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Okay, because I am a man of the people :P, and many seem to want to do this one, let's take a crack it, shall we?  :metal :metal

I will count down the top 50 Metallica songs in order, and they will be taken from lists of anyone who wants to send me theirs via PM. Do not post them on the forum here. Send them to me via PM.  I will take all of the lists and come up with a top 50 based off all lists cumulatively and count the songs down from 50 to 1.

The rules:
-Songs must be listed from 50 to 1 in order and NUMBERED, with no ties.  No having three songs at number 1 or anything like that. 50 songs, listed from 50 to 1 or 1 to 50. DO NOT list your songs with the points total. List them in your order (I will figure out the points on my end).  Any list submitted with the songs not numbered will be ignored.
-Anyone wanting to submit a list must do so by the end of day, Saturday, February 18th.  I will then begin the countdown the following Monday. This should give anyone and everyone time to listen to the band's songs. That gives everyone almost three weeks to compile and submit a list, and even do some last minute listens if need be.
-The list will be tallied numerically in a simple way. On each list, whatever song is at number 1 gets 50 points, number 2 gets 49 points, number 3 gets 48 points, etc.
-Like before, no more Mr. Nice Guy on my part.  PROOFREAD YOUR LISTS BEFORE SENDING THEM.  Any list with the same song listed twice will be not be counted.

Feel free to post in this thread as well that you have PM'd me, if for no other reason than to bump this back up for others who may want to participate who may not have seen the thread yet.

This ranking engine link below works great. You can input all of the songs, and then you pick your favorite of every 1 on 1 matchup and then it spits out your list.  If you feel I am missing a song (like some obscure demo or live cut), feel free to PM me and I will add it to the list before, although I cannot imagine anything not listed below having a realistic shot at the top 50.  No covers included, unless they were on an official studio album (which is none, I think, but you get my point).

https://rankingengine.pubmeeple.com/

50 Where the Wild Things Are
49 Eye of the Beholder
48 Halo On Fire
47 Trapped Under Ice
46 The Day That Never Comes
45 No Remorse
44 Fuel
43 King Nothing
42 The Unforgiven II
41 The God That Failed
40 Hero of the Day
39 All Nightmare Long
38 The Frayed Ends of Sanity
37 My Friend of Misery
36 Of Wolf and Man
35 Through the Never
34 Whiplash
33 Fixxxer
32 To Live Is to Die
31 Seek & Destroy
30 Until It Sleeps
29 The Shortest Straw
28 The Thing That Should Not Be
27 Spit Out the Bone
26 Sad But True
25 Leper Messiah
24 Fight Fire with Fire
23 Nothing Else Matters
22 Enter Sandman
21 Harvester of Sorrow
20 The Call of Ktulu
19 Bleeding Me
18 Dyer's Eve
17 The Outlaw Torn
16 The Unforgiven
15 The Four Horseman
14 Wherever I May Roam
13 Disposable Heroes
12 Damage, Inc.
11 Ride the Lightning
10 Orion
09 For Whom the Bell Tolls
08 Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
07 ...And Justice for All
06 Battery
05 Creeping Death
04 Fade to Black
03 Blackened
02 One
01 Master of Puppets
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2023, 05:33:49 PM »
Yesssssss. Finally one of these things I can participate in since I’m not a prog fogey.
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2023, 05:48:25 PM »
Finally a countdown I can participate in! ;D
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2023, 05:49:55 PM »
There's a lot of songs beginning with THE aren't there? I'm in. Gives me a chance to listen to their entire discography as it's been a while.
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2023, 05:58:20 PM »
Nice.  I'm in with this one.
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2023, 06:48:49 PM »
I might participate in this one if I can binge through enough of Metallica's albums to get to know 50 songs and make a ranking. Will definitely be following this either way, though!

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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2023, 06:56:32 PM »
Narrowed the list down to 66 songs for nomination.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2023, 07:20:20 PM »
Nice! Now this one will be interesting....

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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2023, 08:18:29 PM »
No Beyond Magnetic?? Denied!!

I will be submitting at some point. :)
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2023, 09:37:05 PM »
It only just now occurred to me that I was once OBSESSED with Metallica…but I don’t know if I’m familiar with 50 songs. I think I have 35 that I know backwards and forwards, and maybe another dozen that I know ok.

Let me see what I can do.
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2023, 09:49:19 PM »
I’m in.

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« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2023, 12:15:45 AM »
Oh! Here we go! :biggrin:

I do think Beyond Magnetic should be included, though. I don't think any songs would make the final 50 but still.

And somewhere on Twitter, I imagine kotowboy is remarkably cross he's missing out (although no more cross than he usually is on Twitter which is very).
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2023, 12:26:04 AM »
Finally I can participate again. This should be fun.
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« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2023, 01:11:34 AM »
This will be fun. I'll make sure to send my list this week.  :tup

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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2023, 01:49:15 AM »
Thank you so much for hosting this one dude! I friggin' love Metallica and I'm pretty sure I can run off a top 50 pretty easily. This is in no way a knock on you, or the thread, but I'm personally sad the Garage Inc covers aren't included. I get it, they're not original Metallica songs, however, so many of those covers would make my top 50 if they were included (as well as one making my #1 Metallica song spot).

I'll run the list through the ranker today.
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« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2023, 02:39:35 AM »
Definitely in but I doubt I'll do much relistening this time ;D
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2023, 05:22:40 AM »
There's a lot of songs beginning with THE aren't there? I'm in. Gives me a chance to listen to their entire discography as it's been a while.

This is nothing, wait until he does a Dear Hunter countdown!
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2023, 06:12:12 AM »
Yay, another chance to send a wacky list! I’m on board with this one :)
Hey dude slow the fuck down so we can finish together at the same time.  :biggrin:
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #18 on: January 31, 2023, 06:25:51 AM »
My initial cut list came in right at fifty songs.  I double checked with Kev's list, and then had to make a couple of changes due to no 'Garage Inc' tracks.

'So what?' you all might say.

And my response:  'Yeah....but.....I had it at #20' :lol
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #19 on: January 31, 2023, 06:27:47 AM »
Curious to see how this plays out. I've accepted that my top 2 will not be in the top 10, but I hope at least one of them is in the top 20, though I wouldn't be surprised if both of my top 2 were in the 40's.
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #20 on: January 31, 2023, 07:10:50 AM »
Kev, you are really a masochist, aren't you?

A masochist for the people.
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #21 on: January 31, 2023, 07:12:50 AM »
Narrowed the list down to 66 songs for nomination.

Funny I had 65!

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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #22 on: January 31, 2023, 07:25:36 AM »
Kev, you are really a masochist, aren't you?

A masochist for the people.

He's into S&M.



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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #23 on: January 31, 2023, 07:26:37 AM »
Narrowed the list down to 66 songs for nomination.

Funny I had 65!

Mine was 67. Basically just eliminated everything from DM and St. Anger and a few from the first two albums.
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #24 on: January 31, 2023, 07:37:07 AM »
Narrowed the list down to 66 songs for nomination.

Funny I had 65!

Mine was 67. Basically just eliminated everything from DM and St. Anger and a few from the first two albums.

Probably going to be 4 or 5 Death Magnetic tracks on my list.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #25 on: January 31, 2023, 07:44:04 AM »
I can see that. Album seems much more well liked by others than it is by me. So it's all good.


I also expect Load and Reload won't feature too heavily on the final list despite being pretty big on mine.
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #26 on: January 31, 2023, 08:05:05 AM »
You're the best Kev, been waiting for this.

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« Reply #27 on: January 31, 2023, 08:05:31 AM »
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« Reply #28 on: January 31, 2023, 08:27:29 AM »
Yay, another chance to send a wacky list! I’m on board with this one :)

Lol...my thoughts exactly!

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« Reply #29 on: January 31, 2023, 09:35:10 AM »
Cool.  Count me in.
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« Reply #30 on: January 31, 2023, 10:20:17 AM »
Would love to do this but lost interest after the Black album.  No can do.  :facepalm:  Have fun...
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Re: Official Metallica top 50 Countdown Thread!! (lists due 02/18)
« Reply #31 on: January 31, 2023, 04:33:11 PM »
So I've made a top 70, that I'm gonna listen to and finalise rankings. There shouldn't be too much movement in the first draft top 50, but we'll see.

My current spread from my initial top 50 is..

Kill - 5
Ride - 7
Puppets - 7
Justice - 8
Metallica - 12
Load - 3
Reload - 3
S&M - 1
St. Anger - 1
Magnetic - 3

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« Reply #32 on: January 31, 2023, 06:08:12 PM »
So I've made a top 70, that I'm gonna listen to and finalise rankings. There shouldn't be too much movement in the first draft top 50, but we'll see.

My current spread from my initial top 50 is..

Kill - 5
Ride - 7
Puppets - 7
Justice - 8
Metallica - 12
Load - 3
Reload - 3
S&M - 1
St. Anger - 1
Magnetic - 3

Ha! Nothing from Hardwired? I like it quite a bit more than Death Magnetic. No love from you?  :)

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« Reply #33 on: January 31, 2023, 06:47:52 PM »
I suspect that three, maybe four, songs from Death Magnetic is all that will make my top 50 from this century. Nothing from St. Anger or Hardwired has a prayer of making my list.

Kev, you are really a masochist, aren't you?

A masochist for the people.

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« Reply #34 on: January 31, 2023, 06:54:24 PM »
Hardwired has a bunch of excellent songs.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol