Greatest Hits: "The Ultimate Collection" and lead single: "What Do You Got"

They are embracing the fact that their glory, hit filled days are in the 80s!
ALL HAIL THE 80s!!!!!

Not the best tracklisting. I would have made it...

Disc 1
- Runaway
- Prayer
- Bad Name
- Wanted
- Bad Medicine
- Keep the Faith
- Bed of Roses
- Always
- This Aint A Love Song
- It's My Life
- Have a Nice Day
- Who Says You Can't Go Home
- Make a Memory
- We Werent Born to Follow
- What Do You Got?
- No Apologies

Disc 2
- Only Lonely
- I'll Be There For You
- Born to be My Baby
- Blaze of Glory
- In These Arms
- Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
- These Days/Something for the Pain
- Thank You For Lovin Me
- Everyday
- Lost Highway
- This Is Love, This Is Life
- The More Things Change

To me it makes more sense... not so much with the second disc being a fan favourites but more of a complete greatest hits overall.

Every album SHOULD be part of the compilation and Bed of Roses SHOULD be on disc 1.

Not a good tracklisting, but not as bad as I thought it would be either. The Two-Disc edition gives a pretty good sampling of the different sounds the band has had over the years.

Also, as a side note... $15.99 US for the Ultimate Collection is a pretty good price IMO.

That is, i wonder how much it will be in UK?

I see where you're coming from, but I'm not buying that. In that case, November Rain would be "too long of a song" to be included on a Guns N' Roses collection. Same goes for Estranged. (Even though I obviously know that those two songs were bigger hits than Dry County, but that's not really the point.)

November Rain is not a good example because it's a legit hit. I don't know what GNR collection you have, but my GNR greatest hits doesn't have Estranged in it. I think Estranged is their Dry County.

I don't own their official collection, but that's a horrendous decision in that case.

And I honestly don't believe that the length of a song would scare anyone. Especially not when it's ten minutes of pure quality. Plus, Jon obviously knows that the song means a lot to a huge part of the fanbase. Why else would he play it at special occasions (almost exclusively at Giants Stadium in the states, for example) and release a somewhat mediocre version on the DVD?

Ah, well. I never expected it to be included anyway.

The GNR hits were a bit of a farce. 5 songs were covers.
They should have put gems like Locomotive, Estranged & Coma on - but they didnt - but those 3 songs would have clocked up nealry 30 mins of music!!

In the UK Estranged didnt do as well as Dry County. But DC didnt do as well as November Rain.

I think Disc 1 on the BJ ultimate just shows how average the band have been since after KTF.

Also the idea of the 2nd disc being a fans favourite is a bit of waste of time. This album isnt aimed at fans - its aimed at casual fans who may own 1 or 2 albums.

Judging by the price points, I think the two-disc set is going to the main one that they're going to try and push on all consumers, from die-hards to casuals. Similar to the Foo Fighters. There were two editions of their GH released, but the CD/DVD edition is the main one most stories carry.