10 Best Sequels To Incredible Albums

6. Guns N’ Roses – Use Your Illusion II

With ‘Use Your Illusion I’ and ‘Use Your Illusion II’ being released the same day on 17 September 1991, it’s easy to look past both records as giant cash-grabs, given Guns N’ Roses easily could have made their third studio album a double album and saved their fans the trouble of shelling out twice their money. But if you forget about that, both albums are absurdly good, particularly Illusion II.

There are ballads and anthems to be found throughout. Highlights include the Dylan cover ‘Knockin' on Heaven's Door’ (the album’s counterpart to the Wings cover ‘Live and Let Die’ on UYI1) and the lengthy epic ‘Estranged’ (in comparison to the 10 minute number ‘Coma’ on UYI1) and ‘You Could Be Mine’, which every Terminator fan in existence knows the words to.

GnR are much more political on Illusion II, with songs like ‘Civil War’ and ‘Get in the Ring’ that touch on topics like violence, fake news and government. It was the album that featured the last recording by the classic ‘Appetite for Destruction’ line-up, with Steven Adler playing drums on Civil War. Both albums were inspired by the band not wanting to be remembered as a one album wonder , with Axl Rose commenting, “I just want to bury Appetite. I like the album, but I'm sick of it… I don't want to live my life through that one album.”