METALLICA [AKA: THE BLACK ALBUM]

A couple of the guys at my work love Metallica. They're the kind of mid-30s people who haven't really listened to anything different for almost a decade now, and so insist on putting the same songs on every single week at Friday beers. I think I've heard "Nothing Else Matters" now more times than I can count. I still don't think it's particularly good.

The fact that this has a few memorable tunes doesn't really cover the fact that more than half of it is uninspired trash. You can point out the hits, sure, but they make up a third of the runtime, and aren't even that good in the first place. "Enter Sandman" is alright, and certainly I'll always get into it when it comes on on a night out. "Sad But True" is somewhere between good catchy and annoying catchy, and "Wherever I May Roam" actually has a decent melody in between middling verses. But the rest of this is just weak riffs, grunty vocals and Lars doing that four-snares thing that was kind of cool the first time but by god it gets old. I can definitely see why this is seen as the beginning of their decline.

3.2 (3rd listen)

Part of my listening diary from my facebook blog: www.facebook.com/TheExoskeletalJunction

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