Use Your Illusion II
by Guns N' Roses
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Guns N' Roses bestography
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 10,457.
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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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Use Your Illusion II rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Untitled | Top 22 Music Albums of 1991 | 21/22 | 0 |
| 2026 | steve397 | Top 68 Music Albums of the 1990s | 46/68 | 7 |
| 2026 | zsolti | Top 30 Music Albums of the 1990s | 8/30 | 15 |
| 2026 | MasterOfPuppets | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 32/100 | 14 |
| 2026 |  NoisyBeast | Top Albums of 1991... #301-400 | 79/99 | - |
| 2026 | mrfloosak | Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 | 12/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 | 40/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | leniad | Top 101-200 Greatest 1990s Albums | 4/41 | - |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 41/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | The Best Rock Albums of the 90's by ScreenRant | 5/20 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 372 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,938 | |||
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Use Your Illusion II ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 5 days ago | rubens | 879 | 71/100 |
| ! | 10/03/2026 19:44 | Siromynian | 1,786 | 74/100 |
| ! | 07/30/2026 21:57 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
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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 74.0/100, 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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Use Your Illusion II forum mentions
pedro1976 09/17/2026 21:25 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
BestEverAlbums 09/03/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5424): By fabm0 BestEverAlbums 02/01/2025 17:00 in Monthly overall chart movements - January 2025Use Your Illusion II comments
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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)
Use Your Illusion should have been one disc. Would have gone down in history.
My perfect Use Your Illusion:
1. Civil War
2. Yesterdays
3. Don't Cry (original)
4. November Rain
5. Perfect Crime
6. Double Talkin Jive
7. Estranged
8. You Could Be Mine
9. Garden of Eden
10. Coma
Submit your own. Can't do much better than this.
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)
Goliath 10/23/2018 17:38 | #223121 | TOP COMMENT
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I don't see much filler here. 'You could be mine' and 'Estranged' are two of the best rock anthems of all time.
Listmeister 10/02/2015 00:55 | #150805 | TOP COMMENT
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One wishes that Use Your Illusion was released as one double-album, with everything on both of them. It would make ranking a lot easier. Oh well.
These two albums are a huge improvement on the already awesome Appetite For Destruction. The band's sound adds a deep harmonic vocal, the guitar playing is better and wilder and more exciting, the lyrics are better, everything is just better.
"November Rain" was the big radio hit from this pair, and that's too bad, because any of the metal tracks on UYL2 would have been a much better showcase for GnR.
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