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- #1
- Posted: 09/24/2013 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1041): Ride The Lightning by Metallica
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Today's album of the day
Ride The Lightning by Metallica (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1984.
Country: 
Overall rank: 206
Average rating: 80/100 (from 368 votes).
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
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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drakonium
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- #2
- Posted: 09/24/2013 20:02
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Awesome. Tied with Master Of Puppets as my favorite Metallica album (though I haven't heard Kill 'Em All and ...And Justice For All), I really need to re-listen to both to make myself a clearer opinion.
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- Posted: 09/24/2013 20:05
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Oooh!  I love it. My fourth favorite Metallica album. Ride The Lightning and Creeping Death would have to be my song-picks.
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- #4
- Posted: 09/24/2013 20:16
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Outstanding, and possibly my favorite Metallica album. I go back and forth between this and Master of Puppets (and Kill 'Em All is not too far behind), but there's something about the raw emotion of this album that really gets me. I love the neo-classical opening of "Fight Fire with Fire", the title track is a nonstop adrenaline rush, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is groovy as fock, "Fade to Black" is the most beautiful thing they ever recorded, and "Call of Ktulu" is just an incredibly powerful closer. Nothing on this album quite measures up to "Master of Puppets" (the song) or "Leper Messiah", but I feel like this one maintains a more consistent focus than its successor. Really great album.
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JMan
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- Posted: 09/24/2013 22:54
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This is the first heavy metal album I've heard. Great heavy metal, too. The first track was the worst, and it was good even then. I might give it another listen, since this is one of the first albums I've heard since joining BEA.
Last edited by JMan on 09/24/2013 23:53; edited 1 time in total
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RockyRaccoon
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- Posted: 09/24/2013 23:18
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Oh hell yea.
This is my favorite Metallica album. "Master Of Puppets" is great, but sweet jesus this is fantastic. I love this album with the firey passion of a thousand suns.
All that being said, it's alright.
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Jasonconfused
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- Posted: 09/25/2013 01:25
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Oh man this is just another Metallica masterpiece. Those first three albums are spotless. Master of Puppets does edge this out by a little though.
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- Posted: 09/25/2013 05:50
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Puncture Repair
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- Posted: 09/25/2013 18:14
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If I didn't enjoy Master of Puppets, is there any good in me exploring more Metallica or Thrash Metal?
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Jasonconfused
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- #10
- Posted: 09/25/2013 18:25
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| Puncture Repair wrote: | | If I didn't enjoy Master of Puppets, is there any good in me exploring more Metallica or Thrash Metal? |
Well Metallica went away from thrash after their fourth album, so maybe try their s/t album which is full of more radio-friendly stuff.
As far as thrash goes, I made this which isn't really a finished chart, but there's stuff you could try. But yea, thrash is generally a pretty raw and extreme genre of which Master of Puppets is among the most accessible so I don't know if you'd enjoy any of these any more. http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart....amp;page=3
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