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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #3990 on: January 07, 2017, 06:42:39 AM »
20 minutes of BAD on Side A, and 20 minutes of ASS on Side B.

Bad on side A, Ass on Side 2 ?

What a rubbish album!

Haha, I'm glad you noticed that, because I meant it to all add up to just plain BAD ASS!   :) 

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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #3991 on: January 07, 2017, 06:44:14 AM »
I know I'm going to sound like TAC here, 
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You do know you're older than me, right? (Class of '86)

 

There's been a number of albums that have been released this year around 40 minutes. Been loving the Seven Sisters CD. NWOBHM style a la Def Lep's debut.

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« Reply #3992 on: January 07, 2017, 06:46:15 AM »
He makes the class of '86 seem like it's recent. :lol
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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #3993 on: January 07, 2017, 09:01:57 AM »
20 minutes of BAD on Side A, and 20 minutes of ASS on Side B.

Bad on side A, Ass on Side 2 ?

What a rubbish album!

Haha, I'm glad you noticed that, because I meant it to all add up to just plain BAD ASS!   :)


I'm English :biggrin: I don't say badass. I say Spiffing :hat

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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #3994 on: January 07, 2017, 10:59:14 AM »
A couple of funny stats...

1. Metallica had FIVE out of the Ten best Selling Rock albums of 2016.

2. Ride The Lightning alone sold more than Dystopia by Megadeth :rollin


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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #3995 on: January 07, 2017, 11:01:54 AM »

2. Ride The Lightning alone sold more than Dystopia by Megadeth :rollin

In 2016? Or RTL's original run?
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« Reply #3996 on: January 07, 2017, 11:03:21 AM »
That's impressive. Have all of those other Metallica albums been re-released yet? Or was it due to renewed interest from Hardwired?
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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #3997 on: January 07, 2017, 11:04:05 AM »

2. Ride The Lightning alone sold more than Dystopia by Megadeth :rollin

In 2016? Or RTL's original run?

Just in 2016. Not sure if it was the RTL deluxe edition or both versions combined but still funny.

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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #3998 on: January 07, 2017, 11:04:38 AM »
That's impressive. Have all of those other Metallica albums been re-released yet? Or was it due to renewed interest from Hardwired?


Kill Em All and Ride The Lightning have had deluxe Box Sets.

Master was due out in November but they decided to put out Hardwired instead and leave MOP til this spring.


Also : Hardwired was only out on November 18th but has sold 1.5m copies worldwide already...

EDIT : finally : The Black album has *NEVER* sold less than 5,000 copies each and every week since it was released. Obviously some weeks are way more but it's never sold less then 5k a week.

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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #3999 on: January 07, 2017, 11:07:05 AM »
That's impressive. Have all of those other Metallica albums been re-released yet? Or was it due to renewed interest from Hardwired?


Kill Em All and Ride The Lightning have had deluxe Box Sets.

Master was due out in November but they decided to put out Hardwired instead and leave MOP til this spring.

Ok. I knew KEA and RTL were out, wasn't sure on any of the later albums. Now I can resume my false hope that AJFA will be re-released remixed. :biggrin:

TBA is a fucking beast for album sales. As far as I know, it's still the highest selling album in the soundscan era. It just keeps chugging along while other '90s albums fizzled out in sales.
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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #4000 on: January 07, 2017, 11:10:17 AM »
It's so random that METALLICA have the best selling album worldwide in the last 25 years.

I think it's well over 30 million in total now.

If it sells 5,000 a week minimum - that's 260,000 copies a year AT LEAST.

I've made £150 in total from all the music i've ever done :biggrin:

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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #4001 on: January 07, 2017, 03:18:01 PM »
Ok Here's a poll without starting a new thread.

Metallica Album Artwork

[  ] Kill Em All. Ride The Lightning. Master Of Puppets. And Justice For All. Metallica

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[  ]  Load. Reload. St Anger. Death Magnetic. Hardwired To Self Destruct.


I definitely prefer Load - HTSD album art. Load, St Anger and the new one are particularly striking. I'm not keen on cliched 80s "metal" artwork which is really cluttered and busy.


And Metallica is just Smell The Glove :biggrin:

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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #4002 on: January 07, 2017, 03:19:03 PM »
That's tough. I don't really like Metallica's artwork in general.

Black Album is cool, Load/Re-Load is cool. That's about it.
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« Reply #4003 on: January 07, 2017, 03:21:52 PM »
Given the title Death Magnetic - it could have been SO cheesy but the idea of a grave surrounded by magnetic fields in dirt is really clever.

St Anger really stands out on a shelf. As does the new one.

Compare the last 5 albums artwork to any Slayer album and they're horrid. Dark, miserable, busy, messy.

The artwork for Christ illusion is particularly bad. Just seems so thrown together.

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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #4004 on: January 07, 2017, 03:46:23 PM »

2. Ride The Lightning alone sold more than Dystopia by Megadeth :rollin

In 2016? Or RTL's original run?

Just in 2016. Not sure if it was the RTL deluxe edition or both versions combined but still funny.

A guy at work told me that Wal Mart is selling Metallica's back catalog for $5 each.
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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #4005 on: January 07, 2017, 04:08:38 PM »
He makes the class of '86 seem like it's recent. :lol
It's not?
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I'm sure you feel the same way, but it feels like yesterday.

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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #4006 on: January 07, 2017, 04:11:34 PM »
So anyway, easily, my favorite moment on Hardwired is the last 2 minutes of Halo On Fire. The "Darkness..say goodbye" part. It has such a Sabbath feel, very similar to The Straightener, which is tacked onto the end of Wheels Of Confusion.
Love it!
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« Reply #4007 on: January 07, 2017, 04:13:47 PM »
So anyway, easily, my favorite moment on Hardwired is the last 2 minutes of Halo On Fire. The "Darkness..say goodbye" part. It has such a Sabbath feel, very similar to The Straightener, which is tacked onto the end of Wheels Of Confusion.
Love it!

A really great moment of a really great song.
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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #4008 on: January 07, 2017, 04:19:29 PM »
Has a Fade To Black outro vibe as well.


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« Reply #4009 on: January 07, 2017, 04:27:04 PM »
I definitely prefer the first 5 album covers. They're iconic, colorful, and all around original. Plus the style and execution was outstanding - not sure if they were hand-painted, but they give the impression that they were.

The latter 5 album covers were ok - the Loads have the whole artistic statement thing going on which is cool, and they're definitely colorful and striking. I can't stand the St. Anger cover, too comic book-looking. DM had a cool concept, but poor execution - looked half-assed and too plain for me. I like HTSD, again cool concept but the white background is getting old.

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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #4010 on: January 07, 2017, 04:38:54 PM »
Ok Here's a poll without starting a new thread.

Metallica Album Artwork

[  ] Kill Em All. Ride The Lightning. Master Of Puppets. And Justice For All. Metallica

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[  ]  Load. Reload. St Anger. Death Magnetic. Hardwired To Self Destruct.


I definitely prefer Load - HTSD album art. Load, St Anger and the new one are particularly striking. I'm not keen on cliched 80s "metal" artwork which is really cluttered and busy.


And Metallica is just Smell The Glove :biggrin:

This is too hard.  Any group with Kill Em All deserves to lose, but so does any group with St. Anger.  But any group with Load and Reload deserves to win, but so does any group with AJFA and Ride The Lightning (that is a classic 80's metal cover in every way, shape and form).   I don't particularly care for Master or Hardwired.

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« Reply #4011 on: January 07, 2017, 06:35:06 PM »
I think the early group of album covers wins by a mile.

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« Reply #4012 on: January 07, 2017, 06:44:36 PM »
I think the early group of album covers wins by a mile.

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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #4013 on: January 07, 2017, 08:20:05 PM »
I prefer album covers without cum

I think the early group of album covers wins by a mile.

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« Reply #4014 on: January 07, 2017, 08:59:22 PM »
Master of Puppets and Death Magnetic have amazing covers.
I find all the other ones pretty meh, especially Load and Reload.

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« Reply #4015 on: January 07, 2017, 09:40:08 PM »
Metallica's post-Black Album covers are very unappealing. They're either bland (Death Magnetic) or just plain ugly (Load/Reload, Hardwired). Ironically, the coolest cover is St. Anger. I like the simple cartoony look.
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« Reply #4016 on: January 07, 2017, 10:37:52 PM »
Definitely the first 5 covers.  Ride is my favorite.   I also like the colored blending of the faces on HW. 
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« Reply #4017 on: January 08, 2017, 04:02:53 AM »
Agree on the first five covers, Ride to Justice was an amazing trio.
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« Reply #4018 on: January 08, 2017, 04:17:32 AM »
Not sure why people say Load is an ugly cover. I guess it is if you know *what* it is...

But I find it rather striking. It looks like liquid fire..

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« Reply #4019 on: January 08, 2017, 04:18:16 AM »
Ironically, yes, St. Anger has the coolest album cover since the golden days, but all of the later covers are significantly less appealing to me than Ride, Master or Justice.

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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #4020 on: January 08, 2017, 04:23:37 AM »
I'd say Kill Em All is the worst one. Pretty juvenile. But then they were about 19 when that came out.

At least they didn't go with Metal Up Your Ass ( an album title some fans still un-ironically suggest for each successive new album...)

" Guys ! You're on your own record label now ! Nobody can tell you what to do ! It's finally time for Metal Up Your Ass!!!  :metal :metal :metal "



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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #4021 on: January 08, 2017, 04:25:06 AM »
I'm glad their album covers do not reflect their music, cause I think almost all of them look terrible :lol Justice and Master are awesome though.
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Re: The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded
« Reply #4022 on: January 08, 2017, 04:26:18 AM »
Can you imagine how much they'd get ripped to shreds if the new album from metallica in 2016 was called

Metal in your bum.

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My God. It would be worse than Lulu & St. Anger combined ( in the eyes of detractors )







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« Reply #4023 on: January 08, 2017, 04:47:56 AM »
But I find it rather striking. It looks like liquid fire..
Liquid Fire ?


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« Reply #4024 on: January 08, 2017, 07:23:02 AM »
Can you imagine how much they'd get ripped to shreds if the new album from metallica in 2016 was called

Metal in your bum.

:rollin

My God. It would be worse than Lulu & St. Anger combined ( in the eyes of detractors )

That's because nobody over the age of 5 has ever said "in your bum".
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