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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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All of their covers are fantastic.
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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

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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.

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JC

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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.
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Many years ago in London Lemmy and I were locals in the same pub. Lovely bloke. A bit smelly. Always bought his round though.

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Many years ago in London Lemmy and I were locals in the same pub. Lovely bloke. A bit smelly. Always bought his round though.
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Oh man, I probably would have been catatonic, like the time Robert Plant met Elvis. Did you see the documentary about Lemmy from a couple years ago where he now spends his days at a Los Angeles tavern playing interactive trivia games with strangers in other taverns across America? (I loved how they'd show the day's leaderboard, and the user-name "Lemmy" would appear in about 7 or 8 of the Top 10 scores. Reminds me of the story when Marlon Brando used to be a ham radio operator.) He also spends a LOT of time plugging quarters into slot machines.

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Oh man, I probably would have been catatonic, like the time Robert Plant met Elvis. Did you see the documentary about Lemmy from a couple years ago where he now spends his days at a Los Angeles tavern playing interactive trivia games with strangers in other taverns across America? (I loved how they'd show the day's leaderboard, and the user-name "Lemmy" would appear in about 7 or 8 of the Top 10 scores. Reminds me of the story when Marlon Brando used to be a ham radio operator.) He also spends a LOT of time plugging quarters into slot machines.
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Yeah he was much cleverer than he looked. I lived in Ladbroke Grove at the time, next to the tube station and of course Hawkwind were based there, so Lemmy had long-standing connections to the place. He had an eclectic group of friends including Brian James from Lords of the New Church who I believe he knew from The Damned, and Wendy James (no relation) and Nina Hagen, who was as insane as it gets.
 
Funnily enough I remember him telling a Canadian mate of mine that he hated Canada cause they were always trying to lock him up. I gathered he'd had a few run-ins with the law there.
 
Assuming he continued to live the same way he did back then (and why would he have stopped!) I'm amazed he's still alive.

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Tim

This is rather lovely.

Rancid Schnitzel

Can't stop playing this: 
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The Silver Fern

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