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

Use Your Illusion II by Guns N' Roses
Year: 1991
Overall rank: 874th   
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 668 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1991 (16th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (162nd)
Award Top 1,000 albums of all time (874th)

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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 117 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 11,204.

Guns N' Roses album bestography « Higher ranked (117th)
Appetite For Destruction
This album (874th)
Use Your Illusion II
Lower ranked (1,108th) »
Use Your Illusion I

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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

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Overall rank: 874th | 1990s rank: 162nd | 1991 rank: 16th

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 668 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 16% 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 17.9.

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From 01/11/2025 02:28 | #306910
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.
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70/100
From 03/08/2023 00:05 | #294802
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 | #287009
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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65/100
From 11/28/2021 09:37 | #276812
The better of the 2 records. Faint praise though.
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45/100
From 11/21/2021 19:34 | #276525
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 | #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.
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From 02/25/2020 20:36 | #248249
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 | #242574
It' too long
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95/100
From 06/03/2019 01:12 | #237037
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 | #228832
Clássico instantâneo.
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