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Always liked them but never owned one of their cds.
Now my lad is playing certain songs over and over eg The sandman, St Anger, One - which cd would you guys advise I get for him to keep his interest going? - they have rather a large back catalogue!
Juls

This item was edited on Monday, 19th May 2008, 23:45

Most ppl (well my friends anyway) would say Ride The Lightening is the best, I like "master of Puppets" the best, i think it depends which you heard first!

Black album onwards was start of the downward spiral :(

The 1991 "Black" album (which is officially titled "Metallica") is their biggest selling album by a mile, and contains "Enter Sandman", "Sad But True", and "Nothing Else Matters", which are the ones the average rock fan knows.

If he`s interested in the heavier stuff, go back to Ride the Lightning (although this does has the awesome ballad "Fade to Black" on it) or Master of Puppets.

But I`d definitely start with the "Black" album and let him decide if he prefers that more melodic rock side, or the harder stuff. If it`s the former look to "Load" (an excellent hard rock album that Metallica die-hards hate), if that`s the latter, look to Puppets or Lightning.

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is their biggest selling album by a mile

Sad But true ;)

Yeh, that was teh album where they sold out. i remember borring it from my mate at school, gaev it back to him the following day,

Him: "well what do you think?"
Me: " that one, that one, and that one will be massive singles, MTv will play them to death"

I wish i hadn`t been right :( Guess `cos at the time I had grown out of Bon Jovi, Guns N Roses, was getting into my Anthrax, Metallica, and more "alternative" rock.

An old colleague liked that album of covers they did,he was a big Metallica fan, but I really hated that one.

Master Of Puppets my fav.
But I`d also get him S&M

I think the `black` album is fantastic but then Ive never been a fan of really heavy stuff, its just right for me with its mix of melodic tunes with a harder edge, so Im a `black album` onwards fan

`One` on guitar hero 3 is one of my faves to crank up on the surround sound too hehe which is on the album before `Metallica` If I recall

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I love Justice For All. The Black album is also a favourite of mine but was the start of the selling out process.....



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the rumours were this was going to be return to thrash, didn`t sound like it to me :(

with any luck Rob Trujillo can make Metallica interesting again, i was a massive Suicidal Tendencies and Infectious grooves fan.

This item was edited on Wednesday, 13th August 2008, 07:07

Master of Puppets
Ride the Lightening
The `Black` Album (Metallica)
Those are the ones I`d recommend to someone wanting an intro into Metallica, but I personally like ...and Justice for All.

The St. Anger song doesn`t reflect the content of the album as a whole, nor the style of Metallica`s previous albums; I like the song but I`m not particularly keen on the album.