1. Load
2. Master of Puppets
3. Ride the Lightning
4. ...And Justice For All
5. Metallica
6. Kill 'Em All
7. Re-Load
8. Death Magnetic (if it wasn't for the ear-splitting sound quality this would probably be higher)
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9. St. Anger
Voted for the Black album, that was my first exposure to them. Now I own them all, but I think Hetfield really needs to stop being sober, it is just not working for him.
Ive been listening to metallica since they started and i love every album they have done in different ways,have to say my favourite has to be death magnetic.
The reason is that with the exception of unforgiven 3 every song is as catchy as hell.
The end of the line and my apocalypse are among the best they have recorded.
Of course i still like the obvious master of puppets but all round for me it has to be magnetic.
And personally i think james sounds much better these days,and has far more clarity in his vocals.
Beyond me how anyone could think Load is #1 or MoP and justice are not great. Justice is classic, love the intricate guitar work and well-written lyrics.
Originally Posted by scytheavatar /img/forum/go_quote.gif Ride The Lightning is easily their best album, cause Mustaine's influence was very obvious in it. There's a lot more variation, a lot more riffs squeezed in and the songs don't drag on forever at times like their later albums. It makes me wonder how much better Metallica would be had Mustaine stayed with them. And that was the album where the bass is the most involving, Master of Puppet's bass was more in the background but still not bad, anything from the Jason era has pretty much no bass at all. If I were to rate all their albums:
Blargh. Mustaine and co (Ellefson is a legend) released 3 great albums, a good album, then tripe. The solos and general picking work on Peace Sells are so far beyond anything that they've released since that I personally suspect Mustaine credited himself with a few too many solos on that album...
Puppets bass is amazing. I'm a fledgling bassist, and I've been listening to people do bass covers of songs (because 9/10 in metal, the bass is pretty hard to hear clearly). Battery is a standout from a bass perspective. It's there in the mix too, though still a bit quiet. It's Burton at his finest. I used to start buying into this whole "Burton's overrated" thing... then I heard his lines on Battery.
Jason played some fantastic bass on Justice too. It's just that the rest of the band were a bunch of wankers and turned him down. Go listen to Justice with the bass mixed back in (there are youtubes and whatnot all over the place). It adds a lot. If ever an album needed a remix/remaster, this is it.
Anyway, I'm going with Puppets. Kill 'em All was a raw bolt out of the gate showing their thrash potential. Lightning reeled the aggression in a little to mix in some fantastic intricacy. Then Puppets took it all and gave it a spitpolish till it was a landmark. It's still my favourite album, even after discovering Opeth, Dream Theater, Dissection, Sadus, Kreator...
Originally Posted by gloco /img/forum/go_quote.gif Beyond me how anyone could think Load is #1 or MoP and justice are not great. Justice is classic, love the intricate guitar work and well-written lyrics.
Justice is full of 5 min songs dragged into 8 mins. The songs are long, dull and uninspired. And by then how weak a guitarist Kirk is should have been obvious, his whammy bar abuse got really old. Plus Lars's drumming went from bad to worse. And Jason's bass got nerfed. And Hetfield's vocals, while still not bad has lost a lot of the gusto he carried in the previous albums. What's so good about the album anyway? It has like one good song (One) and songs like Blackened are raved by Metallica fans for no good reason. I personally can't understand how some can rate it above MOP. MOP is somewhat overrated but is still a good album, easily far above Justice.
Originally Posted by kwitel /img/forum/go_quote.gif Im not sure why "Justice" is alwyas 3rd or 4th on everyones lists.
Master is great, but I find it lacks the depth and darkness of Justice.
Kill Em all is an undisputed classic, but its by no means their best studio album-its too raw and under-developed.
Ride the Lightning is brilliant but IMO, still not as complex as Justice.
Originally Posted by kwitel /img/forum/go_quote.gif Im not sure why "Justice" is alwyas 3rd or 4th on everyones lists.
Master is great, but I find it lacks the depth and darkness of Justice.
Kill Em all is an undisputed classic, but its by no means their best studio album-its too raw and under-developed.
Ride the Lightning is brilliant but IMO, still not as complex as Justice.
I dont know-its just one of my favorite albums of all time.
As far as how they are in the present?
Theyve lost their edge.
They used to be progressive, now they are just stale.
For me, Hetfield is possibly one of the most annoying vocalists alive today. It all started with the Black album; he began to add these "yeahs!" and "yos!" at the ends of sentences in some whack attempt to sound scary or evil.
Its just ridiculous and compared to where metal vocals have progressed to present day, his style is almost laughable and very hard to take seriously.
Its a shame, b/c otherwise Death Magnetic is a relatively solid effort.
Fully agreed on all counts, couldn't have said it any better myself.
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