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

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The votes have been counted from the nominations thread: For Whom The Bell POLLS - Votes & Nominations Thread for the // METALLICA \ ILM Artist Poll (Voting Closed)

Now, it's time to see THE TOP 25 METALLICA SONGS as voted by 18 ILX users.

But first – we had two questions to answer. "If Metallica ever jumped the shark, when did it happen?" and the obligatory best Metallica album ever.

Before we get to the good, let's get the bad and the ugly out of the way. All events suggested and commentary made by ILX voters.

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Give me a moment, and we'll hit the top albums.

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Great graphic pplains!! So many sharks

lol you really went in w the graphics here well done

well it is shark week after all

keep misreading the poll title as Deez POSABLE Heroes

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"Now with shark-jumping action!"

TOP ALBUMS:

Not every ballot had a top album. And my vote created a tie. The rest of the roll-out will be much more scientific.

Anyway, your top Metallica albums:

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4. Lulu by Lou Reed & Metallica, 2011

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2. ... And Justice For All, 1988 (tie)

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2. Master of Puppets, 1986 (tie)

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1. Ride the Lightning, 1984

Anyone want to take a wild guess how many actual votes each album got?

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wish I'd got a ballot together in time for this. Kill 'Em All is my favorite.

I'll put a Ramble Tamble vote in there for ya.

dang, did not expect RtL to take the crown.

these graphics are amazing

I was really surprised by Ride The Lightning's showing.

My vote was for Masters.

I voted for Master as well, but it could have gone to either that one or Ride.... Agree on the graphics, great work!

death magnetic coffin toilet really inspired

i voted for Justice, of course.

and yeah huge props on these graphics, much better than we deserve.

Thanks everyone.

Roll-out begins in 15 mins.

Eighteen ballots received. Over 80 songs received votes. Songs will appear on this Spotify playlist.

Here are the Top 25 Metallica Songs, as voted by your peers.

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25. "Enter Sandman" • Metallica, 1991
100 points | 6 votes

Official Video
Fan Video - Rob Scallon Plays It Backward
6-Year-Old Avery Molek's Cover
Mariano Rivera's Final Appearance for the Yankees

18 ballots? oh this could be hilarious

i don't think i can "hear" enter sandman anymore

Poll has jumped the shark. xxp

But I echo everyone, graphics are rad, thread title is boss, and very stoked that RTL won albums even though I voted for AJFA.

surprised nobody picked "Fade To Black" as a jump the shark moment tbh

I still remember hearing Sandman for the first time. Humble brag, but I've been a Metallica fan since the Summer of '86. We'd heard all the rumors and read RIP magazine that this new album was going to be different. Scared to death that they were going to turn into Winger.

Listened to the tape in the parking lot of the shopping center where I bought it. Buddy and I just looked at each other. "Not bad. At least it's not Winger."

Still get a kick out of it now that I only hear it occasionally. Even Tom Leykis couldn't ruin this song for me.

Also enjoy this poll kicking off with it because it's a helluva album intro (James wanted "Holier Than Thou" to start the record.)

And as you can see, it was awarded exactly 100 points. All the other songs below it were in the double-digits.

I remember hearing it for the first time at summer camp. We were all gathered around a boombox playing 98 Rock. To me, it was too corny to be Metallica. "What was this, the new Megadeth song or something?" And then weirdly, the new Megadeth song (from Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey) had a "Now I lay me down to sleep..." line in it.

surprised nobody picked "Fade To Black" as a jump the shark moment tbh

probably because this redeemed it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsZ2r7jLFoQ

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24. "Eye of the Beholder" • …And Justice For All, 1988
108 points | 6 votes

Studio Version
…And Justice For Jason Version
Darker & Faster Version Ok, what the hell is going on with these.

I wish I could remember the grammatical term for swapping around the subject, metal style, to give you master of puppets vs. puppet master. Makes everything more metal. There's a baby store by here called Cradles of Distinction.

One of the Justice tracks I didn't end up voting for. I love it in context of the hour-long riff fest, but as a stand-alone song it plods a little for me.

I remember buying the cassingle of it before ...Justice came out and liking the B-side (Budgie's "Breadfan") a lot more.

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."

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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

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22. "Of Wolf & Man" • Metallica, 1991

112 points | | 5 votes | 1 No. 1 vote
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I loved Metallica up to and including 'Justice,' but dang what a fall from dizzying heights. I'm going to explore Robert Trujello's other bands today, 'cause I gotta believe he's a better fit elsewhere.

Start here:

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Hey that's great! Now I wanna hear funked up, Cyco-infused Metallica, but of course Lars has not one funky drummer bone in his body.

xpost in danish we don't say hans christian andersen we say h c andersen so that's prob why lars would say it like that in english - sounds better in danish though

what's it sound like in Danish and why just the initials? Asking only out of curiosity.

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Cliff Burton, Mike Bordin, Jim Martin

Ok, I hadn't noticed this before, but does anyone else hear something that sounds like someone saying "ooo" at about 0:27 in Creeping Death?

pplains "h" is pronounced something like "hoe" so the initial aspiration makes for a nice name - "hoe cee andersen"

no clue why the convention is to use the initials - why is it J K Rowling and J R R Tolkien? maybe similar explanation

getting off topic, but this link has a recording of the danish pronunciation http://www.forvo.com/word/h.c._andersen/

Thanks for the link.

Just never thought about names being commonly said in different ways like that. Pronounciation is one thing, but initials and format is another.

yeah me neither - but it's actually nice to know that the more common English version is the full name since every once in while Hans Christian comes up in touristy conversation for me, and "h" is such a clumsy letter to pronounce in english anyway

Must've been why I thought Lars said "A.C. Anderson" at first.

But you should hear my Danish though. Makes St. Anger sound good.

was at the Brandenburg Gate for a few days so I missed most of the rollout

Of Wolf and Man
One
Last Caress / Green Hell
Blackened
Trapped Under Ice
Creeping Death
Ride the Lightning
Battery
Whiplash
Am I Evil
Junior Dad
Orion
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Master of Puppets
The Four Horsemen
Fight Fire With Fire
Fade to Black
To Live Is To Die
Harvester of Sorrow

album: Ride the Lightning

jumped the shark: Black Album (though "Of Wolf and Man" rules, fuck you)

no clue why the convention is to use the initials - why is it J K Rowling and J R R Tolkien? maybe similar explanation

There was a vogue in British letters in the early 20th century to go by one's initials -- EM Forster, DH Lawrence, WH Auden, etc. -- which might explain JRR Tolkien. I dunno why that is, though, maybe the peculiarities of British naming conventions.

JK Rowling may have initially been to obscure her gender to be more marketable? Total speculation however, and we've seen how my speculative skills have panned out in this thread.

Always figure in the cases of J.R.R. Tolkien or W.E.B. Du Bois, it's that they've got too many names.

I'm serious you guys. Right there at about 0:27-0:28. There is an "ooooooh" and I can't unhear it. What the hell?

https://youtu.be/lXWq3f01e2U?t=25s

(turn it up)

you're not talking about the high bass fill, are you?

I thought it was a slide on the bass at first! But the more I listen to it, the more I hear someone going "ooooh".

putting "Sweet Jane" on the spotify playlist in place of "Junior Dad" is pretty shitty imo

Is Lulu on Spotify? I couldn't find it.

There's still a place in that version of "Sweet Jane" when James is roarin' "Suhweeeeet JANE!" that you realize, holy shit, not only is this Lou Reed singing this song with Metallica backing him, but they had such a good time doing it, they went on to make a sadomasochism record together and then he died.

Lulu's not on Spotify. i'm just saying i'd rather there be nothing representing its spot in the playlist than a replacement.

Like 19 minutes and 56 seconds of silence? Seems a bit much.

Shame Jason wasn't on that Jr. song.

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Never hear of this before just now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Magnetic

Guess if it was any good I would've.

"hate train" is good! i almost voted for it

Yeah, the EP's OK, not great, not horrible.

Welcome Home

pplains wrote this at 2015-07-08 15:25:34.000

Definitely spent the weekend wandering around the house with my guitar playing mostly low E.

sad I missed this. I woulda picked the title track to RTL was my #1, but y'all did good work.

I was thinking today how FB or social media not existing during the release of Load actually made the internet reactions better. The meltdowns on USENet were gold.

example from noted poster "Loser Poser":

"hmm... I was wondering which names would suit best for the Metallica
members, because I personally feel that Metallica doesen't deserve the name
Metallica anymore...because the new albums load off with bollocks 1 and 2
are...what they are.
So here's my choices:

producer Bob Rock--------> Pop Pop

James Hetfield------------> Heinz Shitfield
Lars Ulrich--------> Mars Bullshit
Kirk Hammet-----------> Hint Gaymint
Jason Newsted--------> Jason Voorhees...ooops wrong name, I meant
Playson Newsdead

and finally Metallica---------> Wimpallica"

and reply..

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>Re: new names to Metallica

im tired of these fucking peice of shit wannabe metallica fanz. If they dont
like their new shit , they can go fuck a goat. They can make better music than
any other fucking hipocrit faggot ass poser who thinks he likes metallica
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and this old favorite, featuring one of my favorite ascerbic WebTVers from back in the day...

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/alt.rock-n-roll.metal.metallica/aincerahttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/alt.rock-n-roll.metal.metallica/aincera$20load/alt.rock-n-roll.metal.metallica/qb6nyF3kk14/tBxMsVpGYBEJ0load/alt.rock-n-roll.metal.metallica/qb6nyF3kk14/tBxMsVpGYBEJ

Internet humour has stayed roughly at the same level of sophistication for nineteen years then.

pretty much.

y'know going back to Disposable Heroes, this was a song that took me like most of my adult life to love. I used to think it was just a gimmicky, hookless speedfest, but really this is one of the most interesting songs on the album, the speed isn't why it's interesting.

something about the way Jaymz roars "I was born for dyiiiiiiiin'" gives me chills now. hard to believe he once actually had principles that he wasn't afraid to commit to on record, years before publicly giving his wishy-washy "I don't really have 'opinions' man" bet hedging....

Disposable Heroes is phenomenal.

I posted this yesterday on a different thread, but since this one is bumped...

https://youtu.be/EdXp1nhmzW0?t=2m39s

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

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and then the verse riff came in and I was like

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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