Mar 28, 2008 13:58
Well, for third time in my life, I have rediscovered Metallica.
The first time I heard Metallica it was due to one of My sister's friends who brought the black album over one day. She played it and I fell instantly in love with Enter Sandman, by the time it got to the words I was hooked. She forgot the CD at our house so I ended up listening to it alot, particularly while writing papers for class. Also at this time I didn't really understand all the words, Don't treat on me sounded alot like "Dontreobey!"
While I was in love with the black album, it never really occurred to me that they might actually have other albums. It wasn't until my Oldest sister put "The Memory Remains" on one of her life's soundtrack CD's and she TOLD me it was metallica that I really gave it any though. Also Michael downloaded master of puppets, which strangely I didn't really like the first time I heard it. SO in the Spring of Junior year I rediscovered metallica by downloading every song from every album. And that summer we found the symphonic album and bought it as well. Since then I have bought all of their albums, and can confidently say that Metallica is my favorite Band. "Nothing Else Matters" is even "our song" for Bridget and I.
Since though, through repetitive listening and lack of new material, I had like most people do when they overdo something grown tired of Metallica. However, a strange thing has revived my interest...Rock Band. We bought Rock band last christmas, and we played it four NINE HOURS in one day. I took the drums since thats the peripheral where I feel like I am lying to myself the least. SO anyway, we were playing and one of the last songs was Enter Sandman. Learned two things, David needs to work on his vocal range (he sings an octave lower then pretty much everything) and drumming to Metallica is HARD.
This paired with my learning the guitar has given me alot of respect for Metallica, Playing "Rock you like a hurricane" is easy, I can't get past the third Riff in Master of Puppets. It really shows just what Metallica was rebelling against: Hair Metal. The "And justice for all Album" for example, is nearly impossible to casually listen to, unless you are a hardcore thrash metal fan. This album came out in 1988, which was a year before Motley Crue's Dr Feelgood hit number one on the charts. This was the peak of Hair metal, so its not shocking that the most aggressive, violent, and non-pop Metallica album would be released at this time.
I also discovered that Metallica is great to listen to while Vacuuming.