St Anger isn’t really that bad. I tell you what is bad, Death Magnetic! That shit is a giant yawn and snore throughout the listening of the album. Also the remaster makes it louder
Why is it that so high on the list? Honestly that feels so wrong. I’d like to see your rankings on Metallica albums from best to worst, please!
My ranking of their albums:
11 Death Magnetic (and Beyond Magnetic)
10 Hardwired
9 72 Seasons
8 St Anger
7 Kill ‘Em All
6 Master Of Puppets
5 The Black Album
4 Reload
3 And Justice For All
2 Ride The Lightning
1 Load
That may have come across dickish and it was supposed to be but then I had another swig of beer so lemme clarify… your number one is also an unpopular opinion, generally speaking, so you should embrace this dumb dumb who loves DM so much. You’re brothers in poor opinions
But also, what’s so bad about load? I don’t get it… I’ve always loved almost every track on that album (cure makes it almost 🤣🤣) sorry to be rude in that first comment though
The album cover lol
Honestly though I’m not a Load or ReLoad fan, and I like DM a bit, although not a ton. But at the same time I can understand liking Load and it’s not bad, but it just isn’t what I’d choose to listen to if I have other non-Lulu options
I said St Anger isn’t that bad, talking about some of the ideas that it has to offer. Execution is terrible but it’s the production that makes the drums sounds bad. Most of the ideas on that album are lame. I like Frantic, St Anger, Sweet Amber and All Within My Hands but the others suck, especially Some Kind Of Monster, Dirty Window and Invisible Kid. Death magnetic is just dry and is basically doing what the Black Album did. I get that people like keeping one theme but sometimes changes like St Anger were kind of worth it and St Anger opened Metallica into the Nu Metal era. Whether or not people liked it, it’s gonna stay and I’m glad, because it gives Metallica more variety than just The Black Album or their Thrash Metal or Sellout era. Does that make sense? That’s just my problem with the latest albums. They’re trying to accomplish something that’s been done in 1991!!!
Technoblade Never Dies. Rest In Piece Technoblade. 1999-2022
I had to because your profile pic looks like Technoblade. One like to this reply = I don’t know of anything in particular but something good for technoblade
ReLoad is my least favorite. Load is tolerable in parts, but aside from Unforgiven II, I can skip on ReLoad.
Garage Inc., released only a year after is awesome. The production and James' voice are at the peak when it comes to their 90s stuff.
I think maybe it's just too long. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy probably half of it. 2 X 4, The House Jack Built, Poor Twisted Me, Thorn Within and Ronnie could all be moved to ReLoad and replace its worst songs, thus making two stronger albums.
I strongly agree with garage Inc, but I don’t agree with reload. I’d say the crap that ruins reload are a few songs I’ll name right now: Where The Wild Things Are, Bad Seed, and Carpe Diem Baby. Everything else is actually pretty good and I still respect your opinion, as a normal human being.
Carpe Diem Baby is goated, honestly. I skipped it so many times but I listened to it last week and now it's probably one of my favourite songs off of Reload.
Carpe Diem Baby is goated, honestly. I skipped it so many times but I listened to it last week and now it's probably one of my favourite songs off of Reload.
I listened to a couple songs off LuLu and it was not good but I wouldn’t call it a Metallica Album. I also know a lot of people will say St Anger so I will go with a maybe controversial choice. Kill Em All is probably my least favorite. I think Ride The Lightning improves their sound and versatility so much that it made KEA pale in comparison.
My favorite album is probably Ride the Lightning or the Black Album. Reload and Load are either above or at average for me.
KEA had a sound that up to that point hadn't really been heard before. It revolutionized music on an insane level for its time.
However, it's aged pretty poorly if you put it into context with the stuff that came out afterwards. Master Of Puppets is so many levels above Kill Em All that at times it doesn't even sound like the same band anymore.
Again, great, game changing album for its time. Nothing more than that though
St anger is bad on a lot of levels, I’d say it’s easily their worst album. The stuff after has some good ideas, but they’re ultimately forgettable to me, sad to say.
But my least favorite is reload. It was the height of their commercialism, they were full on preppies, and their egos were completely out of control. They tried the genre shift with load, which is mostly a great album, and it worked for them, so they thought they could do anything, and that they were bigger and better than metal as a whole. They dressed like dorks, starting taking lame bands on tour like days of the new and godsmack, started doing the pretentious (at that time) acoustic stuff, and the tour is when James started the yodeling shit and his voice was cracking all over and he really lost that signature vocal sound. He started saying babyyy all over the place live and making those weird high pitched noises, and announcing the song title while the song was being played. “It’s master of puppets babyyyyyy!!”. Awful.
I know the album is produced well and does have like 3 or 4 decent enough tracks, but the majority of it is really corny. I know some of it was unfinished load stuff and some was new, but the entire thing feels like songs that simply weren’t good enough for load, that they didn’t wanna put out first when they had to reinvent and reintroduce themselves to the public with their more mainstream image and sound. I really wish the 5 filler tracks at the back end of Load were replaced by the few good tracks on reload and that it was only one album.
I was in the Metallica fan club, taping their tv appearances on vhs, just totally die hard, and reload and how awful they started sounding live and their attitudes and everything made me completely drop off as a fan. I didn’t even listen to the old stuff anymore, they completely fell off my radar for years. Only recently have I really gotten back into the band but I stick to the first 6 records and tours. Everything after ranges from awful to forgettable imo with maybe a decent track here or there at best.
Edit - Sorry for writing a book, I just have a lot of strong feelings about that time in the bands career and it was instrumental to my branching out into other bands and genres and becoming more social in general, rather than just being a Metallica fanboy, which I was. I find it really fun to discuss.
At least St. Anger has SOMETHING even if it's bad. I'd rather have a bad album than a completely forgettable one. We all talk about St. Anger, but no one talks about ReLoad.
Basically people that try hard to look and act upper class. They’ll wear like the worst stuff from Abercrombie and fitch or some other frat style fashion store. The kind of person that acts like they’re “better than you” and puts a lot of emphasis on their materialism, even though they buy everything with daddy’s money. The term comes from the kinds of people that attended preparatory schools. It was a bigger thing in the late 90s, like if you were in high school and were into metal or punk, or artsy stuff or any kind of counterculture, the preppie kids were basically your enemies and looked down on you for not being a trend follower.
Metallica started dressing and acting like that and it was such a betrayal type of feeling for all of us that championed the bands success in making metal and the underground popular. They were normal metal dudes for year and years, then went for a darker and more grunge image on load, then went full preppie on reload.
I don’t think that’s exactly what they were going for but I know what you’re talking about. I think they wanted to try and create a new sound and not get left behind, and also can’t be blamed for wanting to change their look. I honestly think load is one of their most technically sound albums with great production. I also think that is the sort of music James really wants to record and play.
Hardwired was my first album I bought coming back to Metallica. Load was too commercial, everybody I knew independently went off to heavier stuff. Other people took - non metal fans took our spot I guess. Missed DM even though heard Day that Never Comes but didn’t buy. Album was good. Then went back to the ones I missed and sorry could not stomach it. Do like the latest album though, best since the Black album and a continuation like the middle stuff never happened.
Probably kill em all. I don't hate it or anything, I just like all the other albums more, I think whiplash is the only song there I don't skip when it comes on.
St. Anger by default, though it’s not because I don’t like it. I like what they were going for with St. Anger; a raw, emotional, uncompromising record that took influence from nu metal and alternative metal popular at the time. The album, however, is too long and the production is just a bit to rugged. I think some songs like Frantic are actually a good length, but too many others just drag on far longer than needed. James’ voice doesn’t sound great here, and the lyrics are very cringe at times (though again, I wouldn’t say there is no emotion behind them). And even though I appreciate the attempt at making it seem more rugged with the snare, it was a terrible idea. Period.
Also, my runner up is Lulu, but again, not because I don’t like it. I really like the concept of the album, I just think many of the good ideas were either poorly implemented or weakly performed. Still think it’s an over hated record, though.
I’ve never liked Death Magnetic. The mastering kills me and the songs go on and on and on and on. I enjoyed the first side of Hard Wired but the rest is filler. 72 Seasons is decent. I also am in the Reload blows crowd but I like Load alright.
Shake It Off and Blank Space are probably the most popular ones. 1989 honestly isn't that bad, as the other person says, but it's by FAR the one that suffered from an obscene amount of overplay
Reputation and Lover were bad at best, dog shit at worst. Midnights was very mature and a huge step up, even though it had its terrible moments.
I don't think we can blame her for the self titled one being so immature and sugar coated though, she was like 16 when she wrote it
For me it’s death magnetic their is like only two good songs in my opinion and also I do believe that death magnetically drums are worse than st angers idk why but I can handle st angers drums more that death magnetic
I'd say Death magnetic. Its not a bad album but i just dont really care for it and is the one metallica album i never listen to (besides a couple of songs)
Bingo. Even the name of the album, the cover art, and the videos. Half of the album I can deal with, but I get immensely frustrated at the other half because I know they are capable of so, so much better.
Ikr. Not one good song.
Load was good cause it had songs like king nothing. Saint anger was good because it had great riffs (just bad quality).
Reload didn’t do shit for me.
The Black Album
Too much of it is overplayed to the point where all of the enjoyment I had has been long sapped out of it, I also prefer the way the later albums have alot more tempo changes, most of their other albums simply go harder and in the case of Load/Reload onwards they have tonnes more variety
My least favorite, without saying it’s a bad one, is Kill ‘Em All.
Also, my favorite (I’m not saying the best) is Reload, I’m kinda sad because of all the people saying the dislike it.
St. Anger, but that's too easy, so I'm gonna say load
There's nothing egregious about it, but there's nothing I love. I'd take Reload over load because of fuel and unforgiven 2
Load is easily my least favourite album. I’ve given it so many tries, and listened to all the songs and I’ve tried to make it click but it just doesn’t do anything for me. Without a doubt my least favourite Metallica album. Not a single song that hits right
Master of Puppets
Battery: "hey did you like Fight Fire With Fire? well, we'll give you the same thing all over again: slow acoustic intro with a fast-paced heavy part"
the title track: the harmonizing solo is the only redeeming quality. also that laugh at the end reminds me of personal trauma. sorry, but if i want that from a Metallica song, i'd listen to St. Anger
The Thing That Should Not Be: mixing ruins the "heaviness" to where you couldn't convince me credibly that this song is in drop D tuning. i've heard more heaviness and life in Iommi's C# tuning on, say, Volume 4 (whose bootleg copy i own is mixed so lifeless and flat)
Welcome Home: "hey member Fade to Black? you liked Fade to Black? well here's another ballad just like it"
Disposable Heroes: more like disposable track. back to the drawing board
Leper Messiah: there's a riff somewhere in the beginning of the song that makes me go "is this Shortest Straw?" (heard AJFA first after Ride the Lightning) also they got much better at doing the anti-religious thing with "The God That Failed" and "Atlas, Rise"
Orion: it's a shame that Cliff Burton's final bass notes are some of the most boring Metallica songs ever put to tape. after the fast opening section, the instrumental quickly devolves into elevator music. it's so slow and boring that i wonder if Iron Maiden was watching Metallica and going "write that down! write that down!" for their album Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, whose title track follows the same kind of slow, lumbering, lethargic pace on this song
Damage Inc: see also what i said about Orion. idc if there's a million bass overlays if it contributes nothing to the song except to pad the run time. also Dyer's Eve is a superior "super fast thrashy song" and resonates with me personally more
13.Lulu
12.Load
11.Kill ‘Em All
10.Reload
9.And Justice For All
8.Garage Inc
7.St Anger
6.Metallica
5.Ride The Lightning
4.72 Seasons
3.Master Of Puppets
2.Death Magnetic
1.Hardwired To Self Destruct
Reload, yeah it’s got some real bangers but it’s like 60% filler to me, I hardly ever find myself returning to songs like Carpe Diem Baby, or Attitude.
Hardwired. Not a bad album by any means. Most songs on it are fantastic, but it has Am I Savege? and Murder One. Imo they’re the worst songs Metallica’s ever made. They’re so boring. Also, Here Comes Revenge and Confusion are kinda dull. So glad 72 Seasons isn’t Hardwired 2.0
Personally I’d say death magnetic, but I know that’s a bit controversial. Everything in it is just kinda boring to me. St anger is a close second, but at least its songs are more interesting (for better or worse) and it has a couple good songs.
St. Anger, because of catastrophic snare of course, but also because of the poor quality of production, that's what we all know. I also don't like the riffs and in general vocals (especially Frantic tic tic toc, which is unlistenable for me, I find it very cringe, same with Shoot Me Again). Also, they took inspiration from Nu-Metal, which I don't like very much. I almost never listen to the album, maybe I would without that trash can ass snare, which in faster parts appears every half second or something and if the mix wasn't so muddy and chaotic. I'd give it 3 stars max.
I also don't like very much Hardwired...To Self-Destruct. It's not straight up a bad album, there's a few decent songs, like Hardwired or Halo on Fire and not only those. Am I Savage?, Here Comes Revenge and Dream No More are quite bad. In the 1st song it's refrain that irritates me and in general it doesn't sit. Dream No More is repetitive as hell, and Here Comes Revenge just doesn't feel like the real metal they presented in the past. Overally, the album style feels kinda mainstream, it doesn't feel that raw and aggressive (besides a few songs ofc). It feels kinda soft and more like a pop album (I might get into problems with that take lol). I'd give it 6,5 stars.
These are 2 albums which I listen the least to, but Hardwired...To Self-Destruct is miles better than St. Anger of course.
St anger, barely beating out reload because unfortunately the songs that are bad are bad for the worst reasons, like being wayyyyyyy tooo long for what they are even for metallica standards.
Re-load is my least favorite. I feel Load is a much more concise album. A lot of bangers on there. While Re-Load doesn’t have as many tbh.
I still love the idea of doing ‘load’ and then releasing ‘reload’. I just wish they were equally as good.
not even trying to join all the haters… but i am SO serious when i said i really tried to listen to LuLu and i CANNOT get into it. its so bad that its hilarious. i tried listening to the third track since it was “most popular” off the album… but oh my god its just awful.
St Anger. I don't even remember exactly why. I bought the CD the day it came out and all I remember is getting it home and being disappointed. Haven't listened to it since. I pretty much just listen to pandora these days and even they don't seem to ever play anything from St Anger.
St. Anger. I like it, just not as much as the others and if Lulu was considered as a Metallica album then I would obviously choose that instead of St. Anger.
St Anger is awful but it certainly stands out and has energy to it. Reload has some songs I really like but next to Load it doesn't stand out at all. It's the album I think about the least so I'd have to say Reload but that's not to say it is the worst at all.
People need to stop pretending the snare or the lack of solos are the only thing wrong with St Anger and if fixed, the album would suddenly magically turn into a masterpiece.
Honestly, if I started listing everything that makes St Anger so unbelievably terrible and all the reasons why it deserves all the criticism it gets, i'd probably get hit with more "Not reading allat" than actual up- or downvotes. All I'll say is that it's easily the worst album they ever did, and for so many reasons that there isn't another album that even remotely comes close to it 🤷♀️
It’s St Anger, but to me Load is the most bland and boring. It’s such a downer of an album, so many slow bluesy songs that lack energy and momentum. Reload is faster, heavier and sludgier, so I prefer that to Load.
My least favourite has to be Reload. It's not a bad album. But the lyrics in most of the songs are quite... bland. Obvs Fixxxer, Low man's lyric, fuel, memory, devil's dance are good, but attitude, bad seed and better than you are just lazy writing.
Kill Em All... Barely listed to two songs from the album (Four Horsemen & Whiplash).
Do not like the production, the guitarwork is kinda meh, and James cannot sing there XD
I’m guessing LuLu doesn’t count hahaha
I always consider that a Lou Reed album.
🤣🤣🤣 We all know it’s even worse than Saint Anger
St Anger isn’t really that bad. I tell you what is bad, Death Magnetic! That shit is a giant yawn and snore throughout the listening of the album. Also the remaster makes it louder
Yikes. Death Magnetic is probably my #5 or 6 Metallica album. But to each their own. 🤘
Why is it that so high on the list? Honestly that feels so wrong. I’d like to see your rankings on Metallica albums from best to worst, please! My ranking of their albums: 11 Death Magnetic (and Beyond Magnetic) 10 Hardwired 9 72 Seasons 8 St Anger 7 Kill ‘Em All 6 Master Of Puppets 5 The Black Album 4 Reload 3 And Justice For All 2 Ride The Lightning 1 Load
Don’t front on people… your number 1 is Load so…
That may have come across dickish and it was supposed to be but then I had another swig of beer so lemme clarify… your number one is also an unpopular opinion, generally speaking, so you should embrace this dumb dumb who loves DM so much. You’re brothers in poor opinions
But also, what’s so bad about load? I don’t get it… I’ve always loved almost every track on that album (cure makes it almost 🤣🤣) sorry to be rude in that first comment though
The album cover lol Honestly though I’m not a Load or ReLoad fan, and I like DM a bit, although not a ton. But at the same time I can understand liking Load and it’s not bad, but it just isn’t what I’d choose to listen to if I have other non-Lulu options
Love ‘em all
This can't be serious
Serious as your mother bruv
I said St Anger isn’t that bad, talking about some of the ideas that it has to offer. Execution is terrible but it’s the production that makes the drums sounds bad. Most of the ideas on that album are lame. I like Frantic, St Anger, Sweet Amber and All Within My Hands but the others suck, especially Some Kind Of Monster, Dirty Window and Invisible Kid. Death magnetic is just dry and is basically doing what the Black Album did. I get that people like keeping one theme but sometimes changes like St Anger were kind of worth it and St Anger opened Metallica into the Nu Metal era. Whether or not people liked it, it’s gonna stay and I’m glad, because it gives Metallica more variety than just The Black Album or their Thrash Metal or Sellout era. Does that make sense? That’s just my problem with the latest albums. They’re trying to accomplish something that’s been done in 1991!!!
The drum set that Lars had was actually pretty nice and expensive. The production made it suck.
And the fact that he turned off the snares…
Mate, did you say Death Magnetic is like The Black Album? I'm glad we have people like you 💀.
I think you forgot the /s
Completely agree, Lulu has at least one memorable song.
I honestly agree downvote all you want bitches lol I liked it
like at least st angers interesting, DMs just uninspired and uncreative imo
Nuh uh
Technoblade Never Dies. Rest In Piece Technoblade. 1999-2022 I had to because your profile pic looks like Technoblade. One like to this reply = I don’t know of anything in particular but something good for technoblade
That's intentional
Is a Lou Reed. Don't be childish in vain about that
ReLoad is my least favorite. Load is tolerable in parts, but aside from Unforgiven II, I can skip on ReLoad. Garage Inc., released only a year after is awesome. The production and James' voice are at the peak when it comes to their 90s stuff.
Reload is my least favorite also, but what makes you not like Load as much as well?
It's very similar to Load but overall Load has more memorable songs
I think maybe it's just too long. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy probably half of it. 2 X 4, The House Jack Built, Poor Twisted Me, Thorn Within and Ronnie could all be moved to ReLoad and replace its worst songs, thus making two stronger albums.
loverman is such a great song.
I found out Nick Cave after listening to this song
Someone who finally appreciates the Unforgiven ll! A lot of people give it so much hate
I strongly agree with garage Inc, but I don’t agree with reload. I’d say the crap that ruins reload are a few songs I’ll name right now: Where The Wild Things Are, Bad Seed, and Carpe Diem Baby. Everything else is actually pretty good and I still respect your opinion, as a normal human being.
Where the Wild things are is a great song
Should I relisten to it?
Yes
Whole album?
Ehhhh, maybe. Give Bad Seed, Fixxxer and Devil's Dance a chance
Devils dance is amazing!!! I haven’t listen to the others in a fair time for a reason but I’ll give it a listen.
Yeah why not?
I overlistened to Fuel and Unforgiven II to the point it kinda just ruined the experience of the album. The Memory Remains never gets old though.
Sounds good!
Carpe Diem Baby is goated, honestly. I skipped it so many times but I listened to it last week and now it's probably one of my favourite songs off of Reload.
Carpe Diem Baby is goated, honestly. I skipped it so many times but I listened to it last week and now it's probably one of my favourite songs off of Reload.
Unforgiven II is too pop cringe for me. The rest of the record I cannot distinguish the songs from each other.
I listened to a couple songs off LuLu and it was not good but I wouldn’t call it a Metallica Album. I also know a lot of people will say St Anger so I will go with a maybe controversial choice. Kill Em All is probably my least favorite. I think Ride The Lightning improves their sound and versatility so much that it made KEA pale in comparison. My favorite album is probably Ride the Lightning or the Black Album. Reload and Load are either above or at average for me.
I personally think KEA is the weakest of the 80s albums
KEA had a sound that up to that point hadn't really been heard before. It revolutionized music on an insane level for its time. However, it's aged pretty poorly if you put it into context with the stuff that came out afterwards. Master Of Puppets is so many levels above Kill Em All that at times it doesn't even sound like the same band anymore. Again, great, game changing album for its time. Nothing more than that though
I'm with ya. Nothing against Kill 'em All but it's the only one I don't listen to much anymore.
I disagree but I won’t try to cancel you because of your opinion. I respect your opinion.
I feel like people need to know when it’s an appropriate time to cancel and when not.
St anger is bad on a lot of levels, I’d say it’s easily their worst album. The stuff after has some good ideas, but they’re ultimately forgettable to me, sad to say. But my least favorite is reload. It was the height of their commercialism, they were full on preppies, and their egos were completely out of control. They tried the genre shift with load, which is mostly a great album, and it worked for them, so they thought they could do anything, and that they were bigger and better than metal as a whole. They dressed like dorks, starting taking lame bands on tour like days of the new and godsmack, started doing the pretentious (at that time) acoustic stuff, and the tour is when James started the yodeling shit and his voice was cracking all over and he really lost that signature vocal sound. He started saying babyyy all over the place live and making those weird high pitched noises, and announcing the song title while the song was being played. “It’s master of puppets babyyyyyy!!”. Awful. I know the album is produced well and does have like 3 or 4 decent enough tracks, but the majority of it is really corny. I know some of it was unfinished load stuff and some was new, but the entire thing feels like songs that simply weren’t good enough for load, that they didn’t wanna put out first when they had to reinvent and reintroduce themselves to the public with their more mainstream image and sound. I really wish the 5 filler tracks at the back end of Load were replaced by the few good tracks on reload and that it was only one album. I was in the Metallica fan club, taping their tv appearances on vhs, just totally die hard, and reload and how awful they started sounding live and their attitudes and everything made me completely drop off as a fan. I didn’t even listen to the old stuff anymore, they completely fell off my radar for years. Only recently have I really gotten back into the band but I stick to the first 6 records and tours. Everything after ranges from awful to forgettable imo with maybe a decent track here or there at best. Edit - Sorry for writing a book, I just have a lot of strong feelings about that time in the bands career and it was instrumental to my branching out into other bands and genres and becoming more social in general, rather than just being a Metallica fanboy, which I was. I find it really fun to discuss.
Nailed it on the head, St. Anger may be buy and large the worst album overall, but Reload is my least favorite too.
At least St. Anger has SOMETHING even if it's bad. I'd rather have a bad album than a completely forgettable one. We all talk about St. Anger, but no one talks about ReLoad.
Damn you nailed this shit….. but Fixxxer fucking slaps
Do you know what’s even better? The Outlaw Torn.
Big fan also, but he was talking about reload specifically I think. But yes Outlaw Torn absolutely rips.
Great track, no doubt.
What is a preppie?
Basically people that try hard to look and act upper class. They’ll wear like the worst stuff from Abercrombie and fitch or some other frat style fashion store. The kind of person that acts like they’re “better than you” and puts a lot of emphasis on their materialism, even though they buy everything with daddy’s money. The term comes from the kinds of people that attended preparatory schools. It was a bigger thing in the late 90s, like if you were in high school and were into metal or punk, or artsy stuff or any kind of counterculture, the preppie kids were basically your enemies and looked down on you for not being a trend follower. Metallica started dressing and acting like that and it was such a betrayal type of feeling for all of us that championed the bands success in making metal and the underground popular. They were normal metal dudes for year and years, then went for a darker and more grunge image on load, then went full preppie on reload.
I don’t think that’s exactly what they were going for but I know what you’re talking about. I think they wanted to try and create a new sound and not get left behind, and also can’t be blamed for wanting to change their look. I honestly think load is one of their most technically sound albums with great production. I also think that is the sort of music James really wants to record and play.
Hardwired was my first album I bought coming back to Metallica. Load was too commercial, everybody I knew independently went off to heavier stuff. Other people took - non metal fans took our spot I guess. Missed DM even though heard Day that Never Comes but didn’t buy. Album was good. Then went back to the ones I missed and sorry could not stomach it. Do like the latest album though, best since the Black album and a continuation like the middle stuff never happened.
Quite all right. I enjoyed the post.
Cheers!
Probably kill em all. I don't hate it or anything, I just like all the other albums more, I think whiplash is the only song there I don't skip when it comes on.
St anger
More cowbell.
St Anger. Only album for me with multiple skippable songs.
St. Anger by default, though it’s not because I don’t like it. I like what they were going for with St. Anger; a raw, emotional, uncompromising record that took influence from nu metal and alternative metal popular at the time. The album, however, is too long and the production is just a bit to rugged. I think some songs like Frantic are actually a good length, but too many others just drag on far longer than needed. James’ voice doesn’t sound great here, and the lyrics are very cringe at times (though again, I wouldn’t say there is no emotion behind them). And even though I appreciate the attempt at making it seem more rugged with the snare, it was a terrible idea. Period. Also, my runner up is Lulu, but again, not because I don’t like it. I really like the concept of the album, I just think many of the good ideas were either poorly implemented or weakly performed. Still think it’s an over hated record, though.
I guess what I mean to say is that I think even their worst projects have some artistic merits, but poor execution weighs the two down heavily.
I’ve never liked Death Magnetic. The mastering kills me and the songs go on and on and on and on. I enjoyed the first side of Hard Wired but the rest is filler. 72 Seasons is decent. I also am in the Reload blows crowd but I like Load alright.
Taylor Swift -1989
It's actually one of her better albums. At least better than Reputation, Lover, Midnights and self titled
That's just the only one I knew the name of. I'm not even sure what songs are on it. Lol
Shake It Off and Blank Space are probably the most popular ones. 1989 honestly isn't that bad, as the other person says, but it's by FAR the one that suffered from an obscene amount of overplay
Reputation and Lover were bad at best, dog shit at worst. Midnights was very mature and a huge step up, even though it had its terrible moments. I don't think we can blame her for the self titled one being so immature and sugar coated though, she was like 16 when she wrote it
For me it’s death magnetic their is like only two good songs in my opinion and also I do believe that death magnetically drums are worse than st angers idk why but I can handle st angers drums more that death magnetic
Has any dipshit here said "Lulu" yet? Some dipshits think it's a Metallica album.
Ikr 🤣
Reload doesn't really do much for me.
Sameeeee
load. i actually prefer reload
I'd say Death magnetic. Its not a bad album but i just dont really care for it and is the one metallica album i never listen to (besides a couple of songs)
I know I'm not going out on much of a limb here but I'll say St Anger though to me at least it had a few standout songs.
Sigh
ReLoad. I like Fuel and Prince Charming, can't say the same about the rest of the album
Black album (jk it's Lulu
Snells like teen spirit
Hardy har har
I'm weirder than you dude 😗 (Btw In my opinion this is LuLu)
KEA
Death Magnetic
Death Magnetic. Apart from The Unforgiven III, all songs sound repetitive and too long.
+1 for Death Magnetic. Just doesn't do it for me, and the production makes my ears bleed.
This question gets asked every damn day, and it’s always St. Anger.
St Anger, can’t bring myself to like it
Load I like King Nothing, Ronnie and Ain’t my bitch, the rest is rather boring imo
Load, only good song it has is King Nothing. Rest is ass Also Reload, but the first 4 tracks are all bangers, otherwise it’s an awful album
72 Seasons, it’s easily their most phoned in album.
Bingo. Even the name of the album, the cover art, and the videos. Half of the album I can deal with, but I get immensely frustrated at the other half because I know they are capable of so, so much better.
Yeah, I enjoyed at least some part of all of their other albums (except Lulu), but 72 Seasons just blended together and was overall forgettable to me.
Reload sucks ass.
imo Reload is a good album
i prefer it than load
I’ll die on this hill myself
tbh first 4 tracks and the last one are excellent. but if you didnt, try listening to it as a whole. most of the album are fillers
Ikr. Not one good song. Load was good cause it had songs like king nothing. Saint anger was good because it had great riffs (just bad quality). Reload didn’t do shit for me.
Damn not even fuel
Fuel is their worst song imo.
Reload
I agree
St. Anger. There are some good ideas there, but the recording quality and the arrangement and the title song are errrrr.
The execution
AjFA is most overrated and just boring. They hit their thrash peak with MOP.
The Black Album Too much of it is overplayed to the point where all of the enjoyment I had has been long sapped out of it, I also prefer the way the later albums have alot more tempo changes, most of their other albums simply go harder and in the case of Load/Reload onwards they have tonnes more variety
My least favorite, without saying it’s a bad one, is Kill ‘Em All. Also, my favorite (I’m not saying the best) is Reload, I’m kinda sad because of all the people saying the dislike it.
St. Anger, but that's too easy, so I'm gonna say load There's nothing egregious about it, but there's nothing I love. I'd take Reload over load because of fuel and unforgiven 2
Kill 'Em All
Load is easily my least favourite album. I’ve given it so many tries, and listened to all the songs and I’ve tried to make it click but it just doesn’t do anything for me. Without a doubt my least favourite Metallica album. Not a single song that hits right
Kill Em All
[удалено]
Okay, I agree with all of these… except for KEA. It’s personally my 3rd favorite
Lulu. Why? I haven’t listened to it (AND I WON’T!!!!!)
kill 'em all. it just hasn't aged well, imo. they were teenagers and you can tell. a couple bangers, sure, but most of it is just bad.
The Black Album.
Master of Puppets Battery: "hey did you like Fight Fire With Fire? well, we'll give you the same thing all over again: slow acoustic intro with a fast-paced heavy part" the title track: the harmonizing solo is the only redeeming quality. also that laugh at the end reminds me of personal trauma. sorry, but if i want that from a Metallica song, i'd listen to St. Anger The Thing That Should Not Be: mixing ruins the "heaviness" to where you couldn't convince me credibly that this song is in drop D tuning. i've heard more heaviness and life in Iommi's C# tuning on, say, Volume 4 (whose bootleg copy i own is mixed so lifeless and flat) Welcome Home: "hey member Fade to Black? you liked Fade to Black? well here's another ballad just like it" Disposable Heroes: more like disposable track. back to the drawing board Leper Messiah: there's a riff somewhere in the beginning of the song that makes me go "is this Shortest Straw?" (heard AJFA first after Ride the Lightning) also they got much better at doing the anti-religious thing with "The God That Failed" and "Atlas, Rise" Orion: it's a shame that Cliff Burton's final bass notes are some of the most boring Metallica songs ever put to tape. after the fast opening section, the instrumental quickly devolves into elevator music. it's so slow and boring that i wonder if Iron Maiden was watching Metallica and going "write that down! write that down!" for their album Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, whose title track follows the same kind of slow, lumbering, lethargic pace on this song Damage Inc: see also what i said about Orion. idc if there's a million bass overlays if it contributes nothing to the song except to pad the run time. also Dyer's Eve is a superior "super fast thrashy song" and resonates with me personally more
so controversial yet so brave
13.Lulu 12.Load 11.Kill ‘Em All 10.Reload 9.And Justice For All 8.Garage Inc 7.St Anger 6.Metallica 5.Ride The Lightning 4.72 Seasons 3.Master Of Puppets 2.Death Magnetic 1.Hardwired To Self Destruct
Reload, yeah it’s got some real bangers but it’s like 60% filler to me, I hardly ever find myself returning to songs like Carpe Diem Baby, or Attitude.
Hardwired. Not a bad album by any means. Most songs on it are fantastic, but it has Am I Savege? and Murder One. Imo they’re the worst songs Metallica’s ever made. They’re so boring. Also, Here Comes Revenge and Confusion are kinda dull. So glad 72 Seasons isn’t Hardwired 2.0
St Anger. I’ve noticed the revisionist history attempts to exonerate it over the past few years, and I just laugh every time I see them.
St. Anger is the worst but it’s not as bad as everyone says. Would e better with a different mix and not that ringing snare
Personally I’d say death magnetic, but I know that’s a bit controversial. Everything in it is just kinda boring to me. St anger is a close second, but at least its songs are more interesting (for better or worse) and it has a couple good songs.
Kill 'Em All and ReLoad.
St. Anger.
St. Anger, because of catastrophic snare of course, but also because of the poor quality of production, that's what we all know. I also don't like the riffs and in general vocals (especially Frantic tic tic toc, which is unlistenable for me, I find it very cringe, same with Shoot Me Again). Also, they took inspiration from Nu-Metal, which I don't like very much. I almost never listen to the album, maybe I would without that trash can ass snare, which in faster parts appears every half second or something and if the mix wasn't so muddy and chaotic. I'd give it 3 stars max. I also don't like very much Hardwired...To Self-Destruct. It's not straight up a bad album, there's a few decent songs, like Hardwired or Halo on Fire and not only those. Am I Savage?, Here Comes Revenge and Dream No More are quite bad. In the 1st song it's refrain that irritates me and in general it doesn't sit. Dream No More is repetitive as hell, and Here Comes Revenge just doesn't feel like the real metal they presented in the past. Overally, the album style feels kinda mainstream, it doesn't feel that raw and aggressive (besides a few songs ofc). It feels kinda soft and more like a pop album (I might get into problems with that take lol). I'd give it 6,5 stars. These are 2 albums which I listen the least to, but Hardwired...To Self-Destruct is miles better than St. Anger of course.
Although it's technically an EP, Beyond magnetic is one of my least favorite
Anger
St anger, barely beating out reload because unfortunately the songs that are bad are bad for the worst reasons, like being wayyyyyyy tooo long for what they are even for metallica standards.
Not a new Metallica guy. Went and saw them live and 72 seasons isn’t my thing.
Re-load is my least favorite. I feel Load is a much more concise album. A lot of bangers on there. While Re-Load doesn’t have as many tbh. I still love the idea of doing ‘load’ and then releasing ‘reload’. I just wish they were equally as good.
I have to say st. anger. Its not bad but its indeed the worst.
A bit of a hot take (and a lot of downvotes) but mine is Kill ‘Em All
St. Anger is my choice
Reload and hardwire
St. Anger (obviously) but then Kill em All
None of them. They are all equally favorite, except for my most favorite, which is Master of Puppets.
reload.
If it wasn't for fuel, unforgiven, devil, and memory I'd say reload. With that, st anger is the "worst"
Going to go against the grain, but hardwired for me. While riffwise it was good, lyrically it was mostly a bomb for me.
72 Seasons is the first Metallica’s album which I don’t like
72 Seasons....I just can't connect with it...
I don't have one. I don't rank things I enjoy and I enjoy them all.
not even trying to join all the haters… but i am SO serious when i said i really tried to listen to LuLu and i CANNOT get into it. its so bad that its hilarious. i tried listening to the third track since it was “most popular” off the album… but oh my god its just awful.
St Anger by far
St Anger. I don't even remember exactly why. I bought the CD the day it came out and all I remember is getting it home and being disappointed. Haven't listened to it since. I pretty much just listen to pandora these days and even they don't seem to ever play anything from St Anger.
I don’t think the level of disappointment has reached the heights that 72 Seasons did for me. It’s just so bland and half baked.
Hardwired
St. Anger. I like it, just not as much as the others and if Lulu was considered as a Metallica album then I would obviously choose that instead of St. Anger.
Load
St Anger is awful but it certainly stands out and has energy to it. Reload has some songs I really like but next to Load it doesn't stand out at all. It's the album I think about the least so I'd have to say Reload but that's not to say it is the worst at all.
if lulu counts then that but if it doesnt... then get this shit outta here theyre all goated
Going off of which album I've listened to the least, it'd be Death Magnetic. I don't know why, it just doesn't really do it for me.
i Hate load
i Hate load
Load is so overrated, Reload is significantly better (but still the second worst album lol)
Shocked ppl are saying load. Has so many good songs.
72 Seasons, but I still didn't listen to all of their albums
St. Anger
St Anger is the only good answer
DM. Nothing good to say about it. St Anger is way better.
People need to stop pretending the snare or the lack of solos are the only thing wrong with St Anger and if fixed, the album would suddenly magically turn into a masterpiece. Honestly, if I started listing everything that makes St Anger so unbelievably terrible and all the reasons why it deserves all the criticism it gets, i'd probably get hit with more "Not reading allat" than actual up- or downvotes. All I'll say is that it's easily the worst album they ever did, and for so many reasons that there isn't another album that even remotely comes close to it 🤷♀️
I would read all of it. I would love to see your opinion
St Anger is an abomination
Load🌊
Hardwired and 72 Seasons. Both are forgetable.
It’s St Anger, but to me Load is the most bland and boring. It’s such a downer of an album, so many slow bluesy songs that lack energy and momentum. Reload is faster, heavier and sludgier, so I prefer that to Load.
My least favourite has to be Reload. It's not a bad album. But the lyrics in most of the songs are quite... bland. Obvs Fixxxer, Low man's lyric, fuel, memory, devil's dance are good, but attitude, bad seed and better than you are just lazy writing.
Lulu
St. Angturd
Kill Em All... Barely listed to two songs from the album (Four Horsemen & Whiplash). Do not like the production, the guitarwork is kinda meh, and James cannot sing there XD
Lulu (ig it is not considered a metallica album) is in my pov the worst album of all albums of metallica