MentalMaden

Forum Cartel
  • Posts

    2622
  • Joined

  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Coin View Post
    Great choices there, but no love for the Black Album by Metallica? I know a lot of people class it as the album they sold out, but there's still some awesome stuff on there!

    Avoid the Tin Bath......sorry, the St. Anger album though, dreadful album, but their latest album is a big improvement at least.
    I'll address the whole Black album thing, from a pre-Black album fan's perspective. (Nobody do the age math on that please!)

    The Black album is an important album. It's the one that turned Metallica from the best kept secret of all metal lovers into the biggest rock and roll band on the planet. You can't argue the "quality" of the album as it did become extremely popular with fans and people not aware or interested in them before. Once the smoke cleared and the tours ended and they put out ...........Load (ugh) it became clear that the Metallica we ended up with was a shell of the Metallica we had. Gone were the lengthy songs with changing time signatures and key changes and quite frankly some of the heaviness. We no longer got the head banging middle section of songs to rock out to in between verses, interesting lyrical exploration of tough to deal with subjects or blazing minute long solos from Hammet, instead we got tight, short, heavy popish metal. Songs for the masses. (I'm looking at you Fuel)

    Now I don't begrudge them (or any band) the right to experiment with new techniques and song structures; it is afterall their right. But it's also the right of any fan to genuinely like or dislike what the experimentation brings them. They had stored up a lot of credibility, so this opinion comes after years of being let down by them (nail on the head= Some Kind of Monster). But I miss the more complicated Metallica music; I miss the more complilcated band. While maybe they've matured, they've also softened and that just isn't Metallica to me.

    I don't hate the Black album, it was the album that got a lot of my non-metal friends to see and appreciate and even love the band I'd admired for years before that. The only problem is it turned them into the real fans and me into the old fossil that liked "those weird old albums". It's a bittersweet thing, the Black album. I had someone I dated years ago borrow my Black CD and after the breakup I found myself not that upset that it wasn't returned. Never bought another one, although in times of nostalgia I think about picking it up again. Hell, I played the grooves off the thing when it came out and I still have every note memorized, but it's still not Metallica-Metallica. For me at least. I can and do appreciate the album, but I don't "love it". When I jones to hear them, I want Blackened, or Battery, or Master or Am I Evil. I could go another decade without hearing Enter Sandman on the other hand.

    As I said in another post, I'll give Death Magnetic another try. Maybe there is hope.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Rock_Crag View Post
    I'd love to hear your opinion on Death Magnetic. I appreciate Metallica music in all forms, but I do agree with you that they never were quite as good as they were then they did their early stuff.

    -You may want to check out Temple of The Dog. this was Cornells band before he moved to Soundgarden.
    -Rage Against the Machine, The Battle of Los Angeles is a great album.
    -Clutch has some great songs too. One Eyed Dollar, Immortal, Mob Goes Wild, Carefule with that Mic, Wishbone.
    -Stone Temple Pilots. I don't really consider them Heavy, but they're good none the less.
    .
    Going to address a few points here.

    1. Death Magnetic is a slight return to their "old" sound, but its more of a Black Album sound, not "true" Metallica, the mix has some of the St. Anger problems and I'm not crazy about the new bass player . A lot of it for me though is they blew a lot of their good will over the years since Load (appropriate name for the album). Edit- I tell you what, I'll give the album a good once over and see if my opinion changes.

    2. Temple of the Dog is not Cornells first band. It was actually a super group put together in 1990 by members of Soundgarden (who had actually been formed since 1984) and Pearl Jam to do a tribute album for the late Andrew Wood, lead singer of Mother Love Bone. It is a very good album if you are into grunge.

    3. I recently got turned onto Clutch, great band.

    4. I don't think STP has recorded a bad song. Great, underappreciated band.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Zortel View Post
    I've got a few Metallica tracks dotted around from various purchases before, but definitely looking into the four suggested, and will be keeping an eye on here for more ideas in the future.
    OPINION TIME:

    Anything after the "Black Album" in my opinion is not Metallica and even that album is them transitioning into what we have today (Selloutica). Those four albums are (to me) simply put, "must haves" in anyones metal collection. If you just want to sample some tracks from these albums I'd suggest:

    Whiplash, Seek and Destroy, Am I Evil [Kill em All]
    Battery, Master of Puppets, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), Disposable Heroes [Master of Puppets]
    For Whom the Bell Tolls, Fade to Black, Creeping Death [Ride the Lightning]
    Blackened, ...and Justice for All, The Shortest Straw, The Frayed Ends of Sanity [...and Justice for All]
    Bonus: Last Caress/Green Hell [Garage Days]

    Oh and some great suggestions so far from the others.
  4. Metallica- Kill 'em All
    Metallica- Ride the Lightning
    Metallica- Master of Puppets
    Metallica- ...and Justice for All
    Those four are must haves in any heavy collection.

    Anthrax- Among the Living
    Megadeth- Peace Sells, but who's buying
    Motorhead- Ace of Spades
    Pantera- Cowboys from Hell (I prefer this to Vulgar...)
  5. Sorry Porky, the layer cake room is evil. EVIL!
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Veritech View Post
    perhaps that would be because the Sahara is in Africa?
    I roflmao'd



    Quote:
    The Sahara covers large parts of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, *****, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia.
  7. MentalMaden

    Sharktopus!!!

    It was so bad it was bad.
  8. MentalMaden

    Sharktopus!!!

    "Tequila's on you guys, and I'm super thirsty."

    It's like poetry.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Terwilliger View Post
    Triple, if'n you count the A Different World open.
    Ooooooooh, yeah. Nice catch.
  10. MentalMaden

    Nineteen!

    Gratz!!!
    PL meh!

    You're catchin' me. Gotta get to work!
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang View Post
    I'm just wondering who they'll get to voice Darkseid. They've already got Michael Ironside as Lois' dad.
    And I saw where they are getting Teri Hatcher as her mom.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by ObiWan View Post
    I got the same feeling as Persons Unknown interesting, but not Wow! i gotta watch that again! Of course i compare any of these kind of shows to how i felt after the first episode of Lost.
    For me, this is above Person's Unknown, at the moment equal to Flash Forward with hopes it will surpass. But yeah, nowhere near 1st episode of Lost.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Vitality View Post
    Only watched this show once before. The A White man says tweets were hilarious.
    Then find season 1.
    Watch it.
    Love it.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by NiVra View Post
    This needed a Cookie monster cameo to be perfect!

    "...Cookie is MINE!" Nom,nom,nom,nom.....
    They don't introduce Cookie monsters until season 3.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Oliin View Post
    Oddly enough some people find that sort of thing hysterical. It always makes me sort of cringe uncomfortably instead of laugh, but to each their own right.
    I find it very funny.


    Oh and tonights Fringe was awesome.
  16. Can I get a Woot! Woot! ?
  17. Not for a long time, and it wasn't just /kins that could do it.

    The devs changed the nature of pets back in i5 and now controller pets can no longer exist in multiple castings.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Talia_Rayvyn View Post
    **SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!**


    That is all.
    This
  19. The producers did say that you will get answers early on this show. In fact they said the second episode will answer many questions from the first episode.

    I too, think the Dad is one of "them".
  20. Quote:
    although I thought the Repo Man was a bit gratuitous
    Quote:
    Repo Man a bit gratuitous? There's an entire generation or two that won't get that reference.
    Have to agree with the Santaman, Local. That's a pretty obscure reference even for people of our *cough cough* age range.
  21. MentalMaden

    Chuck 9/20

    Well there wasn't an official thread but one kind of started here.

    But yes that was Linda Hamilton as Chuck and Ellies buttkicking mom. And yeah a great start to the season.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Local_Man View Post
    I thought it was a fun episode. Mama Bartowski can kick some major butt, but you knew that was gonna happen when they cast Linda Hamilton. Dolph and Harry Dean Stanton were fun to add to the mix, although I thought the Repo Man was a bit gratuitous. Olivia was nice eye candy, but I don't recall much of an explanation of "Gretta." I might have missed it, as stuff was going on at home during the show.

    With the "new" Buy More, it will be interesting to see how they mix in some of the old Buy More crew.
    I also liked that he interviewed at Vandalay Industries. Glad Chuck is back. I think Momma is going to be trouble.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Baler View Post
    Burmuda Triangle connection + Area 51-like detention/research facility + human looking prisoners = first (accidental) and now second (much more public) contact with the Lost City of Atlantis civilization?
    That's a good theory and may explain why they are being held in a snowy mountain prison. (If they are somehow "special" and if it has to do with the ocean)
  24. I'm thinking alternate dimension people, although the jumping back and forth with the narrative would be a nice hint towards time travelers.

    I've always like John Ritters son as an actor, good to see his legacy still going.

    My initial thoughts, "You took 97 of ours, now we'll take 97 of yours."- kind of stand off.

    I like it, has potential.