METALLICA Week On Maidenfans (9/3 - 9/10)

Favorite Metallica albums? (Pick up to 3)

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Foro, you must not have seen Metallica live very often, because if you had then you would hate 'Nothing Else Matters' by default.
 
Never even. I still haven't been on a festival where they played. I never wanted to go to one of their own concerts for some reason.
 
You've more than made up for that by seeing Iron Maiden a gazillion times though. I've seen Metallica twice myself, both times at the same festival in 2011 and 2014.
 
For me, Wherever I May Roam > The Unforgiven > Of Wolf And Man > Enter Sandman > Sad But True > Through The Never/Holier Than Thou > The last 3 > Nothing Else Matters.
 
Enter Sandman is the only song on there I really care for. I could live without the rest.
 
Haven't replied at all in this thread yet, so thought I'd start now.

Mosh said:
Talking Points:
  • Favorite/least favorite Metallica songs?
  • What do you think of post-Black Album Metallica?
  • What do you think of Metallica's new by request system? Should other bands try it?
  • What are your hopes for the next Metallica album?
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Favourite songs include - Fade to Black, Creeping Death, One, Disposable Heroes, Ride the Lightning, Battery, Sanitarium, Dyers Eve, Four Horseman in no particular order.
I am fine with the direction that Metallica went in after the Black Album, as long as the songs were good. Load is fine as a more hard rock oriented album, although I dislike ReLoad as I find there's more filler on there. St Anger is complete trash and definitely in my bottom 3 albums of all time that I've actually listened to. Death Magnetic overall was a good album but most of the songs definitely seemed overlong. I reckon chop off about an average of a minute and a half off each song and it would be excellent. Lulu is a different kettle of fish and I can accept why they made it, but I don't like it at all.

RTC said:
Unpopular opinions:
Nothing Else Matters is one of the most overrated songs of all time and not even average. It's dull.
Master Of Puppets, Whiskey In The Jar and Orion are good songs, but very overrated.
I love Reload, and I prefer it over a good chunk of albums.
And Justice For All is better than Master Of Puppets.
Ride The Lightning's best song is the title track.
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Agreed on the tracks you listed as being overrated, especially Nothing Else Matters and Master.
Even with the overrated tracks on Master, I still think it's better than Justice because I feel there are more bad and average tracks on Justice, even with Song That Should Not Be.
Ride the Lightning (song) is amazing, but I think there's 2 more tracks on that album alone that are even more so, but it's still in my top 5 songs for Metallica.

Mosh said:
Enter Sandman is the only song on there I really care for. I could live without the rest.
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The Black Album is not that bad. Enter Sandman I find to be hugely overrated, but there are a bunch of really good songs on there. Sad But True, Wherever I May Roam, Unforgiven, Of Wolf and Man and Don't Tread on me are all really good.
 
Regardless of the hate and the hype, I think The Black Album may be Metallica's most consistent album. Although Enter Sandman is horribly overrated and overplayed, every song on the album is decent at worst.
 
Load and Reload are much better than many people give them credit for but should have been one album, not two.

My favorite songs on The Black Album are Wherever I May Roam and Through The Never.
 
  • My favorite Metallica songs are 'The Call of Ktulu", "Fade to Black", "Blackened" "Creeping Death", "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "One".
  • I've discussed this matter on several occasions so I'll cut the "selling out" stuff short. I completely agree with points SMX and Mosh made earlier in the thread, Metallica are a band that took chances instead of becoming stale in order to keep the fans, polar opposite of selling out. Load and ReLoad both have songs that I really enjoy, would've been far better if they ditched the fillers and came up with one album featuring the strong tracks. St. Anger is one of the worst albums I've ever heard in its entirety, and I really enjoy Death Magnetic despite the horrible production.
  • Awesome idea, too bad most setlists turned out to be the same old stuff because of the casual fans. But it just shows that they fully embrace their full discography. I really doubt Maiden would even think of doing something like that.
  • I actually have really high hopes for the album. Metallica, to me, look very relaxed now after years of trouble and controversy, I expect a really good album. I hope they do something like Black Album, really focused songwriting but I think they'll go for the Death Magnetic approach. That's fine, just mix the damn thing better this time.
Favorite albums in order: Ride, Justice, Puppets.
 
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Though I'm always keen to blame Lars for anything, this sound like a lot of half-truths. Mainly because I cannot imagine James Hetfield sitting back and not caring about the final mix.
 
The same guy mixed Appetite For Destruction and many other albums. AJFA is not typical of his work. Interference from Lars does sound like a very likely explanation.
 
No producer with any legitimacy would do something like what happened with AJFA. The band or management would've quickly rejected it and he'd be putting his reputation at risk. It had to be a decision made on the band's part.
 
I think AJFA is what X-Factor is to a lot of people here. No bad songs, 2 extraordinary songs in the title track and One (my favourite metal song of all-time), underrated gems like Eye Of The Beholder, Frayed Ends Of Sanity and Harvester Of Sorrow, and a great sound from a band recovering from a major loss.
 
Something just occurred to me. Lars grew up on cassettes and tape trading. That's a media that has trouble carrying fat bottom end. It's always high and hissy. So, when Lars heard actual good production, he recoiled. To him back then, metal was supposed to sound like crap.

Also, the fact that they were hazing Jason all the time is a matter of record. I could believe they'd say "drop him to inaudible".
 
That's incredible, NP! I'm most interested in the fact that the hard drives naturally played the basic rhythm in gallop...even computers like Maiden!
 
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