Popular Post RussTCB Posted September 18, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 18, 2021 This video is aimed more at casual fans who always say Use Your Illusion could've easily been just one album. Posting it here because I'll take all the views, subscribers, comments and likes I can get from the GN'R community Also, I know that everyone on this board probably has an opinion on this. Do me a favor (please) and watch the video then drop a like and maybe a comment on it. Subscribe if you're into vinyl records, if not, no biggie 15 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinaleblood Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 Awesome. Going to watch it later today. I'm already a subscriber (actually, I'm the one who messaged you on reddit yesterday and said I'm on mygnr too). Among other things, I really enjoyed your video about Diamonds & Pearls, a really overlooked album. Keep up the good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinb33 Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 If it had been only 1 album we would be talking about the best hardrock album of all time. Garden of Eden, Shotgun Blues, GITR, My World and a couple of other songs could have been discarded, but I guess the commercial strategy of selling more records prospered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
©GnrPersia Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 Always enjoying your review videos. Because they are very honest. Keep it up Russ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Atlas19 Posted September 18, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 18, 2021 Absolutely no. The band have a very short catalogue. Being even sorter would not be a good idea 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarpatch Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 You touched on the issue. There are too many good songs that people enjoy to whittle it down to a single format At that time, the band could have imploded at any time. Whether by members quitting, fired or succumbing to their addictions. It was probably a good thing to get those songs completed. Unfortunately that’s pretty much what happened and the wait for the follow up took nearly two decades 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 (edited) not sure 1 album can even work for me without cutting out some great tunes that should have been released, one way or another. A lot of the songs are long and the epics are a huge part of UYI so it's a problem. this kind of album, the good, the bad, and the ugly of Gn'R I think actually benefited from the double album approach anyway, just because of the nature of the material. Way more varied compared to Appetite. While we're at it, I think Chinese should have been the same way but it didn't so Chinese sounds kinda weird, like a best of or a tasting menu a lot of the time. The contrast between the different styles would probably be less jarring if it was like UYI, a double album and it's interesting that it was all completed before 2008 and had more or less the same number of tunes (about 30 according to Bumble) and Axl said he viewed CD l and ll as one record, same thing he said about UYI l and ll. UYI is definitely bigger than the sum of its parts imo. Even the tunes that I consider to be weaker compared to the big guns give the album more character and in many cases are great tunes. Edited September 18, 2021 by Rovim 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Bird Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 (edited) 44 minutes ago, RussTCB said: This video is aimed more at casual fans who always say Use Your Illusion could've easily been just one album. Posting it here because I'll take all the views, subscribers, comments and likes I can get from the GN'R community Also, I know that everyone on this board probably has an opinion on this. Do me a favor (please) and watch the video then drop a like and maybe a comment on it. Subscribe if you're into vinyl records, if not, no biggie Done If I were to make one album out of these two Back Off Bitch would definitely make it. But as you said, there are too much great songs on them for just one record. I'd leave out My World but put on the long 14 Years version with the jam outro. That replacement alone would improve an already great record enormous IMO. Edited September 18, 2021 by Free Bird 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoMw94 Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 No. Even if you could narrow it down to one, look how much people talk about the so-called 'CDII' and the leaks these days. We'd just have those same conversations about what didn't make the cut with Illusions. Regardless of whether people like what theoretically would've been discarded, we'd still talk about it and yearn after it so it's a good job it all came out 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coma16 Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 5 minutes ago, Oldest Goat said: If I were to ruthlessly whittle down the tracklist into one merged album(14 tracks since that's the most we've seen for a single album on CD) it'd be: 1. Estranged 2. You Could Be Mine 3. Bad Obsession 4. Pretty Tied Up 5. November Rain 6. Don't Damn Me 7. Locomotive 8. Don't Cry Alt 9. Yesterdays 10. Breakdown 11. Civil War 12. The Garden 13. Coma 14. Perfect Crime But ultimately I agree it had to be a double album and wouldn't want to lose songs considering the limited discography. All great track! But you have to take in runtime over the amount of tracks on the album. You put all of the longest tracks and I don't think it would have fit. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted September 18, 2021 Author Share Posted September 18, 2021 53 minutes ago, RussTCB said: This video is aimed more at casual fans who always say Use Your Illusion could've easily been just one album. Posting it here because I'll take all the views, subscribers, comments and likes I can get from the GN'R community Also, I know that everyone on this board probably has an opinion on this. Do me a favor (please) and watch the video then drop a like and maybe a comment on it. Subscribe if you're into vinyl records, if not, no biggie 😂 I can tell from the comments in the thread who's actually taken the time to watch the video. Thanks to those who do watch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted September 18, 2021 Author Share Posted September 18, 2021 18 minutes ago, Free Bird said: Done If I were to make one album out of these two Back Off Bitch would definitely make it. But as you said, there are too much great songs on them for just one record. I'd leave out My World but put on the long 14 Years version with the jam outro. That replacement alone would improve an already great record enormous IMO. Thank you very much for watching, dropping the like and the comment on the video. I really appreciate it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Live Like a Suicide Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 We've all seen how shit the UYI compilation release was, lol. I think that's evidence enough that combining the two into one album is a fool's errand. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coma16 Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 1 minute ago, Live Like a Suicide said: We've all seen how shit the UYI compilation release was, lol. I think that's evidence enough that combining the two into one album is a fool's errand. Not evidence at all. That was loophole to be able to sell it at Walmart (or wherever jt was) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnuld Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 It could have been one album with a bunch of B-sides. It could have been two albums separated by a couple of years so they had a chance to add some additional “A” material. I feel like had the second one come out in 1993 with more A+ songs we would be talking about the three best hard rock albums ever. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walapino Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 Combining them to 1 album doesnt work, im fine with both of them. I love almost 95% of it anyway. Only reason I would accept a single album would be if the rest of the tracks got release 3 or 4 years later with a bunch of new shit too! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuzeville Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 One french reviewer (Philippe Manoeuvre) adressed this when UYI was released and wrote: yeah, and the Sistine Chapel would have made a great postage stamp! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodzilla72 Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, RussTCB said: This video is aimed more at casual fans who always say Use Your Illusion could've easily been just one album. Posting it here because I'll take all the views, subscribers, comments and likes I can get from the GN'R community Also, I know that everyone on this board probably has an opinion on this. Do me a favor (please) and watch the video then drop a like and maybe a comment on it. Subscribe if you're into vinyl records, if not, no biggie Great in depth breakdown of these LP's, Russ- I honestly fit the exact description of who this video is aimed at. I have always said - without really analyzing the albums' contents as you have - "man, if they'd just cut out all the crap and excess they'd have one of the best single LP's of the rock era." But I was wrong- to your point there are a few obvious things you could scrap but you would still have 2 classic LP's there. Excellent post and I have subscribed and liked Edited September 18, 2021 by Rodzilla72 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted September 18, 2021 Author Share Posted September 18, 2021 1 minute ago, Rodzilla72 said: Great in depth breakdown of these LP's, Russ- I honestly fit the exact description of who this video is aimed at. I have always said - without really analyzing the albums' contents as you have - "man, if they'd just cut out all the crap and excess they'd have one of the best single LP's of the rock era." But I was wrong- to your point there are a few obvious things you could scrap but you would still have 2 classic LP's there. Excellent post and I have subscribed and liked Right on, thanks! Yeah, when I say "causal fan" I mean exactly the people you mentioned. People who've never actually took an in depth listen to the albums yet feel qualified to say "it definitely would have been one great album without all the filler". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted September 18, 2021 Author Share Posted September 18, 2021 1 minute ago, Oldest Goat said: My favourite part of the video was when you got emotional about how much you look up to me then that thing happened before that other thing, that was the best. (I actually did watch it just fyi but I don't have a YouTube account, sorry. Might finally get around to making one.) I hope you enjoyed the twist ending too. Please don't spoil it 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3coloursbeige Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 Yeah, I pretty much agree. Although I think you can make a single Illusion album - I posted my track-listing on another thread - the reality is that it was just never going to happen: there are too many great and very long songs for that to happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted September 18, 2021 Author Share Posted September 18, 2021 Oh, one more thing: I shot this video back in May but I forgot about it until a few weeks ago. So I figured why not just put it on near the UYI anniversary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ak1nney Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 As mentioned, there's too many long songs to make that a reality. I often think of how if it weren't for time constraints, then yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beto 22 Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 (edited) I don't think It could be cut to a single album since there are a lot of VERY LONG songs and cd only can have 74 minutes of audio. But if they made an effort with a really good A&R guy I really do think that UYI could be bigger than Appetite. But it all ifs and buts My 1 UYI track list would be 1- Dust N' Bones 2- Don't Cry 3- Bad Obsession 4- Double Talkin' Jive 5- November Rain 6- Bad Apples 7- Dead Horse 8- Civil War 9- 14 Years 10- Yesterdays 11- Knockin' On Heavens Door 12- Pretty Tied Up 13- So Fine 14- Estranged 15- You Could Be Mine Edited September 18, 2021 by Beto 22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Guapo Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 3 hours ago, Rovim said: UYI is definitely bigger than the sum of its parts imo. Even the tunes that I consider to be weaker compared to the big guns give the album more character and in many cases are great tunes. This, exactly. Tracks like You ain't the first and yes, even My world, contribute a lot to the grandiosity of Use Your Illusion, imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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