The first track on the album, Through the Fire and the Flames, is not the best track at the outset. But it freaking grows on you. The beginning isn't keyboard, but Spanish acoustic guitar. Remember that, now.

Revolution Deathsquad may be your favorite song on the album at first, but it gets kind of... repetitive at times.

Storming the Burning Fields sounds... like it's a lyric in every other DF song. Which it might actually be. Good song, nonetheless.

Operation Ground and Pound is awesome for the first 50 plays, then gets annoying for ten... then you stop listening to it. And you like it when you finally listen to it again. This band is so odd...

Body Breakdown and Cry for Eternity are also very good.

Flame of Youth isn't as good as the others, I'm afraid...

Not, Trail of Broken Hearts is the slowest DragonForce song. Ever. Ballad. Slow. But... oddly... still power-metally.

Now Lost Souls in Endless Time was only on the re-release. Great song. Secnd best on the album.

This is the best studio album Ozzy ever released.

I Don't Know starts the album off. An epic start to an epic album. Second best track on the album.

Crazy Train, however, is the song I feel should have started the album. Think about it. Ozzy screaming "ALL ABOARD!! IE IE IE IE IE IE!!" ... wouldn't that be the greatest starting point ever? Sigh. Not only is it Ozzy's most popular song. Not only is it the best song on the album. Not only is it the best of Ozzy's songs. It's the best song with lyrics ever made.

Now, Goodbye to Romance is good. It's the first slow song on the album, and it's great. Not as good as the first two tracks, mind, but still great.

Now, Dee is freaking epic. Should have CLOSED the album. Rhoads' greatest work. It's NOT an insane solo. It's NOT an electric guitar masterpiece. It's an acoustic wonder.

Suicide Solution. Lovely name, m i rite? Still, it's great. Just... devoid of the outro solo that would have made it the best song on the album (the outro solo was included on Tribute).

Now, Mr. Crowley is overrated. Synth intro.Synth verse. Synth chorus. Then it has some Rhoads soloing. ... the solos are... okay. Not Rhoads' best. Worst track on the album.

No Bone Movies is odd. It's... hard to figure out why the song exists. Good song, but doesn't really fit with any other song...

Revelation (Mother Earth) is also great. Again, kind of odd, but this IS Ozzy, mind.

And the epic finisher iiiiiiiiiiss: Steal Away (The Night). It's good, but not exactly as epic as I had hoped.I Don't Know or Dee would have been a better finisher.

All in all, every song on this album is good. Yay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll run down the entire album, song by song.

Track 01: Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Er... yeah. The reason 98% of the population bought this album. I don't see why, though. It's a crappy riff stolen from Boston, over and over, until an un-imaginitive solo, with Kurt yelling "yay!" and "AMOSQUITOALOBIDOADIGEREEDOO!". Yeah. Just skip this track.

Track 02: In Bloom.
Yeah, it's one of Nirvana's biggest hits, but the only Nirvana song that can be called a hit, really, is SLTS. Anyway, this song is awesome. It's just fast chording on the gtuitar side, but the vocals are the shining achievement here. The lyrics, actually. See, Kurt was an amazing song-writer. This song's message was to all the people who bought and liked Bleach ("He's the one who likes all our pretty songs, and he likes to sing along"), and didn't get the messages in the songs. Hence "But he knows not what it means... knows not what it means when I say... yeah". Oh, by the way... one of the fifty greatest guitar solos of all time? Yeah, right.

Track 03: Come As You Are.
Another "hit". And, like In Bloom, it's actually GOOD. Great, even. The guitar isn't too interesting, nor are the drums or bass. But they're not meant to be. See, the vocals are, again, the star of the show here. It does have an indtrumental "hook", but other than that, it's all vocals. Celebrate!

Track 04: Breed.
This is perhaps the best guitar song on the album. And the lyrics... make no sense. But it's cool. Makes the song better, even. Example: "We can plant a house, we can build a tree". Yeah. Go Heroin.

Track 05: Lithium.
The fourth (and final) "hit" off this album. The bass is great, however the guitar is lacking. Whatever. This genre isn't kinown for face-melting guitar-work, anyway. The vocals are cool, too. Yeah.

Track 06: Polly.
Er... this song is annoying. It's acoustic, and slow, and "Polly wants a cracker..." isn't really a good start. Yeah. Moving on...

Track 07: Territorial Pissings.
This is the defining track of the album. While not a "hit", I have not met someone who doesn't like this song. Hasn't heard of it, sure. Anyway, the beginning is hippie. You know, "Come on people, now! Smile on your brother, everybody! Try to love one another! Right now... !" Yeah. Then it goes into some meaningful lyrics. "Never met a wise man, if so it's a woman", or " Just because you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you".

Track 08: Drain You.
A good song, perhaps not when you first hear it. It's more... quiet than some of the others (Polly and Something in the Way excluded). But after a few listens, it grows on you. I can't explain it. It's like... crack. Kurt Cobain for person of the year, 1989, 1991, and 1993!

Track 09: Lounge Act.
Starts off with some great bass action. Then the guitar comes in, then the drums... then some mutter-y vocals! Don't turn you volume too loud, now. By the end, Kurt is screaming. Makes you wonder how many times he blew his throat making this album. Anyway, another song that grows on you. So... yeah.

Track 10: Stay Away.
Another song that grows on you! Yay!It has a line repeated a lot, which sound like "ALRI-E-IGHT!", which is actually "I don't know why-e-y!" This is my favourite song on the album (narrowly), and perhaps my favourite Nirvana song. Yeah.

Track 11: On a Plain.
My second favourite on the album, and a happy song! I always imagine Kurt smiling when I hear this. It's kinda cheery, but not "I WANT TO SKIP IN FLOWERS!" or that thing. It's the way he sings it, now the lyrics themselves. Yeah. This is another grows on you thing.

Track 12: Something in the Way.
... yeah. Acoustic... slow... er... not the type of song Nirvana's suited for. I don't like it that much. It's a good song, but I just don't like it.

Track 13: Endless, Nameless.
Yay! A hidden track! 13:50 of Something in the Way is Endless, Nameless. It's a good song, but not one of those "I could listen for hours" things. I'm just glad they didn't do what they did with Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip off In Utero. So Americans can actually get this one! Yay!

So, this is Jason Becker's first solo album. Also the last in which he'll play guitar on all the tracks, due to ALS, which paralised him.

The highlights of this album are:

Altitudes: A 5:38 epic masterpiece. Easily the best song on the album. The song still gives me the occasional joygasm.

Perpetual Burn: A 3:42 neo-classical romp through the techniques of metal. Sweep Picking. Scale Runs. Tapping. 'Sall here.

Temple of the Absurd: A 4:39 technical delight. Along with Marty Friedman, Jason shows us how well two neo-classical guitarists can work together (Even though this was also shown in Cacophony's two albums, Speed Metal Symphony and Go Off!).

Those are the three best songs on the album, in my opinion.

I'd say buy this album. If you've never heard neo-classical metal before, and want to pick up an album that showcases it well, this is it. Definate buy.

Like I said, this is the worst album ever. Which is sad, because Metallica was awesome in the '80s (Luckily their steam was regained when St. Anger came out in '03).

What make this the worst album ever, though, is the fact that it's so popular and by a great artist. Don't disrespect this decision. This is what real critics do.

There is only one passable song on the album. Sad But True. The rest sound... really... bad... to put it nicely.

Enter Sandman is Metallica's most popular song. It's also the worst song ever. One crappy riff, which they thought "HAY PPL MIGHT HUM THAT", and so they raped the living daylights out of it, with a few powerchords thrown in for good measure, BAD fantasy lyrics... frankly, EMBARRASSING fantasy lyrics, abducted children being forced to pray, which Metallica thought would be clever, crappy vocals, a crappy solo where Kirk just can't leave his stupid wah-wah alone, and a stupid fading outro of James singing "tak ma haaaaaaaaaaaand" over and over. To little kids. When Metallica has made some awesome songs like The Four Horsemen, Ride the Lightning, ...And Justice For All, Frantic, St. Anger, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), etc.

Just steer clear of this monstrosity. Buy Ride the Lightning. Or Kill 'Em All. Just NOT The Black Album.