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11-21-2014, 09:10 PM | #9841 (permalink) |
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It was 26 years ago. You're not holding them to today's standards, right?
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11-21-2014, 09:15 PM | #9842 (permalink) |
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AJFA used to be my favorite Metallica album. RTL took it's place. I still really like every song on that album. Shortest Straw is the lowest point for me, but Eye of the Beholder, Blackened, Dyers Eve, Harvester of Sorrow, TLITD and the title track all honestly rank among my favorite thrash songs.
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11-21-2014, 09:16 PM | #9843 (permalink) | |
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It's cool if you dig it, I was just playing with my comment towards Wpnfire.
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11-21-2014, 09:22 PM | #9844 (permalink) |
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Lol "at today's standards" so making good music has somehow changed in the last 30 years? As much as I do think metal has gotten exponentially better than the 80s, there are, imo, much better metal bands that existed in the same era than Metallica.
Oh and yes it's been said but skilled =/= good. I have no music background so what do I even know about technical skill? Nothing. But ya if I never hear Metallica ever again I wouldn't bat an eyelash |
11-21-2014, 09:30 PM | #9845 (permalink) | ||
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It's no Ride the Lightning or Master of Puppets but it was a monster when it hit. Not my fave but definitely in their top 5.
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11-21-2014, 09:39 PM | #9846 (permalink) | |
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It certainly didn't crush Starfish or Daydream Nation.
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11-21-2014, 09:41 PM | #9847 (permalink) |
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Sonic Youth sucks.
*runs*
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11-21-2014, 09:42 PM | #9848 (permalink) |
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I thought you were cool!?
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11-21-2014, 09:53 PM | #9849 (permalink) | ||
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11-22-2014, 03:38 AM | #9850 (permalink) |
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I like ...And Justice for All, but it's certainly not their best album or the best metal album of 1988. I would even say that it was the beginning of the downfall for Metallica creatively speaking. Despite the production my only other gripe with it is the length. The Shortest Straw sounds like a b-side and should have been left off the album. They also could have shaved at least two minutes off the title track.
Also, Napalm Death released From Enslavement to Obliteration in the same year. I know which album I would go for to hear something angry and groundbreaking from 1988.
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