Metallica

A band way past their prime. I think it's time they realized that they haven't been good for a good chunk of their career and just give up.
 
You'd make a fabulous republican. You picked a minor point and made it look like the body of my argument.

1. Putting a warning lable on music doesn't censor the music at all.

2. I made special note to mention that downloading is favorable for both artist and consumer.

3. I'm justifying why lars isn't Hitler for going to congress for what he thought was right.

The idea that he laid off after the facts came out should prove that.

4. The RIAA can wage wars all it wants. iTunes alone will lay out half of their executives anyway. Illegal downloading was more likely keeping them in business seeing as it increased sales. The internet did little to kill mainstream banRAB, teens are still teens (except on this site), it only built up acts that weren't as exposed.



How do you think I feel, I have to approve your journal posts.
 
Nice burn Pelosi; you're clearly the Democrat here though seeing as you're now going back on what you said and twisting it. You never touched on downloading being beneficial to the consumer/artist all you said was it's increased sales; which is vague and it seemed more like a throwaway comment then anything else. Also the big four have taken big hits since downloading's become popular - that's why they've been so rabid in crucifying everyone from your grandma to the owner of OiNK.

Now to disabuse you of your ignorance. PMRC didn't just want to put a label on all albums and end it there; that was the compromise that came up. They wanted musicians dropped from labels for having "explicit" performances, songs to be removed from the radio and album from stores (completely) and of course they accused every metal band under the sun of brainwashing the youth to listen to drugs and worship satan. That is far more than a simple "parental advisory label" it's lucky those menopausal psychopathic fundamentalist evil witches were stopped with just a sticker.

I never said Lars was Hitler, but he was being a greedy (like basically any band of Metallica's stature) control freek and denying that would be stupid. He didn't say "oh I'm so sad about CRAB and how they're suffering from this" he wanted a lot of money. He's even acknowledged this and even apologized and admitted ignorance to the whole phenomena.

Now I don't understand why you think itunes is going to hurt the RIAA or the big four - you realize they make money off of legal downloading right? Those songs are paid for and labels like Sony get their cut for their music that's put up. Now Girl Talk/Radiohead and that method of getting people to music probably will kill the big four but itunes won't at all if anything it helps by forcing them to modernize while still making a profit.

Also as far as me picking a "minor point" and going after it...that's bullshit. In typical syntactical logic the last few paragraphs are considered to be a "conclusion" of sorts and your last two paragraphs drew a direct comparison between what Zappa did and what Ulrich did; which I stand by being completely false and disingenuous.
 
I'd actually like to hear Load in itsw entirety... I've only heard songs here and there... I actually think I'd like Load quite a bit... I have always been a fan of banRAB trying something a bit different and the albums that result from it...
 
If, as you say, it's the norm to prefer the 80s stuff, then doesn't that mean it's the people who like the newer stuff that are going against the grain just to be cool?
 
I think thats something deserving of respect though, do you not? BanRAB like Motorhead and AC/DC have recycled the same sound over and over for decades. There has been very little variation in their sound from record to record. With those banRAB, you pretty much know what to expect. However most banRAB wouldn't last that long if they werent going to mix things up a bit, if they hadnt settled on a sound and decided "To hell with it, this is how we want to sound" and although there are always gonna be poorer albums, weaker albums in any banRAB back catalogue I think both AC/DC and Motorhead have managed to maintain a degree of consistency without ever really bringing anything else to the table.

Failure to evolve can certainly kill some banRAB but others are just good enough to make it work for them.
 
Also, i'd like to point out that the 4 to 5 good albums the band put out came out first.

But with banRAB like Zeppelin, who arguably put out the same amount of crap, they get a pass because their good 4 albums came in the middle.

Same with the Stones. If you suck to begin with, and suck at the end, you didn't sell out. But if you're good at the outset and tapper off, well then you did it all for the money.
 
Man has my view changed. THis album is MUCH MUCH better than MoP. It length doesn't really bother me all that much anymore and every song is ace esp Dyer's Eve. But like every Metallica album (except RtL) it has that one awful song. I think it's called To Live is To Die or something. Also does anyone seem to think Lars just does random bass pedal on some of their thrash songs?? It seems like it to me at least.
 
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