Question about Master of Puppets...?

Question

Why is it thought of as their best album? I mean, I like it (Disposable Heroes PWNS), but why is it reagared as so great? I personally am a HUGE Metallica fan and love ...And Justice For All and Ride The Lightning to pieces, but it's not that way with Master of Puppets

Answer 1

Because every song on there is equally strong. I think you need to listen to it more, you will start to hear parts of it you didn't before.

Answer 2

their best album is black...i think...but master of puppets kicksass 2

Answer 3

I think that people choose this album because this is the one where people finally started taking notice. It was Metallica's  first album on a major label.   I bought Ride the Lightening and Kill 'em All (in 1983 & 1984)  when they first were distributed and it was on a record label called Megaforce and they were very hard to find. Not until the huge success of  Master of Puppets being  released on Elektra records, were they able to go back and re-release the other two albums to mass merchants like Walmart, etc.  It was  about 3 years before anyone even knew they even had two other albums. (There was also an ep called The $5.98 EP-- Garage days Re-revisted in 1987. )  A lot of people had heard OF them but did not actually HEAR them until Master of Puppets.  After they were the opening band for Ozzy for a few months in 1986, people were amazed when they toured  themselves later that year and were selling out major arenas  with no opening band, no radio airplay and no videos on Mtv.    Back then Metal was more obscure and considered underground.  Master of Puppets made the world take notice of Metal.   It is a ground breaking album.   I have been listening to that album for almost 22 years and I still enjoy it.    Master of Puppets will go down in history as one of the most influential and greatest Metal albums of all time.    

      

Answer 4

Because of their reefing... If you're able to play the song(master of puppets), u'll know why fans are crazy and why its one of the best... plus it's got a mixed of heavyness and instrumental solo in the song...

Answer 5

for me...its really personal and involved and ive told the story here before and bored folks and wasted much time.

i suppose...you could boil it down to a couple of things...

1. flemming rasmussen was so..."on"

and

2.sanitarium

edit: poor shredder..."HIGH FIVE!"

now playing:electric uncle sam - primus

Answer 6

I dont listen to that stuff any more but i know what you mean. Master of Puppets was solid but not ask good as some of their other early albums

Answer 7

Ride The Lightning was Metallica's major record label debut (although Kill 'Em All was re-realeased before RTL by the major label, I think Elektra).  Then, they released Master of Puppets, which featured many epic, solid songs, much like RTL (even in the layout of the songs, the first track being fast and chaotic after an acoustic intro, the second song being the heavy, more-memorable track).

However, shortly after Master of Puppets, Cliff Burton died (after their tour bus toppled over, crushing Burton), leaving Master of Puppets to be his last recording.  Also, his bass work is amazing on the album, not saying it wasn't on KEA or RTL...

Kill 'Em All is under-produced, and the guitar tones aren't as heavy as on later albums.

Ride The Lightning, in my opinion, has some amazing songs (title track, For Whom The Bell Tolls, etc.), but it has weak spots.

Master of Puppets is solid all the way through.

...And Justice For All is okay, but the bass is almost inaudible, and the content isn't as great overall.

Metallica (AKA The Black Album) is the mark of their downfall into simplicity ("Every song on [The Black Album] was based around one riff" - James Hetfield...  more or less, I forget his exact wording)

Load and ReLoad weren't really that heavy, more like hard rock, slightly less heavier that The Black Album.

Garage Inc. was a cover album, so it's not their best (but it is pretty cool)

St. Anger was innovative in the way that it was more of **** than music.

EDIT: I think that one guy got pissed and gave everyone else thumbs down, but does he know his review is semi-innacurate and that Yahoo Answers prohibits doing the "I'll edt and type my answer" thing?  They don't allow placeholding.