Off: Metallica

[Jon Jarrett]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Ted Jackson wrote:

> On 14 Nov 2002, at 23:42, Tom Clark wrote:
>
> > 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,
>
> They are, to me, irrelevant, but they did have the good taste to cover
> a BÖC song, and not a thrashing one at that.  If some misguided
> kid got turned on to BÖC because of them, then their existence is
> justified...

        'Tis maybe worth mentioning that when Bouchard Dunaway Smith
played in London Joe introduced `Astronomy', if memory serves, as, "a song
I wrote which Metallica covered". I don't think that, at least, has done
anyone any harm. Yours,
                        Jon (who, before he gave up on Usenet (this
time) had seen far too much to think that a bash-Metallica list was a new
idea... )

ObCD: Pink Fairies - _Never Never Land_
--
"I recognise that I have transgressed many of the precepts of the divine
law, and that I am subjected by various vices and iniquities, disobedient
to the words of the divine mystery brought unto me and a worshipper of the
delights of this military age." Marquis Borrell of Barcelona, 955 A.D.

             (Jonathan Jarrett, Birkbeck College London)