OP10 - Metallica

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.)

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.

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

spit out the bone is so sick

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.

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

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.

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)