Metallica - where to start?

[UnderOpenSky]

..And Justice and black albums are great. Who could argue with One or Sandman.
Death Magnetic was so wrong, just so over produced. Hard Wired was a step back in the right direction.

I gave up at Load. Although also corrisponded with my tastes in music changing, maybe if I'd had heard it 6 years earlier I'd have felt differently.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Their only two essential albums are Master of Puppets & Ride the Lightning though, FWIW. And they are essential - two of the most influential albums ever recorded.

And yet here I am positively thriving without either of them, or any of their other whiny bullshit.

 

[spitfire]

Righty ho.

 

[spitfire]

I've always really liked Orion. It's crunchy.

 

[hash tag]

I don't think Mrs Tag is much of a fan, but as mentioned earlier, I think she is secretly looking forward to seeing them.
She does know and like the "sooty" song from kill Em All

I sometimes have for Whom The Bell Tolls (I predominately work with the elderly)

 

[killer b]

And yet here I am positively thriving without either of them, or any of their other whiny bullshit.

It's fine not to like Metallica, but calling their music 'whiny' just makes you look a bit silly. These two albums have songs about the eldritch horror of HP Lovecraft, the prison industrial complex, Ernest Hemmingway's novel 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', biblical plagues, Ken Kesey's 'One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest', more Cthulu, anti-war songs, anti-religion songs... very little whining tbh. I guess you've never really listened to them though.

 

[hash tag]

It's fine not to like any music, any particular genre of music. There is plenty I don't like or wouldn't listen to and some people would say my mix of tastes is weird, but hey, each to their own.
Thats what make this place of ours a wonderful world.

 

[killer b]

It's fine to dunk on other people's music tastes too tbf, god knows frank likes a lot of shite. But some accuracy with your dunking makes it much more effective.

 

[Wilf]

Kill 'em all.

Oh, they've got an album called that as well?

 

[Wilf]

Nah, seriously... they've done some awesome riffs over the years and there's an intensity about much of their stuff that I like.

My problem is that Metallica take you straight into the dilemma of 'can you like the output if you don't like the artist'. Hetfield and Ulric are not just control freaks, they are humourless control freaks. Some kind of monster was funny as fuck though.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Kill 'em all.

Oh, they've got an album called that as well?

Yeah coz they're big tough scary boys you know.

 

[hash tag]

Control freakery gets you to where you want to go per Peter Grant.
Hunting? Metallica's James Hetfield hunted out of San Francisco
The nasty one is Ted Nugent and isn't Alice Cooper a bit of a Republican?

 

[Wilf]

I'd forgotten the hunting, yeah he's an uber-cunt.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Fragile masculinity's poster boy in 'gets his jollies hurting innocent woodland creatures' shocker.

 

[killer b]

Fragile masculinity's poster boy

where does this stuff come from?

 

[cybershot]

Quite like the latest album if I'm honest!

 

[hash tag]

Exits right.

 

[Mattym]

Nonsense, the album they did with Lou Reed is brilliant, and there's occasional great tracks all the way through their career.

Tbh- You're probably right. I gave up after AJFA, so have no idea. Have got my hands on that recent acoustic thing, no idea what it's like though.

 

[braindancer]

Donkeys years since I listened to a Metallica album - but inspired by this thread I listened to Ride the Lightning on the way in to work and Master of Puppets on the way home.

Some definite duffers on Ride the Lightning but Master of Puppets is still the bomb!

 

[sim667]

Its all about S&M really

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Its all about S&M really

Why I guess they did like leather...

 

[hash tag]

Looking forward to Twickenham in two days. Not sure about the supports. Bokassa, a Norweigan 3 piece, hmm
Ghost, Swedish 7, maybe 8 piece, look a bit puerile...those masks n stuff, though liking Square Hammer

 

[killer b]

Ghost are great.

 

[skyscraper101]

If I could choose the setlist I might be interested in seeing them again - but I lost interest after the Black Album. Pretty much everything they've done since has been meh. The thing with Lou Reed they did was utter shite too. And moreover, I've never really forgiven Lars for going after fans so vociferously in the early 2000s for downloading tracks on Napster. He looked like such a twat on that interview alongside Chuck D who got it right away.

 

[spitfire]

Looking forward to Twickenham in two days. Not sure about the supports. Bokassa, a Norweigan 3 piece, hmm
Ghost, Swedish 7, maybe 8 piece, look a bit puerile...those masks n stuff, though liking Square Hammer

I'll be there, keep an eye on the trains, SW Rail are on strike for a few days, I'm getting the District Line down.

\m/

 

[hash tag]

Set list doesn't look so bad (from Slane castle a few days ago).

• Hardwired
• 2 The Memory Remains
• 3 Ride the Lightning
• 4 Whiskey in the Jar
• 5 The Unforgiven
• 6 Now That We're Dead
• 7 Moth Into Flame
• 8 Sad But True
• 9 Halo On Fire
• 10 Frantic
• 11 One
• 12 Master of Puppets
• 13 For Whom the Bell Tolls
• 14 Creeping Death
• 15 Seek and Destroy

Encore

• 16 Spit Out The Bone
• 17 Nothing Else Matters
• 18 Enter Sandman

 

[hash tag]

I'll be there, keep an eye on the trains, SW Rail are on strike for a few days, I'm getting the District Line down.

\m/

National Rail says EXTRA trains will be running

 

[killer b]

The thing with Lou Reed they did was utter shite too.

you are so wrong.

 

[spitfire]

National Rail says EXTRA trains will be running

Somewhere in between those 2 statements lies the truth!

 

[hash tag]

I'm considering walking there and cab home! Will see how things pan out.