Metallica

[brettdale]

I know among Heavy metal fans they are popular, but how come people who don't like Metal, love them. I have a mate who doesn't like the genre, but he has their CD's, he swears by this band, and they seem to have been around for decades, at the school I went to kids loved them, they couldn't believe me, I would rather listen to Billy Joel, than rock out top them.

I didn't think much about the band during high school, but in the early 90's, James Hetfield said to a reporter "WHATS A GARTH BROOKS?" in response to the reporting saying Metallica had been knocked out of the number one album spot on the Billboard top 200 by Garth Brooks.

That quote was used by Garth for the next couple of years, in interviews on tv, also on the print and radio media, and well the rest is history, so in some little way, Metallica has to take credit for the success of Garth.

That is my limit of knowledge of Metallica, so my question still remains, why are they popular?

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[kevinmc]

1. Commies don't like Metallica 8-)

I was thinkng during the DNC they should have played "Enter Sandman" to get he crowd rowdied up.

[gi4obama]

2. Metalica blow

I lost all respect for them when they bitched and moaned about Napster. Nowadays instead of "WHATS A GARTH BROOKS" people can say "WHATS A METALLICA"!

[semillama]

3. When did your mate start liking them?

What album turned him on to the band? If it's Load or later, than it's completely understandable why he likes them but is not a metal fan, as that's when they stopped being an actual metal band and became a hard rock band and a total parody of what they could have been.

Not that I am bitter.

[brettdale]

4. Its later

He didnt like their early stuff.

[semillama]

5. that totally explains it. n/t

[Iggo]

6. Garth who...? nt

[Stump]

7. If you have XM...

Channel 51 is nothing but Metallica right now, they rock!!!

[Kire]

9. Sirius had Abba and Neil Diamond channels not too long ago.

The Who channel was good for a while, but it got old.

The Grateful Dead Channel was good for a couple of hours just to know what a lot of my friends are talking about.

The Rolling Stones was okay for a few songs.

I was very excited about the Bruce Springsteen channel when I first got it, but it went away and now it's back and I don't find myself listening to it much anymore.

R.E.M., Weezer and Coldplay were pretty good, especially R.E.M. and Weezer, and they didn't wear out because they were only on for on week to promote the release of one of their albums...

But a Metallica Channel? Holy freaking moly! That is just fantastic. I hope it lasts until the merger. That will definitely be one of my choices of the "Best of" channels they say we're eventually going to get. How much of it is old stuff and how much of it is new stuff, post Black Album?

I've been switching channels a lot lately. I'm not finding one thing I want to listen to a whole lot.

Oh well, there are worse things we could be worried about.

[Kire]

8. I had a Sony Walkman with a cassette tape of ...And Justice for All on all summer 1989

I listened to it as we hiked the trails at Philmont Scout Ranch, in Cimarron, NM.

I made sure everyone knew my favorite band was Metallica, that Cliff Burton was my hero and that I got my Metallica shirt in the yearbook a couple of times. Every time I got a new album, I would make sure everyone knew about it.

It just did something for me when I was 14. It served a purpose. Definitely had something to do with my psychology.

I think the lyrics to "Dyer's Eve" may give a clue:

Dear Mother
Dear Father
What Is this Hell You Have Put Me Through
Believer
Deceiver
Day in Day out Live My Life Through You
Pushed onto Me What's Wrong or Right
Hidden from this Thing That They Call Life
Dear Mother
Dear Father
Every Thought I'd Think You'd Disapprove
Curator
Dictator
Always Cencoring My Every Move
Children Are Seen Bur Are Not Heard
Tear out Everything Inspired



I think popular music like that, and popular movies, at least the stuff I was attracted to, reflected the times and addressed the anxiety that everyone knew was in the air.

In the 80's, when I was pretty young, it was Breakfast Club and Lucas. In 1989-90, it was Metallica. Later, it was Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails (and Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls to some extent).

I was later diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, and I have been struggling for 10 years with different therapists and 12 step groups until the day the Dark Knight movie came out, when I walked out on someone who I was letting control me, and soon I found out something about my Grandfather who died long before I was born and I was able to forgive him for a resentment that was so buried I din't even know it was there, and things are just falling into line. Several times this week I have told people that it's like someone lifted the cover off of the light at the end of the tunnel. It's a long way off, but at least I know it's there, and I'm not afraid to try my best to get there, one day at a time, one problem to solve at a time. I made amends for at least two major incidents that have been haunting me from those days, and things are looking up.

A co-worker at the convenience store I work part time at, asked me what my favorite band was recently, and I had to think about it. I have been deep into other things. I told her what I liked when I was her age and that was where I left it.

I wrote an inspirational story on my myspace page about the Weezer song "Perfect Situation" and what it meant to me when I heard it in April 2007.

Please read it. I also have a ton of photos of my Dad and his story, and a lot of family pictures that I have been worrying about where I was going to put them for a long time. Now I just want to share my story with the world. I am only as sick as my secrets.

This may not be what you're expecting, or it may not mean much to you, but I am going to copy this into a blog on my MySpace blog and leave it there.

http://profile.myspace.com/371915224

These thoughts have been literally going on in my head for two days now. Your question was such a good question. I hope that this reply means something to someone else who may have been, or still is, where I have been.

Thank you very much for this opportunity.

Warm Regards,
Kire

[YOY]

10. Metallica hasn't released a good album for years

The Black album was about it...Ride the Lighting, Kill 'em All, and Master of Puppets...since then....comercial tripe.

Today it's Dethklok...because the Tokis Wartooths saids sos.

[Iggo]

11. You forgot "Box Of Bees."

Oops, I mean "...And Justice For All."

I thought that album had some killer leads. Too bad they forgot to tell the bass player they were recording that day...lol.

In the words of the immortal Toki Wartooth: "Stops copies me!"

[semillama]

12. Oh, they did record Newsted

They just buried him in the mix, as part of the stupid crap they put him through.

And they refuse to consider remastering that album. If they would do that so the bass tones don't make it sound like elephants farting when you turn up the stereo, that would be their best album ever - it's really tight, the song writing is excellent and the riffs are killer.

BTW - you can go to metallica.com and listen to 6 of their new tunes. I have to admit it is a step in the right direction - they're actually playing thrash metal again. Weirdly, it sounds more like classic Anthrax to me than it does classic Metallica, though.

[YOY]

13. Justice was great...but for the horrible sound quality of the tape

THAT is why I left it out.

I thought they would clean it up for the CD but nooooooooo...

Gotta love Metalocalypse: "RELEASE THE KITTIES!!!!"

Toki still is my favorite...maybe because he's so sweet save for the Rikki Kixx eppisode recently...brutally stomping that assclown...something ALL of us have wanted to do at a concert at one point in time or another.

On a cool note: Rikki Kixx is voiced by my favorite from back in the day: Mike Patton (Faith No More, Peeping Tom, Mr. Bungle, etc...)

[YOY]

14. As for why they are popular: because they actually play them on regular American radio.

Seldom do you hear Iron Maiden...and Maiden still kick ass.