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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: KevShmev on May 21, 2018, 06:16:06 PM
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INB4 the "OMG, you left off 'this song' posts." :biggrin: :lol
You can vote for up to 7.
I will go with:
Bleeding Me
Wherever I May Roam
The God That Failed
My Friend of Misery
The Outlaw Torn
Enter Sandman
All Nightmare Long
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The Outlaw Torn
Ain't My Bitch
Fuel
Bleeding Me
All Nightmare Long
The Day That Never Comes
Hale On Fire (On my CD it says Halo ;D)
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Enter Sandman
Spit Out The Bone
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I think out of all the threads of pick your favorite songs this has been the toughest so far.
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Not easy.
Halo on Fire
King Nothing
The Outlaw Torn
The Unforgiven
Fixxxer
Until it Sleeps
Where the Wild Things Are
I love the Load albums.
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I'm the first one to vote for three of those. Wow.
TWJYL
Spit
Judas
SBT
ANL
Roam
Apocalypse
The slower songs have the most votes? Really? Hmph.
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Sandman
Bone
Nightmare
Misery
Roam
Moth
Bitch
Quite a few middling Metallica songs in that list for me. Amazing how much harder it becomes to pick seven favourites once the first three albums are removed. (Although, of course, it'd be harder to pick just seven favourites from the first three... I know what I mean!)
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Sandman (yeah, overplayed to death, but this does not erase the awesomeness of the song)
Halo on Fire and Spit out the Bone (best on Hardwired)
Unforgiven, Sad But True and especially Roam (best on the black album)
until it sleeps
First leftovers: All Nightmare Long, Bleeding Me, Nothing.
Anyway, I wouldn't mind a special set made of only these songs, only Judas and Wild Things I don't really care about.
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Enter Sandman
Nothing Else Matters
Spit Out The Bone
The God That Failed
The Unforgiven
Until It Sleeps
Wherever I May Roam
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My list is weirder than I thought it would be :lol
The God That Failed
The Unforgiven
Bleeding Me
Fixxxer
Sad But True
My Friend of Misery
Moth Into Flame
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Wherever I May Roam
The God that Failed
Until It Sleeps
Bleeding Me
The Outlaw Torn
Halo on Fire
Spit Out the Bone
I'm a bit surprised that 3/7 of these ended up being from Load, but those are great songs.
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Spit Out the Bone
Enter Sandman
That was Just Your Life
The Day that Never Comes
Halo on Fire
The Outlaw Torn
Wherever I May Roam
First 5 were pretty easy picks, but the last couple were battling it out with 5 or 6 other songs. I had to refresh my memory a bit by listening to them again, because it's been a while.
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My list, in the order of the songs offered on the list...
Halo on Fire
Spit Out The Bone
The Unforgiven
Bleeding Me
Sad But True
My Friend of Misery
Moth Into Flame
It was a difficult list, which makes it a great poll! For my selections, I went with a combo of what I love about the heaviness about Metallica and the song writing.
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Dunno a huge amount of post 80's memetallica and of these The Unforgiven is the only one i really like so
That
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Most of the Load songs
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Until It Sleeps is doing a lot better than I thought it would. Old school Metallica fans probably hated it with a passion when it was the lead single from Load, but I think it's a nice laid back tune.
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Until It Sleeps is doing a lot better than I thought it would. Old school Metallica fans probably hated it with a passion when it was the lead single from Load, but I think it's a nice laid back tune.
Wasn't the lead single 2x4?
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I thought it was Until It Sleeps.
Looked it up: yep, it was Until It Sleeps.
2x4 was never an actual single, which surprises me.
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I think 2x4 may have been the first song...available. That's what I remember anyway.
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Yeah, but memories tend to fade as we get older...:P
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What were we talking about again?
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How good St. Anger is.
Okay, that conversation was over before it started.
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Until It Sleeps is doing a lot better than I thought it would. Old school Metallica fans probably hated it with a passion when it was the lead single from Load, but I think it's a nice laid back tune.
Wasn't the lead single 2x4?
Nope. UIS was the first song released from the album.
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Bone
Outlaw
Fixxer
Bleeding
Pretty easy for me since I don't look to pick 7. These four stand out over the others.
The slower songs have the most votes? Really? Hmph.
In this era they tended to do better with the slower material. If it were 83-88 it'd skew towards the heavier ones. (With 2 slow ones still topping the list :lol)
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I think 2x4 may have been the first song...available. That's what I remember anyway.
I believe you're right in the sense that 2x4 was debuted in an earlier form at a live show. May have been Donington (Download, as was, back in the olden days for anyone who doesn't know). The first formal release was Until It Sleeps, as others have said.
Edit: okay, so... https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/metallica/1995/donington-park-castle-donington-england-4bd69b4e.html - Devil's Dance was also played. However, it doesn't appear to have been the first performance of either.
Another edit: both 2x4 and Devil's Dance were debuted at this show: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/metallica/1995/hun-sound-san-rafael-ca-43d6dbeb.html in August 1995, about a week before Donington.
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Nope. UIS was the first song released from the album.
Yeah, I remember that and at the time it was a really confusing choice. One of the blandest songs on the whole album. Didn't do much to make me want to buy Load. Fortunately lots of the songs were much better.
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Did I miss something or is there not even one St. Anger song on the list? I get it's not the favorite album of most fans, but don't shut it out completely :D
I think St. Anger is very underrated. I think it's bold and one of the uncompromising albums I know. I think would have chosen at least 2 songs from this album.
I chose:
Enter Sandman
Nothing Else Matters
Until It Sleeps
Fuel
The Unforgiven
Ain't My Bitch
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I rate the best song of St. Anger lower than the worst song on this list. At worst (or best?) I'd concede that St. Anger (the song) is more interesting than Judas Kiss but that's it.
The fan re-recording was ok, the songs are still horrible except title track and Unnamed feeling, but at least they sound good.
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In this era they tended to do better with the slower material. If it were 83-88 it'd skew towards the heavier ones. (With 2 slow ones still topping the list :lol)
BINGO. I could not agree more. In particular, for the Load albums, James' lyrical and vocal work on the slower tempo tunes is some of his best stuff ever.
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Enter Sandman
Halo on Fire
Nothing Else Matters
All Nightmare Long
The Day That Never Comes
Wherever I May Roam
Of Wolf and Man
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As it stands now, Wherever I May Roam holds the top spot on the poll. I'm a bit surprised. It's a good song but I wouldn't think it would be in Metallica's top 10 of all time, let alone since 1991.
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As it stands now, Wherever I May Roam holds the top spot on the poll. I'm a bit surprised. It's a good song but I wouldn't think it would be in Metallica's top 10 of all time, let alone since 1991.
Well...as I type this, the top five songs are as follows:
Wherever I May Roam - 36
Spit Out the Bone - 28
The Unforgiven - 27
Enter Sandman - 25
Sad but True - 25
I don't think it's at all surprising that four of the five are from the Black Album, and I venture to say that the only reason any of these songs are in the top five is because the poll only includes post-AJFA material. In fact, if there were a poll (at this site) encompassing Metallica's entire career, it wouldn't surprise me if not a single post-AJFA song was in the top ten.
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As it stands now, Wherever I May Roam holds the top spot on the poll. I'm a bit surprised. It's a good song but I wouldn't think it would be in Metallica's top 10 of all time, let alone since 1991.
Well...as I type this, the top five songs are as follows:
Wherever I May Roam - 36
Spit Out the Bone - 28
The Unforgiven - 27
Enter Sandman - 25
Sad but True - 25
I don't think it's at all surprising that four of the five are from the Black Album, and I venture to say that the only reason any of these songs are in the top five is because the poll only includes post-AJFA material. In fact, if there were a poll (at this site) encompassing Metallica's entire career, it wouldn't surprise me if not a single post-AJFA song was in the top ten.
Can't speak for anyone else, but I'd have at least 3-4 post AJFA songs in my top 10.
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Did I miss something or is there not even one St. Anger song on the list? I get it's not the favorite album of most fans, but don't shut it out completely :D
I gave it as much representation as it deserves. :biggrin:
I don't think it's at all surprising that four of the five are from the Black Album, and I venture to say that the only reason any of these songs are in the top five is because the poll only includes post-AJFA material. In fact, if there were a poll (at this site) encompassing Metallica's entire career, it wouldn't surprise me if not a single post-AJFA song was in the top ten.
That is why it was more fun to do it this way. The 80's stuff would obviously dominate, and this way the post-80's stuff gets more chatter.
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Until It Sleeps is doing a lot better than I thought it would. Old school Metallica fans probably hated it with a passion when it was the lead single from Load, but I think it's a nice laid back tune.
That was the problem with it.
"MTV PREMIERE OF THE NEW METALLICA VIDEO."
*watches*
Um....what? It's....ok....I guess... :huh: The main riff is cool, but as a lead single...eh...
King Nothing would have been a kick ass first single.
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Eh, a good song is a good song. I guess it didn't bother me because Load came out right around the time when I was getting into Metallica, so I wasn't stuck in that "OMG, if it's Metallica, it has to be heavy as ****" line of thinking.
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As it stands now, Wherever I May Roam holds the top spot on the poll. I'm a bit surprised. It's a good song but I wouldn't think it would be in Metallica's top 10 of all time, let alone since 1991.
It's a masterpiece of a song, the mood of the song perfectly matches the lyrics, it's heavy as duck, the verses are atmospheric and explode in a great chorus. I'd call it the hidden gem of the Black Album, well, maybe not so hidden but definitively not famous as Sandman and Nothing, I'm glad that it got all the votes and I'm not even that surprised.
Oh, and - can't check right now - there's a wonderful cover of the song on YouTube played with additional eastern instruments and sang by a girl, check it out!
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Can't speak for anyone else, but I'd have at least 3-4 post AJFA songs in my top 10.
Oh yeah, without question. There would definitely be at least 4 post AJFA songs in my Metallica top 10....Maybe more depending on the day.
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As it stands now, Wherever I May Roam holds the top spot on the poll. I'm a bit surprised. It's a good song but I wouldn't think it would be in Metallica's top 10 of all time, let alone since 1991.
Well...as I type this, the top five songs are as follows:
Wherever I May Roam - 36
Spit Out the Bone - 28
The Unforgiven - 27
Enter Sandman - 25
Sad but True - 25
I don't think it's at all surprising that four of the five are from the Black Album, and I venture to say that the only reason any of these songs are in the top five is because the poll only includes post-AJFA material. In fact, if there were a poll (at this site) encompassing Metallica's entire career, it wouldn't surprise me if not a single post-AJFA song was in the top ten.
Can't speak for anyone else, but I'd have at least 3-4 post AJFA songs in my top 10.
I think plenty of folks would as well. However, I think that, as Kev mentioned, in the aggregate, the 80s material would dominate.
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The Unforgiven and Sad But True
Severe lack of Through The Never. But that's about my extent of stuff I'm NOT burned out on from the The Black Album or stuff I actually dug from later albums (which wasn't much).