I'm gonna give the guitar a break this weekend and work on the dums and bass
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I think Death Magnetic is 10x better than St. Anger. I could listen to "Broken, Beat & Scarred" all day
Harsh lol
The Shortest Straw came on while I was doin cardio this morning. Almost broke the machine
I could listen to "Broken, Beat & Scarred" all day
Master of Puppets, The Black Album and Death Magnetic are good entry points (one from each era).
Make up your own mind as to what the good songs are.
They did edit the music. The songs were jammed out in hour(s) long sessions, then they used what they liked. You might say they over edited them and just made them way too repetitive.
The only drum on Lars' kit that sounded like a tin can was the snare, and that's because it was disconnected. He didn't use quarters on the bass pedals for St Anger, but he did for Justice.
His drumming on St Anger is actually really good.
As for the Loads, I disagree with pretty much all of you. They're inconsistent sure but they have some of Metallicas best material. Period.
Bleeding Me, Outlaw Torn, Fixxxer (<those three are Epic), Low Man's Lyric, Where The Wild Things Are, Carpe Diem Baby, Until It Sleeps, The House Jack Built, Mama Said. Great songs. Who gives a f*** if they're not thrash?
Honestly, it's music. At least they have the balls to go with their gut and try something new.
The riff at 01:00 + the verse riff =
That's pretty much it. To see what Metallica REALLY made their mark for, listen to those four albums first. After that, they begin to slip into Alternative Rock mode.
The best albums, in my opinion, are as follows:
1. Master of Puppets
2. Ride the Lightning
3. ...And Justice For All/Death Magnetic (tie
4. Kill 'Em All
5. Metallica (more commonly referred to as "The Black Album")
6. S&M
7. Load
8. ReLoad (which is only really good for Fuel and The Memory Remains, and Devil's Dance is alright)
9. St. Anger, which really isn't even worth listening to.
Garage, Inc. is a bunch of covers, which is why I didn't really include it.
Some of the best songs to look out for are (in album order: Red= Kill Em All; Blue= Ride the Lightning; Orange= Master of Puppets; Green= ...And Justice For All; Black= Black Album; Dark Red= Load; Brown= ReLoad; White= Death Magnetic):
The Four Horsemen
Seek & Destroy
Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) [more so if you're a bass/Cliff Burton fan)
Fight Fire With Fire [virtually a thrash anthem, VERY fast and heavy, which is predominantly why I added this song]
Ride the Lightning
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Fade to Black
Creeping Death
The Call of Ktulu [this whole album is great, but these 6 stand on a separate level from the last two songs, in my opinion]
The entire Master of Puppets album [it's widely recognized as "the definitive metal album]
Blackened
...And Justice For All
Harvester of Sorrow
One [their first music video, this song pretty much paved the way for their entry into mainstream with The Black Album]
Enter Sandman
Sad But True
The Unforgiven
Wherever I May Roam
King Nothing
Fuel
The Memory Remains
The End of the Line
All Nightmare Long
The Unforgiven III
*Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth), The Call of Ktulu, Orion, To Live Is to Die, and Suicide & Redemption are their four instrumentals. These are pretty damned good songs on their own, and are musts for any Metallica fan. a
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