Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I (2022 Remaster) 1991

Исполнитель: Guns N' Roses
Альбом: Use Your Illusion I
Жанр: Hard Rock
Год: (2022 Remaster) 1991
Страна: USA
Лейбл: Guns N Roses P&D
Формат: FLAC (tracks)
Official DR value: DR7
Разрядность: 24bit / 96kHz Stereo
Размер: 1,68 GB
Источник: qobuz
Залито на: XFile (tracks)

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The "difficult second album" is one of the perennial rock & roll clichés, but few second albums ever were as difficult as Use Your Illusion. Not really conceived as a double album but impossible to separate as individual works, Use Your Illusion is a shining example of a suddenly successful band getting it all wrong and letting its ambitions run wild. Taking nearly three years to complete, the recording of the album was clearly difficult, and tensions between Slash, Izzy Stradlin, and Axl Rose are evident from the start. The two guitarists, particularly Stradlin, are trying to keep the group closer to its hard rock roots, but Rose has pretensions of being Queen and Elton John, which is particularly odd for a notoriously homophobic Midwestern boy. Conceivably, the two aspirations could have been divided between the two records, but instead they are just thrown into the blender -- it's just a coincidence that Use Your Illusion I is a harder-rocking record than II. Stradlin has a stronger presence on I, contributing three of the best songs -- "Dust n' Bones," "You Ain't the First," and "Double Talkin' Jive" -- which help keep the album in Stonesy Aerosmith territory. On the whole, the album is stronger than II, even though there's a fair amount of filler, including a dippy psychedelic collaboration with Alice Cooper and a song that takes its title from the Osmonds' biggest hit. But it also has two ambitious set pieces, "November Rain" and "Coma," which find Rose fulfilling his ambitions, as well as the ferocious, metallic "Perfect Crime" and the original version of the power ballad "Don't Cry." Still, it can be a chore to find the highlights on the record amid the overblown production and endless amounts of filler.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo

Трэклист:

01. Right Next Door To Hell (3:02)
02. Dust N' Bones (4:59)
03. Live And Let Die (3:03)
04. Don't Cry (Original) (4:44)
05. Perfect Crime (2:23)
06. You Ain't The First (2:36)
07. Bad Obsession (5:28)
08. Back Off Bitch (5:02)
09. Double Talkin' Jive (3:24)
10. November Rain (2022 Version) (8:56)
11. The Garden (5:21)
12. Garden Of Eden (2:43)
13. Don't Damn Me (5:19)
14. Bad Apples (4:28)
15. Dead Horse (4:17)
16. Coma (10:13)

W. Axl Rose – lead vocals, piano, choir, synthesizer, programming, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, sound effects
Slash – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, slide guitar, acoustic guitar, dobro, classical guitar, talkbox, six-string bass, backing vocals
Izzy Stradlin – rhythm guitar, backing vocals, choir, acoustic guitar, lead guitar, lead vocals on "Dust N' Bones", "You Ain't the First" and "Double Talkin' Jive", percussion on "Bad Obsession"
Duff McKagan – bass, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, choir
Matt Sorum – drums, percussion, backing vocals, choir
Dizzy Reed – keyboard, backing vocals

Additional musicians:

Shannon Hoon – backing vocals on "Live and Let Die", "November Rain", "You Ain't the First", and "The Garden"; co-lead vocals on "Don't Cry"
Johann Langlie – programming on "Live and Let Die", "November Rain" and "Garden of Eden"; sound effects on "Coma"
Michael Monroe – harmonica and saxophone on "Bad Obsession"
Reba Shaw – backing vocals on "November Rain"
Stuart Bailey – backing vocals on "November Rain"
Jon Thautwein – horn on "Live and Let Die"
Matthew McKagan – horn on "Live and Let Die"
Rachel West – horn on "Live and Let Die"
Robert Clark – horn on "Live and Let Die"
Tim Doyle – tambourine on "You Ain't the First"
Alice Cooper – co-lead vocals on "The Garden"
West Arkeen – acoustic guitar on "The Garden"
Bruce Foster – sound effects on "Coma"

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