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

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10. "Rocket Queen" • Appetite for Destruction, 1987
250 points | 10 votes | 1 No. 1 vote

Studio Version
Live Like a ***** Pig Sooie version, 1989
''More Reggae Queen!'' version
Billy Joel cover

wait wait wait wait, dammit, i knew i'd fuck this up.

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10. "Blackened" • …And Justice For All, 1988
289 points | 11 votes | 1 No. 1 vote

Studio Version
Fan Remaster
Intro played forwards, then backwards like original
Just the guitar parts

My number 1!

You guys this was the first Metallica song I ever heard and so I always (rightly or WRONGLY) think of them as an environmental band, like Nuclear Assault or something.

Actually, I don't really know if that's totally wrong, but I have my suspicions. Anyway, I fucking love this song.

Q: You played at Live Earth. What are your thoughts on the climate crisis. What can METALLICA contribute to [the whole process]?

Hetfield: "I really avoided the press around the Live Earth day. I didn't quite agree with what was going on there. Politics drive me crazy, and I don't like talking politics. Politics get in the way of things; they get in the way of getting things done, and getting our music across is what we wanna do — we don't wanna cloud it with 'Democrat, Republican,' whatever. Our philosophy is 'think for yourself' at the end of the day — do what you think feels right. I really believe that humans will survive. I have a lot of faith in mankind that we will overcome and adapt — whatever it is; whether it's man-made or God-made, or Earth/Mother Nature — we have a lot of smart people on this planet that will make something good out of bad."

Read more at http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/james-hetfield-says-metallica-is-focusing-on-feeling-around-master-of-puppets-for-new-cd/#z4OhVYJ2wWLwLUoU.99

And I mean, I agree with that to an extent. There's a lot of room in our future for the development of geoengineering technologies, but it's such a weak dodge to not acknowledge that there's a crisis and instead lump it all in with "politics".

Would welcome further evidence that Metallica are indeed some kind of righteous eco-warriors.

If that's the worst thing we're going to hear from Hetfield today, I'd say we're doing pretty good.

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Quite possible Hetfield thought they were supporting the wrestlers though.

Quite possible Hetfield thought they were supporting the wrestlers though.

LOL

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9. "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" • Master of Puppets, 1986
289 points | 13 votes | 1 No. 1 vote

Studio Version
Live in Quebec City, 1986
Live in Denmark, 1986 (Check out that line-up card!)
Rare demo, different lyrics
Bluegrass cover by Iron Horse

Anyway, Blackened is obviously fantastic (as I expect to be able to say about every song in the top ten). They never before or since did anything with the foreboding intensity of the doomy middle eight. Still gives me shivers sometimes.

xpost

xpost Yeah, I'd just as soon Hetfield not talk politics, too. Go kill a bear in Russian or something, dude.

289 points | 13 votes | 1 No. 1 vote <~~~~~ HI Everybody!

The 'Fear of living on' part is one of the best melodies Hetfield wrote, actually really pretty.

Welcome Home

"Don't tread on me" (safe to say that's not gonna make it into the top ten), a pro-Gulf war tune, was probly where JH's authentic sympathies came to light, after standard anti-reagan, military etc. cant. he talked about it haltingly as such when I spoke to him…claimed it concerned war for independence and nothing else…uh huh, sure.

'Blackened' is so killing.

i love every song from puppets unreservedly

Ha ha: http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/bob-rock-says-metallica-fans-petition-to-dump-him-was-hurtful-to-his-kids/

I bet he even knows all their birthdays too.

Sorry, that "Kirk's Birthday" clip is going to stay with me for a long time.

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8. "Battery" • Master of Puppets, 1986
308 points | 13 votes | 1 No. 1 vote

Studio Version
Rob Trujilo audition from ''Some Kind of Monster''
Rob Scallon banjo cover (as posted earlier by J0rdan.)
Running out your iPad battery

Battery is found in me.

Just maybe not... commentary.

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7. "Ride The Lightning" • Ride The Lightning, 1984
317 points | 12 votes | 1 No. 1 vote

Studio Version
From whatever that movie was last year.
Live in Germany, 1985
Demo with original lineup

And btw, this was my favorite Beatallica song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6udww5Bs38

When I was 14 I wore out my tape of RtL by constantly re-cueing the build to that epic breakdown at 2.36.

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

i voted for "ride the lightning"!

think it's one of their catchiest choruses and one of their most uncannily structured songs

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i'm getting all these sort of weird metallica memories surfacing

like isn't there a green version of RTL?

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/metallica/images/1/18/Ride_the_Lightning_%28green%29.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120607165156

In 1984, the French record label Bernett Records misprinted the color of the album cover in green, rather than blue, and 400 copies with the green cover were pressed. Because of their rarity, this misprint caused these green albums to become collectors' items.[12]

(more support for their eco-message? one may hope...)

Should've had a dagger coming up through the electric chair too.

Good analysis of the intro from here:

For me, the biggest decision in “Ride the Lightning” comes in the intro. The first riff is a 12-second fanfare: “Here we are!” It has minor key harmonies with a strong classical flavor. So it sets the expectation of more melody to follow – and a lesser band would have delivered on that. But Metallica don’t. They kick aside melodicism and ram a tritone riff down your throat: two deadly, dissonant notes. It’s like entering a room while wearing a tailored suit, then braining everyone in sight with a hammer.

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6. "Fade to Black" • Ride The Lightning, 1984
318 points | 13 votes

Studio Version
Live in 1985
Fan Remaster
Cello cover by Apocalyptia
Becker High School Talent Show

Check out Rembrandt up there getting his Pushead on.

i've never really gotten fade to black esp as suicide anthem

when i think about it for some reason 'nothing else matters is better' pops into my head

Never been one of my favorites. Yeah, there's the whole suicide anthem. Someone played an acoustic cover at a friend's funeral in high school. That made it feel a little overbearing for me from there on out. I like it pretty well once the tempo kicks up, but it didn't make my list.

Like right about here.

https://youtu.be/WEQnzs8wl6E?t=3m49s

when i think about it for some reason 'nothing else matters is better' pops into my head

― 龜,

Don't know where to start with this. FtB has a way prettier riff first off.

"Blackened" for that backwards-masked intro that almost reaches the heights of "Battery"'s intro. COLOR OUR WORLD BLACKENED.

BLACKENED.

"Battery" for that INTRO. It was nicked from a Judas Priest song, though, no? I was the #1 vote.

Surprised how much I dug "RTL" this time around! Snuck into my top 10.

F2B missing the top 5! :O

Are we allowed to speculate on the top 5?

So how many of us know anyone who was sent to the counselor's office after they transcribed the lyrics to "Fade to Black" during study hall? I know two.

Someone played an acoustic cover at a friend's funeral in high school.

oof, how tacky