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Ride the Lightning
Participated by Metallica
Studio : Elektra / Wea
by Elektra / Wea
Brand : Metallica
Release Date : 1990-10-25
Publisher : Elektra / Wea
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN : 0075596039628
UPC : 075596039628
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 807 reviews)
List Price : $18.98
Our Price : $5.10
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Digitally remastered reissue of their 1984 album on a 24 karat gold CD from DCC. From the original master tapes. Booklet includes complete original artwork. |
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Americancivilwar.com essential recording |
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Don't let that classical-guitar-ish opening to "Fight Fire with Fire" fool you--Ride the Lightning packs a heavy-metal wallop. While not as ambitious as the subsequent Master of Puppets, this early Metallica album is indubitably one of their best. Thematically, it explores death and dying from myriad points of view: nuclear war ("Fight Fire with Fire"), electric-chair execution (the title track), and drowning ("Trapped Under Ice"). Interestingly, the best track on this album is probably "Fade to Black," a slower, more introspective song about suicide. There's also "Creeping Death," which remains a concert favorite. An excellent mix of rapid-fire guitar riffs, rip-roaring solos, and singer James Hetfield's trademark growl, this is thrash metal at its finest. Very highly recommended. --Genevieve Williams |
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Americancivilwar.com |
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Don't let that classical-guitar-ish opening to "Fight Fire with Fire" fool you--Ride the Lightning packs a heavy-metal wallop. While not as ambitious as the subsequent Master of Puppets, this early Metallica album is indubitably one of their best. Thematically, it explores death and dying from myriad points of view: nuclear war ("Fight Fire with Fire"), execution by electric chair (the title track), and drowning ("Trapped Under Ice"). Interestingly, the album's best track is "Fade to Black," a slower, introspective song about suicide. There's also "Creeping Death," which remains a concert favorite. An excellent mix of rapid-fire guitar riffs, rip-roaring solos, and singer James Hetfield's trademark growl, this is thrash metal at its finest. -- Genevieve Williams |
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Their best work!!! |
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At first I wasn't that big fan of this CD, but i started listening to this CD and I liked most of the songs(except for ESCAPE). Fade to Black was the best but the rest of the songs followed closely. Is a good CD to listen to when puching people or giving the middle finger to the blind |
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A classic. Every rock fan should already have it. |
Metallica may have artistically peaked with Master Of Puppets (or maybe Justice), but this is my favorite album by them. It balances the fiery rawness of the debut with the more complex arrangements found on Puppets to create one of metal's defining masterpieces. Anyone who's ever had even a passing interest in metal has owned this album at some point or another.
It starts out with what is arguably Metallica's hardest hitting song of their career, Fight Fire With Fire (dig those drums, Lars!) and never lets up. The only real "break" we get is the semi-ballad Fade To Black, which is definitely one of the band's top five songs. The album culminates with the one-two punch of Creeping Death and Call Of Ktulu. There's also these two other songs on the album called For Whom The Bell Tolls and Ride The Lightning, which are okay. Just kidding. They rule. Trapped Under Ice and Escape are, IMO, the album's weakest songs. But Trivium wishes they had 1/100th of the talent to write a song in the vein of early Metallica, no matter how weak(ish). Still two good songs that don't bog the album down; just not as great as the other six.
Metallica have become to metal what Bob Marley is to reggae and what Johnny Cash is to country. Every guy my age I know cut their teeth on this band. Sabbath and Maiden give them a run for their money, but Metallica's enduring popularity with this new generation of rockers (yes, moreso than Sabbath and Maiden) cements them as the definitive metal band for those looking to get their foot in the door. And when I say metal, I don't mean Mudvayne.
This is the album I always recommend for anyone looking to get into Metallica. I must've played it hundreds of times over the years and the truth is it never gets old (for me, anyway). Great music is timeless. |
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Fantastic album |
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Ride the Lighting was such an amazing album. There were many great songs on this album, such as Escape with it's great chorus line, the title track with its great intro, Klutu with the great reprise at the end, but the real highlight of this album is Fade to Black. Fade to Black is simply one of the greatest metal songs ever made, it's dark lyrics about a man contemplating and commiting suicide, Hammett does an amazing job on this song, especialy on the solo. The solo probably Metallica's best and one of the very few solo's which conveys emotion. You can just feel the sadnesss here, and this song is a true gem. Great album too. |
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A great gem occassionally lost in the shadows |
Talk of Metallica albums usually passes over "Ride the Lightning"; you hear how great "Master of Puppets" is, the transition that was "the black album" and general disgust at "St. Anger." The truth is, without "Ride the Lightning," we never would have seen any of the others.
"Ride the Lightning" was Metallica's sophomore album, and it represents a quantum leap forward over "Kill 'Em All," setting the sound that has come to be known as "Metallica" to us. The songs are more refined, yet still feel as raw as those off its predecessor. While it would later be refined into "Master of Puppets," arguably the greatest metal album ever, this album is still a masterpience, containing "Fade to Black" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" as well as the very-well-done instrumental track "The Call of Ktulu."
Definitely an essential pickup for a Metallica fan, and one of the first few albums you should buy if you're just getting into the band. |
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4 1/2 stars out of 5 |
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This was a leap and bounds advance forward for Metallica in only 1 year time, but this album is not quite perfect people. With only 8 tracks on an album everything has to be perfect. While songs like "Trapped Under Ice", "Escape", and "Creeping Death" are very good, they aren't great. The highlights are the first 4 songs. |
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