Use Your Illusion I [Gold CD]

Use Your Illusion I [Gold CD]

Editorial Reviews
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Part one of Guns N' Roses' ambitious second album is arguably the better of the two. It certainly rocks harder, though this seems to be more coincidence than anything else; which songs went on which CD looks to have been a random selection. Use Your Illusion I stays closer to the band's bluesy hard-rock roots, with guitarist Izzy Stradlin contributing some of the best songs, including "Dust N' Bones" and "You Ain't the First." "November Rain" (clocking in at over nine minutes) became an instant classic, and there are a fair number of straight-ahead rockers, such as "Perfect Crime," "Don't Damn Me," and "Garden of Eden." Taking the best from this album and Use Your Illusion II would have made a killer single CD, but there's enough good stuff here to make it worthwhile. --Genevieve Williams

Tracks:

Right Next Door To Hell
Dust N' Bones
Live And Let Die
Don't Cry (Original)
Perfect Crime
You Ain't The First
Bad Obsession
Back Off Bitch
Double Talkin' Jive
November Rain
The Garden
Garden Of Eden
Don't Damn Me
Bad Apples
Dead Horse
Coma

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Part one of Guns N' Roses' ambitious second album is arguably the better of the two. It certainly rocks harder, though this seems to be more coincidence than anything else; which songs went on which CD looks to have been a random selection. Use Your Illusion I stays closer to the band's bluesy hard-rock roots, with guitarist Izzy Stradlin contributing some of the best songs, including "Dust N' Bones" and "You Ain't the First." "November Rain" (clocking in at over nine minutes) became an instant classic, and there are a fair number of straight-ahead rockers, such as "Perfect Crime," "Don't Damn Me," and "Garden of Eden." Taking the best from this album and Use Your Illusion II would have made a killer single CD, but there's enough good stuff here to make it worthwhile. --Genevieve Williams

Customer Reviews:

The guns n roses show.......2007-04-18

This was the 5th guns album i bought my first being : Greatest Hits, 2nd Appetite: third Use your illusion 2 and then lies and finally Uyi 1.
Each time i bought a new guns album i heard a new sound completly different to the album before it. My fav. songs on this album are Don't damn me, Dead horse, Back off Bitch and definetly COMA. The riffs are unbelivable, Matt on the drums is great and axl well he is legendary, his voice, ever changing and his lyrics especially on Coma are mind blowing. Buy this album. You have to appriciate the lyrics of Axl and the others to really get this album. But there are still some hard rockin classics 5*

nearly perfect .......2006-12-30

use your illusion 1 is a real bluesy, complex, rock n roll album, instead of a stupid hair metal album like appetite. i'll only review songs i like,ok.

dust n bones, bad obsession and bad apples: intelligent, aerosmith, stonesy blues rock songs.

live and let die: cool cover song, unique riffs.

don't cry: beautiful, but not comparable to november rain.

november rain: if u know anything about gnr, you've heard it. sounds classical, complex, and great instruments.

you ain't the 1st: twangy bluegrass country song w/ no solos, short, but one of a kind.

double talkin jive: kinda stupid lyrics, but almost metallica-sounding guitar solo, which fades into a spanish guitar sounding solo at the 1 minute left mark, rebellious.

the garden: seems to tell of drug use, multi-styled, it's soft yet heavy, like led zeppelin songs. BEST HARD SONG ON ALBUM

don't damn me: rebellious, and quality lyrics, just a simple gnr rocker.

dead horse: starts out acoustic, then suddenly gets crazy heavy, and an awesome solo from slash, then goes back to the same acoustic part then ends.

coma: describes a coma, has very heavy riff in it; coma>the garden.

This is not a hair metal album; uyi1 is like aerosmith/stones, while appetite is like poison/motley crue/kiss. do not buy but a few songs off appetite.

turn around point!.......2006-12-28

appetite makes gnr sound like motley crue: high-pitched singing, repetitive songs, empty lyrics. This makes em seem even more manly; they sound like aerosmith, perhaps lynyrd skynyrd, having old, bluesy licks, deep lyrics, southern rockish keyboard, and the great ballad november rain, of course. Also, kinda weird pink floydish/zep sounds in some parts.
anti- hair metal! buy now!!!

turn around point!.......2006-12-28

Yeah, whatever.......2006-12-13

Okay, I'm still wondering something: Do we really need two CD's worth of this album? I mean, come on! Yeah, there's some coolness spread across this album: "November Rain" and "Don't Cry" are two more awesome lovestruck power ballads, "Live and Let Die" is arguably even better than Macca's because of Slash's heavy guitar, "Right Next Door to Hell", "Dust n' Bones", and "Perfect Crime" fill out the obligatory "kickass rock n' roll" quotient. And "Coma" is nicely epic and such. The biggest misstep is the acoustic country-twanger thing "You Ain't the First", which at least is mercifully brief, unlike the proceeding stupidity. Tell me, what was their justification for dragging slag like the Stones rip "Bad Obsession", misogynistic "Back off B*tch", psychedelic trash "In the Garden" (with Alice Cooper making a total fool of himself), and "Don't Damn Me", with Axl justifying his writing "One in a Million" by saying, "Sometimes I wanna kill" and "Sometimes I wanna destroy" (niiiiiiice. Now those two people in the world who previously didn't think you were an a** have changed their minds). And not only is he an a** (but you knew that), he's a friggin' hypocrite. "Why let one bad apple spoil the whole damn bunch", proclaims Mr. Axl "Immigrants and f*ggots/they make no sense to me" Rose. Hey buddy, by now everybody knows you hate anyone who isn't a straight American white guy, so why pretend otherwise? Who's gonna believe you? And guess what else? If you take what's good here, you get an economical single CD! Maybe it's a couple songs too few, but that's what we have those precious few good songs from Use Your Illusion II for!