Metallica has a LOT of great songs, but if you had to choose just 12 for a "desert island" mix disc, which would you choose?

Mine:
1. Dyers Eve
2. Through The Never
3. Master of Puppets
4. Blackened
5. Creeping Death
6. Phantom Lord
7. Eye of the Beholder
8. The Struggle Within
9. Damage Inc
10. For Whom The Bell Tolls
11. Leper Massiah
12. Battery

My list, in no order at all.

1) Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
2) Master Of Puppets
3) Leper Messiah
4) Ride The Lightning
5) For Whom The Bell Tolls
6) Blackened
7) Dyers Eve
8) Harvester Of Sorrow
9) Creeping Death
10) Seek And Destroy
11) No Leaf Clover
12) The Frayed Ends Of Sanity

I'm not a huge Metallica fan. I'd probably just take the Black album, drop Holier Than Thou, Through the Never, God That Failed and Struggle Within and add Fade to Black, One, The Call of Ktulu and Whiskey in the Jar.

In no particular order:

Breadfan
Blackened
Shortest Straw
Battery
Master of Puppets
The Thing That Should Not Be
Leper Messiah
For Whom The Bell Tolls
The Call of Ktulu
Hit The Lights
Jump In The Fire
Sad But True

The Prince
Creeping Death
Orion
Motorbreath
Dyer's Eve
Disposable Heroes
Blitzkreig
Ride The Lightning
The Four Horsemen
To Live Is To Die
Battery
The God That Failed

Breadfan
And Justice For All
No Remorse
Creeping Death
Shortest Straw
Master Of Puppets
Disposable Heroes
Fade To Black
Wherever I May Roam
Whiplash
Blackened
Harvester Of Sorrow

Bleeding Me
Fuel
Low Man's Lyric
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Creeping Death
Tuesday's Gone
No Leaf Clover
Master Of Puppets
St. Anger
Turn The Page
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
...And Justice For All

Master of Puppets
Creeping Death
King Nothing
The Call of Ktulu
Battery
Hero of the Day
...And Justice for All
Frantic
Damage, Inc.
Prince Charming
Breadfan
The Prince

To my surprise, nothing from Kill 'Em All or the Black Album and a couple of covers to boot.

Phantom Lord
Ride The Lightning
For Whom the Bells Toll
Trapped Under Ice
Creeping Death
Four Horsemen
Metal Militia
Dyer's Eve
Hit The Lights
No Remorse
Mercyful Fate medley
Disposable Heroes

Don't know what order I would like them in, but here they are.

one
harvester of sorrow
to live is to die
mercyful fate
pulling teeth
the outlaw torn
master of puppets
orion
for whom the bell tolls
fade to black
creeping death
And justice for all

I would never go with 12 songs.
1. One
2. For Whom The Bell Tolls
3. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
4. Harvester Of Sorrow
5. Enter Sandman
6. The Unforgiven
7. Nothing Else Matters
8. Sad But True
9. Wherever I May Roam
10. So What
11. Stone Cold Crazy
12. Turn The Page
13. I Disappear

12 huh? ok... NPO

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Fade to Black
Disposable Heroes
One
The Small Hours
Seek and Destroy
The Memory Remains
Battery
Through The Never
Master of Puppets
Ride the Lightning
Orion

Oh shit, I forgot their version of "Helpless". Replace "Phantom Lord" with "Helpless" on my list.

Going to make my compilation now!

Creeping Death
Mercyful fate medley
Sad But True
Devils Dance
Stone Cold Crazy
Breadfan
Last Caress/Green Hell
Blackened
Master Of Puppets
Disposable Heroes
And Justice For All
For Whom The Bell Tolls

Seek and Destroy
The Four Horsemen
Creeping Death
Fade to Black
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Orion
Disposible Heroes
Leper Messiah
Welcome Home
Dyers Eve
One
...and Justice for All

The Four Horsemen
Fade To Black
Master Of Puppets
The Thing That Should Not Be
One
Harvester Of Sorrow
Sad But True
Wherever I May Roam
The Outlaw Torn
Where The Wild Things Are
No Leaf Clover
Shoot Me Again

OK, it's going to be tough to leave a lot of candidates off the list...

Seek and Destroy
Creeping Death
Ride the Lightning
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Battery
Master of Puppets
Leper Messiah
And Justice For All
The Frayed Ends of Sanity
Through the Never
Holier than Thou
King Nothing
Fuel

OK, that's a baker's dozen - so sue me!

(Having an extra, "bonus" track was the only way I'd put "Fuel" on there...)

Actually, it was a toss up between Fuel and The Memory Remains as that "bonus" track.

So What?
Creeping Death
Am I Evil?
Master Of Puppets
Orion
Blackened
Battery
Breadfan
The Four Horsemen
Last Caress
Seek & Destroy
Welcome Home (Sanatarium)

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
One
Orion
Eye of the Beholder
Holier Than Thou
Call of Ktulu
Fade to Black
Thorn Within
Where the Wild Things Are
Phantom Lord
The Thing That Should Not Be
To Live is to Die

Whiplash
Am I Evil?
Seek and Destroy
The Four Horsemen
Ride The Lightning
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Creeping Death
Fade To Black
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Blackened

1- Fade to Black
2- One
3- Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
4- Master of Puppets
5- Battery
6- Of Wolf and Man
7- The Unforgiven
8- Wherever I May Roam
9- For Whom the Bell Tolls
10- Ain't My Bitch
11- Call of Ktulu
12- Hero of the Day

In No Particular Order:

Master Of Puppets
Breadfan
Fade To Black
The Wait
The Thing That Should Not Be
Orion
The God That Failed
Blitzkrieg
Seek And Destroy
Harvestor Of Sorrow
No Remorse
Frantic (DVD rehearsal ver)

01. Helpless
02. The Small Hours
03. The Wait
04. Crash Course in Brain Surgery
05. Last Caress/Green Hell

I'll figure out the other seven later.

1. Trapped Under Ice
2. Creeping Death
3. Whiplash
4. Call of Ktulu
5. Master of Puppets
6. Battery
7. Harvester of Sorrow
8. Four Horsemen
9. Welcome Home
10. Seek and Destroy
11. Am I Evil
12. One

No compilation..I'd just take the Kill'em all album