Use Your Illusion II (studio album) by Guns N' Roses

Use Your Illusion II by Guns N' Roses
Year: 1991
Overall rank: 825th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 659 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1991 (15th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (150th)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (825th)
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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 12,287.

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Use Your Illusion II track list

  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 659 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 18% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.1/100, a mean average of 73.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.8.

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70/100
From 03/08/2023 00:05
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.
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75/100
From 07/03/2022 01:46
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.
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From 11/28/2021 09:37
The better of the 2 records. Faint praise though.
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45/100
From 11/21/2021 19:34
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.
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70/100
From 06/11/2020 15:00
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.
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From 02/25/2020 20:36
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.....
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85/100
From 09/14/2019 11:06
It' too long
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95/100
From 06/03/2019 01:12
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
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85/100
From 01/04/2019 12:25
Clássico instantâneo.
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From 10/23/2018 17:38
I don't see much filler here. 'You could be mine' and 'Estranged' are two of the best rock anthems of all time.
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