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Free Music Review: Possibly the most highly underrated album ever!
Hit: 5 Stars
For most of the "Old School" Metallica fans this album was considered a huge disappointment. And widely considered the beginning of a huge downward spiral for the band. I will never begin to understand why? This album is yet another masterpiece for Metallica. So they slowed things down a bit. So what, This album is still better than 99% of the crap that's coming out nowadays. 15 million fans can't be wrong, Highest selling Metallica album EVER! Free Music Review: Sellout? What sellout? This is a masterpiece.....
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a great album, one of Metallica's best, and it boggles my mind (and others) why fans constantly talk about this one as a blatant sellout. If Metallica had started doing duets with Brittney Spears, added drum machines for Lars's drumming, added a cheesy keyboardist who used to play for A Flock of Seagulls, and had some members of Poison join the band, then it would be a sellout. This isn't.
This album is chock full of brilliant Metallica classics. From one of their greatest singles ever in Enter Sandman to other brilliant classics like Whenever I May Roam, The Unforgiven (even though I prefer The Unforgiven II), and Nothing Else Matters, this album is just as good as anything Lars, James, Kirk, or Jason put out. I saw them on this tour (they opened with Enter Sandman), and they were fabulous. Most of my "friends" at college told me I was going to get killed at the show because they "heard" people die at Metallica concerts (I stopped hanging out with them shortly after this. Who says college educated people are smart?). I'm still alive, and the only danger I was ever in was when two teenage fans thrashed a little close to me. That was it. The republic survived, and life went on for me, Metallica, and the two teens next to me.
When you hear this album, it's so quinessentially Metallica. You can't mistake it for anyone else. It's a brilliant piece of record making, and it doesn't date at all. It is no sellout, not even close. Metallica has NEVER sold out, and probably never will, as the time to "sell out" has passed them by, and they are still here. Their new album Death Magnetic hit #1 this week, which is proof of their amazing staying power.
Free Music Review: Why All The Hate?
Hit: 5 Stars
It never ceases to amaze me why the self proclaimed "original Metallica fans" bash this album. I can tell I'm an "original Metallica fan" going back to '84 with "Ride The Ligtning" and I think this is great. There's always been a certain group of music "fans" that will turn on a band and stamp the sellout label on them as soon as they release an album that reaches a new audience. I fully understand that if the music is subpar. In my opinion this is exactly the sound Metallica needed at this point in their career. IMHO "...And Justice For ALL" was a bit too pretentious and their most overrated album. I don't mind long songs as Iron Maiden is probably my favorite metal band of all time, but the songs on "Jusitce" were longer than they needed to be in most cases and became uninteresting after awhile. It's like they were determined to make the song 9 minutes come hell or high water even if it should have ended at 5 minutes. On top of that the production was awful. They went more of a "power metal" route on the "Black Album" and you could actually hear some bass in the mix. The band sounds fresh and rejuvenated. So this isn't the "thrash" of the first four albums, the songs are still excellent and heavy. It's still metal regardless of what alot of reviewers are saying. While I still rate "Master" and "Lightning" as their top two, this one is right behind it. Free Music Review: Disappointing then and now
Hit: 1 Stars
Years later, I'm still disappointed. Years later I still cannot listen to this album all the way through without cringing. Free Music Review: The "Black" album
Hit: 5 Stars
One of thier best.This is the first one I bought,on cassette,and is what made me a Metallica fan.