James Hetfield's Top Ten Favorite Songs of All Time....

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...according to Rolling Stone COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE DULLER...

1. "Free Bird"\
2. "Stairway to Heaven"
3. "Jailhouse Rock"
4. "Behind Blue Eyes"
5. "Candle in the Wind"
6. "God Only Knows"
7. "Yesterday"
8. "Black Sabbath"
9. "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
10. "The Boys are Back in Town"

....jesus, my Mom's list would be more adventurous.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

at least it wasn't Candle In The Wind '97.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I fell asleep reading that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

it's way more fun if you read it as the tracklisting for the next Garage Days LP.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha!

"GOD ONLY KNOWS how I feel about YOU, YEAH-HEAH!!!!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Behind Blue Eyes"

oh the Limp Bizkit version i do hope

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, this is the guy who wrote "Creeping Death"? Fuckin' "Candle in the Fucking Wind"??????

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"YESS-TUH-DEEYEAH! ALL MAH TRUBBLES SEEMED SO FARRAWEEEEYEAH!"

― briania (briania), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a list of songs he wished he wrote, for the royalties, right?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Smells Like Teen Spirit? Smells Like Teen Spirit? Smells Like Teen Spirit?

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The only song better than "Stairway To Heaven" is "Free Bird."

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 22 November 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I assume "Born To Run" was no. 11 followed by "Bohemian Rhapsody."

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost:
Hey, see the sign? No Stairway Jokes!

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost over myself:
That was a good one. What's lucky 13?

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hey Ya"

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

14. "All Along the Watchtower"

― briania (briania), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Either:
1) The RS hack put that list together, and JH ok'ed it.
2) JH's assistant put it together
3) He choose that list to maximize his appeal to the well-heeled RS reader who will now send more of those demographic dollars his way.
4) Just walking into that building or even accepting a telephone call from someone who has been in that building hardens your brain into a rock(ist).

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

He actually comments on each track, Ken (in latest issue, the lamentable 500 Greatest Songs of All Time one).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

at least "Seven Nation Army" isn't on it. I was pretty annoyed when that was thrown into the pantheon by implication when Metallica did their weird MTV hits medley at the VMA's last year.

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's fill out the rest of his top 30!
11. "Born To Run"
12. "Bohemian Rhapsody."
13. "Hey Ya"
14. "All Along the Watchtower"
15. "Ace of Spades"
16. "Jeremy"
17. "Spinning Wheel"
18. "California Dreamin"
19. "Satisfaction"
20. "One" (got to get a token pick by his own band in there)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

No "Smoke On The Water"???

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Tell me his line for "Behind Blue Eyes" was "Discover L-I-M-P. Say it."

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

21. rapper's delight

― jake b. (cerybut), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

how about "one" by u2 instead, complete with how excited he is about dismantling bomb? followed by how important that song was while some kind of monster was filmed and about unity, therapy, etc...

partial xpost

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

dadrock.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 22 November 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

dudrock

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Smells Like Teen Spirit is dad rock?

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Candle In The Wind is dad rock? That's mom rock!

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Smells Like Teen Spirit is dad rock?

-- miccio

Well, there's certainly nothing "shocking" or "cutting edge" about it anymore....and, let's face it, it's modelled after Boston's "More than A Feeling," so it might as well be Dadrock.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

He actually comments on each track

Comments!? Well, then I gotta pick that issue up. Where can I find Rolling Stone magazine? On MacDougal Street, in a "head shop"?

Let's fill out the rest of his top 30!
Ace of Spades at fifteen? Too high! No RS reader is gonna see that and be inspired to pay good money for Reload.

For non-RS readers, go to the Tracy Ullmann page at AMG and cycle through the photos for a surprise or two. Make sure you see them all.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

that tourbus crushed the wrong bandmember, etc.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 22 November 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

You know they say that everybody in Zep signed a contract with Satan except John Paul Jones, which is why he's relatively unknown but hasn't had the same level of personal tragedy? Maybe Cliff didn't sign the deal with Satan so he's in heaven while the rest of the guys writhe in torment for eternity.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Just walking into that building or even accepting a telephone call from someone who has been in that building hardens your brain into a rock(ist).

Oh come on. He's James Hetfield, how could he not be rockist? That's his whole thing.

― Huk-L, Monday, 22 November 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Jonesey's got the most interesting post-Zep career tho. But yeah, he gets no respect, compared to the others.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 22 November 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Jonesey's got the most interesting post-Zep career tho. But yeah, he gets no respect, compared to the others.

x-post

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 22 November 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

where the fuck is Diamond Head and the Misfits and Witchfinder General and Iron Maiden and Budgie and shit?? No NWOBHM at all.

James, you make me sad.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

how could he not be rockist?
Sure, rockist but not classic-rockist. See post immediately above.

For 21, I might substitute a more ambiguous reach-out to the rap audience - Walk This Way

anthony, you're owning this thread.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

where the fuck is Diamond Head and the Misfits and Witchfinder General and Iron Maiden and Budgie and shit?? No NWOBHM at all.

See? M@tt gets it!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously, I've never seen a band go on such a mission to make me forget that once they were my favorite band ever....they meant alot to me as a kid...it's like their on a mission to make me forget that Kill em All and Master of Puppets ever happened.

Cockbags.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

M@tt otm

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe all that therapy he had made him do some renouncing.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

A minor point, but I was also struck by Jame's tattoo of the word "Faith" writting like the Ford logo and framed by wings and a halo. I know he was raised a Christian Scientist, but I'd thought he'd renounced that.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

writting

wriTTEN

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard him interviewed on NPR a couple weeks ago and he sounded therapized/12-stepped to the max. But he also denounced Xtian Science as a "cult."

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

-- M@tt He1geson (matt@game[remove]informer.com), November 22nd, 2004.

OTM

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost:
But lovebug, how did he compare to RICK JAMES'S NIECE!?

Sorry, couldn't resist that was a great story. It was yours, wasn't it?

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I the only ILXer who doesn't think the list is ass bad? (For the exception of 'Candle in the Wind' and 'Yesterday' and 'Jailhouse Rock' and 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' and 'Behind Blue Eyes.')

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not so much bad as it is very boring.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Which isn't so much Hetfield's fault (who says he has to have interesting taste) as it is Rolling Stone's (they don't have to publish it).

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Where's the Budgie? Where's the King Diamond?

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

well obviously he don't listen to em no more

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

WHERE'S TEH CHER??

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

JAMES HETFIELD WHY YOU BREAK HEART ALL THE TIME? :,,-(

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 22 November 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

WHY DOES JAMES HETFIELD NEVER WANT TO ROCK???

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not the least bit suprised by the shocking lack of ingenuity in hetfield's list, not ever since i saw him and the lead guitarist of metallica (sorry, i don't know the dude's name, nor do i give a fuck enough to look it up) on space ghost coast to coast a few years ago. those two numbskulls were trying so hard to be funny in their shaved-ape manner that it painfully reminded me of the majority of those dumb-as-a-post dickheads in high school who worshipped metallica.

― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

it's kirk hammet you're thinking of.

dumb-as-a-post dickheads in high school who worshipped metallica.

i was one of those dickheads. still am most of the time!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Kirk Hammett's more of a shaved chimp, really

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i think what he meant to write was:

1. "ooh that smell"
2. "immigrant song"
3. "jailhouse rock"
4. "nookie"
5. "saturday night's alright for fighting"
6. [i have no idea what he could possibly have had in mind here]
7. "back in the ussr"
8. "black sabbath"
9. "floyd the barber"
10. "the boys are back in town"

but jann wenner couldn't read his handwriting. jann could just barely make out the names of the bands, and then he filled in the blanks as best he could.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

a lot of my friends that loved metallica in high school and jr. high were smart and good students, a lot better in school than I was.....we all liked rush a lot too.....we were like the poseur fans though, too chicken to make our parents mad by growing our hair long.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

m@tt -
i loved rush in high school too.

note i said "the majority" of metallica fans. i had a few friends who counted themselves as huge metallica fans, particularly in the kill em all-ride the lightning era.

nevertheless, in my small experience, most of the metallica fans i have met have been meatheads who would think that hetfield's top 10 is hot shit. it's just my opinion.

ps - you really should see that episode of sgc2c, i guarantee it will be the final nail in your nostalgia for what metallica once was.

― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah some kind of monster (the album and the movie) basically already did the job...it was funny but it made me sad cuz i really used to look up to those guys (pathetic i know but true)....i felt bad for robert trujillo, he seemed like a pretty nice, enthusiastic guy....man, i bet he didn't know what he was getting into with those psychos.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Cliff Burton was the soul of Metallica (and arguably the only smart one). Without him the others' painful weaknesses came to the fore, like ooze from a pimple.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

and, let's face it, it's modelled after Boston's "More than A Feeling"

Alex, no offense but G-C-em-D sounds nothing like F-G#-Bb-C#, neither melodically nor structurally.

I've never understood how so many rock crits heard a similarity.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

the funny thing is that Kirk Hammett's list would probably get torn up here more, he's all into Radiohead and shit.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i actually can't wait to see some kind of monster - those 2 documentarians are sooo good. although that means i'll get around to doing that about 2-4 years from now when metallica is even more irrelevant than today. (god, i hope that's true)

― j.m. lockery (j.m. lockery), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

6. [i have no idea what he could possibly have had in mind here]

"Kokomo"!

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

good one.

ooze from a pimple
lol.

fcc's list is otm.

6. [i have no idea what he could possibly have had in mind here]

He was just dropping a sly clue of his love for the evil one, Mike Love.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

In 1992, weren't Metallica very vocal in condemning the phenomenon of Nirvana?

Is it okay to like them now that there's Radiohead to condemn?

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not sure if they condemned nirvana, but kirk's always been a bit of an odd duck in metallica....he's not very macho compared to james.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The Brian Wilson list is pretty funny-It's half Phil Spector records and half Beach Boys records.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The best song on his list is his number 10!

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

No wonder the guy doesn't download his music. He can get all his favourites from the disc on the front of the Sunday paper!

― Patrick Allan (adr), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

their shaved-ape manner

I have to change shirts now, as I laughed my beer all over this one.

Oh, and fuck Nirvana.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

G-C-em-D sounds nothing like F-G#-Bb-C#, neither melodically nor structurally.

gygax is right. but F-Bb-G#-C# is what it sounds nothing like.

*pushes up glasses*

― P. Dant, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear lord...

Then again, I guess he can't listen to the Anti-Nowhere League and Killing Joke forever. Wait a minute... of COURSE you can! Fuck Hetfield!

― donut christ (donut), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's more the rhythm of the pattern and the fourth between the first two chords. The first half of the riff is almost the same, just dropped a whole step. It's definitely not plagiarized but I could see why someone would compare them or see the influence.

xpost

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I think JH's list is quite good BTW.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

He's said he hates the Beatles though!

And to continue his list:

21. Lapsed

(It's got to make some list this week.)

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

21. blakvaginafinda

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i agree 100 percent with brian wilsons list.

i love him even more now.

did i mention that i like pop?

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

G-C-em-D sounds nothing like F-G#-Bb-C#, neither melodically nor structurally.
I've never understood how so many rock crits heard a similarity.
It's not just critics, Cobain himself admitted the similarity and said he was surprised that more people hadn't noticed it.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

the dudes got an open mind not like some
and tehy covered another thin lizzy song called "whiskey in the car"

― dicktationboy, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

**tehy covered another thin lizzy song called "whiskey in the car"**
er, "Whiskey in the Jar."
sick joke: "Whiskey in the Car" was a Motley Crue number.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

would james attend my poem?

― saba, Friday, 23 September 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

best revive ever

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 23 September 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

http://loudwire.com/files/2012/02/James-Hetfield-Tattoos.jpg

― how's life, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:26 (fourteen years ago)

second one looks like he's either eating a hotdog or suckin' on a peen

― frogbs, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:28 (fourteen years ago)

Is there a link to the article? I have a good feeling it must be amazing.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 17 May 2012 06:16 (fourteen years ago)

you know he's singing "I AM THE TABLE" in the first tattoo

― Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 May 2012 17:06 (fourteen years ago)

"YESS-TUH-DEEYEAH! ALL MAH TRUBBLES SEEMED SO FARRAWEEEEYEAH!"

― briania (briania), Monday, November 22, 2004 11:31 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark

lol this thread predicted Beatallica

― that's why god made kokomo (some dude), Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:08 (fourteen years ago)

Kirk and Lars' top 25s of the 00s definitely more interesting, though certainly not consistently good. Kirk's 4th favourite song of that fine decade is Because I Got High by Afroman.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 18 May 2012 00:39 (fourteen years ago)

Sorry, link:
http://metallicablogmagnetic.com/lars-ulrich-and-kirk-hammett-top-25-albums-and-songs-of-the-decade/

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Friday, 18 May 2012 00:39 (fourteen years ago)

they really like the sword.

― billstevejim, Friday, 18 May 2012 03:56 (fourteen years ago)

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