[DodgeTheViper]

Suggestions for the above ?

Must include Enter Sandman.

Ta

Kev

[ianrauk]

for me, Master Of Puppets, nothing they have done since comes close.
And Justice For All was a great album but suffered from bad production.
Black album yes a Classic too but a little too comercial, some brilliant solo's from KH.
Load and Reload, both patchy but also have some awesome tracks.
St Anger, brilliant songs and would have been a bone fide classic had the production had been spot on.
Lets also not forget Kill 'Em All and Ride The Lightning, 2 great albums that built up to MOP.

[KoThreads]

And Justice for All.

My cousin bought the record round about a week after release, a double if I recall. I hadn't heard them before, 'One' blew me away, so I've him to blame. I bought all albums since, but think that AJFA just brings back that 'first impact' effect.

I would like my cousins vinyl, but he ain't parting with it, it's better than my CD.

[JohnG]

Justice is my favourite as well, if only I could get a good sounding version of this ...... I think we've discussed this problem of the "below standard" sound quality of Justice before and there would be a few of us interested in a good re-release

[synthboy1]

Master of Puppets is the best Metallica album. there is not one duff track on it. its a flawless album. a definitive heavy metal release.

...And justice for all is flawed because of the 'no bass guitar' production and some weaker tracks.

the black 'crossover' album had a 4 or 5 great tracks (tracks 1,2,5,6 and 7) but had far too much filler in my opinion. i can remember at the time thinking the only redeeming feature of 'unforgiven' and 'nothing else matters' were the awesome solos. ive normally turned it off by 'my friend of misery' and 'struggle within' (2 very poor tracks).

i never really followed anything they did after that. what i have heard was rubbish.

[pmc]

Maybe a controversial choice but I'm going for Garage Inc. I know its a covers record but there are some cracking tunes on there. The 2nd disk especially has some cracking metal/punk tunes. 'So What' is an all time favourite.

[o THE CHAD o]

being a huge metallica fan,(saw them at Wembley recently) i love all their albums.although each album has its duff tracks and its share of classics.
the one album that stands out above the rest for me is "Master of Puppets"

awesome from start to finish.....

funny enough i listened to "And Justice For All...." all the way through the other day and thought it was superb,i hadnt listened to that album for a hell of long time.

[hottstuff]

My three favourites are

Ride The Lightning
And Justice For all
Master of puppets

But i have to say Master of puppets

[GGC007]

Got to be Master of Puppets, although And Justice For All comes close.

The production is ok on Justice, you dont want metal albums sounding too clean anyway!

[Matt_C]

My personal fave is "...Justice" but I do agree that their best record has to be "Puppets" - as said, not a duff track on it, and not a track on it you'd skip to get to another! Which is why I say it's actually a better album than "...Justice" even tho "...Justice" is my fave - there are a couple tracks on there I'd skip past sometimes....

The "Black" album IS a great album, some real classics on there (Sad But True, Through The Never, The Unforgiven, Of Wolf And Man) and some INCREDIBLY underatted songs (The Struggle Within is a SUPERB track!) and whilst I still like "Sandman", it's been played to death EVERYWHERE, so I tend to skip it nowadays....

Same can be said for the Load's - a big departure for Metallica, and there is a lot of stuff on there that isn't fantastic, tho each song IS good in it's own right, there is some totally KILLER stuff on there too!

[hottstuff]

Yes i would defiantely agree about Load.
Genius album by Metallica and Hetfield's roots in Country & western are apparent and very well worked into the Metallica style.
Some Kind Of Monster was the best rockumentary i've ever seen and brought sympathy to the once hardnuts that is Metallica

[metalhead72]

Metallica is my favourite band.. For me the best album was 'Ride the Lightning' then 'Live sh*t Bingle Purge'

[Matt_C]

Tallica are also my life long fave band.... Tho I am not sure you can really compare live albums to studio albums!

Live Sh*t is fantastic, one the the best live box sets ever, and thats for all bands!

But I wouldn't compare it to a studio album like Lightning or Puppets.... S&M and Live Sh*t can be comparred of course....

S&M is also STUNNING......

[eviljohn2]

Ride the Lightning for me.

[Edward Catflap]

Studio
1. Master Of Puppets
2. Ride The Lightning
3. Kill 'Em all
4. And Justice For All
5. Garage Inc.
6. Black Album
7. Load
8. Re-load
9. St. Anger

Not sure if we're including live stuff, but live sh*t is obviously great, whereas S&M sucked on cd, but is ok on DVD, where you can select "band only" sound & cut out the awful orchestral bits (Ecstasy of Gold excepted.)

All started to go wrong for me when Cliff died really. None of the albums since (apart from Justice which he had a part in writing), have come close to matching the ones made when he was still around. All progressively worsening to the new low of St. Anger. & its' biscuit tin drum sound & no solos etc. etc. Interesting to note that they themselves appear to have disowned it too, playing no songs from it at all on recent tours.

[karkus30]

Despite my Avatar, I really dont listen to much 'tallica anymore. In the same way that I rarely listen to Maiden. Once you play the albums a few times its a bit like fast food, it just lacks the depth to reward constant replays for me.

best album: got to be MOP or JFA (except for the godawful sound), but RTL comes somewhere in the mix.

Not mentioned the Black Album once, but as an intro to 90s metal you really cant get better. Even friends who hate nost of the stuff I listen to like it and have even said they would like to see a gig. Bearing in mind that the last few artists they have seen are The Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Tom Jones and Rod Stewart you should pretty much guess how i feel about that

[Toasty]

I read the original post as a compilation of tracks to become the best metallica album, I'm probably wrong, but on that basis, an album containing:

Jump In The Fire
Seek & Destroy
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Creeping Death
Master Of Puppets
Disposable Heroes
Orion
Blackened
One
Enter Sandman
Sad But True

[UKflames]

For me it is MOP, mainly because it was the first 'Tallica album I bought and the first picture disc i bought (still have it today)

Personally i love all of the albums, although i don't listen to KEA & RTL as much as they don't hit the spot for me.

S&M is a totally different concept and can't be compared to the studio albums but is up there near the top for me.

Looking forward to ht enew album as they seem to have their s£$% together after all the rehab.

[synthboy1]

Originally Posted by GGC007

The production is ok on Justice, you dont want metal albums sounding too clean anyway!

clean?

that is exactly why the production on 'justice' is awful. its far too sterile. it sounds like it was recorded close miked in a room with no natural acoustics and the bass player in a different building.

id love to hear a remixed version of it.

[Matt_C]

Originally Posted by synthboy1

clean?

that is exactly why the production on 'justice' is awful. its far too sterile. it sounds like it was recorded close miked in a room with no natural acoustics and the bass player in a different building.

id love to hear a remixed version of it.

It pretty much was! VERY clinical sounding production, with amps being DI'd and drums very close mic'd - also TONNES of processing into it aswell....

And the story, true or not, behind the lack of bass was that it was Jason's first album, and the rest of the band still hadn't got over the loss of Cliff - hence why it is very low in the mix.... Of course Lars n Het say different - they claim it's because everyone was vying to be "up front" in the mix, so "something" had to be at the back!

[timus]

Man its a tricky decision Master Of Puppets and Ride the Lightining and Justice. I dont know i cant pick a favourite.

[dmpoole]

Isn't the OP asking for a compilation album?

[overkill]

Black album. After that 'Justice for all' and Load. I like Master of Puppets, but it's not (contrary to popular opinion) consistent enough for me.

[Wamphyri]

Master of Puppets for me too, although the Black Album will always have a special place in my heart.

[EricHitchmo]

Originally Posted by overkill

Black album. After that 'Justice for all' and Load. I like Master of Puppets, but it's not (contrary to popular opinion) consistent enough for me.

????? eh?!?!?!? Easily their best album. How can you even compare load to mop? MOP is their best songs with the best production.

[JohnG]

MOP comes 3rd in my list after Justice and the Black Album.

[overkill]

Originally Posted by JohnG

MOP comes 3rd in my list after Justice and the Black Album.

Thank you John. See post that quoted mine.........

[deardai]

Master of Pappets and Load for me. Both fantastic musically and technically.
Load is brilliant production vice.