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#11 Re: The Sunset Strip » Poll: Best Metallica Album '83-'91 Era » 613 weeks ago
Me too- I wonder if it splits on age lines? I'm not suggesting there's any wrong opinion, so don't think that. But is there anyone voting for Black who was already well into Metallica pre-Justice I wonder?
The other albums are hard because like I said earlier, they're all so good. But end to end, I feel like Master is where they put it all together for the first time and created their Magnum Opus so to speak.
Justice is WAY better than most give it credit for, barring One (which most would recognize.) The lack of bass actually gives it a weird antiseptic/institutional creepiness to me, which is just a happy accident since they were really only being dicks when they dialed it down. 
#12 Re: Guns N' Roses » September 13th SoTW » 613 weeks ago
So the battle is on!
#13 Re: The Sunset Strip » Poll: Best Metallica Album '83-'91 Era » 613 weeks ago
I think I got through SA once. I need to go back and give it another shot, because even if it stinks, I know it probably doesn't stink as much as the shit they were given over it.
I swear I don't know if this happened for real or in my imagination, but at some point in the Some Kind of Monster vid, I feel like Lars got excited about their new sound with no solos, and all I can see is Kirk's head snapping up like the sound of the record scratching when a party just comes to a halt in the movies... Has to be made up in my brain, but I can't go back and watch that hugfest again to find out.
I saw them preview Fuel during the Black tour. They also pretending to have an electrical/pyro malfunction that went horribly wrong. I totally fell for it, those fuckers. 
#14 Re: The Sunset Strip » Poll: Best Metallica Album '83-'91 Era » 613 weeks ago
Black's slower tempos were cool because it made the songs that much darker and gothic and almost doomy (as doom at Metallica could ever be at least.) I think they did a pretty good job with Death Magnetic, but everything between Black and DM can mostly go shit in a hat as far as I'm concerned.
The thing about Load and even Reload to a lesser extent: if some new band had put that stuff out, I probably would have liked it more. There was some catchy and angry stuff on there and some pretty good riffs. But it just didn't feel right to me. S&M, other than No Leaf Clover, was mostly a waste of time and was lazily orchestrated.
#15 Re: Guns N' Roses » September 13th SoTW » 613 weeks ago
Count me in on the Shackler-wagon!
#16 Re: The Sunset Strip » Poll: Best Metallica Album '83-'91 Era » 613 weeks ago
It's a tough pick, because they all have their merits for what they are.
Like you said, Kill Em All was part punk, and it also has this naive youth attitude that makes it great.
Ride The Lightning was a step up from that, as was Master of Puppets, with complex arrangements and songwriting getting stronger. And to me their progressive side (mixed with aggression) peaked with Justice, and thats the side of Metallica that I love!The Black album is a classic though, and I hold it in pretty high regard, as it was the album that first introduced me to Metallica, which then lead me to the goldmine of the first four albums before it.
In the Summer of 1992, I moved on from Bon Jovi, and discovered GN'R, then Metallica, and as an impressionable youth discovering rock n roll, these were amazing years to be a rock fan!
Anyway, the Black album, while many yell sell out, I still think it's pretty damn good. And to my ears it is a METAL album, even if the tempos were slowed down, and has radio friendly hooks. Just listen to Sad But True up loud and thats as metal as it gets.
I don't look at Black as a sell out. If anything was ever a sell out with those guys, it was Load and Another Load. Black to me, is where a Monday morning quarterback points to and says "THAT'S where the signs were first there." Awesome (incredible!) album, but in retrospect it clearly is the link between the first 4 and what came after.
#17 Re: The Sunset Strip » Poll: Best Metallica Album '83-'91 Era » 613 weeks ago
Being the resident Metallica nut at this forum, I'm gonna have to think about this...
Absolutely love Puppets, but I listen to Justice way more these days, and I love how gritty and in your face it is. If you're ever in a fucked up mood, it's the perfect soundtrack to exorcising some demons...
I've been spending way more time with Justice for the past year or so. But literally, when I go to work out, it's one of those 5 'tallica albums, any of 4 GNR albums (no Lies or TSI), and that's about it.
I was in high school for Black, and that was my go to workout album for all of HS.
If Lars ever dares to go back and "rerelease" any of those 5 albums, I will personally shit on his house.
#18 Re: The Sunset Strip » Breakng Bad/Better Call Saul » 613 weeks ago
Ho Ly Shit was the end of this week's ep a fucking cliff hanger or what?
#19 Re: The Sunset Strip » Poll: Best Metallica Album '83-'91 Era » 613 weeks ago
No question in my mind it's Master, but all five of these albums are completely awesome.
#20 Guns N' Roses » September 13th SoTW » 613 weeks ago
- smoke
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