your Illusion Ifeatured two gold singles with “November Rain” (No. 3) and “Don’t Cry” (No. 10) plus another Top 40 with “Live And Let Die” (No. 33).Use Your Illusion IIboasted another gold hit with the previously-released single “You Could Be Mine” (No. 29), heard in the filmTerminator II: Judgement Day.

Each of theUse Your Illusionalbums went seven times platinum withUse Your Illusion Igoing to No. 2 andUse Your Illusion IIhitting No. 1.Use Your Illusion Iwas Grammy-nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance as was the Wings cover “Live And Let Die.”Guns N’ RosesGreatest Hitsalso culls fromII“Yesterdays,” “Civil War” and GN’R’s take on Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door.” BothUse Your Illusion IandUse Your Illusion IIhave sold over seven million copies to date.

A collection ofGuns N’ Rosescovers of classic, mainly punk, songs that had influenced the band members since their early days, 1993’sThe Spaghetti Incident?hit No. 4 and is certified platinum. Included onGreatest Hitsare its renditions of The Dead Boys’ 1978 track “Ain’t It Fun” and an unlikely cover of the Skyliners’ 50s doo-wop gem “Since I Don’t Have You.”

LP1

1. Welcome To The Jungle
2. Sweet Child O’ Mine
3. Shadow Of Your Love
4. Patience
5. Paradise City
6. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
7. Civil War

LP2

1. You Could Be Mine
2. Don’t Cry
3. November Rain
4. Live And Let Die
5. Yesterdays
6. Ain’t It Fun
7. Since I Don’t Have You
8. Sympathy For The Devil