Use Your Illusion


Use Your Illusion is a Guns N' Roses compilation album drawing from the Use Your Illusion I and II albums. It was only released in the United States, and was primarily sold at Walmart and Kmart, two retail outlets that refused to stock the unedited Use Your Illusion I and II due to explicit lyrics.
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" appears in an edited version without Josh Richman's speech, removed for unknown reasons. Therefore, the track length is reduced to 5:20, instead of 5:36 from the version included on Use Your Illusion II. Richman's speech was instead included in the Greatest Hits compilation album.
The cover art of the album simply combines the color schemes from the covers of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, which were originally designed by Mark Kostabi. The image is a detail of the Raphael painting "The School of Athens".

Track listing

''Use Your Illusion I''

  1. "Live and Let Die" – 3:04
  2. "Don't Cry" – 4:44
  3. "You Ain't the First" – 2:36
  4. "November Rain" – 8:57
  5. "The Garden" – 5:22
  6. *featuring Alice Cooper
  7. "Dead Horse" – 4:17

    ''Use Your Illusion II''

  9. "Civil War" – 7:42
  10. "14 Years" – 4:21
  11. "Yesterdays" – 3:16
  12. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" – 5:20
  13. "Estranged" – 9:23
  14. "Don't Cry" – 4:43

    Personnel

Guns N' Roses