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Use Your Illusion II [CD]

Guns N' Roses Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (23 Dec 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Polydor Group
  • ASIN: B000000OSG
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  DVD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (59 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,245 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  1. Civil War (Album Version) 7:42£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. 14 Years (Album Version) 4:21£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Yesterdays (Album Version) 3:16£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Album Version) 5:36£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Get In The Ring (Album Version (Explicit)) 5:41£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Shotgun Blues (Album Version (Explicit)) 3:22£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Breakdown (Album Version) 7:04£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Pretty Tied Up (The Perils Of Rock N' Roll Decadence) (Album Version (Explicit)) 4:47£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. Locomotive (Complicity) (Album Version) 8:41£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. So Fine (Album Version) 4:06£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. Estranged (Album Version) 9:23£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen12. You Could Be Mine (Album Version) 5:43£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen13. Don't Cry (Album Version (Alternate Lyrics)) 4:44£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen14. My World (Album Version (Explicit)) 1:26£0.89  Buy MP3 


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Had Use Your Illusion II been combined with Use Your Illusion I, keeping only the best material while dropping the filler, it would have been one of the best rock albums ever recorded. Instead, great songs like "Civil War", "14 Years", "Estranged", and "So Fine" compete with the inexcusable "Get in the Ring" and the well-intentioned but off-target cover of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door". There's no point to the second version of "Don't Cry", either. On the other hand, when Guns N' Roses were good, they were very, very good, and some of the material on this album is unsurpassable. --Genevieve Williams

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VOLUME 2 : 1991 album features 'You Could Be Mine', 'Get In The Ring' & the somewhat epic 'Civil War'.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Their Last True Album 8 Dec 2004
Format:Audio CD
What proved to be their last album was one of their finest. Having said that they only made three albums full albums of new material (Appetite, Illusion 1 & Illusion 2). Lies and Spaghetti were mere fills during major tours.

Illusion 2 gave us the newer material that the band had at the time as Illusion 1 was made up old songs that never made Appetite. I remember waiting for the albums to be released and going to Wembley Stadium the week before they were released. The new songs songed good live but I found them to be even better on record. GNR were a band of highs and lows, but when they were good they were the best on the planet at the time. Illusion 2 seemed to capture the band at the height of their powers and is an album not to be missed. Rock songs at the time had to be short and sweet with the epic's being a thing of the past. This album though changed things and people realised once again that a long song was not a bad song. Estranged, Breakdown, Pretty Tied Up, Locomotive and Civil War being the highlights. Pretty Tied Up once again showing the darker side of GNR in their lyrics. This is still an album that should be part of any rock lovers collection.

This is one of the highlights from one of the all time great rock bands.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Rose For The Gun 30 Dec 2006
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This is a very different beast from "Appetite", or even UYI Vol 1. Whilst Guns always could rip it up and tear it out with the best of them (and they do so brilliantly on Vol 1's "Perfect Crime", "Right Next Door To Hell", "Bad Obsession" and so on), on this album there's a concerted effort to display musical and emotional growth. Axl was always a broader musican than Slash - a fact evident from the fact that on this moderately-paced album, Slash only has 3 or 4 writing credits. This is very much Axl's baby, although the quibbling over credits (unlike "Appetite", which is band-credited) already suggests the loss of band solidarity. This album is less of a stomping hard-rock album and more of a classic rock album, where the act is established and they can now stretch their wings. Slash has already said that the UYI albums are their equivalent of the White Album.

The songwriting is I think consistently stunning. There's more, and more varied, emotion too. God only knows why "Estranged" isn't more recognised - it's one of the pinnacles of their acheivement, a cold, disconsolate beginning, shifting (via one of Slash's finest ever lines) to a sneering, callow hauteur, then a sad, yearning instrumental, to a open and warming ending, closing on an almost desperate note. "So Fine", sung wonderfully by Duff, has shivers and sighs of pure emotion, a rock ballad of unusual exquisiteness. "Locomotion", like "Estranged", considers the end of relationships and the realisation of emotional emptiness, Axl's nasal, almost-sneering delivery suggestive of the immaturity he's singing about. "Breakdown", another song that's oddly underappreciated, again suggests a man on the edge of his tether, yearning for the innocence and certainties of younger, simpler days (note the country-style intro - similar to Axl's piece of straw in the "Welcome To The Jungle video - he was an Indiana boy after all!) - which "Yesterdays" does explicitly but with far less style. "Pretty Tied Up", a classic piece of Izzy, is typically Stones-y and also features some outstanding sitar. And so on - the album is filled with classic moments ("Civil War", "You Could Be Mine").

Some have suggested that you could make one killer album from the two volume of Use Your Illusion. I think that would miss the point. Firstly, the two albums gave them the space to stretch their wings musically, which "Appetite" being far more condensed and focused didn't. Who would have expected sitar, spanish guitar, bizarre electronica, and so on? Secondly, the two albums very much have their own character. Volume One is far more aggressive and vitriolic, Volume Two is much more reflective and sensitive. GN'R always had both sides to them - hence their name, typically Yin/Yang.

This album is almost a return to a more 60s/70s rock album and succeeds on every possible level. Treat yourself.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Brilliance! 3 Dec 2003
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As a GnR fan i would have to say this is one of their best live performances, everypart of the shows is just perfect, best part has to be the drum and guitar solo! A definite buy for a GnR fan!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Prefer this to Illusion 1...
Loved this since it was released when I was at college. Listening to it twenty years on it is still fresh, lyrical and angry.
Published 26 days ago by Ricolas
5.0 out of 5 stars Super!!!
Very good stuff and price, my doughter is very happy, she ask me to buy cose she like rock and metal music and I like GnR too
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5.0 out of 5 stars "OLD" husband loves this
my husband loves this! he sits with his head phones on and it keeps him out of my hair all the way through! worth every penny! well it was cheap as chips! fast delivery too!
Published 2 months ago by SusieQ
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb album
The better of the two on the double album set, this one just gets better with age. Play it loud.
Published 3 months ago by delboyQPR
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Excellent CD. Just love it. A must have, if you have bought the first one. Excellent chilling out and partying tunes.
Published 3 months ago by Mrs. L. J. Gray
5.0 out of 5 stars yesssssssssssss
yet again, a very pleased husband. will play his music whenever he can. love his taste in music, all of it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars illusion ll
Brought it as a christmas present and the person like it. If you like this type of music then this is the cd for you.
Published 4 months ago by Martene
4.0 out of 5 stars good
good second half great gig axl was so good his voice great talent loved the 90s, they will never as good again.
Published 5 months ago by Mr. Adam R. Pegrum
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent DVD
I love Guns n' Roses and this is again an good quality performance, and also good quality DVD, so can recomend this to anyone
Published 12 months ago by Mrv Van Der Sanden
4.0 out of 5 stars one of the best releases in the 90's
Their incorporations of Blues Rock into their 80s-90s Hard Rock sound are brilliant. Never before has a blend of genres sounded this beautifully genius, and Guns N' Roses just... Read more
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