My order of favourite metallica albums
1. Ride The Lightning: This just pips MOP for me. while it does have two pretty crap songs (trapped under ice and escape)It's also got Creeping Death, Fade To Black, The Call Of Ktulu and of course For Whom The Bell Tolls.
2. Master Of Puppets: Another genuine classic, best songs, Battery, Master Of Puppets, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), and Orion.
3. ...And Justice For All: Their last great album, best songs, Blackened, One, Harvester Of Sorrow, The Shortest Straw and To Live Is To Die (their last instrumental)
4. Garage Inc.: Their best album of the nineties, best songs, Free Speech For The Dumb, Sabbra Cadabra, Turn The Page, Loverman, Astronomy, So What and Am I Evil? (their best song of the nineties, despite being recorded in the eighties)
5. Metallica (Black Album): A step down but still a great album, best songs, Enter Sandman, Sad But True, Wherever I May Roam and of course Of Wolf And Man (one of their best ever songs)
6. Load: Despite not being metal a great rock album, best songs, Ain't My Bitch, Until It Sleeps, Hero Of The Day and The Outlaw Torn.
7. Kill 'Em All: Very raw but has some great songs, Hit The Lights, The Four Horsemen, Motorbreath, (Anasthesia) Pulling Teeth, Whiplash and Seek & Destroy.
8. St. Anger: *sigh*, need i say anything? good songs, St. Anger, Frantic and The Unnamed Feeling
9. Reload: Oh sweet Jesus, what a pile of shite, good song, Fuel
p.s. I left S&M off the list 'cos it was'nt a studio album, but if i was to put it in, i'd put it in ahead of garage inc. in fourth place