Showing posts with label Appetite for Destruction. Show all posts
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Friday, November 11, 2022

Guns N’ Roses et al: Top 50 Songs

Guns N’ Roses et al

Top 50 Songs

The rock band Guns N’ Roses formed in Los Angeles, Califirnia, in 1985. The original members consisted of Axl Rose (vocals: 1985-), Saul “Slash” Hudson (guitar: 1985-1996, 2016-), Izzy Stradlin (rhythm guitar: 1985-1991), Duff McKagan (bass: 1985-1997, 2016-), and Steven Adler (drums: 1985-1990). Their first album, Appetite for Destruction, featured the #1 hit “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and top 10 hits “Welcome to the Jungle” and “Paradise City.” is the best-selling debut in U.S. history with 18 million copies sold (30 million worldwide).

The follow-up release, G N’ R Lies, combined the group’s 1986 EP Live Like a Suicide with four new cuts and sold 10 milion copies worldwide fueled by the top 10 song “Patience.” They followed that up with the simultaneous releases of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II in 1991. The albums combined for 35 million copies worldwide and featured two more top-10 hits – “Don’t Cry” and “November Rain.”

After the 1993 covers album The Spaghetti Incident?, all the members except Axl Rose left the band eventually as he spent fifteen years working on the follow-up, 2008’s Chinese Democracy. In the meantime, Slash, Gilby Clarke (guitar: 1991-1994), and Matt Sorum (drums: 1990-1997) worked together in Slash’s Snakepit. Slash and Sorum also worked with McKagan in Velvet Revolver (2003-2008).

Slash and McKagan came back into the fold in 2016 for the Not in This Lifetime tour, which grossed more than half a billion dollars over the next three years, becoming the third highest-grossing concert tour on record.

Other members over the years have included DJ Ashba (guitar: 2009-2015), Brain (drums: 2000-2006), Buckethead (guitar: 2000-2004), Frank Ferrer (drums: 2006-), Robin Finck (guitar: 1997-2008), Richard Fortus (guitar: 2002-), Josh Freese (drums: 1997-2000), Chris Pitman (keyboards: 1998-2016), Dizzy Reed (keyboards: 1990-), Melissa Reese (keyboards: 2016-), Tommy Stinson (bass: 1998-2014), Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (guitar: 2006-2014), Paul Tobias (guitar: 1994-2002).

For a complete list of this act’s DMDB honors, check out the DMDB Music Maker Encyclopedia entry.

Click here to see other acts’ best-of lists.

Awards:

Top 50 Songs

Dave’s Music Database lists are determined by song’s appearances on best-of lists, appearances on compilations and live albums by the featured act, and songs’ chart success, sales, radio airplay, streaming, and awards. This list includes material by Velvet Revolver, Slash’s Snakepit, and Izzy Stradlin & the JuJu Hounds since they all featured former GNR members. Songs are by Guns N’ Roses unless noted otherwise.

DMDB Top 1%:

1. Sweet Child O’ Mine (1987)
2. Welcome to the Jungle (1987)
3. November Rain (1991)
4. Paradise City (1987)

DMDB Top 2%:

5. Patience (1988)

DMDB Top 10%:

6. Don’t Cry (1991)
7. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (1987)
8. Civil War (1990)
9. Live and Let Die (1991)

DMDB Top 20%:

10. You Could Be Mine (1991)
11. Nightrain (1987)
12. Fall to Pieces (Velvet Revolver, 2004)
13. Mr. Brownstone (1987)
14. Estranged (1991)
15. Since I Don’t Have You (1993)
16. Yesterdays (1991)
17. Slither (Velvet Revolver, 2004)
18. Hair of the Dog (1993)
19. Sympathy for the Devil (1994)

Beyond the DMDB Top 20%:

20. Rocket Queen (1987)
21. Chinese Democracy (2008)
22. It’s So Easy (1987)
23. Used to Love Her (1988)
24. Ain’t It Fun (1993)
25. The Last Fight (Velvet Revolver, 2007)
26. Better (2008)
27. One in a Million (1988)
28. Look at Your Game, Girl (1993)
29. Pretty Tied Up (1991)
30. Shadow of Your Love (1986)

31. Coma (1991)
32. I Will Not Go Quietly (Don Henley with Axl Rose, 1989)
33. So Fine (2008)
34. Shuffle It All (Izzy Stradlin & the JuJu Hounds, 1992)
35. Double Talkin’ Jive (1991)
36. My Michelle (1987)
37. She Builds Quick Machines (Velvet Revolver, 2007)
38. You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory (1993)
39. Move to the City (1986)
40. Out ta Get Me (1987)

41. Heartbreak Hotel (1986)
42. 14 Years (1991)
43. Garden of Eden (1991)
44. Set Me Free (Velvet Revolver, 2003)
45. Dirty Little Thing (Velvet Revolver, 2004)
46. Oh My God (1999)
47. Beggars & Hangers-On (Slash’s Snakepit, 1995)
48. Dead Horse (1991)
49. Dust N’ Bones (1991)
50. Street of Dreams (2008)

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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Dave's Music Hall of Fame: Album Inductees (May 2019)

Originally posted 5/22/2019.

January 22, 2019 marked the 10-year anniversary of the DMDB blog. To honor that, Dave’s Music Database announced its own Hall of Fame. Since then, 23 songs, 9 albums, and 10 acts have been inducted. This month marks the second batch of album inductees. These 10 works have been selected because they topped DMDB genre/specialty lists for classic rock, classical, country, folk, live albums, metal, opera, punk, rap, and R&B. It should be noted that blues, cast albums, and jazz were not included in this list because the top albums of each of those genres were already inducted – Robert Johnson’s The Complete Recordings (blues), Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific (cast album), and Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue (jazz).

See the full list of album inductees here.

Johann Sebastian Bach Goldberg Variations (1741)

Inducted May 2019 as a “Top Album of Its Genre (classical).”

Scholars have debated the specifics about the origin of the work, but have generally accepted that they were commissioned by Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, JK who may have been the first to perform them. WK Many records suggest that Bach once taught Goldberg, a famed virtuoso, who would have easily been able to play the variations. They were originally written for harpsichord, but are sometimes performed on piano. WK In fact, pianist Glenn Gould gave the Goldberg Variations their greatest audience with several recordings, collectively exceeding two million in sales. His recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1983 and added to the National Recording Registry in 2003. Read more.

James Brown Live at the Apollo, Vol. 1 (1962)

Inducted May 2019 as a “Top Album of Its Genre (live).”

“There is no more exciting document of live performance in the history of R&B.” AZ Brown asked his record label to record one of his shows. When they refused, he bankrolled the project himself, TL knowing “his live performances contained electricity unable to be reproduced in the studio.” RV “By the end of these thirty-two minutes, no one will doubt that James really was the hardest working man in show business (and this without even seeing him dance!).” AMG It ended up on the Billboard charts for more than a year, peaking at #2 and becoming “a watershed album, both for James Brown and for the burgeoning soul music movement.” AMG Read more.

Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison (1968)

Inducted May 2019 as a “Top Album of Its Genre (country).”

In one of his two legendary live albums recorded for a prison audience, “Cash plays to the audience, selecting a set of songs that are all about prison, crime, murder, regret, loss, mother, God, and loneliness.” AMG “He never did any hard time, but Cash had a natural sympathy for men who gave in to their worst impulses.” TL “Cash stimulates the audience’s emotions, which in turn stimulates his performance, especially since he delivers the songs with the conviction of someone who has lived through it.” AMG “Few albums come as close to capturing the darkness and rage that lays deep in Cash’s music, as well as the depth of his talent.” AMG Read more.

Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde (1966)

Inducted May 2019 as a “Top Album of Its Genre (folk).”

With Blonde on Blonde, Dylan was moving toward “leaving coffee bars behind forever…to bring country into rock & roll.” BL It “is an album of enormous depth” AMG that “reaches some of Dylan’s greatest heights – which is to say, the very pinnacle of rock.” TL It “is comprised entirely of songs driven by inventive, surreal, and witty wordplay.” TL It blends “blues, country, rock, and folk into a wild, careening, and dense sound.” TL It was “the culmination of Dylan’s electric rock & roll period – he would never release a studio record that rocked this hard, or had such bizarre imagery, ever again.” AMG Read more.

Marvin Gaye What’s Going On (1971)

Inducted May 2019 as a “Top Album of Its Genre (R&B).”

Gaye’s album of social commentary on “urban decay, environmental woes, military turbulence, police brutality, unemployment, and poverty” AMG became “one of the defining albums of its time.” TL Initially Motown founder Berry Gordy balked at the idea, thinking it would be a commercial failure, but it became “the most important and passionate record to come out of soul music” AMG and “the most perfect expression of an artist’s hope, anger, and concern ever recorded.” AMG It “catapulted Marvin Gaye into superstardom.” BN and “kicked off an era of unprecedented social consciousness in R&B…[and] introduced a whole new style of making records.” TL Read more.

Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction (1987)

Inducted May 2019 as a “Top Album of Its Genre (metal).”

“Guns N’ Roses’ debut, Appetite for Destruction was a turning point for hard rock in the late ‘80s – it was a dirty, dangerous, and mean record in a time when heavy metal meant nothing but a good time.” AMG Guns N’ Roses embraced “the wasted rock star lifestyle with such earnest determination that you’d think they invented it.” GW Lead singer Axl “Rose’s misogyny, fear, and anger hard to dismiss as merely an artistic statement; this is music that sounds lived-in.” AMG As good as his “lyrics and screeching vocals are, they wouldn’t be nearly as effective without the twin-guitar interplay of Slash and Izzy Stradlin, who spit out riffs and solos better than any band since the Rolling Stones.” BL Read more.

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971)

Inducted May 2019 as a “Top Album of Its Genre (classic rock).”

While “the first four Led Zeppelin albums are all air-curdling classics, monolithic slabs of sleazy sweat-riffs and heavy gravity, [this] is their most staggeringly ambitious.” DK It “not only [defined] Led Zeppelin, but the sound and style of ‘70s hard rock.” AMG It “turned them from mere superstars into giant behemoths of the rock world,” AZ1 “an important stylistic template for everything from heavy metal to grunge.” BN Read more.

Claudio Monteverdi L’Orfeo (Orpheus) (1607)

Inducted May 2019 as a “Top Album of Its Genre (opera).”

Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo is “based on the Greek legend of Orpheus, and tells the story of his descent to Hades and his fruitless attempt to bring his dead bride Eurydice back to the living world.” WK “It was written in 1607 for a court performance during the annual Carnival at Mantua.” WK ‘In his published score Monteverdi lists around 41 instruments to be deployed, with distinct groups of instruments used to depict particular scenes and characters.” WK “After the composer’s death in 1643 the opera went unperformed for many years, and was largely forgotten until a revival of interest in the late 19th century.” WK Since then, it has gained the reputation as “the earliest that is still regularly performed.” WK Read more.

Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)

Inducted May 2019 as a “Top Album of Its Genre (rap).”

Nation “rewrote the rules of what hip-hop could do.” STE It is “one of the greatest and most influential albums of all-time” WK in any genre. The group “set out to make…the hip hop equivalent to Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, an album noted for its strong social commentary.” WK Los Angeles Times critic Robert Hilburn said, Chuck D “isn’t afraid of being labeled an extremist, and it’s that fearless bite…helps infuse his black-consciousness raps with the anger and assault of punk pioneers like the Sex Pistols and Clash.” WK Read more.

Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)

Inducted May 2019 as a “Top Album of Its Genre (punk).”

This “has become punk’s ground zero.” TM “One album was all they made, and probably all anyone could stand.” TL The Sex Pistols “made old-fashioned rock bad boys such as The Rolling Stones and The Who look like wimps in comparison.” RV Their “loud, snotty and angry” approach created “an us-against-them ideology that disaffected kids everywhere understood immediately.” TM “Never Mind the Bollocks perfectly articulated the frustration, rage, and dissatisfaction of the British working class with the establishment.” AMG “Everyone who heard them went out and started a punk band, and the music world’s been a better place as a result.” PK Read more.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Entertainment Weekly: Greatest Albums

Entertainment Weekly:

Greatest Albums

This list is an aggregate of three different lists published by the following three Entertainment Weekly lists:

A total of 245 albums appeared over the three lists. Only 46 titles appeared on two of the lists. Only five albums appeared on all three lists. The 2012 list is the strongest as it encompasses the widest swath of music in terms of eras and genres and best representation of albums universally considered classics. The 2008 list only focuses on a quarter century – it was a celebration of Entertainment Weekly’s 25th anniversary. Finally, the 1993 list includes a lot of compilations and box sets which are often overlooked on best-of lists. Some of these are welcome additions while others seem inappropriate substitutes for acts’ more celebrated classic albums.

Check out other publications and organizations’ best-of album lists here.

Albums Appearing on All 3 Lists:

1. Paul Simon Graceland (1986)
2. U2 Achtung Baby (1991)
3. Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Destruction (1987)
4. Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
5. Prince & the Revolution Purple Rain (soundtrack, 1984)

Albums Appearing on 2 Lists:

6. The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street (1972)
7. Elvis Presley The Sun Sessions (archives, recorded 1954-55, released 1976)
8. Nirvana Nevermind (1991)
9. The Beach Boys Pet Sounds (1966)
10. Michael Jackson Thriller (1982)

11. Lauryn Hill The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998)
12. The Beatles Abbey Road (1969)
13. Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
14. Jay-Z The Blueprint (2001)
15. Madonna Madonna (1983)
16. Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
17. Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
18. OutKast Stankonia (2000)
19. The Cure Disintegration (1989)
20. The Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced? (1967)

21. The Who Who’s Next (1971)
22. The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die (1994)
23. The Clash London Calling (1979)
24. Stevie Wonder Innervisions (1973)
25. Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang Clan (36 Chambers) (1993)
26. The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin (1999)
27. Beck Odelay (1996)
28. Bob Marley & the Wailers Legend (compilation: 1973-83, released 1984)
29. Chuck Berry The Great Twenty-Eight (compilation: 1955-64, released 1982)
30. Nas Illmatic (1994)

31. Arcade Fire Funeral (2004)
32. De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)
33. Amy Winehouse Back to Black (2006)
34. R.E.M. Life’s Rich Pageant (1986)
35. LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver (2007)
36. Tom Waits Rain Dogs (1985)
37. Radiohead OK Computer (1997)
38. Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique (1989)
39. The Smiths The Queen Is Dead (1986)
40. Dr. Dre The Chronic (1992)

41. Metallica Master of Puppets (1986)
42. Patti Smith Horses (1975)
43. The Replacements Let It Be (1984)
44. Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral (1994)
45. My Bloody Valentine Loveless (1991)
46. Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973)
47. Erykah Badu Mama's Gun (2000)
48. Hole Live Through This (1994)
49. Dixie Chicks Home (2002)
50. PJ Harvey Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000)

51. Elliot Smith Either/Or (1997)

Albums Appearing on 1 List:

52. The Beatles Revolver (1966)
53. Led Zeppelin Remasters (compilation: 1969-79)
54. Miles Davis Kind of Blue (1959)
55. Kanye West The College Dropout (2004)
56. Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks (1975)
57. Green Day American Idiot (2004)
58. Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde (1966)
59. Aretha Franklin Lady Soul (1968)
60. Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)

61. Aretha Franklin 30 Greatest Hits (1985)
62. Johann Sebastian Bach Goldberg Variations (1741)
63. Radiohead In Rainbows (2007)
64. James Brown 20 All-Time Greatest Hits (compilation: 1991)
65. Joni Mitchell Blue (1971)
66. Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York (recorded live 1993, released 1994)
67. The Beatles The Beatles (aka “The White Album”) (1968)
68. Marvin Gaye What’s Going On (1971)
69. Cat Power You Are Free (2003)
70. Various Artists Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 (box set: 1959-71, released 1992)

71. Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison (live, 1968)
72. Various Artists (produced by Phil Spector) Back to Mono (box set: 1958-69, released 1991)
73. Bruce Springsteen Born to Run (1975)
74. Frank Sinatra Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! (1956)
75. Adele 21 (2011)
76. A Tribe Called Quest People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythms (1990)
77. Al Green Call Me (1973)
78. Beyoncé Dangerously in Love (2003)
79. Hank Williams 40 Greatest Hits (compilation: 1947-53, released 1978)
80. The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet (1968)

81. Fiona Apple Tidal (1996)
82. Enya Watermark (1988)
83. Mariah Carey The Emancipation of Mimi (2005)
84. David Bowie ChangesBowie (compilation: 1969-90, released 1990)
85. Louis Armstrong The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings (box set: 1925-28)
86. Van Morrison Best of (1990)
87. Daft Punk Discovery (2001)
88. Shania Twain Come on Over (1997)
89. Bob Marley & the Wailers Catch a Fire (1973)
90. Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)

91. Roxy Music Avalon (1982)
92. Bob Dylan Time Out of Mind (1997)
93. The Beatles 1962-1966 (compilation: 1962-66, released 1973)
94. Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
95. Prince Sign ‘O’ the Times (1987)
96. Fleetwood Mac Rumours (1977)
97. Kelly Clarkson Breakaway (2004)
98. Steely Dan A Decade of Steely Dan (compilation: 1972-80, released 1985)
99. Otis Redding Otis Blue (1965)
100. Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006)

101. Sly & the Family Stone Anthology (compilation: 1968-73, released 1981)
102. Alicia Keys As I Am (2007)
103. David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
104. The Strokes Is This It (2001)
105. The Band The Band (1969)
106. The Rolling Stones Some Girls (1978)
107. Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill (1995)
108. Robert Johnson The Complete Recordings (recorded 1936-37, released 1990)
109. TLC Crazy Sexy Cool (1994)
110. Patsy Cline 12 Greatest Hits (compilation: 1957-63, released 1973)

111. Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
112. Barbra Streisand The Broadway Album (covers: 1985)
113. Run-D.M.C. Raising Hell (1986)
114. Sheryl Crow Sheryl Crow (1996)
115. John Coltrane A Love Supreme (1965)
116. John Lennon Plastic Ono Band (1970)
117. Bruce Springsteen Nebraska (1982)
118. Carpenters The Singles 1969-1973 (compilation: 1969-73, released 1973)
119. AC/DC Back in Black (1980)
120. Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) Symphony No. 9 in D minor (Choral) (1824)

121. Michael Jackson Off the Wall (1979)
122. Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998)
123. Neil Young Decade (compilation: 1966-76, charted 1977)
124. Belle & Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)
125. Madonna The Immaculate Collection (compilation: 1983-90, released 1990)
126. The Beatles Rubber Soul (1965)
127. Björk Homogenic (1997)
128. Run-D.M.C. Together Forever: Greatest Hits 1983-1991 (1991)
129. Liz Phair Exile in Guyville (1993)
130. Duke Ellington The Blanton-Webster Band (box set: 1939-42, released 1990)

131. Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002)
132. Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002)
133. R.E.M. Murmur (1983)
134. k.d. lang & the Reclines Absolute Torch and Twang (1989)
135. Fugees The Score (1996)
136. Joni Mitchell Court and Spark (1974)
137. A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory (1991)
138. Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)
139. Elvis Costello King of America (1986)
140. The Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)

141. Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989)
142. Elvis Costello Girls Girls Girls (compilation: 1977-86, released 1989)
143. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Déjà Vu (1970)
144. Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2001)
145. various artists Turn the Beat Around: The Disco Years (compilation: 1974-78, released 1990)
146. Alicia Keys Songs in A Minor (2001)
147. Neil Young Harvest Moon (1992)
148. Sinéad O’Connor I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got (1990)
149. Pixies Surfer Rosa (1988)
150. Santana Lotus (1974)

151. Madonna Ray of Light (1998)
152. Rod Stewart The Mercury Anthology (1992)
153. various artists The Best of the Girl Groups (Volumes 1 and 2) (1990)
154. Eric B. & Rakim Paid in Full (1987)
155. Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994)
156. Slayer Seasons in the Abyss (1990)
157. Derek and the Dominos Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)
158. Television Marquee Moon (1977)
159. U2 The Joshua Tree (1987)
160. Billie Holiday The Legacy Box (1933-1958) (1958)

161. The Stooges Fun House (1970)
162. Love Forever Changes (1967)
163. The White Stripes Elephant (2003)
164. various artists Hip Hop Greats: Classic Raps (1990)
165. Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1957)
166. Neil Young After the Gold Rush (1970)
167. Metallica Metallica (aka “The Black Album”) (1991)
168. Emmylou Harris Wrecking Ball (1995)
169. The Spinners One of a Kind Love Affair: The Anthology (1991)
170. Sonic Youth Daydream Nation (1988)

171. The Postal Service Give Up (2003)
172. Jefferson Airplane 2400 Fulton Street (1971)
173. The Stooges Raw Power (1973)
174. Mary J. Blige My Life (1994)
175. The Kinks Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
176. No Doubt Rock Steady (2001)
177. The Police Every Breath You Take – The Singles (compilation: 1978-86; released 1986)
178. Van Halen 1984 (1984)
179. Loretta Lynn Country Music Hall of Fame Series (1991)
180. Various Artists (Jimmy Cliff et al) The Harder They Come (soundtrack, 1972)

181. Anita Baker Rapture (1986)
182. Moby Play (1999)
183. The Smiths Best...I (1992)
184. Elvis Costello My Aim Is True (1977)
185. Bruce Springsteen Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
186. Pet Shop Boys Discography: The Complete Singles Collection (1991)
187. Talking Heads Remain in Light (1980)
188. Ryan Adams Heartbreaker (2000)
189. Various The Indestructible Beat of Soweto (1986)
190. Portishead Dummy (1994)

191. James Taylor Sweet Baby James (1970)
192. Björk Post (1995)
193. Pearl Jam Vs. (1993)
194. The Allman Brothers At Fillmore East (live, 1971)
195. Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
196. Johnny Cash The Essential (compilation: 1955-83, released 1983)
197. Christina Aguilera Back to Basics (2006)
198. Aerosmith Toys in the Attic (1975)
199. Pixies Doolittle (1989)
200. The Rolling Stones The Singles Collection: The London Years (box set: 1963-71, released 1989)

201. Pavement Slanted and Enchanted (1992)
202. Jeff Buckley Grace (1994)
203. Eagles Hotel California (1976)
204. James Brown In the Jungle Groove (1971)
205. Pretenders Learning to Crawl (1984)
206. New Order Low-Life (1985)
207. Ornette Coleman Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1960)
208. Parliament Tear the Roof Off 1974-1980 (1980)
209. Richard Strauss (composer) Also Sprach Zarathustra (1896)
210. Dolly Parton Coat of Many Colors (1971)

211. Tupac Shakur (2pac) All Eyez on Me (1996)
212. The Quintent (Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie/Bud Powell/Charles Mingus/Max Roach) Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)
213. New Order Power, Corruption, and Lies (1983)
214. Peter Gabriel So (1986)
215. George Jones Best of (1955-1967) (1967)
216. Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out (1997)
217. Aimee Mann Bachelor No. 2 (2000)
218. Buddy Holly & the Crickets From the Original Master Tapes (1985)
219. The White Stripes White Blood Cells (2001)
220. System of a Down Toxicity (2001)

221. Talking Heads Popular Favourites 1976-1983 / Sand in the Vaseline 1984-1992 (1992)
222. Sly & the Family Stone There’s a Riot Goin’ On (1971)
223. Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream (1993)
224. Bonnie Raitt The Collection (1986)
225. Destiny’s Child The Writing’s on the Wall (1999)
226. Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits (1988)
227. N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton (1989)
228. Lynyrd Skynyrd Gold & Platinum (1977)
229. Beyoncé B'Day (2006)
230. The Police Synchronicity (1983)

231. The Byrds 20 Essential Tracks from the Boxed Set: 1965-1990 (1992)
232. Various artists (Bee Gees et al) Saturday Night Fever (soundtrack, 1977)
233. T.I. Trap Muzik (2003)
234. The Weavers At Carnegie Hall (1957)
235. Hüsker Dü Warehouse: Songs and Stories (1987)
236. Dusty Springfield Dusty in Memphis (1969)
237. Britney Spears Britney (2001)
238. Curtis Mayfield/The Impressions The Anthology 1966-1977 (1977)
239. Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf (2002)
240. Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism (2003)

241. Big Brother & the Holding Company Cheap Thrills (1968)
242. Neneh Cherry Homebrew (1992)
243. Ramones Ramones (1976)
244. George Michael Faith (1987)
245. various artists Golden Throats: The Great Celebrity Sing-Off (1988)

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Tuesday, March 23, 2004

Guns N' Roses released Greatest Hits

Guns N’ Roses

A Retrospective: 1987-1994

Overview:

Rock group formed in Los Angeles in 1985. Their debut album, 1987’s Appetite for Destruction, was the biggest selling debut of all time with 30 million copies sold worldwide and ranks as one of the top 100 albums of all time. The follow-up albums Use Your Illusion I & II rank in the top 1000 albums of all time.

“Sweet Child O' Mine,” a #1 single from Appetite, ranks as one of the top 100 songs of all time. The songs “Welcome to the Jungle,” “Paradise City,” and “November Rain” rank in the top 1% of all time.

The Players:

  • W. Axl Rose (vocals: 1985-)
  • Saul “Slash” Hudson (guitar: 1985-1996, 2016-)
  • Izzy Stradlin (rhythm guitar: 1985-1991)
  • Duff McKagan (bass: 1985-1997, 2016-)
  • Steven Adler (drums: 1985-1990)
  • Dizzy Reed (keyboards: 1990-)
  • Matt Sorum (drums: 1990-1997)

On the Web:

Lists:

Awards:

Compilations:

Under each album snapshot, songs featured on the anthologies are noted. If the song charted, the date of the song’s release or first chart appearance and its chart peaks are noted in parentheses. Click for codes to charts.

Appetite for Destruction (1987):

  • Welcome to the Jungle (9/28/87, 7 US, 9 CB, 13 GR, 10 RR, 37 AR, 24 UK, 41 AU, 1 DF, sales: 1.1 million worldwide) G
  • Sweet Child O' Mine (6/11/88, 12 US, 613 CB, 12 GR, 12 RR, 7 AR, 6 UK, 7 CN, 11 AU, 1 DF, sales: 4.6 million worldwide) G
  • Paradise City (11/30/88, 5 US, 4 CB, 9 GR, 4 RR, 14 AR, 6 UK, 10 CN, 48 AU, 15 DF) G

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GN’R Lies (1988):

  • Patience (12/24/88, 4 US, 4 CB, 4 GR, 6 RR, 7 AR, 10 UK, 16 AU, 1 DF) G

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Use Your Illusion I (1991):

  • Don’t Cry (9/17/91, 10 US, 7 CB, 9 GR, 13 RR, 3 AR, 8 UK, 11 CN, 5 AU, 16 DF) G
  • November Rain (9/28/91, 3 US, 13 CB, 4 GR, 2 RR, 15 AR, 4 UK, 5 CN, 5 AU, 2 DF) G
  • Live and Let Die (9/28/91, 33 US, 26 CB, 26 GR, 26 RR, 20 AR, 5 UK, 56 CN, 10 AU, 13 DF) G

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Use Your Illusion II (1991):

  • Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (9/28/87, 18 AR, 2 UK, 56 CN, 12 AU, 4 DF) G
  • Civil War (8/4/90, 4 AR, 11 UK, 45 AU, 1 DF) G
  • You Could Be Mine (6/21/91, 29 US, 3 AR, 3 UK, 30 CN, 3 AU, 16 DF) G
  • Yesterdays (10/17/92, 72 US, 58 CB, 13 AR, 8 UK, 52 CN, 14 AU, 33 DF) G

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The Spaghetti Incident? (1993):

  • Ain’t It Fun (11/13/93, 8 AR, 9 UK, 32 DF) G
  • Since I Don’t Have You (2/11/94, 69 US, 62 CB, 28 GR, 31 RR, 10 UK, 20 CN, 47 AU, 12 DF) G

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Greatest Hits

Guns N’ Roses

Released: March 23, 2004

Recorded: 1987-1994

Peak: 3 US, 13 UK, 2 CN, 2 AU, 11 DF

Sales (in millions): 6.0 US, 2.1 UK, 12.72 world (includes US and UK)

Genre: classic rock/hair band/metal

Rating:

4.067 out of 5.00 (average of 12 ratings)

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Tracks: (1) Welcome to the Jungle (2) Sweet Child O' Mine (3) Patience (4) Paradise City (5) Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (6) Civil War (7) You Could Be Mine (8) Don’t Cry (9) November Rain (10) Live and Let Die (11) Yesterdays (12) Ain’t It Fun (13) Since I Don’t Have You (14) Sympathy for the Devil

Total Running Time: 79:24

Tracks Not on Previously Noted Albums:

  • Sympathy for the Devil (from the Interview with the Vampire soundtrack) (11/19/94, 55 US, 10 AR, 9 UK, 48 CN, 12 AU, 13 DF) G

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Saturday, January 14, 1989

Guns N’ Roses “Paradise City” charted

Paradise City

Guns N’ Roses

Writer(s): Slash, Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan, Steven Adler (see lyrics here)

Released: November 30, 1988

First Charted: January 14, 1989

Peak: 5 BB, 4 CB, 9 GR, 4 RR, 14 AR, 6 UK, 10 CN, 48 AU, 15 DF (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): -- US, 1.2 UK, 1.59 world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 821.89 video, 1038.08 streaming

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About the Song:

Guns N’ Roses formed in 1985 in Los Angeles, California. 1987’s Appetite for Destruction became the best-selling debut album in U.S. history, selling 18 million copies. It has sold around 30 million copies worldwide. It wasn’t an overnight success, however. The band didn’t really take off until “Sweet Child O’ Mine” hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 – more than a year after the album’s release. Then “Welcome to the Jungle” was re-released and hit the top 10.

The album had seemingly run its course by then since the group released GN’R Lies, a collection of four new songs and the group’s four-song EP Live Like a Suicide. However, after reaching the top-ten a third time with the power ballad “Patience,”Guns N’ Roses dipped back into the Appetite album for “Paradise City,” which became the album’s third top-ten hit.

Slash, the lead guitarist for the band, says the song was written in the back of a rental van. The group were returning from a gig in San Francisco and playing acoustic guitarist. Slash came up with the intro and Duff McKagan and Izzy Stradlin joined in. After Slash started humming a melody, singer Axl Rose chimed in wit the line, “Take me down to the paradise city.” Slash responded with the line “Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.” WK

According to McKagan, the song grew out of one of their first rehearsals and some lyrics from one of his notebooks. SF Verses about “the rough life on the streets” were inspired by Los Angeles, but “the chorus was based on Axl Rose’s memories of the Midwest, with images of green grass, innocence and possibility.” SF

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