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February 05, 2014, 09:54:49 AM Last Edit: February 05, 2014, 10:14:52 AM by uwe
Quote from: gweimer on February 05, 2014, 09:28:03 AM
Agreed.  I would never have expected them to be radio friendly and mainstream, but they got there.

When I hear them the description that comes to my mind for their sound is "monolithic". It ain't subtle, it ain't elegant, it's heavy-handed, largely humorless, but it's not dumb either and it's all their own. And while the Black Album was a far cry from the Prog-ish tendencies of "And Justice for All" and had none of the underground garage sound charm of "Kill 'em All", it wasn't AOR either, it was still dark and oppressive music played with an unforgiving might. Try selling 28 million units of that around a time where Nirvana was toppling all previous rock icons. The Black Album is saleswise head and shoulders above any heavy metal release and most hard rock releases of any time. It has sold more than Def Leppard's much more commercially engineered Hysteria (20 million units), almost as much as Led Zep's classic IV (which has been on sale almost two decades longer) and is only dwarfed by something like  AC/DC's Back in Black (more than 50 million units) which contains once again much more accessible music.
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February 05, 2014, 02:00:25 PM
i love the early stuff. but i hate the guy playing bass for them now. Trujillio is a scab who joins established bands long after their prime... Suicidal, Ozzy and now Metallica.
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Highlander

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February 05, 2014, 03:23:45 PM
Saying it how it is... :vader:

Quote from: Psycho Bass Guy on February 05, 2014, 09:16:06 AM
My wife has those very same socks, no kidding.

Campbell's Soup Socks... ;D
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uwe

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February 06, 2014, 03:46:57 AM
But his name is Hetfield and he never played with Dio or Def Leppard.
We've taken too much for granted ... and all the time it had grown ...
From techno seeds we first planted ... evolved a mind of its own ...

Highlander

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February 06, 2014, 05:05:51 PM
Mrs PBG... not Hetfield... ;)
The random mind of a Silver Surfer...
If research was easy, it wouldn't need doing...
Staring at that event horizon is a dirty job, but someone has to do it; something's going to come back out of it one day...

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February 06, 2014, 05:19:22 PM
Quote from: uwe on February 05, 2014, 09:43:27 AMI wouldn't read too much into that unless she has "And Justice for All" on 24/7 heavy rotation in your sacred home!  :-X

I think it's funny; I wouldn't mind Justice 24/7 if it weren't for the awful production. The whole album is like a karaoke drum performance.  It's Metallica's last documented record of Cliff's contributions. The complicated song/prog- bent was plainly already there in Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets. As fer the missus, she won't be in another 54 days.
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