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All rights reserved.Use Your Illusion I - Guns N' Roses (Cassette 1991)
"Your Satisfaction Lies in Your Illusions": Guns N' Roses IReview created: 11/25/05
by: Pantagruel-- a member of Epinions and Top Reviewer in Music
Pros:
another helping of kick-out-the-jams rock n' roll from everyone's favourite hoodlums
another helping of kick-out-the-jams rock n' roll from everyone's favourite hoodlums
Cons:
overlong and starting to sound like a formula
overlong and starting to sound like a formula
After a three year layoff during which time Guns N Roses were anointed as one of the most popular rock bands in the world, in 1991 the group let the hype go to their head with their Use Your Illusion twin albums. The equivalent of two double-record sets, both albums have their highlights but are also predictably weighed down by excessive filler. Of the two CDs, the first one rocks out more and stays closer to Guns N Roses m tier. And though one could tell them apart by saying Vol. 1 is the red-hot cover and Vol. 2 is the ice blue cover, I prefer to think of them another way. Vol. 2 contains...
Review ID: 10000000000220730
"It's All An Illusion.....(Part I)"Review created: 09/30/01
by: headlessparrot -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
inspiring instrumental performances, well-written lyrics, overall excellent
inspiring instrumental performances, well-written lyrics, overall excellent
Cons:
Took at least eight listens before I realized the records' magnitude and power
Took at least eight listens before I realized the records' magnitude and power
"Guns N' Roses needs a horn section about as much as Slash needs another drink" I'm not sure who spoke or wrote these words. I know it was a music critic, and if memory serves correctly I read it while sifting through the listing of Guns N' Roses albums at Amazon.com. What it has to do with this review, I have no idea, but at least it sounded like a winner of an opening statement. Unfortunately, I don't agree with it. That's not to say that the idea of an entire horn section playing back-up on 'Night Train' wouldn't be an extremely eerie picture, because in fact it would. But once Axl lost...
Review ID: 10000000000220726
The 1991 Comeback for Guns N' RosesReview created: 05/03/03
by: matthewn -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
The guitar riffs, story line in the songs, and the creativity.
The guitar riffs, story line in the songs, and the creativity.
Cons:
Not the best GNR album of mine, but pretty good tunes.
Not the best GNR album of mine, but pretty good tunes.
Next to Iron Maiden, Megadeth and Metallica, Guns N Roses ranks as one of the hardest rocking metal bands that evolved during the 1980s. After a four year break, Guns N Roses came back with a two part album, Use Your Illusion 1 and Use Your Illusion II were great comebacks. (After I review the First illusions, I ll do the second one) The songs on this album: 1) Right Next Door To Hell 2) Dust N Bones 3) Live and Let Die 4) Don t Cry 5) Perfect Crime 6) You Ain t the First 7) Bad Obsession 8) Back Off Bitch 9) Double Talkin Jive 10) November Rain 11) The Garden 12) Garden of Eden 13) Don t...
Review ID: 10000000000220733
A lesser "Illusion".Review created: 09/30/02
by: jeff_wilder78 -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
A few certifiable classics.
A few certifiable classics.
Cons:
Quite a bit of filler, not as consistent as Use Your Illusion II.
Quite a bit of filler, not as consistent as Use Your Illusion II.
The Use Your Illusion albums by Guns N Roses were the follow-up albums to the massively successful Appetite For Destruction and should have been the ones to cement their status as a major rock band. Instead, they unfortunately turned out to be the band's swan song (Or at least, the swan song of the original GNR lineup). Now as I noted previously Use Your Illusion II was a great album that gave us quite a few great and even classic songs, despite the presence of a few duds (for further info my review of UYI II is at http://www.epinions.com/conten
Review ID: 10000000000220732
Just stand up and cry Live and let die!Review created: 09/07/05
by: tgregoryt -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
Guns and Roses arrangement of Live and Let Die is better then the original.
Guns and Roses arrangement of Live and Let Die is better then the original.
Cons:
Sometimes your CD s get scratched
Sometimes your CD s get scratched
Guns and Roses has good albums and bad albums. This is one of the good ones. The lyrics are solid, the singing is solid, the guitars are solid, and I can t think of a weak track on the CD. There are fast tracks and slow tracks, but for once the slow tracks combine well with the fast tracks even the order of the fast to slow ones is done well. This CD gets five stars from me as being a very complete and solid CD. I m not sure if this is Guns and Roses best CD, but it must be one of them. The CD starts out with a kicking bass rhythm, which quickly slides into a standard, fast, drum-heavy Guns..
Review ID: 10000000000220731
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