Daily album battle · No. 1 · Sunday, 18 October 2026

Use Your Illusion I vs Rage Against the Machine

Guns N’ Roses against Rage Against the Machine. 1991 against 1992. One vote each. The result is in at midnight UTC.

Use Your Illusion I by Guns N’ Roses, album cover
Rage Against the Machine by Rage Against the Machine, album cover

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Tale of the tape

On paper: 4–3
Use Your Illusion I
Rage Against the Machine
17 September 1991
Released
6 November 1992
BMG
Label
Epic
Mike Clink, Guns N’ Roses
Produced by
Rage Against the Machine, Garth Richardson +1
A&M (Hollywood), Conway (Los Angeles) +4
Recorded at
Scream (Studio City, California), Sound City (Van Nuys, California) +1
13 January 1990 – November 1990
Recorded
April–May 1992
1:16:05 · 16 tracks
Running time
52:56 · 10 tracks
3
Singles
4
No. 2
UK chart peak
No. 17
No. 2
US Billboard 200 peak
No. 45
7× Platinum
US certification
3× Platinum
Platinum
UK certification
3× Platinum
12k
Listeners
19k
266k
Wikipedia readers, last year
261k

Charts and certifications from Wikipedia, credits from MusicBrainz and Wikidata, listeners from ListenBrainz. A dot marks the stronger number.

The case for each

Use Your Illusion I by Guns N’ Roses

Use Your Illusion I is the third studio album by Guns N' Roses, released on 17 September 1991 through Geffen Records. It arrived on the same day as its companion, Use Your Illusion II, and the two were issued as a pair.

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Rage Against the Machine by Rage Against the Machine

Rage Against the Machine's self-titled debut arrived on Epic on 6 November 1992. It grew out of the band's first demo tape, which had been finished eleven months earlier and already held earlier versions of seven of the album's ten songs.

The full story, tracklist and credits →

On Riffology

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Podcast · Episode 41 · 1 h 17 min
Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine
0:00 / 1:16:58

How the daily album battle works

Every day at midnight UTC the vault draws two well-known studio albums, close in popularity, era and style, and puts them head to head. Everyone sees the same battle. You get one vote, and the result is shown once you've voted. Voting closes at midnight UTC, when the next battle starts and the result goes into the record books for good.

No album battles twice in the same year, and every finished battle keeps its own page, so the arguments can carry on.