Album of the day (#1922): Ride The Lightning by Metallica - Music

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Today's album of the day

Ride The Lightning by Metallica (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1984.
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Overall rank: 193
Average rating: 81/100 (from 612 votes).

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Tracks:
1. Fight Fire With Fire
2. Ride The Lightning
3. For Whom The Bell Tolls
4. Fade To Black
5. Trapped Under Ice
6. Escape
7. Creeping Death
8. The Call Of Ktulu

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Applerill

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"Fade to Black" is one of the greatest songs ever made. Most of the rest of this is pretty lame, though.

Grzywa

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Their best. Fight Fire With Fire, For Whom The Bell Tolls and The Call of Ktulu are my favourites, but the whole album is ace. Master of Puppets lived up to this standard, but for me it went all the way down from there.
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AAL2014

I've always had Master of Puppets ranked a bit higher but this album is still awesome. I'm interested to see what this record will sound like when they release the remaster next month.
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RockyRaccoon

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My absolute favorite Metallica album. Proof that Metallica can not only write long epic works like "The Call of Ktulu", but also tight, right in your face metal thrashers like "Trapped Under Ice". Plus, "Fade To Black" is one of the greatest songs of the 80s and one of the greatest songs in metal. The guitar work is killer, and each and every song on this album is unique in its own way, they all have their own sonic identity. This was the album that showed that Metallica was more than thrashing riffs and fast guitars.
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Mercury

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I probably worshipped this album more than any other my entire life. At 13 I still distinctly remember buying the CD, ripping the plastic wrap off, then listening to it with headphones on my old ass computer. I definitely had my jaw dropped in awe as the acoustic beauty of the intro gave way to the most absolutely overwhelmingly powerful and fast shit I'd ever heard. and everything about it was legend to me, the back pictures of the band, the cover art, the sound, the speed and power, it was all so mythic in my mind. It was like I finally found that artist that connected perfectly with me. I listened to this hundreds of times. I traced the pictures of the band, the cover, and I definitely drew their logo very badly on all my school notebooks, I proclaimed that Kirk Hammett was God to everyone who'd listen. I rebelliously told my dad that Metallica was the greatest hard rock or metal band ever and that they swept the floor with Zeppelin. To my dad that was concerning and blasphemous. This was truly probably the most important album for getting me into music in my life (right next to "The Times They Are A-Changin'"). This was the first time I comsidere myself a music fan.

Anyway, to this day I still consider it a classic and mostly all perfect. Metallica were just sooo fucking great in the day.
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Grzywa

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Mercury wrote:

I probably worshipped this album more than any other my entire life. At 13 I still distinctly remember buying the CD, ripping the plastic wrap off, then listening to it with headphones on my old ass computer. I definitely had my jaw dropped in awe as the acoustic beauty of the intro gave way to the most absolutely overwhelmingly powerful and fast shit I'd ever heard. and everything about it was legend to me, the back pictures of the band, the cover art, the sound, the speed and power, it was all so mythic in my mind. It was like I finally found that artist that connected perfectly with me. I listened to this hundreds of times. I traced the pictures of the band, the cover, and I definitely drew their logo very badly on all my school notebooks, I proclaimed that Kirk Hammett was God to everyone who'd listen. I rebelliously told my dad that Metallica was the greatest hard rock or metal band ever and that they swept the floor with Zeppelin. To my dad that was concerning and blasphemous. This was truly probably the most important album for getting me into music in my life (right next to "The Times They Are A-Changin'"). This was the first time I comsidere myself a music fan.

Anyway, to this day I still consider it a classic and mostly all perfect. Metallica were just sooo fucking great in the day.

Cool story. I particularly like the dad bit. He must have been really pissed off Razz

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AAL2014

Mercury wrote:

I probably worshipped this album more than any other my entire life. At 13 I still distinctly remember buying the CD, ripping the plastic wrap off, then listening to it with headphones on my old ass computer. I definitely had my jaw dropped in awe as the acoustic beauty of the intro gave way to the most absolutely overwhelmingly powerful and fast shit I'd ever heard. and everything about it was legend to me, the back pictures of the band, the cover art, the sound, the speed and power, it was all so mythic in my mind. It was like I finally found that artist that connected perfectly with me. I listened to this hundreds of times. I traced the pictures of the band, the cover, and I definitely drew their logo very badly on all my school notebooks, I proclaimed that Kirk Hammett was God to everyone who'd listen. I rebelliously told my dad that Metallica was the greatest hard rock or metal band ever and that they swept the floor with Zeppelin. To my dad that was concerning and blasphemous. This was truly probably the most important album for getting me into music in my life (right next to "The Times They Are A-Changin'"). This was the first time I comsidere myself a music fan.

Anyway, to this day I still consider it a classic and mostly all perfect. Metallica were just sooo fucking great in the day.

That's beautiful. I love seeing stories like that because they're so similar to mine with Metallica. I had a very similar experience except I didn't buy mine until much later. My friend (the only metalhead in the middle school, bless his heart) burned me Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets and drew the Metallica logo on each one. Those copies skip now, but I'll always keep em.
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denmarkman

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Age: 32

It's been a while since I heard this album, or any Metallica, tbh. This album's hella dope, though. Ultimately it's probably my favorite of theirs, though depending on the day any of their first three could be my fav. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is the key track here; that shit's fucking massive.

Fischman

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This one holds a vaunted place in my collection. It sits as a very close second behind Master of Puppets. In addition to Fade to Black, For Whom the Bell Tolls and Creeping Death are high water marks for Metallica. The rest are no slouches either.