2003.10.20 - Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles - Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits Tracklisting Revealed!

GUNS N’ ROSES - Greatest Hits Tracklisting Revealed!

Universal Music will release GUNS N’ ROSES’ Greatest Hits album on November 25th.

The disc will include the following tracklisting: ‘Welcome To The Jungle’, ‘Live And Let Die’, ‘Knockin' On Heaven's Door’, ‘Sweet Child Of Mine’, ‘November Rain’, ‘Patience’, ‘Paradise City’, ‘Civil War’, ‘You Could Be Mine’, ‘Don't Cry’ (original), ‘Yesterdays’, ‘Ain't It Fun’, ‘Since I Don't Have You’ and ‘Sympathy For The Devil’.

https://web.archive.org/web/20031231202059/http://www.bravewords.com/news.html?id=8096

On the same date, there was a "mysterious" listing on Amazon advertising a new Guns N' Roses product due to be released on November 25. From the mygnr.com site:

Amazon.com reports November 25th as being the provisional date for the release of a GUNS N ROSES related product.

Optimistic GUNS N ROSES fans hope this will be the release of the long awaited "Chinese Democracy" album.

Some fans expect it to be a "Greatest hits" CD.

Other possibilities include a re-release of the classic "Appetite for Destruction" (re-recording).

https://web.archive.org/web/20080720075949/http://www.mygnr.com/news/2003/201003_1.html

And later in the day the Brave Words site reported that it was a Greatest Hits album.

The next day (Oct. 21), the Brave Words site reported that the album eventually wasn't going to be released on the scheduled date, citing a representative from Universal:

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GUNS N’ ROSES - Greatest Hits CD Release Canceled!

A representative of Universal Music has revealed to BW&BK; that the previously announced GUNS N’ ROSES’ Greatest Hits album that was due out on November 25th through Geffen has been pulled from the labels release schedule.

A reason for the cancellation was not given and whether or not the disc will be rescheduled is yet to be seen.

The disc would have included the following tracklisting: ‘Welcome To The Jungle’, ‘Live And Let Die’, ‘Knockin' On Heaven's Door’, ‘Sweet Child Of Mine’, ‘November Rain’, ‘Patience’, ‘Paradise City’, ‘Civil War’, ‘You Could Be Mine’, ‘Don't Cry’ (original), ‘Yesterdays’, ‘Ain't It Fun’, ‘Since I Don't Have You’ and ‘Sympathy For The Devil’.

https://web.archive.org/web/20031231203023/http://www.bravewords.com/news.html?id=8117