# Best song off of Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion II? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 26, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-ii/555089 "2010-09-26T13:10:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-ii/555089/1 "2010-09-26T13:10:05Z")
What’s come before: [**Appetite for Destruction**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=578728), [**GN’R Lies**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=579182), [**Use Your Illusion I**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=579554) You know the drill. As many as one choice is allowed. As far as I’m concerned, this is the weaker (_much_ weaker) of the two **Use Your Illusion** albums. But YMMV. Vote away. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-ii/555089/2 "2010-09-26T13:18:23Z")
_Locomotive_, mostly for the wicked guitar sound and the vocal effects on Axl’s voice in that one. _Civil War_ is probable a better song overall, but…I just **love** that opening riff. Ah, how I miss early 1990’s music. There was so much energy in the rock scene then. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-ii/555089/3 "2010-09-26T13:26:45Z")
Okay. I’ve been going through the album track by track over the last several minutes, and maybe I was a bit hasty (read: wrong) when I characterized the album as being full of filler (most likely, I was thinking of the tracks “Get in the Ring” and “My World”, two of the absolute lowest points in GN’R’s musical _oeuvre_… though the “Get in the Ring Motherfucker” t-shirt I got when I first saw them back in 1991 (before the **Illusion** albums were even released) is pretty boss). I still prefer **I** , granted, but there are more good songs on this album than I initially remembered. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-ii/555089/4 "2010-09-26T15:08:04Z")
Tough pick between Locomotive and Estranged, both 9 minute epic songs (the latter of which has one of the best music videos EVER MADE), but Locomotive just rocks harder. And it’s full of train metaphors. I LOVE My World & Get In the Ring, but I’d hardly consider them “best” songs. They’re proof that Axl does have SOME kind of sense of humor! I prefer II to I, but I consider it a double album (and even have it as a 2 disc album in itunes) and listen to it as such. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-ii/555089/5 "2010-09-26T18:11:53Z")
Was having a tough time deciding between You Could Be Mine, Civil War, and Pretty Tied Up. Decided on the first because of the killer drums and guitar, but all three are great songs. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-ii/555089/6 "2010-09-26T18:18:21Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > _\_ Civil War, and Pretty Tied Up The two best songs on the album. “Estranged” is awfully good, too, but is better in concert than on record. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-ii/555089/7 "2010-09-26T19:30:41Z")
I went with _Estranged_, primarily because Slash’s solos and melody are chillingly beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-ii/555089/8 "2010-09-26T19:43:00Z")
I chose Knockin’ on Heaben’s Door, because I’m a big ol’ hunk of cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-ii/555089/9 "2010-09-26T20:44:07Z")
Civil War is the best GnR song ever let alone on this album. What a great track. This album is far better than UYI1. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-ii/555089/10 "2010-09-26T21:32:24Z")
After “Don’t Cry” is done playing, I always jump up from whatever I’m doing and race to stop the CD before “My World” comes on. I usually don’t get there fast enough, but I detest that song. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-ii/555089/11 "2010-09-26T22:48:51Z")
If I had to choose, I’d say Don’t Cry first, Locomotive second, and Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door third, although, for me, this album doesn’t measure up to UYI1, and is woefully inferior to Appetite… ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-ii/555089/12 "2010-09-27T00:37:41Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > If I had to choose, I’d say Don’t Cry first, Locomotive second, and Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door third, although, for me, this album doesn’t measure up to UYI1, and is woefully inferior to Appetite… Finally, some sense is spoken. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-off-of-guns-n-roses-use-your-illusion-ii/555089/13 "2010-09-28T21:46:19Z")
> [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#): > > After “Don’t Cry” is done playing, I always jump up from whatever I’m doing and race to stop the CD before “My World” comes on. I usually don’t get there fast enough, but I detest that song. That is seriously one of the worst songs of all time. Someone also mentioned Get in the Ring as bad, I don’t think it would be bad if not for that whole “im going to list a bunch of people that said bad stuff about us and tell them to fuck off” rant in the middle. You Could Be Mine was my choice, I mean, it’s John Connor’s favorite song, how can I not vote for it. Plus it’s the song that mad me buy this album, and this was the first GnR album I bought. Sentimental favorite! Plus it’s a good song.