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Title: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: nkotb on August 21, 2007, 09:57:00 am
I'm 29 years old and I'm just listening to Metallica's Black Album for the very first time.
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: Relaxer on August 21, 2007, 10:09:00 am
That's not a major oversight. But if you'd said Master of Puppets or Ride the Lightning, I would've snickered.
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: nkotb on August 21, 2007, 10:11:00 am
I just found it weird, since the album was on the Billboard charts for like 70 years.
 
 PS: the lyrics to Battery are burned in my brain.
 
 
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Originally posted by Relaxer:
  That's not a major oversight. But if you'd said Master of Puppets or Ride the Lightning, I would've snickered.
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: miss pretentious on August 21, 2007, 10:12:00 am
are you rebelling against the man at work since you are on your way out?
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: nkotb on August 21, 2007, 10:18:00 am
Nah, it was my latest Lala grab.  Only felt like half a man without having ever heard it.
 
 
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  are you rebelling against the man at work since you are on your way out?
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: sweetcell on August 21, 2007, 10:18:00 am
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Originally posted by nkotb:
  I'm 29 years old and I'm just listening to Metallica's Black Album for the very first time.
you held out as long as you could.  you're a brave soldier.  we'll not think less of you.  your memory as an indie hipster will live on.
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: sonickteam2 on August 21, 2007, 10:19:00 am
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Originally posted by nkotb:
  I'm 29 years old and I'm just listening to Metallica's Black Album for the very first time.
whereever i may roam and sad but true are really the only songs you need to hear on that disc, though its still a great great album in my world!
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: sonickteam2 on August 21, 2007, 10:21:00 am
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Originally posted by nkotb:
  I'm 29 years old and I'm just listening to Metallica's Black Album for the very first time.
wait a SECOND.  how'd you get through high school in Carroll County without hearing Metallica's black album????
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: nkotb on August 21, 2007, 10:23:00 am
"Sad But True" is definitely a hard-ass song.  The album is better than I gave it credit for back in the day.  I was just always a huge fan of speed metal as a kid (early Anthrax & Metallica, mostly), so that soft-ass (in the mind of my former self) "Enter Sandman" shit wasn't cutting it.
 
 
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Originally posted by le sonick:
 whereever i may roam and sad but true are really the only songs you need to hear on that disc, though its still a great great album in my world!
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: nkotb on August 21, 2007, 10:23:00 am
See my above post for how I skipped it.  It was too soft for my younger self's taste.
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: miss pretentious on August 21, 2007, 10:29:00 am
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Originally posted by nkotb:
  "Sad But True" is definitely a hard-ass song.  The album is better than I gave it credit for back in the day.  I was just always a huge fan of speed metal as a kid (early Anthrax & Metallica, mostly), so that soft-ass (in the mind of my former self) "Enter Sandman" shit wasn't cutting it.
and now you wear pink fiery furnaces shirts... what do you think your high school self would say about your current self?    ;)
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: nkotb on August 21, 2007, 10:32:00 am
Probably call him a fag and them pants him in the locker room.
 
 Nah, I wasn't much of a metal head by the time high school rolled around.  It was around then I discovered the Butthole Surfers, Beck and the Jesus Lizard , though I never stopped head-banging behind closed doors.
 
 
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Originally posted by miss pretentious:
 and now you wear pink fiery furnaces shirts... what do you think your high school self would say about your current self?     ;)  
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on August 21, 2007, 10:32:00 am
Not as good as Spinal Tap's black album (Smell The Glove).
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: Guiny on August 21, 2007, 10:33:00 am
I gotta say, back in the day when I first heard that album, I was very disappointed.  But listening to it a second and third time, I started liking it.  Now it just kicks butt everytime I listen to it.  I have to agree with Sonick, Sad But True and Unforgiven are the two songs I think of when I think of that CD.  Of Wolf And Man is the best up tempo song on the album, in my opinion.
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: lagas on August 21, 2007, 10:52:00 am
And what about Unjustice For All?, One its not the only song in that album, Shortest Straw?, Harvester of Sorrow?, those are pretty much Kirk Hammett's legacy right there...
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: Guiny on August 21, 2007, 11:47:00 am
And Justice For All was the first Metallica album I ever bought, right after basic training....It was perfect for that time of my life!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: sonickteam2 on August 21, 2007, 01:21:00 pm
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Originally posted by nkotb:
   though I never stopped head-banging behind closed doors.
 
we never do man, we never do.
 
 (though i must admit to being more of a hairband fan in the late 80s)
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: TheREALHunter on August 21, 2007, 01:51:00 pm
The Black Album is well recorded but much like the albums that other bands have released at their "peak" (U2 "The Joshua Tree", Soundgarden "Superunknown", etc), it's sterile and boring as fuck.  "Ride The Lightning" was brilliant and "Master of Puppets" pretty close to and that's pretty much it for their recorded output worth taking the time to listen to IMO
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on August 21, 2007, 01:54:00 pm
Is it more hip hoppish, or r&bish?
 
 
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Originally posted by nkotb:
  I'm 29 years old and I'm just listening to Metallica's Black Album for the very first time.
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: smakawhat on August 21, 2007, 03:23:00 pm
the day the music died....
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: nkotb on August 21, 2007, 03:27:00 pm
Since it's the album where Hetfield learned to sing, I'd be more inclined to say straight-up soul.  
 
 
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Is it more hip hoppish, or r&bish?
 
   
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  I'm 29 years old and I'm just listening to Metallica's Black Album for the very first time.
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Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: Bombay Chutney on August 21, 2007, 04:09:00 pm
I prefer this one:
 
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Post by: rustbunny on August 21, 2007, 05:49:00 pm
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Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
  I prefer this one:
 
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now you're talkin'.
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: danknugz on August 21, 2007, 07:54:00 pm
that was the last album i really liked from metallica. i remember when it came out, i was so excited. i was like 10 years old, but i taped it off the radio down in texas (back when they used to play whole albums on the radio before they came out - do they still do that??) and listened to it for a couple of months straight. i think a couple of months later, i got into nirvana, when i heard "nevermind" in the "college" section listening station.
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: sweetcell on August 22, 2007, 01:37:00 am
my favorite black album: prince's.
 
 i'd post an image of its cover, but you wouldn't be able to see it on this board   :)
Title: Re: Metallica's Black Album
Post by: Vas Deferens on August 22, 2007, 09:41:00 pm
What's your fave Prince song? Pussy Control?
 
 
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Originally posted by sweetcell:
  my favorite black album: prince's.
 
 i'd post an image of its cover, but you wouldn't be able to see it on this board    :)