Obviously inspired by @PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 's question

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I was stunned. Even critics who hated metal were all about that album. To my mind, it was the first metal album where people said, “You have to admit it’s damned good, even if you don’t like the genre.”

      Does that make sense? People may not have enjoyed the album, but respected it none the less.

      Another amazing thing about that Master of Puppets, it rocketed to popularity in a time where being on Mtv was a must and Metallica said they wouldn’t play that game. We were shocked when they released the video for One, had no idea it was coming. Wondered in at midnight and turned on the Headbangers Ball and, “NOW! The world premiere video of Metallica’s One!”

      • demesisx@infosec.pubEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I still, to this day, get chills when I hear that middle section in Orion. If Cliff hadn’t have died, the world of metal would be incredibly different. ALL of the good material on Justice is written by Cliff at least in some part. The two untouchable members of Metallica, to me, are Cliff Burton, and James Hetfield, the finest rhythm guitar player that has ever lived.

        Cliff’s songwriting and Hetfield’s rhythm playing would have produced hundreds more classics. He was like the McCartney of metal. Sucks that Bob Rock had such an indelible mark on Metallica.

        ShouldaBeenLars

  • Tower@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    NIИ - The Downward Spiral is the common choice, but The Fragile is a much more complete album. However, my personal favorite is Year Zero.

    • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I would say Pretty Hate Machine is probably the best known. My favorite is Broken. You are probably correct about Downward Spiral being the consensus among the fan base as a whole. What I really like about NIN is that I enjoy all of their albums. Many other bands I like have some that I avoid. Probably my least favorite NIN album is Fixed and it’s still pretty listenable.

  • neidu2@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    I have several favorite bands, so I refuse to choose between them. In no particular order:

    Dream Theater - Images and Words, but Awake is only lagging behind by a nanometer.

    Metallica - I have a hard time choosing between Puppets and Black

    Destiny Potato - Lun

    Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical

    Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape

  • inbeesee@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Either The Wall by Pink Floyd or In Rainbows by Radiohead

    Or The Money Store by Death Grips

    Or ænemia by Tool

    Or Dirt by Alice in Chains

    Or-

    • yu_cosmic@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Risingson makes me feel like im inside a private bdsm dungeon party session in underground germany with my buddy mike

  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    My Arms, Your Hearse by Opeth.

    Edit: tied with BURN, PIANO ISLAND BURN by The Blood Brothers.

  • AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Enslaved is my favourite band and for me its a bit of a toss up between the albums ‘In Times’ and ‘Ruun’.

    Before Enslaved took the top spot, it was Dissection’s ‘Storm Of The Light’s Bane’. Honorable mention for Opeth’s ‘Blackwater Park’.

  • Usually_Lurker@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It’s a tie for me

    Pearl Jam. (1991). Ten [Album]. Epic Records.

    A Tribe Called Quest. (1991). The Low End Theory [Album]. Jive Records.

    • rainynight65@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Here’s my thing about ‘Ten’.

      I love the first half of this album. It’s some of the best music I know in the genre. High energy, catchy, passionate. But somehow, the second half feels to me like the band ran out of ideas and gas. After ‘Jeremy’ it’s all pretty average, low-energy stuff, with the exception of ‘Garden’.