Metallica's Black Album

[nkotb]

I'm 29 years old and I'm just listening to Metallica's Black Album for the very first time.

[Relaxer]

That's not a major oversight. But if you'd said Master of Puppets or Ride the Lightning, I would've snickered.

[nkotb]

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.
 
 

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.

[miss pretentious]

are you rebelling against the man at work since you are on your way out?

[nkotb]

Nah, it was my latest Lala grab.  Only felt like half a man without having ever heard it.
 
 

Originally posted by miss pretentious:
  are you rebelling against the man at work since you are on your way out?

[sweetcell]

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.

[sonickteam2]

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!

[sonickteam2]

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?

[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.
 
 

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!

[nkotb]

See my above post for how I skipped it.  It was too soft for my younger self's taste.

[miss pretentious]

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?    

[nkotb]

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.
 
 

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?      

[Cock Van Der Palm]

Not as good as Spinal Tap's black album (Smell The Glove).

[Guiny]

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.

[lagas]

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...