Blob, not to be disrespectful here. I just think it's funny my opinion is so different from yours on what the good songs off L/RL are. see below.
I'd instead add House Jack Built, Wasting My Hate, Mama Said, Prince Charming, and Fixxxer. These are great songs whereas there's lots of stuff I never ever feel the need to listen to.
Flame away!
As I said, everyone will have a vastly different idea of what songs they should have kept on Load/Reload, and I especially expect people's opinions on DTF to differ from mine.
Personally, I rank Hero of the Day, Unforgiven II, and Until it Sleeps as some of my favourite songs ever, not just by Metallica, but anyone. Well composed songs, with nice melodies and vocal harmonies. And I've always loved the bonehead rocker Fuel. Simple, but it makes me wanna air drum. Haters gonna hate!
The funny thing is that the three you consider great songs at the end are the filler tracks to me that I mostly added to make up time.
I like them, but they're hardly the caliber of anything they released before it.
Given the wildly differing opinions on it, maybe it ultimately was best it all got released, it just means the albums require some cherry picking by each individual to wade through what they consider the filler.