Back from a week off from radio and ready to kick into Metallica mania! The next Trunk Nation Top 20 debuts on my SiriusXM radio show on 106 tomorrow 2-4 and 10-Mid ET featuring the 20 all time greatest Metallica songs. Then Wed 2P ET you call in your 20 live on air. And I suspect this will go for much of the week. Tune in and get involved if you have SiriusXM!
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All live songs are from “Live Sh-t: Binge & Purge”
20. Motorbreath (live)
19. Fade To Black
18. Sad But True (live)
17. The Four Horsemen (live)
16. Fuel
15. Enter Sandman (live)
14. The Thing That Should Not Be
13. Blackened (live)
12. Through The Never
11. Whiplash (live)
10. One (live)
9. Creeping Death
8. Ride The Lightning
7. For Whom The Bell Tolls
6. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
5. Battery
4. Wherever I May Roam
3. Seek & Destroy (live)
2. …And Justice For All (live)
1. Master Of Puppets
My Metallica top 20 has as much to do with words (In some cases maybe more so) as it does with sounds.
When I first got into Metallica long ago, Hetfield’s often times grim imagery quickly found a spot in the old gray, mush matter. He became one of my favorite lyricists and yeah, yeah he’s a good guitarist as well. In a few spots he even comes off as a decent singer, at least for the genre.
20- Frayed Ends of Sanity
19- Four Horsemen
18- Fade to Black
17- Spit Out the Bone
16- Wherever I May Roam
15- One
14- The Thing That Should Not Be
13-Fuel
12- Mama Said
11- Damage Inc.
10- My Friend of Misery
9- Creeping Death
8- Sad But True
7- Ride the Lightning
6-Disposable Heroes
5- Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
4-The Outlaw Torn
3- Seek and Destroy
2- The Unforgiven
1- For Whom the Bell Tolls
I hated not including Master of Puppets, Orion, and a few others so I’ll just mention them as an afterthought honorable mention. I do like those tracks.
Rob,
Once again, we are simpatico, For Whom The Bell Tolls is my all time favorite Metallica song as well, followed by Battery. After that, who knows? LOL!
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One
Seek and Destroy
Hardwired
2×4
Fuel
Memory Remains
Fight Fire
Whiplash
Sad.But True
Enter Sandman
Roam
King Nothing
Puppets
Damage Inc
Motorbreath
I Disappear
Hit the Lights
Bells
Battery
Creeping Death #1!!
Just finished listening to the Metallica top 20. I get out of work too late to hear it live. So I download the episodes on demand. My List is partially based on lyrics and sound.A few songs that show their influence of HP Lovecraft stories which i am a fan of.
20 Broken Beat and Scarred
19 The God That Failed
18 Now That We’re Dead
17 Here Comes Revenge
16 Dream No More
15 All Nightmare Long
14 Orion
13 One
12 Disposable Heroes
11 Battery
10 Sanitarium
09 Call Of Ktulu
08 For Whom the Bell Tolls
07 Ride The Lightning
06 Fight Fire With Fire
05 The Thing That Should Not Be
04 Fade to Black
03 Master of Puppets
02 Creeping Death (great Passover song)
01 Four Horseman
I listen to all the studio albums and I could not put anything from the controversial albums. I cant stand the drumming in Saint Anger.
Eddie,
Here is your definitive list! LOL! You definitely shocked me with some of your list, I can tell you have no use for mid 90’s to mid 2000’s Metallica. Nothing from Load, Reload, or of course St. Anger. Glad to see you gave definite love to Hardwired! Love all your top 20’s, this one for my favorite band, I was introduced to Metallica in Summer of ’89 hearing Blackened for the first time. Definite life changer, this list is full of those life changing moments by way of their music!
20 – Fight Fire with Fire
19 – Spit out the Bone
18 – The Memory Remains
17 – Outlaw Torn
16 – Until it Sleeps
15 – Enter Sandman
14 – The Day that Never Comes
13 – Blackened
12 – The Four Horsemen
11 – Unforgiven
10 – To Live is to Die
9 – Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
8 – Harvester of Sorrow
7 – For Whom the Bell Tolls
6 – Fade to Black
5 – Seek and Destroy
4 – Battery
3 – Creeping Death
2 – One
1 – Master of Puppets
Until It Sleeps almost made my top 20, almost. As did Damage Inc., and Orion.