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

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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