Use Your Illusion I
Studio album by Guns N' Roses
Released	September 16 & 17, 1991
Recorded	A&M Studios, Record Plant Studios, Studio 56, Image Recording, Conway Studios & Metalworks Recording Studios - 1991
Genre	Hard rock
Length	76:04
Label	Geffen Records
Producer(s)	Mike Clink and Guns N' Roses
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Q September 1991 Rolling Stone link
Guns N' Roses chronology
G N' R Lies (1988)	Use Your Illusion I (1991)	Use Your Illusion II (1991)

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The Use Your Illusion albums represent a turning point in the sound of Guns N' Roses. Although they did not abandon the hard rock tendencies so vivid in their first album, Appetite for Destruction, Use Your Illusion I demonstrated, for the first time, more or less, elements of blues, classical music, and country. For example, lead singer Axl Rose plays the piano on several tracks of both albums. In addition, with the Use Your Illusion Tour, both the music and stage presence of the band became more theatrical, in the tradition of progressive rock. This fact is evidenced by the numerous music videos produced in conjunction with these albums. Use Your Illusion I contains two of the three songs, "November Rain" and "Don't Cry", whose videos are generally held by fans to be a trilogy (the third song, "Estranged", is on Use Your Illusion II). It was songs like "November Rain" which brought Guns N' Roses popularity among music fans who usually did not listen to hard rock or heavy metal. Appetite for Destruction was rock and roll band Guns N Roses debut album. ... Blues music redirects here. ... Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ... country music, see Country music (disambiguation) Country music, also known as country and western music or country-western, is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States. ... Axl Rose (born William Bailey. ... A grand piano, with the lid up. ... Progressive rock (sometimes shortened to prog, prog rock, or progrock) is a subgenre of rock music which arose in the late 1960s, reached the peak of its popularity in the 1970s, but continues as a musical form long afterward. ... A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. ... November Rain is one of the most popular songs by the band Guns N Roses (written by Axl Rose). ... Dont Cry is a song by Guns N Roses. ... Estranged is a song and music video by the American hard rock band Guns N Roses, from their album Use Your Illusion II. Estranged is one of Guns N Roses longest running songs, as well as one of the longest and most expensive music videos ever made. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that emerged as a defined musical style in the 1970s, having its roots in hard rock bands which, between 1969 and 1974,[1] mixed blues and rock to create a hybrid with a thick, heavy, guitar-and-drums-centered sound, characterised by...

A number of songs on the album were written in the band's early days, but were not included on Appetite for Destruction. "Back Off Bitch", "Bad Obsession", "Bad Apples", "Don't Cry" (referred to by Rose during the ensuing tour as 'the first song [they] ever wrote together'), "November Rain", and "The Garden" are considered part of this group. There is also a cover of "Live And Let Die". Back Off Bitch is a song by Guns N Roses, written by Axl Rose and Paul Huge. ... Bad Obsession is a song by Guns N Roses. ... The Garden (1991) is a song by the rock group Guns N Roses. ... Insert non-formatted text here--12. ...

Besides stylistic differences, another new aspect seen in Use Your Illusion I was longer songs. "November Rain", an epic ballad, is over 8 minutes long, and "Coma" is more than 10 minutes long. Another change was the presence of tracks sung by other members of the band: lead vocals on "Dust N' Bones" and "Double Talkin' Jive" are performed by rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin (bassist Duff McKagan sings "So Fine" in Use Your Illusion II). Coma is the longest song by American hard rock band Guns N Roses. ... Izzy Stradlin is an American musician best known as the rhythm guitarist of the hard rock band Guns N Roses. ... Duff McKagan Michael Andrew McKagan, better known as Duff Rose McKagan, was born February 5, 1964. ...

There are significant differences to be noted between Use Your Illusion I and II. The cover art of these two albums, identical except for color, is very representative of these differences: Use Your Illusion I is red, and has, for the most part an angrier, heavier sound; Use Your Illusion II is blue, and has a softer, even more bluesy sound.

The cover was done by Mark Kostabi, who took detail from Raphael's fresco The School of Athens and edited it.^[1] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Self-portrait by Raphael. ... The School of Athens is one of the most famous paintings by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. ...

Track listing

Raphael, The School of Athens (detail)

1. "Right Next Door to Hell" – 3:00
2. "Dust N' Bones" – 4:56
3. "Live And Let Die" – 2:59
4. "Don't Cry (Original)" – 4:40
5. "Perfect Crime" – 2:23
6. "You Ain't The First" – 2:35
7. "Bad Obsession" – 5:28
8. "Back Off Bitch" – 5:03
9. "Double Talkin' Jive" – 3:23
10. "November Rain" – 8:56
11. "The Garden" (features Alice Cooper) – 5:22
12. "Garden Of Eden " – 2:41
13. "Don't Damn Me" – 5:18
14. "Bad Apples" – 4:28
15. "Dead Horse" – 4:17
16. "Coma" – 10:16

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Credits

• Axl Rose: vocals, piano, keyboards, sound effects, acoustic guitar on "Dead Horse"
• Slash: guitar, acoustic guitar, dobro on "You Ain't The First", 6-string bass on "Right Next Door To Hell", backing vocals
• Izzy Stradlin: guitar, acoustic guitar, lead vocals on "Dust N' Bones", "You Ain't The First" and "Double Talkin' Jive", backing vocals, percussion on "Bad Obsession"
• Duff McKagan: bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Matt Sorum: drums, percussion, backing vocals
• Dizzy Reed: piano, organ, backing vocals

Also featuring:

• Shannon Hoon: vocals on "Don't Cry", backing vocals
• Johann Langlie: synthesizers, sound effects
• Alice Cooper: vocals on "The Garden"
• Michael Monroe: sax and harmonica on "Bad Obsession"
• Matt McKagan, Jon Trautwein, Rachel West, Robert Clark: brass on "Live And Let Die"
• Tim Doyle: percussion on "You Ain't The First"
• Stu Bailey, Reba Shaw: backing vocals on "November Rain"
• West Arkeen: acoustic guitar on "The Garden"
• Bruce Foster: sound effects on "Coma"

Shannon Hoon Richard Shannon Hoon (September 26, 1967 – October 21, 1995) was the lead singer of the band Blind Melon. ...

Miscellanea

• The Use Your Illusion albums were originally titled "G N' R Sucks" (creating a pattern along with G N' R Lies) but the name was changed when it was decided that there would be two albums released simultaneously, rather than one double-album.

G N R Lies is an album released by the hard rock band Guns N Roses in 1988. ...

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