For Whom The Bell POLLS - Votes & Nominations Thread for the // METALLICA \\ ILM Artist Poll (Voting Closed)

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Sometimes, the witty thread title puns write themselves, amirite?

Welcome to the Metallica Poll, a ranking of the Top 25 songs performed by the seminal Bay Area metal band. Here's what you can send:

http://i.imgur.com/t0XANDT.gif • 20 tracks, ranked in the usual ILM™ way: No. 1 gets 40 points, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28, 6:26, 7:25, 8:24, 9:23, 10:22, 11:21, 12:20, 13:19, 14:18, 15:17, 16:16, 17:15, 18:14, 19:13, 20:12.
http://i.imgur.com/t0XANDT.gif • Include your favorite album.
http://i.imgur.com/t0XANDT.gif • And define one particular moment when this band jumped the shark. Was it when Dave was kicked out? When they covered Tuesday’s Gone? Or maybe even What do you mean “jump the shark,” you little Internet asshole?

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Any song credited to Metallica will be accepted. That includes cover songs, live versions, collaborations, radio edits, etc. If votes are received for different versions of the same song though, they will all be tallied for the studio version of that song, albeit with notations when listed in the final results. Songs not featuring Metallica performing will not be counted. This could include other bands covering Metallica or other artists sampling Metallica. (Feel free to vote for the demo version of "The Mechanix" though your vote will be ultimately counted as a vote for "The Four Horsemen".)

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”Do what now?”

Please send all ballots to ForWhomThe (at) Lycos.com.

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Voting concludes on Thursday, July 2, at 2300 CDT. (Fri., July 3, 0400 UTC). There's a big American holiday weekend coming up, so I'll have more time than usual to compile the votes. Results could be released as early as Monday, July 7.

So come on! Jump in the fire!

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HOORAY!!!

I mean, uh

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Lulu stuff count?

that would be considered a collaboration, so

LULU MATERIAL ABSOMOTHERFUCKING - LUTELY COUNTS

I'm guessing the results of this poll won't exactly look like a bell curve by the end, but I would encourage taking a second listen to some of the last few albums. You can either reaffirm your hate for Load or perhaps find something in there that may have aged a bit more properly than you would have imagined.

I don't think I'm going too far out on a limb to say something from the first four will win this (though there is "one" black horse in this race that could ruin that prediction), but I wouldn't mind seeing some Death Magnetic song at No. 21 or whatever.

But I'm not going to push it either because, Lord, some of that later stuff does indeed suck.

Also just realized that Metallica had an album called Load while the Velvet Underground had one called Loaded.

Can I vote for "Ecstasy of Gold"?

lol

submitted. I was up til the small hours honing my ballot.

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I couldn't actually listen to any of the songs because my ipod's battery ran out, but with classic songs like these, the memory remains.

submitting an all load/reload/lulu ballot

Hey, it's all in the eye of the beholder.

really excited about this!

can't imagine i'll be voting for basically anything post-Justice, but that's a testament to the strength of the first four albums as much as anything.

I cut my one black album track at the last minute.

God, I'm kinda regretting it now.

My ballot will have 1 Black Album track, 1 from Load, and 3 from Death Magnetic.

i'm going to take this very seriously. but i'm afraid these albums are so worn into my brain that only the deep cuts can really excite me, so there's a real possibility that 'Frayed Ends of Sanity' or something will be my #1.

Dude, Side Three of Justice is absolutely the best side - everybody knows that.

haha, it is though!

Y'all don't forget the "FM" of Metallica's discography:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYSDC3cHoZs

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One of these days, I'll start a thread of "Songs Where The Tape Slows Down and Quits". After this poll.

What's Metallica's 'Sway' though?

Of Wolf and Man tbh

ride the lightning

What's Metallica's 'Sway' though?

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the songs will pretty much choose themselves, but just realised that ordering this thing's gonna be a bitch

Ain't mine!

BIIIIIITCH-UH!

I can't imagine this being too difficult. Pretty much going to be the whole of Master of Puppets, plus most of ...And Justice For All a couple of tracks from elsewhere. But in WHICH order?

*and a couple of tracks from elsewhere.

i told myself i wouldn't troll this thread but somebody did it for me
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really wish they'd been able to release this album art

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^definitely remember kids getting in trouble for wearing this shirt in middle school.

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Who wants this fucker?

Lulu stuff count?

― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that would be considered a collaboration, so

YOU BETCHA

― pplains, Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:43 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sorry, this was bugging me.

But I meant Absomotherfucking ~~~ lutely!

Steady stream of submissions at ForWhomThe (at) Lycos.com.

Also wanna plug Breadfan real quick

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Hootenanny in D

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btw i have a spotify playlist that (imo) combines the best trax of load and reload into a single coherent record if anyone's interested

Post it! Would love to hear a Re/Load(ed).

Also would like to hear a single-album version of Use Your Illusion, but I'll save that request for another thread.

You won't believe what was in the paper today:

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Post it! Would love to hear a Re/Load(ed).

here it is!

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"carpe diem baby": never played live, buried in the middle of reload, really high on my ballot

it's like a dry-run for "no leaf clover," which omg i have to add to my ballot

no leaf will def be on my ballot

holy shit @ "Metallica Moore"

Keep in mind that's the mother's name.

Hahahahah, she should name the boy Jaymz then.

(Actually, I have no idea: Despite his extensive and recognizable work, Pushead keeps a low profile; he has no official website and interviews with him are a rare commodity.)

didn't revisit the whole of load until after submitting my ballot and i regret not voting for "ain't my bitch"

the rare banjo cover that exceeds expectations:

Wait a minute. I recognized that guy.

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Except I loathe "Hero of the Day."

imo this is a shame

pls excuse me while i tend 2 how i feel

55 or so more hours for votes at ForWhomThe @ Lycos.com!

Is the Lycos addy a '90s nostalgia thing?

I have like six gmail addresses that show up on my screen when I'm logged out. Couldn't deal with another.

And I'm the only one who thinks For Whom The Lycos is funny, I know this, it's ok, I go to court when I have to.

oh shit i need to prep my ballot

I think the lycos.com thing is hilarious.

I'm going to amend the poll title to indicate that it closes tomorrow. How many ballots do you have so far, pp?

Thanks for that.

Ten ballots so far – one for every member if you include Lou and Bob.

Pretty sure everything's cool, but if you submitted a ballot and did not receive a reply from me, do let me know.

that backwards 'Enter Sandman' cover is brain-busting.

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Man, some people really collect stuff, huh?

A Garage Days longbox, now that takes me back.

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they anticipated the digital download price for albums pretty well there.

wow, some trivia I never knew before on this page. who knew?

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Hey, I was thinking of submitting a ballot, but it depends on one thing: can I vote for "For Whom the Bell Tolls (The Irony of It All)" by Metallica & DJ Spooky from the Spawn soundtrack?

omg

ballot sent \m/

Tuomas - Yes, you can submit that, but it'll count toward the original version. It was officially released by Metallica though.

never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for bee gee

Quick reminder: All votes must be in at ForWhomThe @ Lycos.com by 2300 US/CDT – 15.5 hours from the time stamped on this post.

sent!

Just browsing some Metallifacts in preperation, did you know Until it Sleeps was a number one single in Australia and Finland?

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I did not know that.

Just sent my ballot in. Lots of old stuff and far too many covers but in my defense Metallica did excellent covers.

voted! \m/

my ballot is pretty much old-timer city

Probably still the best post I've made on ILX:

Musical Analogues

Just browsing some Metallifacts in preperation, did you know Until it Sleeps was a number one single in Australia and Finland?

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, July 2, 2015 11:30 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i only just realized the other day that it was a top 10 hit on the Hot 100 (their only one). there will be a lot of 90s sellout 'Tallica on my ballot but definitely not "Until It Sleeps."

I don't detest >1990 Metallica but including any of those songs would've bumped off a much better song of 80s Metallica.

yeh iirc it was all over the radio

realizing now thats prob how it made my ballot lol

i admire "until it sleeps" for foregrounding its bass line but almost every song on reload is better than it

some dude and i are brothers in metallica

i will forever be grateful to Bob Rock for teaching Metallica about the values of repetition and singing like a cartoon pirate

Relistening to Until it Sleeps, it's a well written song with some nice melodies and dynamics, but the guitars are piss-weak, which is unforgivable in a Metallica track.

it ain't my biiiitch-CHA

the guitars are weak but also it's one of those times when Lars tries to play with a 'light touch' and the results are just ghastly

Probably still the best post I've made on ILX:

Musical Analogues

― :wq (Leee), Thursday, July 2, 2015 4:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is one of my favorite most-underreated threads on ILM:
List the parallels between Metallica and REM

haha awesome

i sent in my ballot. only voted for 3 songs recorded in the '80s lol.

20 more minutes!

All Ryyght!

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Book's slammed shut!

HIT THE LIGHTS

the guitars are weak but also it's one of those times when Lars tries to play with a 'light touch' and the results are just ghastly

― some dude, Thursday, July 2, 2015 6:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love his weird single-stroke rolls here, they're a little janky in a way that's consistent every time.

i put 'Until It Sleeps' on the bottom reaches of my ballot, because the verses don't sound like anything else they've done. or maybe just because it was the first post-black album song released, and rock radio played it on the hour until i decided i liked it.

just listened back to it for the first time in forever and wow, fretless bass and surf tremolo.

you've seen those "if they were regular folks" photoshops...

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Still get a similar reaction from "Your favorite metal band turns into Yellowcard."

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Until It Sleeps is probably Hetfield's best attempt at singing. mind you, he should never have attempted singing.

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