# Best Guns n' Roses song of all time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502 "2008-01-14T18:25:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502/21 "2008-01-15T00:54:06Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Why’d you just…fuck off! Huh! That line always made that song for me. [/QUOTE] That would be “ **Why don’t** you just…FUCK OFF!” I coincidentally wore my Guns & Roses t-shirt today! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502/22 "2008-01-15T00:59:06Z")
Rocket Queen, Mr Brownstone a close second. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502/23 "2008-01-15T01:00:25Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Rocket Queen, Mr Brownstone a close second. [/QUOTE] Rocket Queen is great, they should have taken the last part of that song and made a separate song out of it. Slight hijack, does anybody hold out any hope that A: Chinese Democracy will ever come out and it won’t suck or B: The mostly original lineup will ever reunite? ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502/24 "2008-01-15T01:02:29Z")
“Civil War” with “Rocket Queen” a close second for me. ---
**Author:** ![DJ\_Motorbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@DJ\_Motorbike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DJ_Motorbike)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502/25 "2008-01-15T01:06:55Z")
“Breakdown” is my favorite followed by “Estranged.” ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502/26 "2008-01-15T02:23:41Z")
Reading this thread has rekindled my GnR interest. Didja know: -There is BANJO on Use Your Illusion II? I heard it on “Civil War” (man that’s a great song), and it’s also on Estranged. Apparently it’s Slash that plays Banjo. -Axl sang a song with Don Henley on his 1989 Album _The End of The Innocence_. -Axl appears on 3 tracks of the 2007 Sebastian Bach album _Angel Down_, including one he co-wrote. 2 of them are pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![MC\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@MC\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MC_E)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502/27 "2008-01-15T02:29:36Z")
Am I the only one who likes “Locomotive”? But “Mr. Brownstone” and the acoustic “You’re Crazy” are great too. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502/28 "2008-01-15T02:41:11Z")
What, no love for “Welcome to the Jungle”? It’s simple, it’s straightforward, and it kicks your ass so hard you spin around and then it kicks you in the balls. Big props for “Mr. Brownstone” and “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” but “Welcome to the Jungle” is as perfect a bang-your-head rock song as has ever been recorded. I know for sure what the WORST Guns 'N Roses song is: “November Rain.” God, I hate that song. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502/29 "2008-01-15T02:44:20Z")
[QUOTE=control-z] Slight hijack, does anybody hold out any hope that A: Chinese Democracy will ever come out and it won’t suck or B: The mostly original lineup will ever reunite? [/QUOTE] I can’t imagine it would be any good, but according to Wiki, its still coming out, and as part of a trilogy with album three released in 2012 :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502/30 "2008-01-15T03:00:56Z")
[QUOTE=RickJay] What, no love for “Welcome to the Jungle”? [/QUOTE] Sure, but that answer is too easy, like answering “Stairway to Heaven” for favorite Zep song. Dig deeper. ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502/31 "2008-01-15T03:46:34Z")
It may be easy, but _Welcome to the Jungle_ will have my Great-Grandkids throwing devil horns. Honourable mention to _One in a Million_, even though most folks get their undies in a twist over a few words, and don’t listen to the song. _Don’t Damn Me_ is pretty kickass, and (imho) has always been a response to the people who didn’t understand _One in a Million_. ---
**Author:** ![berff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@berff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/berff)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502/32 "2008-01-15T05:13:28Z")
I think I’d pick either Breakdown or Locomotive. In fact, their best album is Use Your Illusion II. From Chinese Democracy (from the leaked stuff anyway), the only song I really love is Better which ranks right up with the Use Your Illusion era songs. ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502/33 "2008-01-15T05:42:01Z")
After five or six drinks there’s no topping _Nightrain_. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502/34 "2008-01-15T05:43:36Z")
As far as Chinese Democracy, there seems to be a lot of leaked stuff, some from concerts but some studio stuff too. My picks: Better, I.R.S., Chinese Democracy, Crash Diet, and Shadow of Your Love (old Hollywood Rose song). They need to hurry up and release the damn album. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502/35 "2008-01-15T07:43:04Z")
I own everything G ‘n’ R ever put out and am a huge fan, but Sweet Child was the first thing that went through my head when I saw the thread title so I’m going to have to go with that. Before y’all throw brickbats at me, though, I should probably say that when I see “favorite Beatles song” I think I Wanna Hold Your HAAAaaaaaannnnnnnd". ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502/36 "2008-01-15T14:26:02Z")
[QUOTE=control-z] That would be “ **Why don’t** you just…FUCK OFF!” I coincidentally wore my Guns & Roses t-shirt today! 🆒 [/QUOTE] If you look at the lyric sheet, sure. But if you try to do it just as he says it you really get something more like: Wanchoo jus…Fuckoff! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-guns-n-roses-song-of-all-time/433502.md?page=1)