| Greatest Hits and Black Beauties | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | L.A. Guns |
| Cover: | Greatest Hits and Black Beauties.jpg |
| Released: | November 15, 1999 |
| Genre: | Glam metal |
| Length: | 50:49 |
| Label: | Cleopatra |
| Prev Title: | Shrinking Violet |
| Prev Year: | 1999 |
| Next Year: | 2000 |
Greatest Hits and Black Beauties is an album by L.A. Guns. Although the title would indicate that the album featured the group's biggest hits, it is in fact more accurately described as a unique studio album, featuring re-recordings of older L.A. Guns songs in a newer style, along with a handful of new tracks.
Three years later, the band released an album with a similarly misleading title, Ultimate LA Guns, presented as the band's second greatest hits album (following ); however, this release included the same re-recordings featured on Greatest Hits and Black Beauties instead of the original hit versions of the songs.
AllMusic opined that "Greatest Hits and Black Beauties is really not a hits collection at all, but rather re-recordings of some of the band's best-known songs ... what's more, some of the re-recordings find vocalist Phil Lewis straining to hit higher notes, sometimes even altering the melodies to compensate for his diminished vocal range ... unless you're a completest, avoid this one".[1]