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Title: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: KiloDeltaCharlie on March 20, 2019, 09:56:43 AM
I don't think this has been asked here yet, but what are your top 10 songs by Metallica? (I'm not going to do a Typhon style analysis when it's all over!). My top 10 is:

10) Battery
9) Enter Sandman
8 ) For Whom The Bell Tolls
7) Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
6) Fade to Black
5) One
4) Bleeding Me
3) Master of Puppets
2) Outlaw Torn
1) Creeping Death
Title: Re: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: Tyr66 on March 20, 2019, 11:56:26 AM
in chronological order :
1- Whiplash
2- Phantom Lord
3- Am I Evil (Diamond Head cover)
4- Ride the Lightning
5- Fade To Black
6- For Whom The Bell Tolls
7- Master of Puppets
8- The Thing That Should Not Be
9- Disposable Heroes
10- Sad But True


I would add Wherever I May Roam , Mama Said and The Outlaw Torn but I don't want to exceed the limit .
Title: Re: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: Charger on March 20, 2019, 12:07:17 PM
Yikes.

Well time to give it a go...


10. Motorbreath
9. Ride The Lightning
8. Of Wolf And Man
7. Blackened
6. The Thing That Should Not Be
5. Seek & Destroy
4. Master Of Puppets

3. King Nothing
2. Bleeding Me
1. Harvester Of Sorrow


That would be my list...
Harvester has always been my absolute favourite..The Bleeding Of me coming in close second because of the guitar work...and the main riff is a killer. King Nothing because of the bass line has always been a big favourite of mine.

I know I left out some of the bigger hits but honestly the bigger hits aren't among their best work..mainly One and Enter Sandman.

I wanted to include Battery but ran out of room and I do think that I like Motorbreath more...the slow intro has always been a bit of a turn off for me..

I am very interested in reading Jack's list because he is such a big fan...biggest one among us all!
Title: Re: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: Zzzptm on March 20, 2019, 05:04:31 PM
1. Crash Course in Brain Surgery
2. Fight Fire with Fire
3. Ride the Lightning
4. Creeping Death
5. Helpless
6. Battery
7. Master of Puppets
8. Damage, Inc.
9. Trapped Under Ice
10. Fuel
Title: Re: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: Jack the Stripper on March 21, 2019, 01:12:54 AM
Leper Messiah
No Remorse
Fade To Black
Welcome Home(Sanitarium)
Seek & Destroy
The Four Horsemen
Battery
For Whom The Bell Tolls
2) Master Of Puppets
1) Creeping Death

Leper and No Remorse are underrated from their early works and absolutely crushing live.
#1 and #2 are my definitive top 2 everything else is in no particular order. My list is dominated by the first 3 albums. Not that I don't like anything that followed, I like just about everything they've ever done but no songs that came after Master can knock any of those out of my top 10.

I purposely left out cover songs to make it a little easier on myself but Am I Evil? Is my favourite.
Title: Re: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: KiloDeltaCharlie on March 21, 2019, 11:35:37 AM
As a supplementary question, which of the 3 long instrumentals is your favourite:

The Call of Ktulu
Orion
Suicide & Redemption

I'm not sure, I'm going to listen to them later and then make a decision.
Title: Re: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: Tyr66 on March 21, 2019, 12:27:15 PM
(Anesthesia)-Pulling Teeth
Orion
Not a fan of The Call of Ktulu.


Title: Re: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: Jack the Stripper on March 21, 2019, 12:42:54 PM
Orion
Call Of Ktulu
To Live Is To Die
Title: Re: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: Charger on March 21, 2019, 01:40:14 PM
Honestly I am not a big fan of any of the "big" instrumentals...they are just waaaaaaay too long...A good instrumental is nice and short...it's too easy to get bored with a long one...especially if it gets repetetive..
Title: Re: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: Thelemech on March 21, 2019, 04:19:24 PM
Seek And Destroy
Jump In The Fire
Fight Fire With Fire
Creeping Death
Battery
The Thing That Should Not Be
Harvester Of Sorrow
The Shortest Straw
Sad But True
Through The Never
Title: Re: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: discman69 on March 22, 2019, 08:23:33 AM
In no order

Enter Sandman
Sad But True
Wherever I roam
Ride The Lightning
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Fade To Black
Trapped Under Ice
Master Of Puppets
One
Hero of the Day
Title: Re: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: KiloDeltaCharlie on March 23, 2019, 04:41:46 AM
With regard to my supplementary question, I'm inclined to agree with Charger regarding the long instrumentals, they don't do much for me. I will say that Suicide and Redemption is probably the best and when I listened to Call of Ktulu yesterday I only managed about 6 minutes before moving on to something more interesting! Orion is okay but ultimately it's something I skip more often than play.

I'd forgotten that To Live is to Die is an instrumental because I rarely listen to Justice and wiki doesn't list it as an instrumental like it does with the other three!
Title: Re: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: Zzzptm on March 23, 2019, 08:09:06 AM
You let those instrumentals play through while you listen to the whole album. They're there to keep the party going in case someone has to take a bio-break or whatever.
Title: Re: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: Charger on March 23, 2019, 08:14:33 AM
You let those instrumentals play through while you listen to the whole album. They're there to keep the party going in case someone has to take a bio-break or whatever.

You mean a bathroom break! They're good for that! :D
Title: Re: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: KiloDeltaCharlie on March 23, 2019, 08:16:08 AM
You let those instrumentals play through while you listen to the whole album. They're there to keep the party going in case someone has to take a bio-break or whatever.

If I put Metallica on at a party it would be to get everyone to go home because it was time for my bed!
Title: Re: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: Zzzptm on March 23, 2019, 08:26:55 AM
You let those instrumentals play through while you listen to the whole album. They're there to keep the party going in case someone has to take a bio-break or whatever.

If I put Metallica on at a party it would be to get everyone to go home because it was time for my bed!

What are your parties normally like? 1960s swingin' lounge events?

Smoker parties where the ladies show up "after dinner"?

:ratpack:

 :smug:
Title: Re: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: KiloDeltaCharlie on March 23, 2019, 09:33:19 AM
^^^
They're normal parties where people don't go to listen to rock music! I'm not 15 anymore! O:-)
Title: Re: Your Top 10 Metallica Songs?
Post by: Zzzptm on March 23, 2019, 02:51:58 PM
^ Those guys ain't listening to rock and roll, I assure you! :)

BTW, is it just me or does James Hetfield look more and more like Tom Waits every day?