Best post-shitness (mid-shitness?) Metallica track

I excluded covers just to be consistent with the other poll, otherwise I'd vote for "Whiskey In The Jar." as is, "Hero Of The Day" is by far my favorite although "Fuel" and "Ain't My Bitch" are alright too.

man i remember less than half of these songs and i know i've heard these albums a least a couple of times each when they came out.

unless i get gutsy and decide to DL all them again, i might just go memory remains for being the most unlikely collabo of all time.

My gut instinct is Fuel, but I might do a little YouTube research before making my mind up.

Hero of the Day
Until It Sleeps
Whiskey In The Jar
Turn The Page

all better than Metallica in its prime

it ain't mah biiiit--cha!

No Leaf Clover is quite good in its own preposterous way. The video is hilariously po-faced, and I reckon all the OTT flutes and violins and shit are more in the spirit of Metallica than the MOR dross they were general churning out at the time.

where's the "Yeah, We Did It" collab w/Ja Rule?

Ha, I was gonna ask that. But come on, you're not voting for that.

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OOH

I thought about "We Did It Again" but wasn't 100% sure the whole band was on that and decided not to mess with collaborations like that.

Ye, Metallica, sing it baby!

It gets worse

i read both of these polls as best "shirtless"

The Nickelback cover is, as much as it pains me to say it, far better than the Snoop Dogg one.

forgot one

Ha, I was gonna ask that. But come on, you're not voting for that.

it has given me more pleasure than any song on the list!

In the course of researching the answer to this thread I've been inspired to create a worst Metallica cover poll. I will do so after sleep.

Wow...I totally forgot about "I Disappear." It still sucks, but the video has only gotten more hilarious.

But as a Metallica radio-listener and singles-enjoyer of the late-90s, I'm deeply torn between "Until It Sleeps," "Hero of the Day" and "No-Leaf Clover." Hrm.

Vote for "Hero Of The Day." It's kind of fantastic.

it's a two way race between 2x4 and the memory remains.

gonna go with the former.

king nothing is not a bad track as well

it's excruciatingly painful to watch lars nodding his head along to that snoop cover

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

"King Nothing" is kind of funny as a transparent attempt to rewrite "Enter Sandman." Hetfield even throws in a "I wish I may, I wish I might have this wish I wish tonight" bit in place of "now I lay me down to sleep" etc.

Would easily have voted for "Whiskey in the Jar," possibly my favorite Metallica track ever (give or take "Fade to Black") if it was up there. But it's not, so I went with "King Nothing" instead.

No, scratch that -- I hadn't voted yet! Went for "Until it Sleeps" instead, for having a Catholic Bosch hell video better than "Losing My Religion" and maybe as good as "It's a Sin" (and with a song tolerable enough to let me sit through the thing.)

I don't hate "Until It Sleeps" but I'm still kind of mystified that that was the song they chose to come back with, following up the biggest album of their career after a 5 year break.

voted for St. Anger cause they all suck, so i might as well help the funniest song win

I love the opening drums and riff of "2X4", honestly.

Christ this is an abysmal list.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

this has actually inspired me to track down a copy of Load (i have Reload on this pc already for some unknown reason)

please stop me

Load is still better than the albums that came after it.

St. Anger 4

yesssssss

not a single vote for outlaw torn??????

voted for St. Anger cause they all suck, so i might as well help the funniest song win

― stephen, Monday, April 28, 2008 7:52 PM

^ ban

Came in here to add my love of "Hero Of The Day," what a jam

the song titles "Low Man's Lyric," "Invisible Kid" and "Carpe Diem Baby" are great, kind of proto-LULU

nobody voted for "outlaw torn"?

because the answer is "outlaw torn"

'The Outlaw Torn' is ace. As much as I think post-Black Album Metallica is patchy as hell, I'm sure I could easily pull together 45 minutes worth of decent music from Load and Reload.

lol brad:

not a single vote for outlaw torn??????

― markers, Monday, May 23, 2011 2:44 AM

METALLICA Post-Black Album Poll

Best pre-shitness Metallica track

so all the Metallica albums are up on Spotify and i was genuinely willing to settle back and listen to St. Anger in its entirety for the very first time and have a good old laff. but do the songs all need to be 9 minutes long?? fuck me, this is an endurance test of the highest order.

do you have the strength to know you won't go? can you find it inside to deal with what you shouldn't know?

"Fuel" is so killer

Misread that title as "Outlaw Tom."

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Doesn't live up to its potential, that.

The shitness is like Philip K. Dick's conception of the Black Iron Prison: we're always living in Metallica's shittiest era, we just don't know it.