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Use Your Illusion I and II

FlaggFlagg Posts: 5,856
edited February 2010 in Other Music
OK, so I dug these CDs out of the closet the other day. I thought about how much I listened to them in 1991-2. If you haven't heard these in awhile check them out. A true insight into the mind of a tortured genius. I know Axl is a douchebag and all of that, but read some of these lyrics. I didn't have a very fun time between the ages of 18-22 or so and so I really connected with these records back then. Fun to hear them again. Some pretty disturbing, yet very very deep stuff, actually.
DAL-7/5/98,10/17/00,6/9/03,11/15/13
BOS-9/28/04,9/29/04,6/28/08,6/30/08, 9/5/16, 9/7/16, 9/2/18
MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
HTFD-6/27/08
ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
OKC-11/16/13
SEA-12/6/13
TUL-10/8/14
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  • CazzaBGirlCazzaBGirl Posts: 234
    Funny i listened to their greatest hits in my car only two weeks ago......needed a change and loved reliving some old classics up loud.Certainly was a time in MY life when their music got me through tough times,i hate to admit it but i also named my cat Axl lol (hes 18 now)back then it seemed a good idea at the time :? My next cat will def be called Eddie!!!
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  • Still In HidingStill In Hiding Posts: 370
    i agree, i love the use your illusion albums. stuff like perfect crime, the garden of eden, locomotive...great songs yet very underrated
  • itsevobabyitsevobaby Posts: 1,809
    COMA :twisted:
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  • Drum Machine89Drum Machine89 Posts: 2,157
    Yeah two great albums man. :mrgreen:
    Let them wash away
    All those yesterdays
    All those yesterdays
    All those paper plates
  • Attaway77Attaway77 Posts: 3,398
    Those two albums are some of the best stuff ever put out.. Great anthem songs on there. Axl and the boys created some beautiful serious all wrapped into one musical stuff on those releases.. That's when they were doing their tour w/Metallica and sh$t was just going bad... IMO, people who really listened to those albums see the greatness and talent GNR could expand on as a band before they called it quits (spaghetti incident was cool, back to basics just covers).. All their previous stuff kicks a$$ of course but those two albums are something great...
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  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    Use Your Illusion I+II were phenomenal albums. I remember buying these on cassette tape in early 92 and doing my paper route listening to these 2 albums on my Walkman. Just great stuff, man. You can rip on Axl all you want now but back then he was a fucking great frontman to a great band.
    He who forgets will be destined to remember.

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  • aspoonfulweighsatonaspoonfulweighsaton Posts: 2,055
    These albums are flat-out masterpieces. I don't care what anyone says. Sure, Appetite gets all the attention because it was their debut, but the scope of many of these songs is unparalleled. I always favored II song-for-song and Estranged is one of my favorite tracks of all-time. I remember trying to make a single-disc version many times but the best songs are just so damn long I couldn't do it. Yeah, I could do without some of the songs (mostly off of I - Right Next Door to Hell, Perfect Crime, Back off Bitch) but these albums are ingrained in my head. I vividly remember going to the midnight sale while in tenth grade. The street date of September 17, 1991 will always be stuck in my head and I have listened to them on that date many a year to bring back the memories.
  • Evacuation RulesEvacuation Rules Posts: 2,162
    I hate Axl Rose's singing but I grew up with those albums like everyone else - some great tracks - it was a big deal when those came out! - midnight madness sales all over the country - I had a friend who got promo copies two weeks before the release and she wouldn't share them with anyone (bitch!)
  • FenwayFaithfulFenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    The best however is the Use Your Illusion I and II DVDs of them live in Tokyo. Now that is some of the most incredible and unintentionally funny stuff Ive ever seen. You got Slash playing the Godfather theme, it's the height of the UYI world tour. Slash and Gilby (1st concert without Izzy) play Wild Horses on their guitars and then Axl and Duff, who looks just horrible, come onstage to sing the rest of the song. Rocket Queen where Axl raps. So funny. They finish with Knockin' on Heavens Door (complete with Axl yelling "Gimme some Reggae") and Paradise City, complete with the whole band running all over the place.
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    GNR rocked.

    I still prefer appetite overall but both albums are very good and I remember loving them as a kid!
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  • SpinTheBlackCircle74SpinTheBlackCircle74 Posts: 1,394
    Great albums
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  • jervin007jervin007 Posts: 3,182
    Awesome albums. Also have a live show from the use your illusion tour. I never was able to see them live, but it seems like they put on epic shows!
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    2003 Mansfield: July 2
    2004 Boston: Sept 28 & 29
    2005 Montreal: Sept 15
    2006 Boston: May 24 & 25
    2008 Hartford: June 27, Mansfield: June 28,
    2010 Boston: May 17
    2013 Worcester: Oct 15, Hartford: Oct 25,
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  • PorchsitterPorchsitter Loganville, GA Posts: 1,078
    Those albums still rock almost twenty years later.
    We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.--Bill Hicks
  • doujodoujo Posts: 285
    These along w/ Appetite are some of my favorite albums of all time. If anyone lives in the Boston area, you need to check out Mr. Brownstone or Appetite for Destruction. They are both really fun cover bands. There are many great sounding shows from the Illusions tour, I listen to the Oklahoma show a lot. This band is one of the greatest bands of all time. Axl and company are currently rippin it up in Canada. The setlists are so awesome. They better come to the US.
  • peacegirlpeacegirl Posts: 841
    Great albums indeed
  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    Some great songs for sure, but Get in the Ring has to be the dumbest shit ever recorded.
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  • aspoonfulweighsatonaspoonfulweighsaton Posts: 2,055
    eyedclaar wrote:
    Some great songs for sure, but Get in the Ring has to be the dumbest shit ever recorded.

    I'd take it over My World, but that's about it.
  • EdLawEdLaw Posts: 194
    I'd take either of these albums over Appetite For Destruction, which has never appealed to me at all.

    Estranged and Civil War are the best songs GnR ever wrote.
    And I planted my bolo knife in the neck of mad John Finn. I took his wretched life.
    Now I'm over near the bandstand, every hand moving on John Finn's wife...
  • aneutronbombaneutronbomb Posts: 787
    i've always said these two albums are better than appetite

    i will certainly agree and maintain that appetite was more important

    but these are better
    and fuck me if I say somethin you dont wanna hear, fuck me!
    and fuck me if you only hear what you wanna hear
    fuck me...if I care...but im not leavin here
  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 42,424
    I got them on cassette. Never did get around to getting them on CD though. Pretty much gave up on them about 10 years ago. Some good songs on the albums though.
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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    aneutronbomb wrote:
    i've always said these two albums are better than appetite

    i will certainly agree and maintain that appetite was more important

    but these are better

    Totally agree. For me Appetite is so front loaded where the UYI's are chocked full.
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