Sympathy for the Devil / Escape to Paris [Single]

Guns N' Roses | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 13, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single
• Label: Geffen Records
• ASIN: B00000DEQ7
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,616 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Single Taken the from the soundtrack for "Interview With the Vampire" Final Guns N' Roses recording with former members Slash, Duff Mckagan, and Matt Sorum, this cover of the Rolling Stones classic was featured in the closing credits of the film. Tracks: 1) Sympathy For the Devil (LP Version) 2) Escape to Paris (LP Version)- (a symphonic track from the movie score -Not a Guns N' Roses recording)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Going out with a bang, August 3, 2007

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Justin Gaines (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sympathy for the Devil / Escape to Paris (Audio CD)

By all accounts, this single, which was taken from the Interview With The Vampire: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, marked the end of the Guns n' Roses we used to know. Apparently the band members were barely speaking at the time and recorded all of their parts separately. Axl cut Slash's guitar parts and replaced them with someone else's. That was all she wrote for the legendary band, which in the years that followed pretty much became Axl and some guys.

The band's cover of the Rolling Stones' Sympathy For the Devil may have been their last track as a unit, but at least they went out with a bang. This is a killer cover song, with Axl sounding every bit like the serpent in the Garden of Eden as he recounts his various misdeeds throughout history. I've never really cared for the Stones, but this is a great rock song, and Guns n' Roses definitely did it justice.

The CD single also contains a symphonic track - Escape to Paris - from the film score. I own the movie soundtrack and love the score, but including this song on the single is just an excuse to hit the skip button and listen to Sympathy again.

5.0 out of 5 stars Sympathy for the Devil/ Escape to Paris- Guns N' Roses, October 30, 2010

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This review is from: Sympathy for the Devil / Escape to Paris (Audio CD)

I have looked for years for this song by Guns N' Roses. I should have looked on Amazon before now. The sound quality was excellent and the product was in good shape.

1 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the break up of the band never i say, February 4, 2006

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.Richard "Rich" (england) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sympathy for the Devil / Escape to Paris (Audio CD)

1994 the year kurdt donald cobain put a gun to his head and ended that genre[he was on the plane with duff mckagan a couple of days before he shot himself]
guns and roses juices were drying up in drastic fantastic in the shpe of a seven minute roaring version of the rolling stones classic sympathy for the devil of off their 1968 album "beggar's banquet]
i once were slash say in a interview thAt this single was the band breaking up well slash i can't hear it all i hear it a band finally laying the demons to rest and doing a stomping version
of a classic with the eery intro then you've got the 3 minute solo slot by slash and the band going into chaos at the end
fabulous..nothing more needs to be said