Use Your Illusion Vol.1 - Guns N' Roses > Reviews

Advantages: Many great tracks
Disadvantages: 'Live and Let Die'

...awful). ‘Don’t Cry’ featured on Use Your Illusion 2 and is featured here as well in identical form, except for some different lyrics. Its interesting to the hear both once or twice to see the difference but ultimately it would have made more sense just to stick with one version. Compared with their earlier tracks, the band tended to get a bit self indulgent on many tracks, with many of the sixteen tracks featured clocking in at over ... Read review

Advantages: An Inspiration to all you guitarists and all musicians for that point
Disadvantages: You'll never be able to listen to it cos you are so worried about such a brilliant album becoming damaged

...higher content of sucessful singles. Use Your Illusion 1 is a white knuckle ride right from the word go. Guns'N'Roses continue their trademark of starting each album with a BANG, Right Next Door To Hell being no exception. However this album does contain BALLADS. Hmmmmmmmmmmm something unthought of before now as far as Guns'N'Roses were concerned. Axl seemed to take a more personal approach when writing these new albums and was heavily stung by the ... Read review

Advantages: A great mix of varying styles and most of them superb
Disadvantages: There are 2 fairly bad songs

...it must be accompanied by Use your illusion II for the full experience. If you like GNR, then buy it, it is VERY good, but it is a little different to Appetite. ... Read review

Advantages: Will make you the proud owner of some of the greatest musical pieces ever.
Disadvantages: You're not going to be able to stop listening to it!

...the CRAZY Shotgun Blues. Like Use Your Illusion 1 Duff took his opportunity in So Fine. Although most Guns'N'Roses fans seemed to look down on this song we must value that Duff is essentialy a punk rocker hence his somewhat untamed singing voice. Izzy also took it upon himself to sing 14 years. There leaves just 3 tracks unexplained, one being the closing track My World. This song was an example of what axl was soon to try to change Guns'N'Roses ... Read review

Advantages: Some GnR classics: Estranged, You could be mine
Disadvantages: Inclusion of "My World"

Following '89s classic "Appetite for Destruction", Guns n Roses became the first and only band to date to release two consecutive albums on the same day. The "Use your Illusion" albums proved GnR's swansong, only followed by the disappointing "Spaghetti Incident?" before the bands breakup throughout the 90's. With drummer Steven Adler replaced by Matt Sorum, who later went on to achieve success with The Cult, GnR returned with two albums, "Use ... Read review

great second album by the band. there are some great songs on this album but there are also a few songs that go on for a little bit too long. dispite that a good listen and would reccomend to any guns n roses fan.

Advantages: It's GNR - enough said
Disadvantages: Towards the end, the sounds seem to blur together

What can I say about this gem of an album, it's been in my collection for years and only recently I've dug it out and gave it another blast and it's still as fresh as ever. So it will never be another Appetite for Destruction, but that was always gonna be a hard one to follow. But it still contains that elements that make up a classic GNR album....Slash giving us the unmistakeable guitar rifts (examples include Double talkin' Jive and Right Next Door ... Read review

Advantages: cheap to buy
Disadvantages: Only 16 tracks

...backround '' Guns 'N' Roses Use Your Illusion I'' The Guns 'N' Roses and the I are in yellow and the Use your illusion is in red! On the back the album there is a Guns 'N' Roses logo with two guns and two roses underneath the guns! At the bottom of the album there is a list of all the tracks on the album in yellow! On the Inside of the album there is a book with all the words to the songs on the album! O the CD there is a logo '' Guns 'N' Roses Use ... Read review

Advantages: good hits
Disadvantages: none

...I love the way they use different ideas for each song. Some rock bands, all their music are just rock, or heavy metal bands, all their music are just heavy. However, Guns N' Roses vary their music quite alot in most cases. They can have sad songs, happy songs, just rocking songs, loud metal songs, etc; total variations and unlike most bands they range their chord procedures. Such as they don't just play power chords for every song, and instead they ... Read review

Advantages: Good selection of songs. November Rain stands out.
Disadvantages: That voice again.

Guns 'N' Roses - Use Your Illusion 1 - Geffen Records Vocals - Axl Rose Guitarists - Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff Mckagan Piano - Dizzy Reed Drummer - Matt Sorum This album was released as the first of two `best of' albums. It really instilled the band as one of the best rock bands of the modern era. Personally, at first I saw it as a slight rip off that you had to buy two separate albums. A double album would have been much better value. ... Read review

Advantages: Pure GNR pleasure
Disadvantages: Not for the faint hearted

...record their third studio album. Use Your Illusion 1, released on Geffen Records manged to rech number 2 in the UK charts, and stay in for 81 weeks. It contains sixteen songs, but in truth I bought it because I enjoyed their debut album so much. All sixteen tracks have their own unique feel, but are very similar in concept. Live and Let Die, originaly recorded by Paul MCCartney is a nice addition, with an even better version than Macca produced. November ... Read review