Use Your Illusion 1 & 2

Last-12-Exit

Civil war is my favorite GNR song.

badbrains

Last-12-Exit said:

Until PJ came around, GnR were my favorite. Appetite and Use your Illusion are still in my top 10 favorite albums. GnR could have been the biggest band of all time had Axel not been so damn selfish.

Hahahaha me too!

badbrains

JimmyV said:

For years Estranged was my favorite song. Great lyrics, killer guitar.

If you get the chance to see Slash with Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators DO IT! Just an awesome show overall with a good dose of classic GN'R sprinkled in. Kennedy does a better job on the vocals for those songs than Axl has done in years.

Best part of the song:

When I find out all the reasons
Maybe I'll find another way
Find another day
With all the changing seasons of my life
Maybe I'll get it right next time
An now that you've been broken down
Got your head out of the clouds
You're back down on the ground
And you don't talk so loud
An you don't walk so proud
Any more, and what for

Well I jumped into the river
Too many times to make it home
I'm out here on my own, an drifting all alone
If it doesn't show give it time
To read between the lines
'Cause I see the storm getting closer
And the waves they get so high
Seems everything We've ever known's here
Why must it drift away and die

I'll never find anyone to replace you
Guess I'll have to make it thru, this time- Oh this time
Without you

cp3iverson

Axl is a PJ fan so maybe thats why this thread has hung around here today LOL

JimmyV

badbrains said:

JimmyV said:

For years Estranged was my favorite song. Great lyrics, killer guitar.

If you get the chance to see Slash with Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators DO IT! Just an awesome show overall with a good dose of classic GN'R sprinkled in. Kennedy does a better job on the vocals for those songs than Axl has done in years.

Best part of the song:

When I find out all the reasons
Maybe I'll find another way
Find another day
With all the changing seasons of my life
Maybe I'll get it right next time
An now that you've been broken down
Got your head out of the clouds
You're back down on the ground
And you don't talk so loud
An you don't walk so proud
Any more, and what for

Well I jumped into the river
Too many times to make it home
I'm out here on my own, an drifting all alone
If it doesn't show give it time
To read between the lines
'Cause I see the storm getting closer
And the waves they get so high
Seems everything We've ever known's here
Why must it drift away and die

I'll never find anyone to replace you
Guess I'll have to make it thru, this time- Oh this time
Without you

So true! Soooo many nights I listened to that on repeat.

JimmyV

Does anybody else get super happy about the McCready/McKagan bromance? Two of the most important bands to the soundtrack of my life coming together...so very cool.

badbrains

JimmyV said:

Does anybody else get super happy about the McCready/McKagan bromance? Two of the most important bands to the soundtrack of my life coming together...so very cool.

Yes/yes repeat over and over on the song. That part is unreal. It hits home, so emotional. And you know what, duff prob got Mikee to write sirens cuz sirens is pearl jams "November rain" maybe, know what I mean? Sort of like an 80's early 90's rock ballad. Got that solo too. I think jimmy knows what I'm talking about.

bootlegger10

November Rain is a masterpiece. Sirens can't touch it.

PJStatTracker

cp3iverson said:

Axl is a PJ fan so maybe thats why this thread has hung around here today LOL

Hahaha maybe...again, sorry about putting this in the porch!

mr_perfect

being a fan from appetite/lies, i thought axl made a brilliant move putting back off bitch on the album with november rain. that song really blew up big on mtv/radio and all the teeny bopper girls were only picking up illusions 1 for it....

PJ_Soul

PJStatTracker said:

cp3iverson said:

Axl is a PJ fan so maybe thats why this thread has hung around here today LOL

Hahaha maybe...again, sorry about putting this in the porch!

You can change the location of your own threads yourself now, FYI. Just go edit the first post and select the Other Music board.

DR252979

These are amazing and have not grown dated over the years!

PJStatTracker

PJ_Soul said:

PJStatTracker said:

cp3iverson said:

Axl is a PJ fan so maybe thats why this thread has hung around here today LOL

Hahaha maybe...again, sorry about putting this in the porch!

You can change the location of your own threads yourself now, FYI. Just go edit the first post and select the Other Music board.

awesome...done and done.

JK_Livin

I remember going to my local record shop at midnight for these. Damn, I wish shit turned out better for this band. Awesome albums. Get in the ring mother fucker!

EdsonNascimento

These are a great album. They both stand on their own very well and as a single entity. Nobody was better than G 'n R during this time. The end of UYI 1 is insane. Don't Damn Me, Bad Apples, Dead Horse and Coma. You listen to the whole album and go - this is incredible. Then as those 4 end the album, it just builds and builds.

I remember buying the Romanian Child Relief CD (a great CD if your looking for old benefit compilations) just to get Civil War. Plus You Could be Mine on Terminator 2. Just so good.

I think I know what I'm listening to tonight. What a great album. Wouldn't change a thing.

F Me In The Brain

We all love them.

Better Record --- # 1 or # 2?

If I need to choose #1 is by far my preferred.

EdsonNascimento

F Me In The Brain said:

We all love them.

Better Record --- # 1 or # 2?

If I need to choose #1 is by far my preferred.

If I had to choose I'd say 1. 2 sort of is a little Lost Dogsy. Good to great songs, but also some throw ins. Civil War had already been released in a benefit compilation, You Could Be Mine was on a soundtrack, My World is sort of - look what the f we did, we'll throw it on there anyway, 2nd version of Don't Cry, Get in the Ring (while a nice angry ode by Axl and friends, not one that can be played at mixed parties when you get older).... I love that album, but it's a bit of a mish mash. Though saying that, Civil War, YCBM, Locomotive, Estranged, and most of the other songs kick ass. But, it always struck me as a let's get whatever we have on the shelves that we haven't released on our own CD out in one place for our fans. Which is pretty damn impressive.

Whereas 1 is just a killer where you're like - ooh!! I love this song, then ooh! this song is killer. So on and so forth. If that album was November Rain to Coma it would probably be considered one of the all time great albums. (BTW, that stretch of the CD is about 40 minutes, or the length of a "normal" album. UYI 1 and 2 would have been a quadruple album and not a double CD. Think of that. They basically put out 4 albums worth of kick ass - mostly original - music at once).

Attaway77

Tonight feels like a night for these two albums, gonna have some drinks and crank these bad boys up… Great albums.

jervin007

I absolutely love these albums. Didn't listen to them for a while and when I dug them out I had no idea why I allowed them to collect dust for so long. I have a live show from Tokyo on this tour that is great. Disappointed I never had the chance to see them live though.

PJStatTracker

EdsonNascimento said:

Whereas 1 is just a killer where you're like - ooh!! I love this song, then ooh! this song is killer. So on and so forth. If that album was November Rain to Coma it would probably be considered one of the all time great albums. (BTW, that stretch of the CD is about 40 minutes, or the length of a "normal" album. UYI 1 and 2 would have been a quadruple album and not a double CD. Think of that. They basically put out 4 albums worth of kick ass - mostly original - music at once).

I think I prefer 2, to 1...but it's only a slight preference, and really probably depends on the moment. Maybe I just like blue better.

You're right though...UYI1 is looong. I wonder how many Backspacers fit in one Use Your Illusion 1 ahahaha