The Metallica Thread v. Reloaded

[Kotowboy]

He said in an interview recently that he's been doing extra training and working on it a lot more.

If you listen to the Kill Em All DeeHan set - he does some crazy vocal stuff at that gig. Including the highest note he's probably ever sung.

He's probably the only one of the Big Four who can still actually sing.

[black_biff_stadler]

He's probably the only one of the Big Four who could ever actually sing.

[Onno]

Any setlist you guys would like to see if you were to go and see them live on one of these Pick-A-Setlist shows? Mine would be something like this, in no particular order:

Jump in the Fire
Phantom Lord (incl. slower bit in the middle)
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Creeping Death
Damage, Inc.
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) or Disposable Heroes
Blackened (incl. slower part guitar solo)
...And Justice For All
Frayed Ends of Sanity
Shortest Straw
The Struggle Within
My Friend of Misery
2x4
The House Jack Built
Where The Wild Things Are
Unforgiven II
Purify
Astronomy
That Was Just Your Life

For me it's a mix of songs I really like from the albums which have never been played live before (or which haven't been played that much and would be really great to see) and some classics.

[Jaffa]

I suck at designing actual setlists, so this is really just a list of Metallica songs I would love to hear live:

Jump in the Fire
Ride the Lightning
Fade to Black
The Thing that Should Not Be
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
The Frayed Ends of Sanity
Of Wolf and Man
King Nothing
Hero of the Day
The Unforgiven II
Dirty Window
All Nightmare Long

That's at least one from every album, and two each from my favorite albums (RTL, MOP, and Load).  I've never had the chance to see any of these performed live, and if I got to see them all in one setlist, it would probably be my favorite concert ever.  Plus, I think there's still room for a few live staples, so throw in Master of Puppets, One, and Creeping Death. 

[Onno]

I don't get what people like about Dirty Window. I think it's one of the weakest songs on St. Anger.

[Jaffa]

I didn't know that people liked Dirty Window.  Kinda thought I was the oddball on that one.   

[ZKX-2099]

I don't get what people like about Dirty Window. I think it's one of the weakest songs on St. Anger.

It's a great high energy song, bro.

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[ariich]

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. 

Oh definitely, that's why I don't think it's a very good idea.

[Kotowboy]

For whatever reason - Dirty Wndow is the only song on SA which is in Db. All the other songs bar Invisible Kid and Un-named feeling are in C.

[BlobVanDam]

Dirty Window is one of the few good songs on St Anger, along with the title track and Shoot Me Again. The rest is poop.

[black_biff_stadler]

St. Manure

[BlobVanDam]

St. Manure

Round your neck?

[black_biff_stadler]

Yep. Couldn't flush it out.

[BlobVanDam]

I'd make another lyrical pun, but that just about covers all 3 lines of lyrics in the entire song.

[Kotowboy]

That's why Kirk and Lars shouldn't write lyrics.

[sneakyblueberry]

Dirty Window was one of the only standouts on SA for me.

AND NOW I SLAM MY GAVEL DOWN is a pretty awesome line, dat delivery.  I'm glad they learnt what the actual name for a 'judgement hammer' was.  Took them 20 odd years but hey.

[BlobVanDam]

Dirty Window was one of the only standouts on SA for me.

AND NOW I SLAM MY GAVEL DOWN is a pretty awesome line, dat delivery.  I'm glad they learnt what the actual name for a 'judgement hammer' was.  Took them 20 odd years but hey.

I think that instance was trying to use a more lyrical phrasing.
I love the delivery on that line too, the way it slows down gradually, then kicks back in to full tempo.

[jammindude]

To tell you the truth, I think Frantic and the title track are among the weakest from SA.   

Dirty Window
Some Kind of Monster
Sweet Amber
It's My World
Shoot Me Again

Those are just off the top of my head.   I'd be happy to hear any one of these songs in regular rotation.

[Dream Team]

For me, AWMH is easily the best on that album.

[Jaq]

To tell you the truth, I think Frantic and the title track are among the weakest from SA.   

Dirty Window
Some Kind of Monster
Sweet Amber
It's My World
Shoot Me Again

Those are just off the top of my head.   I'd be happy to hear any one of these songs in regular rotation.

The day St. Anger came out, my local radio station played Shoot Me Again, and after it, the DJ came on and did something I had never heard a DJ do before or since. He said more or less, look, this album is awful, but we have to play it. Somehow he kept his job. 

[jammindude]

I've had It's My World stuck in my head for two days now. Love that song.

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

I listened to Frantic for the first time a few days ago.

I enjoyed it, but probably mostly for the LOL factor.













MY LIFESTYLE
DETERMINES MY DEATHSTYLE

[sneakyblueberry]

To tell you the truth, I think Frantic and the title track are among the weakest from SA.   

Dirty Window
Some Kind of Monster
Sweet Amber
It's My World
Shoot Me Again

Those are just off the top of my head.   I'd be happy to hear any one of these songs in regular rotation.

The day St. Anger came out, my local radio station played Shoot Me Again, and after it, the DJ came on and did something I had never heard a DJ do before or since. He said more or less, look, this album is awful, but we have to play it. Somehow he kept his job. 

thats awesome.  I always wondered why DJ's don't show any opinion on the music they have to play.  If I was one I couldn't help but say, 'Well... that was shit' at the end of like a Katy Perry song or something.

[TL]

St Anger has always struck me as an album that could have actually been pretty good with a few tweaks here and there. There are some good ideas present. It just could have benefited from a bit of reworking.

[Onno]

Oh yeah, definitely. There's some really good stuff on that album.

[ZKX-2099]

I've always loved that lengthy riff bridge in Purify.

[Onno]

Agreed. Purify is one of my favourite songs on the album. The lyrics are not really amazing and the verses are not that good but the rest of the song is just amazing.

[Ruba]

St. Anger could be really good album. There is something good on every track. But the songs are poorly written, often too lengthy and the production sucks.

Doesn't the tempo on Dirty Window suddenly accelerate when the drums kick in? Sounds stupid.

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?

Load is a great album, and if I were to see them live, I'd probably go nuts if they played any of its songs, even Poor Twisted Me.

[Ruba]

Any setlist you guys would like to see if you were to go and see them live on one of these Pick-A-Setlist shows?

Also as a bunch of songs, not as a setlist:

Phantom Lord
The Call of Ktulu
Battery
Master of Puppets
The Thing That Should Not Be
Orion
Blackened
...And Justice for All
To Live Is to Die
Dyer's Eve
The Unforgiven
Of Wolf and Man
Until It Sleeps
Bleeding Me
Cure
Thorn Within
The Outlaw Torn
Devil's Dance
Where the Wild Things Are
Prince Charming
Low Man's Lyric
Turn the Page
Astronomy
The Small Hours
The Prince
Sweet Amber
The Unnamed Feeling

It's been long since I've heard Death Magnetic, so I'm leaving it out. Also, if I had to choose just seventeen songs, I'd leave out everything pre-Load (save TTTSNB and Orion), because the five first albums dominate the polls.

So far I haven't get what is so great about The Unforgiven II or FiXXXer (I always use capital X's, because it resembles how the title is written on ReLoad booklet), since they are often mentioned when people make lists about their favourite Load/ReLoad-songs. To me they are good songs, but The Unforgiven II is not as good as The Unforgiven or FiXXXer as The Outlaw Torn.

[Kotowboy]

BREAKING NEWS !!

Metallica care more about a fucking VEST than a new album



This band is pure comedy.

[ZKX-2099]

[black_biff_stadler]

this piece of heavy metal history

[Kotowboy]

this piece of heavy metal history

  Metallica make a movie which is basically them playing live with an extremely slap-dash "narrative" with a mcguffin stolen from Pulp Fiction and suddenly they're high brow historical film makers.

They probably see the extremely low box-office as a good thing. A hugely successful blockbuster movie is too mainstream or something !

They only want hipster movie buffs to see it

[Anguyen92]

Hmmm, that whole "they only made three million on the boxoffice for the movie" made me relook at the wiki page.  When I saw that number, $21 million, I'm like wtf?



That wiki page led me to this page, which I don't know if this source is credible enough.

https://www.boxoffice.com/statistics/movies/metallica-through-the-never-2013?q=through

I really doubt that they made a profit on the boxoffice.  I do believe that they would make their money back on the DVD due to the extras and all of that good stuff or is that included in the boxoffice as well?

[Kotowboy]

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=metallica2013.htm

I use this site.