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Shows how the album - "Use Your Illusion" - has matured into a work whose baroque excesses 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.

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An astute scholar of the pop marketplace as well as of pop music, Eric Weisbard tackles Guns N’ Roses’ 1991 double album Use Your Illusion … choosing to write first about how it exists in the pop cultural landscape—both as a conservative inversion of rock’s countercultural aims and as a colossal monument that closed out the 1980s and ushered in the alternative ‘90s … ultimately and begrudgingly respects the band’s ridiculously outsize ambitions. -- Stephen M. Deusner * Pitchfork *

Guns N Roses Use Your Illusion I and II

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
      Publication Date: 1/21/2007 12:02:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780826419248, 978-0826419248
      ISBN10: 0826419240
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Shows how the album - "Use Your Illusion" - has matured into a work whose baroque excesses 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.

      Trade Review
      An astute scholar of the pop marketplace as well as of pop music, Eric Weisbard tackles Guns N’ Roses’ 1991 double album Use Your Illusion … choosing to write first about how it exists in the pop cultural landscape—both as a conservative inversion of rock’s countercultural aims and as a colossal monument that closed out the 1980s and ushered in the alternative ‘90s … ultimately and begrudgingly respects the band’s ridiculously outsize ambitions. -- Stephen M. Deusner * Pitchfork *

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