Rank Metallica's albums-Best to Worst

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Best: Kill 'Em All. Yeah, the quality of it kinda sucks but the songs on it kick ass especially, The Four Horsemen, Seek and Destroy and Metal Militia.

2nd: Black Album. Although I prefer the stuff they did before this, there are a lot of great songs on this album. It's also a good balance between heavy-ness of the playing and the producing/mixing which gives all the songs a pretty unique sound.

3rd: Master of Puppets. There's a few songs I haven't heard from this but the songs I have heard are ace. The title track is definately the stand out song on the album. It's got amazing riffs, it's fast, has great solos and a nice mellow part to it.

Worst: St. Anger. I don't mind the Title track and Frantic but the rest of the album sucks and the sound quality as well as their style on this album is pretty much unbearable.

Thos are the only one's I can really rate as with the other albums I've only heard a couple of songs from each one.

I like what I've heard of Load though and For Whom The Bell Tolls and One from Ride and Justice are 2 of my favourite Metallica songs.

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From the top

Master of Puppets
Ride the Lightning
Black Album
And Justice for All
Load
kill 'em All
Reload
St Anger

jaltenbu - my top five is almost identical to yours. The first Metallica track I ever heard was Fight Fire With Fire way back in '84 and it completely blew me away. Before that there had been only Black Sabbath, Saxon, Scorpions, Iron Maiden etc with 80's US metal being a bit of a joke then suddenly there was this band sounding heavier than anything I'd ever heard before. An incredible moment. I was lucky to be there when they played Donnington in August 85 with Cliff Burton and the ground literally shook with his playing, the bass was so damn loud!

It seems clear to me there are two disinct generations of Metallica fans; those who were there from the early days going up to around the 'Black' album and the 'second' generation post the Black album era. So my own top list is;

1) 'Ride the Lightning'; highlights are Fight Fire with Fire, RTL, Fade to Black and Creeping Death.
2) Kill 'Em, All; Whiplash (probably the greatest thrash song ever with Motorhead and Destruction both doing excellent cover versions), The Four Horsemen, Phantom Lord and No Remorse.
3) Master of Puppets; the album where - for me - early warning signs of later pretentiousness were starting to creep in. Highlights were Disposable Heroes, Damage Inc and Battery.
4) Garage Days '87 EP with Crash Course in Brain Surgery being the best for me.
5) Black album; Sad but True & Enter Sandman but not too much else on here for me
6) Justice... this was the album that did for me with Metallica and the whole album nosedived after Blackened. Barring 'One', the rest were overlong, disjointed songs and I never saw them again after the 'Justice' tour...

Haven't heard Load and Reload but have seen the various videos from this era, and they were shockingly bad although "I Disappear" was admittedly excellent.

St Anger; 'Frantic' was okay but the rest of the album a sad joke.

As for 'Death Magnetic', well, despite the awful distorted production (sounds like the old home made cassette tapes from years ago!), not too bad on early listens and heralds back to the old days between MOP and AJFA. The jury's still out on this one for me...

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As a late blooming Metallica fan, I'll throw in my two cents.

Amazing albums
1. Black Album
2. Master
3. Kill em All

Decent Albums
4. Lightning
5. Justice
6. Load
7. Death Magnetic
8. Reload

And lastly,
9. CD single of Frantic






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