AJFA is Metallica's best album...fight me

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I decided to take a listen to ...And Justice For Jason tonight. This remix is great. Just enough bass in the background to fill out the sound and still the great, huge guitar tones. And you can still hear Lars' drum parts, unfortunately. Anywho, I forgot just how fucking awesome this album. The eq on the guitars isn't quite their best, but still great because of the harmonies and riffs.

Anywho, One is the song that REALLY got me started playing guitar, even though I plucked around and tried some because of Fade To Black. While I don't think it's a bias, I think this album is slightly better than Master Of Puppets, and their best work they ever put out because of how much they experimented and branched out in songwriting. Plus, Kirk hadn't quiiiiiiite figured out wah yet. But he does beat tapping to death in it, and quite badly.
 
First heard of Metallica around reload/garage inc. 🤷‍♀️
edit: a few years before in a Weird Al parody.
 
No, it's not. It's like 50% filler, whereas RTL and MOP were like 5% filler.

If you think its a great album? Yeah, i would say so.

But the only reason anyone would put it over the previous two is that it was the first they heard.

No one in their right mind thinks this is the best of Metallica in their four album run as an actual band
 
AJFA is my favorite Metallica album, partly because of the more progressive nature of the songs, but mostly because of the guitar tone of all things (and it’s strange because their Mercyful Fate cover has my favorite single tone they’ve ever achieved, which is way different than AJFA tone). A lot of people don’t like AJFA and they especially don’t dig the overall mix, but as for the guitars, there was something about the directness, the nature of the crunch, the string slicking sounds as they moved around the fretboard, the ridiculous, exaggerated jugg-jugging nature of the palm mutes even relative to their other records, etc. I dunno I just love the guitar tone and the riffs that show it off on that album.

As for comparing albums, it’s tough because Metallica is weird, as all their records are so vastly different, more so than most other bands, right up until Garage Inc, after which they broke up and never put anything else out again and I won’t hear any different.
 
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song for song im picking MoP and RtL, there is just something about that ajfa production though, as "shitty" as it is.
 
I can see the argument being AJFA could have been the best

If the tracklist was something like

1. Blackened
2. One
3. The Shortest Straw
4. Dyers Eve

And then you put the rest of the awful, meandering dogshit into an editing machine and made 2-3 more great metallica songs somehow got shat out

Yeah, then AJFA could have been metallica's greatest record, if that had happened

Here in reality though, it's nowhere near as consistent songwriting-wise as either RTL or MOP. Not even close

In fact, you could make the argument that "escape" and maaaybe "leper messiah" were the only two "filler" tracks on those respective albums, and even then, "Leper Messiah" has a really killer breakdown. There's like 5 fucking songs worse than "leper messiah" on AJFA :hys:
 
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