kill em all - cool to listen to, but i dont really like it as such.. solos are fast but very pentatonic-ish.. voice way to high and young
master of puppets/ride the lightning - still love these albums, master of puppets, sanitarium, fade to black, fuck it... every song of those albums is great. love them. Some obvious song formulas but they did it well.
And justice for all... Probably musically their best, although some of the recording sounds leave a bit to be desired (im talking mainly drum sounds).. very cool music on this one. Songs arent so ordinarily structured, (not just the int-ver-ch-ver-ch-solo-out structure which they used so much with variatians on earlier albums)
Black - Unforgiven still gets me going, as does My Friend Of Misery, the rest of the album ive really lost interest in, although id still say its good, it wasnt as good.
Load/Reload - Some good rock tunes, not to be listened to the same way their earlier albums were, but still i dont mind some of the songs... not musically masterful at all though.
Garage Inc. - i love some songs of this CD - they are really fun and some good plain old rock.
i only listen to a few metallica songs once every 2 months or so, but i still like them once i hear them, not as much to hold my interest as the stuff i listen to now but they still have their place, and despite what everyone reckons about them i think they are doing what they want so im not gonna knock them just because i dont happen to like their current stuff as much.
i loved james' guitar work, and his voice (for a commercial acceptable voice, its good). Hammets solos got repetative but there were a few jems amongst them. Lars drums are pretty bad and very boring. Jason hasnt made much of a noticeable impact. And Cliff was cool, he wrote some of the cool melodic bits on earlier albums and was a much needed different influence.