Guns N’ Roses

Guns N Roses-Use Your Illusion (Super Deluxe)-24-48-WEB-FLAC-REMASTERED-2022-OBZEN
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 07:20:30 minutes | 5,44 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover

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Guns N Roses-Appetite for Destruction-REMASTERED-24BIT-WEB-FLAC-2018-KLV
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:53:46 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover

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Guns N Roses-Use Your Illusion I-REMASTERED-24BIT-WEB-FLAC-2022-KLV
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:58 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover

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Guns N Roses-Use Your Illusion II-REMASTERED-24BIT-WEB-FLAC-2022-KLV
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:49 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover

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Guns N’ Roses – The General (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 00:04:22 minutes | 55 MB | Genre: Pop, Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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Guns N’ Roses – Appetite For Destruction (Super Deluxe Edition) (1987/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 03:31:34 minutes | 8,24 GB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Geffen

Appetite for Destruction is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Guns N’ Roses. It was released on July 21, 1987, by Geffen Records to massive commercial success. It topped the Billboard 200 and became the best-selling debut album as well as the 11th best-selling album in the United States. With about 30 million copies sold worldwide, it is also one of the best-selling records of all time. Although critics were ambivalent toward the album when it was first released, Appetite for Destruction has since received retrospective acclaim and been viewed as one of the greatest albums of all time.

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Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion (Super Deluxe) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 07:19:57 minutes | 5,44 GB | Genre: Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Guns N Roses P&D

The twin polarities upon which Use Your Illusion has always derived its unique energy from are its absolute bigness and its unparallelled sense of vindictive martyrdom. This deluxe set—which doubles the length of the combined two original albums by including two full live sets—is definitely big, but without the inclusion of additional studio tracks (no demos, b-sides or outtakes) doesn’t expand on the original in any meaningful way. Which means that Illusion is still trapped in its own unique 1991 amber. From its odd sequencing—which alternates between melodramatic grandiosity, midtempo sleaze, and energetic rockers built solely on bitterness and spite—to the stultifying airlessness of the recording (all of the band members cut their parts separately), Illusion still feels like an overdetermined mess that somehow manages to consistently deliver the goods. Sadly though, those goods are steeped in an aimless rage that these days reads less like anti-authoritarianism and more like toxic narcissism. This is an album that gets out a “fuck you” in its first two minutes, and devolves from there into a master class on petty beefing: Whether it’s “Right Next Door To Hell,” “Get In the Ring,” “My World” (ugh), “Back Off Bitch” (ugggghh), or any of the other tracks where poor Axl Rose blames all of his problems on everyone else in the world, the constant airing of tiny grievances is far more deadening than the set’s length. All of this made Use Your Illusion a deeply cynical yet completely sincere work.

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Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion II (Remastered) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:49 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Guns N Roses P&D

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. “14 Years” may have a lean, Stonesy rhythm, and Duff McKagan’s Johnny Thunders homage, “So Fine,” may be entertaining, but there’s no forgiving the ridiculous “Get in the Ring,” where Axl Rose threatens rock journalists by name because they gave him bad reviews; the misinterpretation of Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”; another version of “Don’t Cry”; and the bizarre closer, “My World,” which probably captures Rose’s instability as effectively as the tortured poetry of his epics. That said, there are numerous strengths to Use Your Illusion II; a couple of songs have a nervy energy, and for all their pretensions, the overblown epics are effective, though strangely enough, they reveal notorious homophobe Rose’s aspirations of being a cross between Elton John and Freddie Mercury. But the pompous production and poor pacing make the album tiring for anyone who isn’t a dedicated listener.

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Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion I (Remastered) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:58 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Guns N Roses P&D

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. Taking nearly three years to complete, the recording of the album was clearly difficult, and tensions between Slash, Izzy Stradlin, and Axl Rose are evident from the start. The two guitarists, particularly Stradlin, are trying to keep the group closer to its hard rock roots, but Rose has pretensions of being Queen and Elton John, which is particularly odd for a notoriously homophobic Midwestern boy. Conceivably, the two aspirations could have been divided between the two records, but instead they are just thrown into the blender – it’s just a coincidence that Use Your Illusion I is a harder-rocking record than II. Stradlin has a stronger presence on I, contributing three of the best songs – “Dust n’ Bones,” “You Ain’t the First,” and “Double Talkin’ Jive” – which help keep the album in Stonesy Aerosmith territory. On the whole, the album is stronger than II, even though there’s a fair amount of filler, including a dippy psychedelic collaboration with Alice Cooper and a song that takes its title from the Osmonds’ biggest hit. But it also has two ambitious set pieces, “November Rain” and “Coma,” which find Rose fulfilling his ambitions, as well as the ferocious, metallic “Perfect Crime” and the original version of the power ballad “Don’t Cry.” Still, it can be a chore to find the highlights on the record amid the overblown production and endless amounts of filler.

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