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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome back to the show you can't be

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serious podcasts. This week, d we are going to continue

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our study with Metallica and we are going to go

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track by track to the Black album.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. This album was the album that changed the direction

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of the band. It offended a lot of their hardcore fans,

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but it also introduced them to a whole spectrum of

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new fans, including yours, truly and me. I can probably

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play more songs off of this album than any other

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album On the guitar. I learned just about every song

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that I could on this album. But the other reason

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for that is these songs were easier to play than

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what they had been playing before. These were some simple, straightforward,

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good melody songs.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a guitar player, but I can tell that

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they're simpler. Yeah, but they are awesome. Yes, I mean

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there are some grand slams on this.

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Speaker 2: Album, absolutely five of them, at least at least five.

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So let's let's dive into it. Man.

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Speaker 1: This album, as you said last time, it was remixed

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three times, it cost one million dollars to make and mix,

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and it ended three marriages.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It literally like Lars Kirk and Jason all got

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divorced while this album was going on, which is tragic,

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and they ended up putting a lot of those guilt

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and emotions into the songs, which may be part of

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why it's so good. But as we talked about last time,

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Lars said, I wanted to do something that was less

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technically difficult, but more soulful and something that I could

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feel more than think about. And boy, they hit it

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on the head. Before we get going, I just want

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to point something out. We have been talking to each

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other now for a couple of years face to face,

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and one of the reasons that I can do that

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is because you don't have nose hair. Have you been

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talking to people and like you can't even concentrate on

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what they're saying because of their nose hair.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, they like tuck to you.

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Speaker 2: It dangles, Yes, it wiggles. It's a total distraction. Absolutely,

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It's not embarrassing. You just stick it up there.

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Speaker 2: It takes care of it. You're not gonna look at

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people and bother them, right, And I'm one of those

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guys who's self conscious about my nose hair. So somebody

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that you're gonna see me and I'm gonna be like

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yanking them out and wincing in pain, don't do that.

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And I'd like to point out that a giraffe is

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easier to see in the planes than it is in

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the forest. That's wonderful. Yes, yes it is.

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Speaker 1: So it's very good around sensitive areas, if you know

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what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. They have also an entire shavekit called the Ultra

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order and free ship and whack it perfect time. They

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shouldn't but as simple as it was, and as soulful

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as it was, it was really difficult to make. I

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mean we talked about it took eight months of recording,

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and they're working with Bob Rock, who was a guy

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that they had hesitation about, and he was a guy

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that put the thumbs to him man. I mean, he

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pushed hard against what they had gotten used to in

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their previous recordings, and he's he's very much in that

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school of Mut Lang of you don't have it right yet,

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you don't have it right yet, We're gonna keep record

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it until you get it right. So they did take

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after take after take and sometimes almost on all of

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these songs. Actually it was the other Mutt Lang approach

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of all right, well we had a good you know,

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first four measures in this recording, we have a better

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sounding second four measures in this recording. And so it

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was a mix and match. And there's a movie that

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came out that was a documentary called A Year and

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a Half in the Life of Metallica, where you watched

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them go through this very difficult process with Bob Rock.

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They did not like each other at the end of

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all of this, right, Yeah, there's a point where Kirk

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has recorded something over and over and Lars is listening

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to it and they're like, well, we want to use

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it right in here. And he's like, you know, hey, guys,

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that's great. You know, I can't wait until you're able

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to do that with the drums and I don't even

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have to show up. He's like, pretty soon we're going

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to be like giving you guys the music and we'll

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be able to come back and get the money whenever

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you know you've recorded it all. It's kind of scary

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how prophetic that was, because that's the way it is now. Yeah.

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I saw the meme today where it was like rock

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band in the nineteen eighties and it was this band

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inside a garage, and then rock band in the twenty

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tens and it's this guy with a guitar in front

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of his computer. Yeah, we're ready for another revolution, folks.

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Speaker 1: So one of the things she talked about was who

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knows when in the timeline this was, but it was

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late in the game. Yeah, and Lars is like, you know,

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I and bout Rock's like what Lars, what what? Just

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spit it out I mean he doesn't even say anything bad.

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Speaker 2: He's just kind of.

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Speaker 1: Like I think maybe you know he had had it,

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but it was it was really funny. So this is

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their fifth album. Yeah, as we said, it was released

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August twelfth of nineteen ninety one. We just hit the

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thirtieth anniversary of this album. This album's thirty years old.

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Speaker 2: Crazy, I can't believe it.

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Speaker 1: And they've played Inner Sam added every single football game

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Speaker 2: If you have one song to pick, that is the

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Hey flagpole song for every you know, take a take

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a survey of all human beings who have heard of Metallica,

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and say, what's the one song that you think of.

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Speaker 1: It's Sam and without a doubt. So this was released

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August twelfth, nineteen ninety one. On August second of nineteen

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ninety one, they had the listening party. I thought this

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was super cool if you're in and around New York

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City in nineteen ninety one. Yep, they gave out nineteen

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thousand free tickets to go to masson Square Garden. The

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band was not going to play live. They were just

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going to play the album and let fans hear it

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and there's sort of judge feedback wise what they thought,

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which I thought that was super cool and I would

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Speaker 2: Have been there during that time. When this album was released,

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debuted at number one in ten different countries. It sold

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six hundred and fifty thousand copies in the first week,

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like it was, and it started just going a million

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a week, a million a week, a million a week,

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knowing it knocked out of the number one spot. Oh, okay,

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this is going to blow you away. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: This is the music scene in nineteen ninety one, which

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we've already said was not good until fall.

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Speaker 2: Right. Unforgettable, that's what you all.

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Speaker 1: Unforgettable Natalie Cole's unforgettable. Unforgettable.

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Speaker 2: Oh the copy that she did with her dad from

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like one hundred years ago.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, there's a duet with her father, her dead father.

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Speaker 2: Kind of forgettable.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of neat. Yeah, not my favorite, No, it's not,

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certainly not. When I was eighteen, I liked.

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Speaker 2: It when he sang it. Anyway, back to Metallica, Okay, okay,

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just a couple more things before we dive in.

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Speaker 1: Track by track, Bob Rock thought this was going to

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be easy until he met the guys and realized they're

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all perfectionists, yes, and of course he's a perfectionist, yes,

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Speaker 2: For example, kirk Ham is a very spiritual guy, right,

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and so he's very touchy feely does it feel right

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in the moment kind of deal, and Bob Rock is right,

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is like, this isn't good enough. You have to do more,

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do it more, do it more, do And Lars starts

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to stand up and he's like, well, you know, this

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just isn't the way that he is. You know, this

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isn't the type of guy that he is. And he's like,

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but it's not to the quality that it needs to

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be and he goes, yeah, but you just can't. You

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can't push him. He goes, I can't push him to

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be good. You want me to have him not be good?

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Is that what you're suggesting? He's like, no, I'm not.

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He's like, well, what are you suggesting? It is? I'm

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not suggesting anything.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's exactly right, And I want to talk about

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that and more and depth when we get down forgiven. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And Justice Frock said Hey, you guys know this thing

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called bass it exists.

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Speaker 1: There was almost no base on Injustice for All is

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kind of a way of punishing Jason for being the

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new guy guy. James Hetfield was inspired by Bob Dylan,

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Bob Marley and John Lennon when he wrote this album. Okay,

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the more beatlesque, yeah for sure, and more melodies. You

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have James Hetfield singing instead of screaming on this album.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: This is the untitled Metallica album. People referred to it

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as the Black album. It was almost called five because

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it was the fifth album.

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Speaker 2: So you know the bit about Spinal Tap thing, right, Yeah,

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so Spinal Tap came out in eighty four. But in

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Spinal Tap they were like, I think we just do

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an album that's just all black. Just the whole album

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is black. It's like a white album, except he's black.

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Speaker 1: It was the guy on Laverne Shirley who starred in

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Spinal Tab and he's talking to Lars and James and

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Speaker 2: We've got a bound to pick with bass. You know,

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it's cool black album. It's a cool black album.

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Speaker 3: Now, where did the idea come from?

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Speaker 2: Do an all black album? Metallica representing Tato. Well, I'll

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tell you something, if it had been a really pissed

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cool album, then we would have gotten right TikTok.

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Speaker 4: You know, if they would have bought it was off.

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Speaker 5: It was a jacent album, didn't sell badly, so we

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Speaker 1: But when you said that this album hit number one,

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this I thought this quote was gold from Lars. He's like,

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you have the number one record in America and the

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whole world will And I just stood there in my

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hotel room and there was this facts that says you're

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number one, and I was like, well, okay, it was

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just another facts from the office and standing there in

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his underwear like hey, I'm number one.

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Speaker 2: Awesome. Okay. So we're about to have the slower, heavier,

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more refined and not nearly as thrash Metallica, but man,

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we still start kicking button.

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Speaker 1: Let's go track by track, starting with one of the

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most well known rock songs of the.

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Speaker 2: Nineties, of ever, of ever, of ever, the defining Metallica

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song Enter Sandman. It's amazing.

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Speaker 1: I saw d Snyder talk about this song one day. Yeah,

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he said that the intro to the song is so

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good you don't want to get to the chorus.

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Speaker 2: That's true, that's exactly right. That is exactly right. So, yes,

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this is more melodic, Yes it's more basic, but man,

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it's still kicks some butty, are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: This is maybe the greatest rock song since Welcome to

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the Jungle.

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Speaker 2: Woo okay, interesting all right, and commenced to head beannging.

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Speaker 2: So this song is about nightmares. This song they had

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in nineteen ninety. But it was just the music. They

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riff that Kirk Khanmon had done. He talked about how

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he you know, he just records. You've got the recorder

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next year, and you just play and then you listen

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to it and sometimes you go, hey, that sounded good.

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I'm gonna go back and figure out what I did

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right there the original way it was right, except with

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this one. He did that and Lars was the one

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that was listening to it and he's like, hey, you

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had this one part that was done. No, no, no, I

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think you should play it three times and then do

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that little break that that after that, and that's how

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Speaker 1: You can actually see that happen when you watch that

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documentary and you have the birth of the greatest rock

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anthem of all time.

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Speaker 2: It is a one riff song. It's a one riff song,

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like that's it, but it is amazing. So they started

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off with the music in ninety but this was one

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of the very last songs to have the lyrics really. Yeah.

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about basically the destruction of the perfect family, like there

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was a crib death involved in all that, like sids. Yeah,

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and it's bob Rock and Laura's Alrich said that's not good.

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You can do better than that, and so that's how

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he came up with the nightmares themed song that we

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have before us. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I heard somebody describe it as the world's first metal lullaby.

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Speaker 2: Here's something interesting. The music part of it, Kirk Hammon said,

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was inspired by Sound Gardens Louder than Love.

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Speaker 1: Soundgarden another album that came out Fall of ninety one, incredible,

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Speaker 2: Now I lay me down.

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Speaker 1: To sleep, and it's like a father teaching a child

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what to say as you're going to sleep, because the

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Sandman he's coming.

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Speaker 2: Now down ray ther.

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Speaker 4: My die before I rave my die.

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Speaker 1: The So they did say that they wanted to incorporate

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some more adult nightmare images into it, but they didn't

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want anything stupid like Frankenstein, you know, jumping around the

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corner and scaring you. This song reached number sixteen on

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the Hot one hundred.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So in watching A Year and a half in

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the Life of Metallica, it shows the part where they're

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recording the Little Kid, and this just is another example

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of Bob rockness. He's like, now I lay me down

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to sleep. Now I lay me down to sleep. I

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pray the Lord myself. Okee, I pray the Lord myss.

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And he goes through the whole thing and Bob Rock's like,

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all right, let's do it again, and he guds like,

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what did I do wrong?

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Speaker 1: That kid's now approaching forty whoosh? Have you ever heard

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this song tapping into the emotional void?

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Speaker 2: Only because you played it for me about twenty minutes

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ago and I was like, oh, this is somebody covering

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inner Sandman acoustically and you said, no, no, this was before.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear it.

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Speaker 2: You're really pretty on the nose. Sounds a little bit familiar,

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doesn't it. Yeah, it really does.

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Speaker 1: So that's a group named Excel, not Microsoft Excel, just

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regular Excel, and the members were considering legal action. Don't

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know whatever happened to that. Let's talk about the video

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for a second. Okay, So the video was directed by

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our guy named Wayne Eisham.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we've talked.

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Speaker 1: We've talked about him a bunch. He directed all the

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Bonjovie videos. He's directed a billion videos.

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Speaker 2: But it was.

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Speaker 1: Recorded in Los Angeles and in premiere July third, nineteen

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ninety one, two weeks before the release of the album.

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And you have this kind of nightmare scenario. But you

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have this really cool scene where there's a semi bearing

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down on a bed in the middle of the highway.

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And when James Hetfield goes at that part in the

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song where he goes boom, the semi truck hits the bed.

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Speaker 2: Oh all right. So there's an old man, there's a

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little kid who's praying, and then there's an old man.

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You know, the old man is old, crinkly faced dude.

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You know who it is, tell me who is I

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don't who's it? Okay, So the guy's name is R. G. Armstrong. Okay,

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you'd know him if you saw him, but I'm going

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to give you some clues. He was in Dick Tracy.

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He played prune Face, but you probably know him as

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General Phillips from Prederick Get to the Chopper.

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Speaker 1: This one Best Hard Rock Video at the nineteen ninety

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two TV Music Awards. Besides being played at every single

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football game ever known demand since nineteen ninety one, all

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their live shows too. Oh yeah, I mean they have to.

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This is one of those must plays the Yankees. The

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New York Yankees would play this song whenever their all

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time great closer, Mariano Rivera took the mound, and they

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did it so like he's recognized as being the.

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Speaker 2: Greatest relief picture of all time.

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Speaker 1: It coincided so much with him, he became known as

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the Sandman.

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Speaker 2: Oh nice, kind of like wild thing. Yeah nice.

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Speaker 1: When Mariano Rivera retired, Metallica came and played live inside

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Yankee Stadium when he took the mound for the last time.

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Speaker 2: That's the best thing of the show. How about that?

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We can stop now because that's the coolest thing of

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the show.

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Speaker 1: How about that this has been covered a million times.

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I listened to one today by Weezer, and of course

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Pat Boone has covered this.

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Speaker 4: Song with.

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Speaker 2: The've been Your Pillow tide head Boon never afraid to

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steal something and make it terrible, So you sent me

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this thing that was There's this huge, like tribute album

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that's coming out, like fifty three different artists playing their

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favorite songs off the Black album. Yes, it's called Blacklisted.

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That's it Blacklisted? Yeah, Yeah, And I'm excited to hear it.

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I haven't heard it yet, I've just I just saw

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the preview and it looks exciting. There are a couple

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of bands, there's some of it is available on Spotify

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if you want to listen to the who Hu Not

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Right Who? Which is a band I saw with my

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dad that I've mentioned in a podcast in the past,

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the ones that do the double vocaling like Bill and

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Ted do at the beginning to face the music. I'm

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really excited to hear whatever version. And then I've also

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seen Cage the Elephant, who's done one of the best

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live shows I've ever seen. I can't wait covering too. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, and I think like Darius record does cover of

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nothing else matters that I can't wait to hear.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we don't say. Man, it's unfortunate because it

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is a tent fole song. But guys, so good. We're

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moving into something that's still pretty friggin' awesome.

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Speaker 1: Here it comes track number two, Sad but True.

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Speaker 2: Dude, you got the incredible use of the silent break

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right before I love Love Love, the way that it stops,

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and the drums. Oh man, too good.

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Speaker 1: You have that crunchy guitar at the beginning.

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Speaker 2: Just oh so good.

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Speaker 1: Sad but True was the fifth single, released February eighth,

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nineteen ninety three. This is one of those five singles

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that was an absolute home run.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so what do you think the son's about?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So this is the interesting thing about their music

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now they do have more serious tone stuff. It's not

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girls and booze and the typical party rock that you

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and I like.

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Speaker 2: Right, it's not the Motley Crue sex stuff all of

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the time, sex, drugs and sex. Yes, right, how about

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some more sex stripper music. So I thought it was

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interesting the way they weart their music is they come

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up with a riff, a riff that they can build

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a song on, and then they sort of grow it

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from there. But they have a running title list, so

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they just have words that they think sounds cool. So

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they had a list that had sad but true. Enter Sandman,

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nothing else matters, uh huh, and they're like, hmm, this

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sounds like sad right true. And then they take that title,

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they take the riff, they mash those together, and they

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build a song of pain while you're you know, okay,

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so we really don't know what it means. I don't.

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I mean, I'm looking at these lyrics and I can

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understand that it's like, I'm the evil side of you.

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That's kind of the impression that I get. And that's

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the idea is that's sad but true, but I'm you.

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Speaker 1: Well, Hatfield has talked about how in this song it's

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about his duality, right like inside of me, there's the

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public me and there's the the me me, you know,

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and how there's one good and one evil and they

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kind of wrestle with you.

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Speaker 2: I'm the hate when you want love. So musically, there's

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an interesting thing that happened on this one. So Bob

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Rock is looking at their songs and looking at all

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of the chord progressions, and he's like, these songs are

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all in. What's up, guys, you know? And they're like, well,

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we're a heavy metal band. Turns out we like E

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Shocker And he's like, yeah, but you know the bass.

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Remember what he said he introduced the bass bob, He's

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lowest note. He's like, you can tune it down. People

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do it all the time. You know that album that

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you called me because you liked the Doctor Feel Good album. Wow,

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drop D. You know, take that E note and tune

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it down a full step. And that's where we get

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the music for Sad but True. That's where that's why

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it sounds so heavy and full on that base side

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of things. It's because they're doing a drop D tuning.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Motley Crue for giving us Sad but True.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, we're gonna get a fire. Okay. So

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the solo that happens in this one is pretty freaking awesome.

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All right. So, just before you can hear this double track,

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guitar and then they do that stop that I was

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talking about. Stop drums come in. And this is a

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great solo because instead of doing the metal style leads

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that he's done in the past, Kirk is doing something

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far more blues based like this. It sounds like he's

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almost playing with a slide. I'm not sure if he

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is or not, but it sounds so more blues scale,

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blues riff than any of the stuff they've done before.

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And it's one of those solos that you're going to

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play along the air guitar with because it's memorable. It

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sticks in your head and it kills it kills it.

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Speaker 1: We were talking about that documentary earlier, Bob Rock said,

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Kirk is one those guys you have to push right

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and so he'll just throw out some crap and you're like,

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what do you think and he's like, no, not good enough,

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keep going. Yeah, So clearly he was being pushed on

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this song for sure. All right, but don't saba true.

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It's Saba true, all right. Song number three, this song

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is called Holier than Thou.

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Speaker 2: All right, So just when you thought we had moved

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into the blues, let me bring back the thrash metal

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right now. Yeah, this one's really heavy. It starts off

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super heavy, yeah, and repetitive. I mean that.

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Speaker 1: Little loop I counted it. It's twenty four times.

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Speaker 2: This is really long, over and over and over again,

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which I understand the build. You know what, Bob Rock

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wanted this to be there first.

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Speaker 1: This is a great story.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So they're sitting in a restaurant and he's like,

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you know, guys, obviously the first song, first single that

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needs to be released soldier than that. And they're like, really, Bob,

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tell us why just the way that it builds and

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you start, You've got the drums, then the guitars build

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on top of it, and you've got the dynamics in

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the song. And he's yeah, he was. He was selling

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it hard.

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Speaker 1: You can see it in the documentary him actually say

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these words with songs like Unforgiven and Enter Sandman and

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Wherever I May Room.

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Speaker 2: Which is nuts because he's the guy that like like

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led them away from the thrash metal sound. But he's

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suggesting that the thrash metal be the first song that

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comes off the album. It's it's just interesting. I don't

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know if they turned him or if he just thought,

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you need to have this as the first single because

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your fans will buy in that way. I don't I

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don't know, I don't know. So here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I thought this was great, and he's probably protecting

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himself a little bit because he does seem a little

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silly when he when he said those words, he said,

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00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,720
this was before there were words laid down for any track,

471
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:03,000
including Samon, right, and so he just thought he liked

472
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,720
the crunch and he said it was early on, and

473
00:26:05,839 --> 00:26:09,519
the songs later sort of blossomed into these mega songs,

474
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:11,680
and so it was a little early.

475
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:11,920
Speaker 2: In the game.

476
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,039
Speaker 1: And he's like, but yeah, So the band whenever they

477
00:26:14,319 --> 00:26:16,359
see him, like they'll be like, hey, Bob.

478
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 2: How's it going.

479
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,160
Speaker 1: He's like, fine, guys, how's it going. They're like, holyer

480
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:25,160
than now? Huh? That was early in the game. I

481
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:38,559
think that's hilarious.

482
00:26:39,279 --> 00:26:39,880
Speaker 2: The lyrics.

483
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,640
Speaker 1: Bob initially thought it might even be about him being

484
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:43,480
holier than now.

485
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,599
Speaker 2: Oh interesting, Okay, what do you think you like this one? Well,

486
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:53,359
I hate to judge it lest I judge myself. That's good. Yeah,

487
00:26:53,559 --> 00:26:55,839
I mean I could see it being about Bob or

488
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,079
anybody else who's probably given them trouble along the way.

489
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,319
This is a I don't need your attitude and your opinions, right,

490
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,079
you're thinking you're better than me. Good song. There's better

491
00:27:05,079 --> 00:27:07,799
songs there. I'm ready to jump to track number four

492
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,319
for sure. I'm listening to the album. I'm like, I'm

493
00:27:11,319 --> 00:27:13,400
hearing the same thing. I'm like, Okay, you've played it

494
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,039
too long. I don't care what the words are.

495
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: Moving on the next song on the album, track number four,

496
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:19,079
the Unforgiven.

497
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 2: Okay, throw back to Van Halen sound effect at the

498
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,880
beginning of the song. What Doppler effect of the thing

499
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:38,000
going by card going by? Yeah? But then we come

500
00:27:38,039 --> 00:27:40,359
in after we've had this thrash metal song. We come

501
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:48,039
in with a classical guitar playing a almost Spanish style balad. Yeah,

502
00:27:48,119 --> 00:28:11,279
it's sweet and sad. It is sweet and sad, and

503
00:28:11,319 --> 00:28:13,960
then you get a little lead over the top and

504
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:19,039
it's beautiful. It's hooky. This song is gold and they've

505
00:28:19,079 --> 00:28:22,920
totally stolen it from themselves. I've brought you this today

506
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,799
because and I wish I could say, you know, I

507
00:28:25,839 --> 00:28:27,880
wish I could say, well, I recognized the song when

508
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:29,759
I heard the Black Album for the first time, because

509
00:28:29,839 --> 00:28:32,039
but I didn't, because I've already said I came through

510
00:28:32,039 --> 00:28:34,559
the Black Album and then went back to the other albums.

511
00:28:34,759 --> 00:28:37,400
And this morning, as I was working out listening to

512
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,640
Fade to Black, I was like, this is the same

513
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,240
chord progression as Unforgiven. And I said to you, and

514
00:28:43,279 --> 00:28:45,119
you're like, I'm too familiar with Fade to Black to

515
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,920
hear it. But I looked it up. Literally exactly the

516
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,759
same chords. There's a bit of a twinge difference at

517
00:28:51,759 --> 00:28:54,960
the end of a line or two, but it is

518
00:28:55,279 --> 00:28:58,160
the exact same chords from beginning to end. It's not

519
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,200
where Fade to Black first starts, but once you get

520
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,119
down at the intro guitar intro on theta black and

521
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:07,839
then go into the more acoustic sound, Yeah, it's the same.

522
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,519
Speaker 1: Interesting. Well, they're both wonderful songs. Yeah, and you know,

523
00:29:12,599 --> 00:29:14,359
if it works, keep going to it. You sure they

524
00:29:14,359 --> 00:29:19,680
reused it again Unforgiven Part two. This song has sequels. Yeah,

525
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,960
it has an Unforgiven Part two and an Unforgiven Part three.

526
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:23,839
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.

527
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: This was released October twenty third of ninety one. This

528
00:29:26,759 --> 00:29:29,000
is the second single. I thought it was interesting that

529
00:29:29,079 --> 00:29:32,000
they wanted to do something with a heavy verse and

530
00:29:32,079 --> 00:29:48,759
a soft chorus running out. That was the goal when

531
00:29:48,759 --> 00:29:49,480
they made this song.

532
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's such heartbreaking lyrics. I mean, the New

533
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,559
Blood joining the earth and immediately he's subdued and he

534
00:29:58,599 --> 00:30:02,000
has pain and discrace and he has to learn the rules,

535
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,359
and it's just, you know, the whipping void done wrong.

536
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 3: It is tragedy of a beaten down life shot.

537
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,799
Speaker 1: Okay, d I want to talk about the guitar solo

538
00:30:38,039 --> 00:30:41,039
on this song Unforgive. This is the song where Bob

539
00:30:41,119 --> 00:30:44,599
Rock was like Kirk that that solo is not good enough.

540
00:30:45,079 --> 00:30:48,119
Go back and try again. And he kept trying and

541
00:30:48,119 --> 00:30:49,960
and he kept sort of browbeating him to.

542
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:51,079
Speaker 2: Come up with something better.

543
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 1: He's like, you have to respect the song. The song

544
00:30:54,359 --> 00:30:56,640
is too good for you just to throw out a

545
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,759
crappy the solo. And Kirk had said, I just don't

546
00:30:59,759 --> 00:31:01,960
really have the feel. He's like, that's what all lazy

547
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,319
players say. I don't have the feel. Go back and

548
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:06,880
come up with something better.

549
00:31:43,559 --> 00:31:58,759
Speaker 6: And and so that's why we have this screaming awesome

550
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:02,680
guitar solo is because Kirk was pushed to the edge

551
00:32:02,759 --> 00:32:04,359
and he was breaking emotionally.

552
00:32:04,599 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: You know you mentioned that horn at the very beginning.

553
00:32:06,559 --> 00:32:07,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, that horn.

554
00:32:08,039 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: They actually reverse it so that people can't recognize it.

555
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,920
It was stolen from a Western movie, although they haven't

556
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,480
really named it because for you know, legal reasons, they

557
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,759
don't like to get sued, right, And most people think it's

558
00:32:18,799 --> 00:32:21,640
from the Clin Eastwood movie for a few dollars more.

559
00:32:21,519 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 2: Which is interesting that the clinicst Wood then came out

560
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,000
with a movie called The Unforgive Ah.

561
00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you think about that there, you got

562
00:32:27,039 --> 00:32:27,440
good job?

563
00:32:27,599 --> 00:32:29,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, I told you I had.

564
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: I had a cool story about this, right, So listen

565
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,799
to this. When Dave Mustaine was fired from Metallica, yep,

566
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,759
he could not bring himself to listen to them, look

567
00:32:37,799 --> 00:32:39,119
at them, think about them.

568
00:32:39,119 --> 00:32:39,839
Speaker 2: Mention their name.

569
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,319
Speaker 1: He was very bitter, right, yes, And we talked about

570
00:32:42,359 --> 00:32:44,680
how he felt like Kirk took his job and stole

571
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:46,960
his riffs right and still his riffs right. But when

572
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,599
he finally got around to listening to Metallica and he

573
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,680
listened to this album and this was the song that

574
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,160
he gravitated towards. This is the lead singer of Megadeth.

575
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,559
When he was talking to Revolver magazine, he said, I

576
00:32:57,599 --> 00:32:59,720
remember hearing this song when I was talking to Lars

577
00:32:59,759 --> 00:33:01,839
One and telling him this was my favorite song off

578
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,400
the Blackout, and he's like, wow, really, that's surprising, and

579
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,640
he said I liked it because this is the first

580
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:09,880
time I'd ever really heard him sing.

581
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 2: It's awesome. Yeah, he's He definitely brought vocals in this one.

582
00:33:14,759 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: Okay, I got something for you on the music video. Okay, okay,

583
00:33:18,759 --> 00:33:23,039
this video was directed by a guy named Matt Maharan.

584
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:24,920
I'm not sure I'm pronouncing it.

585
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,759
Speaker 2: It's easy for you to say, Matt Mcharran. Okay.

586
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:32,519
Speaker 1: Now, he's a video director, he's a photographer. He has

587
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,519
done a number of things, but you will know him.

588
00:33:36,079 --> 00:33:39,839
He's the guy who took the picture of OJ Simpson's

589
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:44,000
mugshot that Time magazine then sort of filtered to make

590
00:33:44,079 --> 00:33:48,400
him look darker. Yeah, and it was a very controversial picture.

591
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:50,759
Speaker 2: This is the guy who took that picture.

592
00:33:51,039 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: Oh wow, So that picture that he took ended up

593
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,279
on the cover of Time magazine. We don't get into

594
00:33:56,279 --> 00:34:01,319
politics on here. Moving on this song number five, This

595
00:34:01,559 --> 00:34:14,199
is Wherever I May roam.

596
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 2: Okay. This is a different sound. Yeah, that's sitar at

597
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:20,400
the beginning. Yeah, it's got a very middle least kind

598
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:24,800
of sound to it. And while they were recording this album,

599
00:34:25,079 --> 00:34:27,119
Lars came in one day and they had an entire

600
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:40,559
table full of different percussive instruments, and so the little

601
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,679
see the two hear he I'm sure pulled off of that,

602
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,039
and you get some knocking here and there. At one

603
00:34:46,039 --> 00:34:49,320
point it showed James Headfield cocking a gun as one

604
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,079
of the right. They added a lot of sound samples

605
00:34:52,079 --> 00:34:55,840
in this one, but it's weird to hear Metallica coming

606
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,239
in with the sitar. Now. The Beatles way back in

607
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,000
the sixties had done citar music. It pops up with

608
00:35:01,079 --> 00:35:03,400
Led Zeppelin from time to time, something like that, but

609
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,800
not something I was expecting from Metallica. But then they

610
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,800
take that very Middle East sound and then they drill

611
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:14,440
the drums and they make it a booming guitar lead,

612
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,639
booming guitar riff, and I love it. This is my

613
00:35:17,679 --> 00:35:21,079
favorite song on the album.

614
00:35:21,559 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 4: Back.

615
00:35:43,519 --> 00:35:46,599
Speaker 2: It's favorite song phantomas album. I'll listen to the beginning

616
00:35:46,639 --> 00:35:48,000
over and over again. I don't even need to listen

617
00:35:48,039 --> 00:35:48,360
to the rest.

618
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:50,280
Speaker 1: It's like, like you said, I don't even want to get.

619
00:35:50,119 --> 00:35:52,519
Speaker 2: To the chorus. I just want to listen to the

620
00:35:52,519 --> 00:35:54,000
intro to the song over and over.

621
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 1: The lyrics of this song and what really speak to me.

622
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,400
This is like a road Dog song. Right, there's this

623
00:35:59,519 --> 00:36:04,719
line in where he's like roamer, wanderer, nomad, vagabond, call

624
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:08,000
me what you will. But that's the idea of I

625
00:36:08,039 --> 00:36:09,199
get everything I need.

626
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,519
Speaker 2: From the road. It's a love song to the road.

627
00:36:11,599 --> 00:36:14,960
It is the road becomes my bride, and the road

628
00:36:15,079 --> 00:36:16,400
becomes my bride.

629
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 1: This was the fourth single released October nineteenth, ninety.

630
00:36:19,639 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 4: Two, abut on a Lawn, Road.

631
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,519
Speaker 2: Lawn. Such a good song.

632
00:36:41,519 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: Kirk Hammitt talks about when he talks about this song,

633
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:46,320
he remembers at the time being on tour. He said,

634
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,280
I bought a house last year that I haven't even

635
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:49,920
seen yet.

636
00:36:52,199 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. So the tour after this was called the Wherever

637
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,000
I May Roam Tour. Yeah, a great name for a tour.

638
00:36:57,079 --> 00:36:57,280
Speaker 7: Yeah.

639
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,079
Speaker 2: I mean, if the road is going to be your bride,

640
00:36:59,119 --> 00:37:01,119
it's gonna be where you're on tour. Right. Such a

641
00:37:01,119 --> 00:37:04,760
great song. And so the music video is it's their

642
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,199
road video. Man, it's the one that's got to have video, yeah,

643
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,480
to have it. So the Wherever I May Roam Tour

644
00:37:11,159 --> 00:37:14,119
is where they got the video for the Wherever I

645
00:37:14,199 --> 00:37:16,119
May Roam video. Yeah, you've got to have it.

646
00:37:16,159 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: Every band in the early nineties late eighties had to

647
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:19,519
have this this video.

648
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 2: So normally when they would play this song live, they

649
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,159
would start it off with the recording of the sitar

650
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,519
and they would let everybody walk out to this song

651
00:37:27,559 --> 00:37:30,760
because they didn't typically have a gitar right playing. All right,

652
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,760
we got to move on, Okay, moving on.

653
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,159
Speaker 1: The next song on the album is a song called

654
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:36,119
Don't Tread on Me.

655
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,760
Speaker 2: Okay. The song starts off with a lot of but kicking.

656
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,599
It's the headbanger. It is. We're back to our thrash now.

657
00:38:03,679 --> 00:38:07,360
This is almost like a thrash metal anthem. It's like

658
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:11,079
a patriotic metal anthem kind of yeah it is. I

659
00:38:11,079 --> 00:38:13,519
would say of all of the songs that were not

660
00:38:13,639 --> 00:38:16,559
singles on this album, this one's the best. Okay, interesting,

661
00:38:16,639 --> 00:38:18,239
I think it's better than any of the other non

662
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:20,880
single this is. This is a really good pump your fist,

663
00:38:21,039 --> 00:38:24,000
bang your head. It's not quite tapped your foot, but

664
00:38:24,079 --> 00:38:27,000
it's the lyrics are so on point that you're just

665
00:38:27,079 --> 00:38:28,280
you're still singing a lot.

666
00:38:28,519 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 1: Some people felt that this was a very pro America song,

667
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,119
and Halfield has him backed down for that. He's like,

668
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,880
you know, I've been out touring I've seen a lot

669
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,400
of places, and let me just say, America is really

670
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:47,559
a great place. Yeah, so you know, come to appreciate America,

671
00:38:47,599 --> 00:38:50,280
even with its warts. You know, America is pretty awesome.

672
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,039
Speaker 2: Yeah. He's not saying so be it. By the way,

673
00:38:53,599 --> 00:38:56,440
it's so be it, so be it, so be it. It's

674
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,199
not so Soviet. It's not saying so okay, it's not

675
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:02,000
the US song that's involved. It's not the USSR that

676
00:39:02,039 --> 00:39:06,400
you said threatened no more. It's interesting because ninety one right,

677
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:10,559
that having that just happening could have been Soviet. Sure, yeah,

678
00:39:10,599 --> 00:39:12,519
it's so be it. There were some people that were shot.

679
00:39:12,639 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: They thought they were a pro war band after the

680
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,039
song came out, after thinking they were an anti war band,

681
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:21,920
and I got to think that. You know, we talked

682
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:25,480
about they were recording this during the Persian Gulf War

683
00:39:25,639 --> 00:39:28,119
and people in America felt a lot of American pride

684
00:39:28,119 --> 00:39:29,079
at that moment in time.

685
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you say never surrender, showing the fangs

686
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:37,360
of rage, and then you say to secure peace is

687
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,039
to prepare for war. It's hard to say that.

688
00:39:40,079 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: They're all right, So don't tread on me is a

689
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:53,519
very popular term from colonial America. You have that famous flag,

690
00:39:53,559 --> 00:39:56,400
the Gadsden flag. Yeah, the snake, the snake that's on

691
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:58,480
the front cover of the album. If you can make

692
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:00,119
it out, it's barely on there.

693
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's the same snake.

694
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:02,199
Speaker 4: Yep.

695
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 2: I like this one.

696
00:40:03,039 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: I got no problems with it.

697
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 2: It's a butt kicker, all right.

698
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 1: So here's a great story for you about this song.

699
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:08,199
Speaker 2: Okay.

700
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,519
Speaker 1: So there's this Canadian woman named d Gallant. So she

701
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,360
was walking. She lives in British Columbia. She was walking

702
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,480
on a hike and there was a cougar that was

703
00:40:16,599 --> 00:40:20,519
coming after her. It's not the car, a real live

704
00:40:20,679 --> 00:40:23,920
mountain lion, right, a cougar, right, And so she started yelling,

705
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,480
making noises, trying to scare this cat away, and it

706
00:40:26,519 --> 00:40:30,119
wouldn't go, and so she pulled out her phone. She said,

707
00:40:30,159 --> 00:40:31,760
I was just looking for the loudest thing I could

708
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,280
possibly play Don't Tread on Me by Metallica, and the

709
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:36,920
cat left.

710
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:38,119
Speaker 2: Oh my god.

711
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 1: And so a week later she gets a phone call

712
00:40:41,559 --> 00:40:45,679
from mister James Heap. Oh wow, how cool is that?

713
00:40:45,679 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 2: That's freaking awesome? All right? We done with this one,

714
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,480
I think so. And I think if this was a

715
00:40:56,519 --> 00:40:58,519
tape this would be the end of side one, right.

716
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 1: Yep, push stop in your tape player, pick it out,

717
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:03,320
flip it over. Side two we start off with Through

718
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:19,920
the Never, one.

719
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 2: Of the songs where Third Rock from the Sun got

720
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:25,800
their name. What do you think about this one? Well,

721
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,440
I think that they tent pulled this album with their

722
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,719
thrash metal songs, which thrash metal is not my thing, right,

723
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,320
I mean, innerstand man, Obviously you've got to put that first, right,

724
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,760
it's going to appeal to everybody, even thrash metal, non

725
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,360
thrash metal. It doesn't matter. It's a winner. Right. But

726
00:41:39,599 --> 00:41:42,920
they end side one thrash metal. They begin side two

727
00:41:43,159 --> 00:41:45,320
thrash metal. Not anything, but it's not.

728
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 1: Bad, okay, Metallica name there twenty thirteen Imax concert.

729
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,079
Speaker 2: Film Through the Never. Did you watch that? No? I

730
00:41:52,079 --> 00:41:55,719
haven't figured you would watch that. No, really bad movies.

731
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:56,480
I try to.

732
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 1: I try to watch as many bad movies on the

733
00:41:58,840 --> 00:41:59,440
stuff as I can.

734
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,079
Speaker 2: You've seen any about it at all. It's supposed to

735
00:42:02,079 --> 00:42:04,800
be like surrounding their concert, but there's like a thriller

736
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:07,760
movie going on, like a storyline going on as well.

737
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: I saw the trailer. I watched the trailer. Yeah, there's

738
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,840
like some movie plot around their concert.

739
00:42:22,079 --> 00:42:23,760
Speaker 2: All right, d so you watch the trailer. What do

740
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:28,639
you think. I'm intrigued, legit, I thought, Okay, a thriller

741
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:32,480
surrounding a concert movie that can't really be pretty cool setting? Right?

742
00:42:32,519 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 7: Good?

743
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:37,280
Speaker 2: It looks like a mad Max style, like suddenly there's

744
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,880
an attack and there's, you know, this apocalyptic event that's

745
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:43,960
going on all during this concert. It's got the guy

746
00:42:44,159 --> 00:42:47,920
from The Amazing Spider Man like the second not philby maguire,

747
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,239
but Andrew Garfield. Yeah, he's the guy that was the

748
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,280
bad guy in that one is kind of the main

749
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:55,679
character and he's doing something for the band when all

750
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:59,239
of literally hell breakslus. It looks like and it looks

751
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:02,199
an interesting and IMDV gives it a seven point two,

752
00:43:02,199 --> 00:43:04,360
which is not a bad rating. I want to go

753
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,599
watch this. That's interesting. I will be back with my

754
00:43:06,639 --> 00:43:08,079
report later. Okay.

755
00:43:09,159 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: When they were talking to James Heffeld about the naming

756
00:43:11,559 --> 00:43:14,559
of this movie, right yeah, he said, well, I was

757
00:43:14,559 --> 00:43:16,280
looking at the movie and people were like, well, what

758
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,880
is this? Is this a documentary? Is this a concert movie?

759
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:19,880
Is that an action movie?

760
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 2: Is a thriller? Said?

761
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 1: So we wanted to choose a title that was as

762
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,800
vague as we could possibly be, so we chose our

763
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:26,880
own through.

764
00:43:26,679 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 2: The Never It's a good one. It's a head banger.

765
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,280
It's not a single, but it's it's good. Yeah, all right.

766
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:37,199
Speaker 1: Next, this song is called Nothing Else Matters.

767
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,559
Speaker 2: So this was the first Metallic song I don't learned

768
00:43:53,559 --> 00:43:56,719
how to play. Okay. I was like, this is awesome.

769
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,079
I got to figure this out. This is a love song.

770
00:43:59,199 --> 00:44:01,519
This is I this is the song that made me

771
00:44:01,559 --> 00:44:03,960
fall in love with them. I remember hearing that's for

772
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,320
the first time and just immediately falling in love with

773
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:10,840
the song it is. It's so good. It's sweet, and

774
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:15,599
it's mysterious and it's amazing and I'm gushing, but yeah,

775
00:44:15,639 --> 00:44:17,840
this is this is the song that I fell in

776
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:27,199
love with Metallica on Community the.

777
00:44:31,079 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 4: Trusted and.

778
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:43,760
Speaker 2: This is interesting.

779
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 1: So James Hetfield wrote this, he thought for himself. He

780
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:48,800
didn't anticipate it being on the album. He was kind

781
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,920
of bummed out. He's missing his girlfriend, wrote this for

782
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,760
her and never really intended it to be on the album,

783
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,280
and then Lars heard it and was like, no, that

784
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:58,599
needs to go on the album.

785
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:03,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the lyrics are this beautiful opening up?

786
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,960
I mean never, I've never opened up to somebody like

787
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:07,960
I've opened up to you, And to have that kind

788
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:12,039
of vulnerability in a heavy metal song is unexpected.

789
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he was a little bit afraid the

790
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:15,280
guys are gonna laugh him out of the room when

791
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,559
he presented this one. What about a song about your girlfriend?

792
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 2: Come on, what are we here? This was a crew.

793
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:49,199
Speaker 1: This was the third single reached number eleven on the

794
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:50,679
mainstream rock trikes.

795
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 2: Epically beautiful song, love it Okay, So the intro to

796
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:58,639
the song, it's a very acoustic, beautiful lead, but then

797
00:45:59,039 --> 00:46:01,480
toward the end of the song we get the guitar solo,

798
00:46:01,559 --> 00:46:06,719
which is this screaming but still amazingly beautiful solo. Let's

799
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:36,920
listen to it now. And so this again, he's gone

800
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:39,360
back to this blues bass lead. We're not we don't

801
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,639
have the speed metal. We've got a song that you're

802
00:46:41,679 --> 00:46:44,639
gonna air guitar with, You're gonna thrash and you're gonna

803
00:46:44,639 --> 00:46:47,000
know every note to This is one of a couple

804
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,519
of songs on here where you have the guitar solo

805
00:46:50,679 --> 00:46:53,760
that you could hum the whole thing without you know

806
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:58,239
without it being there, and again it kills it. I

807
00:46:58,440 --> 00:46:59,599
love love love it.

808
00:46:59,639 --> 00:47:02,199
Speaker 1: I guess for you on that guitar solo. Okay, that's

809
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:06,679
not Kirk Hammick playing that guitar solo. James Hephil Yeah,

810
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:07,440
how about that.

811
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:08,039
Speaker 2: That's awesome.

812
00:47:08,159 --> 00:47:10,840
Speaker 1: A couple of things on this song besides it being

813
00:47:11,079 --> 00:47:14,719
amazing and beautiful and a definite change in.

814
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 2: Tone for the band. Yeah.

815
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:20,599
Speaker 1: This song hit one billion views on YouTube August first,

816
00:47:20,599 --> 00:47:23,280
twenty twenty one, just a few weeks weeks ago. Yeah, yeah,

817
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:27,239
making it Metallica's first music video to ever hit one billion.

818
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:27,800
Speaker 2: Views on YouTube.

819
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 4: Oh wow.

820
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 2: Okay it was awesome.

821
00:47:30,159 --> 00:47:34,760
Speaker 1: And this music video had a part in being very

822
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,480
detrimental to another musician's career.

823
00:47:37,559 --> 00:47:38,039
Speaker 2: Do you know this?

824
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: No, there is a clip that they play in this

825
00:47:42,159 --> 00:47:45,599
music video from the documentary we talked about where Lars

826
00:47:45,679 --> 00:47:48,840
is throwing darts at a poster of Kip Winger.

827
00:47:49,039 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that's the that's in the documentary as well. Yeah.

828
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: That, plus Beavis and Butt turned against Winger and made

829
00:47:57,960 --> 00:47:59,440
them the uncool rock band.

830
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I like Winger. Can tell me Stewart,

831
00:48:02,599 --> 00:48:06,280
I know I know you like Winger, So I've played

832
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:09,480
this song on guitar. Hero, Yeah, it's easier to play

833
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,960
it on the guitar. I don't know. What they're doing

834
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:15,639
is hard hard.

835
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,159
Speaker 1: James Hefhel talks about how he went to a Hell's

836
00:48:19,199 --> 00:48:22,000
Angels get together in New York City, Okay, and they

837
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,840
showed him a video that they had made of their

838
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:26,920
Fallen Brothers set to this song.

839
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,079
Speaker 2: Oh wow, And James said.

840
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:32,119
Speaker 1: That it was much more meaningful than just a love

841
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:33,519
sick boy talking.

842
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:36,679
Speaker 2: About his girlfriend. Wow. So he said, anybody could use,

843
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,000
the army could use. That's awesome. We've done with this one.

844
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:41,039
I hate to be but yes, we got to move on,

845
00:48:41,199 --> 00:48:41,599
all right.

846
00:48:42,079 --> 00:49:15,199
Speaker 1: The next song is called a Wolf and Mend Miss Run.

847
00:49:16,039 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 2: So of wolf and men, what do you think?

848
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:19,119
Speaker 4: Eh?

849
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:23,320
Speaker 2: Eh, yeah, it's it's okay.

850
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,280
Speaker 1: I know James Heffer was kind of getting into the

851
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:29,360
hunting thing during this time. Yeah, and so it talks

852
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:31,440
about kind of living off the land a little bit.

853
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 2: I know.

854
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,320
Speaker 1: Our buddy James Buckley loves this song. This is one

855
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,400
of his favorites that is a non single off this album.

856
00:49:38,519 --> 00:49:41,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's just not my cup of tea. It's

857
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:44,039
all right, Yeah, it's I mean if it was used

858
00:49:44,039 --> 00:49:47,119
in a werewolf movie, then maybe, right, maybe that's what

859
00:49:47,199 --> 00:49:47,840
it is. Yeah.

860
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 1: Bob Rock even thought this song was silly, like he's like,

861
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:51,519
what are we doing here?

862
00:49:51,519 --> 00:50:01,559
Speaker 2: Guys were sinking about a wolf? Okay, that's it. Yeah,

863
00:50:01,599 --> 00:50:03,840
so that's all for that song. We're moving on the

864
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:13,599
God that Failed. Okay, have we had a song yet?

865
00:50:13,639 --> 00:50:24,079
It just starts off with the drums and a bass line. No,

866
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,599
all right, let's do this. Let's go ahead and build

867
00:50:27,599 --> 00:50:30,760
it up with the guitar like every good rock song should.

868
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:32,880
I don't know. I think this was like the best

869
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:34,760
of the non singles. Yeah. Yeah.

870
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 1: James Hetfeld wrote this about you know, he grew up

871
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:38,440
Christian scientists.

872
00:50:38,519 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, which his mom died of cancer, I believe,

873
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,559
and so that not taking medicine, not going to the

874
00:50:45,559 --> 00:50:47,920
hospital had to be a rough experience.

875
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,119
Speaker 1: He was a firm believer that you just prayed and

876
00:50:50,159 --> 00:50:52,760
that God would would take care of your medical issues,

877
00:50:53,159 --> 00:50:55,320
and when that didn't happen, it left him bitter.

878
00:50:55,639 --> 00:50:57,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, then you end up with songs like this.

879
00:51:11,679 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 4: Yep.

880
00:51:12,039 --> 00:51:16,079
Speaker 2: But we don't talk religion either. Nope, we don't moved on. Yeah,

881
00:51:16,679 --> 00:51:34,440
all right, So the next one is my friend of Misery.

882
00:51:36,079 --> 00:51:38,800
By the way, we are almost to the end of

883
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,800
this album and we have not had yet an instrumental song,

884
00:51:42,199 --> 00:51:45,320
which I believe could be wrong, but I believe every

885
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:48,400
single Metallica album before this album you had at least

886
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:51,800
one song that was instrumental. This song, My Friend of Misery,

887
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,440
was supposed to be an instrumental song. It was one

888
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:58,159
that came from a groove that Jason Newstead did. He's

889
00:51:58,199 --> 00:52:00,039
the only one that he gets some writing credit on

890
00:52:00,039 --> 00:52:02,440
on this whole album. But then ultimately they put these

891
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,280
words to it and here we go awesome.

892
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:06,760
Speaker 1: When Bob Rock talks about this song, he said, this

893
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:10,320
song is all about mood, which is very cinematic in feel.

894
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:13,679
Metallica knows how to play their strengths, dishing out raw power,

895
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:16,800
but on this song we went more for atmosphere. It's

896
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:18,679
ominous and it works.

897
00:52:19,039 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 4: Man, Okay.

898
00:52:33,079 --> 00:52:35,079
Speaker 1: One of the cool things about My Friend of Misery.

899
00:52:35,199 --> 00:52:38,519
Jason Newstead felt particularly proud about this song. He felt

900
00:52:38,559 --> 00:52:41,159
at the moment that this was finally him getting in

901
00:52:41,199 --> 00:52:43,119
with the band. They came to him and said, hey, Jason,

902
00:52:43,159 --> 00:52:45,039
what do you got for us? Man, Let's let's throw

903
00:52:45,079 --> 00:52:47,559
your song in and he really was proud that he

904
00:52:47,639 --> 00:52:58,239
was able to contribute one of his songs to Metallica.

905
00:52:58,480 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 2: All Right.

906
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: The last song on the album is called The Struggle Within.

907
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 4: Okay.

908
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:20,880
Speaker 2: Immediately starting out, I'm thinking about one and I'm thinking, okay,

909
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:26,320
this is very one ish. It's just ish so far,

910
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,960
and as we keep getting more and more into it,

911
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:31,800
it's like, I think this was a swing and a miss.

912
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:34,559
It was like, you're trying to get that vibe of

913
00:53:34,679 --> 00:53:37,960
one from Injustice for All and you missed it. Well,

914
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:40,199
i'll tell you why. You want to know why? Yeah, sure, Okay.

915
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 1: This song was written and sung on Metallica's Last Day

916
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:43,559
in the studio.

917
00:53:44,079 --> 00:53:46,800
Speaker 2: Oh, they were done. They were done, so.

918
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 1: They needed one more song and they're like, uh, well,

919
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,840
what's some looks like something like one, except I only

920
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:57,400
have thirty minutes to do. So it was a song

921
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,679
James Haffo couldn't come up with lyrics. So the song

922
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:12,079
is about struggling within yourself to come up with lyrics.

923
00:54:12,079 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 2: Familiar. Well, it worked for Bruce Springsteen, it did not

924
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:22,159
work for Metallicy. Yeah, last day in the studio and.

925
00:54:22,159 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: It sounds like it.

926
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 2: Unfortunately. I love this album. I love it, but there

927
00:54:27,039 --> 00:54:30,639
are certainly some filler and some skipper songs in here.

928
00:54:30,679 --> 00:54:31,199
Speaker 4: For me, it.

929
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:35,519
Speaker 1: Starts off so strong, maybe the best side to any

930
00:54:35,599 --> 00:54:39,400
album in the nineties, the first five songs.

931
00:54:39,559 --> 00:54:41,599
Speaker 2: Really, really, really really if they.

932
00:54:41,519 --> 00:54:44,159
Speaker 1: Had moved nothing else matters and moved holier than now

933
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:45,960
to the other side. We're a little tough on songs

934
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:48,199
at the end, so I think it faded in its strength.

935
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:51,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, it faded to black and faded to black. One

936
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:53,519
of the things I want to throw in real quickly.

937
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Speaker 1: We have this new thing we're doing called the Shirley

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Spotlight or surely shout Out.

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Speaker 2: I can't remember what we're calling it.

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Speaker 1: This week we've got Brandon Hostlton, who's been a fan

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of the show. He's a good friend of mine, and

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he wanted to weigh in on Highlander versus Flash Gordon.

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Speaker 2: Here's what Brandon had to say.

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Speaker 7: Hey, good evening, Shirley Podcast fans. Brandon Hoslton here to

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give you my personal final judgment between the movies Flash

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Gordon and Highlander. Before I do that, I want to

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thank Dee and Jason for allowing me this opportunity. Guys,

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you have a fantastic show. I look forward to it

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each week. Keep up the good work. Okay, So my

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personal final judgment, and I'll just tell everybody right up front.

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Highlander is my personal favorite movie of all time. I've

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seen it many many times. This movie allows the viewer

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to thank and ponder what life for him was like

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in the periods of time that we don't see. You

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wonder what's the backstoryline? Who did he run across in

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all of his travels, and all while doing so, he

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had to keep a low profile. He had to learn

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to be a superior swordsman. He had to prepare himself

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to battle a fellow immortal in what will be the

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ultimate battle of good and evil. He has to do

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that in total secrecy. He has to do that knowing

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that anybody he cares for likely will die before he will.

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And there's just a lot of open questions that this

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movie allows the viewer to answer in their own way

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and in their own mind. Flash Gordon, on the other hand,

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it's it's basically Captain America, Tony Stark, all the Avengers

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characters rolled into one where they come and kick butt

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of fantoms, right, I mean, that's basically what you have here.

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You have Planet Earth, under attack by a mean, dark

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hearted villain, you have Flash Gordon. He quickly determines, hey,

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there's a problem here. We've got all these other groups

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of people that just simply can't figure out how to

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get along with one another, and so he bans them

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together as any good team captain, any quarterback would do,

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and basically says, hey, look across that field, we're going

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to go kick their butt and then when we're done,

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we're all going to go have a beer. And by

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the way, the chick over there in the corner, I'm

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going to take her home later tonight. That's basically what

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Flash Gordon is. So there you have it. Both movies.

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I highly recommend Flash Gordon is just pure entertainment. Okay,

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sit back, enjoy it. Highlander, on the other hand, it's

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a little slower pace, it's a little deeper thought. It's

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equally fun in terms of the action sequences. But the

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thing that sets it apart is it allows the viewer

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to think about and imagine what could be the additional

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storylines within the movie. All right, So that's it. That's

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my final judgment. I hope everybody enjoys it. D Jason,

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thank you again for this opportunity.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I wish that he was my friend. I need

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to meet this guy because obviously he knows what he's

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Brandon Rayman loves Highlander.

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Speaker 1: It's like his favorite movie all time. Brandon, Thanks, buddy,

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appreciate you. If you want to be a part of

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the Shirley Spotlight, just email us an audio clip less

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than three minutes of what you've thought on any of

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our previous episodes. Weigh in with your own final judgment,

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tell us how great we are, whatever, and send us

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candy and maybe we'll put you on. All right, So

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this is one of the big albums for the fall

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of ninety one.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you were hearing all songs from this for

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the next two years at least.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We talked about how they had nineteen thousand people at

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the listening party for this album the listening party, it

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was hugely anticipated. However, we're going to cover two more

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albums that were even more anticipated than this album.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. We've spoken before about how Metallica made its name

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from being a rebellion against a certain style of music

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and then a lot of people felt like this is

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where they transitioned, and this is where they became mainstream

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and we're going to have the same kind of situation

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in our next show when we see and Roses move

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from dirty Hollywood strip crime written band to pianos orchestras.

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It'll be interesting. It's still gonna be some good music.

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Speaker 1: Oh there's some gems come back. Next week, we're going

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to dive into usually illusion one.

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Speaker 2: Don't forget to hit that subscriber button before you go

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so that you're sure not to miss it.