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You know you all love 80s Metallica no matter what they do now. But how many will vote for 90s stuff?

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Master Of Puppets (1986) 35
Ride The Lightning (1984) 22
...and Justice For All (1988) 12
Kill Em All (1983) 8
Metallica (Black Album) (1991) 6
Garage Days Revisited (1987) 3
Load (1996) 2
St. Anger (2003)2
S&M (1999) 1
ReLoad (1997) 0
Garage Inc (1998) 0
One of the Pre-1st album demos 0


The Twisted Pollstarter, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.faithcolumbuswi.org/Pictures/PastorBob.gif
http://www.fairvote.org/irv/muppets/muppets2.jpg

OBVIOUSLY

Oilyrags, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

Pastor Of Muppets?

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

A 2CD version of the 3CD (without the solos you just skip every time) that was in the Binge & Purge box would be the best Metallica thing ever.

StanM, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

You don't want a whole cd of Lars Ulrich's drum solos?

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

I have no taste, I know :-(

StanM, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

I bet you have a box set of Cliff's solos.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

Cliff Richard?

StanM, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

The black one. The early stuff is too extreme, "Load" and "Reload" are grunge-AOR (although better than most other grunge-AOR it must be added) while "St. Anger" is just plain rubbish.

Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

Pastor Of Muppets?

Isn't that what I just said?

Oilyrags, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

I have always thought Ride the Lightning blows Puppets out of the water.

Bill Magill, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

Ride The Lightning.

Second place: Garage Inc.

xhuxk, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

I went for Ride The Lightning as well actually.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

master of puppets.

M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

ok wtf why does ilx keep eating my posts

latebloomer, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Master of Puppets vs. Justice for All, can't decide!

Jordan, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

yes you can. One of them has bass.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

ok wtf why does ilx keep eating my posts

Because not even on ILM is anyone allowed to defend St Anger

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

I like how overwrought and labored over AJFA sounds, there is some seriously crazy shit on that record.

Jordan, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

But no bass!!!

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

and fart in a can drums

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

I like the drum sound. :> And who needs bass on a metal record anyway.

Jordan, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

and fart in a can drums

I thought we weren't going to talk about St. Anger!

David R., Tuesday, 17 July 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

surely guys this whole thing is just lightning puppets showdown. is always the case when it comes to deciding tallica faves.

Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

I kinda hope poseurs like me voting for the Black Album end up beating out the vote-splitting of the 80s albums just to piss off the real metalheads.

Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

Kill 'Em All! Because it's a NWOBHM album.

Matt #2, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

hahahah. alex this isn't the oscars

Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Today, I'm saying MOP. But in truth I vacillate between that and RTL and have done so for 21+ years now. I could as easily flip a coin and be satisfied with either option.

Truly trivial side note: Puppets sports not one but TWO steals from David Bowie: The title "Leper Messiah" obviously, but also the "Andy Warhol" guitar lick that links "Master Of Puppets"' bridge to its third verse.

Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

Today, I'm saying MOP. But in truth I vacillate between that and RTL and have done so for 21+ years now. I could as easily flip a coin and be satisfied with either option.

Me too. I finally went with Puppets after "Damage, Inc." beat "Call of Chtulu" in my mind.

Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

yes, Charlie, but it could be the Grammys (where Jethro Tull = ReLoad)

Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

I'd be cool with never hearing Fade to Black again as long as I live.

Jordan, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

...And Justice For All, if it had better production, would've been the best. I partially agree with Jordan, the band created arrangements where bass wouldn't be necessary. While this may have been unfair to Newstead, I think it was pretty damn innovative. The rest of the production does suck though.

Had me at hello: Blackened's lofty intro solo, which raises the listeners up out of the glowing, foggy mists only to hammer them senseless with Lars' whiplash inducing drumming. All as the basis for ... an environmental screed?

The only thing I don't like about the record is "Dyer's Eve", whose lyrics are uncomfortably whiny.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

hahah, pretty bizarre that jethro tull was even competition in the first place

crest of a knave? is that even reverred among jethro tull fans?

Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

hahah, pretty bizarre that jethro tull was even competition in the first place

That's what happens when you let Chuck do the Grammy nominations :D

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

just to be pedantic, "Garage Days Revisited" (1987) is actually called "Garage Days Re-Revisited"

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

hahah
'vraagen aan metallica'
i have a lot to say on that thread

haha brigadier

Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

"Kill 'Em All" wins on the strength of "The Four Horsemen" alone.

novaheat, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

i picked MoP like any normal, sane person would. But the Garage Days Re-revisited on budget cassette was the most influential in my life.

chaki, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

Garage Days was indeed fantastic.

Marty Innerlogic, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 00:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'm drunk and playing old school Metallica at 2:30 in the morning. Woow to me!

Marty Innerlogic, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

Go Marty!

The Twisted Pollstarter, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

i really like the production on AJFA! since when was bass a necessary feature of thrash?

babedad, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)

If they remastered AJFA they might win back some fans. I don't know what they fuck they were thinking with that. I believe it made the whole thing seem less organic and more by-numbers math rock devoid of emotion. Of course, the lyrical content was pretty lacking, too. Who wants to hear forced-rage farce about pollution from when James was obviously watching the news trying to find something to write about or a song about a guy who got fucked up by a landmine and is now lying in bed?

dean ge, Friday, 20 July 2007 03:18 (eighteen years ago)

i do! blackened and one rule!

M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 20 July 2007 03:23 (eighteen years ago)

you've just broken my brain... never will it mend. NEVER!!!! Now, I can't remember anything. Can't tell if this is true or a dream. Deep down inside I feel to scream.

dean ge, Friday, 20 July 2007 03:45 (eighteen years ago)

Meh. "And Justice..." is pretty bland save for "To Live is to Die" and "One." If the story is true about them mixing out the bass because Newstead wasn't Burton, it just goes to show what asspunks the rest of the band is.

Never really cared for that album, save for the aforementioned tracks. Definitely the beginning of the end for Metallica. "To Live is to Die" is pretty god-damned indispensable, though.

novaheat, Friday, 20 July 2007 04:47 (eighteen years ago)

That one part in "To Live is to Die" where everything drops out except the clean-sounding guitar gives me goose-bumps. Amazing shit.

novaheat, Friday, 20 July 2007 05:02 (eighteen years ago)

i think justice features the best lyrics hetfield ever penned! i also think the aggression of the record in general suggests that the rage wasn't so forced.

i think it's a great album and metallica's third best. what lets it down for mine isn't so much the production, but rather the general feeling of draginess found on a couple of the tracks. also, i'm very sick of 'one'. excellent song though

Charlie Howard, Friday, 20 July 2007 05:22 (eighteen years ago)

Lets just cut to the chase and say everything up to The Black Album was brilliant, from there on it was a downhill slide into mediocrity.

Diablo_Rising, Friday, 20 July 2007 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

Justice's my number one, just before Kill Em All.

Remastering that album won't bring the bass back though, it'd need a fully redone mix - but did they keep and store all the old recording tracks? BTW there's someone on the web who has mixed in some of his own, newly recorded bass tracks, which doesn't sound half bad actually.

Siegbran, Friday, 20 July 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

You need bass-I don't care if it's thrash or show tunes, give me some bass. Speaking of bass, Cliff Burton had a pretty ugly tone.

Bill Magill, Friday, 20 July 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

But the guitars had a ton of low-end, right??

Jordan, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Tough one to answer, because the first five studio records and St. Anger all have their merits.

I'm going with Master of Puppets by a slight margin over Ride the Lightning ... though as someone mentioned upthread, that's subjectto change given the day or the week. Master of Puppets just has a ferocity to it that makes it extraordinary (beginning of "Disposable heroes, end of "Sanitarium"), and then it has these incredibly beautiful out-of-left field moments (the intro to "Battery," pretty much all of "Orion," the beginning of "Orion" and obviously the first solo to the title song). Ultimately, though, what puts it over the top is Cliff Burton's bass playing ... there's a reason that guy has the cult following he does.

Ride the Lightning is amazing, too, but more for the mere ambition of mixing a pop sensibility in with the classical longings and those incredible Hettfield riffs -- "The Call of Ktulu" and the title track are the best examples, I think. The melodies on RTL, though, are a little blander overall that on MOP; well, sans "Fade to Black."

FWIW, I think St. Anger is astonishing, which not necessarily a synonym for great (five out of 11 songs pretty much stink). One of the ballsiest records of this decade, and I personally think the drumming (and the drum sound) is genius -- I love the criticisms of "bad production" when in fact they did that on purpose.

Jiminy Krokus, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

As for Burton's ugly tone, seems to me that was the point. Metllica's business plan -- fast, loud, sharp, smart (musically, anyway) and ugly.

Jiminy Krokus, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

I always wondered if they got Kerry King in to do the first solo on "Trapped under Ice"on RTL. That's a very un-Metallica like solo.

Bill Magill, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

...And Justice for Jason

Pleasant Plains, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Hey was there an original Garage Days Revisited?

like NOT Garage Days Re-Revisited, the famous one:

<IMG SRC="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Garagerevisited.jpg";>

but was there an original Garage Days Revisited, because otherwise why would the one above be Re-Re-visited??

M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

doi

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Garagerevisited.jpg

M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, there was. My brother had it. It was the b-side to a Creeping Death single, I think.

dean ge, Friday, 20 July 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_Death

dean ge, Friday, 20 July 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Garage Re-Revisited was one of my favorite "albums" of theirs ever for the longest time. I just loved that bass intro to 'Brain Surgery and would always play it on guitar. When I first heard the original versions, I thought they really sucked in comparison to Metallica's. Now, of course, I don't really think that way.

But, it just occured to me that since I gave up on Metallica back on AJFA (never bought it, hated listening to it when other people played it), I never actually HEARD the Garage, Inc. album. In fact, I remember looking at it once in the store and just thinking what a shame it was that this band sucked so much dick now and never actually looked at the songs.

So, just now, I checked out how many tracks there are (double CD!) and am just wondering if this is anywhere near as good as those first two Garage releases. The sort of covers on Garage Inc. mostly look like stuff they never would have "covered" back in their Garage Days (when "Turn The Page" was getting so much radio play, I had to change my clothes several times a day because I kept puking all over myself). How does Garage Inc. stack up compared to Revisited and Re-Revisited? Yay or Nay?

dean ge, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

Who wants to go cycling in this?

http://www.metallica.com/ivergence/image/MOPbikejersey03.jpg

dean ge, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

Metallica was inspired by the second half of the movie The Ten Commandments which is based upon the Bible tale of the plagues which were bestowed upon the Egyptians. When they saw that movie, Cliff Burton said "Whao - it's like creeping death" and everyone liked it so they put it as the song title.

latebloomer, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

My vote goes to Ride The Lightning, with AJFA and MoP close behind.
In answer dean ge's question about Garage, Inc, there are a handful of really good covers on there, but nothing anywhere approaching the outright majesty of say The Small Hours or the brilliance of Blitzkrieg.

On Garage, Inc, the Discharge cover Free Speech for the Dumb is probably a much better capsule version of the St Anger album, as it's only about 2 minutes long. The Sabbath medley is pretty great, and (probably in a very small minority here) I really like the Whiskey in the Jar cover too. Someone somewhere deep in ILM history, probably Monsignor In NYC, said that song was the best example of Hetfield's late-90s "pirate voice", and I would have to agree with that. It hardly sounds like the band that did Trapped Under Ice though, put it like that!

M Carty, Friday, 20 July 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

kill em all. just because i listen to it most these days and it kicks the ass.

ten years ago this would've been my answer:

i picked MoP like any normal, sane person would. But the Garage Days Re-revisited on budget cassette was the most influential in my life.

and garage days is probably my overall favorite. but not really an album.

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Friday, 20 July 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

How is the cover of "Astronomy"? I've never heard it, but love the original.

Bill Magill, Friday, 20 July 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

I have always thought Ride the Lightning blows Puppets out of the water.

You have always been wrong.

Alex in NYC, Friday, 20 July 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

:)

Jordan, Friday, 20 July 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

:\

David R., Friday, 20 July 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

"You have always been wrong."

I hear that a lot

Bill Magill, Friday, 20 July 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

To be fair, Ride the Lightning was the first album of theirs I bought back in high school (picked solely on the strength of the fact that Kirk Hammett is depicted wearing a Discharge shirt on the back cover). It's an AMAZING record (why "Fight Fire with Fire" and "Trapped Under Ice" don't get more love astounds me). But Master of Puppets simply blows it away.

Alex in NYC, Friday, 20 July 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

Metllica's business plan -- fast, loud, sharp, smart (musically, anyway) and ugly.

That's all relative though - nearly all of other famous speed metal bands (Kreator, Destruction, Megadeth, Dark Angel) were faster, louder, uglier. Metallica got huge because they had better riffs, better choruses, better songs, they were never very extreme.

Siegbran, Friday, 20 July 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)

So who is doing the best thrash bands poll?

Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 21 July 2007 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

can you have 300 entries in a poll?

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Saturday, 21 July 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

Yes

Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 21 July 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

But we all know Slayer will probably win it anyway.

Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 21 July 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

maybe there should be a "best thrash bands minus slayer, metallica and megadeth" poll.

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Saturday, 21 July 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

So Anthrax will win?

Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 21 July 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

Death Angel!

Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 21 July 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

personally i feel that destruction would be the inwincibulll fooooorce in that poll.

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Saturday, 21 July 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

I fear the ILM Pantera fans would be out in force.

Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 21 July 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

well, if i did the poll they wouldn't be on it. take that, conventional wisdom.

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Saturday, 21 July 2007 23:12 (eighteen years ago)

Someone's done it and they are.

Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 21 July 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmm...I didn't consider this problem while I was making the poll. Do you think a bunch of Pantera fans would listen if I added a post saying that their vote wouldn't count?

kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 21 July 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

That will just make everyone vote Pantera!! lol

Who is doing the best doom/stoner poll then?

Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 21 July 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

The twisted psychology of an ILM poll is nothing I dare tamper with again.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 21 July 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

Haha. When I did the led zep and sabbath polls I did a "do not like" option and everyone went apeshit when some people actually voted for that(without admitting it either).

Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 21 July 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

If anyone does a doom/stoner etc poll then best choosing from Last Fm rather than AMG
http://www.last.fm/tag/traditional%20doom%20metal/artists
http://www.last.fm/tag/drone%20doom/artists
http://www.last.fm/tag/stoner/artists

Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 21 July 2007 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

and im sure the best death metal and black metal polls will be along at some point too.

Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 21 July 2007 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

i voted for St. Anger 'cause every last thing metallica ever did has SUCKED

stephen, Sunday, 22 July 2007 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

Master of Puppets by a landslide. The only reason I could even imagine someone picking anything else is for personal reasons like memory triggers or their gateway album. Master was Metallica at its peak. Some of the best metal ever recorded imo.

...Or maybe that's because that's the album that got me into them. Hrm.

rockapads, Sunday, 22 July 2007 08:22 (eighteen years ago)

as much as i love puppets, i'm likely to skip through a couple of tracks each time i listen. very much a different story with lightning that i'm happy to play through time and time again

Charlie Howard, Sunday, 22 July 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Sunday, 22 July 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

I was obsessed with this band from age 13-15, right up until the self-titled came out. Not that I exactly hated it then (though I might now - I haven't heard it in porbably 10 years), but I seemed to get, in some way, that I wasn't going to get any more Lightning/Puppets/Justice records in the future. Besides, it was a great big world out there in the early 1990s for a young curious metal fan, so by '92 I'd forgotten all about 'em.

Anyway, like everyone else I'd put their entire 1980s output in the hall of fame and disregard pretty much everything else after, with the exception of Garage Inc. C'mon, the Mercyful Fate medly is killer, and thier Whiskey in the Jar is fricking definitive. Puppets wins for me, as I think its a smarter, more souped-up version of Lightning. Better cover, too, although the earlier record made for a much nicer t-shirt design, somehow. So there ya go.

Handsome Dan, Monday, 23 July 2007 02:38 (eighteen years ago)

Handsome Dan OTM about the t-shirt design thing.

rockapads, Monday, 23 July 2007 07:40 (eighteen years ago)

I had a great ride the lightning shirt.

Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 23 July 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

i did too. glow in the dark, naturally.

scott seward, Monday, 23 July 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

it had kill em 'all on the back.

Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 23 July 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

that it did.

scott seward, Monday, 23 July 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

Mine was
http://www.metallicaworld.co.uk/images/tshirts/kill-ride_sweat_front.jpg
and the backprint was
http://www.metallicaworld.co.uk/images/tshirts/kill-ride_sweat_rear.jpg

Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 23 July 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

That's too rich for my blood.

dean ge, Monday, 23 July 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

drink up/shoot in/let the beatings begin

that one takes it for me.

bastardo, Monday, 23 July 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

kill em all

kenan, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

this was the front on mine. dude glowed in the dark:

http://www.bellasrelics.com/Metallica-Metal_Up-BF.jpg

kill em all on the back.

scott seward, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

I had this one http://www.metallicaworld.co.uk/images/tshirts/crash_course_front.JPG

i had that one, too. it lasted about a year before our idiot great dane ripped it and made it unwearable. i had this thing about buying white t-shirts for some reason, so that year i got the crash course one and the slayer "world sacrifice tour" shirt.

GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

The 80s albums will get more votes than the 90s won't they? I know it's ILM but come on...

The Twisted Pollstarter, Monday, 23 July 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Monday, 23 July 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

shit, i don't think i even voted. there is no way that justice should have overtaken kill em all. that shit ain't right.

scott seward, Monday, 23 July 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

Puppets won easily in the end then. I'm surprised ...No bass For All beat Kill 'Em All.

Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 23 July 2007 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

Load (1996) 2
St. Anger (2003) 2

Ban these jokers.

marmotwolof, Monday, 23 July 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

's&m (1999) 1'

tar and feather this joker

Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 02:41 (eighteen years ago)

I don't mind some of Load but Reload is awful and S&M is even worse.

Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 10:28 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't mention the S&M vote because I assumed whoever did that was just confused and voting for the sex practice. It happens.

marmotwolof, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

WAHT

surprised kill em all didn't win, actually. ok maybe not THAT surprised but still.

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

Glad to see someone else voted for Load. I don't much care for metal, but Load has many nice poppy tunes on it, so that's the only Metallica album I've ever really liked. They were always good at writing catchy melodies, they should've done more pop.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

I always thought you hated rock, Tuomas. Load does have some good tunes. It's just not a Metallica album to my ears. Should've been a side project really. I saw them on that tour at the barras and they only played a couple of tunes from it.

Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

The black album has some catchy tunes too, but they're too heavy for my tastes. Except of course for "Nothing Else Matters", the ultimate nineties teen disco slow tune.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 11:30 (eighteen years ago)

(x-post)

I have nothing against rock if it's poppy, though I don't really care enough about it to buy rock albums. But when I was teen everyone was supposed to like Metallica, so I did buy the black album and Load just to try it. I don't think I have them anymore.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

Funnily enough the only songs I like on the black album are the (6?) singles!

Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 11:40 (eighteen years ago)

I think many of their more epic tunes might work as club mixes / cover version, if someone would try such a thing. Richard Cheese already proved that their songs are strong enough to survive a total genre change.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 11:43 (eighteen years ago)

"cover versions"

Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

The only remix I've heard is the one by DJ Spooky, and that was a bit too arty for my tastes.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

Kirk Hammett appeared on a film soundtrack version of "Satan" by Orbital didn't he?

Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

I think so, that was the Spawn soundtrack, which had the DJ Spooky remix too. There's also a Swizz Beatz tune featuring Metallica and Ja Rule, which is, er, interesting.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

Have you heard the venetian snares "black sabbath" tracks?

Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=39008

Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

It will probably be Metallica's turn next. Remixed by DJ Ulrich.

Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

St. Anger sucks.

Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 05:29 (eighteen years ago)

Water is wet.

Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 05:51 (eighteen years ago)

i see what you did there Pleasant Plains.

three handclaps, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 06:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/19856-st-anger

lol rite?

three handclaps, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 06:09 (eighteen years ago)

"Unnamed Feeling," "All Within My Hands," "Purify," and a few others are good to these ears.

The production, however, is terrible. Lars' drum sound is the worst drum sound ever.

three handclaps, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 06:10 (eighteen years ago)

eight months pass...

heh 2 jokers voted St Anger

Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:21 (seventeen years ago)

hows the remastered vinyl btw? Saw them for sale in Glasgow last week.

Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 31 July 2008 17:24 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

Had to post this somewhere

http://brennz.tumblr.com/post/58719702/the-entirety-of-metallicas-self-titled-black-album-as

The entirety of Metallica’s self-titled/black album as performed by kids at talent shows*

*And/or community fairs and/or preparing for talent shows.

a couple of them have been removed :(

^^^ this (onimo), Thursday, 18 August 2011 13:35 (fourteen years ago)

six years pass...

Been on an And Justice For All kick lately. IDK if it’s really the best but it’s the first metal album I liked. Seeing the “One” video on MTV at age 11 was quite mind-expanding.

Also, I LOVE the no-bass sound, it makes the album so sharp.

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 00:56 (eight years ago)

you are a sick man

j., Wednesday, 1 November 2017 01:28 (eight years ago)

nah i agree, the lack of bass is not important

brimstead, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 01:32 (eight years ago)

i'm kind of tuckered out by the time i get to the end of "one".. that first disc is solid, tho

brimstead, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 01:33 (eight years ago)

or first half, whatever

brimstead, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 01:33 (eight years ago)

There are quiet/loud songs and slow/fast songs, but Metallica on this album are the kings of the pretty/ugly song.

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 01:54 (eight years ago)

The lack of bass doesn't bother me on that record either.

Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 06:54 (eight years ago)

Justice is my favorite Metallica album. And yeah, it sounds perfect.

grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 11:19 (eight years ago)

It not only doesn’t bother me, it’s the secret sauce.

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 13:02 (eight years ago)

Couldn't agree more. Who needs bass, this isn't dance music.

change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 14:13 (eight years ago)

three years pass...

i have metallica sickness. it's like cocteau fever, but for metallica.

last week i bought a roguelike (https://jupiterhell.com/) that is basically "Doom, but turn-based, and if you die you have to go all the way to the beginning, but whoever owns Doom threatened to sue us, so it's called Jupiter Hell". the game is fantastic. it has a pretty heavy soundtrack, but after listening to it for about 10 minutes, it suddenly became clear to me that i should start listening to metallica instead.

so i've been blasting the 80s output of Metallica at full volume while playing a turn-based Doom game for several days straight.

i bet i'm the millionth person to make this observation, but you know one of the reasons "Master of Puppets" is one of the greatest songs of all time? it's one of the few songs about addiction/drugs that communicates the thrilling part of the experience, the reason that you keep coming back to the substance, the thing that thrills people in the first place. i've heard so many sad slow songs about drugs, and so many medium-speed woozy songs about drugs. "master of puppets" sounds like the voice of the drug itself, racing forward. if i ever get to see metallica i can't wait to pump my fists to it. MASTER! MASTER!! *head bangs*

Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Saturday, 14 August 2021 17:07 (four years ago)

also, for a while, lars ulrich was really good

Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Saturday, 14 August 2021 17:07 (four years ago)

i'd like to meet lars, i bet he's a great guy

Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Saturday, 14 August 2021 17:08 (four years ago)

Huh weird that the best Metallica album is third here.

I would much rather have dinner with Lars than 99% of the metal drummers that people think should replace him or whatever.

change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 14 August 2021 17:17 (four years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/SNCosOy.jpg

brimstead, Saturday, 14 August 2021 23:34 (four years ago)

the older I get; the more I prefer Kill ‘Em All.

beard papa, Saturday, 14 August 2021 23:54 (four years ago)


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