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The Macaroni Incident?

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  1. The Greatest Hits albums sucks. Too many covers!

    Actually, I don't think a band with only 3 proper albums of original material needs a greatest hits release.

    Agreed. "Sympathy for the Devil" was far from a hit. It was played on hardcore rock stations for a couple of weeks but never caught on....mainly because it was a completely uneccessary cover of a song that should never have been touched.

    In my opinion GNR messed up on the Illusions by picking the wrong songs for singles. "The Garden" and "Garden of Eden" were poor choices...."Dead Horse" was questionable as well.

    They missed an opportunity with "Civil War." They put it on an obscure album before the Illusions came out and never released it as a single. Personally I think it would have been the biggest hit on the album.

    The other miss in my opinion was not releasing "Pretty Tied Up" as a single. That was a song that went largely unheard, but people who heard it loved it....I thought it was a very video friendly/radio friendly song.

    In my opinion the singles off of the Illusions should have been:

    Civil War

    You Could Be Mine (was a single)

    Don't Cry (was a single)

    Live and Let Die (was a single)

    Pretty Tied Up

    November Rain (was a single)

    Estranged (was a single)

    Spaghetti Incident was also really a pretty big miss....only hardcore fans bought it and nothing was really a "hit"....a lot of people saw "Since I Don't Have You" as a sell out and most people were saturated with GNR in 1993 (as hard as that is to believe now).

    They should have taken a break and returned in 1996 or 1997 with a back to their roots rock album the way Metallica returned with Load. Instead of course they imploded and we are left with the joke that is GNR today.

    In hindsight, Use Your Illusion is just a mess.

    UYI should have been one album with remaining tracks used as B-Sides or saved for the follow-up album.

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