Johnny Ramone
Well-known member
There’s lots of great albums like this. They just kick your head in from start to finish.
There’s lots of great albums like this. They just kick your head in from start to finish.
Same. We had to pick song lyrics to transcribe and analyze in school. The metal kids picked One and my friend and I picked What it Takes by Aerosmith.
Sydney Fan
Well-known member
I think the band were in a rock and a hard place. If they carried on with doing a rock album post black they would be sellouts but if they went back to doing a thrash album instead from black album onwards they woukd be like slayer where they would be considered one dimensional and like slayer every album sounds the same. Hard rock in95/6 seemed to be where bands were headed, even Slash has said in media interviews during this period he wanted GNR to go back to a back to basics rock album like AFD.
But agree the eyeliner, short haircuts, kirks facial piercings, and touring on bills like lollapolooza was weird, stupid and out of place.
I don't know what's worse, Metallicas late 90s look or Axls GNR band look RIR 02.
Last edited by a moderator:
KillerOnTheLoose
Well-known member
Dude almost every AC/DC album is rockers with no ballads. Same with Motorhead, they have a few but none pre-KEA.
I've never liked Load and Reload, I always thought they were bloated, indulgent pandering to the current alt-rock sound. If you're gonna name yourself "Metallica" play metal dammit. Load is a more schizo blend of influences, but it's a snooze with a couple of decent songs. Reload was pandering to fans of songs like Back off Bitch on UYI 1, though they lift riffs from Kyuss, Maiden and Aerosmith on it. I've never bought the "it's a progression" mentality, it was a devolution. They wouldn't have existed without a bunch of NWOBHM and European bands but they previously tried to keep doing their own thing, even as far along as the black album they still had a distinct identity. Load and Reload were complete compromises of that. They could easily have gone back to thrash with the groove metal trend of the 90s but they decided to lean more commercial.
wasted
Well-known member
One was always number 2 on the Tommy Vance Rock Show End of Year Chart. There were a lot of guys in detention drawing Metallica artwork the rest of us were trying to read AFD lyrics.
Johnny Ramone
Well-known member
Johnny Ramone
Well-known member
One is a masterpiece. It’s played to death but I’ll never forget the first time I heard it. I just wanted to hear it again and again. Hearing that double kick build under the guitar as it fades out and then both coming in together. Crushing. The outro solo matches it.
KillerOnTheLoose
Well-known member
You can occasionally feel it in the mid sections of the longer songs but they didn't boost it. this fella did the best fan remaster, I'm not sure if he did the whole album but it sounds professionally done if not super dynamic. He's played around with various mixes of songs adding dynamics, doing complete remixes, just doing remasters with bass.
G
Guest
Guest
KEA: 8
RTL: 9
MOP: 10
AJFA: 9
TBA: 8
Load: 7
Reload: 3
GI: 7
SA: 1
DM: 7
Lulu: 0
HtSD: 7
RTL: 9
MOP: 10
AJFA: 9
TBA: 8
Load: 7
Reload: 3
GI: 7
SA: 1
DM: 7
Lulu: 0
HtSD: 7
Last edited:
G
Guest
Guest
The "remasters" on the box sets are nothing to write home about. What makes them good buys is all the bonus content.
Bad Apple
Well-known member
KEA: 8
RTL: 9
MOP: 10
AJFA: 9
TBA: 8.5
(Rocktallica)
Load: 7
Reload: 7.5
GI: 7.5
SM: 8 (because of the new songs)
SA: 6.5 (cutting short some of the songs and a better snare would have resulted a 7.5)
DM: 7.5
Lulu: Putrid trench from WW2 IAMTHETABLE
HtSD: 7
SM2: 7
Last edited by a moderator:
G
Guest
Guest
If I were to bump one of my 7s up to a 7.5 it'd probably be Load. Really solid album of generic shitrock.
AxlisOld
Well-known member
You're goddamn right it is. And I know you've got a soft spot for Outlaw Torn.
Lacerda
Well-known member
james started out as a pussy (dave mustaine era), then became a badass (kill em all - AJFA), to end up being a pussy again
starting with load he delivered some seriously cringeworthy vocals, and has sounded like smiling faggot on every subsequent album.
"or just a light that lights this dead end stwrrreeeet"
"shoot me again I aint dead yet"
"all the shots I taaaaaake"
"we the phieeepauuuu, aa we the peephaoooooo"
"I blind my eyes and try to fowce it aaaaal into place"
"I blind my eyes I hardly feel it phaaaaasing me by"
starting with load he delivered some seriously cringeworthy vocals, and has sounded like smiling faggot on every subsequent album.
"or just a light that lights this dead end stwrrreeeet"
"shoot me again I aint dead yet"
"all the shots I taaaaaake"
"we the phieeepauuuu, aa we the peephaoooooo"
"I blind my eyes and try to fowce it aaaaal into place"
"I blind my eyes I hardly feel it phaaaaasing me by"
Last edited by a moderator:
G
Guest
Guest
Bleeding Me and Outlaw Torn are fantastic. Then there's stuff like Until It Sleeps, King Sandman, Hero of the Day which is all produced well and pleasant to listen to.
If I was going to bump one of the 7s down to 6.5 it'd probably be Hardwired. Its highs are great but its lows are baaad whereas Death Magnetic I enjoy every track to some extent even if there's no Spit Out the Bone.
AxlisOld
Well-known member
G
Guest
Guest
I still think Lords of Summer had potential as a single. That version on the Hardwired Deluxe edition goes hard. Shame about that half baked demo they initially released.
G