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30 years old and this song still reflects how people treat each other. Sadly it will probably still be relevant 100 years from now.

This and Estranged are masterpieces of lyricism, to say nothing of the music itself.

The part where he said D'you wear a black armband when they shot the man who said "peace could last forever" That was Dr. Matin Luther King he was referring to

These lyrics will always be true. "It feeds the rich whilst it buries the poor"

All these years later and I still get the chills. One of their best.

This song is more relevant now then when this album came out.

This was my favorite song off this album when it came out. This album was chalked full of Hits. Peak GNR for sure.

The most well written GnR song of all time. Spot on lyrics

Duff is an awesome bass player too💯🔥🎸

Axl’s voice does something almost unexplainable, sounds like 2 people singing when he hits those crazy notes. In his prime best front man to do it.

My daughter took her daughter to a G&R concert a few weeks ago my daughter grew up listening to them. My daughter is 44 and my granddaughter is 16.... If I was in good health I would have went .. I'm 75 !!...

WHAT'S SO CIVIL ABOUT WAR ANYWAY? One of the best lines in rock history!

Brilliant song with such a powerful message. Whole Lotta Rosie was an AC/DC song, though. Good reaction regardless.

Axl is a great singer, an amazing frontman, and a brilliant mind. This double album shows that. It really is underrated in my opinion. And Slash is a God on guitar! You should deep dive more from this album

It's cool because the song isn't even really directly about war or peace, it's about the people in power pulling the wool over our eyes. The war that the powerful enact upon civilization.

This is foundational to the wiring of my brain. ❤ "ESTRANGED"...Is so to my heart.

One of their best songs lyrically and musically. I heard this first when a teenager and the lyrics struck me right away and made me think a lot about the world and my relation to it. A worthy exercise for any man or woman.

As a GNR fan since 1987 I really appreciate this particular reaction. This is one of my favorite songs from the Use Your Illusions double album set. You should do Estranged next.

Chills every time I hear this song. Thirty years later and nothing much has changed, to our collective shame

Both Use Your Illusion albums are absolute FIRE 🔥

At the start they played an audio clip from the Paul Newman movie "Cool Hand Luke". Interesting. Thanks!

Decades later this still slaps

One of their very best songs, and the one that convinced me - all those years ago - that the Gunners were something special. Superb song throughout, but the decision to add the piano in the coda was a truly inspired choice. Also, hearing the line 'when everybody's fighting in the promised land' - at this point in history - just gave me chills.

The beginning of the song where the man is speaking comes from the classic film, “Cool Hand Luke”, starring the late, great Paul Newman. If you’ve never seen it, you should definitely check it out.

I wish this song wasnt still so apt a depiction of our society.

That intro (from a great movie, Cool Hand Luke) always gets me. The late Strother Martin. Such an amazing actor. Saw them on the Use Your Illusion tour. Fucking phenomenal. With Soundgarden opening. What a night

Thank you Polo for taking the time out of your day to do a reaction to this song! So very much respect, sir! Keep up the great work, man!

back in 1991/92, GnR/Metallica/Nirvana ruled the world, you can't imagine how big they were

Heard this in the mid 90s as a young teenager. Hit a chord then, and hits even harder now.

The next song on that album is 14 years, which axl doesn't sing and is one of my favorites. All these years later i still automatically start hearing the next track

I just saw GN'R live at Fenway Park a couple months ago for the 3rd time, and holy smoke do they put on a great show. Even though he's older, Axl puts out so much energy during the show, you can see him giving everything he has. He's my favorite frontman of all time, watching them perform in 1987-1993 was mindblowing, you just never knew what would happen next. Could be a great encore, could be a riot, who knows?! I'm thrilled to see most of the band back together and touring all over the world, seems like a whole new generation of fans have come to appreciate GN'R. Their music is timeless. People will still be rocking out to Paradise City and singing along to Sweet Child of Mine 20, 40, 75 years from now.

I was fortunate enough to see GnR on their first, Appetite for Destruction tour. They became significant so quickly that their first album tour was only performed when they were an opening band. I saw it when they opened for Aerosmith at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Colombia, Md.

You know what you said at the end of this video is exactly what I was thinking in my head when I came across this reaction. The song is freakishly, relevant even to this day. And it was written right at the beginning of the information age where all the trees began emerging about the history and that’s when we learned that we were only getting one side of the story. And what is absolutely disturbingly prophetic is it predicted turbulent times ahead. I had only ever heard this song one other time and I remember when I came across it I was getting ready for college one day, and I was sitting on the couch and watching the rock channel because I liked to listen to music in the mornings after breakfast, and they literally played rock from every era. And since then, it is probably my favorite song by Guns N’ Roses.

I believe this to be one of GnR best songs ever. So much meaning and such a different vibe from their other songs. I fell in love with it the first time I heard it and it just gets better every time I hear it.

Look at your young men fighting Look at your women crying Look at your young men dying The way they've always done before Look at the hate we're breeding Look at the fear we're feeding Look at the lives we're leading The way we've always done before My hands are tied The billions shift from side to side And the wars go on with brainwashed pride For the love of God and our human rights And all these things are swept aside By bloody hands time can't deny And are washed away by your genocide And history hides the lies of our civil wars D'you wear a black armband When they shot the man Who said "peace could last forever" And in my first memories They shot Kennedy I went numb when I learned to see So I never fell for Vietnam We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all That you can't trust freedom When it's not in your hands When everybody's fightin' For their promised land And I don't need your civil war It feeds the rich while it buries the poor Your power hungry sellin' soldiers In a human grocery store Ain't that fresh I don't need your civil war Ow, oh no, no, no, no, no Look at the shoes you're filling Look at the blood we're spilling Look at the world we're killing The way we've always done before Look in the doubt we've wallowed Look at the leaders we've followed Look at the lies we've swallowed And I don't want to hear no more My hands are tied For all I've seen has changed my mind But still the wars go on as the years go by With no love of God or human rights 'Cause all these dreams are swept aside By bloody hands of the hypnotized Who carry the cross of homicide And history bears the scars of our civil wars I don't need your civil war It feeds the rich while it buries the poor Your power hungry sellin' soldiers In a human grocery store Ain't that fresh I don't need your civil war No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no I don't need your civil war I don't need your civil war Your power hungry sellin' soldiers In a human grocery store Ain't that fresh I don't need your civil war No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no uh-oh-uh, no uh-oh, uh no I don't need one more war I don't need one more war No, no, no, no uh-oh-uh, no uh-oh, uh no Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway?

Great Review Good Insights too I remember getting Illusion 1 & 2 for christmas in '91. This song immediately resonated with me and still does today. I've always appreciated their choice of the word They in the lyric "my first memories, They shot kennedy" This one word adds so much to the song

great reaction Polo. This song definitely activates your brain. One of the lines that stood out to me "I went numb when I learned to see (4:21)." This is most of us as a civilization IMHO as we choose to look through a blind eye and ignore the eye that holds accountability and truth. Amazing how a single choice can have such an impact, even if the choice is to do nothing. Loved to hear your thoughts as always. Stay Blessed!!

I love this reaction. I agree, we don't need war, we need communication. Ty Polo!

"What we have here is a failure to communicate." IMO is the best entro for this song. Keep listening.

Great reaction ☮️ And song. ✌️

This song is from the ‘Use Your Illusion 1 & 2’ double set which, imo, is their best work as it really shows their range and versatility. The opening line is from the movie ‘Cool Hand Luke’, a Hollywood classic. FYI, you probably have been told this a bunch of times by now but ‘Whole Lotta Rosie’ is AC/DC. But you are correct, GnR’s lead singer is Axl Rose so we’ll call it a wash👍

Haven't heard this one is a long time! Thank you for reaction! Scary it's just as relevant...

Guns N’ Roses is by far my favorite all-time band. To me this really is their best song. My personal favorite song is rocket queen but as far as a masterpiece, the song is just perfect.

Well started the morning off right with a Polo Reaction...NICE WORK MAN! G&R always reinvents itself with their albums. The length of their tracks allows for as you said. "battle songs"

The first time I heard this song was on the “Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal” album. It was out of year before the “Use Your Illusion” albums were released. It is one of my favorite GnR songs.

I remember getting out of class during my first semester in college to go down the road to Raccoon Records in Lafayette, Louisiana in September 1991 to go buy these two albumns! Guns N' Roses at their absolute peak! The beginning of the song was a sample of a speech by Strother Martin from the 1967 movie "Cool Hand Luke" that starred Paul Newman. Other songs of note from these two albums: November Rain, You Could Be Mine (theme song for the movie "Terminator 2"), Don't Cry, Live & Let Die (cover of the Wings/Paul McCartney song used as the theme song for the 1973 James Bond movie of the same name) & Knocking On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan cover).

The opening speech is from the movie cool hand luke, the warden of a chain gang is talking about like who has tried to escape twice and they really punish him for it

It's an amazing song, both the message/lyrics and the musical arrangement

Great reaction to a Fantastic Tune off a Fantastic Double album, from one of the Greatest Rock bands of all time! Their first 4 albums Lies, Appetite for Destruction and Use Your Illusion 1, & 2, were their Best and we're PACKED FULL of HITS/FANTASTIC Songs! With hindsight and history they ACTUALLY get more poignant as Albums and they were fantastic in their day! Cheers from London 👍🎸😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

I love that you're checking this out. This was the album for a lot of middle aged dudes.

Young Man, I have NEVER given a comment to a reaction video, such as the one I am about to give You. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Your comments are insightful and are spoken with thought behind them. Your interruptions of the video, were perfect. Not too many, yet also brief enough that the beat and rhythm of the song are still prominent in the head and are easily rejoined. Your smooth even toned voice is also a plus. Keep up the good work.

Damn, i heard those two albums non stop for months i feel, when i think back on that time in my life. Thank you for bringing back so many memories. :)

Love this song. Thank you for this genuine reaction

Can you imagine being so aware 25 years ago ? Consider people in that time period likely didn't even much notice the message !!!?! Musicians must often carry a burden!! Has taken 20+ years to even become appreciated !!

When I got that use your illusion in my hands I couldn’t stop listening for days and days and days. Nice time that was.

Timeless song, more of a parable than anything

I saw Guns n Roses in Milton Keynes, on the Use Your Illusion tour in 1993. Still the best gig I've seen in person!

Great reaction Polo!! I've loved this song since first release back in 1991! This song was the opening track on Use Your Illusion II - and WHAT an opener! Long been in my top 5 GnR songs...It's probably their most socially conscious song, lyrically - and I appreciate that they had something to say - and VERY effectively said it! Axl's final words 'What's so civil about war anyway?' will forever ring true!! Other 'musts' from this album: Estranged, You Could Be Mine, Don't Cry...for starters. Cheers!

This song is more relatable today than when it came out

For those who don't know The opening words were of the BOSSMAN from the movie COOL HAND LUKE with Paul newman . One powerful and relevant song especially nowadays. It's almost as if GNR foresaw what was to come for us all in AMERICA even back then

Just subscribed to your channel…….simply awesome! Keep on keepin’ on!! Thank you!

I remember pre-paying for this album when it was about to be released. Still have it (on cassette tape!) and am still friends with the man that owned our local record store back in the 80's. We both share a love for Moto Guzzi's. This is the best song on the album for me. I love the guitar tone.

A great and unfortunately relevant song. ☮️💜🤘 "Someone" always benefits from divisions in society. Estranged is also an amazing song. Axl😍😍😍🔥🔥🔥💜💜💜

Mais atual do que nunca, uma obra prima 💥

Good song to start the morning with. Love your reviews

One of the most relevant lyrics by Gnr. Right up with Coma. The meaning still resonates nowadays.

Such an amazing song. Great reaction!

This song still hits so hard. Definitely gotta hit that volume knob 😏

Such an epic song from 2 epic albums!!! Great reaction!

Don't cry or November rain are both amazing songs with the mellow feel

I’m so happy with the taste of music in this community. It’s refreshing to see good suggestions for once

Lucky enough to see them in the early 90’s. Appetite for Destruction tour. Soooo good. 😊

Great, thoughtful reaction. Just subscribed.

This song resonates even more now. Great reaction.

I’m glad you reacted to this. It’s one of my favorite anti-war songs.

instant respect for you my freind for a simple thing you at the point put the volume up on the lyrics. Im 45 and g&r have been my go to band for thinking. Thank you. check out patience. But yet again thank you.

Love LOVE this classic GnR!!❤

My personal favorite song by GnR; still relevant today! Enjoyed your reaction

Thanks to my big sister I have become a huge guns n' roses fan when I was only 6 years old I'm 40 now and civil war was the first song that resonated and touched me at that age I don't know why but something about it I knew every single word and lyrics to that song at 6 years old and still do today. Fun fact the quote at the beginning of the movie is the captains speech to his men from a 1960s movie called Cool hand Luke

So glad Steven Adler is on drums on this track. I guess that makes it the last recorded track with all the original members. The rest of the album was drummer Matt Sorum from the band The Cult. Adler should be so glad this was the song he was on before Axl ditched him

Great choice. It's been on my playlist for decades.

Love the beginning from Cool Hand Luke. Great tune, G n R at their best

Coma was my favourite of the album, together with Estranged

Another perceptive reaction Polo! This is in my top 3 G&R songs if not #1 - Mr. Brownstone will always be a vibe

Great review!

Whole Lotta Rosie is ACDC, but both are still epic bands either way!

With the recent current events, this song is very pertinent. Great reaction.

POWERFUL SONG!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥

So you should know that this track is the only song from the Ilusion albums that had their original drummer, Steven Adler on it. His replacement, Matt Sorum was a legend in his own right but since you commented on the drumming, that is indeed Steven Adler who drummed on tracks like Sweet Child of Mine, Paradise City and Welcome to the Jungle.

In English media class we made a fan video to this song back when this first came out. I always go back to the gunners.

That whole album is great. So many great songs on there… Give it up for Axl’s piano playing too. He was/is a great keyboardist. Brings their music to the next level. GnR are one of the greats from my teen to college years. You will definitely enjoy more from them if you liked this one.

The beginning is an outtake on a movie called "Cool Hand Luke." Great movie, great tune as well

Truly their masterpiece imho. I remember that single tape, B-side of T2 soundtrack You Could Be Mine !

Love the sample from “the Great Escape”

Great song great review.

I heard someone say that Axl Rose voice sounded like a mix of Janis Joplin and Robert Plant.

Liking this before I even watch it!

love this reaction

One of the top 5 hard rock bands of all time ! Truth