I did something terrible today

[Daybreaker]

No, I wasnt buying an armload of porn and had my ex's walk in line followed by my parents, co workers, and friends, it was something much worse...

I.... rebought.... the....first three...Metallica cds. Oh man. That took about ten minutes to type out hahahha. Seriously though, I sold them off years ago and swore to myself I would never spend a dime on them again but here I am today.

I dunno why I did it, I think it was because I was feeling oldschool. I remember when I was a kid, me and my friends would have all these metal parties (aka us playing video games til 5 AM listening to metal and drinking soda haha) and these cds were always a part of them. Since we were 12 we didnt have that many cds then, I'd have a few Maiden, Painkiller, and a couple Mercyful Fate, one dude would bring over a couple more Maiden, Testament, Death Angel, and another would have MEgadeth, Overkill and Anthrax, but one thing was the same between ALL of us. Whoever hosted the madness had these cds, we never had to bring them over.

Someone please tell me that its not just me that has done something like this, I'll feel so much better. hahahha

 

[tooobad71]

I'm not sure about having all 3 of the first CD's but someone always had Lightning or Puppets and they were listened to. No you are not alone in the playing games until late hours. More people have that guilty pleasure then will admit. I don't always to get to play games but when I do, I am currently playing the WWF Smackdown series on PS2. And when I play, there is always a metal CD in the player. Doesn't matter what I did as kid, I still do the same when I have free time.

Not sure now if I would give the greedy Metallica's my money but they are definately good CD's.

 

[The_Q]

As long as they weren't the LAST 3 Cd's you're OK!!! The first three are CLASSICS!!!! I would not like to give Metallica another dime but if my Kill "Em All gets scratched I will.

 

[Jim LotFP]

Feel no shame about giving Metallica your money for those three albums, because on those, they certainly earned it.

 

[General Zod]

Got to agree with Jim. Those discs are fantastic, especially RtL and MoP.

Zod

 

[AngraRULES]

It's okay, I bought the same three ones after St. Anger. I felt SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO disappointed that I got mad and bought the good ones.... It's okay, we still love you in metal! \m/ lol

 

[DarkOne]

Isn't it amazing how much that band now leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth?

I don't know if it was just the downhill slide in the albums, the change in musical style, or the Lars Napster debacle (or more likely a combination), but now I feel the same way. I get this aftertaste when listening to the band that revolutionalized metal and made some utterly classic albums.

The first four are all awesome, and I even liked the Black album, although I recognized the move to a more poppy style. So, those are all acceptable. There are some good points to Load, a few less in Reload, and I've liked nothing I've heard from St. Anger.

So, stand proud and listen to the older music of Metallica. Just pretend they've all retired rather than are still around spreading crap. It'll make it easier.

Steve

 

[Ballstorm]

Many a nights I spent, forcing Mario to hall his fat ass across the screen in Super Mario Bros. as I jammed to Metallica - Kill'em All. I remember my friends being there too laughing their asses off as I'd scream at the hammer brothers not to jump until I told them to. LOL.

I will also admit that recently I have listened to Welcome Home (Sanitarium), Fight Fire With Fire, and For Whom The Bell Tolls.

 

[Daybreaker]

Hahah, cool guys. I feel alot better now. I never sold Justice though, that was my first metal cd I bought waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the fourth grade. Man, me and my friends didnt even really know what metal was when we had these parties. I mean how metal was it to have your mom drop you off with the game you rented from Blockbuster that night for a sleepover when you're 12?

Sidenote: When I bought the cds I was like "ummm... bag them...please..." What? "Can you put those in a bag please?" And when I walked out the clerk was like That wasnt so bad now was it?


I have a million reasons why I felt dirty and yet I cant explain them. It's the same thing with In Flames now, I LOVED them SO MUCH, but now when I listen to Lunar Strain or even up to Clayman, I go ".....ugh.... dreadlocks.... Jonathan DAvis whine... NO!" and then take them out to gather dust on the towers of doom for a few more months. I'm thinking of doing an editorial on this phenomenon, should bands have that much power that their current state of affairs ruin what was once great, or is it just you the fan being either too proud or are you really that pissed off at the band with just reasoning?


Anyways, it was like I was young (that's a laugh for anyone that knows me) again blasting songs like Motorbreath, Disposable Heroes, Battery, Escape (underrated as hell) and Jump in the Fire all over again. I think I'll go with the metal archives description of the band "Metallica released And Justice for All and then they mysteriously all died in a horrific gardening accident in 1989..."

Ben

 

[BABS]

Here's what I have from Metallica:

Kill 'em All
Ride the Lightning
Master of Puppets
And a single of Am I Evil?

It's ok man!

 

[General Zod]

Isn't it amazing how much that band now leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth?

I've often thought about this.

I don't know if it was just the downhill slide in the albums, the change in musical style, or the Lars Napster debacle (or more likely a combination), but now I feel the same way. I get this aftertaste when listening to the band that revolutionalized metal and made some utterly classic albums.

A combination there of. A true shame. I once heard them called the Led Zeppelin of our generation. I thought it sounded odd, but then thought about it. They were on their way to being a truly important part of Rock history when they decided that $$$ was more important than music.

Zod

 

[Wishmaster]

The first three Metallica albums are indeed classics. Master of Puppets is one of my all-time favorite CDs. Not everyone agrees with what they've done since the Black album, but I have to say that I still think that Live Shit: Binge & Purge is one of the best live albums I've ever heard.

--Mike

 

[Bryan316]

Sheeeit.

I've got the bootleg of Kill 'Em All with Am I Evil and Blitzkrieg. I couldn't live without that disc for a loooong time. Got the Japanese release of Justice just for The Prince. And yes, I dished out $50 long ago for a copy of Garage Days Re-Revisited, back when it was difficult to get your hands on it, and people didn't have photo printers and CD burners in their cell phones. Heh.

Now... I don't ever listen to them anymore. I've got those songs memorized, man. If I wanna hear em, my band just gets together and WE play em!

Nuthin more old school than just playing the songs yourselves. Heh heh.



And am I the only one, or has anyone else noticed that one of the background music tracks of the original DOOM game had a track that sorta-kinda sounded like Master Of Puppets?

 

[Daybreaker]

Dude, I know just the level too. I think its stage two in the first episode...


Oh man, I thought I was the only one who noticed that.

Ben

 

[DarkOne]

You know, I don't think it was about the money. Well, the downloading MP3s was about money (uh, gee Lars, just HOW did your band get so popular in the Bay area in the early 80's. Could it have been . . . trading tapes!?!?). The music, though . . . the music I think is just where the band wound up going. This isn't a case of a youing Savatage getting pressured to make a poppy rock album (Fight for the Rock). This was a superstar level band that wanted to push things in a different direction. Whether it is what they truely felt, or they just saw what people wanted, I don't blame them that much, per se. I'm horribly disappointed, and pretty stunned when I hear what they were, and listen to "Tick Tick Tick Tock Tick Tock Tock" growled to an industrial beat. But, if that's what they feel, so be it. It's the same as Kiske insulting metal, or Halford saying he was done with that genre (that lasted long, eh). They're ability to suck now doesn't make their earlier releases any less great.

Now, the Napster issue: THAT, they should all burn for !!!!

Steve

A combination there of. A true shame. I once heard them called the Led Zeppelin of our generation. I thought it sounded odd, but then thought about it. They were on their way to being a truly important part of Rock history when they decided that $$$ was more important than music.

Zod

 

[Daybreaker]

Despite how much Ive loved them before, I dont think Im going to see Metallica when they come into town in a few weeks. Even though their setlist is alot of older material, man I dont feel like hearing James redneckify songs like Battery as bad as he did on that abominable S&M album. *sighs like a little girl*

Ben

 

[Seems like Trav]

For whom the bell tolls....

You Betchaaaa!!!!

"I mean how metal was it to have your mom drop you off with the game you rented from Blockbuster that night for a sleepover when you're 12?"

Man, That's as metal as it gets.

 

[theodyssey]

No offense, but cliff pretty much sucked. He wasn't nearly as good as everyone makes him out to be.

 

[Bryant]

Metallica changed my life twice. They changed my life when I first heard "MOP" and changed my life the second time when I heard the "Black" album. That album isn't bad, but it made me realize the "glory days" of metal was in decline.
I can deal with artists being a little bit of a "dick" as Yngwie is, but YM is simply a pompous ass. He would probably take a bullet for a fan though. Metallica on the other hand has turned themselves into everything that is bad in the music business and frankly I am offended by them. They leave such a sour taste in my mouth I very rarely play anything by them.


Bryant

 

[Pellaz]

There are few stories in metal sadder than the Rise and Fall of Mallternica.

I didn't discover them until just after the Cliff Era and just before they did the unthinkable -- back then -- and recorded a video (for "One"). They were playing a show at the Omni, with Queensryche opening. I didn't really know Metallica's stuff back then, but a friend had met and befriended both bands in Florida on the same tour, and since I reallly wanted to see QR, he told me he'd get me hooked up with a backstage pass for the show. It didn't quite work out the way he wanted (I think the names got confused) and I spent all of Queensryche's set outside by the will-call window before I finally gave up and went inside. So much for seeing QR! Got to see Metallica, at least. Excellent show. Cool, a new band to like!

During the second leg of that tour 'Tallica came back through (with the unlamented Cult opening). My friend came through with backstage passes and tickets and I befriended Kirk Hammett, since we had some favorite authors in common. We noticed something back then: after the band had spent some time backstage with fans, their road-manager or personal assistant would come up to them and say "Okay, time to go outside," and they'd go outside to chat with all the fans waiting outside who couldn't get backstage passes. We all thought this was amazingly cool; in Greenville SC they did this even though it was drizzling outside. Wow, they were fan-friendly! Back then, anyway....

During the course of the Black Album's interminable tour (it had to last close to two years) they continued to be very fan-friendly. My friends and I continued to be treated like royalty; when they played the Omni twice, we saw the show from -inside- the stage, in the Snake Pit. Yet another way of being cool to their fans.

It was around 1994 that things began to fall apart. We noticed that gradually, it seemed like Jason was the only band-member who routinely came backstage after shows to talk to fans, let alone talk to the fans waiting outside. James Hetfield had stated in an interview once that he really hated it when, as a youngster, his idols drove past him in their limousines. "I wanted to go home and burn all my posters of that band," he'd said. Now, he was starting to do the same thing.

Eventually it became clear that Jason was the only one who really cared about the fans anymore. The band even made fun of him for it ("Sheesh, you put a guy in the mix and he thinks he can hold everyone up" -- a reference to Jason's absence from the mix on the Justice album.)

At one point, they'd been really fan-friendly.

Later, this practice declined.

So did Metallica.

It's almost eerie how the band's musical decline almost exactly parallels their attitude toward their fans. Jason eventually left the band, something he'd told us back in 1998 that he was considering doing. Part of Jason's discontent was no-doubt music-related....but I'm certan a lot of his disgust was with the band's attitude overall.

As for me, I think they reached their peak with MoP, had a good (if production-flawed) release in Justice, and I even liked the Black Album, despite it get getting wayy overplayed. We played a few Metallica tunes by request on WREKage last night here (Atlanta), and even though we tend to make fun of the band on the air, the quality of those older albums can't be denied. I've started bringing my older Metallica CDs to the studio, but we handled those old-school requests by playing vinyl. (!)