Whats The Best Metallica Album?

[LegendKiller]

AJFA. Really wish they'd have recorded and mixed it properly but still their best nonetheless.

 

[lyssword]

And whoever voted for St. Anger can die in a fire.

I think it was a sarcastic vote lol

 

[CurseTheSky]

Master of Puppets gets my vote, simply because the title track is unbeatable by any of their other albums. Aside from that, I like ...And Justice For All for just straight-through listening. They have so many good songs spread across so many albums that it's hard to prefer any single one. The only one I absolutely cannot stand is St. Anger, though I didn't bother to pick up Death Magnetic after that POS.

No Leaf Clover is my all-time favorite by Metallica. Yeah, it's "new" Metallica, yeah it lacks the excellent and thoughtful guitar work of their earlier stuff, but something about it just feels right.

 

[SinfulWeeper]

Ride The Lightning nuff said

 

[foghorn67]

Ride the Lightning. I love the production quality of it. Not over produced, not totally raw.
The songs all have epic inspiration, capital punishment, Biblical wrath, Hemingway, HP Lovecraft....and the tones on the guitars are in a reverb of sweetness.

I still love Master of Puppets. Cliff's creative input at it's zenith. Orion is one of my favorite instrumentals of all time.

And Just for All. Probably the most dynamic and eclectic.

I love those three. And only like the rest.

 

[NL5]

I think Ride The Lightning is actually the better album, I just find Kill 'em All to be more fun and it still had Dave's stamp on it, which I really like.

IIRC, there is actually more of Daves writing on Lightning though...

 

[coreyb]

I love everything before the black album equally. But I chose Justice because some of my favourite songs are on it.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

ride the lightning

 

[Loop2kil]

MOP...Start to finish, it's the most complete album with all quality songs to me. I love their cover tunes as well...The Small Hours is awesome.

 

[A Casual Fitz]

St. Anger by a mile. That shit is hilarious. Does I, Disappear count as an album?

 

[Sinsear]

I think it was a sarcastic vote lol

I'm not so sure; it has 4 votes now.

Anything after the Black album is garbage.

 

[SSSnail]

I think Empire was the best Metallica album, ever.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I think Empire was the best Metallica album, ever.

I dunno, I mean, Anybody Listening? is an epic masterpiece and it has some incredible musicianship throughout, but it's also held back with some poppier AOR stuff.

 

[thedarkwolf]

I love all the first 4 and just randomly picked Ride.

 

[stargazr]

Whichever had No Leaf Clover

ahhh that would be S&M, awesome song!

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

I dont really like Metallica, but Master of Puppets is their best simply because the title track is one of the best metal songs ever written

 

[gar3555]

I'm not so sure; it has 4 votes now.

Anything after the Black album is garbage.

The above echos my sentiments as well. I bought all their albums through Load, and after hearing that, I never purchased another...

 

[Triumph]

Kill 'em all I listen to most of all, I love every song on that album except the bass solo. It does have a very Mustaine feel, and the songs just sound like no other rock and roll or heavy metal that I can think of. After that I honestly love the Black album. I think they are every bit as well written and heavy hitting as their previous work, only not fast. That's not a big deal for me. The albums after Black are just useless.

I listen to MoP and Justice occasionally, they're very good albums, but I never listen to Lightning. Never cared for that one. I have a copy of Justice I downloaded somewhere many years ago, called "...And Justice for Jason." Some guy recorded a bass guitar track over the album that you can actually hear, since his basswork is essentially nonexistent on the studio release. Poor guy never really was fully accepted by the group.

 

[Anubis]

there really only should be 2 options in the poll

RTL and MOP

i voted RTL

 

[grohl]

I found a Justice.. tape under the seat of a church van and popped it in my tape player in the late 1980s. Life changed for me. Everyone is like, so you listen to heavy metal now? - how did you start doing that? No one believed me. Master is still my favorite but enjoy listening to most of them. Black album got too much shit for mainstreaming them but there are some pretty time-tested tunes there.

 

[Triumph]

dp

 

[Jeffg010]

MoP for me but The black Album has some killer songs for me Sad But True and Wherever I May Roam I could listen to over and over again.

 

[gophins72]

master of puppets > and justice for all ~ ride the lightning > kill em all > garage days > black > others

up until the black album, metallica pretty much was infallible.

 

[Eli]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEL6_SuQCu8

'nuff said.

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

Ajfa !!!