Use Your Illusion ('compact')
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 4:36 am
Hello everyone,
First, I hope you are all safe and well, my sympathies to folks who have experienced casualty among their friends and family during the pandemic.
It's been a long ol' time since I've posted here, although I regularly check in on the Jane's thread (fwiw). However, as a consequence of the lockdown I've had time on my hands to piss around with things that normally just stay in the backyard of the mind! One that came up this week was: what if Use Your Illusion were reduced to one great album instead of two bloated ones? I'm sure many of you have had this discussion before, and there may be a thread about it here somewhere, but I just couldn't be bothered to look.
Anyway, so I put together a sequence of my own on Spotify (link below) and thought I'd share it with you guys. Cause I think it's actually fucking awesome!
Side A / B
1. Right Next Door to Hell (3'02")
2. Perfect Crime (2'23")
3. Double Talkin' Jive (3'22")
4. Civil War (7'42")
5. Yesterdays (3'16")
6. Locomotive (8'42")
7. Don't Damn Me (5'18")
(total running time = 33'45")
Side B / C
8. You Could Be Mine (5'44")
9. Coma (10'14")
10. So Fine (4'06")
11. The Garden (5'19")
12. Pretty Tied Up (4'48")
13. Estranged (9'24")
(total running time = 41'15")
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7gdy7 ... ehWW7Hmx_A
In my opinion this sequence makes a brilliant double album. If you looked at it as two 12" records there is space for an extra track in the first half, but I like the symmetry of running times (even if the number of tracks is higher on A / B due to the sequencing of shorter punkier songs on the first side).
I like not having Don't Cry, November Rain, either of the covers and some of the 'straight' rock tracks in the mix, but did find cutting 14 Years, Get In The Ring and Bad Apples a hard choice. I didn't originally have Don't Damn Me in the sequence either, ending record one with Locomotive (one of my all time faves), but reviewing the running times and noticing there was a big difference between record 1 and 2, I revisited it and, most importantly, realised it's the TITLE TRACK of the album (in the bridge), so actually it HAS to be there. As a result I appreciated that track more and now think it completes the sequence perfectly.
I hope you will enjoy listening to it as much as I did!
Look after each other people x
First, I hope you are all safe and well, my sympathies to folks who have experienced casualty among their friends and family during the pandemic.
It's been a long ol' time since I've posted here, although I regularly check in on the Jane's thread (fwiw). However, as a consequence of the lockdown I've had time on my hands to piss around with things that normally just stay in the backyard of the mind! One that came up this week was: what if Use Your Illusion were reduced to one great album instead of two bloated ones? I'm sure many of you have had this discussion before, and there may be a thread about it here somewhere, but I just couldn't be bothered to look.
Anyway, so I put together a sequence of my own on Spotify (link below) and thought I'd share it with you guys. Cause I think it's actually fucking awesome!
Side A / B
1. Right Next Door to Hell (3'02")
2. Perfect Crime (2'23")
3. Double Talkin' Jive (3'22")
4. Civil War (7'42")
5. Yesterdays (3'16")
6. Locomotive (8'42")
7. Don't Damn Me (5'18")
(total running time = 33'45")
Side B / C
8. You Could Be Mine (5'44")
9. Coma (10'14")
10. So Fine (4'06")
11. The Garden (5'19")
12. Pretty Tied Up (4'48")
13. Estranged (9'24")
(total running time = 41'15")
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7gdy7 ... ehWW7Hmx_A
In my opinion this sequence makes a brilliant double album. If you looked at it as two 12" records there is space for an extra track in the first half, but I like the symmetry of running times (even if the number of tracks is higher on A / B due to the sequencing of shorter punkier songs on the first side).
I like not having Don't Cry, November Rain, either of the covers and some of the 'straight' rock tracks in the mix, but did find cutting 14 Years, Get In The Ring and Bad Apples a hard choice. I didn't originally have Don't Damn Me in the sequence either, ending record one with Locomotive (one of my all time faves), but reviewing the running times and noticing there was a big difference between record 1 and 2, I revisited it and, most importantly, realised it's the TITLE TRACK of the album (in the bridge), so actually it HAS to be there. As a result I appreciated that track more and now think it completes the sequence perfectly.
I hope you will enjoy listening to it as much as I did!
Look after each other people x