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We just posted a great personel GnR story regarding the UYI albums on Talking Metal.  Enjoy.

http://www.striglsmusicnews.com/podcasts/talkingmetal/gunsnroses.htm

cool, i'll read it now before i go to bed at 3 am

That was a great article, and one that brought back a lot of memories for me.

That was a great fucking read. I agree 100% that the Illusion albums are among the greatest ever released. For me, every time I listen to those cd's I discover something new even though I've been listening to these albums for over 12 years. It's a shame though that a lot of people think they are over produced or pompous or whatever.

"Whether 'Chinese Democracy' breaks records or sales plateau's is not the point."

This wraps up my feelings about Chinese Democracy.  It amazes me how many people on this forum are caught up in sales figures for the eventual release.  All I want is, as Anthony Kuzminski puts it, an emotional roller coaster.  I hope the album does well for the band's sake, but how many copies it sells bares little on how it will reflect on my enjoyment of the material. 

Great article about the Illusion Discs.  It's ironic a bit that the band did release simultaneous albums.  The weight of the two discs seemed to have catapulted the band on a trajectory that, in the end, was too big to keep everyone together.  At the same time, because they were so ambitious and the tracks were numerous, we have 30 songs to listen to that we might not otherwise have had they decided to just release one album.

Good read.

Cheers,

Andrew

Do record stores still open at midnight for new releases?  or has the internet spoiled that?

Also I hope CD does well on the pure basis that it keeps the label happy and creates less strife for the band, so that their focus can and will always remain on music. 

I mean if CD was a total flop (which I doubt) that could potential cause some problems.....

locomotive is a masterpiece

Yeah sometimes... i read that the white stripes did it here and had a concert too afterward. this was a few weeks ago...

Awesome article, just finished reading it and i loved this story and stories like it. I certainly hope to have a chance to buy it at midnight, especially since Tower records is now closed...

so is breakdown :)

I specifically remember being in college and it really was a big deal. Most of the guys were talking about these albums coming out and the one local music store ( There were no Best Buys around at that time) had this big sign posting " 2 new Guns N Roses albums out....." with the day

A bunch of us went , bought and brought back and I listened to those fucking things over, and over, and over and over

The good ole days

Agreed. Super underated.

I'm certain that Amoeba and Virgin will have a midnight release.

I've been listening to Locomotive more then any other song lately....MASTERPIECE!  I'm likin Back off Bitch and Dont Damn Me quite a bit as well..three VERY UNDERATED songs!

Actually Locomotive has ALWAYS been my fave GNR song, from the simple drum beat to open it up to the riff making you feel like you're being hit by a train, to the leads between all the verses and the lyrics.... my god those lyrics. I didn't fully understand them until I was about 15 or so but man they're great.

Agreed, "Locomotive" is a true masterpiece.  Beautiful piece of music, spanning the emotional globe, from anger to playfulness to sadness.  Beautiful lyrics and melodies and music.

Ali

comaMOTIVE seconds your opinions on LOCOMOTIVE : ok:

And I third them.

Grrr...Tony if you're reading this....you should have emailed this to me right after you wrote it! Great stuff as always...

AylaRose

Great article!  I really enjoyed that one, and I'm gonna HAVE to listen to the Illusions tomorrow, after reading it.

  :yes: 100 % agree with you 

Guns N' Roses music really speaks to all parts one's life and feelings and UYI is definitly an essential component of this, regardless of what anybody else (including Axl) thinks about the record.

The only difference with this and CD is that I hope we have yet to hear the best. Knowing Axl's attitude about bootlegs (there were so many for UYI I II), particularly with the long wait for CD, I think its safe to say the best is yet to come and we don't know what it is yet.

MNR

The article does parallel with what fans are waiting for now.  Hopefully soon they'll be 30 songs released too, and hopefully I'll have CD 1 and 2, like I have UYI 1 and 2.  Those 2 have been in the cd player non-stop for 6 months now.

what a great article... I really could see myself on what you wrote. Thanks so much  : ok:

im young and was actually born two weeks before the illusion albums were released. i first heard about the record at school in 8th grade, when my buddy, whom each of us were discovering rock n' roll at the time said. "dude, you ever hear that song civil war by guns n' roses?" i said that i only knew the hits then he told me to either buy the album or download it. so i downloaded civil war, and it just blew me the fuck away. i loved everything about the song and then decided to buy the entire illusions album on itunes. greatest work of art in the history of music imo. my friend hates gnr now though, so we get into constant arguements :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Just curious, did you not want to have the artwork / lyrics and CD that comes with buying it at a store?

oh no, i went and bought the actual CD's sometime later. they sit proudly on my cd rack. guess i forgot to add that.

GnR albums are the only physical CDs I've ever bought. That's dedication. : ok: