condense Load and ReLoad into ONE great 45-minute Metallica album

someone toally needs to do what Curt1s suggested though. i wonder what that would sound like. it'd be good for a laff i'm sure.

I'm digging my way (he's digging his way!)
I'm digging my way (he's digging his way!)
I'm diggin my way to something better (he's diggin his way to something better!)

WHERE'S YOUR CROWN KING NOTHING

why has no one attempted this?

the whole album should be that 'la la la laaaa la la la la la laaaaaa' thing by Marianne Faithful.

When Load came out my favourite track off it was The House That Jack Built. I'm listening to it right now for the first time in over ten years and it sounds pretty fucking turgid and aimless. The guitar tone is shamefully weak.

embarrassed to remember that reload may have been the second album I ever bought, and that I owned CD singles from load and reload

First I'd get Marianne Faithful to sing all the songs.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:30 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah I was kinda haha at the memory remains but the marianne faithful part was still very affecting

wait i did this and it was amazing

1. fixxxer
2. the memory remains
3. devil's dance
4. thorn within
5. hero of the day
6. bleeding me
7. mama said
8. carpe diem baby
9. where the wild things are
10. low man's lyric
11. the outlaw torn

it's like 73 mins but whatever

Devil's Dance coulda been a black album tune I think (makes sense considering it was the earliest one written besides 2x4).

"Thorn within" is ok for stealing a Danzig riff.

I do like "Low Man's Lyric".

maybe "Fixxer".

u on yr own with the rest. I think "Better Than You" would be on mine.

My initial reaction was a bit weird because I didn't really listen to metal other than Metallica/Pantera/Megadeth at the time, and didn't even have all of the Metallica albums.

remember staying up the night "Until It Sleeps" dropped and being confused, but it was more at the production, the saturated guitar sound, and the really weird clean riff. I thought James sounded good and the melody was good though.

remember hearing "Poor Twisted Me" next and thinking it was the worst Metallica song I ever heard. yet I wound up liking it for a bit.

I still think the cries of "sellout/alternative" are a bit off because it's definitely not alternative rock, and Kirk was pretty much listening to blues/jazz/Hendrix and very much not metal at the time. I don't think James was that into it though at the time which explains why he overcompensated while he defended it.

lol listening to "Cure" right now and I forgot it had the Billie Jean drumbeat

lol "Devil's Dance" intro bassline sounds like the theme song to Fraggle Rock

The version in my iPod goes:

Fuel
Ain't My Bitch
King Nothing
Until It Sleeps
Hero of the Day
Mama Said
The Memory Remains
Carpe Diem Baby
Fixxxer
The Outlaw Torn

mine is correct

These might've been the biggest New Jerseys in rock history. "Unforgiven II" was so, so awful and it was on the radio CONSTANTLY.

p sure the Black Album was the New Jersey, these albums were the Van Halen 3s

Brad, you should set your version of the album as a Spotify playlist. I might actually take the opportunity to listen to these songs for the first time in 15 years. (I had them both on vinyl when I was in high school. They were mastered in such a way that the bass would vibrate the lid of my turntable no matter how quietly I played them-- in fact, the lid rattled if I played them with the speakers completely off.)

"Cure" made me laugh last night

i will admit that my version incorporates the three long sludgy songs and any sensible person condensing both records would at least omit one (maybe "bleeding me" or "fixxer," it could never be "outlaw torn" imo which is an incredible metallica song from any angle and v deserving of standing next to their earlier work) and that i think i am the only person on earth who loooooves "thorn within" (the riff is a danzig rip? it's an amazing riff)

anyway, spotify link forthcoming

There was a building at my college named Stanger.

I used to hang out in it.

why'd you stop going? they flush you out?

https://open.spotify.com/user/unbornwhiskey/playlist/0uwWqgH7Juacnd9A5Jbi8a

Nah, I like 'Thorn Within' too! I actually like pretty much most of Load ... I'd probably only really cut 'Poor Twisted Me' and add the unedited version of 'The Outlaw Torn' ... 'Cure' is one of the lesser tracks, but there's stuff on Reload I like less.

I wrote about the 20th anniversary of Reload for Stereogum.

CD 2 Shadowcast (Disc 1)
1 Riff Tape Intro
2 Bitch ("Ain't My Bitch" Riff)
3 2 x 4 (Riff)
4 2 x 4 (Riff II)
5 Jack ("The House Jack Built" Riff)
6 Jack ("The House Jack Built" Riff II)
7 Load ("King Nothing" Riff)
8 Mouldy ("Hero of the Day" Riff)
9 Boss ("Bleeding Me" Riff)
10 Boss ("Bleeding Me" Riff II)
11 Believe ("Cure" Riff)
12 Believe ("Cure" Riff II)
13 Believe ("Cure" Riff III)
14 Streamline ("Wasting My Hate" Riff)
15 Streamline ("Wasting My Hate" Riff II)
16 NC-17 ("Thorn Within" Riff)
17 NC-17 ("Thorn Within" Riff II)
18 Ronnie (Jam)
19 Outlaw ("The Outlaw Torn" Riff)
20 Streamline ("Wasting My Hate" Demo)
21 Load ("King Nothing" Demo)
22 2 x 4 (Demo)
23 Mouldy ("Hero of the Day" Demo)
24 NC-17 ("Thorn Within" Demo)
25 Jack ("The House Jack Built" Demo)
26 Believe ("Cure" Demo)
27 Dusty ("Poor Twisted Me" Demo)
28 Ronnie (Demo)
29 Outlaw ("The Outlaw Torn" Demo)

CD 3 Shadowcast (Disc 2)
1 Bitch ("Ain't My Bitch" Demo)
2 Boss ("Bleeding Me" Demo)
3 Mama ("Mama Said" Demo)
4 Boss ("Bleeding Me" Vocal Idea)
5 Thorn Within (Guilty) ("Thorn Within" Vocal Idea)
6 Egypt ("The House Jack Built" Vocal Idea)
7 Mama ("Mama Said" Vocal Idea)
8 The Blue and The Gray (and the Red) ("Ronnie" Vocal Idea)
9 Poor Twizted Me ("Poor Twisted Me" Vocal Idea)
10 F.O.B.D. ("Until It Sleeps" Vocal Idea)
11 Bitch ("Ain't My Bitch" Take 15)
12 Streamline ("Wasting My Hate" Take 5)

CD 4 Shadowcast (Disc 3)
1 2 x 4 (Take 16)
2 NC-17 ("Thorn Within" Take 18)
3 Believe ("Cure" Take 14)
4 Load ("King Nothing" Take 16)
5 Jack ("The House Jack Built" Take 16)
6 Dusty ("Poor Twisted Me" Take 12)
7 Ronny ("Ronnie" Take 16)
8 Boss ("Bleeding Me" Take 9)
9 Mouldy ("Hero of the Day" Take 16)
10 Outlaw ("The Outlaw Torn" Take 12)
11 Mama ("Mama Said" Take 15)
12 F.O.B.D. ("Until It Sleeps" Take 7)
13 Mama ("Mama Said" New Arrangement Take 7)

CD 5 Shadowcast (Disc 4)
1 Streamline ("Wasting My Hate" Original Arrangement Rough Mix)
2 Jack ("The House Jack Built" Original Arrangement Rough Mix)
3 Bitch ("Ain't My Bitch" Original Arrangement Rough Mix)
4 2 x 4 (Original Arrangement Rough Mix)
5 Load ("King Nothing" Original Arrangement Rough Mix)
6 Believe ("Cure" Original Arrangement Rough Mix)
7 2 x 4 (Re-Edit Version 1 Rough Mix)
8 Dusty ("Poor Twisted Me" Vocal Comp Rough Mix)
9 NC-17 ("Thorn Within" Scratch Vocal Rough Mix)
10 Jack ("The House Jack Built" Re-Edit Version 1 Rough Mix)
11 Streamline ("Wasting My Hate" Edit Version 1 Rough Mix)
12 Mouldy ("Hero of the Day" Scratch Vocal Rough Mix)
13 F.O.B.D. ("Until It Sleeps" Rough Chorus Vocal Idea Mix)
14 Believe ("Cure" Kirk Solo Comp 1 Rough Mix)

CD 6 Shadowcast (Disc 5)
1 Load ("King Nothing" Kirk Solo Comp 2 Rough Mix)
2 Bitch ("Ain't My Bitch" Original Ending Alternate Mix)
3 Mouldy ("Hero of the Day" Instrumental Mix)
4 Boss ("Bleeding Me" Lead Vocal Comp Rough Mix)
5 Mama ("Mama Said" Acoustics Only Alternate Mix)
6 Ronnie (Instrumental Rough Mix)
7 Streamline ("Wasting My Hate" Fraze Slam Mix)
8 Mama ("Mama Said" No Band Alternate Mix)
9 Load ("King Nothing" Lead Vocal Comp Rough Mix)
10 Ronnie (Vocal Comp Rough Mix)
11 Jack ("The House Jack Built" More FX Alternate Mix)
12 Outlaw ("The Outlaw Torn" Outlaw of Torn Vocal Tag Alternate Mix)

My own Load/Reload playlist goes:
Fuel
Sleeps
Devil's
King
Memory
Bitch
Disappear
Hero
Bleeding
Fixxxer

That's 54 minutes of almost three hours of music, and every track is good to great. But when I listened to that playlist all the way through the other day, it was still fucking depressing.