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What would have been the ultimate follow up to Appetite?


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All this talk about the Use Your Illusions albums 20th anniversary, and how they were too much at one time. So what would have been the best album with the UYI era songs that they could have released? Would it have done better than the double albums?

I love both albums and mostly every song, but most people wishe it would hav been more rocking from what I hear. This isn my favorite songs, but rather what I think might be a better true follow up to Appetite. The band's sound still progressing with some tracks.

My 14 song album:

1. Crash Diet

2. Back Off Bitch

3. Civil War

4. Dust N Bones

5. Pretty Tied Up

6. November Rain

7. Double Talkin Jive

8. Locomotive

9. Garden of Eden

10. Estranged

11. 14 Years

12. You Could Be Mine

13. Coma

thoughts?

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If these 12 songs in this order were on one record and then they put out a single for each song, everyone would buy the single to get the B side and the record would have been as big as AFD or bigger and they would have had lots of top 10 singles because of the sales to get the B sides. The rest of the songs save for a different project or the next record including Ain't going down

Dust N Bones --------B side 14 Years

Perfect Crime ---------B side Back Off Bitch

Live And Let Die----- B side Bad Obsession

Don't Cry ---------------B side Don't Cry ALT

Double Talkin Jive--- B side Right Next Door To Hell

November Rain ------ B side Dead Horse

Civil War --------------- B side So Fine

Pretty Tied Up ----------B side You Ain't The first

Locomotive --------------B side The Garden

Estranged ---------------B side Yesterdays

YCBM ---------------------B side Garden Of Eden

Coma ---------------------B side Breakdown

Total 75 minutes =

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If these 12 songs in this order were on one record and then they put out a single for each song, everyone would buy the single to get the B side and the record would have been as big as AFD or bigger and they would have had lots of top 10 singles because of the sales to get the B sides. The rest of the songs save for a different project or the next record including Ain't going down

Dust N Bones --------B side 14 Years

Perfect Crime ---------B side Back Off Bitch

Live And Let Die----- B side Bad Obsession

Don't Cry ---------------B side Don't Cry ALT

Double Talkin Jive--- B side Right Next Door To Hell

November Rain ------ B side Dead Horse

Civil War --------------- B side So Fine

Pretty Tied Up ----------B side You Ain't The first

Locomotive --------------B side The Garden

Estranged ---------------B side Yesterdays

YCBM ---------------------B side Garden Of Eden

Coma ---------------------B side Breakdown

Total 75 minutes =

Wow that's a cool idea!

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Wrong forum.

I swore this forum said discussion!.......

I'd rather you just admit that you put it here because the pre-94 forum gets less traffic than try to lie to me about it.

http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?showforum=8

If it's any consolation, I didn't mark it. Honest injun.

Its more the fact that I never go on the other forums, because most get no post or rarely any. If I want to have a Guns N Roses discussion I would rather have it on a forum that actually has discussions.

Besides this is just like any other Use Your Illusion discussion on here, I see a handful just on the first page.

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If these 12 songs in this order were on one record and then they put out a single for each song, everyone would buy the single to get the B side and the record would have been as big as AFD or bigger and they would have had lots of top 10 singles because of the sales to get the B sides. The rest of the songs save for a different project or the next record including Ain't going down

Dust N Bones --------B side 14 Years

Perfect Crime ---------B side Back Off Bitch

Live And Let Die----- B side Bad Obsession

Don't Cry ---------------B side Don't Cry ALT

Double Talkin Jive--- B side Right Next Door To Hell

November Rain ------ B side Dead Horse

Civil War --------------- B side So Fine

Pretty Tied Up ----------B side You Ain't The first

Locomotive --------------B side The Garden

Estranged ---------------B side Yesterdays

YCBM ---------------------B side Garden Of Eden

Coma ---------------------B side Breakdown

Total 75 minutes =

Cool idea. Never thought of anything like that before but it's crazy enough that it might have worked.

It's hard to imagine the albums any different than they are since I'm so used to them. I guess a better/easier way for me to do this would be to list the songs I would not include:

You Ain't The First

The Garden

Don't Damn Me

Bad Apples

Get In The Ring

Shotgun Blues

Don't Cry (Alternate)

So Fine

My World

That's not to say I don't like those songs at all (except My World of course), but those are the songs that come to mind that I wouldn't include if I were making a condensed track list for the albums.

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Reckless Road had a great idea; b-sides in brackets, those not singles are without b sides :)

1. Perfect Crime

2. You Could Be Mine (Live and Let Die)

3. Dead Horse

4. Don't Cry (Don't Cry Alt)

5.Yesterdays (Dust N Bones)

6.Don't Damn Me

7.Double Talkin' Jive

8. November Rain (Breakdown)

9.Civil War (Bad Apples)

10.Locomotive

11.Pretty Tied Up

12. Coma

70 minutes long~

and then a Extra EP

1.Bad Obsession

2.Estranged (Since I Don't have You)

3.Garden of Eden

4.Bad Apples

5. Ain't it Fun

6. Welcome to the Jungle (Live)

7. November Rain (Live)

8.Sweet Child O Mine (Live)

9.You Could Be Mine (Live)

10.Paradise City (Live)

boom!

I think this idea is so good I might make a time machine and try and convince Axl :tongue2:

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1. Perfect Crime

2. 14 Years

3. Live And Let Die

4. Dust N' Bones

5. Don't Cry (Original)

6. Civil War

7. November Rain

8. You Could Be Mine

9. Yesterdays

10. Double Talkin' Jive

11. Breakdown

12. You Ain't The First

13. Estranged

14. Coma

I'm not entirely sold on this configuration of the tracklist, but these 14 songs would make the ideal 1-disc UYI to me.

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The ultimate AFD follow up would've been putting out a whole album in 1989, instead of Lies, using the songs for Lies, plus the Illusion songs that had already been written by then. And then release the Illusion with new songs only. It would mean not revisiting Live Like a Suicide, I guess.

1. Perfect Crime

2. You Could Be Mine

3. Don't Cry

4. Bad Obsession

5. Yesterdays

6. Used To Love Her

7. Back Off Bitch

8. One In A Million

9. Patience

10. Knockin' On Heaven's Door

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I would've made the follow up most of the leftovers from AFD, then put the covers album out mid tour. Skin N Bones tour would've been pushed back and changed to support the next album of originals.

I do think GNR should put a covers EP out this year, maybe for Record Store Day and do a set at Amoeba Records.

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If these 12 songs in this order were on one record and then they put out a single for each song, everyone would buy the single to get the B side and the record would have been as big as AFD or bigger and they would have had lots of top 10 singles because of the sales to get the B sides. The rest of the songs save for a different project or the next record including Ain't going down

Dust N Bones --------B side 14 Years

Perfect Crime ---------B side Back Off Bitch

Live And Let Die----- B side Bad Obsession

Don't Cry ---------------B side Don't Cry ALT

Double Talkin Jive--- B side Right Next Door To Hell

November Rain ------ B side Dead Horse

Civil War --------------- B side So Fine

Pretty Tied Up ----------B side You Ain't The first

Locomotive --------------B side The Garden

Estranged ---------------B side Yesterdays

YCBM ---------------------B side Garden Of Eden

Coma ---------------------B side Breakdown

Total 75 minutes =

I like this idea, mainly because the songs from the right column wasn't played much anyway. I'd swap, dust & bones/14 yrs around, and perfect crime for bad obsession, though :thumbsup:

Keep the covers for the Spag Incident, and release 1 single with 3 B's. I doubt any band would ever release a whole album of singles.

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01. Crash Diet

02. Civil War

03. Estranged

04. November Rain

05. Live And Let Die

06. Don't Cry

07. Coma

08. Breakdown

09. Dead Horse

10. You Could Be Mine

11. Knokin' On Heaven's Door

And Cornshucker should've been released on Lies :xmasssanta:.

(All with Steven on Drums of course) :D

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