On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:05:34 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote:
"Steven Schveighoffer" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:05:45 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote:
"Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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In introducing such subtle distortion, Metallica runs the risk of
being
labeled a band with lousy sound.
IIRC, A lot of Metallica fans felt they had started putting out "lousy
sound" back around the "Load" and "Reload" albums. And that was before
CD
DRM.
Load was the beginning of the downhill slide. There are a couple
alright
songs, but all albums before that were filled with good songs. Reload
was
utter crap (Unforgiven 2? Really!???). St. Anger I never really liked,
although I've heard that some people like it.
I was avoiding stating my own Metallica opinions, but now that you
mention
it, that's exactly how I feel (and yea, I have heard a lot of other
people
say Load was the start of a downfall). I did kind of like "Until it
Sleeps"
and maybe one other (forget what), but yea, most of Load/Reload I just
never
got into. "Black album" was filed with good stuff, and I never understood
people that said "St. Anger" was a return to Metallica's former glory.
Just
sounded like noise to me, and I'm a big metal fan!
Speaking of all this, am I correct in my understanding that Load was
right
after Megadeth split off? (And that "black album" was right before?)
As Daniel wrote, Mustane left before Kill 'em All (their first album), but
his name is listed as the one of the authors for many of those songs.
If you are looking for "what was the trigger that started making Metallica
suck", it was that James Hetfield kind of let some of the other band
members take the creative wheel. Before that, Hetfield was basically the
main writer, and was in charge of what made it into songs.
The alright songs from Load: Bleeding me, 2x4, King nothing, Hero of the
day.
At least IMO :) I didn't really like Until it Sleeps.
But, they are still my favorite band of all time.
-Steve
