Use Your Illusion II
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| Studio album by Guns N' Roses | ||||
| Released | September 17, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | January 13, 1990 – August 3, 1991 | |||
| Studio | A&M Studios, Record Plant Studios, Studio 56, Image Recording, Conway Studios, Metalworks Studios | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal | |||
| Length | 75:52 | |||
| Label | Geffen | |||
| Producer | Mike Clink, Guns N' Roses | |||
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Use Your Illusion II is the fourth studio album by the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It was one of the two albums released in conjunction with the Use Your Illusion Tour, along with Use Your Illusion I. Bolstered by the lead single "You Could Be Mine," Use Your Illusion II was the slightly more popular of the two albums, selling 770,000 copies its first week and debuting at No. 1 on the U.S. charts, ahead of Use Your Illusion I's first week sales of 685,000. As of 2010, Use Your Illusion II has sold 5,587,000 units in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. Both albums have since been certified 7× Platinum by the RIAA. It was also No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart for a single week. It is the last Guns N' Roses album to feature rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin. It also included the last Guns N' Roses song to feature drummer Steven Adler, who played on "Civil War."
The Use Your Illusion albums were a stylistic turning point for Guns N' Roses (see Use Your Illusion I). In addition, Use Your Illusion II is more political than most of their previous work, with songs like "Civil War", a cover of Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", and "Get in the Ring" dealing respectively with the topics of violence, law enforcement, and media bias. The thematic material deals less with drug use than previous Guns N' Roses albums. Use Your Illusion I featured mostly songs pre-Appetite for Destruction (with notable exceptions) while Use Your Illusion II featured more tracks written during and after Appetite For Destruction.
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