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  • JPS79
    JPS79 Posts: 148
    upon further review I think I would pull off the 2 cover songs and add bad obsession and breakdown instead. See this could go on forever and everyone likes different songs from these albums, so I guess it's good they made 2. But even together they still don't top appetitie. and whoever said rocket queen and then all others hell yeah!! that's still to this day my fave guns song.
    Seems the more you make
    equals the loneliness you get
  • iluvslash
    iluvslash Posts: 121
    great album, although i still perfer AFD, because appetite was a bad ass rock record with each song better than the other. However the Use Your Illusion albums had some great songs and some okay songs.. i guess it just depends on what style of music you perfer!
    With your bitch slap rappin' and your cocaine tongue you get nothing done!
  • iluvslash
    iluvslash Posts: 121
    holtz wrote:
    IMO other than Rocket Queen the best songs GNR ever did were on the Illusions.

    what about welcome to the jungle or paradise city? Sure Use Your Illusion had some great songs but nothing on it could compare to the rock anthems on appetite for destruction!!
    With your bitch slap rappin' and your cocaine tongue you get nothing done!
  • brhf9
    brhf9 Posts: 1,475
    rollingstone.com was posting lists this week, trying to reduce well known double albuns to one disc only. here's what they did with Use your Illusion I & II.

    http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2006/07/27/double-albums-that-could-be-single-discs-part-iv-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-i-ii/





    7/27/06, 11:50 am EST
    Double Albums That Could Be Single Discs, Part IV: Guns N’ Roses, “Use Your Illusion I + II”

    All this week we’ve been editing down double albums that should have been single discs. Today’s project: Guns N’ Roses’ 1991 release Use Your Illusion, which was sold as two separate discs but was clearly one big album. (Oddly, this was debated at the time. The tipoff: calling the discs Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II.) Illusion was one of the longest albums ever put out by a major rock act: its total running time of about three hours even beat out famously excessive triple-disc efforts such as Sandinista! or All Things Must Pass.

    But if Illusion had been shorter, could it have been the Great Lost Guns N’ Roses Album? Would the band have stayed together longer? Would the discarded tracks have been released as a passable Chinese Democracy a decade ago? We think so. Here’s our version of Use Your Illusion, the one that should have been:

    1. Civil War
    2. Dust N’ Bones
    3. Bad Obsession
    4. Don’t Cry (Original)
    5. Right Next Door to Hell
    6. Bad Apples
    7. November Rain
    8. You Could Be Mine
    9. Yesterdays
    10. Pretty Tied Up
    11. Garden of Eden
    12. Estranged

    (total running time: 65:37)

    Geek note: Unlike our first three entries of this double album-editing project (The Beatles’ White Album, Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti, and Bruce Springsteen’s The River), we’re not dividing our Use Your Illusion playlist into sides, because vinyl albums had become pretty much vestigial by the early ’90s.
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  • BrainOfJD
    BrainOfJD Posts: 242
    The last 90 seconds (?) of Rocket Queen are maybe the greatest music ever by anybody.
    10 million dune buggies comin' down the mountain
  • holtz
    holtz Posts: 509
    Rolling stone's version of UYI is lame IMO, other than Estranged they left off my favorites, Coma, BReakdown, Locomotive, Don't Damn Me.
  • prytocorduroy
    prytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    jdonelson.nyc wrote:
    The last 90 seconds (?) of Rocket Queen are maybe the greatest music ever by anybody.

    I wanna take a gun to my head at the end of that song. It's sickening. ;) Love it otherwise.

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