10 Most Underrated Guns N' Roses Songs
2. Sympathy For The Devil - Greatest Hits
By the mid '90s, there pretty much wasn't a prayer of Guns N Roses ever reaching the heights that they did back in their prime. Even though it would be easy to say that grunge killed them, the most damage the band made were on themselves, and the lackluster sales of The Spaghetti Incident did nothing to save their goodwill for the fans. The time was up, but that didn't mean there wasn't time for one more song.
Having to include a song for the film Interview with the Vampire, Guns decided to go way back by drawing from their main influences for their cover of Sympathy for the Devil. Compared to the usual reworkings that you got from the other classic rock songs like Live and Let Die, this is a pretty faithful recreation of the Stones classic, with Slash sprinkling his signature bluesy licks whenever he can.
Then again, we all knew that this wasn't going to be good times that would last. From the sounds of this track, you can feel that the band are just trying to pull things together to make sure they get the take right, only to bring in some magic for good measure anyway. As much as it would have been fun to see Guns adapt to the sounds of the '90s, Slash said it best when he said this song was the sound of the group breaking up.