Every Guns N' Roses Song Ranked Worst to Best

Here's every Guns N' Roses song ranked from worst to best.

With just four full-length albums of original material, Guns N' Roses have become one of rock 'n' roll's most legendary bands. They came from L.A.'s Sunset Strip, but they easily transcended that scene and even made it obsolete.

Their debut, Appetite for Destruction, which has sold over 18 million copies in the United States alone, is a classic, but it was a slow burner. When it was first released in July of 1987, it was met with some fanfare, gradually creeping up the charts until it eventually ascended to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 about a year later.

Though they never topped Appetite (few albums in rock's canon can claim to be better), Guns N' Roses would go on to explore different styles of music. Use Your Illusion I and II each clocked in at over 70 minutes, showcasing piano-driven ballads, moodier and lengthier compositions, some saloon rock, leftovers from the Appetite sessions and some straight-ahead burners.

Things splintered from there as tensions really began to mount and the group bided their time by releasing The Spaghetti Incident?, a covers album of mostly punk rock tunes. With Axl Rose the last remaining founding member until Slash and Duff McKagan rejoined in 2016, the long-overdue Chinese Democracy stood as the only full-length effort to emerge after this.

The trio re-recorded some outtakes from the 2008 album and released them in 2021 ("Absurd" and "Hard Skool") and 2023 ("Perhaps" and "The General").

We've taken it all into consideration and have ranked all of their original songs from worst to best in the gallery below. Therefore, the only two cover songs included in the ranking are the ones included on the Illusion albums ("Knockin' on Heaven's Door" and "Live and Let Die"), since the rest of both records were all original material, and because they both became massive hits for the band.

We didn't include the covers or demos they released on the 2018 reissue of Appetite for Destruction either.

Scroll below to see all of Guns N' Roses' songs ranked from worst to best.