Use Your Illusion II [PA] by Guns N' Roses

Pros: Production, Arrangements, Performance, Slash's Solos, Vocals, & Lyrical Themes.
Cons: Some Might Feel the Record is Bloated & My World. 

Use Your Illusion IIThe second part of the record begins with Strother Martin's speech about authority from the 1967 Stuart Rosenberg classic film Cool Hand Luke that would lead to the song Civil War. With its ...

Pros: Overall the better of the two Use Your Illusions.
Cons: Some less than stellar songwriting.

If there was one band that never quite reached the potential that they could (should) have, Guns N Roses was it. When they came along in the late 1980s, they provided an excellent alternative to much of the hair-metal and lame pop music that was plaguing...

Pros: Five EXCELLENT songs
Cons: The rest aren't very good or uninspired

It’s true it’s true - my favorite music CD of all time is only worthy of 3 stars. As odd as it sounds, this CD deserves not much more than three stars. It qualifies as my favorite ever, though, due to the strengths of the epic songs that this CD...

Pros: the second of the simultaneously released Use Your Illusion albums offers more of the same
Cons: a lack of focus makes Use Your Illusion I the better album

Funny how everything was roses When we held on to the guns --line from "Breakdown" I thought that Use Your Illusion I was a flawed album, but it rocked hard enough for me to give it four stars. ...

Pros: All tracks above average, especially for hard rock fans.
Cons: Nothing stands out as excellent

Originally I bought this album because Guns and Roses’ Use Your Illusion I was well above average, and I figured this one would be, too. It turns out that Use Your Illusion II is decent, but it lacks the ...

Pros: The lyrics, vocal range and solos.
Cons: Some songs weren't that greatly sung or written, due to some certain members.

This album made number one and it's competitor made number two. They were the only band in history to have two albums in the top 5. And the only ones to have meaningful and depressing lyrics. They had different instruments used. And its sad that some ...

Pros: The majority of songs are either fantastic or listenable at the least
Cons: Well, with a couple exceptions, UYI II is pretty average

Pros: An excellent experimental album, with many great epic tracks.
Cons: A few filler songs

Way back in the day in 1991, Guns N’ Roses released two highly anticipated albums titled Use Your Illusion I and II. This is a review of the latter of the two, or as I prefer to call it, ‘The Blue One’. This is the only GNR...

Pros: Sweeping ambition, excellent songwriting and musicianship.
Cons: Not as direct as 'Appetite', some may find pretentious.

It's hard to argue that a record like Use Your Illusions II is anything but fantastic, except when it's following up one of hard rock's most memorable debut albums such as Appetite for Destruction. As great as Appetite was, however, Use Your Illusions...

Pros: Great guitar riffs, some great lyrics by Axl, just a good rock and roll album
Cons: a couple of songs are generic and uninspired

When Guns N'Roses released their two Use Your Illusion albums in the fall of 1991, they were so highly anticipated that one of them set the first week sales records for a new release. That record happened to be Use Your Illusion II,...

Pros: 14 sublimely crafted songs
Cons: Too much pomp for some?

Released in the September of 1991, this, the second part of the ‘Use your Illusion’ set, was basically the cornerstone of Axl Rose’s scheme to turn G N’ R into the biggest band on the planet. As well as taking the bold step of releasing two double albums...

Pros: great lyrics, well thought out riffs, all over a great buy
Cons: dont cry 2, my world, shotgun blues

I have rated this fine CD with five stars because, to be honest, it is one of the only CD'S that I can put in my player and leave on rotation. Most of the songs are truly epic, and I explain my favourites, the pro's and con's of each below -

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Pros: 4-5 excellent written songs (musically + lyrically) lengthy album: 75 minutes
Cons: Some songs are a little overdone; couple explicit songs; one rap/hip hop song

Just when you thought that Guns N' Roses was finished, they went out and amazed the rock n' roll world by introducing their new album "Use Your Illusion II" in September of 1991. This album was the continuation to their first album, entitled "Use Your...

Pros: Tracks 1 thru 13.
Cons: My World is....just read the review.

If I could find something to hate about this, I would let you all know. This is another masterpiece by Guns N' Roses.

Let's start with the basics....

Track 1. "Civil War" is the start of the political movement to come back into...

Pros: remarkable hard rock music
Cons: a couple dud songs

The production of Use Your Illusion II is crisp and clear with all instruments easily audible. I have so many memories from seventh grade and twelfth grade (when I rediscovered it) because of this disc.

Civil War is nearly eight minutes long –...