The Big Four. Favorite Thrash Album?

[Sinical]

Rust in Peace, MoP, for sure.

Also:

http://www.theonion.com/article/humanit ... ths--50983

[nightflameauto]

Master of Puppets both for tone/songs and for being the one that literally knocked me on my ass in awe when I first heard it. So thick and tasty.

At the time, there really wasn't a big four in my mind. There was no delineation between the "big" bands and the little bands. They were all equals to us in the middle of fuck-off nowhere midwest.

So, Master of Puppets, Among the Living, The New Order (Testament), The Years of Decay (Overkill), Fabulous Disaster (Exodus), Reign in Blood, Peace Sells, Handle with Care (Nuclear Assault) all got regular rotation through that period of time. Some bands had better albums later, but those were the ones that stick in my craw due to the lovely mixture of nostalgia, time to listen to them over and over and over and over and over, and being new enough to the genre to not be utterly burnt out on it. Pretty much all of them could be sung, some of them even played, all the way through note for note from memory. To me, that's a sign of some form of greatness, even if it's only in my puny brain pan.

[Tortuga]

Good point, NFA - Def no clear "four" until the later part of the 80s / early 90s at the earliest.

[K-Bizzle]

Rust
Master

After that I don't have strong enough opinions to really rank them.

[JerEvil]

Hmmmm...

I'd have to go

Kill "Em All
Among The Living
Reign In Blood
Rust In Piece

[Mesa/Kramer]

Ride the Lighting
Reign in Blood
Peace Sells
Among the Living

[MacaroniSalad]

probably Seasons in the Abyss.

That was also the first one I got from any of the bands. I don't own any Metallica, but I'm not really interested. I much prefer the other 3 of the big 4