HAPPY 20th ANNIVERSARY - USE YOUR ILLUSIONS 1&2

[big_machine]

is there a making the album ?  or something coming out   anyone knows ?

[duga]

is there a making the album ?  or something coming out   anyone knows ?

Probably not as this is GN'R and not the usual mega big band.

[russtcb]

Happy Anniversary! I've enjoyed the HELL out of these albums for the last 20 years!

 

[axlrosegnr]

Probably my two favorite albums of all time. Don't get me wrong, I obviously LOVE Appetite and Lies, but these just added so much more depth and truly showcased Axl's musical genius. I've also never agreed that they should have been broken down and released as one album instead.

[russtcb]

Probably my two favorite albums of all time. Don't get me wrong, I obviously LOVE Appetite and Lies, but these just added so much more depth and truly showcased Axl's musical genius. I've also never agreed that they should have been broken down and released as one album instead.

I hear that. Out of all the GNR records, if I were to go to a dessert island and only got to take 3, it'd be CD and both UYI's

[jazjme]

I remember buying it from the local store, "Record Stop", on Long Island on the Friday before it's official release...Who would have thought Nirvanas Nevermind went on sale that day as well...There was a line of people waiting for the UPS guy to bring in the boxes o' UYI CD's...Chain outlets opened at midnight to sell them.. Boy times have changed...Chinese Democracy really missed out on that excitement due to leaks, internet sales etc...

I got mine from record stop also , 2 weeks before the release, I went to sachem HS, so it was right down the street. The oweners took prepayment, and called when they had it in, and it was a full 2 weeks before.

[cineater]

Master pieces.

[westcoast_junkie]

UYI deserve a 

Where else can we find songs that will catch all your attention, lasting over 10 minutes, and not even one second is boring or repetitive?

And...

What other bands can write and record 2 and a half hours of music, not containing even one "filler"?

UYI sure is epic

[bolton]

Only one word "EPIC"

[cyllan]

Agree with everything that's been said - both albums are works of art that continue to amaze and delight my aural senses 20 years on. 

I was on holiday in the US at the time, travelling up the west coast, and on the day the records were released I was in San Francisco.  I remember walking the city to find a record shop and the excitement with which I slipped the first cassette into my walkman.  I had both albums on continuous loop in my ears for the remainder of my trip and still regularly listen to them today.

I'd heard 'Estranged' live in Germany a month or so before and it'd given me goosebumps then, but even so I wasn't prepared me for the intensity of hearing the albums in their entirety.  As far as I was concerned, UYI elevated Axl from being an outstanding frontman with a unique vocal style, to a musical genius and lyrical poet.  A viewpoint from which I've never waivered and one which I felt was more than substantiated with the release of CD; an album of unsurpassed excellence.

[rebelhipi]

for me those are the two best pieces of music

[jaknudsen]

Yeah, master pieces!

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[Eclipsed107]

I think if Gn'R condensed UYI and released it as 1 album it'd be just as historic as AFD is.

Not exactly the songs I would have picked, but I imagine these are the songs that would have made the final cut.

Right Next Door to Hell
Don't Cry
November Rain
The Garden
Don't Damn Me
Coma
Civil War
Yesterdays
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Estranged
You Could Be Mine