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kerble wrote:

vockins wrote:

tmidgett wrote:

offal wrote:Been playing these a lot myself the past few months, and just can't get over how badass Hetfield's rhythm playing still sounds.

This shit has aged very, very well.

James Hetfield is a fantastic drummer.

He's so good that you don't notice one of the worst drummers on the face of the earth.

now that you put it this way, yes. yes he is. His riff rhythms are catchier than any drumbeat lars has eve done.

e.g., that squggly riff in between the lines "Sanitarium" and "Leave me be" is so freaking good. aims right for the middle of the brain.

Or that "gunka-gah ngah ngah ngah DIDDIT, gunka-gah ngah ngah ngah DAH, gunka-gah ngah ngah ngah DIDDIT, gunka-gah ngah ngah ngah DAH" backbeat riff that follows the second "Bleed for me!" solo in "Master of Puppets."

Best part in pretty much any song. Ever. And it's over almost before it started.

Oh, and because Im kinda amazed I havent weighed in yet -- Metallica is NOT CRAP. I mean, duh.

The one thing overlooked in Metallica's checkered history are the musical performances of Lars.

People are so overwhelmed by his annoying arsewipey-tude they forget how bad a drummer he is and always was.

Best Metallica riff, also possibly best riff ever is the main one on "Creeping Death." This is fairly obvious.

that "middle-eight" in "Master of Puppets" is one of the most beautiful melodies/counter-melodies I have heard.

the Apocalyptica version (4 cellos, heard in the art-sale scene in S.K.O.Mons.) only illuminates this.

Crap, I've never liked them. I could never figure out why people thought they were "heavy", it's thin sounding with those shitty gallop rhythms, bad vocals and terrible lyrics.

Plus they all seem to be total dicks.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

SecondEdition wrote:I don't have a metallica t-shirt.

Me neither, but I once held a sheet down on a windy day so my friend Mick could spray paint "Metal Up Louisville's Ass" onto it.

I can respect that.

Maybe they've overstayed their welcome, but at one time Metallica were a damn fine metal band, and they did a great deal to finally kill off hair metal. I used to work in a print shop with two dolts who thought Bon Jovi were the greatest thing on Earth. Then they saw Metallica on the Van Halen Monsters of Rock tour, and a few weeks later they were wearing "Ride The Lightning" T-shirts and asking me about the Misfits. Not for nothing, but that was certainly an improvement. I even convinced one of 'em to see Soul Asylum at a local bar (this was several years before Grave Dancer's Union).

I think that Ride The Lightning might be the best Metallica record. Vocal reverb and all. It's an amazing record.

abcgroupdocumentation wrote:Kill'em All through And Justice for All...not a single skip track on any of those records.

Metallica's Black LP is the beginning of the end. Anything after that is drivel.

true, But I quite like the garage days revisited double cd. some more cool covers on there, and a reissue of the 5.99 ep as well.