So, like many of my fellow Guns N Roses fans, the issue of the "Use your Illusions" double album is a hotly debated topic amongst fans for a variety of reasons....is it just an over bloated self aggrandizing pretentious pile? Or is it an epic work of art, to be held up along side "The White Album" and "Physical Graffiti", that was undeniably great, and a reflection of the times? Whatever you think, the hits found scattered throughout this beast of a double album are indisputable works of rock and roll genius.
Like many of you, i feel as though if they had trimmed some of the fat on this one, and kept it a single disc, it would have gone down as one of the greatest rock records of all time. Here is what I would have chosen for a track listing:
1. Dont Cry (orig)
2. Perfect Crime
3. Civil War
4. Garden of Eden
5. November Rain
6. 14 years
7. Dead Horse
8. Yesterdays
9. You Could be Mine
10. The Garden
11. So fine
12. Pretty tied up
13. Shotgun blues
14. Estranged
Had they left "Knockin on Heavens door" and "Live and Let Die" off the album, and added those to the "Spaghetti Incident" album, I think both would have been much more successful in the long run.
But thats just me
I would have left off perfect crime and put dust and bones. Bad Apples for so fine. thou i do like so fine. Coma, is great to, so is you aint the first.
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