# Best song off of Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 25, 2010, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-i/554989 "2010-09-25T11:02:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-i/554989/1 "2010-09-25T11:02:43Z")
What has come before: [Appetite for Destruction](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=578728), [GN’R Lies](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=579182) As ever, only one choice is permitted. So, start yer voting. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-i/554989/2 "2010-09-25T14:38:47Z")
I had it down to “Double Talkin’ Jive,” “You Ain’t the First,” and “Don’t Damn Me.” “Don’t Damn Me” won. It’s has all the elements of what made G’n’R great. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-i/554989/3 "2010-09-25T19:20:21Z")
There are a lot of great songs on here, Bad Obsession and Dead Horse are among my favorite songs, but come on. November Rain is the best GnR song of all time. OF ALL TIME. I can’t even fathom voting for anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-i/554989/4 "2010-09-25T22:22:42Z")
November Rain, of course. Nothing else on this album comes close. I’d place Don’t Damn Me second, and Live and Let Die, although it’s a cover, third. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-i/554989/5 "2010-09-26T00:25:47Z")
Definitely the inferior UYI album. II was so much stronger that I hardly listened to this one. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-i/554989/6 "2010-09-26T00:37:45Z")
I voted “November Rain,” but “Dead Horse” is my very, very close second. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-i/554989/7 "2010-09-26T00:46:34Z")
November Rain followed closely by Don’t Cry. I remember admitting to my punk friends that I liked these two records. By the looks they gave me you’d think I told them I was into beastiality and addicted to crack. Whatever. A great album is a great album. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-i/554989/8 "2010-09-26T01:34:46Z")
November Rain made me want to learn to play piano. No joke. It’s also the song I instinctively play when trying out a new one. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-i/554989/9 "2010-09-26T06:49:14Z")
The guitar riff in the end portion of _November Rain_ is one of the definitive riffs of an era. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-i/554989/10 "2010-09-26T12:49:34Z")
> [@Cubsfan](#): > > Definitely the inferior UYI album. II was so much stronger that I hardly listened to this one. Interesting. I’ve always (we’re talking since the day they were first released) found **I** to be the more interesting, stronger album. Oh, hell yes. I just perused the track listing of **II** , and there’s, well, an _awful_ lot of filler on that thing. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-i/554989/11 "2010-09-26T13:03:24Z")
> [@Cubsfan](#): > > Definitely the inferior UYI album. II was so much stronger that I hardly listened to this one. I agree and I also cannot stand _November Rain_. It just comes off as so _contrived_. I know, I know, as if Axl’s posturing and sense of self-importance aren’t in full evidence on many of their other songs. 😃 Plus, **UYI II** has _Locomotive_ on it. _LOCOMOTIVE_! 🙂 So I’ll vote _Don’t Cry_. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-i/554989/12 "2010-09-26T13:22:40Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > > [@Cubsfan](#): > > > > Definitely the inferior UYI album. II was so much stronger that I hardly listened to this one. > > I agree and I also cannot stand _November Rain_. It just comes off as so _contrived_. I know, I know, as if Axl’s posturing and sense of self-importance aren’t in full evidence on many of their other songs. > > 😃 > > Plus, **UYI II** has _Locomotive_ on it. _LOCOMOTIVE_! Absolutely. “Locomotive” is the best song on either album. Possibly the best song they ever had. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-i/554989/13 "2010-09-26T18:10:05Z")
Coma, followed by November Rain and Dead Horse. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-i/554989/14 "2010-09-26T18:14:44Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Coma, followed by November Rain and Dead Horse. Gratified to see “Coma” getting well deserved praise. It’s my second favorite song on the album, just a hair’s breadth behind “Dead Horse”, followed very closely by “Don’t Cry”. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-i/554989/15 "2010-09-26T23:35:38Z")
I have this on cassette from back in high school. I didn’t realize there were songs besides “November Rain” on it.