Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion 1
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Free Music Review: Fantastic work by the band
Hit: 5 Stars
'Use Your Illusion I' is the first album in the 'Use Your Illusion' series. This album and 'Use Your Illusion II' came out on the same day. Izzy Stradlin, the rhythm guitar player, handles lead vocals on a few of these songs and they sound good, too. Prime material includes, "Coma" (my favorite track the band ever did), "The Garden" (featuring Alice Cooper), "Garden of Eden", "Dead Horse", "November Rain", well you could go on. The wonderful thing is that there is not a truly bad song on this album. What more can I say? You either have the album and are just looking to see what other people think or you are about to buy it. You know what I am talking about here. The band sounds great, arguably better than on 'Appetite for Destruction.' It would only go downhill from here, though, unfortunately. Naturally, "Use Your Illusion II" is a great companion for this album. My favorite moments: 'Garden of Eden' is an awesome high octane rocker with the energy of a runaway freight train. This was a fantastic music video, too. Duff McKagan's bass lines, Matt Sorum's drumming and Slash's burning lead guitar on 'Coma' will make you feel like a man possessed. If not for profanity on the song, 'Coma' would have been a certain album rock radio stape. With some airplay, 'Coma' could have been this band's "Freebird" or "Stairway". It is an epic that starts slow and builds into a monster. Some people laugh at the current lineup of Guns N' Roses but material like this shows you what the real mastermind (Axl Rose) has in his tank, when he actually wants to apply himself.Free Music Review: Closest You're Going to Get to "Appetite"
Hit: 5 Stars
I don't understand why people really don't take as much of a liking to this album as they do UYI 2. This album is the closest you're going to get to the hard-edged, bar-room rock and roll sound Appetite for Destruction brought us. The opening riffs to "Back off Bitch" and "Don't Damn Me" are CLASSIC riffs of the earlier days. "Right Next Door to Hell", the first track off of the album, sets the stage of what you are about to encounter for the next 15 tracks. Of course, as with every album other than Appetite, there are some tracks you'd rather skip than listen to, such as "You Ain't the First", "Live and Let Die" (a rather poor McCartney cover), and "Double Talkin' Jive". Because of those mediocre songs, I gave this album a 4.5 stars; only an album such as Appetite is worthy of 5 stars when every song is so rock and roll. The rest of the songs on UYI 1 are classic GNF'cknR's. UYI 2 is an easier sound, not as raw as UYI 1. Regardless of what others tell you, this is a hard rock/metal-guitar-riff-driven and is the closest sounding album to Appetite from GNR that you'll find. "Dead Horse", "Bad Apples", "Perfect Crime", "Garden of Eden"; all winners. So, if you've already memorized every word to Appetite as well as every guitar note, hi-hat, crash, snare, bass line, and scream, do yourself a favor and pick this one up... it's the next best thing for all you Gunners out there.GNF'NR's!!!!
Free Music Review: forget november rain!
Hit: 5 Stars
"November Rain" is a great song, yes, and it appealed nicely to the VH1 crowd, but there are harder-rocking songs on this CD, and better ones to boot. It starts hard and hyper with "Right Next Door to Hell," which while good is actually one of the weaker songs on this album, which includes "Bad Obsession," "Back Off Bitch" (yes, a good song, if offensive), "Garden of Eden," "Don't Damn Me" (though this is mostly Axl whining about the bad press he gets for writing such offensive songs, like "One in a Million"...), and the incredible, mind-blowing 10-minute "Coma." This is the last song, and by far the best. In fact, I've heard very few songs to equal it, especially the lyrics, which Guns N' Roses generally excelled in compared to other bands. It's also perhaps their only song other than "Civil War" which shows awareness of a social issue, in this case suicide, and while not sappy at all, it certainly is powerful.There's also an interesting classical guitar solo by Slash at the end of "Double Talkin' Jive," which is otherwise not much of a song.
I can understand that people who liked the punkish metal that went all through Appetite might be disappointed with this album, which shows more flexibility in style, but I'd say that's a point in G N' R's favor, especially since they didn't seem to be openly catering to the mainstream, just doing what they really wanted to do.
Free Music Review: gnr fan
Hit: 5 Stars
Okay, okay, Axl sings like he caught his ... in a bear-trap, and he never quite creates a consistent music style in any of the GNR albums, but to say that this album, or any of GNR's other albums are anything less than excellent is just absurd. Guns N' Roses has to be one of the most diverse and overall inspirational rock bands of this modern era (or any era you want to place them in). This album, Use Your Illusion I, is without a doubt one of the most in-your-face hard-hitting rock albums of all time. The thudding 6-string bass intro in Right Next Door to Hell (the opening track) really sets up the overall attitude and idea behind the first of the two Illusions. Dust N' Bones, Live and Let Die (cover), Bad Obsession as well as Don't Damn Me really show just how talented and (well, messed in the head) GNR was.
At first I thought that Use Your Illusion II was better, then I convinced myself it was Use Your Illusion I, but now I just have to make myself believe that they are equally great in their own way. If you don't have this album, buy it and Use Your Illusion II at the same time, and you will see what I am talking about.
Of course, like just about any other rock band in history, the followup albums aren't as good as the debut, in this case Appetite for Destruction being the original, but how can you blame them? They tried, and that's going a much longer way than most bands you hear on the radio today. Use Your Illusion I and II are definately in my top ten forever.
Free Music Review: Best Album(s) of all time
Hit: 5 Stars
I can't even begin to say how much I love these albums (i just picked UYI 1 to write my review for both). Everyone always says that Appetite is Guns best album...no way in hell. The Illusion albums are so much richer.
Now don't get me wrong, I love appetite but it is more of a party album with cool guitar work and catchy tunes. The illusion twins are just so much deeper lyrically and have many more styles woven in and out of a hard rock framework.
I can identify with so many of axls lyrics, and the music just makes them stand out so much more. Slash is basically the best hard rock guitar player ever, and he has more awesome solos and leads on these albums than most guitar players have in a career.
And the best part about these albums is that the lesser known songs are usually the best, such as: Locomotive, Bad Apples, Dont Damn Me, The Garden, Pretty Tied Up, Coma, Civil War, Get in the Ring, Breakdown, Estranged (kind of popular but still fairly unknown) 14 Years, Bad Obscession, Dust n Bones, Dead Horse, and more. Then of course there are the hits, Dont Cry, November Rain, Knockin on Heavens Door, Live and Let Die, You Could Be Mine etc.
The only songs i dont really like that much are My World (wtf?) and shotgun blues, but everything else is just so gdamn good. Do yourself a favor and go buy these albums if u consider yourself a hard rock fan. The illusion albums are art, plain and simple.