10 Perfect Rock Albums Ruined By One Bad Song

When you have a great band on your roster, you never want to rush them through the creative process. While there's always the age old saying of having only six months to write your second record, you're always testing fate by trying to make the lightning strike twice so soon after the first record. Especially when the end result is something like Escape, you'd make sure to give the artist a little more breathing room.

Before we even talk about the song, we need to back up to where Metallica were during the making of Ride the Lightning. After moving to Europe to record the album with Flemming Rassmusen, the band had the makings of a great album until the label asked them to write one more song. Tired and annoyed to be called back to the studio, Escape is the embodiment of a rush job, with it being recorded in one day and sounding almost nothing like the rest of the record.

There are a few decent highlights though, with the breakdown riff having some crunch to it and the chorus having a Thin Lizzy slant, but it seems that even James Hetfield wasn't too much of a fan of this. Up until the anniversary of the album, he was still hesitant to even play the song live. When you write a song so bad that you're even embarrassed to play it, that's enough to leave it off the album.