Use Your Illusion I
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| Use Your Illusion I | ||
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| Missing image GunsnRosesUseYourIllusionI.jpg Album cover | ||
| CD, cassette and LP by Guns n' Roses | ||
| Released | September 16 & 17, 1991 | |
| Recorded | A&M Studios, Record Plant, Studio 56, Image Recording, Conway Studios & Metalworks Recording Studios - 1991 | |
| Genre | Hard rock | |
| Length | 76 min 04 sec | |
| Record label | Geffen Records | |
| Producer | Mike Clink and Guns n' Roses | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| Allmusic.com | 4 1/2 out of 5 | Link (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=At2jm7iojg71r) |
| Q | 4 stars out of 5 | September 1991 (http://www.q4music.com/nav?page=q4music.review.redirect&fixture_review=119297&resource=119297&fixture_artist=140546) |
| Rolling Stone Album Guide | 4 out of 5 stars | |
| Guns and Roses Chronology | ||
| GN'R Lies (1989) | Use Your Illusion I (1991) | Use Your Illusion II (1991) |
Use Your Illusion I is an album by Guns N' Roses. It was the first of two albums released in conjunction with the Use Your Illusion Tour, the other named Use Your Illusion II.
The Use Your Illusion albums represent a turning point in the sound of Guns N' Roses. Although they did not abandon the hard rock tendencies so vivid in their first album, Appetite for Destruction, Use Your Illusion I demonstrated, for the first time, more or less, elements of blues, classical music, and country. For example, lead singer Axl Rose plays piano on several tracks of both albums. In addition, with the Use Your Illusion Tour, both the music and stage presence of the band became more theatrical, in the tradition of progressive rock. This fact is evidenced by the numerous music videos produced in conjunction with these albums. Use Your Illusion I contains two of the three songs, "November Rain" and "Don't Cry", whose videos are generally held by fans to be a trilogy (the third song, "Estranged", is on Use Your Illusion II). It was songs like "November Rain" which brought Guns N' Roses popularity among music fans who usually did not listen to hard rock or heavy metal.
A number of songs on the album were written in the band's early days but were not included on Appetite for Destruction. "Back Off Bitch", "Bad Obsession", "Bad Apples", "Don't Cry", "November Rain", and "The Garden" are considered part of this group.
Besides stylistic differences, another new aspect seen in Use Your Illusion I was longer songs. "November Rain", an epic ballad, is over 8 minutes long, and "Coma" is nearly 10 minutes long.
There are significant differences to be noted between Use Your Illusion I and II. The cover art of these two albums, identical except for color, is very representative of these differences: Use Your Illusion I is red, and has, for the most part an angrier, heavier sound; Use You Illusion II is blue, and has a softer, even more bluesy sound.
The cover is detail from Raphael's fresco the School of Athens.
Track listing
- "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" (features Alice Cooper)
- "Garden Of Eden"
- "Don't Damn Me"
- "Bad Apples"
- "Dead Horse"
- "Coma"
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