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Originally Posted by CoNtrivedNiHilism
I could pick things about Metallica apart all damn day, like the rest of you...
My introduction to Metallica was from the very first album. I was hooked when I was 7, got older, realized Metallica wasn't as good as I once thought when I was a kid, still listen to them here and there but don't expect much from them with new material, haven't since The Black Album.
But. The Black Album when I listen to it now, it really did not hold its appeal well, like not even a little bit. The album is still decent, but man I find so much that really just turns me off to it. Any person that could get over themselves and the hype behind this band, could admit to that Metallica is just average, always have been. Sold a sh*t ton of albums though.
And on another frank, or honest note. People that use the term 'sell out' like some whore on the street. Any of you even know how that term even would apply to a band, and be completely accurate? Rhetorical question. My point is that I am fairly sure people don't know what the hell they are talking about when they claim a band has sold out. It annoys me. Most people complain a band has sold out just because they tweaked their sound, and it is laughable. Under the right circumstances that can apply in that context. But %99 of the time, it doesn't.
Use the term right. Too hard to ask of people?
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When a band gives their music over to a record company to do with as they see fit, rather than just tweaking their sound to reach a wider audience. There's a difference between wanting to pay your bills and just giving up on making music that you have any desire to play. The underground doesn't have a pension plan after all.
I think of Motley Crue's post-
Shout at the Devil albums as much more sellout than
The Black Album. They were basically too whacked out on drugs and alcohol to care what they were putting out, and just used their music as a way to pay for their lifestyle.
Theater of Pain was just a tepid retread of
SatD, and they weren't even trying on
Girls, Girls, Girls.
Dr. Feelgood was more of a return to them giving a ****, even if the production did kind of castrate it.
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Originally Posted by Janszoon
I agree there's a dip in quality on the black album but AJFA is a pretty great album IMO.
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Agreed. I'd rather listen to the filler on
AJfA, than the filler on
The Black Album, and the first half is just phenomenal.