Released in 1991 alongside its sibling Use Your Illusion II, this is the flashier, more romantic side of GNR’s ambitious double assault. It’s pure excess in technicolour — stadium-sized riffs, tortured ballads, and a band utterly convinced they could conquer the world (and for a time, they did).
 
Drawn largely from songs written before Appetite for Destruction, Illusion I balances chaos and craft: ‘Don’t Cry’ aches with wounded glam, ‘November Rain’ delivers operatic heartbreak, and ‘Live and Let Die’ turns McCartney into molten rock theatre.
 
Certified 7x Platinum and one half of rock’s most audacious release day flex, Use Your Illusion I is the sound of a band chasing immortality — and, for a moment, catching it.
 
TRACKS:
A
Right Next Door To Hell
Dust N' Bones
Live And Let Die
Don't Cry
Perfect Crime
 
B
You Ain't The First
Bad Obsession
Back Off Bitch
Double Talkin' Jive
 
C
November Rain
The Garden
Garden Of Eden
Don't Damn Me
 
D
Bad Apples
Dead Horse
Coma