Needles & Grooves

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS GOING ON?

Honestly, not finished with first listen, but it’s not as bad as expected. It’s mostly boring. King of Nothing and Wasting my Hate are highlights. Hero of the Day and Mama Said are low points.

It’s also too long, but that’s true of every album starting with Justice.

I remember them appearing on 'Later with Jools Holland' and playing 'King Nothing' and 'Wasting My Hate'. Definitely the best songs on the album.

Load is the better of the 2 - Reload really seems like half finished songs that they quickly threw together. Bleeding Me would be my favorite from Load. The late 90's/ early 2000 weren't good for them, though. Napster, the Load/Reload short hair albums, the new "Garage Days" covering Bob Seger and Lynyrd Skynyrd?? And then St. Anger....ugh.

And yet I still listen to it all.

Lol, the high points off of Load are Hero, Mama, House, and Thorn. But, alas, #MusicIsSubjective

As far as Metallica albums being long, they are all long Their shortest is Lightning at like 47 mins, I believe. I would argue that there is some fat to be trimmed on every album after Justice, though.

Starting with Justice, they are all over an hour.

@Lee Newman And?

And they’re all too long.

I was a suburban pre-teen when these came out, so I was the perfect age for that kind of hard rock. Also saw them in '98 so they played a lot of those tunes. I have nostalgia for them, but they're definitely nothing like the 80s albums.

I watched an album ranking done by Tastes Like Music YouTube channel. They said Load/Reload were the reason for bands like Nickelback and Three Doors Down, and it kinda blew my mind.

I might prefer Disco-Metallica nowadays tbh.

Is it wrong that I think 3 doors down, 3rd eye blind and 311 are all the same band?

Thanks @ranbalam now I have a crunchy version of Dancing Queen in my head with Hetfield growl: YOU ARE THE DAMCING QUEEN SWEET AND YOUNG ONLY SEVENTEEN!

@ranbalam

Yes! ^

Load is good. Reload is bad.

The question is….are you including Lulu?

It’s not streaming, but if it’s on YouTube yes.

Because binge and purge was super long, I figured I will backtrack to live stuff after studio stuff.