How would you combine Load and Reload?

[duckbutt86]

Well Load and Reload were written during the same period. Reload was just stuff they wrote for Load but didn't think was good enough (yet they released it anyway a year later). Not surprising this mediocre effort from the band resulted in two terrible albums. Other than Until It Sleeps and Devil's Dance, can't say I like anything from these albums, and the inclusion of the songs from Load/Reload really hurt the S&M set list.

[TheMeatball]

Both have their moments, and both are solid albums in their own right, but Load is definitely the better album. If I could combine them, I'd try this:

Fixxxer 8:15
Devil's Dance 5:19
Until It Sleeps 4:30
Mama Said 5:19
The House That Jack Built 6:39
Bleeding Me 8:18
Low Man's Lyric 7:37
The Outlaw Torn 9:49

Total Running time: About 56 mins

I'd buy that. The other songs aren't all terrible, but would likely work better as b-sides or live treats than full-fledged album tracks.

As a side note, I'm not sure who accused Metallica of shying away from long songs, because these albums are full of them.

[TheCrimsonSaint]

I wish they would just have been released as the double LP as they were intended. If I were to combine them, it'd be a really big CD.

"Ain't My *****"
"Until It Sleeps"
"King Nothing"
"Bleeding Me"
"Wasting My Hate"
"The Outlaw Torn"
"Fuel"
"Devil's Dance"
"The Unforgiven II"
"Carpe Diem Baby"
"Low Man's Lyric"
"Attitude"
"Fixxxer"
Bonus track: "Mine Eyes" (Remastered)

[instantdeath999]

Agreed. The only song I can listen to off of those albums is Fuel.

I really like "Until it Sleeps".

[Alright_Computer]

I would personally lose both of them, but some of these compilations are starting to change my mind.

[Marclious]

1. King Nothing
2. The House Jack Built
3. Wasting my Hate
4. The Outlaw Torn
5. Fuel
6. Hero of the Day
7. Ain't my *****
8. Bleeding Me
9. Devil's Dance
10. Until It Sleeps
11. Low Man's Lyrics
12. Fixxxer

Running time would be around 75 minutes. That is the best single album I could come up with.

[CommanderDuff]

I've been listening to Load all weekend, since i have no interest in the new one.

If you don't like this album because it isn't old school Matallica, I can't do nothin for ya. But the fact is, it's a really solid hard rock album. It may not be the Metallica you want to hear, but it's still really good.

I could never get into Reload, I'll probably try that next but I don't have high hopes.

Exactly this. People **** on Load because it was a big change, and I have heard a lot of people use that now-cliche line of "It's good if you pretend Metallica didn't record it." Not everyone likes the same things in their 30s and 40s that they did in their teens and 20s. Metallica changed. They didn't stop writing bad music, they just stopped writing the same music over and over again. (Good or bad albums, RTL through AJFA was the same album repackaged with different titles.)

With maybe three songs at the most, a lot of Reload was just what you read in this topic already: the crap that wasn't good enough to be included on Load.

I think Metallica work best as a bluegrass band, so feel free to ignore me.

[Soror_YZBL]

Load was the most appropriate title they could make for this album.

[Marclious]

Metallica changed their style rather quickly when they first started playing. Kill'em All was pure Thrash... and basically they invented the genre of music with this album. For me personally Kill'em All was there best piece of work.Ride the Lightningwas equivalent to their apex. It was Their masterpiece. A dive into maturity. I would have loved for Metallica to have made a few more full on thrash albums before they matured. They matured before they should have. Anyone who says MoP was their masterpiece clearly didnt listen to RtL enough.

[MasterOfPuppets86]

I am a huge Metallica fan but personally other than fuel and the memory remains which are in the end are mediocre songs, the 2 albums as well as St. Anger can go burn in the fiery pits of bad albums.

Also Death Magnetic isnt that good, the first 4 albums were the best so along with the Peace Sells....But Who's Buying and Screaming for Vengeance I would like to the whole Master of Puppets or Ride the Lightning albums because no one can keep up with Dave Mustaine's Kill Em All guitar solos.