Use Your Illusion II
by Guns N' Roses
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Use Your Illusion II is ranked 2nd 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 118 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 10,571.
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Use Your Illusion II track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 07/30/2026 21:57 | xhitmanx | 1,572 | 74/100 |
| ! | 07/12/2026 20:00 | liquidbottle | 775 | 82/100 |
| ! | 07/07/2026 15:28 |  DommeDamian | 7,627 | 48/100 |
| ! | 05/22/2026 07:05 | kinginsomniac12 | 575 | 99/100 |
| ! | 05/10/2026 12:04 | Adhura | 1,700 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.1/100, a mean average of 72.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.1.
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Classic part two hard rock album from the biggest band of the Late-80’s/Early-90’s. Civil War is still to this day one of the greatest rock songs ever recorded in the history of popular music. (Edited)
Although there are some really good tracks on this, I felt a lot of songs lacked substance & sounded like they were made from a generic hard rock template. This album also started to highlight Axl's annoyingly whiney vocals on quite a few songs. Bit better than Illusion I, but just like Illusion I it's way to long. (Edited)
This album includes an iconic version of an iconic Dylan song - 'Knockin' On Heavens Door'. I have included GnR's version in my 'top 100 Dylan covers' chart.
Graeme2 11/28/2021 09:37 | #276812
The better of the 2 records. Faint praise though. (Edited)
I really don't understand this album at all. It starts off brilliantly with the opening track Civil War which really got me excited for the record and then after that it is just all downhill. I don't know why the album is an hour and 15 minutes as they really struggle to fill that run time. Every song lacks substance and most of them are filler cuts. They make it extremely difficult to find the good songs on the album but there are a couple but even they are too drawn out so you end up skipping the ending. There are also some tracks I would genuinely consider to be bad and really unenjoyable. Overall, this album is pretty poor and I have no desire to listen to it again. (Edited)
llibnanoon 06/11/2020 15:00 | #253305
Use Your Illusion I is much better in my opinion. This has a few good songs, but for the most part, all b-sides and throw aways.
AndrewJFisher 02/25/2020 20:36 | #248249 | TOP COMMENT
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Probably didn't help the album that Axl did a lot of talking in "Get in the Ring" and then allegedly couldn't/wouldn't back it up when Bob Guccione Jr. accepted the challenge. I mean if you're going to talk like that, even in song..... (Edited)
jeremy9 09/14/2019 11:06 | #242574
It' too long
out of the two use your illusions this one is my favorite, right off the bat Civil War is a killer track a modern day storytelling prog hard rock song, yesterdays is a great mid tempo ballad on and on this album is solid beginning to end
VictorVale 01/04/2019 12:25 | #228832
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