Off: Metallica

[Tom Clark]

Someone had to bring up Metallica.  Sounds like a new idea for a "I hate
Metallica" list.

Personally, I thought of them as rehashed metal, and not very original, and
the singer has always sounded like a pimply faced wannabe rock star from day
one, though to be contradictory, maybe one or two of their compositions are
worthwhile, though not worth buying albums......except for stealing tunes
from Napster for fun and then deleting them off the hard drive.  Lars,
though perhaps "intellectual", always seemed to me to be a pompous
know-it-all who thinks they have a corner on the genre.

Motorhead, on the other hand, is the "real thing", as are many other bands I
can go on naming who are truly original.

That is my opinion, for what it's worth. Never owned a Metallica, or Def
Lepperd album, for that matter, and never will.

That's my opinion of Metallica, for what it's worth.


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Howard & Kim Pieters" <info at RELEVENTS.ORG>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: OFF: how long, how many, and why


> Dear Doug,
>
> Kim is indeed a terrifying bassist who can clear the stage with her power,
> then entice everyone back with her delicacy; I've passed your comments on
> and she is doing an imitation of a Cheshire cat. Having said that, she's
> just taken the magnificent 'Quark Strangeness and Charm' off the turntable
> and put P.J. Harvey's 'To Give You My Love' on the CD player. This
> represents a decline twice over: from Hawkwind to Harvey (good as she is),
> from vinyl to CD.
>
> Regarding other list members' comments on Metallica, I can't comment on
the
> originality or otherwise of the lineup. What I can say is that when I was
a
> small part of  the '98 'Loaded' tour they impressed me with their work
> ethic, their lack of snobbery, and the affection they had for one another;
> while Lars Ulrich is the dominant intellect he shares an easy trust with
> James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, and Jason Newsted.
>
> David Howard
>