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Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion II.

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Label: Geffen Records
Released: 1991.09.17
Time:
 75:52
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] Civil War (Rose/Slash/McKagan) - 7:42
[2] 14 Years (Stradlin/Rose) - 4:23
[3] Yesterdays (Rose/Arkeen/James/McCloud) - 3:14
[4] Knockin' on Heaven's Door [Bob Dylan cover] (Dylan) - 5:36
[5] Get in the Ring (McKagan/Slash/Rose) - 5:42
[6] Shotgun Blues (Rose) - 3:23
[7] Breakdown (Rose) - 7:04
[8] Pretty Tied Up (Stradlin) - 4:48
[9] Locomotive (Slash/Rose) - 8:42
[10] So Fine (McKagan) - 4:08
[11] Estranged (Rose) - 9:23
[12] You Could Be Mine (Stradlin/Rose) - 5:43
[13] Don't Cry [Alternate lyrics] (Stradlin/Rose) - 4:45
[14] My World (Rose) - 1:24

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W. Axl Rose – Lead Vocals, Piano, Whistling, Backing Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Synthesizer & Drum Machine
Slash – Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Banjo,
Izzy Stradlin – Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Sitar, Additional Lead Guitar,
Duff Mckagan – Bass, Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals, Percussion
Matt Sorum – Drums, Backing Vocals
Dizzy Reed – Keyboards, Piano, Backing Vocals, Organ

Steven Adler – Drums On "Civil War"
Johann Langlie – Drums, Keyboards And Sound Effects
The Waters – Backing Vocals
Howard Teman – Piano,
Shannon Hoon – Back-Up Vocals,

Mike Clink – Production, Engineering
Jim Mitchell – Additional Engineering
Bill Price – Mixing
George Marino – Mastering
Kevin Reagan – Art Direction, Graphic Design
Mark Kostabi – Artwork
Robert John – Photography
Allen Abrahamson, Buzz Burrowes & 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

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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 and Metalworks Studios.



Use Your Illusion II is more serious and ambitious than I, but it's also considerably more pretentious. Featuring no less than four songs that run over six minutes, II is heavy on epics, whether it's the charging funk metal of "Locomotive," the antiwar "Civil War," or the multipart "Estranged." As if an attempt to balance the grandiose epics, the record is loaded with an extraordinary amount of filler. "14 Years" may have a lean, Stonesy rhythm, and Duff McKagan's Johnny Thunders homage, "So Fine," may be entertaining, but there's no forgiving the ridiculous "Get in the Ring," where Axl Rose threatens rock journalists by name because they gave him bad reviews; the misinterpretation of Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"; another version of "Don't Cry"; and the bizarre closer, "My World," which probably captures Rose's instability as effectively as the tortured poetry of his epics. That said, there are numerous strengths to Use Your Illusion II; a couple of songs have a nervy energy, and for all their pretensions, the overblown epics are effective, though strangely enough, they reveal notorious homophobe Rose's aspirations of being a cross between Elton John and Freddie Mercury. But the pompous production and poor pacing make the album tiring for anyone who isn't a dedicated listener.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



Use Your Illusion II is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Guns N' Roses. It was one of two albums released in conjunction with the Use Your Illusion Tour, and as a result the two albums are sometimes considered a double album. Bolstered by the lead single "You Could Be Mine", Use Your Illusion II was the slightly more popular of the two albums, selling 770,000 copies its first week and debuting at No. 1 on the U.S. charts, ahead of Use Your Illusion I's first week sales of 685,000. Both albums have since been certified 7× Platinum by the RIAA. It was also No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart for a single week. The album has recently received critical acclaim again in 2011, being featured on Triple M Radio's Life-Changing Album series in Australia, with the station playing numerous tracks with commentary. This was the last Guns N' Roses album to feature rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin. It also included the last Guns N' Roses song to feature drummer Steven Adler (Civil War).

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