Best Metallica Album advice

[Hotchilidog]

1. Ride The Lightening
2. Master of Puppets
3. Black
4. Death magnetic
5. Garage Days EP
6. Kill em all
7. Justice For All
8. Load
9. The live one with the SFO
10. Reload
11. St Anger (one of the worst metal albums ever)

 

[chucky1973]

For me the black album, Nothing Esle Matters is truly a great song.
Swa them at Milton Keynes Bowl in 91 I think, awesome day and awesome band live.

 

[Dominoid]

Nobody's gonna say Lulu then? I have to do it?
Get Lulu, twice a many discs as any other studio Metallica album so it's great value.

 

[StillHateBellotti]

Master of Puppets

Ride the Lightning

 

[chrissyboy01]

Master of Puppets is a must. Justice..... is also a great album.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

You have to buy the EP Garage Days re revisited. Very under rated imo. It's one of my favourite Metallica records.

Anyone remember the English band Xentrix? Used to love their stuff. Would recommend them too if you could find their first 2 albums. And of course Slayer and Sepultura - fantastic if you like the hard stuff.

Garage Days EP is very good. And Slayer is a good call. Reign in Blood is a nailed on classic metal album. 10 brutal songs played at a ferocious pace. Angel of Death is the pick of the album.

 

[Superphil]

Garage Days EP is very good. And Slayer is a good call. Reign in Blood is a nailed on classic metal album. 10 brutal songs played at a ferocious pace. Angel of Death is the pick of the album.

Get Garage Inc, double CD, all the stuff on Garage Days plus a load more.

Venom, oh yes!!!! And if you're up for it, Anthrax are supporting Motörhead this year, oh, while We're on Motörhead, try the Metallica EP Motorheadache.

 

[Jack Daniels]

What? We (the fans) are called the METCLUB ................ simples

Yeh past a lot of people by with that.

 

[Hotchilidog]

Garage Days EP is very good. And Slayer is a good call. Reign in Blood is a nailed on classic metal album. 10 brutal songs played at a ferocious pace. Angel of Death is the pick of the album.

Reign In Blood is thrash perfection, utterly clinical and brutal. One of the greatest metal albums of all time.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Tom Araya and Kerry King prior to it's release in the UK, and when asked about the lyrics for Necrophobic Kerry said that he wrote down loads of ways to die and picked the ones that rhymed, genius!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Reign In Blood is thrash perfection, utterly clinical and brutal. One of the greatest metal albums of all time.

You're not wrong.

I was at a restaurant last Saturday and the place mats had colouring in stuff for children. This one amused me, check the writing underneath.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

and here is a seperate bar with the somewhat wordy name "If I was a rich man I'd buy myself Dave Lombardo"

 

[METALMICKY]

Hmmm You need to kind of ease yourself into Metallica appreciation and its kind of dependent on where your rock tastes are now!

If you want a more mainstream gentle introduction you should check out Metallica (aka The Black Album) and Load. The Black album is one of the top 20 selling albums of all time for a very good reason. They took a lot of stick from old school Metallica fans with accusations of "selling out" but all they did was bring in a great producer (Bob Rock) who encouraged to them simply song structures, introduced a real crisp production sound and shorter catchier less indulgent long songs that proved that Hetfield could actually sing. Similarly Load is a very accessible album with some quite mellow almost bluesey Les Paul guitar sounds rather than the usual ESP typical mid range crunch sound of old. Yes they got their hair cut short and wore eyeliner but its an album worth checking out.

If you want to dive straight in to old school classic Metallica then it has to be Master of Puppets and Ride The Lightening. Classic Metallica guitar sound and with some memorable riffs. If you want it really raw you could check out their debut album Kill Em All but its quite raw and aside from the classic 'Seek & Destroy' i am not a great fan.

Check out S&M which is one of the better marriages of live rock and full symphony orchestra. The late Michael Kamen who conducted the San Francisco orchestra did a great job with some Metallica classics by not just following the original music but actually introducing some great counter melodies.

Death Magnetic their most recent album was a just a little ordinary and perhaps a bit too long.

And Justice For All could have been a classic Metallica album particularly as it includes classic tracks like 'One' & ' Blackened'. However, the song structures are just too complicated and its universally acknowledged as having an awful flat sounding production where you can't hear the bass guitar and the distortion tone is like a wasp fart! Metallica themselves have admitted the production was awful and rumours persist that one day they might try and re-record it.

The ReLoad album has its moments with tracks like 'Fuel' and 'The Unforgiven II' but its just too blatantly obvious that these are the leftover tracks from the Load album recording sessions which didn't make the cut.

There is only one Metallica album you must avoid like the plague. St Anger is to rock albums as was Mark Farrington to great Albion strikers. Its the biggest pile of steaming shite with with no guitar solos and the worst snare drum sound you will ever hear. Its a total mess and a perfect example of a band being totally self indulgent and with nobody brave enough to tell Lars Ulrich to use
a proper snare sound rather than one that sounded like a biscuit tin! Even Metallica have come around to admitting it was shite and even on the supporting Madly in Anger tour they didn't play as many tracks as you would expect when plugging a new album.

 

[Hotchilidog]

Hmmm You need to kind of ease yourself into Metallica appreciation and its kind of dependent on where your rock tastes are now!

If you want a more mainstream gentle introduction you should check out Metallica (aka The Black Album) and Load. The Black album is one of the top 20 selling albums of all time for a very good reason. They took a lot of stick from old school Metallica fans with accusations of "selling out" but all they did was bring in a great producer (Bob Rock) who encouraged to them simply song structures, introduced a real crisp production sound and shorter catchier less indulgent long songs that proved that Hetfield could actually sing. Similarly Load is a very accessible album with some quite mellow almost bluesey Les Paul guitar sounds rather than the usual ESP typical mid range crunch sound of old. Yes they got their hair cut short and wore eyeliner but its an album worth checking out.

If you want to dive straight in to old school classic Metallica then it has to be Master of Puppets and Ride The Lightening. Classic Metallica guitar sound and with some memorable riffs. If you want it really raw you could check out their debut album Kill Em All but its quite raw and aside from the classic 'Seek & Destroy' i am not a great fan.

Check out S&M which is one of the better marriages of live rock and full symphony orchestra. The late Michael Kamen who conducted the San Francisco orchestra did a great job with some Metallica classics by not just following the original music but actually introducing some great counter melodies.

Death Magnetic their most recent album was a just a little ordinary and perhaps a bit too long.

And Justice For All could have been a classic Metallica album particularly as it includes classic tracks like 'One' & ' Blackened'. However, the song structures are just too complicated and its universally acknowledged as having an awful flat sounding production where you can't hear the bass guitar and the distortion tone is like a wasp fart! Metallica themselves have admitted the production was awful and rumours persist that one day they might try and re-record it.

The ReLoad album has its moments with tracks like 'Fuel' and 'The Unforgiven II' but its just too blatantly obvious that these are the leftover tracks from the Load album recording sessions which didn't make the cut.

There is only one Metallica album you must avoid like the plague. St Anger is to rock albums as was Mark Farrington to great Albion strikers. Its the biggest pile of steaming shite with with no guitar solos and the worst snare drum sound you will ever hear. Its a total mess and a perfect example of a band being totally self indulgent and with nobody brave enough to tell Lars Ulrich to use
a proper snare sound rather than one that sounded like a biscuit tin! Even Metallica have come around to admitting it was shite and even on the supporting Madly in Anger tour they didn't play as many tracks as you would expect when plugging a new album.

An excellent summation.

 

[METALMICKY]

Whilst a great fan of their music i would admit to not being a great personal fan of either James Hetfield or Lars Ulrich. I thought the 'Some Kind of Monster' film was self indulgent psycho babble and i didn't give a shit about Hetfields breakdown and it also spawned the crap that was St Anger. I also didn't care much for the the way they treated former bassist Jason Newsted.

Of course famously they were at the forefront of the legal battle against Napster and illegal downloading. They did actually have a point but perhaps went about it a little too agressively. In conjunction with that legal battle i have posted links to some of the hilarious Camp Chaos piss take animated videos which came out at the time.

Enjoy

 

[PFJ]

From a newbie stance start with he Black album , then ease yourself backwards from Justice For All to Kill 'Em All. Take Death Magnetic as a nice bonus , but avoid the other three albums. There are some amazing tracks on the early albums that still exist in their set today .
Intro music,Escasy of Gold (wish the Albion would use that instead of the rap stuff ) , straight into Creeping Death , followed by Blackened followed by Fade to Black...........awesome Saw them this year for the umpteenth time at Download .First saw them 1985 at the Monsters of Rock playing beneath such heavy weights as Ratt, Marillion and a very young Bon Jovi.
Interesting to know they release all of their live gigs as a download on metaliicalive.com. Check out this years Download festival performance. The Black album played in it's entirety in reverse , bookended by other classics like 'One ' and Master of Puppets .

 

[Seagull Steve]

I frequented the Hungry Years in the 80's until being barred by the mad hispanic owner for smuggling in (unsuccessfully) a bottle of cider! Went back years later and she still recognised me.

lol, Pippa was a rottwieler, her husband John was a pussy cat in comparison.

 

[METALMICKY]

I loved St. Anger, took a while to grow on me but its so raw and ggggrrr and you can hear the reverb from the bass in the snare drum. Proper "made-in-a-garage" music, appealed to me for some reason. Death magnetic is pants though, felt like telling Mr Hetfield to SHUT THE HELL UP FOR A BIT AND LET THE PEOPLE WITH TALENT PLAY SOME MUSIC. Wordy git.

Huh? Even Hitler was not keen on St Anger



The Live in Mexico DVD and CD is also worth checking out for a fairly recent example of their live performance

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

From a newbie stance start with he Black album , then ease yourself backwards from Justice For All to Kill 'Em All. Take Death Magnetic as a nice bonus , but avoid the other three albums. There are some amazing tracks on the early albums that still exist in their set today .
Intro music,Escasy of Gold (wish the Albion would use that instead of the rap stuff ) , straight into Creeping Death , followed by Blackened followed by Fade to Black...........awesome Saw them this year for the umpteenth time at Download .First saw them 1985 at the Monsters of Rock playing beneath such heavy weights as Ratt, Marillion and a very young Bon Jovi. Interesting to know they release all of their live gigs as a download on metaliicalive.com. Check out this years Download festival performance. The Black album played in it's entirety in reverse , bookended by other classics like 'One ' and Master of Puppets .

I was there as well!

 

[PFJ]

right in order of preference

Master of Puppets,
Kill em all
Ride the Lightening
And justice for all

Anything else is commercial bullshit.

Now if you want a band that has not sold it's soul and still to this day produces absolute quality music, Try Megadeth (and for any of you Metaliica newbies, Dave Mustaine, was one of the founding members of Metallica)

Try listening to the following albums

Peace Sells, but who's buying
So Far, So good, So What
The System has Failed
Killing is my Business, and Business is good
Rust in Peace

Listen to those 5 albums and your life will be complete.

Saw their first ever UK gig at Hammersmith(86-87?) .Massive disapoinment. Mustaine could not stop talking and really spoilt what could have been a legendary gig. The anticipation to this band was huge. I still have my Peace Sells t shirt from that night. Seen them a few times since , mostly at festivals . Thought they were awesome AT Clash of the Titans with Slayer at Wembley . Were the weak link at the Big 4 last year , but enjoyed their set at Download this year. Definatly an 'on their day ' kind of band IMO.

 

[Hotchilidog]

I was there as well!

Me too, right down the front. I'm not sure what the crowd made of them as they stuck out like a sore thumb on that day. A great rant from Hetfield at the beginning about not wearing eye makeup and having the words rock 'n' roll baby in every song. It was a great show. I was lucky enough to see them at the Lyceum in 84, I'd never seen a gig like it, awesome!