What are you listening to, right now................

phoenetia

Recommended viewing for all Metallica fans. This guy plays the intro to Blackened the way it was originally performed before reversing the video/audio. Very cool. Not many riffs sound awesome both in normal direction and backwards.

MajorRage

Since going to ACDC and being reminded how everything else really is shit compared to rock music, I've gone old school. And nothing is more old school than this.

red terror

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.

Nepia

As a non-bogan music wise I only really came across The Ace of Spades from the Tony Hawk PS1 game.

mariner4life

Recommended viewing for all Metallica fans. This guy plays the intro to Blackened the way it was originally performed before reversing the video/audio. 
Very cool. Not many riffs sound awesome both in normal direction and backwards.
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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). 
 
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). 
 
 
Ah Ace of Spades, brilliant. First heard by young Mariner on The Young Ones. Possibly the first real heavy metal song i ever heard.
 
 
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).

antipodean

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="mariner4life" data-cid="506069" data-time="1438911877">Lars may be a fucking dick of the highest order, and also a crap drummer now</blockquote> 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. <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">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).</blockquote> All of their covers are fantastic.

MajorRage

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
 
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.
 
It'd be great for their old albums to be remastered / remixed though. They still sound a little bit tinny when listening to them via any medium. Ride the Lightning with a modern mix on an absolute balls out drum/bass heavy stereo would be the shit.

MajorRage

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Tuesdays Gone is a regular on my playlist. Although hardly just Metallica, about 15 artists on that.

antipodean

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. I'll admit to liking St Anger the song, not the album. I also really like Death Magnetic.

Tim

mariner4life

Lars was right, Napster really hit them hard, that tour bus sucks!

Paekakboyz

at the risk of getting a bit pop-ish I'm digging this track atm.
 
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red terror

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.

Tim

Chris B.

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Ah Ace of Spades, brilliant. First heard by young Mariner on The Young Ones.
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I was about to say the same thing - at the railway station heading for University Challenge!

Tim

red terror

Time again to celebrate The King.
 
It's Elvis Week everywhere in the universe, sadly ending today, but <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.graceland.com/elvisweek/'>especially in Graceland</a>. 
 
Hard to believe the old boy would be 80 years old if he was alive today. (I think what I'm trying to say is The Big E is 80 years old right now.)
 
So a fantastic one-two combination... let's start at the beginning, the manger scene, "The King is Born in Tupelo," by Nick Cave from The First Born Is Dead. (Y'all know who the firstborn was, right?) . . .

. . . and finish up with Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy frontman, he "cried the night the King died") getting himself obliterated on the day Elvis (allegedly) Died, with a li'l help from Mark Knopfler.

red terror

Tim

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The Silver Fern

What are you listening to, right now................