Monday, January 3, 2005

Metallica - How To Improve Them
There used to be a time where Metallica used to be my favourate Music artist but in the last 10 months or so they have slowly gone down in my favourates lists, The reasons are various, firstly i like to rank my artists on my favourate Songs albums And ratio of good songs to bad songs... This last one is where Metallica Fail badly at Times.

To Point an Example I will use the Albums 'Ride The lightning' (1984) And the newest release 'St.Anger' (2003)

Firstly Ride The Lightning (1984)

Everytrack is Excellant the only Track That doesnt get an 8/10 or higher is 'Escape'

St,Anger however...

Tracklist..

1)Frantic (6/10
2)St. Anger(7/10)
3)Some kind of monster(7/10)
4)Dirty Window (4/10)
5)Invisible Kid (3/10)
6)My World (5/10)
7)Shoot Me Again (4/10)
8)Sweet Amber (5.5/10)
9)The Unnamed Feeling (8/10)
10)Purify (5/10)
11)All Within My Hands (3/10)

See what has happened they've got worse O_O!!!

How to fix the problem IMO:-

1)Fire/Dismiss Bob Rock, He noticably enough took control of producing Metallica's Albums after ...And Justice for all, All the following Albums where poorer than before Bob rocks arrival, All he has done is shorten the songs, Made the music less listenable and milked them for Cash.
2)Revive Cliff Burton from The Dead, Quite frankly if Burton hadnt methis Tragic end then Metallica never would have lost there cutting edge in Thrash music and he wouldnt have let them be commercailised, Newstead was not anadaquate replacement simply because he didnt have as much song writing talent as Burton... Hopefully Trujuo can help out in the songs department.
3)Get back to Old school Covers (Quite franky thecovers for 'Metallica', 'Load', 'Reload' and 'St.Anger' Sucked horrible... Whatever happened to the artwork on such classics as 'master of Puppets' ?
4)Take more time in gathering better and more intelligent inspiration... Some inspired by a Car ('Fuel') Do not square up to the serious inspiration behind the older Metallica stuff ('Ride The Lightning - False Execution)
5)Listen to There Fans! They should have learned by the release of Reload the fans where not happy with there change in direction.
6)Take more time in recording songs, It seems like The Last 3 albums where rushed as far asrecordings where concerned but they have proven they can right good one offs (such as 'No Leaf Clover', 'I Disappear' and '- Humamn) So it shows there not impicabable of writing good clever stuff
7)Work more on Guitar riffs than on Trying to gain quick Money for The next album
8)Get rid of those 'soup cans' (aka. drums) that where used in 'St.Anger'
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