# The 17 Best Guns N' Roses Songs of All Time

> From sleaze-rock anthems that built a legend to sprawling power ballads that stopped stadiums cold, this lineup runs the full range of the band's chaos and grandeur. Where do you stand?

*By YPB Team · Published August 13, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-17-best-guns-n-roses-songs-of-all-time*

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## Current results (3 votes)

1. **Sweet Child o' Mine** — 100% (3 votes · score 1000/1000)
   The band's only U.S. number-one single, built on Slash's iconic opening guitar riff, from 1987's Appetite for Destruction.
2. **November Rain** — 0% (0 votes · score 642/1000)
   An epic nine-minute power ballad with orchestral sweep and a lavish guitar solo, from Use Your Illusion I.
3. **Civil War** — 0% (0 votes · score 551/1000)
   A politically charged epic featured on Use Your Illusion II, opening with a spoken film sample.
4. **Welcome to the Jungle** — 0% (0 votes · score 550/1000)
   The snarling opening track of Appetite for Destruction that announced the band's arrival in 1987.
5. **Mr. Brownstone** — 0% (0 votes · score 494/1000)
   A gritty Appetite for Destruction track built on a distinctive syncopated riff about heroin.
6. **Don't Cry** — 0% (0 votes · score 428/1000)
   A soaring ballad released as the lead single from the Use Your Illusion albums in 1991.
7. **Paradise City** — 0% (0 votes · score 350/1000)
   An anthemic Appetite for Destruction closer whose sing-along chorus became a stadium staple.
8. **Estranged** — 0% (0 votes · score 350/1000)
   A sprawling, cinematic ballad from Use Your Illusion II known for its lavish dolphin-diving music video.
9. **Rocket Queen** — 0% (0 votes · score 350/1000)
   The genre-bending closing track of Appetite for Destruction that shifts from sleaze to uplift.
10. **Nightrain** — 0% (0 votes · score 350/1000)
   A hard-charging Appetite for Destruction anthem named after a cheap fortified wine.
11. **You Could Be Mine** — 0% (0 votes · score 257/1000)
   A hard-driving Use Your Illusion II track that soundtracked Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
12. **Chinese Democracy** — 0% (0 votes · score 257/1000)
   The industrial-tinged title track and lead single of the long-delayed 2008 album.
13. **Since I Don't Have You** — 0% (0 votes · score 257/1000)
   A doo-wop ballad cover from The Spaghetti Incident? released as a single in 1994.
14. **Yesterdays** — 0% (0 votes · score 257/1000)
   A reflective mid-tempo rocker released as a single from Use Your Illusion II.
15. **Patience** — 0% (0 votes · score 143/1000)
   A tender acoustic ballad from the G N' R Lies EP driven by whistling and layered guitars.
16. **Knockin' on Heaven's Door** — 0% (0 votes · score 143/1000)
   The band's roaring cover of the Bob Dylan classic, a highlight of Use Your Illusion II.
17. **Live and Let Die** — 0% (0 votes · score 143/1000)
   The band's explosive cover of the Wings James Bond theme, a Use Your Illusion I single.

Tags: music, 80s, rock, bands, guns n' roses