Taking Sides: Use Your Illusion I vs. Use Your Illusion II

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― Al (sitcom), Monday, 5 April 2004 14:47 (twenty years ago) link

and no dicking around with obvious comments like "Appetite was better" or "it could've been better as one disc". duh. just PICK ONE.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 5 April 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link

They're head and hind of the same horse though!

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 April 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago) link

bearing in mind that I haven't listened to either in 5-10 years, I'm going entirely on the memories jogged by the AMG entry, but I'm leaning toward 2. I think I like 1 more at the time but at the moment "Garden Of Eden" is the only song on there I'm remembering very fondly.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 5 April 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago) link

subquestions:

“Don’t Cry” (Original Version) vs. “Don’t Cry” (Alternate Lyrics)

“November Rain” vs. “Estranged”

yellow/red vs. blue/purple

“Live And Let Die” vs. “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 5 April 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago) link

The one on the left vs. the one on the right.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 5 April 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago) link

fun fact: in the '91 Pazz & Jop, UYI2 placed at #11, and UYI1 placed at #20.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 5 April 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago) link

I gotta go with whichever one had "Dust and Bones" on it. That's I, right?

― M Specktor, Monday, 5 April 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link

Hmmm, Dust n' Bones, Live and Let Die, and November Rain vs. Pretty Tied Up and You Could Me Mine. I'd have to go with 1...oddly enough I never actually owned either of them.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago) link

I take sides with "silence" given the choice.

― ___ (___), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

1 has "Coma."

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago) link

did ____ really need to log out for that?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago) link

I'm pretty sure I was one of the people who voted for #2 in Pazz and Jop that year, and I'm pretty sure I only gave it the minimum five points, and I'm pretty sure I wrote a long spiel about it in *Radio On,* but I forget what I said.

― chuck, Monday, 5 April 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link

i like II better.

fantastic songs: "pretty tied up", "estranged", "locomotive", "so fine", "get in the ring", "you could be mine".

i also like "civil war", "so fine" "14 years" and "my world" but they're less defensible.

i think it's fairly clear that "live and let die" >> "knockin on heaven's door" if only because you can tap your foot to it better.

all the arguments i've heard in favor of UYI I (off ILM) remind me of my pompous friend who'd argue all day that lies was a better album than appetite for destruction.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link

threatening people by name is pretty thuggish and reprehensible. that said, i will never ever ever forget the lyrics about bob guccione in "get in the ring", even now that i've forgotten 95% of the gnr lyrics i once knew.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

I think I'll say II.

― scott m (mcd), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

DEFINITELY the first one. It's got more Izzy on it. Or, better Izzy anyway. "Dust and Bones" and "Bad Obsession" and "Double Talkin' Jive" are great rockers. And I'll definitely take "Live and LEt Die" over "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (the recording of whice was old by that point anyway). I like the way they play the cod-reggae part.

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link

II is the one I gravitate toward. It's definetely superior! I even like Breakdown. Let me hear you now. Plus, I like the blue/purple more than the yellow/red.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago) link

Axl's Vanishing Point monologue at the end of "Breakdown" is pretty funny/creepy.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago) link

I always like the other version of "Don't Cry", mainly because of the change-up in the bridge/last verse...

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Monday, 5 April 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

Both kinda crap, honestly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago) link

II's a better "rock" album, for what it's worth.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago) link

I gotta vote for II as well, but just by a little bit.

If only becuase "My World" is the only glimpse we've ever gotten of the industrial/NiN-like direction Axl wanted to take the band in.

― Randy Reiss (undeadsinatra), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:18 (twenty years ago) link

HAHAHA!

Ah yes, "My World." Ah yes indeed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:21 (twenty years ago) link

I liked 1 better but can't remember too much now.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:44 (twenty years ago) link

#2 was actually my favourite rock record of that year until I heard Nevermind. Which was more a comment on my boredom with R&R than my love for G&R. Haven't played it in yrs, but still fondly recall "You Could Be Mine", "Civil War", "Locomotive", "Shotgun Blues" and a few others.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link

If only becuase "My World" is the only glimpse we've ever gotten of the industrial/NiN-like direction Axl wanted to take the band in.

Haha, what about that "Oh My God" soundtrack song from a couple of years ago???

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 19:55 (twenty years ago) link

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