as EVERYONE in the world LOVES metallica

[Spitfire]

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6HqAKtMYNs

watch till the end, that went up earlier today and got taken down... but at the end.. new metallica clips

[Transcend]

sounds good. :D

cant wait for the album

[99_not_out]

Slightly off topic but, yeah ... metallica.com ... remind me again who was one of the bands instrumental in having Napster took down?

NIN and Radiohead make a pile off of free-then-pay-for-the-rest independent internet music sales and suddenly Lars decides its not so bad after all as he realises he can buy another tennis court if they decide to allow MP3 downloads.

Pffff. Me and Metallica were over by '95. A shame, but there it is. Total flamebait, I apologise in advance :)

[Spitfire]

theirs always one to want to be flamed.. they can do what they went with their stuff.. same way you can.  i dont think what radiohead did with in rainbows changed anything metallica were doing

[99_not_out]

Don't get me wrong, I agree that Metallica have the right to do what they want with their own music, I just think its a bit rich after having made such an end-of-the-world fuss over internet downloads to do a volte-face after a couple of other bands get a load of good press off of free downloads.

But heh ho, maybe I should be more forgiving :)
TBH, I never really got over Load; it still hurts like Jar Jar Binks.

[Will]

TBH, I never really got over Load; it still hurts like Jar Jar Binks.

excuse me being an idiot, but are you saying Load is good or bad?

Personally I can't stand it, not particularly a true metallica, and put me off the band in general, but several people in my year love it  :?  seriously: LOVE

[Spitfire]

load isnt thrash metal... but its a brilliant album

[Antag]

it still hurts like Jar Jar Binks.

excuse me being an idiot, but are you saying Load is good or bad?

 :!:  :?:  :?:  :!: did you SEE the second star wars movie?  :lol:

[Antag]

TBH, I never really got over Load; it still hurts like Jar Jar Binks.

+1

[Antag]

...several people in my year love it  :?  seriously: LOVE

I wonder how many of the people that LOVED "Ride the Lightning", "Mast of Puppets", or "...And Justice for All" loved Load?

[99_not_out]

Just to be clear, no, I didn't like Load. I know many people who did, which is fair enough - in the ears of the be...erm..behearer after all - but I just didn't get on with it at all. Or Reload. Then I stopped listening.

To continue with my metaphor and to quote Spaced (for bonus points):
 
"Ja Ja Binks makes the Ewoks look like f*ckin' ... Shaft."

[il˙ti]

To me, Metallica's best period was the 90s. The few "new songs" I've heard from them leaves me expecting the new album to be an incredibly bad attempt to rediscover their roots. Hand over the torch already.

[Will]

80's was the best time for them I think. The black album had some magic, and was good, but it feels different, good or bad, I don't know. There were no commercially unsuccesful but GREAT filler tracks really

[Transcend]

...several people in my year love it  :?  seriously: LOVE

I wonder how many of the people that LOVED "Ride the Lightning", "Mast of Puppets", or "...And Justice for All" loved Load?

Yeah ... ME

i even like st anger to a point (if i convince myself its not a metallica album)

[99_not_out]

Yep, I loved everything up to and including the Black album.

To be fair, I never actually listened to St. Anger or anything else they did after Reload (was there something else?), but as Ilyti points out it all sounds a bit like an attempt to rediscover roots which aren't there any more. Maybe thats harsh as if they had never left them in the first place I probably wouldn't be writing this ... but I'm only human and damn it I'm entitled to my emotionally driven responses to these things ;)