The Best, The Worst, The Overrated And The Underrated

This is a thread I've been intending to create for a while, but I've never gotten around to it for multiple reasons. Seeing as I'm in a thread starting mood tonight, I decided to post it tonight.



Simply put, this is a thread where you can voice your opinions on a subject matter pertaining to any media form, whether it be music, television, film, games or any other form you fancy, from Game of Thrones episodes to Final Fantasy games to times Johnny Depp says the word "Then". You will need four examples to voice your opinion on, and as the title of the thread suggests, one will be your favourite, one will be your least favourite, one will be the most overrated in your opinion and the final one will be the most underrated in your opinion.



I'll start things out with Metallica Songs. Metallica are among my favourite bands, and with 97 original songs to choose from, they offer a huge amount of variety, with some obviously better than others. Of course, with a fan base as large as Metallica's, you're obviously going to have songs that are appreciated too much as well as songs that aren't often talked about by the fans. Here's my take on things:



The best:







Metallica's best power ballad. Metallica's best song. The greatest metal song of all time. This song is beyond any doubt artistic mastery and it combines EVERYTHING good about Metallica songs. We get the power ballad values of Fade to Black, Welcome Home and The Unforgiven. We get an incredible musical build-up to the crescendo of the song. We get the powerful and proficient lyrics, before ending things with an awe-inspiring thrash out that blows even Battery out of the water. One is the greatest metal song of all-time, and if you want to call yourself a metal fan, listen to this song. It's essential listening and I really can't praise this song enough.



The worst:







Yeah, St Anger is the worst album from Metallica, but it's not god awful like people seem to suggest it is. This song on the other hand comes as close to god awful as Metallica really can get. I mean, NOTHING about this song is at all appealing. It's just an annoying, disorderly cacophony, with no redeemable features. Yes, I get St Anger is supposed to be an angry album, but there are songs which get that right on the album, whereas this is just an incoherent mess. A lot of people mention this as the worst Metallica song and it's not hard to see why.



The overrated:







This song is so mind-numbingly overrated. People are so quick to call this song a masterpiece when it's not much better than any Simple Plan song. The lyrics are OK, but James has written much better songs in the past. I normally find the disdain for Lars to be unwarranted, but the drumming here is quite annoying here I find. Not to mention, it's easily the worst of their power ballads and one of the weakest songs on the Black Album, if not the weakest. Yet this song is somehow at the top of the YouTube search bar over Unforgiven, Fade to Black and even One. It's not bad or anything, but the amount of praise it gets is beyond aggravating.



The underrated:







Metallica have a lot of underrated songs like Of Wolf and Man, To Live Is To Die, Escape and a good chunk of Reload, but this song takes the cake, probably because it's in my top 5 Metallica songs of all-time. I think the things that I love the most about this song are the message that it's trying to get across about the injustice of life and also the incredible guitar solo at the 5-minute mark. This song isn't just great, it's one of those special songs that hits a lot of marks for me, as well as being a well-crafted song in general, especially considering how hard a time Metallica were under during the recording. This song is starting to be more recognized now, but while it's deservedly overshadowed by One, I think it's the second best song off And Justice For All by a clear margin, and more attention needs to be drawn to it.