Metallica - Ride The Lightning (1984)

[Tray73]

Re: Ride The Lightning -Metallica

Nice write-up F&W

This is one of my favourites out of the Metallica catalogue, a corking album! The only thing that irks me is like Sweaty said - I'd like to hear a louder, more crisp sound so yeah a remastered version would hopefully deliver on that. If only their earlier albums had been given the stellar production of Black onwards.

... until Bob Rock(Love him or hate him Metallica's Black album has outsold the rest of their catalog combined...of course I might be exaggerating just a little, Tray will know.) entered the picture.

Tray won't know Sorry!

 

[Riff Raff]

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Bob Rock produced their best selling, but he also produced and did bass for the biggest piece of shit album any metal band has done too. And now I tarnished the thread of a legendary metal album by mentioning it lol

 

[LG]

Re: Ride The Lightning -Metallica

Okay seeing Tray doesn't know the answer(I am shocked!!...) here's a list of Metallica's sales figures for most of their albums, not completely up to date but close enough for our purposes.

Album (Year Released) Millions sold in the US market.

Metallica (1991) 14 million

...And Justice For All (1988) 8 million

Master of Puppets (1986) 6 million

Garage Inc. (1998) 5 million

Ride The Lightning (1984) 5 million

Load (1996) 5 million

S & M (1999) 5 million

Kill 'Em All (1983) 3 million

Reload (1997) 3 million

St. Anger (2003) 2 million

Garage Days Revisited(1987) 1 million​

 

[Riff Raff]

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Reload and Load should have been released at the same time, like Guns n Roses did with Use Your Illusion.

 

[LG]

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I am surprised that MOP is not 2nd,,,and thought Ride the Lightning would be higher up the list.

Those are American figures only, worldwide Metallica has sold over 200 million albums more or less from what I've gathered. However the "Black Album" is still on the charts, it's become the modern day equivalent of Pink Floyd's DSOTM, which still holds the all time record for staying on the active sales charts.

 

[Riff Raff]

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I am surprised that MOP is not 2nd,,,and thought Ride the Lightning would be higher up the list.

Those are American figures only, worldwide Metallica has sold over 200 million albums more or less from what I've gathered. However the "Black Album" is still on the charts, it's become the modern day equivalent of Pink Floyd's DSOTM, which still holds the all time record for staying on the active sales charts.

Im surprised Load has outsold Kill Em All too.
And nearly outsold Lightning.
If the band reissue the first 4 albums remastered I think it would help sales a lot more.

 

[LG]

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^^I think they should hire one of the European metal producer/engineers and redo them from scratch, using analog gear and then transfer them to digital.

That would be epic...and I am positive they would make a lot of new fans and old fans would buy them again, which in turn would make Lars happy.

 

[DaKillerWolf]

Re: Ride The Lightning -Metallica

Ride The Lightening is an awesome album and the first Metallica tape I ever owned. Bought it when it came out played it to near death in a week and went out and bought Kill 'em All .Still by far my favorites from them.

Black album on I can do w/o other then Death Magnetic

 

[LG]

Re: Ride The Lightning -Metallica

You still have your cassette of Ride...Wolf?

 

[Riff Raff]

Re: Ride The Lightning -Metallica

If I ever find these sorts of albums on cassette Ill buy it as a collector, I have the S &M album on original cassette.