Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I and II by Weisbard, Eric
Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I and II by Weisbard, Eric

Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I and II

It was the season of the blockbuster. Between August 12 and November 26 1991, a whole slew...
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Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I and II by Weisbard, Eric

Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I and II

$212.50
Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I and II by Weisbard, Eric

Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I and II

$212.50
Author: Eric Weisbard
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

It was the season of the blockbuster. Between August 12 and November 26 1991, a whole slew of acts released albums that were supposed to sell millions of copies in the run-up to Christmas. Metallica, Michael Jackson, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Garth Brooks, MC Hammer, and U2 - all were competing for the attention of the record-buying public at the same time. But perhaps the most attention-seeking act of all was Guns N Roses. Their albums Use Your Illusion 1 and 2, released on the same day, were both 75-minute sprawlers with practically the same cover design - an act of colossal arrogance.


On one level, it worked. The albums claimed the top two chart positions, and ultimately sold 7 million copies each in the US alone. On another level, it was a disaster. This was an album that Axl Rose has been unable to follow up in fifteen years. It signaled the end of Guns N Roses, of heavy metal on the Sunset Strip, and the entire 1980s model of blockbuster pop/rock promotion. Use Your Illusion marked the end of rock as mass culture.

In this book, Eric Weisbard shows how the album has matured into a work whose baroque excesses now have something to teach us about pop and the platforms it raises and lowers, about a man who suddenly found himself praised to the firmament for every character trait that had hitherto marked him as an irredeemable loser.

Author: Eric Weisbard
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 12/27/2006
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 6.76h x 4.72w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9780826419248

About the Author

Eric Weisbard has been writing about music since 1989. He edited the Spin Alternative Record Guide and was a senior writer there for ten years. At Experience Music Project, the Seattle music museum, he put together the travelling exhibit Disco: A Decade of Saturday Nights and he organized the annual pop music conference.


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