10 Perfect 1980s Rock Albums With No Bad Songs
1. Master Of Puppets - Metallica
By the time we had reached the mid '80s, everything going on in rock just seemed so...fake. Not that the artists on MTV weren't trying their best...they just didn't seem to have any substance behind what they were doing anymore. The rock world certainly deserved something a bit more rootsy, even if it needed a battering ram in order to break the mainstream.
Even after embarrassing themselves time after time after this record, Master of Puppets stands as one of the greatest things Metallica has ever done as a band. Being the final album with the classic lineup with Cliff Burton, there isn't an ounce of fat on any of these songs, which is saying something because most of them eclipse the 5 minute mark. While the early days of metal were just about a badass feeling, songs like the title track and Disposable Heroes feel more like journeys when you listen to them in full.
There are also some avenues where Metallica break away from their usual formula, sprinkling in their melodic side on Welcome Home Sanitarium and creating one of the greatest instrumentals the rock world has ever seen on Orion. Before this, we already knew that Metallica was a phenomenal metal band, but once we heard this, they became the greatest of their peers and a metal force to be reckoned with.