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Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I.

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Label: Geffen Records
Released: 1991.09.17
Time:
 75:56
Category: Hard Rock
Producer(s): Mike Clink, Guns N' Roses
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.gunsnroses.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Right Next Door to Hell (Rose/Stradlin/Caltia) - 3:02
[2] Dust N' Bones (Stradlin/McKagan/Slash) - 4:58
[3] Live and Let Die [Paul McCartney & Wings cover] (McCartney/McCartney) - 3:04
[4] Don't Cry [original version] (Stradlin/Rose) - 4:44
[5] Perfect Crime (Slash/Stradlin/Rose) - 2:23
[6] You Ain't the First (Stradlin) - 2:36
[7] Bad Obsession (Stradlin/Arkeen) - 5:28
[8] Back Off Bitch (Rose/Slash/Huge/Weber) - 5:03
[9] Double Talkin' Jive (Stradlin) - 3:23
[10] November Rain (Rose) - 8:57
[11] The Garden [featuring Alice Cooper and Shannon Hoon] (Arkeen/James/Rose) - 5:22
[12] Garden of Eden (Slash/Rose) - 2:41
[13] Don't Damn Me (Slash/Lank/Rose) - 5:18
[14] Bad Apples (Stradlin/McKagan/Slash/Rose) - 4:28
[15] Dead Horse (Rose) - 4:17
[16] Coma (Slash/Rose) - 10:13

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W. Axl Rose – Lead Vocals, Piano, Choir And Synthesizer Programming, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Sound Effects
Slash – Lead Guitar, Co-Rhythm Guitar, Slide Guitar, Acoustic And Slide Guitar, Dobro, Classical Guitar, Backing Vocals, Talkbox, Six-String Bass
Izzy Stradlin – Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Co-Lead Guitar, Lead Vocals, Percussion
Duff Mckagan – Bass, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Matt Sorum – Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals, Choir
Dizzy Reed – Keyboards, Piano, Clavinet, Backing Vocals, Organ

Shannon Hoon – Backing Vocals
Johann Langlie – Programming, Sound Effects
Michael Monroe – Harmonica And Saxophone,
Reba Shaw – Backing Vocals
Stuart Bailey – Backing Vocals
Jon Thautwein – Horn
Matthew Mckagan – Horn
Rachel West – Horn
Robert Clark – Horn
Tim Doyle – Tambourine
Alice Cooper – Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals
West Arkeen – Acoustic Guitar
Bruce Foster – Sound Effects

Mike Clink – Production, Engineering, Nutcracker
Jim Mitchell – Additional Engineering
Bill Price – Mixing
George Marino – Mastering
Allen Abrahamson – Engineering Assistance
Buzz Burrowes – Engineering Assistance
Chris Puram – Engineering Assistance
Craig Portelis – Engineering Assistance
Ed Goodreau – Engineering Assistance
Jason Roberts – Engineering Assistance
John Aguto – Engineering Assistance
L. Stu Young – Engineering Assistance
Leon Granados– Engineering Assistance
Mike Douglass – Engineering Assistance
Talley Sherwood – Engineering Assistance
Kevin Reagan – Art Direction, Graphic Design
Mark Kostabi – Album Artwork
Robert John – Photography

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Recorded in January 13, 1990–August 3, 1991 at A&M Studios, Record Plant Studios, Studio 56, Image Recording, Conway Studios, Metalworks Recording Studios, Skip Saylor Recording (album mixing).



The "difficult second album" is one of the perennial rock & roll clichés, but few second albums ever were as difficult as Use Your Illusion. Not really conceived as a double album but impossible to separate as individual works, Use Your Illusion is a shining example of a suddenly successful band getting it all wrong and letting its ambitions run wild. Taking nearly three years to complete, the recording of the album was clearly difficult, and tensions between Slash, Izzy Stradlin, and Axl Rose are evident from the start. The two guitarists, particularly Stradlin, are trying to keep the group closer to its hard rock roots, but Rose has pretensions of being Queen and Elton John, which is particularly odd for a notoriously homophobic Midwestern boy. Conceivably, the two aspirations could have been divided between the two records, but instead they are just thrown into the blender -- it's just a coincidence that Use Your Illusion I is a harder-rocking record than II. Stradlin has a stronger presence on I, contributing three of the best songs -- "Dust n' Bones," "You Ain't the First," and "Double Talkin' Jive" -- which help keep the album in Stonesy Aerosmith territory. On the whole, the album is stronger than II, even though there's a fair amount of filler, including a dippy psychedelic collaboration with Alice Cooper and a song that takes its title from the Osmonds' biggest hit. But it also has two ambitious set pieces, "November Rain" and "Coma," which find Rose fulfilling his ambitions, as well as the ferocious, metallic "Perfect Crime" and the original version of the power ballad "Don't Cry." Still, it can be a chore to find the highlights on the record amid the overblown production and endless amounts of filler.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



Let's get something straight: Axl Rose has a machine-gun mouth, and he'll probably never live down that ugly "immigrants and faggots" line in "One in a Million." But Rose does not discriminate. He's pissed off at everybody, and on Use Your Illusion I — a sixteen-song tour de spleen so physically assaultive, verbally incendiary and at times downright screwy that it's hard to believe there's a sister disc out there just like it — Guns n' Roses fire on all comers and take no prisoners.

Women get it particularly hard. "I call my mother/She's just a cunt now," Rose barks in the wrecking-ball boogie "Bad Obsession." The title "Back Off Bitch" speaks for itself; steaming guitars, killer chorus, shame about the words. Music-biz "kiss-ass sycophants" get their just desserts in "Garden of Eden," along with organized religion and the weasels who hold elected office. For all-purpose fuck-you fun, there's "Perfect Crime" ("Motherfucker just let me be") and guitarist Izzy Stradlin's bulldozing bagman blues "Double Talkin' Jive" ("Get the money, mother-fucker/'Cause I got no more patience"). Like Rose sings in Illusion I's sole cover, a so-so version of "Live and Let Die" that just sounds like Wings on steroids, "When ya got a job to do, ya got to do it well/You gotta give the other fella hell." If nothing else, I is a bumper crop of fuzz-fueled invective and pump-action verse, a thousand points of spite.

If it was just down to riffs, hooks and body-slam sonics, loving Use Your Illusion I (by itself the equivalent of a double LP) would be no problem. Imagine Exile on Main Street's epic grunge, the shotgun eclecticism of the Beatles' White Album and the lunatic pagan sport of Alice Cooper's Love It to Death and Killer albums (Alice himself pops up on one track), all whipped together with the junkyard grace of Rocks-era Aerosmith. That breathless Exile feeling is especially ripe on rockers like "Right Next Door to Hell" and "Perfect Crime," in which you can barely make sense of Rose's rapid-fire yelp over the molten guitar soup of Slash and Stradlin. "Dust n' Bones," sung by Stradlin, is grim n' greasy, feral guitars and funeral-parlor keys echoing Izzy's shorthand yarn of sex and psychosis out on Highway 666.

There are backfires. The ballad "Don't Cry," a relic of the Gunners' L.A. club days, is too sweet and pleading; Rose is more convincing busting chops. Slash's classical-guitar break at the end of "Double Talkin' Jive" comes out of nowhere and should have stayed there. But "November Rain," overlong at almost nine minutes and overrich with electro-orchestration, has a cool, "Layla"-like coda with sublime high-wire guitar by Slash. In "Dead Horse," Rose's desultory acoustic complaint bookends a stunning, volcanic outburst of electric Aero-Stones slammin'.

On the other hand, it's not enough to simply be indignant about Illusion I's verbal rancor. You ought to be scared for the future. Get past the "parental advisory" buzzwords and you hear a declaration of insolence fueled by self-righteous anger and fearful confusion. Guns n' Roses' rock & roll niggers-with-attitude act, however indefensible at times, is emblematic of a greater adolescent cancer: an almost total loss of hope compounded by blind, impotent rage and the perverted Reagan-Bush morality in which the actual cloth of the Stars and Stripes is deemed more holy than the freedom and humanity for which it stands.

It's all there in "Don't Damn Me," the best song on the record and a striking crystallization of Rose's — and his generation's — dilemma. "So I stepped into your world/I kicked you in the mind," Rose declares in a proud full-moon howl against fierce staccato guitars and a galloping rhythm section. "But look at what we've done/To the innocent and young/Whoa listen to who's talking/'Cause we're not the only ones/The trash collected by the eyes/And dumped into the brain/Said it tears into our conscious thoughts/You tell me who's to blame." Empowered by celebrity and his own rock & roll might, even Rose feels dazed and helpless, violently seesawing between "Don't damn me!" and "Don't hail me!" as the band explodes behind him in one last orgasmic, twin-guitar rush.

Was Use Your Illusion I worth the wait, the traumas and the onstage tantrums? Yes, if only for "Don't Damn Me" and the album's ten-minute closer, "Coma," a locomotive parable about suicide dreams and troubled resurrection. A few tracks ("Live and Let Die," the weird art-metal nightmare "The Garden") could have stayed on the outtakes shelf and no one would have minded. But the Gunners' anything-worth-doing-is-worth-overdoing spirit is a bracing slap at the reigning fascism of studio perfection.

For better and worse, Illusion I also mirrors the turmoil in Teenage Wasteland, one nation under a grudge. "Not bad kids, just stupid ones," Rose snaps in "Right Next Door to Hell." "Yeah, thought we'd own the world." This is the sound of that dream all shot to hell.

David Fricke - October 17, 1991
RollingStone.com



Use Your Illusion I is the third studio album by the American rock band Guns N' Roses. It was the first of two albums released in conjunction with the Use Your Illusion Tour, the other being Use Your Illusion II. The two are thus sometimes considered a double album - in fact both were double albums consisting of 2 vinyl records each (Warman's Records Field Guide) . The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard charts, selling 685,000 copies in its first week, behind Use Your Illusion II's first week sales of 770,000. Use Your Illusion I has sold 5,502,000 units in the U.S. as of 2010, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Each of the Use Your Illusion albums have been certified 7× Platinum by the RIAA. It was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1992.

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