In recent years I'm so gad Mustaine's reputation has gradually been put back in order. (Post-Some Kind of Monster, really, which itself wasn't that long after the 'I'll never play guitar again' pity party, though I think that's all just a coincidence). For years I'd always catch Megadeth as the opening act on shitty bills, like for the Crue or on Ozzfest, and they always killed it, but lately Mustaine's self-esteem seems restored.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 September 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
"sweating bullets" is the joint― me stalk shithead one day (some dude), Friday, September 16, 2011 10:50 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― me stalk shithead one day (some dude), Friday, September 16, 2011 10:50 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
they could honestly be Scarface lyrics
― James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 September 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
hahahaha otm
― original bgm, Friday, 16 September 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
always wanted to like anthrax more than I actually did but not man is just the greatest mascot:
http://www.metal-metropolis.com/Anthrax/anthrax_euphoria_cartoon.jpg
fave cover of the bunch too:
http://media.weirdworm.com/img/misc/the-12-least-intimidating-metal-album-covers/metal.jpg
http://blogs.sohh.com/dirty/img/scarface-2008-07-03-300x300.jpg
Hello me, meet the real me and my misfits way of lifeA dark black past is my most valued possessionHindsight is always 20-20, but looking back it's still a bit fuzzySpeak of mutually assured destruction....
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/154019/Bushwick+Bill.jpgNice story, tell it to reader's digest
― James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 September 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
at the time would've voted: metallicasuspect the real answer is: slayervoted: megadeth
― balls, Friday, 16 September 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
actually at the time my stephen king and public enemy loving ass might've voted anthrax
― balls, Friday, 16 September 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not as impressed by Slayer as I was a few days ago before I heard the album "Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing" by Discharge...goddamn Slayer owes them $$$$$ ... especially Araya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMnW4UKPRr4
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 September 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
also whiney it get really tiresome when you play Thrash Metal High School Football Coach for kids that were born in like 1988
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 September 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
oh wherever could a kid born in 1988 ever hear "Enter Sandman"
― James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 September 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
...anyway i'm gonna vote metallica even though they don't deserve it
because of a certain moment in time, when i still lived on the farm, i would have been about 13 or so...and i had ordered some cassettes from the BMG Music Club and i had read about metallica in Circus Magazine and i ordered master of puppets because it was the "Metal Pick of the Month" and it came finally after 4-6 weeks
popped that thing into my boombox in my bedroom and put in the tape. i was surprised at hearing this really sad, kind of eerie spanish guitar instead of metal...then the drums kicked in and i swore i'd never heard any music that sounded so big as all that...felt like a transmission from another world
then DUN DUUUN DUN DUN DUN....and the fast shit kicked in and i was just shocked
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 September 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
Not nearly as many places as they could hear "Let the Bodies Hit The Floor" probably.
xp
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 16 September 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
― James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, September 16, 2011 10:48 AM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i'm not saying they couldn't have heard enter sandman, i'm saying it's tiresome
I have more Metallica albums but ... Slayer
― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
I was born in 1979 and SOMEHOW I heard "Cum on Feel the Noize"
― James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 September 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
i was surprised at hearing this really sad, kind of eerie spanish guitar instead of metal...
I bought ...And Justice For All and Master of Puppets on the same day. My initial thought upon hearing each of those albums was "what happened? did the wrong tape end up in the case at the factory?" With Puppets, I was halfway out of my bedroom to ask my mom to take me back to the mall when the heavy guitars finally kicked in.
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 16 September 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
metallica = beatlesanthrax = the whomegadeth = the kinksslayer = the stones
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 September 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
i just made that up
metallica - ride/puppets/(and especially) justice were such huge formative albums (tapes!) for me, nothing by the other three comes close. i'm still happy to listen to AJFA anytime, anywhere.
megadeth - love rust in peace and countdown, even listened a lot to cryptic writings at the time, but i feel like my connection to them has always been more 'cool riff bro' than emtional.
slayer - never explored too much beyond reign in blood and seasons in the abyss, both of which still hold up. is lombardo back with them still?
anthrax - eh. i had persistence of time and sound of white noise, but aside from a track or two never really got into them.
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Friday, 16 September 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
Wiki P says Enter Sandman has been popular as entrance music in some sports.
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 16 September 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
1. "Am I Evil"2. "Anti-Social"3. "In-a-Gadda-Vida"4. "Anarchy in the USA"
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 16 September 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
that is correct.
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 16 September 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
why do you have to recuse yourself on Megadeth??
Just a joke 'cause I work for their label. My serious take on Megadeth: love albums 2-4 (yes, I even kinda/mostly like their "Anarchy in the UK" cover), like Countdown to Extinction a lot (how come you never see the video for "Foreclosure of a Dream" anymore?), and really like The System Has Failed, Endgame and the next one. They're a tremendous force live, but they're not showmen - they're all about skillful execution and you're just supposed to sit there and be awestruck.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Friday, 16 September 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
i don't like slayer as much as everyone else does
i've also harbored suspicions that people enjoy saying how much they love slayer more than they actually love slayer
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 September 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
^this is me
― SEXPRESSO 2222: the semi-offical BRAZILIAN REVIRGINIZING club (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 16 September 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
but they still kick ass
― SEXPRESSO 2222: the semi-offical BRAZILIAN REVIRGINIZING club (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 16 September 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h279/juicyfrt/222121_206370116063311_100000709728384_598013_5740520_n.jpg
― SEXPRESSO 2222: the semi-offical BRAZILIAN REVIRGINIZING club (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 16 September 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
I think Slayer are great, but more of a band to admire than love maybe?
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Friday, 16 September 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
Wiki P says Enter Sandman has been popular as entrance music in some sports.― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, September 16, 2011 11:55 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, September 16, 2011 11:55 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I had to have this explained to me at Yankee Stadium. After Metallica did "Enter Sandman" some guys in the press room started chanting "FUCK YOU BOSTON (clap clap clapclapclap), FUCK YOU BOSTON (clap clap clapclapclap)." And I was like "What, did Aerosmith just walk in the room or something?"
― James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 September 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
slayer are definitely a 'small doses' band
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Friday, 16 September 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
Listening to Slayer for me is sorta like looking at a guy with big fucking muscles. Like "wow, you have muscles - fuckin' a!" but not aspiring to get quite that pumped up myself.
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 16 September 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
still voting Slayer. otm about them being almost their own genre. Megadeth comes in second.
― SEXPRESSO 2222: the semi-offical BRAZILIAN REVIRGINIZING club (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 16 September 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
and they're gonna walk this, I think.
saw megadeth open for heaven & hell (rip ronnie) a few years ago and i was duly impressed by their set - no bullshit, hardly any banter, just a whiplash set of new and old stuff played perfectly, it was like a thrash ramones set
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 September 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
Slayer is such a force of nature I rarely feel compelled to listen to them. It's like "listening" to thunder during a storm. I will say that I love festivals with Slayer on the bill, because they bring so much more to the stage. It's like, all day, between all the other bands, people are just sort of milling about changing "slay-er! slay-er!"
For those three albums Metallica was the perfect prog-thrash package. Megadeth was a lot more clever in figuring out a way to pair its metal instincts with pop smarts. Anthrax, I always though that band was a bit of a mess. That is, the only Anthrax tunes that pop to mind are the rap-metal goof and the Joe Jackson cover. Which is awesome.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 September 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
Chanting, not changing.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 September 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
listening to Seasons in the Abyss for the first time in at least a decade goddamn this is a great record
― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
there are a lot of little atmospheric touches that are just perfect like that solitary sustained feedback note at the end of Dead Skin Mask. man.
― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Slayer understood atmosphere better than people remember - their impact on the extreme side of things is just gigantic, their ear for vibe
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 16 September 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
ya when i was like 15 i used to listen to "raining blood" over and over and the rain was my favorite part
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 16 September 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
oh hoos
― me stalk shithead one day (some dude), Friday, 16 September 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
I think the fact that Slayer is the only band in the Big 4 listed in the Spin Alternative Record Guide says a little something about their appeal on ILX.
― James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 September 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
it's funny to look at this list - the reasons Metallica became the breakout/crossover act are readily apparent (Slayer = too extreme/Satanic/evil, Megadeth = too political, Anthrax = not decent enough songwriters/too goofy) I mean I think Metallica's better than Anthrax but that isn't saying a whole lot. Would rank them:
― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
SlayerMegadethMetallicaAnthrax
I was at the Big 4 and thought to myself that it really does make sense that the two biggest bands from this are the most extreme and the most unrepentantly wussy
― James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 September 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
might also be the fact that during their peak metallica was completely incapable of writing something that wasn't a hook.
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
I wouldn't go that far if we're talking about their commercial peak. which is littered with hookless crap.
― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
Will you step back from your computer for a second and ask yourself "is that what Jordan was really talking about?"
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 16 September 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
haha rustic killin it
― me stalk shithead one day (some dude), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://sustenance-studio.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a56dddbf970b012875ba1161970c-300wi
― James Ferraro Boyz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 16 September 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link