The Metallica appreciation thread!

[howl]

one show down - f**king amazing!!
6 weeks to go.

 

[Hotwire]

What would you say are your top 10 Metallica songs? Let's see if we can get an SHH list together.

Here's my top 10.
1. Master of Puppets
2. One
3. Cyanide
4. Enter Sandman
5. For Whom The Bell Tolls
6. Nothing Else Matters
7. Harvester Of Sorrow
8. Orion
9. Broken, Beat, & Scarred
10. The Unnamed Feeling

 

[Colossal Spoons]

1. One
2. Shortest Straw
3. Orion
4. Wherever I May Roam
5. Broken, Beat, & Scarred
6. ...And Justice For All
7. Leper Messiah
8. King Nothing
9. For Whom The Bell Tolls
10. The Memory Remains(S&M)

And a shout-out to Anesthesia. I wanna learn to play the bass and it's like 1st on my list of songs to play once I've mastered it.

 

[CELTICPRED]

1. Jump in the Fire
2. Ride the Lightning
3. Phantom Lord
4. For Whom the Bell Tolls
5. Creeping Death
6. Blackened
7. Leper Messiah
8. Damage Inc.
9. Dyer's Eve
10. Four Horsemen

 

[Hotwire]

Cool, now we have three lists. Come on, guys, let's get more!

 

[Spider-Who?]

I know its pretty much a universally hated album, but I really love "The Unnamed Feeling" off of St. Anger.

"Unforgiven 3" on Death Magnetic is epic.

A few other favorites are:

The Memory Remains
Where Ever I May Roam
Fuel
Master of Puppets
Call of Ktulu
So F***ing What
Whiskey in a Jar
Cyanide

 

[Hotwire]

I know its pretty much a universally hated album, but I really love "The Unnamed Feeling" off of St. Anger.

"Unforgiven 3" on Death Magnetic is epic.

A few other favorites are:

The Memory Remains
Where Ever I May Roam
Fuel
Master of Puppets
Call of Ktulu
So F***ing What
Whiskey in a Jar
Cyanide

Big fan of Unnamed Feeling. Can you replace the two covers with two of their songs? I'm hoping to put together a list of the SHH top 10.

 

[LOBO3315a]

1. One
2. The Memory Remains (live)
3. Enter Sandman
4. Harveter of Sorrow
5. Nothing Else Matters
6. The Unforgiven
7. King Nothing
8. The Unforgiven II
9. All Nightmare Long
10 Turn The Page

 

[p.marlowe]

1. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
2. Master of Puppets
3. Battery
4. Harvester of Sorrow
5. No Remorse
6. For Whom the Bell Tolls
7. 2X4
8. The Unforgiven
9. Creeping Death
10. Cyanide

 

[howl]

current top ten

no particular order

fight fire with fire
one
seek and destroy
blackened
whiplash
all nightmare long
the outlaw torn
fade to black
sanitarium
master of puppets

 

[Moridin]

Metallica & Ray Davies:
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Hetfield sounds freakin awesome^.


My top 10, no particular order:

Orion
Thingy
That Was Just You Life
The Outlaw Torn
Bleeding Me
Blackened
Suicide & Redemption
Ride The Lightning
Low Man's Lyric
The Unnamed Feeling

So hard to do, I could make several top 10's and they'd all be different.

Song of the night goes to this performance of Thingy:
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[Karelia]

1.) For Whom The Bell Tolls
2.) The Thing That Should Not Be
3.) Fight Fire With Fire
4.) Fade to Black
5.) Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
6.) Blackened
7.) Nothing Else Matters
8.) Seek & Destroy
9.) One
10.) Enter Sandman

 

[Hotwire]

Well, here's where the songs stand for now. All I did was create a list of all the songs you guys have given me. Then just added up how many times each song showed up on the list. I'm not listing all of them, but here are the top three spots, so far.

1st place tie: One / For Whom The Bell Tolls (on 5 lists)
2nd place tie: Master Of Puppets / Blacked (on 4 lists)
3rd place tie: Cyanide / Enter Sandman / Nothing Else Matters / Harvester Of Sorrow / Orion / The Unnamed Feeling / Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (on 3 lists)

More lists will change everything. Once I have enough lists, say 20+, I'll make a poll.

 

[Moridin]

The guys are closing in on the end of the Death Magnetic World Tour. There's about 10 gigs left. To celebrate they seem to be breaking out some crazy setlists with some rare songs like No Leaf Clover, ...And Justice For All, Of Wolf And Man, Phantom Lord, Leper Messiah, The God That Failed, I Disappear, Blitzkreig & most notably: Orion

Some setlists from the last few nights:
Auckland, Oct 14 - Night 2

Spoiler

That Was Just Your Life
Cyanide
Ride The Lightning
Fuel
Fade To Black
Of Wolf and Man
All Nightmare Long
Sad But True
The Unforgiven
Orion
One
Master Of Puppets
Fight Fire With Fire
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
- - - - - - - -
Am I Evil?
Phantom Lord
Seek and Destroy

Brisbane, Oct 18 - Night 2

Spoiler

That Was Just Your Life
Cyanide
Creeping Death
The Memory Remains
One
The God That Failed
No Remorse
Sad But True
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
...And Justice For All
The Day That Never Comes
Master Of Puppets
Battery
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
- - - - - - - -
Stone Cold Crazy
Motorbreath
Seek and Destroy

Brisbane, Oct 19 -Night 3

Spoiler

That Was Just Your Life
The Four Horsemen
Ride The Lightning
The Thing That Should Not Be
The Unforgiven
Harvester Of Sorrow
I Disappear
Sad But True
No Leaf Clover
Orion
One
Master Of Puppets
Fight Fire With Fire
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman
- - - - - - - -
Blitzkreig
My Apocalypse
Seek and Destroy

seeing them 3 times later this yeer

Where?

 

[Cunning Stunts]

My favorites?

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls
2. Orion
3. Leper Messiah
4. Creeping Death
5. Master of Puppets
6. Battery
7. The Four Horsemen
8. Dyers Eve
9. That Was Just Your Life
10. Trapped Under Ice

Their best songs? (As far as musical quality, skill, and sheer awesomeness goes)... This list is a lot harder than I thought it'd be.

1. Master of Puppets (From Master of Puppets). Hands down, one of the most complete songs in all of heavy metal.

2. Orion (From Master of Puppets. A bass masterpiece, beautiful guitars, and amazing sound that you wouldn't normally think a band like Metallica would have if you're not really a huge fan. This song had the unfortunate displeasure of having to deal with fans who cover the song taking the bass solos (which begin at about 1.40 and 6.35 in the song) and thinking they're actually guitars, and playing them as such. All four instruments, though, are nothing short of incredible on this track.

3. One (From ...And Justice For All). Truly an epic (I don't mean, "Wow, that was epic!", I mean as far as stories go) and their most recognizable power ballad, but it's the machine gun riff at the end that everyone who's ever seen MTV (when it was still a music channel) knows about.

4. For Whom the Bell Tolls (From Ride the Lightning), the song that every heavy metal fan and every fan of Metallica knows because of "the awesome guitar intro". Fun fact: That's not a guitar, it's a bass, and it's a riff Cliff Burton had been using in Battle of the Bands competitions since high school. This song is probably one of their simplest, but still one of the heaviest. It really showed Metallica didn't have to be insanely fast or complex to be freakin' amazing.

5. Battery (From Master of Puppets). A real thrash anthem if there ever was one, which really throws you off in the beginning because of the beautiful acoustic intro. Just about every metalhead has probably punched the crap out of their backpack or steering wheel listening to this one.

6. Enter Sandman (From Metallica [Or, as most of us know it, The Black Album]). It kind of pains me to put this here, because personally, I can't stand it when people go, "Oh, I love Metallica! Enter Sandman is awesome!" or "Enter Sandman is so overrated and outplayed". This isn't the song that made them who they were (it actually stripped them of who they were), but it is a pretty awesome song that arguably rocketed them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

7. The Four Horsemen (From Kill 'Em All), an awesome metal performance from a bunch of teenagers that really threw people off back in the days of mixtapes and circulation by passing around cassettes. This is one of the songs that really blew peoples' socks off when they were still playing in bars. Fun fact about this one too: This is actually Dave Mustaine's song, called Mechanix. Mechanix is what the song was before Dave Mustaine left, and Metallica adapted it to a slower, yet heavier version. Plus, the lyrics and subject matter in Mechanix are fairly close to disgusting.

8. King Nothing (From Load). It's really hard to put a song post-Black Album here, because all of their Load, ReLoad, and St. Anger music was really simple and, for the most part, bad. However, King Nothing showed what they could do with a funky edge and that they still had heavy metal in 'em.

9. Leper Messiah (From Master of Puppets). There's a big reason I put this one here, and it's not because it's my favorite. It's one of James's direct attacks on religion, and easily his most powerful vocal and lyrical performance he's ever had. Aside from being heavy and fierce as hell, it's when you listen to the song's lyrical content and the way James delivers it that it really starts to sink in how great this song really is.

10. Creeping Death (From Ride the Lightning). The main reason I put this song here is because of what they do with it live. This is probably one of their best songs they play live, and one of their heaviest. The interlude is the part that gets everyone really pumped, especially when Jason Newsted was still with the band. One last fun fact: the riff from the interlude (the riff during which "Die, die, die" is chanted in the background was Kirk Hammett's riff that he took with him upon leaving Exodus.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

With explanations!

 

[Hotwire]

So, which list would you rather I use in the poll, Mr. Stunts?

 

[Cunning Stunts]

My favorites, I guess lol... Since that's what you took from everyone else.

 

[Hotwire]

Well, I only have 11 top ten lists. I'd like to get at least a few more before I put together a poll. Anyone else care to post a top ten list of their favorite Metallica songs?

 

[howl]

Where?

Sydney, Aus- I actually scored tix to another show, so 4 all up

The mix of sets were so damn good. Over a couple o nights I heard every song off Puppets. F**king mind-blowing. They played Orion start to finish!!!

 

[howl]

wish i had the cash to go down to Melbourne to see em. one of the shows was on Kirk's bday, so it woulda been funny to see the whole pie-in-the-face shenanigans, but they also cracked out a bunch of rarely-played tunes, like Outlaw Torn.

oh well, i'm still damn happy with the shows i went to