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It's all about The Four Horsemen...

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Thursday, 3 March 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Blackened
...And Justice
Master of Puppets
The Thing That Should Not Be
Welcome Home Sanitarium
Seek and Destroy
Battery
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Damage
Enter Sandman (you know it rocks)

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 3 March 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

man, I'm so glad to see "Blackened" getting so much love on all these recent lists.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 3 March 2005 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

The bridge is so awesome - duh duh duh duh (chunk-chunk-chunk-chunk) duh duh DUH duh (chunk chunk chunk chunk)

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 3 March 2005 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link

they replayed the interview with James Hetfield on 'Fresh Air' a couple weeks ago, and as bumper music they used "Blackened"; I couldn't BELIEVE how great it sounded, never mind how cool it was to hear on public radio. they played the whole beginning of the song up until James comes in. I think my favorite part is the beginnning, where the rhythm of the riff kind of subtly changes, it has this really seasick feel, it's kind of tricks you into thinking it's in some weird time signature.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 3 March 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

fade to black
the four horsemen
battery
dyers eve
ride the lightning
the call of ktulu
motorbreath
welcome home (sanitarium)
blackened
master of puppets

― bas (bas), Thursday, 3 March 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I wonder if that fresh air thing is archived, I'd love to hear it.

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 3 March 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Master of Puppets
Blackened
Frayed Ends of Sanity
Disposable Heroes
Orion
Dyer's Eve
Sad But True
Battery
...And Justice For All
Creeping Death

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 March 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link

" The bridge is so awesome - duh duh duh duh (chunk-chunk-chunk-chunk) duh duh DUH duh (chunk chunk chunk chunk) "

I think they really had some great bridges in a lot of places on that record. Eye Of The Beholder and Frayed Ends Of Sanity are worth mentioning. And I love the way they layer the gits in the really melodic middle part of And Justice For All. They had some great sounding guitar layering on To Live Is To Die too. I've had 16 or 17 years to get past the clicky bass drum and lack of bass guitar but why is that no one acknowledges how great the guitars sound?? And actually I love the way the snare drum sounds. They mixed it to sound right in your face. Anywho that record is too amazing to ever be ruined by a couple of bad engineering decisions.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 4 March 2005 01:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I agree wholeheartedly Johnny. I don't even mind the bass drum sound.

57 7th, it sure is:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4469978

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 4 March 2005 01:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I must say I owe quite a bit of my technical abilites as a guitar player to Metallica and James Hetfield. I sat and taught myself almost every riff on Master Of Puppets and And Justice For All as a lad in junior high. And Justice For All was a beast too. So many time changes and all those Hetfield riffs that always had that little something that was real complex and you had to really pay attention and figure it out just right or you fucked it up. Those early Metallica records really developed my ear. It made me a real quick learner when someone tries to teach me a riff or a song they've written. Its amazing how many people I know who started playing the guitar because of Metallica. What made them so special to myself and everyone I knew who loved em was how they were such a complete band. At the time the lyrics just seemed so real compared to all the other underground metal bands coming up right behind them. They weren't dressing up or wearing makeup. They took pride in being *themselves* - years before Kurt Cobain became the poster child of down to earth-ism. Cliff Burton was one of the few metal bass-players that was worth hearing in the mix. They were just a great band to worship. That was then though. Man how sad..

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 4 March 2005 06:08 (nineteen years ago) link

But I'll always have my Slayer!!

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 4 March 2005 06:11 (nineteen years ago) link

1. Damage, Inc.
2. Fade To Black
3. Disposable Heroes
4. The Call Of Ktulu
5. The Four Horsemen
6. Battery
7. One
8. Whiplash
9. Creeping Death
10.The Thing That Should Not Be

Absolutely classic band, for a year or three. I only wish Rick Rubin had produced their '80s recs. (Wish NOBODY had produced their '90s-and-beyond efforts.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 4 March 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Disposable Heroes
Seek & Destroy
Creeping Death
Master of Puppets
Trapped Under Ice
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Four Horsemen
Battery
Blackened
Sad But True

It would be interesting to know the tale of Metallica if the bus never flipped. It might be a different story or maybe not. It is a sad, sad day when Metallica hires some wack showbiz psychologist to help them work on music.

― earlnash, Friday, 4 March 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

hard,

but:

fade to black
for whom the bell tolls
master of puppets
one
battery
the call of ktulu
dyer's eve
jump in the fire
ride the lightning
orion

― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 15 April 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link

This is probably the "biggest" band without a Best Of album?

― Siegbran, Sunday, 15 April 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

ha! you could be right

― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 15 April 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Master of Puppets
One
The Shortest Straw
Welcome Home (Santiarium)
Wherever I May Roam
...And Justice For All
Creeping Death
Four Horsemen
Leper Messiah
Battery

(I think)

― chap, Sunday, 15 April 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I was considering Blackened and Dyer's Eve, but they would've made the list a bit Justice heavy.

― chap, Sunday, 15 April 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

yep, you gotta consider ratio when picking favourite metallica tracks

― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 15 April 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Disposable Heroes
Seek and Destroy
Orion
Four Horsemen
Master of Puppets
Blackened
Phantom Lord
Shortest Straw
No Remorse
Creeping Death

First four albums have no bad tunes. Every track is great.

― Johnny Hotcox, Sunday, 15 April 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Battery
Damage, Inc.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Shortest Straw
Seek and Destroy
Master of Puppets
Breadfan
Through the Never
Sanitarium
Trapped Under Ice

― M@tt He1ges0n, Sunday, 15 April 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

currently for me, it's

Harvester of Sorrow (a song I didn't like much until the last 3 years or so)
Damage, Inc (will never leave this list)
Ride the Lightning (also evergreen)
Dyer's Eve
Motorbreath
Disposable Heroes (used to be ambivalent to it, now it's one of my favs)
Fight Fire with Fire
Eye of the Beholder
Spit Out the Bone
The Call of Ktulu

― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 May 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link

spit out the bone is so sick

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 21 May 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link

yeah, it's probably my favorite song they've done since 1988. sad I never got to hear it live (well not yet at least).

I took MoP off this list because I'm so over familiar with it. not cos it isn't deserving.

― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 May 2020 21:58 (three years ago) link

Re-doing this 15 years later (!!!)

Blackened
...And Justice for All
Eye of the Beholder
Shortest Straw
Harvester of Sorrow
Frayed Ends of Sanity
Dyers Eve
Battery
Disposable Heroes

― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 21 May 2020 22:06 (three years ago) link

Eye of the Beholder I used to wonder why they never did live, then I heard one of the rare live versions, and hoooo god, James outright can't do that chorus at all. it's on his break point and he just struggles to sing it. even in 1989.

― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 May 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link

Not that I don't love others, but if I only had 10 Metallica songs to listen to for the rest of my life, it would be these.

(just as an aside, I'm listening to the singles from Hardwired for the first time since they came out, and they're sounding pretty great)

― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 21 May 2020 22:10 (three years ago) link

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