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Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:39 am
by BearSkins
BossHog wrote:ROTFALMAO
Sorry - that makes me laugh. Did you just call Sandman old stuff?
I consider EVERY song you listed a NEW song - to me, old Metallica is Creeping Death, Fade To Black, Welcome Home Sanatarium, The Four Horsemen, Damage Incorporated, Motorbreath, The Call of Ktulu...
A little perspective... my first Metallica concert was in the spring of '86 in Detroit... it was a big trek for a bunch of Canadian teenagers to get to Joe Louis stadium... we had no idea how special what we were about to experience was... the concert was ridiculous... they did Master of Puppets, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ride the Lightning, and Welcome Home (Sanitarium), back-to-back-to-back-to-back.
They closed with a version of Damage Incorporated that I still think of every time I hear the song.
Seriously, it honestly changed my musical tastes forever.
I don't remember how long after it was, but it seemed like it was no time at all - Cliff died in the accident, and the band changed forever.
Jason Newstead came in for And Justice For All, and for me, that's STILL the band's 'break' between 'old' and 'new.' That was the beginning of Metallica II.
When Newstead left and Trujillo came in - that would be Metallica III.
Sorry for the digression, but I thought perhaps a little Metallica history was in order here...
The new album's not bad, and I'll just add that when Metallica played here in London last year, they rocked the house with many 'Metallica I' songs. They aren't the same without Burton, but Trujillo did a great job and the show was fantastic.
Nelly sucks.
I'm with you Boss. I first saw 'em not long after Newsted joined the band (I was supposed to see 'em in Edinburgh in Sept 86 but couldn't make the gig - 3 or 4 days later Burton was dead) - it was just when the $5.98 ep was released. Tremendous gig although Lars did kinda fall apart during Leper Messiah. he never was the greatest of drummers, especially live - they would have been amazing if Dave Lombardo was their drummer. I never really took to Newsted (as a player) but I enjoyed the enthusiasm he showed singing Whiplash. Haven't seen 'tallica since the Black tour I guess - or maybe the Freddie Mercury tribute at Wembley Stadium but I faithfully bought the albums anyway while I wondered where the heck the real Metallica had gone. Glad to hear Death Magnetic - it's a great album, sounds like the last 20 years were nothing but a bad memory. Even lars sounds good on it - or not as bad as usual I should say....
Trujillo is a great player (has been since his Suicidal Tendencies days) and seems to have brought the virtuosity of Cliff back to the band a little. Great stuff - I can't sop listening to broken, beat & scarred.
Also, they recently did a great cover of Maiden's Remember Tomorrow - drop me a PM if you need it.
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:20 pm
by jeremyroyce
Countertrey wrote:So, you think that just because somebody goes out there and buys a Metallica album they have bad taste in music?
Metallica did some decent stuff in the early '90s. (note word "decent"). "Enter Sandman", and "Nothing Else Matters" were good...
since then? Yeah, pretty much.
I'm sorry but decent? I don't care what people say but Load is a classic album. Load is different and Reload was pretty good. S&M was very good, St Anger was more of a healing album. But I'm so tired of people saying that what Metallica has done is decent. Let me say this if any other band had released Load it would be praised as a great album and people would be talking about for years. Its people like you that hold Metallica to a thrash metal standard. I listened to Metallica every now and then back in the day however what got me into Metallica was this. The day Reload was released I gave some money to someone and asked for them to go get it for me. After I got off work I put the cd in the cd player and the first song was of course Fuel and ever since that song I have been a die hard fan since. My favorite album is Ride The Lightning. Now I don't like their new stuff as much as their old stuff however their the only band or artist that no matter what they put out I love all of their music. Metallica is the greatest band just appreciate what they do and if you know all of thier history like I do you should appreciate what they do. Just watch a interview from Lars back in 1988 and if you see this you should have known known that they would eventually change. If fact they actually were writing the Song Sad But True in 1986.
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:28 pm
by Countertrey
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:46 pm
by VetSkinsFan
If you like metal, listen to pre-Black. If you don't like metal, then you'll like Black and beyond. I particularly am a metal head. I can't ever get me enough For Whom the Bell Tolls, Master of Puppets, or Jump in the Fire. I heard some stuff metallica put out a few years ago on the radio and didn't even recognize it until the DJ said who it was after it was over. Heck, in high school, I think Ride the Lightning was in my Walkman (yes, cassette Walkman) for ~90% of my junior year.
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:07 am
by jeremyroyce
Countertrey wrote:Yawn
Don't be a dork
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 3:08 am
by jeremyroyce
VetSkinsFan wrote:If you like metal, listen to pre-Black. If you don't like metal, then you'll like Black and beyond. I particularly am a metal head. I can't ever get me enough For Whom the Bell Tolls, Master of Puppets, or Jump in the Fire. I heard some stuff metallica put out a few years ago on the radio and didn't even recognize it until the DJ said who it was after it was over. Heck, in high school, I think Ride the Lightning was in my Walkman (yes, cassette Walkman) for ~90% of my junior year.
Hey man I like all Metallica. New, Old I love it all.
