Bloopy
Active Member
No order changes for me here. To evaluate 72 Seasons better I worked out my track ratings of the band. So here's my list with track rating averages (including counting some tracks as 4.75/5):
1. ...And Justice for All (4.86)
2. Reload (4.0)
3. Ride the Lightning (4.22)
4. Kill 'Em All (4.2)
5. Master of Puppets (4.0)
6. Lulu
7. Load (3.57)
8. Death Magnetic (3.1)
9. St. Anger (3.0)
10. Metallica (3.19)
11. 72 Seasons (2.88)
12. Hardwired...to Self Destruct (2.75)
I can justify Reload being up 2 spots from its average as I've got eight songs on it rated 4.5 or higher, so a few duds can be overlooked. Plus the s/t down 2 spots as basically the whole run of 5 songs from The Unforgiven to Nothing Else Matters displeases my arse for one thing. It's mindboggling how much more entertaining St. Anger is even when it's being hilariously bad. Death Magnetic has few lows but hardly any highs either.
Even though MoP has a 4 average, I rated the album 3.5. Perhaps not even due to my song/album rating tiers not marrying up, but more a case of the plodding whole being less than the sum of its parts somehow.
Lulu is a transcendental journey through an orthogonal plane of existence where track ratings become meaningless.
