(03-23-2022, 07:56 PM)Jags Wrote: IMetallica kinda went “alternative” as I grew up.  I quit following but on there S&M album, I think, No Leaf Clover was pretty damn good.  Having the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra belt out a rock and roll song is just freaking gold.  Of live performances it’s a top five on my list.  Hard to beat the cannon blasts of “For those about to Rock” and it’s sweet guitar rifts.  Will always be my #1.  And I have seen that one live.

Edit: seen acdc not Metallica live.  91 in Tinley Park IL and 2008 in Tampa.

Edit: edit: may not have been 91 lol must’ve been the 2000 or 2001.  Was reminiscing and realized they were in Chicago more than one and I was apparently 9 in 1991. So had to be the 2000 show.  I was 18 or 19. Must’ve been good, lol

'91 would have been around the time Razor's Edge was out, I saw them on that tour, was very awesome. And yeah, those cannons in an arena as the closer meant you screamed "huh?" a whole bunch on the way home from the show. the ringing subsided after 2 or 3 days!

never seent Metallica but yeah, S&M was a cool way to reimagine some of their catalog. But I want to say that Apocalyptica had been doing strings version of heavy metal for a while before the SF orchestra joined in.

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(03-23-2022, 10:06 PM)mikesez Wrote: S&M and the Black album are the only Metallica albums I like.  Load is OK.  The S&M version of Hero of the Day gives me all the feels.
Their earlier stuff is just to raw for me and their later stuff seems... fake.. somehow.

This post hurts my soul.

Cliff era Metallica was where it was at. Raw was good. It's like older Nine Inch Nails. There was an edge to it while they scraped and clawed their way against the system to break through. Once they made the mainstream, that edge went away.

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