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What is the GOAT Metallica song?

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Whiplash. It's a song about Metallica doing Metallica and just living the intensity. Kill 'Em All > Ride the Lightning > Master of Puppets >>>>>>>> Everything Else.

Raw, intense Metallica is best Metallica easily, and I'd almost go as far to say that Kill 'Em All is the quintessential heavy metal album.
 
theAntagonist said:
Whiplash. It's a song about Metallica doing Metallica and just living the intensity. Kill 'Em All > Ride the Lightning > Master of Puppets >>>>>>>> Everything Else.

Raw, intense Metallica is best Metallica easily, and I'd almost go as far to say that Kill 'Em All is the quintessential heavy metal album.
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KEA is safe, by the numbers, boring NWOBHM
 
Probably tolls for me....goong to see them on monday, wont contest with their club to be on the stage with them. So freaking excited!!!
 
Fade to Black. It's also, in my opinion, the best live-performing song of theirs. If you have the time check out 1992 San Diego "Fade to Black" live on YouTube.

My God...
 
dareacher said:
Probably tolls for me....goong to see them on monday, wont contest with their club to be on the stage with them. So freaking excited!!!
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Please give me detalis, how can you win such a contest/ticket to get on stage with them? Are you a member of metclub or?

Amentallica said:
Fade to Black. It's also, in my opinion, the best live-performing song of theirs. If you have the time check out 1992 San Diego "Fade to Black" live on YouTube.

My God...
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Everything from that concert in San Diego is out of this world. EVERY song.
 
Nekofrog said:
KEA is safe, by the numbers, boring NWOBHM
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Looking back, maybe, but it wasn't at the time. Watch 'Get Thrashed' and you'll see multiple bands praising Metallica for how breakthrough their sound was. They took the underground scene by storm in the early 80s.


I love KEA, but it's always amazes me that they grew so much and became so much more mature (creatively anyway, lol) in between KEA and RTL. They went from a youthful, raw punk-influenced sound (which is why I love it) to Fade to Black, Ride The Lightning and Call of Ktulu in just over a year.
 
Rasko said:
Please give me detalis, how can you win such a contest/ticket to get on stage with them? Are you a member of metclub or?



Everything from that concert in San Diego is out of this world. EVERY song.
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Ya its a metclub contest...been in it for a while....met then in 2005, was in the pit last year and now on stage....goiiing to be insaaaaane
 
Metallica in the 1980s was too fucking good.

But, if I have to choose, Fade to Black is my personal GOAT with Disposable Heroes close behind.

Though, in the "pantheon of hard rock", I think Enter Sandman is one of the greatest hard rock songs of all time. Extremely accessible, well produced, awesome as a sing along. I had forgotten how much I liked it until I saw an old ECW with Sandman entering to it and the crowd going nuts.

It's like how I like other Ozzy songs more than Crazy Train, but Crazy Train is probably one of the great hard rock songs of all time.
 
My favorite band.

Few bands can claim they had 5 incredible albums in succession... But they did.

Orion may be their best, but Battery is just incredible. And MoP may have the best riff ever written.

Too many to choose.
 
Nekofrog said:
KEA is safe, by the numbers, boring NWOBHM
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It may have been influenced by the new wave of British metal acts, but it isn't safe or boring. That's And Justice For All (Bloated with Jason's bass basically nonexistent, boring) and the Black album (Bob Rock produced, safe for the radio). I can maybe see Ride the Lightning being their overall best album when considering all aspects, but I think Kill 'Em All is still their tightest, least pretentious, and best sounding album, partly because a lot of the tracks were co-written by Mustaine. Master of Puppets, while good, is pretty overrated IMO. It was the beginning of the downward slope for sure.
 
theAntagonist said:
It may have been influenced by the new wave of British metal acts, but it isn't safe or boring. That's And Justice For All (Bloated with Jason's bass basically nonexistent, boring) and the Black album (Bob Rock produced, safe for the radio). I can maybe see Ride the Lightning being their overall best album when considering all aspects, but I think Kill 'Em All is still their tightest, least pretentious, and best sounding album, partly because a lot of the tracks were co-written by Mustaine. Master of Puppets, while good, is pretty overrated IMO. It was the beginning of the downward slope for sure.
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Yeahhhhh master of puppets and overrated are 2 words that should never be uses in the same sentence..... top 3 metal albums of all time. But to each their own i guess
 
theAntagonist said:
Whiplash. It's a song about Metallica doing Metallica and just living the intensity. Kill 'Em All > Ride the Lightning > Master of Puppets >>>>>>>> Everything Else.

Raw, intense Metallica is best Metallica easily, and I'd almost go as far to say that Kill 'Em All is the quintessential heavy metal album.
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I'm with you here.

Personally my favorite track off of Kill 'em All is Motorbreath; I think technically as a band they have grown and I enjoy much of their music post RTL, but those first two albums had a raw energy that spoke to me as a teenager growing up with them.
 
Master of Puppets is objectively the GOAT.
Out of their big tunes I prefer One though. Call of Cthulhu is my favorite of the whole bunch.
Fixxxer is the best song no one likes.
 
Orion

There's just so much going on here. For the 25 years or so that I've been listening to Metallica, at times we were more acquaintances than friends but I always come back to Orion.
 
dareacher said:
Yeahhhhh master of puppets and overrated are 2 words that should never be uses in the same sentence..... top 3 metal albums of all time. But to each their own i guess
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I'm not saying that MoP is a bad album, it's an excellent one. I just think that people rate it too strongly. I personally don't consider it their best, but it IS far superior to AJFA. I personally feel that Ride the Lightning deserves more of the recognition that MoP gets, and I also think KEA is better too. Puppets is a well crafted, well produced album, but I feel that while good, it doesn't quite have that "x-factor"/spark that the first two did. It is probably the best album to introduce someone to the band though, because it has elements of their earlier work and of the direction they'd take next.
 
theAntagonist said:
I'm not saying that MoP is a bad album, it's an excellent one. I just think that people rate it too strongly. I personally don't consider it their best, but it IS far superior to AJFA. I personally feel that Ride the Lightning deserves more of the recognition that MoP gets, and I also think KEA is better too. Puppets is a well crafted, well produced album, but I feel that while good, it doesn't quite have that "x-factor"/spark that the first two did. It is probably the best album to introduce someone to the band though, because it has elements of their earlier work and of the direction they'd take next.
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Yeah i see your point there....personally nothing toouches rtl...this album is perfect and works so well live.
 
theAntagonist said:
I'm not saying that MoP is a bad album, it's an excellent one. I just think that people rate it too strongly. I personally don't consider it their best, but it IS far superior to AJFA. I personally feel that Ride the Lightning deserves more of the recognition that MoP gets, and I also think KEA is better too. Puppets is a well crafted, well produced album, but I feel that while good, it doesn't quite have that "x-factor"/spark that the first two did. It is probably the best album to introduce someone to the band though, because it has elements of their earlier work and of the direction they'd take next.
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Ride the Lightning is easily the GOAT Metallica album
 
I could say Nothing Else Matters as an easy choice.

However, I've always had a soft spot for I Disappear though from the MI:2 soundtrack.

Something about the guitars on that really get me, and it finds the most play time on my ipod of all of their songs. Obviously more my favourite than a GOAT, as no-one else has mentioned it.

Cue abuse...
 
Live: Creeping Death, Seattle '89 (This is their best recorded live performance for all of their songs of that era IMO)
Studio: Blackened
 
Fade to Black. I say this as I'm sitting here and learning the last solo, so I may have some bias. But the amount of emotion in this song is incredible. I love the Master of Puppets riffs as much as anyone, and the middle section is probably the most amazing single part of any of their songs. But them Fade to Black feels.
 
I wish the album version of Orion had the same production values of the Through the Never re-recorded version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPv6NdKp1ks

I think both MOP and RTL actually have pretty shitty production. I've heard the Steve Hoffman remasters sound great, but I've never heard them myself.

Randy Solo said:
Fade to Black. I say this as I'm sitting here and learning the last solo, so I may have some bias. But the amount of emotion in this song is incredible. I love the Master of Puppets riffs as much as anyone, and the middle section is probably the most amazing single part of any of their songs. But them Fade to Black feels.
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If only Kirk would do the same and stop fucking improvising it live.
 
Razorback PT said:
Growing up I always enjoyed 90's metallica more than 80s metallica. Metallica fans can be really annoying with their dislike for everything post Master of Puppets.
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Although I do prefer the 80's stuff over the 90's stuff, I do agree all the hate of the newer stuff is annoying.


Anyway, if I had to pick a favorite song, it would probably be Fade to Black.
 
Tough choice. Either Master of Puppets or Fade to Black.

The fact that Metallica could make these thrash metal songs go for 8 minutes and change so much throughout the song was amazing. They do it now, but not to that level.

My runner-up is Blackened, but there's no Cliff Burton there. If he was in that song it would surely be number 1.
 
Ride the Lightning

Best Hetfield vocals, best riffs, great lyrics, what's not to love? A quintessential thrash metal song.
 
darkwing-buck said:
For me it's orion from Master of Puppets.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8qrwON1-zE
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Either that or Call of Ktulu.

If I didn't loathe Hetfield's vocals it could be Creeping Death.
 
I think based on the responses in this thread we can all agree Metallica is one of the GOAT metal bands. No question.

Master of Puppets.
 
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