‘Welcome To The Jungle’, the opener here, is a great song. Its video – featuring Axl Rose’s hideous back-combed barnet and a load of shop window television sets showing roits and the like – is not great. At all. And that pretty much sums up this DVD: great songs for the most part, but some truly patience-testing videos that are prehistoric by contemporary standards. Sure, it would be wrong to expect anything different, but the least Universal could do is offer us a few extras for our money. But no, all you get here are the videos themselves. That’s one star/circle lost already then. It won’t be the last.

The more inventive (award-winning too!) videos – ‘Don’t Cry’, ‘November Rain’ and ‘Estranged’ – suggest that Guns N’ Roses harboured aspirations of cinematic grandeur, but despite the latter video’s epic scale – filmed at various locations around the world, from the Sunset Strip to Munich – they all whiff more than your fridge ten days after the Christmas cheese board stuck to the back wall. The songs themselves have also weakened with time, and closing effort ‘Since I Don’t Have You’ is noteworthy only for an appearance by a cackling Gary Oldman, who must look back and cringe at his performance as a camp Devil-like figure. Minus a half star/circle for inappropriate use of a great actor. Whilst you're at it, dock another for Axl's bizarre obsession with dolphins, which is made disturbingly apparent on 'Estranged', yet never really explained.

As a curio, ‘Welcome To The Videos’ is a diverting trip down memory lane, but you’ll only watch it sober once. Keep the receipt.