GUNS N' ROSES Use Your Illusion II 2LP GEFFEN 1991 EU orig+inners GEF 24420
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GUNS N' ROSES
At a time when pop was dominated by dance music and pop-metal, Guns N' Roses brought raw, ugly rock & roll crashing back into the charts. They were not nice boys: nice boys don't play rock & roll. They were ugly, misogynistic, and violent; they were also funny, vulnerable, and occasionally sensitive, as their breakthrough hit, "Sweet Child O' Mine," showed. While Slash and Izzy Stradlin ferociously spit out dueling guitar riffs worthy of Aerosmith or the Stones, Axl Rose screeched out his tales of sex, drugs, and apathy in the big city. Meanwhile, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler were a limber rhythm section who kept the music loose and powerful. Guns N' Roses' music was basic and gritty, with a solid, hard, bluesy base; they were dark, sleazy, dirty, and honest -- everything that good hard rock and heavy metal should be.
"USE YOUR ILLUSION II"
tracklisting
Side A: CIVIL WAR - 14 YEARS - YESTERDAYS - KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR
Side B: GET IN THE RING - SHOTGUN BLUES - BREAKDOWN
Side C: PRETTY TIED UP - LOCOMOTIVE (COMPLICITY) - SO FINE
Side D: ESTRANGED - YOU COULD BE MINE - DON'T CRY (Alt. Lyrics) - MY WORLD
1991 2LP GEFFEN RECORDS GEF 24420MADE IN GERMANY for EUROPEAN MARKET ORIGINAL PRESSING
SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVEs
NOTES: On the labels of this release, tracks B1 to D4 are credited to individual writers unlike the other Sonopress pressing Use Your Illusion II, which also has slightly different layout and publishing credits on labels.
Sticker on front of cover reads: "This album contains language which some listeners may find objectionable. They can F?!✶ OFF and buy something from the New Age section. GEF/GEFD 24415/24420"
Some copies distributed in Germany included 4-page small merch insert with GnR logo on front: THIS ONE WITHOUT
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 7 2064-24420-1 2
Label Code: LC 7266 Price Code (D:): SI Price Code (F:): BM360 Other (Catalog number on hype sticker): GEF/GEFD 24415/24420 Pressing Plant ID (Embossed on labels B & D): [Bass Clef] Rights Society: BIEM/GEMA
Label: GEFFEN - BLACK LABEL w/LOGOS on TOP and at LEFT of the SPINDLE HOLE - SILVER TEXT
Catalog on cover: GEF 24420
Catalog on labels: GEF-24420
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): 030 DM F-5443A IV GEF-24420-A-1 STERLING DMM Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): GEF-24420-B-2 030 F-5443 B-2 II DMM STERLING Matrix / Runout (Side C, Etched): GEF-24420-C-1 030 DM F-5444-A-1 V STERLING DMMI Matrix / Runout (Side D, Etched): GEF-24420-D-1 030 DM F-5444B-1 IV STERLING DMM I' IV
On labels: rim text "Marketed by BMG..........Fabriqué en Allemagne." BIEM/GEMA LC 7266 Produced by Mike Clink and Guns N' Roses Engineered by Mike Clink Mixed by Bill Price In (ou)R SoundTM All songs.......... ℗ 1991 The David Geffen Company
On Back Cover: Tracklist + Credits ℗ & © 1991 The David Geffen Company, an MCA Company Distributed by BMG Ariola...........Printed in Germany
grading
RECORDS EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Use Your Illusion II is more serious and ambitious than I, but it's also considerably more pretentious. Featuring no less than four songs that run over six minutes, II is heavy on epics, whether it's the charging funk metal of "Locomotive," the antiwar "Civil War," or the multipart "Estranged." As if an attempt to balance the grandiose epics, the record is loaded with an extraordinary amount of filler. "14 Years" may have a lean, Stonesy rhythm, and Duff McKagan's Johnny Thunders homage, "So Fine," may be entertaining, but there's no forgiving the ridiculous "Get in the Ring," where Axl Rose threatens rock journalists by name because they gave him bad reviews; the misinterpretation of Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door"; another version of "Don't Cry"; and the bizarre closer, "My World," which probably captures Rose's instability as effectively as the tortured poetry of his epics...(AllMusic)
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