10 Overrated Hard Rock Albums Of The '90s
3. Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I & II (1991)
Over-indulgent. Overbearing. Overkill. Such "over-" words within the context of famed hard rockers Guns n' Roses are typically reserved for their highly-contested 2008 album 'Chinese Democracy'. But quelle surprise lads, lasses and non-binaries, that was not the first time Axl Rose & Friends would dip their toes outside the world of musical sanity.
The 'Use Your Illusion' double album was released in 1991, following the highly "yikes"-inducing 1988 album 'G N' R Lies', and sees the LA-outfit both at their best and worst.
Between them, a cobbled together mega album could've ranked alongside 'Appetite For Destruction' as one of GNR and hard rock's greatest ever albums, with the idea of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", "Civil War", "You Could Be Mine", "November Rain", and "Live and Let Die" all sharing the same disc space for a more introspective, solemn release simply mouth-watering.
However for as good as that album could've been, the b-sides equivalent would've been woeful. Songs like "Coma" and "Breakdown" feel like over-blown odes to Meatloaf, "My World" sounds like the music to the "you wouldn't download a ___" sting, and "Bad Apples" was dad rock when your dad was still trying to grow out his moustache.