Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion (2022){super Deluxe Edition}

USE YOUR ILLUSION II 2CD Deluxe Edition presents the album remastered for first-time ever on CD1. CD2 features 13 unreleased live tracks from London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York & Las Vegas on the UYI 1991/1992 tour all newly mixed. Special guest appearances by Steven Tyler & Joe Perry on two tracks. Expanded artwork with unreleased photos & images.

USE YOUR ILLUSION I 2CD Deluxe Edition presents the album remastered for first-time ever on CD1. UYI I now features “November Rain” with a real 50-piece orchestra for the first-time ever – newly recorded, conducted & arranged by Grammy Award winner & Emmy Award nominated composer Christopher Lennertz. CD2 features 13 unreleased live tracks from London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York & Las Vegas on the UYI 1991/1992 tour all newly mixed. Expanded artwork with unreleased photos & images.

Super Deluxe 7-CD and Blu-ray box featuring 97 tracks, including 63 previously unreleased audio and video tracks. CD1 and CD2 contain remastered versions of the band's 1991 albums 'Use Your Illusion I' and 'Use Your Illusion II'. CD3 and CD4 feature a live concert at the Ritz Theatre in New York, recorded on May 16, 1991, while CD5, CD6 and CD7 comprise a live performance from the Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas on January 25, 1992. The Blu-ray includes the full New York concert film in HD with surround and stereo audio. The box set also contains a 100-page hardcover book with unreleased photos and images, a replica Conspiracy Inc fan club kit, 10 double-design lithos, 4 backstage passes, and more.

Use Your Illusion II is more serious and ambitious than I, but it's also considerably more pretentious. Featuring no less than four songs that run over six minutes, II is heavy on epics, whether it's the charging funk metal of "Locomotive," the antiwar "Civil War," or the multipart "Estranged." As if an attempt to balance the grandiose epics, the record is loaded with an extraordinary amount of filler…

The "difficult second album" is one of the perennial rock & roll clichés, but few second albums ever were as difficult as Use Your Illusion. Not really conceived as a double album but impossible to separate as individual works, Use Your Illusion is a shining example of a suddenly successful band getting it all wrong and letting its ambitions run wild…

When Guns N' Roses exploded from the Sunset Strip with lyrics like, "West Coast struttin', one bad mutha, got a rattlesnake suitcase under my arm," they were a vision of piss n' vinegar at a time when Steve Winwood was topping the charts. Apart from Axl Rose's mile-high coiffure, Appetite for Destruction was the opposite of everything going on in the mainstream: it sounded raw, nasty and dangerous. They were a fully formed statement, capped off with an exclamation point. And a little over a year after it came out, "Sweet Child O' Mine" would be the Number One song in the U.S.

The Appetite For Destruction: Super Deluxe Edition features 4CDs including the album newly remastered for the first time ever; B-sides N’ EPs newly remastered; the previously unreleased 1986 Sound City Session N’ More recordings; a Blu-ray Audio disc with the album, bonus tracks and music videos in brand new 5.1 surround sound along with the unearthed music video for “It’s So Easy” originally shot in 1989 but never finished; and a 96-page hardcover book showcasing unseen photos from Axl Rose’s personal archive and wealth of memorabilia…