METALLICA's ULRICH, HAMMETT Name Their Favorite Albums, Songs Of Past Decade

December 10, 2009

Rolling Stone magazine recently asked a number of artists — including METALLICA's Lars Ulrich (drums) and Kirk Hammett (guitar) — along with journalists and industry insiders to name their favorite 25 albums and songs of the past decade, in order of importance. Ulrich's and Hammett's selections follow below.

Lars Ulrich - Best Albums Of The Decade (in order of importance):

01. ARCTIC MONKEYS - "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"
02. SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "Toxicity"
03. THE SWORD - "Age Of Winters"
04. KINGS OF LEON - "Aha Shake Heartbreak"
05. THE WHITE STRIPES - "Elephant"
06. GREEN DAY - "American Idiot"
07. SLIPKNOT - "Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses"
08. EMINEM - "The Eminem Show"
09. WOLFMOTHER - "Wolfmother"
10. RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - "Renegades"
11. U2 - "No Line On The Horizon"
12. KASABIAN - "Kasabian"
13. THE MARS VOLTA - "De-Loused in the Comatorium"
14. OASIS - "Don't Believe The Truth"
15. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - "Rated R"
16. SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "Mezmerize"
17. ARCTIC MONKEYS - "Favorite Worst Nightmare"
18. ALICE IN CHAINS - "Black Gives Way To Blue"
19. THE BLACK KEYS - "Attack & Release"
20. AUDIOSLAVE - "Audioslave"
21. MASTODON - "Crack The Skye"
22. MOTÖRHEAD - "Inferno"
23. GUNS N' ROSES - "Chinese Democracy"
24. THE DATSUNS - "The Datsuns"
25. THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS - "The Age Of The Understatement"

Lars Ulrich - Best Songs Of The Decade (in order of importance):

01. U2 - Moment Of Surrender"
02. EMINEM - "Cleaning Out My Closet"
03. ARCTIC MONKEYS - "From The Ritz To The Rubble"
04. RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - "How I Could Just Kill A Man"
05. THE SWORD - "Freya"
06. OASIS - Lyla"
07. ARCTIC MONKEYS - "Fake Tales Of San Francisco"
08. GREEN DAY - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams"
09. SLIPKNOT - "Duality"
10. OASIS - "Falling Down"
11. JOHNNY CASH - "Thirteen"
12. THE WHITE STRIPES - "Seven Nation Army"
13. SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "Toxicity"
14. ZWAN - "Number Of The Beast"
15. WOLFMOTHER - "White Unicorn"
16. KINGS OF LEON - "Sex On Fire"
17. U2 - "Vertigo"
18. PINK - "Get The Party Started"
19. ALICE IN CHAINS - "Check My Brain"
20. STAIND - "It's Been A While"
21. SEAN PAUL - "Get Busy"
22. SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "B.Y.O.B."
23. KID ROCK - "Picture"
24. LAMB OF GOD - "Redneck"
25. KASABIAN - "Club Foot"

Kirk Hammett - Best Albums Of The Decade (in order of importance):

01. RADIOHEAD - "Kid A"
02. THE MARS VOLTA - "De-Loused in the Comatorium"
03. SIGUR ROS - ()
04. MUSE - "Absolution"
05. LAMB OF GOD - "Ashes Of The Wake"
06. DAMIAN MARLEY - "Welcome To Jamrock"
07. MASTODON - "Crack The Skye"
08. OUTKAST - "Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below"
09. INTERPOL - "Turn On The Bright Lights"
10. SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS - "100 Days, 100 Nights"
11. SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "Mezmerize"
12. THE BLACK KEYS - "Magic Potion"
13. PJ HARVEY - "Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea"
14. SINÉAD O'CONNOR - "Faith And Courage"
15. GOJIRA - "The Way Of All Flesh"
16. MACHINE HEAD - "The Blackening"
17. RY COODER & MANUEL GALBAN - "Mambo Sinuendo"
18. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - "Rated R"
19. TOOL - "Lateralus"
20. TOM WAITS - "Alice"
21. MY MORNING JACKET - "It Still Moves"
22. ALICE IN CHAINS - "Black Gives Way To Blue"
23. THE SWORD - "Age Of Winters"
24. PINK MARTINI - "Hey Eugene!"
25. ALL SHALL PERISH - "Awaken The Dreamers"

Kirk Hammett - Best Songs Of The Decade (in order of importance)::

01. RADIOHEAD - "Everything In Its Right Place"
02. DENGUE FEVER - "One Thousand Tears Of A Tarantula"
03. MASTODON - "Oblivion"
04. AFROMAN - "Because I Got High"
05. KINGS OF LEON - "The Bucket"
06. LAMB OF GOD - "Set To Fail"
07. U2 - "Beautiful Day"
08. THE MARS VOLTA - "Intertiatic E.S.P."
09. MUSE - "Stockholm Syndrome"
10. DAMIAN MARLEY - "Welcome To Jamrock"
11. GOJIRA - "Vacuity"
12. SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS - "How Long Do I Have To Wait For You?"
13. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - "Tension Head"
14. ALICE IN CHAINS - "Check My Brain"
15. MY MORNING JACKET - "Mahgeetah"
16. SYSTEM OF A DOWN - "Violent Pornography"
17. THE SWORD - 'Freya"
18. OUTKAST - "Hey Ya!"
19. SIGUR ROS - "Svef-g-englar"
20. LAMB OF GOD - "Now You Have Something To Die For"
21. AT THE DRIVE-IN - "One Armed Scissor"
22. KORN - "Here To Stay"
23. KID ROCK - "American Bad Ass"
24. THE BLACK KEYS - "You're The One"
25. AMY WINEHOUSE - "Back To Black"

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