For reasons unbeknownst to even myself, I decided to rank every original Metallica song from their nine studio albums. All cover songs [including the old and the new Garage Days] were excluded. Sure, some songs like “Breadfan” would have ranked pretty damn high, but part of the criteria was songwriting, which you can’t really evaluate if it’s not a Metallica song. The two original songs from the S&M album are included.
As with everything like this, it’s completely subjective, biased, and in most people’s opinion, wrong. But it’s my list, and it will ultimately accomplish the task of entertaining you for 45 seconds of web browsing, which is why you’re here in the first place.
What I thought was interesting, relatively speaking, is that by ranking every song you can then qualitatively rank the albums. To do this, I took the sum total of rankings of an album’s songs and divided it by the number of songs on the album to determine an ‘album average rank’. Much like golf and lifetime STD totals, the lower number the better. To make it easier to visualize in graph form, I subtracted each album’s figure from 97 to invert the scores so higher is better. The results aren’t shocking, but the Black Album does worse than you would think.
First, the album scores, then the list….
A lot of work to prepare analytics like this. Good job!
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This list is subjective, biased, and for lack of a better term, wrong.