Use Your Illusion I

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Use Your Illusion I
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Studio album by
Guns N' Roses
ReleasedSeptember 17, 1991 (1991-09-17)
RecordedJanuary 13, 1990 – November, 1990
Studio
Genre
Length76:09
Label Geffen
Producer
Guns N' Roses chronology
G N' R Lies
(1988)		Use Your Illusion I
Use Your Illusion II
(1991)		 Use Your Illusion World Tour I
Use Your Illusion World Tour II
(1992)

"Right Next Door to Hell" is a product of discord between Axl and his West Hollywood high-rise neighbor, Gabriella Kantor. Kantor had Rose arrested and sued Rose, claiming he hit her with a wine bottle. He denied the charges and labeled her a "fanatical fan". The condo was eventually given away in MTV's "Evict Axl" contest. Timo Caltia (real name Timo Kaltio), who participated in the writing of this song, is a Finnish guitarist, songwriter and guitar tech who once worked with Hanoi Rocks. He'd played a chorus riff of the song at his home while Stradlin was visiting.

"Live and Let Die" was released as the second single from the Use Your Illusion I album and the third out of all the Use Your Illusion singles. A music video was made in November 1991 featuring the band playing live on stage and showing old pictures. The video was also made shortly before Stradlin's departure and it was the last video where he appears. It charted at number 20 on the Mainstream rock chart. The song was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance during the 1993 Grammy Awards.

"Don't Cry" is a power ballad and two versions were released simultaneously on different albums. The version with the original lyrics is featured on Use Your Illusion I, while the version with alternate lyrics is the 13th track on Use Your Illusion II. Only the vocal tracks differ, and even then only in the verses; however, in those verses, not only are the words entirely different, but the meter and melody are also slightly different. There is also a third version, officially released only on the single for the song, which was recorded during the Appetite for Destruction sessions in 1986. Rose has stated that the song was written about a girl named Monique Lewis (the face tattooed on his right bicep). She was romantically involved with both Rose and Stradlin at different times.

"Bad Obsession" is about tackling drug abuse and addiction, which had haunted the band since before they had become famous. Michael Monroe, lead singer of the Finnish hard rock band Hanoi Rocks and a big influence on Guns N' Roses, plays the harmonica and tenor saxophone on the studio version. A live version from the Tokyo Dome was featured on the Use Your Illusion I DVD as song number six and Rose takes a dig at Stradlin by saying "This a song that we wrote about one year before "Mr. Brownstone" with the help of our friend West Arkeen and some guy that just, I don't know, his name just escapes me", referencing Stradlin.

"Back Off Bitch" was written during the early 1980s by Rose and his childhood friend and future Guns N' Roses bandmate Paul Tobias. [11] [12] The song was later played during Guns N' Roses concerts before the release of Appetite for Destruction. "Back Off Bitch" was written partially about Rose's girlfriend, Gina Siler, who moved with him to Los Angeles in 1982, and eventually kicked him out in 1983, due to his anger issues. It was also demoed several times by the band during this period.

At the end of "Double Talkin' Jive" Slash performs an extended flamenco-style guitar solo. Live performances of this song were stretched from its original three-minute length to more than eight minutes long. The opening line of the song "Found a head and an arm in a garbage can" refers to body parts that were actually discovered by the police in a dumpster in the vicinity of the studio. It is rumored that the body parts found were of porn actor/director/writer Billy London aka William Arnold Newton. [13]

"November Rain" is an epic ballad written by lead singer Axl Rose and released as a single in June 1992. It features a sweeping orchestral backing and is one of Guns N' Roses' longest songs. It was the longest song in history to enter the top 10 of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, until it was surpassed by "All Too Well" by Taylor Swift, which reached number one in 2021. [14] [15] Guns N' Roses performed this song with Elton John on piano at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.

"Garden of Eden" was written while the band was rehearsing for an extended period of time in Chicago. There is a music video of the song, filmed in one static take (shot through a fish eye lens) which features a close-up of Rose singing into a ribbon microphone with the band playing behind him, whilst keyboardists Dizzy Reed and Teddy Andreadis (who played the harmonica for the band during the Use Your Illusion Tour) are seen dancing in the far background. There are two versions of the video, both made in 1992. One version has strips of paper flying through the air, and is mostly found on music video sites like Yahoo! Music. The other version has lyrics onscreen, complete with a "follow-the-bouncing-ball", but with no paper flying around. This is the version that is on the Guns N' Roses music video compilation Welcome to the Videos.

"Dead Horse" starts with an acoustic section, which features a guitar riff written by Rose. The electric guitars soon come in for the heavier section which dominates the song. After the final climactic chorus, the opening section is reprised before ending with an audio effect of the song being fast-forwarded. A music video was also made for this song.

"Coma" was written by Rose and Slash about their drug overdoses. It is Guns N' Roses longest song to date. It features hospital sound effects and a real defibrillator.

Artwork

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Raphael, The School of Athens (detail)

Both albums' covers are the work of Estonian-American artist Mark Kostabi. [16] They consist of detail from Raphael's painting The School of Athens . The highlighted figure, unlike many of those in the painting, has not been identified with any specific philosopher. The only difference in the artwork between the albums is the color scheme used for each album. Use Your Illusion I uses yellow and red. The original painting was titled by Paul Kostabi as Use Your Illusion and also became the title of both albums. Both Use Your Illusion albums' liner notes include the message "Fuck You, St. Louis!" amongst the thank you notes, a reference to the Riverport Riot near there at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in July 1991 during the Use Your Illusion Tour. [17] [18]

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [19]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [20]
Entertainment Weekly A [21]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [22]
NME 4/10 [23]
Pitchfork 8.4/10 [24]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [25]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [26]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [27]
USA Today Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [28]

Released at midnight on September 17, 1991, the Use Your Illusion albums were among the most anticipated in rock history. Predictions in the industry were of sales reaching the likes of Michael Jackson's Thriller and Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. , this despite the fact that major stores K-Mart and Walmart refused to stock the albums due to the profanity present. Estimates suggested that over 500,000 copies of the two albums were sold in just two hours. [29] Both albums ultimately underperformed expectations domestically but were still commercially successful, with Use Your Illusion I selling 5,502,000 and both being certified 7× Platinum by the RIAA. [30] [31] Use Your Illusion I debuted below Use Your Illusion II mainly due to the fact that the second album contained the main lead single of the two albums "You Could Be Mine".[ citation needed ] It was the first time that two albums by one band or artist had entered the US charts at the number one and two spots and Guns N' Roses became the first to have the top two biggest selling albums on the chart since Jim Croce in 1974. [32] [33] The albums also opened as the top two albums on the charts in Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. [32]

Reception to Use Your Illusion I was mainly positive, and it is regarded as the heavier-sounding album of the two due in part to the influence of Izzy Stradlin. [19] Critics praised the highlights of the album such as "November Rain" and "Coma", the closing track, but criticized the amount of filler on the album. David Fricke of Rolling Stone called Use Your Illusion I "so physically assaultive, verbally incendiary and at times downright screwy that it's hard to believe there's a sister disc out there just like it". While he expressed reservations about its inflammatory lyrics, Fricke found the album strong on "riffs, hooks and body-slam sonics" and commended Guns N' Roses' "anything-worth-doing-is-worth-overdoing spirit". [26] USA Today 's Edna Gundersen said that it "barely betters" Use Your Illusion II; [28] the Chicago Tribune 's Greg Kot preferred II, but still considered I "consistently involving". [20] Robert Christgau gave the album a "one-star honorable mention" and named "Don't Damn Me" its best track. [34] However, NME reviewer Mary Anne Hobbs felt that the Use Your Illusion albums contained only five strong songs, with "Double Talkin' Jive" being the sole highlight from I. [23]

Retrospectively, AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine opined that Use Your Illusion I suffers from filler and "overblown" production but deemed it a stronger work than Use Your Illusion II, highlighting "November Rain" and "Coma" as "ambitious set pieces  ... which find Rose fulfilling his ambitions". [19] In the 2004 Rolling Stone Album Guide , Ann Powers deemed I "the more propulsive" of the two albums, with the "grandiosity" exemplified by "November Rain" being counterbalanced by Stradlin's contributions as well as other songs in the vein of "vintage G n' R" such as "Back Off Bitch". [27] Rolling Stone ranked both Use Your Illusion records jointly at number 41 on its 2010 list of the best albums of the 1990s. [35]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Right Next Door to Hell"
3:02
2."Dust N' Bones"
4:58
3."Live and Let Die" (Paul McCartney and Wings cover)
3:04
4."Don't Cry" (Original)
  • Rose
  • Stradlin
4:44
5."Perfect Crime"
  • Rose
  • Slash
  • Stradlin
2:23
6."You Ain't the First"Stradlin2:36
7."Bad Obsession"
5:28
8."Back Off Bitch"
5:03
9."Double Talkin' Jive"Stradlin3:23
10."November Rain"Rose8:57
11."The Garden" (featuring Alice Cooper)
5:22
12."Garden of Eden"
  • Rose
  • Slash
2:41
13."Don't Damn Me"
  • Rose
  • Slash
  • Dave Lank
5:18
14."Bad Apples"
  • Rose
  • Slash
  • Stradlin
  • McKagan
4:28
15."Dead Horse"Rose4:17
16."Coma"
  • Rose
  • Slash
10:13
Total length:76:09
2022 deluxe edition bonus CD
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Perfect Crime" (Live in London)
  • Rose
  • Slash
  • Stradlin
2:48
2."Bad Obsession" (Live in Las Vegas)
  • Stradlin
  • Arkeen
6:36
3."Right Next Door to Hell" (Live in New York) 3:01
4."Always on the Run" (Live in Paris; featuring Lenny Kravitz)
  • Kravitz
  • Slash
4:47
5."Dust N' Bones" (Live in London)
  • Slash
  • Stradlin
  • McKagan
5:10
6."Live and Let Die" (live in New York)
  • P. McCartney
  • L. McCartney
3:23
7."Attitude" (Misfits cover; live in Paris) Glenn Danzig 1:52
8."Double Talkin' Jive" (Live in London)Stradlin5:32
9."Don't Cry" (Live in New York)
  • Rose
  • Stradlin
4:24
10."You Ain't the First" (Live in New York)Stradlin3:23
11."It's Alright / November Rain" (Black Sabbath cover; live in Paris)
("It's Alright")
Rose ("November Rain")		14:48
12."Bad Apples" (Live in Rio de Janeiro)Rose4:20
13."Wild Horses" (The Rolling Stones cover; live in Paris) Jagger–Richards 3:17
Total length:61:41
2022 bonus CD tracks for Japan
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
14."Live and Let Die" (Live in Tokyo)
  • P. McCartney
  • L. McCartney
3:30
15."Don't Cry" (ive in Tokyo)
  • Rose
  • Stradlin
4:39
Total length:68:50

Personnel

Guns N' Roses

Additional musicians

Production and design

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF) [78] 5× Platinum300,000^
Australia (ARIA) [79] 4× Platinum280,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria) [80] 2× Platinum100,000*
Belgium (BEA) [81] 2× Platinum100,000*
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [82]
Deluxe Edition 		Diamond160,000‡
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [82]
CD 		Platinum250,000*
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [83] Gold30,000‡
Canada (Music Canada) [84] Diamond1,000,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [85] 2× Platinum40,000‡
Finland (Musiikkituottajat) [86] Platinum67,662 [86]
France (SNEP) [87] Platinum300,000*
Germany (BVMI) [88] 2× Platinum1,000,000^
Italy (FIMI) [89]
sales since 2009 		Platinum50,000‡
Japan (RIAJ) [90] 2× Platinum400,000^
Mexico (AMPROFON) [91]
video 		Gold10,000^
Mexico (AMPROFON) [92] Platinum+Gold350,000 [93]
Netherlands (NVPI) [94] 2× Platinum200,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ) [95] Platinum15,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway) [96] 2× Platinum100,000*
Poland (ZPAV) [97]
2022 reedition 		Gold10,000‡
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [98] Platinum100,000^
Sweden (GLF) [99] Platinum100,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [100] 2× Platinum100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [101] Platinum398,834 [102]
United States (RIAA) [103] 7× Platinum7,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also

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