Use Your Illusion II by Guns N' Roses
Performed by: Guns N' Roses
Editorial Reviews:
Limited 2008 UK 180gm vinyl pressing of this classic album, released to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the long-playing record. This is an exact replica of the original packaging and contains a voucher enabling the purchaser to download MP3 versions of the songs within. Happy Birthday, my dear vinyl LP! Universal.
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Summary: About "Chinese Democracy"
Comment: Slash is my guitar hero of all time. Unexpectedly Buckethead is just as great as he is, or even better. Try one of Buckethead's albums, you will fall in love with and finally get addicted to his underestimated talent. Buckethead can play any style as well as guitar god Jeff Beck. "Chinese Democracy" is definitely the best rock album since 1991. It got what the other great rock bands like Metallica, AC/DC, etc. are always missing: beautiful melodies. In fact, Axl's new album is way way better than any Slash or Duff's solo projects. If your religion is rock music, then Axl Rose is your God and his albums is your Bible. Buy more copies of this masterpiece for your family and friends to do them a huge favor!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Beauty. Anger. Life. Perfection.
Comment: D. Rausch "myspace.com/rauschofficial has stated my case as his. Please read his review and my comment to it. There is so much to learn. I hope everyone can enjoy this album as much as I have.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Classic Album
Comment: Honestly, I liked Illusion II more than I liked Illusion I, and I really like the first one. Starting with the epic Civil War, which opens with a very cool soundclip from Cool Hand Luke, and going through until the butt-kicking My World, this one delivers!
Another aspect I love is track 7, Breakdown. On the cassette, it is the finale of side one. Coming in at seven minutes and four seconds in length and featuring a sound clip from the film Vanishing Point, the song is quite epic in it's own right. But, in the context of the CD, it flows fairly well into the following track, Pretty Tied Up. So it sounds great either way.
Features the hits Yesterdays, Knocking on Heaven's Door, Estranged, and You Could Be Mine.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Part 2 of the expansive monolith
Comment: Coming out at the same time as Use Your Illusion I in one of the biggest days in metal history this album contains a swathe of hard rock and metallic styles. For my mind part one is the more metallic and this the more maudlin of the dynamic duo. But as I said it has a range of styles like Civil War which is the sort of thing that a band with expanding horizons would do, numbers like the visceral Get In The Ring, the bouncy though metallic Shotgun Blues and Breakdown (a personal fave) and sicker more cerebral stuff like the sneering disdain in Pretty Tied Up. We also get an industrial sicko in the brief My World which speaks to a certain doom obsessed juvenile brain wave but is certainly no less valid for that.
My reasons for giving this album only four stars - though a very strong four stars mind - is that it has more tunes that to me don't quite work. Tunes like Locomotive is fine but doesn't seem to quite work as well as some of the more cerebral tracks nor work as brilliantly as blasts of hard rockin' metal. So Fin and Estranged leave me utterly unmoved and I didn't really need an alternate set of lyrics to Don't Cry. And why do some bands like Dylan? Much ground is recovered however due to the maudlin aspects of tracks like 14 Years and Yesterdays and the mega song You Could Be Mine. And to think Lars big upped Metallic' songs association with one of those overblown Mission Impossible movies...silly bloke. And while after most of two decades on some cringe factor may be accrued to the band for having a song so closely associated with a movie it was a huge hit (both the track and the movie) at the time and perfectly suited to the collaboration.
And that's about it, if you don't already have this get out from under the rock you've been living under and get this and Use Your Illusion I as soon as possible as they are well produced expansive works that show that focus and talent can achieve good results and if your good enough you can develop your bands sound and take your fanbase with you
Customer Rating:
Summary: Poetry
Comment: Every single song on this CD is fascinating. No matter the profanity or rage, it's great. There's that soft side that makes you think and then you have some songs which show that metal fury that we all know and love. If you didn't get this is 1991, wow, where were you? Regardless, GET IT NOW!
EAN: 0720642442029
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Geffen Records
Manufacturer: Geffen Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Geffen Records
Release Date: 1991-09-17
Studio: Geffen Records
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Editorial Reviews:
Limited 2008 UK 180gm vinyl pressing of this classic album, released to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the long-playing record. This is an exact replica of the original packaging and contains a voucher enabling the purchaser to download MP3 versions of the songs within. Happy Birthday, my dear vinyl LP! Universal.
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 | The Spaghetti Incident? |
 | Live Era '87-'93 |
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating:
Summary: About "Chinese Democracy"
Comment: Slash is my guitar hero of all time. Unexpectedly Buckethead is just as great as he is, or even better. Try one of Buckethead's albums, you will fall in love with and finally get addicted to his underestimated talent. Buckethead can play any style as well as guitar god Jeff Beck. "Chinese Democracy" is definitely the best rock album since 1991. It got what the other great rock bands like Metallica, AC/DC, etc. are always missing: beautiful melodies. In fact, Axl's new album is way way better than any Slash or Duff's solo projects. If your religion is rock music, then Axl Rose is your God and his albums is your Bible. Buy more copies of this masterpiece for your family and friends to do them a huge favor!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Beauty. Anger. Life. Perfection.
Comment: D. Rausch "myspace.com/rauschofficial has stated my case as his. Please read his review and my comment to it. There is so much to learn. I hope everyone can enjoy this album as much as I have.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Classic Album
Comment: Honestly, I liked Illusion II more than I liked Illusion I, and I really like the first one. Starting with the epic Civil War, which opens with a very cool soundclip from Cool Hand Luke, and going through until the butt-kicking My World, this one delivers!
Another aspect I love is track 7, Breakdown. On the cassette, it is the finale of side one. Coming in at seven minutes and four seconds in length and featuring a sound clip from the film Vanishing Point, the song is quite epic in it's own right. But, in the context of the CD, it flows fairly well into the following track, Pretty Tied Up. So it sounds great either way.
Features the hits Yesterdays, Knocking on Heaven's Door, Estranged, and You Could Be Mine.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Part 2 of the expansive monolith
Comment: Coming out at the same time as Use Your Illusion I in one of the biggest days in metal history this album contains a swathe of hard rock and metallic styles. For my mind part one is the more metallic and this the more maudlin of the dynamic duo. But as I said it has a range of styles like Civil War which is the sort of thing that a band with expanding horizons would do, numbers like the visceral Get In The Ring, the bouncy though metallic Shotgun Blues and Breakdown (a personal fave) and sicker more cerebral stuff like the sneering disdain in Pretty Tied Up. We also get an industrial sicko in the brief My World which speaks to a certain doom obsessed juvenile brain wave but is certainly no less valid for that.
My reasons for giving this album only four stars - though a very strong four stars mind - is that it has more tunes that to me don't quite work. Tunes like Locomotive is fine but doesn't seem to quite work as well as some of the more cerebral tracks nor work as brilliantly as blasts of hard rockin' metal. So Fin and Estranged leave me utterly unmoved and I didn't really need an alternate set of lyrics to Don't Cry. And why do some bands like Dylan? Much ground is recovered however due to the maudlin aspects of tracks like 14 Years and Yesterdays and the mega song You Could Be Mine. And to think Lars big upped Metallic' songs association with one of those overblown Mission Impossible movies...silly bloke. And while after most of two decades on some cringe factor may be accrued to the band for having a song so closely associated with a movie it was a huge hit (both the track and the movie) at the time and perfectly suited to the collaboration.
And that's about it, if you don't already have this get out from under the rock you've been living under and get this and Use Your Illusion I as soon as possible as they are well produced expansive works that show that focus and talent can achieve good results and if your good enough you can develop your bands sound and take your fanbase with you
Customer Rating:
Summary: Poetry
Comment: Every single song on this CD is fascinating. No matter the profanity or rage, it's great. There's that soft side that makes you think and then you have some songs which show that metal fury that we all know and love. If you didn't get this is 1991, wow, where were you? Regardless, GET IT NOW!
Technical Details
Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0720642442029
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Geffen Records
Manufacturer: Geffen Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Geffen Records
Release Date: 1991-09-17
Studio: Geffen Records
