As I said in criticism of "Use Your Illusion I "and though I now have my doubts after returning to listen carefully both albums, the second part stalled me much more than that from the beginning. I even remember the color of the cover always liked me, what will this have to do it? The fact is that everything on this album was for me something special. The work begins with "Civil War " the first song of the four vinyl I heard when I got home and I imagined a video apotheosis in the style of "Brothers In Arms " of Dire Straits but with more gunfire and bombs. Then followed a series of disparate but original cuts that I became a consummate fan of a band that was on one side at the top of the world yet the brink.
This Use Your Illusion II now, once old, does not seem so exceptional. There's the closing "My World " whim Axl, who is signed, I will not say much (and now reminds me a lot to " Army Of Me" by Björk of 1995), or inappropriate "Knocking On Heavens Door, "are more prepared to be taken to direct that to be heard and enjoyed on the Walkman or your teenager's room full of posters of Guns N 'Roses Metallica or (although insert video is above and fucking great is that this concert at the Ritz of 1988 is a gem) but at the time contemporary with the publication of the work was neither the first nor the second horror destroyed the original , which entered the album, came and liked it after the first listen. That's a point in his favor for certain is that some discs do not come in first and then, slowly, over low heat, will captivate you, there are also disks that will captivate the first time, even the first fifty times and then you find out on the shelf last year and then see who really was not so and your music taste naturally rejects it and then there are those like it, go to the first and now, after many years, continues to fall well. So is the relationship, at least my relationship with the discs. So whimsical and irregular.
As I said, " Civil War" was the first song I heard and was turning over and over again while I was trying to learn the arpeggio of the first, then wine You Could Be Mine "in Christmas discovered in Terminator 2 near a Schwarzenegger tararearía making good on film for people to realize that I knew it. Also in this second part the " Do not Cry (Alt. Lyrics) ( live here), version with different lyrics to" Do not Cry "of Use Your Illusion I more I liked having letters " alternatives" and to be me at the time to start thinking I wanted to be a type "alternative " I also liked the " Get In The Ring ", despite its simple melody, with that bad temper and that list of people from magazines, music critics and so on. the powers that be to take the ass. Today, and if not because it was not just written by Axl , I'd be grossed out, but there were also Duff and Slash the will respect. You see, I have Mr. Rose on a pedestal .
On the other hand, I must say that this album quite a bit of piano abused and that is something that I do not like talking about a band of "Hard Rock " Abuse in the Use Your Illusion I and abuse in this Use Your Illusion II , in songs like "Civil War " or " Breakdown" or "Pretty Tied Up " The truth is that I never liked or Dizzy or showgirls carrying live, go.
In conclusion, I have changed . In 1991 I went crazy for this album but today with the ears and minds fully educated the first of the two, the yellow I feel much better. I see him with deeper roots, with more class, more Izzy Stradlin imprint . It is true that in both there are great songs, great solos and amazing riffs but also some that another downturn. Gather your why vinyl and 60 tape, go to the player with your father's plate and grabaos both sides with the songs that you like. So you can hear them one after another without quality decreases as you go on the road course at the institute school.
Highlights:
- Civil War Pretty Tied Up
- So fine
- Estranged You Could Be Mine
- Do not Cry (Alt. Lyrics)
Review published on October 4, 2009
