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Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
Blasphemy. Those songs you mentioned kick ass. Nothing good since RtL? What about And Justice for All? That's one of their best CDs.
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And Justice for All had four good songs (the title track, One, To Live is to Die, and The Eye of the Beholder) and the rest were either generic thrash or plagued with a lack of bass guitar and a horrible drum sound. Just listen to the *TAP* *TAP* *TAP* in the beginning of Blackened. Totally weak.

Originally posted by: Noema
What song is bad in Master of Puppets?

Battery? Nope.
Master of Puppets? Hell no.
The THing that Should not be? Nope. Awesome heavy song with an awesome solo and Lovecraft Lyrics
Sanitarium? One of their best songs overall, still a staple of live shows
Disposable Heroes? Great Lyrics, chugging riffs
Leper Messiah? Perhaps the weakest in the album, but still good. Quirky riffs are great
Orion? If you call this song bad then what can possibly be good?
Damage Inc.? Arguably their heaviest, thrashiest song. It just rocks, period.

'Bad' and Master of Puppets don't go together.

I understand you might like Ride the Lightning better(a matte of opinion, after all), but you have to admit: Master of Puppets is one of the best, most important and influencial albums in the history of metal (sharing that spot with Megadeth's Rust in Peace). And saying that any song in that album is of St. Anger quality is, no offense, nonsense.

The band still sounds a bit green in Ride the Lightning and specially in Kill 'em all. MoP was their creative and musical peak. AJFA still has a lot of greatness, but some of the longer songs sound a bit tired.

It all went downhill with the Black Album and its radio-friendlyness (though it DOES have some good songs and riffs).
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As I said before, The Thing That Should Not Be and Disposable Heroes were both far too repetitive and Leper Messiah and Damage Inc were both too generic and unmemorable. Battery, Master of Puppets, Sanatarium, and Orion are all awesome however. The Black Album defenitely had it's problems, and the only song that was any good is Don't Tread on Me.
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LOL, the Black Album Rocked!

 
I'll admit there has been a few songs I have liked here and there since '...And Justice', but IMO that was the last good album Metallica made. To me '...And Justice' had a Kill 'Em All type of maturity to it, and we all know that album thrashed it out proper.
 
Originally posted by: EatSpam
Metallica should have quit before the Black album... then I wouldn't cringe whenever they come on the radio.

And that Lars Ulrich thing with Napster really got me to hate the band.
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:thumbsup:

I own 1 CD and I don't play it. I don't download their songs either. When they come on the radio I change the station. Metallica boycott in full effect here.
 
Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Metallica hasn't released a quality album since Ride the Lightning. I doubt they're going to be much better twenty-two years later.
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You really need to open you ears and mind dude.They did two crappy album ( Load and Reload).Yes the black album was not as amazing as the other one, but there was some rpetty decent song on that album.
 
Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Metallica hasn't released a quality album since Ride the Lightning. I doubt they're going to be much better twenty-two years later.
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You really need to open you ears and mind dude.They did two crappy album ( Load and Reload).Yes the black album was not as amazing as the other one, but there was some rpetty decent song on that album.
 
Originally posted by: CHfan4ever
What was wrong with ST.Anger???? 😕
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other than it beign the ABSOLUTE WORST METALLICA ALBUM IN HISTORY?
nothing....


time to go back to what made them famous...
Justice, black, kill em all, master and lightning...
fvck this new ****** thats all sucked since after black..
new metallica is all trash not 1 redeeming song in the bunch.. and sounds lousy live as well..
here in Houston they got flat out BOOed when they played new stuff.. and I mean really BOOed... enough to hear over the music..
at least im not the only one that thinks they are sell out crap artists ever since black..

 
Even through all the trials metallica has gone through the past 15 years, I think you have to call them the greatest band of all time. They put out so many great songs/cds back in the 80s it was amazing. They can still hold their own during concerts too.
 
Originally posted by: CHfan4ever
You really need to open you ears and mind dude.They did two crappy album ( Load and Reload).Yes the black album was not as amazing as the other one, but there was some rpetty decent song on that album.
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No. Puppets, Justice, and Black were all mediocre. St. Anger is horrible.
 
Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Originally posted by: CHfan4ever
You really need to open you ears and mind dude.They did two crappy album ( Load and Reload).Yes the black album was not as amazing as the other one, but there was some rpetty decent song on that album.
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No. Puppets, Justice, and Black were all mediocre. St. Anger is horrible.
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You think Kill 'Em all beats puppets?
 
Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
You think Kill 'Em all beats puppets?
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Yes. Although Puppets had a few excellent songs, it also had a few bad songs. Kill 'Em All has one excellent song and a ton of good songs.
 
IMO, they started their decline as early as MoT, I feel that only the title track and Orion was good, compared to the all awesome tracks in RtL.
 
Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
IMO, they started their decline as early as MoT, I feel that only the title track was good, compared to awesome tracks in RtL.
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I'm not a fan of MoP, but you didn't like Battery? Or Orion? Or Sanatarium?
 
Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
IMO, they started their decline as early as MoT, I feel that only the title track was good, compared to awesome tracks in RtL.
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I'm not a fan of MoP, but you didn't like Battery? Or Orion? Or Sanatarium?
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Didn't like Battery, and Sanatarium sounded too similar to Fade to Black IMO.
 
Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
Didn't like Battery, and Sanatarium sounded too similar to Fade to Black IMO.
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Yeah, I guess you're right about Sanatarium. Both songs are pretty similar in length and have a similar mood to them. Even still though, Sanatarium seemed a bit angrier and more like thrash.
 
MoP had some of their best songs on there...

Damage Inc. = Metallica's best song
Sanitarium = Top 5
Master of Puppets = Top 5
Orion = Their best instrumental


The CD is probably the best metal CD of all time.
 
Meh, Damage Inc was pretty lame. Repetitive and a really boring intro. Orion is indeed a great intro, but Call of the Ktulu is better. Sanatarium and Master of Puppets are very good though.

EDIT: It inspired the game Damage Incorporated though, so it can't be all bad.
 
Originally posted by: Noema
Really? Are they playing it live now? That'd be interesting. I've never heard that song live.
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Sounds pretty freakin awesome. That is what they opened the concert that I saw them in from about 6 rows away.

Of course, I now have tenidis (sp?). Wear hearing protection to concerts like that, folks...

Nat

*N/M, they opened with Blackened, one of my favorite songs...
 
MoP is easily one of their best CDs, but they're all good.

I can listen to Kill 'Em All through Black without wanting to switch songs.

Battery = :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Master of Puppets = :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
The Thing that Should Not be = :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Welcome Home(Sanitarium) = :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Disposable Heroes = :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Leper Messiah = :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Orion = :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Damage, INC. = :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

😛
 
I used to post crap all over the metallica forums about how much the band sucked after they became a "studio" band + bob rock.
NO SOLOS, are they nuts?
I hope those guys become drunks again and start writing great music like they once did!

Bring back Alcoholica!
 
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