Use Your Illusion

Use Your Illusion
Compilation album by Guns N' Roses
Released	September 17, 1991
Recorded	A&M Studios, Record Plant Studios, Studio 56, Image Recording, Conway Studios & Metalworks Recording Studios
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal
Length	63:50
Label	Geffen
Producer	Guns N' Roses, Mike Clink
Guns N' Roses chronology
"The Spaghetti Incident?" (1993) Use Your Illusion (1998) Live Era: '87-'93 (1999)

For other uses, see Use Your Illusion (disambiguation).

Use Your Illusion is a Guns N' Roses compilation album that is mixed from the Use Your Illusion I & II albums (single disc version), and has only been released in the United States. However, not all songs without profanity were chosen to appear on this compilation (one notable absence is "So Fine", the only non-cover song by the band with Duff McKagan on lead vocals; he wrote it as a tribute to his recently-deceased idol Johnny Thunders).

"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" appears in an edited version, without Josh Richman's speech (You just better start sniffin' your own rank subjugation jack 'cause it's just you against your tattered libido, the bank and the mortician, forever man and it wouldn't be luck if you could get out of life alive), removed for unknown reasons. Therefore, track length is reduced to 05:20, instead of 05:36 from the version included in Use Your Illusion II.

The cover art of the album was designed by Mark Kostabi.^[1]

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Use Your Illusion I 1.2 Use Your Illusion II

Track listing

Use Your Illusion I

1. "Live and Let Die" (Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney – 3:04
2. "Don't Cry" (original) (Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin) – 4:44
3. "You Ain't the First" (Stradlin) – 2:36
4. "November Rain" (Rose) – 8:57
5. "The Garden" (Rose, West Arkeen, Del James) – 5:22
   • Featuring Alice Cooper
6. "Dead Horse" (Rose) – 4:17

Use Your Illusion II

7. "Civil War" (Rose, Slash, Duff McKagan) – 7:42
8. "14 Years" (Rose, Stradlin) – 4:21
9. "Yesterdays" (Rose, Arkeen, James, Billy McCloud) – 3:16
10. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (Bob Dylan) – 5:20
11. "Estranged" (Rose) – 9:23
12. "Don't Cry" (alternate lyrics) (Rose, Stradlin) – 4:43