Yes I fully understand that it’s a legendary piece of work.
We will have to file that under what could have been though! What makes it even more galling is that they would release “Beyond Magnetic” 3 years later with 4 much better songs that would have been a brilliant second half to the album. “All Nightmare Long” and “Broken, Beat & Scarred” are exceptional as is a furiously overlooked “Cyanide”, it’s just a shame that the final 4 songs are pretty awful, especially “The Unforgiven III”. This should leave the fans happy as it’s ticking all the boxes Puppets, Lighting, Justice and Black did.īut, it’s doing it with a lower calibre of songs that again are too long and as mentioned at the start are arguably poorly produced and clip the sound at every turn. This is, if it’s possible, the most formulaic Metallica album, as it follows their usual structure of two fast ones to start, then a slow one, a ballad at about two thirds in a penultimate epic instrumental number before trying to thrash it all out to close. Some fair, some not, none of them really deal breakers.įor me this is an album, that much like ReLoad runs out of steam and tails off for the last couple of songs. Something something Lars is a bad drummer and he probably kicks the disabled….Īll things I have seen thrown at this album over the years.
Unfortunately despite the positives, this collection was lacking direction and consistency, yes “Fuel” is awesome, “Bad Seed” is great fun and the groove on “Devil’s Dance” is ridiculous.īut, as they wander like a drunk after the beer soaked fun of the other songs into the gutter and poorly lit alleys of nothing with songs like “Low Mans Lyric” and “Where The Wild Things Are” the leftovers tag starts to feel applicable as this is an album that runs out of steam and is padded out with a few fillers. Some embraced the change and appreciated the extra melody and the quite frankly huge sound Bob Rock had given the band. The worlds largest metal band cut their hair, started wearing suits and released to heavy rock albums back to back, this was sacrilege to their thrash fans. The second half/leftovers (delete as applicable) of the post black album slump double hit from the Load sessions. Then comes the orchestra, acknowledged it could be written off as a sneaky best of set, just sayin, but beyond that hearing the huge orchestral versions of some of the songs transformed them into something magical, highlights for myself being “One” and “Master of Puppets” which now by comparison sound quite flat and dull in their studio form. But as it’s Metallica they aren’t just normal live or covers albums, the bundling of past with what was current songs and line ups on Garage Inc was a nice twist on the tried and tested cover album formula, and the sheer size of Binge and Purge set it apart. I’m bundling this lot together here as despite them being amazing, I’m not sure I should be putting them above any of the actual decent studio albums!īut I do still think they deserve a place in this list even if they are just covers and live albums.
#All metallica albums plus#
The awful drums, the overlong songs, the lack of solos.Īll fair and often suggested gripes with this album.įor me, the songs were dull, it was nice to see the hand trying a few different options with the slower and heavier doom of “Some Kind of Monster”, but for me, much like the other 6 and 7 minute plus length songs, they didn’t do enough to hold my attention.ġ0/11/12. With things like this sometimes it’s hard to pick a bottom album and single one out as bands worst, despite the dizzying heights that they have reached picking the bottom few for Metallica wasn’t ever going to be that much of a challenge, Lulu sadly was an artistic experiment that went very wrong and is only good for two things, a shiny coaster and table related memes. Have a read below and see what you think. Probably over time a band that I have listened to more than any other, I set myself the challenge of ranking the catalogue of Metallica albums in order of awesome/greatness/gashness.
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