Use Your Illusion (Compilation)
by Guns N' Roses

Use Your Illusion (Compilation) by Guns N' Roses
(Compilation album)
Year: 1998
Overall rank: 4,889th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
69/100 (from 230 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1998 (83rd)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (808th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,889th)

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Use Your Illusion I by Guns N' Roses (CD, Sep-1991, Geffen) LN
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Guns N' Roses bestography

Use Your Illusion (Compilation) is ranked 5th best out of 9 albums by Guns N' Roses on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Guns N' Roses is Appetite For Destruction which is ranked number 117 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 11,031.

Guns N' Roses album bestography « Higher ranked (2,989th)
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Use Your Illusion (Compilation)
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Use Your Illusion (Compilation) track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 4,889th | 1990s rank: 808th | 1998 rank: 83rd
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2025 Patman360Top 100 Music Albums of 199868/1002
2025JaymanthemanTop 42 Music Albums of 199838/421
2025JohnnyoTop 100 Music Albums of 199846/1003
2025SaneManTop 40 Greatest Music Albums9/4076
2025munsonTop 66 Music Albums of the 1990s65/661
2023LosWochos50+1 Doppelalben für die Ewigkeit by Rolling Stone Deutschland47/51 -
2022ThuramThugoodRanked - Guns N’ Roses - Ranked7/9 -
2022Esquire EspañaLos 20 mejores discos de los años 907/2014
2022 CabronesTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s44/10011
2020saltysurpriseTop 90's Hard Rock Albums60/87 -
2020magichorzeTop 40 Greatest Music Albums23/4022
2020Johnnyo"The real" 100 greatest albums of the 90's by Classic Rock7/100 -
2020 StefanR10Top 100 Music Albums of 199853/1002
2019pago82Top 60 Music Albums of 199860/600
2019boppareTop 100 Music Albums of the 1990s52/10010
2019PretenderTop 19 Music Albums of 19985/194
2018BardsongTop 11 Greatest Music Albums9/115
2018Classic Rock DeutschlandDie besten Alben der 90er2/10020
2018glynspsaGood Albums To Discuss/Debate13/30 -
2018Classic RockThe REAL Greatest Albums of the '90s by Classic Rock7/10019
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 61
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69/100 (from 230 votes)
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02/28/2026 15:49 DaveH68  Ratings distribution  1,36376/100
 
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From 07/18/2011 18:08 | #49424
I feel sorry for people who only know Guns ‘n’ Roses from Appetite for Destruction. Sure it had the biggest hits and is a fantastic album, but the band moved on to so much more. While Appetite was a blast of hard rock with a mean attitude Use Your Illusion is a sprawling epic covering blues, country, quasi-rap and industrial, while rocking hard all the time. Yes it’s bloated, clocking in at 2½ hours it’s not what you’d call short, but it changes tempo and theme so often it never really drags. Technically it is two albums but they were recorded in the same session and have identical yet palette swapped artwork, so I count them as one.\r\nThis album could be seen as a semi-autobiographical; thematically it is certainly a trip through Axl’s twisted mind. Every influence or musical passion is crammed in; covering Dylan and McCartney. Samples are used to great effect on “Civil War” and “Coma”. It spits out insults, literally, on “Get In The Ring”. Drugs are sung about, booze is sung about and you better believe women are sung about too. The final song hastily tries to justify itself; “You want to step into my world? It\'s a sociopsychotic state of bliss!”\r\nProficiently every member is on form, Slash does his thing and the drummer puts in a damn good show. This is through and through Axl’s album though. I maintain he is easily one of the best front men, “My World” is some first class crazy yelping and on “Coma” his voice reaches breaking point but somehow he keeps on one upping himself in the dizziest crescendo I know of.\r\nNo matter what genre you like, you’ll find something new on these albums and if you’re sick of “Paradise City” there is plenty more out there. May I also recommend “The Spaghetti Incident”. Granted it has the worst album artwork ever and was recorded just as the wheels fell off on GNR, but this collection of covers is very fun and kinda continues from where Illusion left off.\r\nMore reviews at http://captainspacker.blogspot.com/
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From 08/10/2012 18:17 | #48234
Is not possible to do a single album from two big albums like Use Your Illusion I & II. It seems something like the Greatest Hits compilation of sevaeral years ago... Very commercial!
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From 06/02/2012 02:49 | #43511
What the hell is this?
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From 04/23/2012 00:40 | #40704
Should this even be a listing? Isn't it two albums lumped together? Can't argue with the quality of the tracks, but...
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