Product Overview
Guns N' Roses – Use Your Illusion I / Geffen Records Audio CD 1991 / GED24415
UPC 720642441527
Product Details:
Tracklist:
| 1 | Right Next Door To Hell
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] – Duff, Izzy, Slash (3), Bass – Duff, Drums – Matt Sorum, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, 6-String Bass – Slash (3), Rhythm Guitar – Izzy, Vocals – Axl, Written-By – Rose, Stradlin', Caltia |
2:58 |
| 2 | Dust N' Bones
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] – Axl, Duff, Slash (3), Bass – Duff, Drums, Percussion – Matt, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Talkbox [Voice Box] – Slash (3), Piano, Organ – Dizzy Reed, Vocals, Rhythm Guitar – Izzy, Written-By – McKagan, Stradlin', Slash (3) |
4:55 |
| 3 | Live And Let Die
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] – Axl, Shannon Hoon, Bass – Duff, Drums – Matt, Horns – Jon Trautwein, Matthew McKagan, Rachel West, Robert Clark (4), Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, 6-String Bass – Slash (3), Piano – Dizzy, Programmed By [Synthesizer Programmer] – Axl, Johann Langlie, Rhythm Guitar – Izzy, Vocals, Keyboards – Axl, Written-By – Paul And Linda McCartney*Ž |
2:59 |
| 4 | Don't Cry (Original)
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] – Izzy, Bass – Duff, Drums – Matt, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Slash (3), Rhythm Guitar – Izzy, Vocals – Axl, Shannon, Written-By – Rose, Stradlin' |
4:42 |
| 5 | Perfect Crime
Bass – Duff, Drums – Matt, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Slash (3), Rhythm Guitar – Izzy, Vocals, Effects [Sound Effects] – Axl, Written-By – Rose, Stradlin', Slash (3) |
2:22 |
| 6 | You Ain't The First
Acoustic Guitar – Izzy, Bass, Acoustic Guitar – Duff, Dobro [Slide Dobro] – Slash (3), Drums – Matt, Tambourine – Tim Doyle, Vocals – Axl, Izzy, Shannon, Written-By – Stradlin' |
2:32 |
| 7 | Bad Obsession
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] – Izz, Bass – Duff, Drums – Matt, Piano – Dizzy, Rhythm Guitar, Percussion – Izzy, Saxophone, Harmonica – Mike Monroe, Slide Guitar [Slide Lead], Rhythm Guitar – Slash (3)Vocals – Axl, Written-By – Stradlin', Arkeen |
5:26 |
| 8 | Back Off Bitch
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] – Duff, Slash (3), Bass – Duff, Drums – Matt, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Slash (3), Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar – Izzy, Vocals – Axl, Written-By – Rose, Huge |
5:01 |
| 9 | Double Talkin' Jive
Acoustic Guitar [Rhythm] – Duff, Slash (3), Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] – Axl, Bass – Duff, Classical Guitar [Classical Guitar Solo], Soloist [Solo] – Slash (3), Drums, Percussion – Matt, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Izzy, Written-By – Stradlin' |
3:19 |
| 10 |
November Rain
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals], Choir – Axl, Dizzy, Duff, Izzy, Matt, Reba Shaw, Shannon, Stuart Bailey, Bass – Duff, Drums – Matt, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Slash (3), Programmed By [Synthesizer Programmer] – Axl, Johann, Rhythm Guitar – Izzy, Vocals, Piano, Keyboards [Keyboard Orchestra] – Axl, Written-By – Rose |
8:53 |
| 11 | The Garden
Acoustic Guitar – West ArkeenBacking Vocals [Background Vocals] – Axl, Shannon, Bass – Duff, Drums, Percussion – Matt, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Slide Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Slash (3), Vocals – Alice Cooper (2), Axl, Written-By – Rose, James, Arkeen |
5:17 |
| 12 | Garden Of Eden
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] – Dizzy, Duff, Slash (3), Bass – Duff, Drums – Matt, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Slash (3), Programmed By [Synthesizer Programmer] – Axl, Johann, Rhythm Guitar – Izzy, Vocals, Keyboards, Effects – Axl, Written-By – Rose, Slash (3) |
2:36 |
| 13 | Don't Damn Me
Bass – Duff, Drums – Matt, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Slash (3), Organ – Dizzy, Rhythm Guitar – Izzy, Vocals – Axl, Written-By – Rose, Lank, Slash (3) |
5:15 |
| 14 | Bad Apples
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] – Dizzy, Duff, Izzy, Matt, Bass – Duff, Drums – Matt, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Slash (3), Piano, Clavinet – Dizzy, Rhythm Guitar – Izzy, Vocals – Axl, Written-By – Rose, McKagan, Stradlin', Slash (3) |
4:25 |
| 15 | Dead Horse
Bass – Duff, Drums – Matt, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Slash (3), Rhythm Guitar – Izzy, Sounds [Nutcracker] – Mike Clink, Vocals, Acoustic Guitar – Axl, Written-By – Rose |
4:17 |
| 16 | Coma
Bass – Duff, Drums, Percussion – Matt, Effects [Sound Effects] – Bruce Foster, Johann, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Slash (3), Rhythm Guitar – Izzy, Vocals – Axl, Voice [Bitches] – Diane Mitchell, Michelle Loiselle, Monica Zierhut-Soto, Patricia Fuenzalida, Rose Mann, Susanne Filkins, Written-By – Rose, Slash (3) |
10:08 |
More Details:
- A&R [A&R Coordination] – Tom Zutaut
- Art Direction, Design – W. Axl Rose*, Kevin Reagan, Slash (3)
- Artwork [Art Slave] – Wendy Sherman
- Artwork [Editorial G.A.L.] – Lyn Fey
- Engineer [Additional Engineering] – Jim Mitchell
- Engineer [Assistant] – Allen Abrahamson, Buzz Burrowes, Chris Puram, Craig Portelis*, Ed Goodreau, Jason Roberts, John Aguto, L. Stu Young, Leon Ganado, Mike Douglass, Talley Sherwood
- Engineer [Engineered By] – Mike Clink
- Illustration [Inside Illustrations - "Coma"] – Steve Lank
- Illustration [Inside Illustrations - "Don't Cry" (Ascension)] – Kirk Hughey
- Illustration [Inside Illustrations - "Pretty Tied Up"] – Mike Staggs
- Illustration [Inside Illustrations - 'Dead!' Piece] – The Starn Twins
- Illustration [Inside Illustrations - Guns N' Roses Logo] – R.K. Sloane
- Management [Personal] – Doug Goldstein
- Mastered By – George Marino
- Mixed By – Bill Price
- Painting [Cover Painting] – Mark Kostabi
- Photography By – Robert John (4)
- Photography By [Photo Collage] – Gene Kirkland, George Chin, R.K. Sloane, Robert John (4), William Hames
- Producer – Guns N' Roses, Mike Clink
About the Band:
Guns N' Roses, often abbreviated as GNR, is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1985. When they signed to Geffen Records in 1986, the band comprised vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler. The current lineup consists of Rose, Slash, McKagan, keyboardist Dizzy Reed, guitarist Richard Fortus, drummer Frank Ferrer and keyboardist Melissa Reese.
Guns N' Roses' debut album, Appetite for Destruction (1987), reached number one on the Billboard 200 a year after its release, on the strength of the Top 10 singles "Welcome to the Jungle", "Paradise City", and "Sweet Child o' Mine", the band's only single to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The album has sold approximately 30 million copies worldwide, including 18 million units in the United States, making it the country's bestselling debut album and eleventh-bestselling album. Their next studio album, G N' R Lies (1988), reached number two on the Billboard 200, sold ten million copies worldwide (including five million in the U.S.), and included the Top 5 hit "Patience". Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, recorded simultaneously and released in 1991, debuted at number two and number one on the Billboard 200 respectively and have sold a combined 35 million copies worldwide, including 14 million units in the United States. The Illusion albums included the lead single "You Could Be Mine" (also featured in the film soundtrack for Terminator 2), covers of "Live and Let Die" and "Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door", and a trilogy of ballads ("Don't Cry", "November Rain", and "Estranged"), which featured notably high-budget music videos. The Illusion records were also supported by the extensive Use Your Illusion Tour, a world tour that lasted from 1991–1993. "The Spaghetti Incident?" (1993), an album of covers, was the band's last studio album to feature Slash and McKagan before their initial departure.
Work on a follow-up album stalled due to creative differences between band members; by 1998 only Rose and Reed remained from the Illusion-era lineup. After a decade of work and several lineup changes, Guns N' Roses's long-awaited sixth studio album, Chinese Democracy (2008), was released. At an estimated $14 million in production costs, it is the most expensive rock album in history. It debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, but undersold industry expectations despite mostly positive critical reception. Slash and McKagan rejoined the band in 2016 for the Not in This Lifetime... Tour, which became the third-highest-grossing concert tour on record, grossing over $584 million by its conclusion in 2019.
In their early years, the band's hedonism and rebelliousness drew comparisons to the early Rolling Stones and earned them the nickname "the most dangerous band in the world". The band's classic lineup, along with later members Reed and drummer Matt Sorum, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012, its first year of eligibility. Guns N' Roses have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, including 45 million in the United States, making them the 41st-bestselling artist in history.
