Metallica - "Enter Sandman" : C or D?

It was all downhill after Cliff Burton died. Now they should all be shot. I say this as a survivor of the absolutely horrid hype-landslide involving their "stint" with the SF Symphony. BLECH.

Since when is the technical complexity of a riff any indication of its merit? You've been hanging out with too many prog-rock fans, Mr.D.

So OTM it's not funny. If it were meant to be mind-bendingly complex, it wouldn't be called a riff.

That it's overplayed (which I'll agree with) is not the song's fault. It's not my favorite song of theirs by a long stretch, but I know a great track when I hear it. FUCKIN' OWN UP TO IT! Everyone's panning it here because it was Metallica's "big sellout" single. SO WHAT IF IT WAS? Big Fuckin' Deal! They didn't want to keep their underground cred like those other bands and were eager to advance to the next phase (I patently refuse to further beat to death the haggard "take it to tha next level" soundbyte). Bless'em. They pulled it off.

That they fell apart quality-wise afterwards is a topic for a different thread.

By contrast "Enter Sandman" is a mid-tempo plodder with terrible lyrics and none of their past songs' complexity. It was like they were trying to be grunge band by slowing everything down and doing a 3 1/2-minute classic rock single with "scary" vocals. Which is not something they were ever good at, and not what I wanted to hear from them. If I wanted mid-tempo sludge I'd rather listen to, oh, Mudhoney...

Best t-shirt ever.

Less metaphorically, I hope you all agree that Phil Lynott owns "Whiskey in the Jar".

i've only heard the black album, "battery" and some misfits covers or something (i think), so i can't rate it like the troo fanz, though.

also, my best pal's stepdad in his wedding photo looked like james hetfield.

It's like Andrew Lloyd Webber for 3-year-olds!

Its grate :D

Although it didn't have a video featuring foxy boxing lesbians trashing a house to go with it, so I guess it's inferior in that capacity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmM79YadYM&feature=player_embedded#

awesome. though what it really needs is a vocal by tracey thorn.

Evil child within the man / doing evil while he can...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwn5y3XNDIg

i am sorry but that is unwatchable

boy, that sucks. i'd rather watch a ca. 1991 metallica video. the parody of MTV camera angles is funny though.

I accidentally turned on my local rock station yesterday and they were playing a mashup of this with "Don't Stop Believin'." I was actually really hoping for the actual song.

Is the dad Fred Willard?

you guys suck

uh wrong thread

ok i lied i just felt bad for thinking that stiller sketch was funny

i was lashing out and i'm sorry

i still remember where i was when i first saw the video for this. stefano's pizza, knoxville tennessee.

" i just felt bad for thinking that stiller sketch was funny"

it is pretty funny! or pretty baffling at least. why is it duff and not rikki rachtman hosting headbanger's ball? why invent a fictitious bodyswap movie to intercut with enter the sandman, and why would it star pauly shore? It's a parody of things that don't exist!

The Brian Posehn's enter sandman parody is also similarly baffling.

that's because it's based off of a mr show sketch he wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmNApZRy3wk

next level (ka-boom!) shit from Metallica, for me, is probably "Nothing Else Matters," "King Nothing," "Hero Of The Day," and most of all "Whiskey In The Jar." But "Enter Sandman" would probably be included on my personal "More Bands Should Sell Out: The Best Of MTV's Metallica" mixtape.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, April 29, 2003 6:57 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

o_O

I never really liked Metallica.

stopped reading thread after that. this song rules.

my nephew, who was born in 2000, loves this song and has memorized metallica's entire discography. i've never much cared for them myself but for that reason alone, classic.

Sad But True and Wherever I May Roam are both better Metallica sell out songs.

this is probably one of my least favorite metallica songs, maybe because i'm subjected to it whenever i put on the radio but probably just because it's not their finest hour!!

next level (ka-boom!) shit from Metallica, for me, is probably "Nothing Else Matters," "King Nothing," "Hero Of The Day," and most of all "Whiskey In The Jar." But "Enter Sandman" would probably be included on my personal "More Bands Should Sell Out: The Best Of MTV's Metallica" mixtape.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, April 29, 2003 6:57 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark

anthony is right!

"Enter Sandman" is my 4th favorite Black Album single but still great. i go "BOWWWW" every time the drums kick in and the truck hits the bed.

I didn't come around to Metallica for like 15 years because of shit like this. The Load singles are (even) worse, I'll grant that, but still - as a 12-year-old listener catching on to rock for the first time, next to stuff like Nirvana "Enter Sandman" was straight up corny and dated even in 1994.

lol i was about to be all "CLASSIC" but looks like i already gave this one a drunken revive.

still, CLASSIC

i remember the first time i heard this song, riding through the grapevine coming back from san diego. it was cloudy.

I'm not gonna say it's a bad song. But I must make it clear that they were one of my very favorite bands until the moment this one debuted. And then I just quit listening to them over night.

This was the exact moment that they jumped the shark, and you cannot convince me otherwise. Poor Cliff was rolling over in his grave like rotisserie gyro meat.

https://ve.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_pq5008AV3w1ynqgip.mp4

It's 100% classic, but I never want to hear it again. Having said that, I'd rather listen to Load than Metallica these days. It just sounds fresher to me, whereas half of Metallica is more than a bit played out to me.

Good to see Lars expanding his repertoire.

Sad But True and Wherever I May Roam are both better Metallica sell out songs.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Thursday, June 16, 2011 4:45 PM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ x100

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd_UcjMusUA

I love this. Not because it's hard to play a song down after listening once, or because of his drumming (and he's obviously an incredible drummer, that right foot is unreal). It's because it highlights how great Lars's choices are. They're non-standard and yet perfect for the song, and every variation (whether it's missing an accent or tossing in some chops) would be worse on the record.

That's what I learned from Lars, his sense of composition. Judging from the comments people seem to think it makes Lars looks bad, and people love to dunk on him, but I think it's the opposite, thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

aw i watched this video the other day, it's great

big fan of drumeo in general tbh, their videos are so interesting and have been so helpful for me learning the drums

this song lost a ton of cool for me as a kid when I realized "exit light" didn't mean Peter Pan and everyone were flying and Peter had just located the exit to get off of to get to Neverland and actually meant that "lol it's dark because it's night now"