Use Your Illusion I - Guns N' Roses

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.

It has a similar style to `Appetite For Destruction’ although a couple of songs are a bit calmer and less rough. Once again Axl Rose cannot sing for toffee but this is complemented by brilliant guitar work by Slash.

For more information about the bands musical style and similarities to other artists etc, then please go to my review for `Appetite For Destruction’.

Track listing with rating out of 5:-

1. Right Next Door To Hell (4)

   
   




2. Dust ’N’ Bones (4)

   
   




3. Live And Let Die (5)

   
   




4. Don’t Cry (Original) (5)

   
   




5. Perfect Crime (4)

   
   




6. You Aint The First (4)

   
   




7. Bad Obsession (4)

   
   




8. Back Off B (4)

   
   




9. Double Talkin’ Jive (4)

   
   




10. Novemeber Rain (5)

    
    




11. The Garden (4)

    
    




12. Garden Of Eden (4)

    
    




13. Don’t Damn Me (4)

    
    




14. Bad Apples (4)

    
    




15. Dead Horse (4)

    
    




16. Coma (4)