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Stupid Rolling Stone Article
Rolling Stone magazine started a series of articles about double albums that should be single albums. This time they talk about GNR's Use Your Illusion albums. I have to say that they must be completely out of their mind to write such an article, especially when you realize that they think that some of the best GNR songs ever like "Locomotive", "breakdown", "don't damn me", "coma", "double talkin' jive" or "the garden" were not worth releasing, what a bunch of baloney from Rolling stone! GNR has so few albums, please let us enjoy every single song they released! Here's the article:
Double Albums That Could Be Single Discs, Part IV:
Guns N’ Roses, "Use Your Illusion I + II"
All this week we’ve been editing down double albums that should have been single discs. Today’s project: Guns N’ Roses’ 1991 release Use Your Illusion, which was sold as two separate discs but was clearly one big album. (Oddly, this was debated at the time. The tipoff: calling the discs Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II.) Illusion was one of the longest albums ever put out by a major rock act: its total running time of about three hours even beat out famously excessive triple-disc efforts such as Sandinista! or All Things Must Pass.
But if Illusion had been shorter, could it have been the Great Lost Guns N’ Roses Album? Would the band have stayed together longer? Would the discarded tracks have been released as a passable Chinese Democracy a decade ago? We think so. Here’s our version of Use Your Illusion, the one that should have been:
1. Civil War
2. Dust N’ Bones
3. Bad Obsession
4. Don’t Cry (Original)
5. Right Next Door to Hell
6. Bad Apples
7. November Rain
8. You Could Be Mine
9. Yesterdays
10. Pretty Tied Up
11. Garden of Eden
12. Estranged
(total running time: 65:37)
Geek note: Unlike our first three entries of this double album-editing project (The Beatles’ White Album, Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti, and Bruce Springsteen’s The River), we’re not dividing our Use Your Illusion playlist into sides, because vinyl albums had become pretty much vestigial by the early ’90s.
-- Gavin Edwards
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