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}} ''Use Your Illusion II'' is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Guns N' Roses. It was one of 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 Is first week sales of 685,000.〔Hasty, Katie. ("Kanye Edges GNR, Ludacris For No. 1 Debut" ). billboard.com. Dec 3, 2008.〕 Both albums have since been certified 7× Platinum by the RIAA.〔(RIAA's top albums ) 〕 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." ==Overview== The ''Use Your Illusion'' albums were a stylistic turning point for Guns N' Roses (see ''Use Your Illusion I'' for discussion). 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''. The band's cover of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" had been released almost a year earlier on the ''Days of Thunder'' soundtrack, while "Civil War" was debuted at the 1990 Farm Aid concert. That concert also featured Guns N' Roses playing a cover of the U.K. Subs song "Down on the Farm," a studio version of which would later appear on the band's 1993 release of cover songs, ''"The Spaghetti Incident?"''. "Civil War" was released as a B-side to "You Could Be Mine". The song had also been released on a charity album called ''Nobody's Child,'' a fund-raising compilation for Romanian orphans. "You Could Be Mine" was released in June 1991 and is featured in the film ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day''. The song was not released on the actual T2 soundtrack. The band also filmed a video featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger in character as the Terminator, with a loose plot featuring Axl Rose as its "target". However, he saved from termination as he is deemed a "waste of ammo" by the T-800's lock-on system. The original subject matter of the song dealt with Izzy Stradlin's failed relationship with ex-girlfriend Angela Nicoletti. The ''Use Your Illusion'' albums can be considered a single cohesive work, and certain elements of ''Use Your Illusion II'' underscore this intent. For instance, both albums have a version of the song "Don't Cry", and both have one cover song; "Live and Let Die" by Paul McCartney (''Use Your Illusion I'') and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by Bob Dylan (''Use Your Illusion II''). Each also has at least one track sung by other members of the band: lead vocals on "So Fine" are performed by bassist Duff McKagan - the song, that was dedicated to punk rock musician Johnny Thunders, who died from a drug overdose before the recording of the album.〔(So Fine ) 〕 The song "Get in the Ring" finds the band lashing out at a career's worth of critics and enemies. Among those referred to by name are editors of several entertainment magazines. The industrial flavored "My World," the final track, was written and recorded in three hours, with Rose claiming those in the recording room were on mushrooms at the time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Musician Magazine - June 1992 )〕 To achieve the final mix of the album, the band had some difficulty, especially during the mixing stages of the production of both albums. According to a 1991 cover story by ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, after mixing 21 tracks with engineer/producer Bob Clearmountain, the band fired Clearmountain when he tried to replace the real drums with samples. According to Slash's autobiography, "one afternoon we discovered a notepad of his where he'd notated all the drum samples he planned to mix in over Matt's drum tracks" the band decided to scrap the mixes and start from scratch with engineer Bill Price of Sex Pistols fame. Slash has stated that most of the material for the album was written on acoustic guitars in a couple of nights at his house (the Walnut House), after several months of non-productivity.〔Bozza, Anthony, & Slash (2007). Slash. Harper Entertainment: New York. pp. 298-300〕 According to Slash "Breakdown" was one of the most complicated songs to record on the album; the banjo, drum, and piano parts were hard to synchronize and drummer Matt Sorum "lost it" a couple of times trying to get the drums just right.〔Bozza, Anthony, & Slash (2007). Slash. Harper Entertainment: New York. pp. 316-317〕 The song "Locomotive" was written in a house Slash and Izzy Stradlin rented in the Hollywood Hills following the ''Appetite for Destruction'' tours.〔Bozza, Anthony, & Slash (2007). Slash. Harper Entertainment: New York. p. 252〕 The song shows the group dabbling in funk metal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Use Your Illusion II」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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