auad Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Next week will buy the Greatest Hits, the only original GNR cd that i don't have.In my opinion, miss "Estranged", and eventually "Nightrain".I do not like "Since I Do not Have You", or the version of "Sympathy for the Devil", so to me are unnecessary in the collection.And in your opinion, what would be a better "Greatest Hits"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bacardimayne Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Probably something like this: Welcome to the Jungle Nightrain Mr. Brownstone Paradise City Sweet Child O' Mine Used to Love Her Patience November Rain Don't Cry Live and Let Die Civil War Knockin' on Heaven's Door You Could Be Mine Since I Don't Have You Sympathy for the Devil Better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haters Gonna Hate Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 They should replace SCOM, Jungle, and PC with Get in the ring, So fine, and Shotgun Blues. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay410 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 (edited) Probably something like this:Welcome to the JungleNightrainMr. BrownstoneParadise CitySweet Child O' MineUsed to Love HerPatienceNovember RainDon't CryLive and Let DieCivil WarKnockin' on Heaven's DoorYou Could Be MineSince I Don't Have YouSympathy for the DevilBetterCan't argue much with this one. A few album classics from AFD were ignored, and UYI had too many hits to be able to comb through and grab fan favorites. Can't just ignore TSI and CD, and fans need somewhere to get Sympathy for the Devil. I'd throw in estranged and yesterday's (though I'm not sure if that would make a cd over 80 minutes) and this would be mine. Best of is a different story, but greatest hits, this would qualify. Edited June 9, 2014 by TeeJay410 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-GenerationX Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Welcome To The Jungle Mr. Brownstone Sweet Child O' Mine Paradise City Patience Knockin' On Heaven's Door Civil War You Could Be Mine Don't Cry Live And Let Die November Rain Yesterdays Estranged Since I Don't Have You That's the playlist I have on my iPod. Under 80 minutes, fits on one CD. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Diet Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Locomotive, Pretty Tied Up should be on GHPutting cover songs on a GH release is laughable at best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknroll41 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 1.Welcome To the Jungle2.Sweet Child o' Mine3.Paradise City4.Patience5.Civil War6.Knocking On Heaven's Door7.You Could Be Mine8.Don't Cry (Original)9.Live & Let Die10.November Rain11.Yesterdays12.Estranged 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeBaZ Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 June 6, Las Vegas, NV - No Trickery! could be a perfect Greatest Hits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slash23579 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 1. It's So Easy2. Nightrain3. Rocket Queen4. Used to Love Her5. Don't Cry6. November Rain7. Coma8. Civil War9. 14 years 10. Yesterdays11. Pretty Tied Up12. Estranged13. You Could Be Mine14. Black Leather15. Better16. Prostitute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristmasFnatic Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Locomotive, Pretty Tied Up should be on GHThis. Funny, cuz in my playlist, the 2 are beside eachother. PTU is the first song I enjoyed thats not popular. Locomotive is one of the best songs. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estranged Reality Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 the keyword in the album title is 'hits.' it was a lazy assembly of all the band's hit singles. that's it. if it was a 'best of' the tracklist would have looked a lot different. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estranged Coma Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 JungleBrownstoneSweet childYcbmDon't cryBetterEstrangedTwatEasyCivil war/ptu LocomotiveNovember rain Night trainPatience PC Too many awesome songs in gnrs catalogue to even try but I'm bored so here's 15 I think would be cool on a best of record.. And I'm still leaving out so many Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netcord Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 JungleEasyBrownstoneRQSCOMNighttrainParadiseEstrangedNRDon't CryYCBMCivil WarPatienceThose are the most well known and the biggest hits if you don't count covers. Some of my favs like, 14years, TWAT, Better can't be called greatest hits. Chinese Democracy would be next if I had to add a song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D4NNY Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 I personally think Sympathy For The Devil is a great track and ends the album nicely. It wasn't on any other album so I guess for fans from the 80's/90's it was a nice little treat in a way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evan442 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 I think the package that is available is perfect, in that, it gives you what the title says..."Greatest HITS". Putting stuff like "Locomotive", "So Fine", etc, on a greatest "hits" just doesn't make sense, in my opinion. Now if it was a 2 disc "Anthology" or something, then now you're talking! Ironically, half of their hits on the GH package just happened to be cover songs, haha. Does anyone have the track listing for the 2 disc Best-of / Anthology that was supposed to come out around 2006 or so? It had the logo with the chinese G&R but the old pistol and roses logo (as seen on 2006 era shirts, etc). That had a killer track list if I remember correctly 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR DOOM Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 the keyword in the album title is 'hits.' it was a lazy assembly of all the band's hit singles. that's it. if it was a 'best of' the tracklist would have looked a lot different.Nuff said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Towelie Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 (edited) GNR don't really need a greatest hits. Just buy AFD and November Rain/YCBM and you're set. How many other artists/bands have a greatest hits compiling just three albums? Seems a bit pointless to me. Edited June 9, 2014 by Towelie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 A Greatest Hits should be songs that charted in the top 40 and the edited down single versions. If they want to do a collection/anthology where they're pulling together live and rare versions, that's a whole other matter. Jeff Buckley had a compilation but they didn't call it a "Greatest Hits" because he only had one single that charted and one album released while he was alive. AC/DC have never had a greatest hits even though it probably would do well if they released it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorwayIllusion Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 What's wrong with My Michelle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOUCOULDBEMINE. Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Welcome To The JungleCivil WarRocket QueenDon't CryBetterYou Could Be MineComaYesterdaysNightrainNovember RainMr. BrownstoneCatcher In The Rye (demo tho)Paradise CityEstrangedSweet Child O' MineSomething like that maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomfriend Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Locomotive, Pretty Tied Up should be on GHPutting cover songs on a GH release is laughable at bestDo you understand what the term 'hits' means? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Macaroni Incident? Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude69 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 (edited) 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 WarYou 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. Edited June 11, 2014 by dude69 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Macaroni Incident? Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 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 WarYou 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRanOutOfIdeas Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 (edited) A Greatest Hits should be songs that charted in the top 40 and the edited down single versions. If they want to do a collection/anthology where they're pulling together live and rare versions, that's a whole other matter. Jeff Buckley had a compilation but they didn't call it a "Greatest Hits" because he only had one single that charted and one album released while he was alive. AC/DC have never had a greatest hits even though it probably would do well if they released it. I actually saw a Playlist Greatest Hits comp for Jeff Buckley the last time I went to Best Buy. It's still a bunch of shit though, just get Grace and you're all set. And if AC/DC did a two-disc comp (1 disc Bon and the other Brian), it'd sell millions in a heartbeat.I still think GNR would do well for a 2-disc "Best Of". My tracklist would probably be (Not sequenced, naming them straight off the album):Disc 1:1) WTTJ2) It's So Easy3) Nightrain4) Mr. Brownstone5) Paradise City6) SCOM7) Rocket Queen8) Used to Love Her9) PatienceDisc 2: 1) Don't Cry2) Live and Let Die3) November Rain4) Dead Horse(I'd also add You Ain't the First, Bad Obsession, Garden of Eden and one of the Izzy tracks off UYI I, but that's just me)5) Civil War6) 14 Years7) Yesterdays8) KOHD (Live Tokyo Dome '92, the studio version is terrible)9) Estranged10) YCBM(Deliberating between Pretty Tied Up, Breakdown and Locomotive)11) Ain't It Fun12) Since I Don't Have You(I'd probably tack on Better, but honestly the mainstream buyer couldn't give a shit about CD) Edited June 11, 2014 by IRanOutOfIdeas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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