Metallica's best of should be divided "Pre-Cliff dying/Post Cliff". They were much better with Cliff. Ride The Lightning and Master are monsters. I almost suspect that Cliff kept Lars in line. Later on with Justice, Lars had the producers turn down Jason Newstead's bass on One. It is crazy that a song that good is so void of bass.
Here is a great song that I had running through my brain last summer on a roadtrip. I stayed at a former hospital in Lava Hot Springs, ID. It was built for returning WW1 wounded soldiers to rehab. They have a variety of soaking pools around the outside. The hotel was supposedly haunted. I layed in my bed that night waiting for some wounded Belleau Wood Marine to walk into my room that night, but it never happened. Still really cool experience.