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List Price: $30.99 | | Label: Universal/Polygram
Salesrank: 701925
Released: April 18, 2002 |
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| Used Price: $5.00 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Use Your Illusion I Track Listing:
1. Right Next Door to Hell
2. Dust N' Bones
3. Live and Let Die
4. Don't Cry [Original Version]
5. Perfect Crime
6. You Ain't the First
7. Bad Obsession
8. Back off Bitch
9. Double Talkin' Jive
10. November Rain
11. Garden
12. Garden of Eden
13. Don't Damn Me
14. Bad Apples
15. Dead Horse
16. Coma
Editorial Review:
Limited 2008 UK 180gm vinyl pressing of this classic album, released to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the long-playing record. This is an exact replica of the original packaging and contains a voucher enabling the purchaser to download MP3 versions of the songs within. Happy Birthday, my dear vinyl LP! Universal.
Description of Use Your Illusion I:
Part one of Guns N' Roses' ambitious second album is arguably the better of the two. It certainly rocks harder, though this seems to be more coincidence than anything else; which songs went on which CD looks to have been a random selection. Use Your Illusion I stays closer to the band's bluesy hard-rock roots, with guitarist Izzy Stradlin contributing some of the best songs, including "Dust N' Bones" and "You Ain't the First." "November Rain" (clocking in at over nine minutes) became an instant classic, and there are a fair number of straight-ahead rockers, such as "Perfect Crime," "Don't Damn Me," and "Garden of Eden." Taking the best from this album and Use Your Illusion II would have made a killer single CD, but there's enough good stuff here to make it worthwhile. --Genevieve Williams
Use Your Illusion I Reviews:
Illusion I 
2009-12-10 - "Use Your Illusion I" is an extremely ambitious album from Guns N' Roses. It's just straight ahead great heavy metal with amazing ballads like "Don't Cry" and "November Rain". The second half rocks also, with my favorites being "Don't Damn Me", "The Garden", "Dead Horse", and of course the 10 minutes plus closing track "Coma". this one is a must have.
THANKS FOR HANGIN' IN THERE SLASH 
2009-10-25 - THIS IS A GREAT LIST OF TRACKS. MORE AGGRESSIVE THAN ILLUSION 2. THE ADDITION OF MATT (DRUMMER)OPENED THE BAND UP TO A MORE TECHNICAL AVENUE. SLASH CAN OBVIOUSLY KEEP UP WITH IT ALL. TO ME THIS WAS THE LAST POSITIVE PRODUCT THAT AXL ROSE WAS A PART OF. TOO BAD AXL HAS HAD PROBLEMS THAT KEEP THE BAND DOWN. USE YOUR ILLUSION I IS PACKED FULL OF TUNES RANGING IN TEMPO AND AGRESSIVENESS. GREAT WORK OF ART.
MARK "TATTOO" STEELE
I'll give Part II a miss, thank you very much 
2009-07-09 - A previous reviewer praised this album by challenging the reader to just buy one "Use Your Illusion" without becoming tempted to buy the other. To that, I'd reply "Mission Accomplished."
This is allegedly the more "hard rock" oriented of the two, but unfortunately all the songs that rock as hard as "Appetite For Destruction" ("Back Off B****," "Right Next Door to Hell," "Perfect Crime," "Don't Damn Me," etc.) also happen to be obvious filler. This isn't a problem per se since I listen to all types of music, but I don't think the other tracks manage to compensate.
On the ballad side of things, "November Rain" is of course a candidate for GnR's all-time best song, and despite being a rote imitation, GnR's version of "Live and Let Die" tops McCartney's original. By contrast, "Don't Cry" has some merits, but is basically just a banal monster ballad. "Coma" is a heavy 10-minute epic that some people love, but I personally don't think it goes anywhere.
In the middle are most of the album's better songs, tracks in the "not quite hard rock" mold of Aerosmith and the Rolling Stones. These include "Dust and Bones," "You Ain't the First," "Bad Obsession," and "The Garden." These are all solid tracks, but they can't bear the weight of being the best songs on the album. They certainly don't transcend the band's influences or form a compelling artistic statement like "Appetite for Destruction" did.
Honestly, I've mulled over this album for over a month, and I don't see how any track other than "November Rain" can be considered essential.
Use your discretion
2009-05-07 - Strangely in many ways these dated quicker than what made GnR in the 80's. While epic balladry clearly is the strong point, it falls few and far between raucous rockers that seldom highlight what eroded Slash-n-Axl synergy was left.
Excellent Transaction
2009-04-09 - Very fast transaction. Would recommend doing business with this seller. Thank you so much.
