GMD Poll: Metallica's Albums Ranked

[crimsonfloyd]

Directions: Rank Metallica’s 11 studio albums. Order and number each album 1-11. Ties are not allowed. Your first place album earns 11 points, your second place album earns 10 points, etc.

You may rank as few as 6 albums. Lists with less than 6 albums will not be counted. If you list less than 11 albums, the first placed album will still get 11 points, the last placed album will still get 1 point, and the albums in between will have points distributed proportionately. The average points earned for albums that are not listed will not be impacted positively or negatively, so if you don't rank an album, you neither help it or hurt it.

At the end, the albums will be ranked based on their average number of points per vote.

You have until July 23rd to finalize your list, re-familiarize yourself albums you haven’t heard in a while, familiarize yourself with albums you haven’t heard at all, lobby for any albums you think are underrated, and lobby against any albums you think are overrated.

And please, no pseudo-Machiavelli shit. Just rank them as you see them.

List of albums:
Kill ‘Em All (1983)
Ride the Lightning (1984)
Master of Puppets (1986)
…and Justice for All (1988)
Metallica (1991)
Load (1996)
ReLoad (1997)
St. Anger (2003)
Death Magnetic (2008)
LuLu (2011)
Hardwired… to Self Destruct (2016)

 

[Bloopy]

Any thoughts on including Garage Inc. and S&M, considering both are more Metallica than Lulu?

 

[Talos of Atmora]

LuLu and St. Anger are basically guaranteed to be at the very bottom.

Any thoughts on including Garage Inc. and S&M, considering both are more Metallica than Lulu?

Considering that one entirely consists of covers and the other is a ludicrously random orchestral album (which is pretty much rendered pointless due to Yngwie Malmsteen's similar release the year before blowing it out of the water), I'd leave them out.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Any thoughts on including Garage Inc. and S&M, considering both are more Metallica than Lulu?

I left them out for the reasons Talos mentioned. I guess I could see the case for Garage Inc., since it is in a sense a studio album, but definitely no live albums.

 

[CiG]

1. Ride the Lightning (1984)
2. Kill ‘Em All (1983)
3. Master of Puppets (1986)
4. …and Justice for All (1988)
5. Metallica (1991)
6. ReLoad (1997)
7. St. Anger (2003)
8. Load (1996)
9. Hardwired… to Self Destruct (2016) <~ I've only heard one song, it sounded better than what I heard on Death Magnetic.
10. Death Magnetic (2008)
11. LuLu (2011)

 

[The Ozzman]

I may not even do this one. I'm so burned out on this band that I don't even care even though I suggested it. I may just revisit everything after 1991 instead and then rate accordingly. I haven't listened to Reload in years.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1. Ride the Lightning (1984)
2. Master of Puppets (1986)
3. …and Justice for All (1988)
4. Kill ‘Em All (1983)
5. Metallica (1991)
6. Load (1996)
7. LuLu (2011)
8. ReLoad (1997)
9. Hardwired… to Self Destruct (2016)
10. St. Anger (2003)
11. Death Magnetic (2008)

 

[Satanstoenail]

1. Master of Puppets
2. Ride the Lightning
3. ...and Justice for All
4. Kill 'Em All
5. Metallica
6. Death Magnetic
7. Hardwired.. to Self Destruct
8. Load
9. Reload
10. Lulu
11. St. Anger

 

[no country for old wainds]

1) ride the lightning
2) master of puppets
3) ...and justice for all
4) kill 'em all
5) load
6) metallica
7) reload
8) hardwired... to self destruct
9) lulu
10) death magnetic
11) st. anger

 

[CF87]

1`Ride the Lightning.
2`Kill 'em All.
3`Master of Puppets.
4`S/T.
5`.....and Justice for All.
6`Load.
7`Reload.

have not heard anything else in entirety.

 

[Baroque]

I still talk about Metallica regularly with casual metal friends, will post a list later. Only one I haven't heard is LuLu.

Garage Inc I would rate above some of their other original albums

 

[RedinTheSky]

1. Ride The Lightning
2. Master Of Puppets
3. Kill Em All
4. And Justice For All
5. Metallica
6. Load

First three are pretty interchangable in order, AJFA is still a great album, S/T has some good moments but has this grossly commercial feel to it, and everything else is just a long faded memory of how this band that has some near perfect albums descended into different forms of abysmal unlistenability.

 

[Baroque]

1. RtL
2. AJFA
3. MoP
4. KeA
5. Metallica
6. Death Magnetic
7. Hardwired
8. Load

Edit: rate the other 3 however you want 9,10,11 because arbitrary point system and I don't care

 

[EspaDa]

1. Ride the Lightning
2. And Justice for All
3. Master of Puppets
4. Kill 'Em All
5. Metallica
6. Death Magnetic
7. Reload
8. Load
9. St. Anger
10. Lulu

 

[Vegard Pompey]

1. ...And Justice for All
2. Ride the Lightning
3. Master of Puppets
4. Kill 'Em All
5. Metallica
6. St. Anger
7. Death Magnetic

 

[The Ozzman]

1. Kill ‘Em All
2. Ride the Lightning
3. …and Justice for All
   
4. Master of Puppets
5. Metallica
6. Load
7. ReLoad
8. St. Anger
9. Death Magnetic
10. Hardwired… to Self Destruct

I refuse to listen to LuLu. The second half of Load is stronger than I remember.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

1) Ride the Lightning
2) Kill Em All
3) Master of Puppets
4) ...And Justice For All
5) Metallica
6) Hardwired...to Self Destruct
7) Death Magnetic
8) Load
9) Reload

i really did not want to give points to anything after #5.

 

[Anom@nder Rake]

so i'm listening to Lulu now for the first time holy fuck this is horrible. i didn't even realize it's an entire album. i was under the impression that it was a single or EP. satan bless anyone that can sit through this for TWO HOURS

 

[crimsonfloyd]

1) Ride the Lightning
2) Kill Em All
3) Master of Puppets
4) ...And Justice For All
5) Metallica
6) Hardwired...to Self Destruct

i really did not want to give points to anything after #5.

FYI, since its based on the average points per vote (mean), not listing the other albums doesn't hurt them. If anything, it helps them.

 

[Burkhard]

1. Ride the Lightning
2. Master of Puppets
3. Kill 'Em All
4. ...And Justice for All
5. Metallica
6. St. Anger