Metallica fans: Your top 3 albums and top 10 favorite songs?

Top 3 Albums in Order (no real shockers here)

1) Master of Puppets

-How can it not be? It's true it is not really a Thrash album, more a Heavy metal album with several great Thrash tracks. But what A heavy Metal album it is. Cliff Burton's playing and composition was at it's tops, and one can only dream of what might have come had he lived. James had hit a perfect midpoint vocally, still able to scream like his earlier albums, but also add more melodic vocals. The guitars and riffs are perfection. Simply said there is not a single weak moment on this album, and in fact I still consider it the finest Metal album recorded, 24 years later.

2) Ride the Lightning

- Fabulous work. Even though many purist were already waving the sell-out banner because of the tracks Fade to Black and Call of Ktulu, it was obvious that Metallica was going to be special for something far more than just speed and aggression. For Whom the Bell Tolls really sums up the awesomeness of the whole album.

3) ...And Justice For All

- Truth to tell, this would have topped Ride teh Lightning.. if only it had a freaking bass-line. And even with that annoying "wahahahahah" distortion it STILL manages to be my 3rd favorite. The dense layering on this albums guitar was almost Prog in it's intensity and workmanship, and this album Lars truly shined like no other. Truly their most mature and progressive album, ever.

I know to some me not listing Kill Em All reeks of blasphemy, but while it was a milestone, and revolutionary... it was also very one dimensional, and simply does not hold my attention as well as their more mature and complete later albums do. It was still 10x the debut of Killing is My Business... and Business is Good, or Show No Mercy, but it still lacked any real depth.

My Top 10 Tracks: (I will focus on Original songs only. Though it is hard to leave their amazing cover of "Am I Evil" out.)

1) For Whom the Bell Tolls

2) Call of Ktulu

3) Orion

4) The Thing That Should Not be

5) Fade to Black

6) Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

7) One

8) Sad But True

9) ...And Justice for All

10) Master of Puppets

mind you, the tracks do vary from month to month..... there are certainly times where a track like Master of Puppets would be rated much higher, or when I might list Harvester of Sorrow of And Justice for all... that is just how I am feeling tonight.

and for some extra credit..my top 5 songs that Metallica has covered from other bands:

1) Am I Evil ( Diamond Head)

-Best Metal song ever written

2) Breadfan (Budgie)

3) Blitzkrieg (Blitzkrieg)

4) Turn the Page (Bob Seger)

5) Stone Cold Crazy (Queen)

Top 3 Albums:

1. Master of Puppets

2. Ride the Lightning

3. ...And Justice For All

Songs:

1. Master of Puppets

2. Battery

3. The Day That Never Comes

4. All Nightmare Long

5. Ride The Lightning

6. Breadfan

7. The Shortest Straw

8. Enter Sandman

9. Seek & Destroy

10. My Apocalypse

I wouldn't say I'm a fan of Metallica, but...

Albums:

1) Ride The Lightning

2) Metallica

3) ...And Justice For All

Songs:

1) Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

2) For Whom The Bell Tolls

3) Creeping Death

4) One

5) Wherever I May Roam

6) The Shortest Straw

7) Sad But True

8) Seek And Destroy

9) Enter Sandman

10) Fade To Black

Albums:

Kill 'Em All

Ride The Lighting

And Justice For All

Songs:

For Who The Bell Tolls

Fade To Black

Ride The Lightning

Seek & Destroy

The Four Horsemen

One

Master Of Puppets

Damage, Inc.

Enter Sandman

Nothing Else Matters

Albums:

Ride The Lightning

Master Of Puppets

...And Justice For All

Songs:

Battery

Fade To Black

The Unforgiven

Hit The Lights

One

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

To Live Is To Die

Orion

The Call Of Ktulu

For Whom The Bell Tolls

Albums:

1. Ride the Lightning

2. Kill Em All

3. Black Album

Songs:

1. Wherever I May Roam

2. Ride the Lightning

3. Whiplash

4. The Call of Ktulu

5. Nothing Else Matters

6. One

7. Fade to Black

8. The Unforgiven

9. Dyers Eve

10. Turn the Page (one of the best covers ever)

Albums:

1. Kill 'Em All

2. Ride the Lightning

3. Master of Puppets

Songs:

1. Hit the Lights

2. Whiplash

3. The Four Horsemen

4. Ride the Lighting

5. Seek and Destroy

6. Fade to Black

7. Battery

8. Master of Puppets

9. Creeping Death

10. One

1 Master Of Puppets

2 Ride The Lightning

3 And Justice For All

1 The Call Of Ktulu

2 One

3 Creeping Death

4 Battery

5 Orion

6 Master Of Puppets

7 Am I Evil?

8 It's Electric

9 The Thing That Should Not Be

10 Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

...And Justice For All,

Black Album,

St. Anger (I like the way how Hetfield still tries to shriek)

And for my favourite songs,

...And Justice For All,

Blackened,

Of Wolf And Man,

Enter Sandman,

King Nothing,

St. Anger,

Master Of Puppets,

Ride The Lightning,

Suicide And Redemption,

Sad But True.

But those are only some of my favourites. I like almost every song ^^

well my favorite song is whiskey in the jar but i can't pick top 10 favorite i like them all pre much