#641

Master of Puppets is 35 years old today. Listening to it again now and still feels as exciting as fresh to me as the first time I heard it as a teen.

I could leave out Damage Inc tbh and need to be in the right mood for The Thing That Should Not Be, but every other track sits high among my all time favs. Remember hearing the title track, Welcome Home and Orion all for the first time on separate occasions and being absolutely blown away each time. Wish I could write a piece of music as imaginative and beautiful as those last two tracks.

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#643

Yeah it’s a great tune! I need to be in the mood for stompy cosmic horror, but it bangs. That solo is great too, fits perfectly

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#644

Probably my least favourite of the three, but it’s still great

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#645

Easily one of the greatest albums of all time. The thing that should not be would be my favourite though, love a bit of Doom Lovecraft :metal:

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#646

best metal album ever recorded imo

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#647

Second best :wink:

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#648

lol no chance

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#649

I would listen to this over any Metallica album any day

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#651

Listening again this morning is say that there’s a good argument that while MoP isn’t the best Thrash album of all time (reign in blood) it might just be the best metal album of all time.

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#652

Don’t make me share my onion article again

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#653

For 3 different bands, that sound so different, but offer something collectively so influential and genre breaking in the space of a year, 1986-1987 remains one of the best musical memories for me.

Reign In Blood (Slayer) is the best in my opinion, but Master of Puppets (Metallica) and Among The Living (Anthrax) are very close. These records along with the rise of Public Enemy and initial success of the Beastie Boys, such a melting pot of creativity then. Lit things up.

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#654

Megadeth are speed metal :stuck_out_tongue: speed

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#655

Anthrax really don’t get the credit they deserve. Among to Persistence is a 3 album run that only Metallica can match.

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#656

Oh christ that’s just reminded me I used to have this poster on my wall :man_facepalming:

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#657

Peace Sells is missing from this list!

#658

By far the most fun out of the big 4

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#659

I used to wear this T shirt. In public!

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#660

Not quite in the same league for me but all good.

I would add Reign In Blood does top all of them albums by some distance (again just my take on it).

#661

I do think Master of Puppets and Reign in Blood are better than Peace Sells, but would say it’s somewhere on a par with Among the Living at least.

Also for me Wake Up Dead is easily one of the best songs on all 4 records

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#662

It’s actually “Black Sabbath” and has been for 50 years.

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