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<p>RIP Don Joyce from Negativland</p>
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The are two artists I absolutely love. Both have had self destructive periods that have made them more myth than anything else, supreme RnB talents that we're going to save us from N'Sync and Christina Aguilera . One recently seems to have come out of his haze. D'angelo has finally released new music. It's different but its original and for the most part I like it. He's too late to change the world but it sounds good on my way to work in the morning. The other played a live version on Nina Simone's Feeling Good on The Tonight Show this week. Lauren Hill. She should have been so many things but drugs, depression and craziness ruined her career. Here she was though. Clear eyed, looking pretty again(not that is an indication of talent of course) and most importantly sounding amazing again. She's been sporadic with her good performances. I've heard of people walking out because she was so incoherent. But if you can dig up the video he looks and sounds so good. I hope she stays that way.
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<p>That song really is totemic, arguably _the_defining metal song of the era. I have a lovely memory from the mid-80s of me and my mates on a cold winter Friday night impulsively making a decision to get our asses down to Maple Leaf Gardens (a legendary hockey arena in Toronto) to see Motorhead support Alice Cooper. We made a two-hour drive and were impatiently standing in line at the ticket-window when the show started. We were doing a frenzied St. Vitus dance panicking for the slacker ticket lady to hurrythefuckupalready, then heard them start playing "Ace of Spades" on the other side of the wall. We were crestfallen, looked at each other, put our money back in our pockets, went to a reggae bar instead and got hammered. If we couldn't see Motorhead play that song, then what was the point? Made a decision to drive three hours the other direction to a different hockey arena in a different city to see the same show the following night. I was shocked there was hardly any love. 95% of the crowd was there for Cooper and sat on their hands, but the old bikers and grizzled bastards stood on their feet banging their heads and hollering for all of it. I've seen them at least a half-dozen times, and I just stand in amazement watching Lemmy gargle razor-blades into that erect microphone and strum his bass like he's playing a ukulele.</p>
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Recommended viewing for all Metallica fans. This guy plays the intro to Blackened the way it was originally performed before reversing the video/audio.<br>
Very cool. Not many riffs sound awesome both in normal direction and backwards.</p>
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<p>fucking cool. 80s Metallica is the coolest shit ever. Lars may be a fucking dick of the highest order, and also a crap drummer now, but jesus in teh 80s he killed, the drum tracks on Justice are fucking unreal, and it didn't take him long to stop playing half the fills live (like, by the 90s they were gone). </p>
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<p>Kirk's solos kill as well. Watching him play them while running across a stage on some live video i had was unreal. Seriously, Justice is a decent producer away from being utterly flawless heavy metal, but Lars and James fucked it up (at least they can admit it though). </p>
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<p>Ah Ace of Spades, brilliant. First heard by young Mariner on The Young Ones. Possibly the first real heavy metal song i ever heard.</p>
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<p>To combine those two posts, Metallica are a really good cover band. Their "Motorheadache" they did is really good, to go along with their other excellent covers (Am I Evil is in my top 5 Metallica songs of all time). </p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="mariner4life" data-cid="506069" data-time="1438911877"><p>Lars may be a fucking dick of the highest order, and also a crap drummer now</p></blockquote> <br>Now? Technically he's better than he ever was. He couldn't drum for shit in the early days. [edit] Actually that's grossly unkind. He could drum very well, but he had clear shortcomings which are readily apparent on RTL and even Master of Puppets.<br> <br><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"><p>To combine those two posts, Metallica are a really good cover band. Their "Motorheadache" they did is really good, to go along with their other excellent covers (Am I Evil is in my top 5 Metallica songs of all time).</p></blockquote> <br>All of their covers are fantastic.
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<p>Metallica is a super odd band. Early albums really are brilliant, but then as soon as they cracked it mainstream, things started to go downhill. Although I did like the black album, load and reload had some great trucks surrounded by dullness and then st anger was downright awful. I think they took a look at themselves after that, as Death Magnetic was awesome - I'd argue that was really the true follow up to and justice</p>
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<p>They've got a lot of live concerts on youtube, which I'll often have in the background when I'm at work, and they are one tight tight band - maybe a little too tight.</p>
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<p>Tuesdays Gone is a regular on my playlist. Although hardly just Metallica, about 15 artists on that.</p> -
If they were to remix them, it would be nice to have Lars break a leg and request Mike Portnoy to fill in... Master of Puppets and RTL would be pantheon albums with decent production.<br><br>I'll admit to liking St Anger the song, not the album. I also really like Death Magnetic.
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<p>Lars was right, Napster really hit them hard, that tour bus sucks!</p>
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<p>at the risk of getting a bit pop-ish I'm digging this track atm.</p>
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<p>Pop music can be good, but unless the singer is a grown man wearing black leather chaps, I'd be surprised that it's any good.</p>
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