THE BIG 4 poll

metallica = beatles
anthrax = the who
megadeth = the kinks
slayer = the stones

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.

Wiki P says Enter Sandman has been popular as entrance music in some sports.

1. "Am I Evil"
2. "Anti-Social"
3. "In-a-Gadda-Vida"
4. "Anarchy in the USA"

that is correct.

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.

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

^this is me

but they still kick ass

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h279/juicyfrt/222121_206370116063311_100000709728384_598013_5740520_n.jpg

I think Slayer are great, but more of a band to admire than love maybe?

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

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?"

slayer are definitely a 'small doses' band

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.

still voting Slayer. otm about them being almost their own genre. Megadeth comes in second.

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

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.

Chanting, not changing.

listening to Seasons in the Abyss for the first time in at least a decade goddamn this is a great record

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.

yeah Slayer understood atmosphere better than people remember - their impact on the extreme side of things is just gigantic, their ear for vibe

ya when i was like 15 i used to listen to "raining blood" over and over and the rain was my favorite part

oh hoos

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.

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:

Slayer
Megadeth
Metallica
Anthrax

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

might also be the fact that during their peak metallica was completely incapable of writing something that wasn't a hook.

I wouldn't go that far if we're talking about their commercial peak. which is littered with hookless crap.

Will you step back from your computer for a second and ask yourself "is that what Jordan was really talking about?"

haha rustic killin it

http://sustenance-studio.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a56dddbf970b012875ba1161970c-300wi

so one of the reasons metallica is so big is that prior to actually being so big they wrote a lot of decent material. huh.

would've thought the popularity of the black album had more to do with people actually liking the black album and the music on it, rather than the music on Master of Puppets. call me crazy.

uh pretty sure that's what OTHER people were saying that you seemed to be disagreeing with. unless you're working on some kind of level of sarcasm i can't even identify.

like which of the 5 huge singles from the black album could possibly be described as "hookless"

Metallica
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For other uses, see Metallica (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Matelica.

Yeah, when you said "commercial peak" the first time, I figured you were talking about the ninja star years.

...and that Jordan had been talking about say Ride through the Black album.

^^^

btw, don't forget to check out my Metallica tribute band, Ride Through The Black.

like which of the 5 huge singles from the black album could possibly be described as "hookless"

all the ones I can't remember (which is all of them except for Enter Sandman)

Metallica is the only one of the 4 I've ever owned an album by (Master of Puppets) - but I don't really know the other three well enough to vote.

Ride The Lightening took 3 years to go gold whereas the black album was multi-platinum within months, so that's a really uselessly vague definition of "commercial peak"

"Unforgiven," "Sad But True," "Nothing Else Matters," and "Wherever I May Roam" are not hookless just because you can't remember them fyi

hooks by definition are memorable! all I remember about those songs are that I thought they were awful when I heard them.

I don't remember any of those songs but that's because I didn't particularly want to listen to Metallica and actively avoided them

let's say '84 - '88 + maybe half the black album