Metallica playlist 1992 - 2009

Recon

It was Kess73's idea here.

So what songs from after the Black album would you add to make up your playlist? Metallica originals only (no stuff from Garage Inc). And we'll see if there is an entire album's worth of good songs from the last 17 years (that seems like a really long time actually!)

Kess73

I think it has to be more than just good songs, it has to be an album worth of songs that can stand up as Metallica classics.


Have they written 8 to 10 classic songs in the last 17 years? Maybe we will find out

Recon

Kess73 wrote: »

I think it has to be more than just good songs, it has to be an album worth of songs that can stand up as Metallica classics.


Have they written 8 to 10 classic songs in the last 17 years? Maybe we will find out

That's what I meant

Been thinking about it since I posted my first message and I don't think there are 8 - 10 songs that could make anything near as good as Master of Puppets, what did they spend the last 17 years doing?

Malice

Okay so the options are:

Load
1. "Ain't My Bitch"
2. "2 x 4"
3. "The House Jack Built"
4. "Until It Sleeps"
5. "King Nothing"
6. "Hero of the Day"
7. "Bleeding Me"
8. "Cure"
9. "Poor Twisted Me"
10. "Wasting My Hate"
11. "Mama Said"
12. "Thorn Within"
13. "Ronnie"
14. "The Outlaw Torn"

Reload
1. "Fuel"
2. "The Memory Remains"
3. "Devil's Dance"
4. "The Unforgiven II"
5. "Better than You"
6. "Slither"
7. "Carpe Diem Baby"
8. "Bad Seed"
9. "Where the Wild Things Are"
10. "Prince Charming"
11. "Low Man's Lyric"
12. "Attitude"
13. "Fixxxer"

St. Anger
1. "Frantic"
2. "St. Anger"
3. "Some Kind of Monster"
4. "Dirty Window"
5. "Invisible Kid"
6. "My World"
7. "Shoot Me Again"
8. "Sweet Amber"
9. "The Unnamed Feeling"
10. "Purify"
11. "All Within My Hands"

Death Magnetic
1. "That Was Just Your Life"
2. "The End of the Line"
3. "Broken, Beat & Scarred"
4. "The Day That Never Comes"
5. "All Nightmare Long"
6. "Cyanide"
7. "The Unforgiven III"
8. "The Judas Kiss"
9. "Suicide & Redemption"
10. "My Apocalypse"

I hated Load on its release and I haven't bothered listening to it since so that album is out for me. I don't think I've ever listened to Reload properly so that's out too. St. Anger might have some good songs on it but I can't bring myself to listen to it properly either. The production on the album ruins it.

That just leaves Death Magnetic which isn't bad and compared to the others is easily their best album since 1991. My playlist would therefore be:

1. "That Was Just Your Life"
2. "The End of the Line"
3. "Broken, Beat & Scarred"
4. "The Day That Never Comes"
5. "All Nightmare Long"
6. "Cyanide"
7. "The Unforgiven III"
8. "The Judas Kiss"
9. "Suicide & Redemption"
10. "My Apocalypse"

Recon

I think St. Anger had a few really good bits of songs but no one song on it was brilliant from start to finish.

Malice

I think a much better thread would be trying to put together a Metallica playlist from 1983 - 1991. A playlist from 1992 - 2009 is all about finding the least bad songs rather than painful deliberations over which classic song to leave out.

Tirabaralla

As opposite...this would be too easy for me, based on personal tastes, cause I love Load and I do like Reload.

120_Minutes

1. "Ain't My Bitch"
2. "Until It Sleeps"
3. "Hero of the Day"
4. "Bleeding Me"
5. "Wasting My Hate"
6. "The Outlaw Torn"
7. "Fuel"
8. "Fixxxer"
9. "Suicide & Redemption"

Honourable Mention

10. "I Disappear"



sadly, i was stretching to get 10 songs. nothing from stink anger as its an abortion of an album, and s&r was the only thing i could tolerate off DM. "disappear" is a no brainer, as i think (possibly in the minority) thats its a cracker of a tune, and pisses on anything from st anger.

Doctor J

By looking at their recent live set lists maybe they feel the same way too :pac:

Recon

That's not a bad one 120_Minutes, only one I'd take out would be Fuel.

buck65

No. 1 - Erm em emmmmmm

I'll have to get back to you

Otis Driftwood

Death Magnetic
1. "That Was Just Your Life"
2. "The End of the Line"
3. "Broken, Beat & Scarred"
4. "The Day That Never Comes"
5. "All Nightmare Long"
6. "Cyanide"
7. "The Unforgiven III"
8. "The Judas Kiss"
9. "Suicide & Redemption"
10. "My Apocalypse"

Whilst its by no means a classic Metallica album,its stands well above the preceeding 3 IMO.

ShawnRaven

The problem with Metallica's 95-97 releases were, they were both horrible albums.
Given the songs recorded and released around that time period, they could have easily made one great album and one bad album in load and reload, as both of them do have some good songs in there. They weren't both complete abortions for albums.

But they threw in some killer but mostly filler in both albums, making them both suck overall. But take the killer from both albums and you will make a good album out of it.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

in no particular order, just ten songs

1) Mama said
2) The Outlaw Torn
3) Cure
4) low mans lyric
5) Fixxer
6)judas kiss
7)all nightmare long
8)unforgien 3
9)king nothing
10) im gona leave this blank on the assumption that there is one decent song on st. anger, I just can't bring myself to listen to it enough to find it.

rainbow kirby

Captain Mords Spiced Bum wrote: »

in no particular order, just ten songs

1) Mama said
2) The Outlaw Torn
3) Cure
4) low mans lyric
5) Fixxer
6)judas kiss
7)all nightmare long
8)unforgien 3
9)king nothing
10) im gona leave this blank on the assumption that there is one decent song on st. anger, I just can't bring myself to listen to it enough to find it.

Would have gone with pretty much the same selection. St Anger really is an absolute abomination of an album.

faceman

Meh, the band are going for 27 years you hardly expect them to make the same music over that long period.

The exact same discussion can be had with AC/DC and Rolling Stones.

Malice

ShawnRaven wrote: »

The problem with Metallica's 95-97 releases were, they were both horrible albums.
Given the songs recorded and released around that time period, they could have easily made one great album and one bad album in load and reload, as both of them do have some good songs in there. They weren't both complete abortions for albums.

But they threw in some killer but mostly filler in both albums, making them both suck overall. But take the killer from both albums and you will make a good album out of it.

I struggle to find anything positive in Load and Reload so out of curiosity, where are these killer tracks on those albums?

ShawnRaven

malice_ wrote: »

I struggle to find anything positive in Load and Reload so out of curiosity, where are these killer tracks on those albums?

Load:
Ain't My Bitch
King Nothing
Hero Of The Day
Bleeding Me
Wasting My Hate

Reload:
Fuel
Better Than You
Prince Charming
Attitide
Fixxxer

Ok so Hero, and Bleeding are a bit on the soft side, but Metallica fell into ballad territory back in 1988, so this is one we can't pin the blame on Bob Rock for. But i honestly think that the above would actually make a decent album. Would it be a masterpiece on Puppets level, no, of course not, they've yet to do that though, and probably aren't likely to do so either.

But it would be a lot better than the two seperate albums that came out at that time.

120_Minutes

malice_ wrote: »

I struggle to find anything positive in Load and Reload so out of curiosity, where are these killer tracks on those albums?

at the time there wasnt. but with hindsight they werent the crap we thought they were. but i do remember being impressed more by the mid tempo tunes (hero, outlaw, thorn) that anything else. and after sitting through the "meh-fest" of reload to be rewarded by the curveball that is "fixxer"...well i dont know about anyone else, but i'd never heard them try a song like that before.

i'd go so far as saying that hero, until it sleeps, fixxer and i disappear were metallicas best 90's songs. hell even kirk thinks the hero solo is his best.


pointless trivia: load was the first metallica album kirk played rhythm on.

ShawnRaven

120_Minutes wrote: »

hell even kirk thinks the hero solo is his best.

Funny you mention this. I remember hearing that song (didn't get the album when it came out, but this was the second single if i recall correctly), and thinking "so basic, yet still so powerful at the same time"

Bizarre video though.

pointless trivia: load was the first metallica album kirk played rhythm on.

Wasn't actually aware of this. Metallirhythm sounds like Metallirhythm to me.

120_Minutes

ShawnRaven wrote: »

Wasn't actually aware of this. Metallirhythm sounds like Metallirhythm to me.

thats cos up to then it had been all james! kirk didnt play a single note on nothing else matters

ShawnRaven

120_Minutes wrote: »

thats cos up to then it had been all james! kirk didnt play a single note on nothing else matters

My point was, it didn't sound any diff on Load & Reload

Degag

ShawnRaven wrote: »

Funny you mention this. I remember hearing that song (didn't get the album when it came out, but this was the second single if i recall correctly), and thinking "so basic, yet still so powerful at the same time"

Bizarre video though.



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That the one with the prostitute in it?

120_Minutes

no you're thinking of turn the page.



the hero video was like somebody channel surfing, except metallica were on every channel, in various guises

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEETC3msD9U

ShawnRaven

That video also featured a girl coming over and laying the guy watching the TV.
Dunno if she was meant to be his girlfriend or a prostitute though

Creeping-Death

No particular order then

Ain't My Bitch
Fuel
Better Than You
Bleeding Me
Low Man's Lyric
Hero Of The Day
All Nightmare Long
Cyanide
I Disappear

St Anger just failed as an album. Suppose No Leaf Clover and -Human are worth a mention too, they weren't so bad..

lord lucan

Ain't my bitch
2X4
King nothing
Hero of the day
Wasting my hate
The memory remains
Bad seed
Prince charming
Attitude
I disappear
Frantic
All within my hands
That was just your life
The end of the line
Broken,beat and scarred
The day that never comes
All nightmare long
Cyanide
The unforgiven 3
The judas kiss
Suicide & redemption
My apocalypse