Deez POLLABLE Heroes - THE ILM //METALLICA\\ POLL RESULTS

Weird choice for a single.

So many cool intros on that record.

Lots of fade-in's like that one.

Weird choice for a single.

Yeah, I agree; anything on Side Three ("The Shortest Straw," "Harvester of Sorrow," "The Frayed Ends of Sanity") would have been a better pick, particularly "Straw."

http://i.imgur.com/RXjMaYI.jpg
23. "Junior Dad" with Lou Reed • Lulu, 2011
109 points | 4 votes | 1 No. 1 Vote
Studio Version
Live in Germany
ILX Pre-Covers LULU Versions by Virgin Killer and Sean Carruthers

lol hey

btw "eye of the beholder" was my highest vote from justice, amazing chorus

No Lulu on Spotify, so you'll have to settle for a concession.

Not giving too much away by saying this is the longest song on the poll.

beyond reed's devastating vocal i think this song is the apex of "gentle" metallica, i.e. "unforgiven," "hero of the day" etc. they just find this gorgeous, simple phrase and wring the most pathos out of it. also love lars' changeable snare hits at the end of each measure

imo lars is often less a shitty drummer than just another guitar

http://i.imgur.com/f70Kf1a.jpg
22. "Of Wolf & Man" • Metallica, 1991

112 points | | 5 votes | 1 No. 1 vote
Remastered Studio Version
http://i.imgur.com/HLmkLM4.png

Counted up the points, saw where this one landed, and went "Oh really?"

the black album still sounds so fucking expensive.

i mean it has to be the most hi-fi metal album ever, right?

Well, compared to St. Anger or the tin shed sounds of And Justice, I'd say so.

All right, final one of the day coming up. We'll get 20-11 tomorrow and wrap up on Wednesday.

http://i.imgur.com/JUwSLWd.jpg
21. "Damage Inc." • Master of Puppets, 1986
115 points | 7 points

Studio Version
Live in Denmark, 1986

don't fuck with Razorback!
http://i.imgur.com/L3LXs2c.png

I voted for the earliest Shark Jumping moment and the best album too!
Will post my list when it's all rolled out.

25. Enter Sandman
24. Eye of the Beholder
23. Junior Dad
22. Of Wolf & Man
21. Damage Inc.

Spotify Playlist

Kind of randomly listened to "Damage Inc." after years of dismissing it, and I ended up including it on my ballot for that intro alone.

just catching up now.

wow, those really are phenomenal graphics. truly, a work of art.

interesting to see Lightning blowing everything else out of the water. it's always been my sentimental favourite, but i tend to meet more Puppets worshipers.

eclectic results so far! the opening riff on Eye of the Beholder slays me every time, slow crescendo and all. Damage, Inc. is such a rush. maybe their heaviest song, pound for pound.

that live version of Damage Inc. is beastly

It's one of those -you-had-to-be-there things, but one of my best segues back in college radio days was going from "Eiffel Tower High" by Hüsker Dü into "Damage Inc." - starting the latter about 40 seconds before the former had ended.

Been scouring around for a copy of " ...And Justice for Jason," and so far ... no dice. It's on youtube, in pieces, and there is supposedly a version with his isolated Guitar Hero tracks mixed in, but it's been pretty well scrubbed from at least the first few layers of the internet.

while we're celebrating Metallica, i was thinking about their more complicated/proggy tracks and how, even more than most metal bands, the writing seems really natural and unforced. maybe it's just because when i committed them to memory in middle school i didn't know how to break it down, but i never think about the time signatures when i listen to them. i'm pretty sure they don't either. they're just composed of little cells of riffage that can be expanded, contracted, rearranged, etc.

Do they have stuff not in 4/4 or 3/4?

while we're celebrating Metallica, i was thinking about their more complicated/proggy tracks and how, even more than most metal bands, the writing seems really natural and unforced

this is essentially the failure of death magnetic imo, songs that try to simulate their first four records but come off forced and unnatural

"sanitarium"'s time signature is all over the damn place.

Black album was when I first listened to Metallica. All the scary guys at the local swimming pool wore Justice or Puppets tank tops so I just assumed from that that I wouldnt like them

Thing I remember most about Enter Sandman was how awesome it sounded to me that very first time, and then later how disappointed I was by the video

"A fucking TRUCK? ... How is that scary?"

Do they have stuff not in 4/4 or 3/4?

it's not like they'll play in 5 or in 7 for a whole verse, but on AJFA they're constantly taking a 4/4 riff and adding or taking away beats. 'Blackened' is crazy.

My step-brother got me to listen to Master of Puppets on our summer vacation to Florida. It was one of those first times where I got excited because here was something new that I was definitely going to enjoy.

Though that trek out of "Orion" and into that whale song intro of Damage Inc. could lull you to sleep before turning on you and making you go

http://i.imgur.com/TF8JHiR.gif

Tell you what, that is one hilarious gif.

haha so otm

I discovered that I liked Puppets when one of the guys in my art class put it on the cassette player (art class is where dorky me learned about anything that wasnt played on the radio)

i remember hearing Orion in that class and being like O_O

I wonder if the reason we only got 18 ballots was because ILX skews young now and no one remembers /V|etallic|-\ when they were relevant?

idk if it's exactly that, though different age groups might have different levels of engagement

my metallica fandom was definitely extended by my 70 year old piano teacher suddenly becoming a big fan of s&m

gonna leave that sentence as is

lol

Hey, the italics show up on my browser.

xxxxxxxxposts holy shit pp i want to stitch that shark-jumping timeline together and share it with the world

constantly jumping the shark, like some 400m hurdle race of shark-jumping

staying true to their roots man

Been scouring around for a copy of " ...And Justice for Jason," and so far ... no dice.

"Of Wolf and Man" was my #1, fuck everybody

Puppets was my number 1 album, though I was torn between that and Lightning so pleased with the winner.

EotB is my only track so far. Someone said upthread that they think it's a weird choice for a single, but I don't think so at all! The 'do you x what I x' hook is so catchy!

But the incredibly tricksy tempo/groove shift between the verses and the chorus might be a bit much for the radio, granted.

Been revisiting (or re-revisiting, if you will) the Justice songs since we started running this poll. It was the first new Metallica record I ever bought, and honestly, the whole thing just ran together. There was the do you do what I do song, the one that started off like the wizard of oz, "one", etc. Funny how a few years later, one of my favorite bands would be Pavement, and I don't know half of their song titles either.

Ha, roger. Feel free to stitch away. The only reason I cut up that timeline was to make it fit ILX formatting. Otherwise, it would've looked like one big skinny thumbnail.

I see Europe is well into its day already. Is lunchtime in the States ok for the next batch, or would earlier or later better accommodate everyone?

Mars Bullshit

Also, is "Loser Poser" supposed to rhyme or

how do I tell Jaymz I hate the paint job on his car-inspired guitar

what was the first Metallica release everybody owned?

for me it was the cd single of "One/Eye of the Beholder", cos it was all I could afford with my allowance and my mom didn't want me using her money to buy "Metallica" albums even though she had no fucking idea who they were.

First owned an audio dub of the One video that I made by holding a cassette recorder up to the TV (also got "We Want Eazy" by Eazy-E and "Punk Rock Girl" by the Dead Milkmen that day). Next bought a cassingle of One/The Prince. Then I bought MOP and AJFA on the same day.

Also, realized I was wrong upthread about Blackened being the first Metallica song I ever heard. I must have been getting my facts wrong in the excitement of the poll.

I really missed out. had I given a shit at the time, I coulda had several of my classmates dub me copies of their Metallica albums, but I was listening pretty much to MC Hammer between 1988-1991 and Aerosmith/Ace of Base by 1993. didn't even get the black album til 1995 :/

I do remember waiting up to hear "Until It Sleeps" the night it dropped (at the time I liked it)...and then did the same for Re-Load.

at first, during the intro, I was all like

http://www.rantlifestyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nic-cage.jpg

and then the verse riff came in and I was like

http://blogimages.thescore.com/tbj/files/2011/02/kobe-disappointed.jpg

My first 'tallica was probably AJFA and then the Black Album.

I had Kill 'Em All (and the "Jump in the Fire" 12") on vinyl, but never owned Ride the Lightning or Master of Puppets. Picked up again with the $5.98 EP on cassette, then ...And Justice For All on vinyl (preceded by the "Eye of the Beholder" cassette single). I think I had the Black Album on cassette, then never bought anything else until Death Magnetic on CD.

Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield from Metallica came over and we did some outrageous partying. Sally was there and I remember there was a girl that James wanted to fuck and I let him take her into my bedroom. They were in there for a while and I had to get in there to get something, so I crept in quietly and saw James head-fucking her. He was standing on the bed, ramming her head against the wall, moaning in that thunderous voice of his, just slamming away, and bellowing "That'll be fine! That'll be fine! Yes! That'll be fine!"

is this wishful thinking, or did someone once make an ambient Metallica mix of all their pretty classical intros and baroque breakdowns?

Did a little searching to no avail, but did find this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIdm5hNeymE