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[Original Spies]

I think I'm the only person who really doesn't like AJFA. It just doesn't sound good. I can't get past how flat and lifeless it sounds to ever give the songs a chance. I love everything before it though.

Load and Reload each have about a 40/60 percent ratio of good/shit. Combining the great songs from each leaves you with a stonking record. Sure, it's not thrash, but it's still awesome bluesy rock, which I dig. The rhythm guitar playing is just something else. His vocals progressed a hell of alot after AJFA too. The melodies are great.

S&M was Metallica's attempt to appeal to Mums and Dads, and St Anger was one of the worlds longest and most expensive practical jokes. The only good that came from the latter is Some Kind Of Monster on DVD, which is probably better than Spinal Tap.

[The Sloth]

Originally Posted by HateEvent

I'm so glad Metallica did make mop:-



Thank you James Hetfield for making my floors cleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeean.

This house is clean baby!

[Dan Atom]

I don't understand how James wrote great lyrics from the mid 80s through to the late 90s. And then all of a sudden... BOOM! 15 year old "my-first-lyrics-syndrome" suddenly kicked in after the millennium.

And his vocals have no agression in them anymore. They sound like fucking kareoke.

[Mouse]

I thought St Anger was ok, even though at the same time I agree it's a terrible album. I acutally went back to Load for the first time in 4 years and thought "hey, this ain't too bad". Sounds like they are going to Black album era which is ok I suppose.

For the record... KEA>RTL>AJFA>MOP>BLACK

[Sue Denim..]

Originally Posted by Mouse

I thought St Anger was ok, even though at the same time I agree it's a terrible album. I acutally went back to Load for the first time in 4 years and thought "hey, this ain't too bad". Sounds like they are going to Black album era which is ok I suppose.

For the record... KEA>RTL>AJFA>MOP>BLACK

I agree and think St. Anger was OK but I had to listen to it quite a few times to get into it. Nothing will beat Master of Puppets which really caught the band at their best.
The only reason that puts me off 'buying' Metallica albums now is their blatant greed shown to the world during the Napster case.

[Lucky Rathen]

Originally Posted by Mouse

I thought St Anger was ok, even though at the same time I agree it's a terrible album. I acutally went back to Load for the first time in 4 years and thought "hey, this ain't too bad". Sounds like they are going to Black album era which is ok I suppose.

For the record... KEA>RTL>AJFA>MOP>BLACK

Lightning > Puppets > Justice > Kill Em All > Black

The stuff post Black album isn't worth mentioning

[Mouse]

I find the Black album pretty boring to be honest

[Original Spies]

Black album has like, two good songs. The production on some songs sounds like Lars crept in to the studio one night and turned the snare up on a small handful of songs, but not all of them.

The better songs from Load and Reload cane the Black Album.
2x4 is one of my favourite 'Tallica jams. It has groove a mile wide.