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totally agreed--- metallica is truly an amazing band but it sucks that their genre is just one of those types of music that a person will either love or hate.... and too many of my friends are on the hate side
I couldn't get into anything after master of puppets...Garage Days is the exception...that's a great record.
I was in 10th grade I think when kill em all and slayer's show no mercy came out. totally blew our minds in school. they were both "speed metal" before there was "speed metal"
im drawing a blank right now, but what was the record label that put the little SPEED METAL stamps on the backs of their lps in foil? only twenty or thirty lps that have that stamp can be called "speed metal".
death magnetic is great. i dont listen to it nearly as much as i should.
i have a bootleg copy of and justice for all that one of the guys from the metallica fanclub redubbed bass tracks over, since they are so buried in the original mix. it sounds 100x better.
i have a black album tour shirt that was given to my dad when he was a roadie. i wish it fit me, because i would probably wear it every day.
megadeth sucks. find a digital copy of one of the metallica demos from mcgovneys garage where they do different versions of early songs + a million diamond head covers.
diamond head is the only reason metallica even exists. they have stolen countless riffs from harris and tatler, is ridiculous.
Master of Puppets was my #1 cassette to run to circa 1992.
I once did a 5 miile run while listening to it and sot only was it the perfect soundtrack to the painful grind of jogging, somehow it miraculously concluded just as I arrived at my house.
After And Justice for All I thought they went a bit goofy. The radio ballad is usually the death nell of any rad band. ie. there was a lot of downhill after they achieved radio success from "one"
haha Master of Puppets and Justice For All were the very first rock albums I listened to on my own. I was about 12 or 13 when I found them at home. My life kind of took a 90* turn
Lars is one of a few drummers that taught me how to play drums at a really early age.
Not literally, but, you know, you listen sooooo much that you know every single lick / fill in every single song from Kill Em All thru Justice.
I was a huuuuuuge Metallica fan, in high school, nearly 15 years ago.
I was 15 years old when Load came out . . . and we went to Blockbuster music at midnight to get the new Metallica album (although I wasn't a big fan of the Black Album, anyway). I suppose, we were just curiuos how it would sound.
We opened the artwork and were shocked and I didn't listen to that album for a year. And we thought they were a bunch of !@#$?s (not that there's anything wrong with that) in those pictures.
I started getting depressed and started listening to Load and it fit perfectly in the soundtrack of my life, at that time. Load, though, looked down upon, as their sell out album, was , indeed, a really good rock album. (BTW, their sellout album was the Black Album.)
I think I would have had more respect for Metallica, now, if they had continued to have "slowed down" and wrote more "rock and roll" songs, as they did in Load and Reload. . . They were aging gracefully . . . and that, in hindsight, would have been much more respectable than their "return to heavy." Ugh.
So, to St. Anger and Death Magnetic:
Fucking horrible, horrible albums. I swear the 14 year old kids accross the street, just starting their first band, have made much better music than the shit on St Anger and Death Magnetic.
So, just re-iterate: I am a huge fan of the early stuff, but lost and then found respect in Load and Reload, and again, have lost respect in St and Death.
I love how everyone has a Metallica story - thanks for putting up this thread. Other bands come and go and they have definitely been at it for too long, but I still listen to them a lot. I rank And Justice for all as #1 with Ride the Lightning a close second. The rest are good, but I listen to these the most.
I gotta mention my first ever cassette purchase, hell my first ever music purchase, which was the 'One' cassette single with the cover of DiamondHead's 'The Prince' on the B-side. The guitar harmony/melody section of The Prince is my most favorite of all time and the standard to which I compare other speed/thrash metal melodies. If this song was played on a ride I seriously think I would cry.
My brother and I listened to this cassette single over and over and over until it warped. I still have it but am afraid to play it cause I don't want to break it.
I know One is considered a "sell-out" song for them, but it still chokes me up because I think about me and my brother as little 10-11 year olds thrashing out in the living room and jumping off the couch and stuff. good times!
i snuck diamond heads "sucking my love" into a ride playlist a few years ago. a 9 minute thrash opus about oral sex? those poor westsiders had no idea what had hit them. metallicas cover isnt as good as the original, but since this thread is about the former and not the latter.
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