drborken wrote:

I actually bought a copy of Patience on 7" with Rocket Queen on the B-side, and a copy of Lies. Looking forward to spinning them later

I haven't heard many GN'R 7" myself. Please let me know how those sound. I bought Sympathy right after I bought Live Era. I figure, if I'm gonna have everything else they recorded on vinyl, I might as well get the Sympathy 45 seeing as they never put Greatest Hits on vinyl.

Sympathy sounds excellent so I'd be curious to hear how the others sound.

drborken wrote:

I seriously don't understand how people can dismiss Ride The Lightning like that, it has some incredible music on it, things that have inspired so widely, not just in metal, but way beyond. Admittedly it wasn't that big a record at the time, but looking at it now, I think its way more influential than a lot of the other records on the list. But then again I'm a huge Metallica fan, so I would say that.

Oh and I vote NIN this round too, never really thought that much of any of their albums save for the odd song here and there

You don't see a huge contraadiction here??  You state RTL was hugely influence etc, yet wasn't big in it's time... Then vote of a hugely influential album, which wasn't huge in it's time. Just find it funny, that's all.

I vote off Ride the Lightning, we can't have 3 Metallica albums in the top 10 or so, plus, it isn't the best if it isn't Metallica's best so it makes it an easier decision.... Gone. There's about 5 or 6 albums that need to go, regardless of order, so I'm not concerned about which is better than which. Just get them out.