For Whom The Bell POLLS - Votes & Nominations Thread for the // METALLICA \\ ILM Artist Poll (Voting Closed)

haha, it is though!

Y'all don't forget the "FM" of Metallica's discography:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYSDC3cHoZs

http://i.imgur.com/5todaGA.jpg

One of these days, I'll start a thread of "Songs Where The Tape Slows Down and Quits". After this poll.

What's Metallica's 'Sway' though?

Of Wolf and Man tbh

ride the lightning

What's Metallica's 'Sway' though?

http://i.imgur.com/xlmYt09.jpg

the songs will pretty much choose themselves, but just realised that ordering this thing's gonna be a bitch

Ain't mine!

BIIIIIITCH-UH!

I can't imagine this being too difficult. Pretty much going to be the whole of Master of Puppets, plus most of ...And Justice For All a couple of tracks from elsewhere. But in WHICH order?

*and a couple of tracks from elsewhere.

i told myself i wouldn't troll this thread but somebody did it for me
http://www.laweekly.com/music/unpopular-opinion-load-is-the-greatest-of-all-metallica-albums-5695104?utm_content=bufferaa589&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

really wish they'd been able to release this album art

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/4/6/3/7/463784.jpeg?5332

^definitely remember kids getting in trouble for wearing this shirt in middle school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ByNgsvinu8

Who wants this fucker?

Lulu stuff count?

― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that would be considered a collaboration, so

YOU BETCHA

― pplains, Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:43 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sorry, this was bugging me.

But I meant Absomotherfucking ~~~ lutely!

Steady stream of submissions at ForWhomThe (at) Lycos.com.

Also wanna plug Breadfan real quick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppu86I-yLFU

Hootenanny in D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_9XsJAcWsE

http://i.imgur.com/DJ4tTNu.gif

btw i have a spotify playlist that (imo) combines the best trax of load and reload into a single coherent record if anyone's interested

Post it! Would love to hear a Re/Load(ed).

Also would like to hear a single-album version of Use Your Illusion, but I'll save that request for another thread.

You won't believe what was in the paper today:

http://i.imgur.com/knmcJJp.jpg

Post it! Would love to hear a Re/Load(ed).

here it is!

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

"carpe diem baby": never played live, buried in the middle of reload, really high on my ballot

it's like a dry-run for "no leaf clover," which omg i have to add to my ballot

no leaf will def be on my ballot

holy shit @ "Metallica Moore"

Keep in mind that's the mother's name.

Hahahahah, she should name the boy Jaymz then.

My favourite song off EVOL

Metallica Monroe

I think there'll be two post-Justice songs on mine, three if I go with nostalgia rather than reason.

i ended up with more on mine that i expected, for sure.

big surprise from assembling my ballot is that i think justice is my favorite of the classic albums now

It's been hilarious reading old Usenet posts from Metallica newsgroups circa 1996 around the time of Load's release. Loads of snarky posts about how the band have "lost it" and have "sold out" ... the main gist is that the fans felt that Metallica were deliberately trying to fit in with the alternative music scene of the time rather than stay true to themselves. Thing is, I reckon that Metallica were staying true to themselves... I think that Load and Reload were genuinely the albums they wanted to make at that time.

Brad, your Loady playlist is remarkably similar to the Unloaded mix I made for myself ages ago.

Except I loathe "Hero of the Day."

i've mentioned this before, but the first music file i ever downloaded was an mp2 (!!!) of a live performance of "2x4", well before Load came out. it sounded horrible but also kinda awesome & exciting because of how distorted & lo-fi it was.

Man, I'm listening to the black album and really wishing I could go back and hammer a couple of those songs into my ballot. Do you accept resubmissions, pp?

'Sad But True' has a deeper groove than any of the groove-based tunes on Load/Reload.

I just randomly Googled "crap drummer", and the first webpage result is about Lars Ulrich. LOL!

what this poll has confirmed is how much i love certain lars phrases, for instance the tom stuff in "and justice for all"

I read an old interview the other day (for Playboy I think) which has Lars and Kirk making fun of Lars' bad drumming skills.

James & Kirk.

anyway i relistened to st. anger last night bc i was like "certainly i like one of these songs right" and it turns out i might vote for "dirty window"

Anyone looking for a Black Album deep cut to vote for I would ask you to consider The God That Failed.

I'll be submitting my ballot shortly. Turns out just twenty is quite difficult.

for me "of wolf and man" >>>>>>

but "the god that failed" has a great bass line

It's a beautifully crafted tune all round IMO, so many hooks.

Hey, I was thinking of submitting a ballot, but it depends on one thing: can I vote for "For Whom the Bell Tolls (The Irony of It All)" by Metallica & DJ Spooky from the Spawn soundtrack?

omg

ballot sent \m/

Tuomas - Yes, you can submit that, but it'll count toward the original version. It was officially released by Metallica though.

never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for bee gee

Quick reminder: All votes must be in at ForWhomThe @ Lycos.com by 2300 US/CDT – 15.5 hours from the time stamped on this post.

sent!

Just browsing some Metallifacts in preperation, did you know Until it Sleeps was a number one single in Australia and Finland?

http://i.imgur.com/LpFPX51.jpg

I did not know that.

Just sent my ballot in. Lots of old stuff and far too many covers but in my defense Metallica did excellent covers.

voted! \m/

my ballot is pretty much old-timer city

Probably still the best post I've made on ILX:

Musical Analogues

Just browsing some Metallifacts in preperation, did you know Until it Sleeps was a number one single in Australia and Finland?

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, July 2, 2015 11:30 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i only just realized the other day that it was a top 10 hit on the Hot 100 (their only one). there will be a lot of 90s sellout 'Tallica on my ballot but definitely not "Until It Sleeps."

I don't detest >1990 Metallica but including any of those songs would've bumped off a much better song of 80s Metallica.

yeh iirc it was all over the radio

realizing now thats prob how it made my ballot lol

i admire "until it sleeps" for foregrounding its bass line but almost every song on reload is better than it

some dude and i are brothers in metallica

i will forever be grateful to Bob Rock for teaching Metallica about the values of repetition and singing like a cartoon pirate

Relistening to Until it Sleeps, it's a well written song with some nice melodies and dynamics, but the guitars are piss-weak, which is unforgivable in a Metallica track.

it ain't my biiiitch-CHA

the guitars are weak but also it's one of those times when Lars tries to play with a 'light touch' and the results are just ghastly

Probably still the best post I've made on ILX:

Musical Analogues

― :wq (Leee), Thursday, July 2, 2015 4:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is one of my favorite most-underreated threads on ILM:
List the parallels between Metallica and REM

haha awesome

i sent in my ballot. only voted for 3 songs recorded in the '80s lol.

20 more minutes!

All Ryyght!

http://i.imgur.com/qP8SwVD.gif

Book's slammed shut!

HIT THE LIGHTS

the guitars are weak but also it's one of those times when Lars tries to play with a 'light touch' and the results are just ghastly

― some dude, Thursday, July 2, 2015 6:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love his weird single-stroke rolls here, they're a little janky in a way that's consistent every time.

i put 'Until It Sleeps' on the bottom reaches of my ballot, because the verses don't sound like anything else they've done. or maybe just because it was the first post-black album song released, and rock radio played it on the hour until i decided i liked it.

just listened back to it for the first time in forever and wow, fretless bass and surf tremolo.

you've seen those "if they were regular folks" photoshops...

http://i.imgur.com/Pnw7eM9l.jpg

Still get a similar reaction from "Your favorite metal band turns into Yellowcard."

http://i.imgur.com/fcPQ3Ot.jpg

Until It Sleeps is probably Hetfield's best attempt at singing. mind you, he should never have attempted singing.

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