― bas (bas), Thursday, 3 March 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 3 March 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 3 March 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link
I think they really had some great bridges in a lot of places on that record. Eye Of The Beholder and Frayed Ends Of Sanity are worth mentioning. And I love the way they layer the gits in the really melodic middle part of And Justice For All. They had some great sounding guitar layering on To Live Is To Die too. I've had 16 or 17 years to get past the clicky bass drum and lack of bass guitar but why is that no one acknowledges how great the guitars sound?? And actually I love the way the snare drum sounds. They mixed it to sound right in your face. Anywho that record is too amazing to ever be ruined by a couple of bad engineering decisions.
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 4 March 2005 01:19 (nineteen years ago) link
57 7th, it sure is:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4469978
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 4 March 2005 01:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 4 March 2005 06:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 4 March 2005 06:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Absolutely classic band, for a year or three. I only wish Rick Rubin had produced their '80s recs. (Wish NOBODY had produced their '90s-and-beyond efforts.)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 4 March 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link
It would be interesting to know the tale of Metallica if the bus never flipped. It might be a different story or maybe not. It is a sad, sad day when Metallica hires some wack showbiz psychologist to help them work on music.
― earlnash, Friday, 4 March 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 15 April 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Siegbran, Sunday, 15 April 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 15 April 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap, Sunday, 15 April 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap, Sunday, 15 April 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 15 April 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnny Hotcox, Sunday, 15 April 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― M@tt He1ges0n, Sunday, 15 April 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link
currently for me, it's
Harvester of Sorrow (a song I didn't like much until the last 3 years or so)Damage, Inc (will never leave this list)Ride the Lightning (also evergreen)Dyer's EveMotorbreathDisposable Heroes (used to be ambivalent to it, now it's one of my favs)Fight Fire with FireEye of the BeholderSpit Out the BoneThe Call of Ktulu
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 May 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
spit out the bone is so sick
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 21 May 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
yeah, it's probably my favorite song they've done since 1988. sad I never got to hear it live (well not yet at least).
I took MoP off this list because I'm so over familiar with it. not cos it isn't deserving.
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 May 2020 21:58 (three years ago) link
Re-doing this 15 years later (!!!)
Blackened...And Justice for AllEye of the BeholderShortest StrawHarvester of SorrowFrayed Ends of SanityDyers EveBatteryDisposable Heroes
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 21 May 2020 22:06 (three years ago) link
Eye of the Beholder I used to wonder why they never did live, then I heard one of the rare live versions, and hoooo god, James outright can't do that chorus at all. it's on his break point and he just struggles to sing it. even in 1989.
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 May 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
Not that I don't love others, but if I only had 10 Metallica songs to listen to for the rest of my life, it would be these.
(just as an aside, I'm listening to the singles from Hardwired for the first time since they came out, and they're sounding pretty great)
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 21 May 2020 22:10 (three years ago) link