Metallica the League - Week 12-C

[Destiny Of Chaos]

Week 12-C

Please vote for the song that you'd like to see win each match.

1.   That Was Just Your Life vs. Dream No More
2.   2 X 4 vs. The Memory Remains
3.   The God That Failed vs. (Anesthesia) – Pulling Teeth
4.   Until It Sleeps vs. Confusion
5.   The End of the Line vs. Suicide & Redemption
6.   Here Comes Revenge vs. Poor Twisted Me 
7.   Cyanide vs. The Unnamed Feeling
8.   King Nothing vs. My World
9.   Harvester of Sorrow vs. Purify
10.   Battery vs. Attitude
11.   The Frayed Ends of Sanity vs. Ronnie
12.   Carpe Diem Baby vs. Where the Wild Things Are
13.   Eye of the Beholder vs. The Struggle Within 
14.   No Leaf Clover vs. The Judas Kiss
15.   Nothing Else Matters vs. I Disappear
16.   The Unforgiven II vs. The Day That Never Comes
17.   Fight Fire With Fire vs. Spit Out the Bone
18.   The Call of Ktulu vs. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

48 hours to vote.

[MirrorMask]

Your Life
Memory
God
Until it Sleeps
Line
Revenge
Cyanide
King
Harvester
Battery
Sanity
Carpe Diem
Beholder
Clover
Matters
UnforTwo
Fire
Sanitarium

[Fritzinger]

The Call of Ktulu is losing?? I thing it's one of Metallica's best songs, especially the S&M version.

[MirrorMask]

The Call of Ktulu is losing?? I thing it's one of Metallica's best songs, especially the S&M version.

Well, it's losing against Sanitarium, not against a St. Anger song 

I know on a prog forum being an instrumental is not a disadvantage at all, but Sanitarium has vocals and memorable lyrics and melodies, it's not so unthinkable it would win over a long instrumental, no matter how good (I'm a big fan of Ktulu)

[Adami]

The Call of Ktulu is losing?? I thing it's one of Metallica's best songs, especially the S&M version.

I voted for it, but when I vote for songs in this survivor, I am only considering the album version. So while I agree the S&M version is amazing, the album version is less great (though still great) and I will vote accordingly. This mostly impacts songs like Hero of the Day, which is okay on the album, but incredible on S&M. But I'll vote for the album version because that's how I see this survivor.

[pg1067]

The Call of Ktulu is losing?? I thing it's one of Metallica's best songs, especially the S&M version.

Well, it's losing against Sanitarium, not against a St. Anger song 

I know on a prog forum being an instrumental is not a disadvantage at all, but Sanitarium has vocals and memorable lyrics and melodies, it's not so unthinkable it would win over a long instrumental, no matter how good (I'm a big fan of Ktulu)

I voted for Ktulu, but I expected (and still expect) that Sanitarium will win, in part because it has lyrics and Ktulu doesn't.  I disagree that instrumentals are not at a disadvantage just because this is "a prog forum."  I've seen plenty of folks (mostly in the recent DT league) write that they favor songs with lyrics over instrumentals.  All other things being equal, I'll vote for a song with lyrics over an instrumental.  However, in this case, I like Ktulu more than I like Sanitarium.

[Fritzinger]

The Call of Ktulu is losing?? I thing it's one of Metallica's best songs, especially the S&M version.

Well, it's losing against Sanitarium, not against a St. Anger song 

I know on a prog forum being an instrumental is not a disadvantage at all, but Sanitarium has vocals and memorable lyrics and melodies, it's not so unthinkable it would win over a long instrumental, no matter how good (I'm a big fan of Ktulu)

I voted for Ktulu, but I expected (and still expect) that Sanitarium will win, in part because it has lyrics and Ktulu doesn't.  I disagree that instrumentals are not at a disadvantage just because this is "a prog forum."  I've seen plenty of folks (mostly in the recent DT league) write that they favor songs with lyrics over instrumentals.  All other things being equal, I'll vote for a song with lyrics over an instrumental.  However, in this case, I like Ktulu more than I like Sanitarium.

I think that may be because many instrumentals feel like a regular song, but with the vocals erased (an instrumental mix). One example for that is Enigma Machine, imo.
Still, there are others of course, that work perfectly without the vocals, because there would be no room for vocals. Like Stream Of Consciousness or The Dance Of Eternity.
I think it's pretty difficult to compose a good instrumental when you are known as a band that usually has vocals in their songs.