Favourite Metallica song?

Nothing Else Matters for me

FTB or Master of Puppets.

Classic, Hetfield on lead guitar for once if memory serves.

^ to Angoose.

I've got a Master of Puppets t-shirt, loads of people commented on it

Breadfan

Breadfan was a cover

I know it's a cover. Budgie.

Still their best imo.


Favourite original possibly Harvester, though I'm in a minority in thinking their first album is their best.

whiskey in the jar cover was good too.

Few others:

House that jack built
Bleeding me

Load an underrated album imo.

Actually more I think about it I think I prefer Master to FTB, used to be other way around. MoP is the perfect Metallica song.
I was just thinking about Metallica the other day and how they've released some fairly crap albums down the years but survived the experience...? "St Anger", ffs.

IMHO their best cover would be Am I Evil by the criminally underated Diamond Head.

(But I do like Breadfan, wow me an PoP agree on something ;P)

I think they tried to cash in on the nu-metal genre of the early 2000's with St. Anger.

>40 year old men screaming about their emotions doesn't work too well ahaha,

Once your ear tunes in to how incredibly bad the drum sound is on St Anger it's virtually impossible to listen to.

Seems over produced, I agree, but that was the style at the time.

More importantly, what is the picture moderator bypass trick ?

PM Angoose.

OVER produced, the drum sound on st anger was deliberately made to sound totally sh1t!
Lars detuned the snare and recorded it in the toilet from Trainspotting.

Sounds like he's using an e-ring on a tightened snare?

Agree what you said about that album though, definitely not a classic and a major drop off from their earlier stuff.

I remember at about 15/16 waiting for this to come through the post and it was a huge disappointment. No guitar solos in the entire album and a blatant rip-off of contemporary nu-metal - it just didn't work at all.

I guess this was the beginning of the end for the metal genre of the 80's and 90's

Huge shame.

Ride the lightning is my all time favourite album of any genre, the only great album they ever made. (MOP is half a great album)...

Creeping Death easily my favourite song.

It's a shame Anthrax are more of a footnote now. When Ride the Lightning came out they had "Spreading the Disease" and they were pretty much same league as Metallica. That album is brilliant and easily better than many later metallica releases imho.

Absolutely agree re Spreading the disease JC, amazing album. Their live video Oidivnikufesin that came out around the same time was superb too, my VHS copy was literally played to death.

among the living was bloody amazing too

Not! Not! Not! Not! Not!

if you haven't seen this jc, thoroughly charming and well worth a watch...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWKN0nRiBpU

Small world I have seen that video a few months ago! I was surprised he was such a big ac/dc/Malcolm fan.

Maybe you posted the link before but it's the sort of think I might come across anyway.
I actually preferred the rhythm playing to the lead in AC/DC so I totally get where Ian is coming from, although obviously Angus plays rhythm as well.

It's one reason I prefer listening to music like AC/DC with headphones on as it's easier to listen to see what they are doing, at a casual listen people probably don't realise even they are playing different parts on what sounds like a simple song.

I remember Angus saying that Malcolm was by far the better lead player but he just wasn't interested in any kind of limelight.

Easily the band I think i've listened to, and continue to listen to, more than any other. Pretty much everything up to and including Flick of the Switch (such an underrated album) is peerless, after that they descended into pastiche. But if your as good as they undoubtedly were, then, I guess that's allowed.

Probably the dumbest,cleverest band in the entire history of rock, to paraphrase a music journo whose name escapes me.

Yea I got a couple more recent albums and can't get into them. Powerage I can listen to over and over and over.

Anthrax never got credibility because of the surf shorts and goofing around.

Songs were right up there though. Shame they never stuck with John Bush later in their career. Really strong singer, much better than Belladonna.

Favourite of that time though is Act III by Death Angel.

Best thrash album for me.

Saw a video a week ago on how the drumming on Master of Puppets was a close copy of Synchronicity II. Apparently Cliff was a big Police fan.

Well people slag off Lars drumming and they maybe have a point sometimes but without him there would have been no metallica, he apparently listened to a wide range of music not commonly listened to over there and as well as being a founder member introduced it to those people. He'd no doubt rubbed some of this off onto Mustaine as well so partially responsible for Megadeth. Would they have even existed without Metallica and thus Lars?

Quality video lux, cheers for that.

Nothing Else Matters - hardly original , I know , but there ya have it