# Best song on Metallica's Master of Puppets? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 17, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-metallicas-master-of-puppets/554148 "2010-09-17T23:44:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-metallicas-master-of-puppets/554148/1 "2010-09-17T23:44:36Z")
([**Kill 'Em All**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=578661) and [url=“[Best song on Metallica's Ride the Lightning? - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=578662)”] **Ride the Lightning** polls.) As ever, only one choice is possible. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-metallicas-master-of-puppets/554148/2 "2010-09-17T23:56:49Z")
Erm, [here’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=578662) the **Ride the Lightning** poll. (And I haven’t even started drinking yet.) ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-metallicas-master-of-puppets/554148/3 "2010-09-18T03:15:00Z")
This one was tougher. I wanted to say Disposable Heroes, because I was in the army at the time. Battery is good but IMO doesn’t start with enough punch to kickstart the album. Sanitarium is cool because when they would come to town, they would change the lyrics to “San Antonio”. We loved it. But I voted for Damage, Inc. That’s a good finish. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-metallicas-master-of-puppets/554148/4 "2010-09-18T03:22:00Z")
I can’t stand Welcome Home, but love the rest of the album. Orion especially, mainly because I used to play that song with my band in college (I played 80ish synth keyboards on the song, which improved it even more!) When I saw Metallica live, they opened with Battery. I joked to my friend that they were just gonna do the Puppets album in sequence that night, but then they got into fucking Frantic. What is it with music and the phrase “tick tock?” ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-metallicas-master-of-puppets/554148/5 "2010-09-18T18:11:01Z")
I voted “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” but again, I love all the songs on this album. ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-metallicas-master-of-puppets/554148/6 "2010-09-18T18:32:43Z")
This is, quite simply, the best album Metallica has ever made, or likely will ever make. Here’s how I’d rank the songs in descending order: [ol] [li]“Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”[/li][li]“Orion”[/li][li]“Master of Puppets”[/li][li]“Leper Messiah”[/li][li]“Disposable Heroes”[/li][li]“The Thing That Should Not Be”[/li][li]“Damage, Inc.”[/li][li]“Battery”[/li][/ol] But there’s not a weak song in the whole bunch, if’n you axe me. ---
**Author:** ![clarkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@clarkstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clarkstar)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2010, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-metallicas-master-of-puppets/554148/7 "2010-09-18T21:57:18Z")
i put master of puppets but there are several awesome, including sanitarium ---
**Author:** ![clarkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@clarkstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clarkstar)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-metallicas-master-of-puppets/554148/8 "2010-09-18T21:58:24Z")
> [@MTCicero](#): > > This is, quite simply, the best album Metallica has ever made, or likely will ever make. > > But there’s not a weak song in the whole bunch, if’n you axe me. i concur, its their best album ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-metallicas-master-of-puppets/554148/9 "2010-09-20T13:43:24Z")
I can’t choose. Master of Puppets is solid from start to finish. ---
**Author:** ![pyromyte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d26b3c/32.png) [@pyromyte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pyromyte)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-metallicas-master-of-puppets/554148/10 "2010-09-20T14:21:31Z")
The first time I ever heard Master of Puppets was on my best friend’s computer in 1989 or 90, i was 10 yrs old, and he had the song _Master of Puppets_ as a midi…And it blew me a away, as a midi!! That is the youngest I can remember really appreciating music. Of course I immediately had to have the actual recordings, which my parents would not let me buy. My friend copied his cassettes for me on his boom box, and I kept them hidden in my room, until two or three years later my parents finally accepted me listening to “heavy metal.” I selected Orion, but they are all so good! ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-metallicas-master-of-puppets/554148/11 "2010-09-20T20:59:17Z")
Bow to Leper Messiah!