The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded

[bl5150]

I would've picked something like Disposable Heroes - deep cuts off the classics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsBPln1a2dk

This is an awesome version of that song.    Enjoy !

Cool - thanks.   Not sure if there's enough bass in there 

[black_biff_stadler]

Here's a random set I'd like;

Blackened
Frayed Ends of Sanity
Master of Puppets
Whiplash
Thorn Within
The Struggle Within
Invisible Kid (yeah, that's right)
The Thing That Should Not Be
The Shortest Straw
Ain't My Bitch
Astronomy
Creeping Death
Sanitarium
Unforgiven II
Bleeding Me
The Call of Ktulu
Damage Inc.

Fight Fire With Fire
One
Fade to Black
Battery

I'm in 

[Onno]

https://www.metallicabyrequest.com/results.php?s=61

Very predictable. Frayed Ends WAS #10 but now it's slipping down rapidly and surprise surprise - Sad and Sandman are both there.

sigh...


Take Frayed Ends out of that poll and you have a very ordinary Metallica setlist. Well done everyone.

You have the opportunity to hear ANY Metallica song you want and you vote for the ones they play most frequently.

Disgusting. Not enough rarities in there. I'd actually want a song or two from St. Anger in there.

I never got the hype for Sad But True.

It's good on the album but it's never good live.

Indeed. I love it on the album but it just lacks a punch live.

Here's a random set I'd like;

Blackened
Frayed Ends of Sanity
Master of Puppets
Whiplash
Thorn Within
The Struggle Within
Invisible Kid (yeah, that's right)
The Thing That Should Not Be
The Shortest Straw
Ain't My Bitch
Astronomy
Creeping Death
Sanitarium
Unforgiven II
Bleeding Me
The Call of Ktulu
Damage Inc.

Fight Fire With Fire
One
Fade to Black
Battery

 

[wolfking]

Looking back at that set I wrote, I like it.  It has a couple of the classics in there but lots of rare songs and songs that you wouldn't think of.  Seems to flow okay too.  Even throwing the odd Thorn Within and Invisible Kid would work well mixed in the set.

[Cyclopssss]

Finally watched Some Kind of Monster in it's entirety. Wow, that's a long haul....but somehow I manage to regain some respect for the guys for sticking to their guns. Found myself rooting for them in the end....sappy me.

[Kotowboy]

I like how it kinda lightens up for the final act. Although i'd have preferred their original idea which was to make a film about making an album.

Although they kinda did that with Mission Metallica.

However - my one niggle is that - at no point did anyone explain exactly "why" St Anger sounds so uncompromising.

It was supposed to sound like a band making their first album - but in this day and age - anyone can afford decent production.




Some of the extra footage on the DVD is better than the actual film . Like the Ja Rule scene. Just a load of absolutely talent-free

spongers sitting around gambling while their vocalist just shouts some shit into a microphone. classic comedy.

[ariich]

https://www.metallicabyrequest.com/results.php?s=61

Very predictable. Frayed Ends WAS #10 but now it's slipping down rapidly and surprise surprise - Sad and Sandman are both there.

sigh...


Take Frayed Ends out of that poll and you have a very ordinary Metallica setlist. Well done everyone.

You have the opportunity to hear ANY Metallica song you want and you vote for the ones they play most frequently.

Well yeah, that's the whole problem with this "by request" thing. You just get a generic setlist of all the popular stuff that they play all the time anyway.

[Mladen]

I would've picked something like Disposable Heroes - deep cuts off the classics.

Brilliant choice.

I thought this voting thing would be the opportunity for some hard core fans to pick some slightly more obscure songs yet fan favorites, but no, same old stuff. Quite disappointing.

[Zydar]

Pics and setlist from their Antarctica gig yesterday:

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/metallica_perform_in_antarctica_official_photos_and_setlist_available.html

Can't believe they didn't play Trapped Under Ice.

[Zook]

lol Antarctica? Wow.

[JayOctavarium]

lol Antarctica? Wow.

Penguins are Metallica fans too!

[Jaffa]

I can't believe they actually did it.   

[Phoenix87x]

Officially in Dethklok territory. I hope they play on the top of a volcano next.

[Jaffa]

On the top of?

Try in.

[Kotowboy]

Metallica doing a tour inside active volcanoes in 2016.

The Fight Fire With Fire Tour.

[Dark Castle]

No
Jump In the Fire Tour.

[Kotowboy]

  Gimme Fuel

Gimme FIRE !!!


WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING INA VOLCANO LARS ?!

[Jaq]

No
Jump In the Fire Tour.

Set list, of course, doesn't include Jump In The Fire.

Actually, this would be a dreadful idea. They've been obsessed with stage sets falling apart and (since Hetfield's mishap with the pyro) things being on fire in the show since the late 80s. They'd cause the volcanoes they were playing in to erupt and bury the audience in six foot of ash.

[Jaffa]

Sounds pretty damn metal to me.   

[Cyclopssss]

Btw, judging from those pics, Hammet's getting grey....although it suits him, somehow...

[Kotowboy]

i'm pretty sure Hetfield is totally white now under the hair dye .

[bosk1]

Full set:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7USiW1LQCU

Guitars kept going a bit out of tune, but I guess when it's that cold, there's not much you can do about stuff like that.  Overall, pretty cool performance.

[LCArenas]

FUCK YES METALLICA IS COMING DOWN TO BOGOTA

I also found this James' quote about Load:

I'm still happy with 'Load' but I've stopped listening to it. It came to a point after recording it that I just couldn't stop listening to it because it was so powerful, but after a year or so of it was like "Well, that's enough!". I wish that I could play more songs of it, like "Bleeding Me". We like that song, we like to play it and it's pretty intense but back when we did the fan reaction was kind of "Bluuuuuh" so we stopped playing it. People could start asking us "Why don't you play 'Bleeding Me' anymore?" and we could answer it's their fault".

What do you think?

[Cable]

https://www.metallicabyrequest.com/results.php?s=61

Very predictable. Frayed Ends WAS #10 but now it's slipping down rapidly and surprise surprise - Sad and Sandman are both there.

sigh...


Take Frayed Ends out of that poll and you have a very ordinary Metallica setlist. Well done everyone.

You have the opportunity to hear ANY Metallica song you want and you vote for the ones they play most frequently.

After the song shuffled on today (with the crazy bass cover/boost from GH), it really is a shame this has NEVER been played live. Wouldn't the intro chants be killer live? I didn't think the song was *that* hard, but then again, I'm not a drummer and it probably is for Lars.

[LCArenas]

Wouldn't the intro chants be killer live?

They are. They play the intro in most of their shows to get the people sing along. Then they play something else, usually the cover song of the concert.


On the other hand Here's the Buenos Aires poll

mitebcool

[Jaffa]

Woah.   

[Onno]

Check the other polls. The Buenos Aires one will probably also turn into a greatest hit show like others, given time. It's just ridiculous.

[Cable]

Wouldn't the intro chants be killer live?

They are. They play the intro in most of their shows to get the people sing along. Then they play something else, usually the cover song of the concert.

Ahh. That's a nice little, lame twist; the song we never played to get excitement, then into a cover when we have 9 albums of original content! 

[Jaffa]

Check the other polls. The Buenos Aires one will probably also turn into a greatest hit show like others, given time. It's just ridiculous.

I know I'm the odd one out here, but I'm afraid I honestly don't see what's so ridiculous about it.  Having seen a number of the live hits myself, I felt they were excellent choices for the live atmosphere, and I don't blame people for wanting to hear them. 

Here's the way I think about it: if you're going to your first Metallica concert and you desperately want to hear the hits, should you vote for more obscure choices just to be cool, or should you vote for what you actually want to hear?

[Anguyen92]

Check the other polls. The Buenos Aires one will probably also turn into a greatest hit show like others, given time. It's just ridiculous.

I know I'm the odd one out here, but I'm afraid I honestly don't see what's so ridiculous about it.  Having seen a number of the live hits myself, I felt they were excellent choices for the live atmosphere, and I don't blame people for wanting to hear them. 

Here's the way I think about it: if you're going to your first Metallica concert and you desperately want to hear the hits, should you vote for more obscure choices just to be cool, or should you vote for what you actually want to hear?

I see your point there.  Then again, to some that haven't seen a Metallica show, but have seen a lot of live footage and proshots of them playing the greatest hits songs, I can understand it if people want to see them play something a little more obscure which may make their 1st experience more special.

[ariich]

Check the other polls. The Buenos Aires one will probably also turn into a greatest hit show like others, given time. It's just ridiculous.

I know I'm the odd one out here, but I'm afraid I honestly don't see what's so ridiculous about it.  Having seen a number of the live hits myself, I felt they were excellent choices for the live atmosphere, and I don't blame people for wanting to hear them. 

Here's the way I think about it: if you're going to your first Metallica concert and you desperately want to hear the hits, should you vote for more obscure choices just to be cool, or should you vote for what you actually want to hear?

If I'm going to see ANY band live, whether it's for the first time or the tenth time, I want to hear a mix of songs from across their catalogue. That Knebworth list only includes one song post-Black Album, which is a cover song. That's incredibly narrow and boring.

[Jaffa]

Well, just to clarify, I'm not trying to say that you guys are wrong for wanting to hear more variety.  I just think it's kind of natural that the results of a poll like this are going to lean toward the already established live favorites. 

[Kotowboy]

For me - i've heard so many Metallica live recordings from their website that If i saw them for the first time - i'd want mostly rare stuff. That would make it that more special that you got to hear those never-played songs and not Sad, Seek, Sand AGAIN.

[black_biff_stadler]

Seek and Destroy would be a good song if it was by AC/DC but, for Metallica, it's bland even when compared to the rest of KEA. I can sincerely say that everything other than Hit the Lights and Metal Militia is better than it. Some days I even like MM better too.

[PixelDream]

Just watched a few moments from the Antarctica gig. James Hetfield still got it! I expected much less, considering the age. Still a powerful voice, still quite a lot of range! And 'Fade To Black', he still has good pitch control as well!