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

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!

http://i.imgur.com/qP8SwVD.gif

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...

http://i.imgur.com/Pnw7eM9l.jpg

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

http://i.imgur.com/fcPQ3Ot.jpg

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

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