From: khiggins@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ken Higginson)
Subject: Re: IDEA!
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 11:43:04 GMT

In article <1g1063INNqtq@network.ucsd.edu> tck@fold.ucsd.edu (Kevin Marcu
) writes:
>In article <1992Dec8.005756.27911@news.acns.nwu.edu> jcc@casbah.acns.nwu
edu (Jeremy Caplan) writes:
>>Let's take a certain amount of time (a week?) and analyze each Metallic
 song.
>>So for the next week everyone can post THEIR interpretation/etc. about 
he
>>song.  This way we wont have 500 debates about 500 songs going at once 
ND we
>>can once and for all kill the 'Metallica SOLD OUT' thread, since I am a
suming
>>everyone here likes at least ONE Metallica song, be it new or old.
>>
>>So for the next week or so we can talk about political/etc. implication
 of
>>a particular song...
>>
>>The first poster to reply to this gets to choose the song.  This REPLY 
ust
>>be an interpretation etc. (lyric citations are encouraged) of a METALLI
A
>>song.  This can be ANY song.  This REPLY must be posted here on the new
group.
>>This REPLY must be posted within the next 24 hours, in order to prevent
the
>>'everyone speak up at once' syndrome.
>>
>Wow, sounds like fun!
> 
>Hit the Lights..  Hmm. classic Metallikat song..
>  "We got the metal madness" - yeah, when you wrote the song.
>  "When we start to rock, we never want to stop again" -Yeah,
>     who does?
>  "You know our fans are insane" - only some of them, you guys picked
>      up a lot of looser trendies...
>  "It is causing you sweet pain, oh sweet pain" - What, to loose one
>     of the better heavy metal groups to the world of trendiness?
>
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I'll bet you guys couldn't wait to read what I would say, huh?
 
This is pure crap as far as Metallica is concerned.  Take KEA for what it
is, their first album, recorded at night during periods of heavy drinking.
  
I've said before I listen to the whole song..  That's what music is.  It
always bugs me when people buy an album for a guitar solo or something...
Rush wouldn't be as interesting to me if Neil Peart played typically
awesome and Geddy Lee just played 8th notes and sang about "gettin' laid
on the beach in Toronto..." or something stupid...
 
So I think that it changed metal by combining speed with a certain degree
of technical playing...(Burton especially), but lyrically you can just
hear the Dave in it...  I'll bet they didn't have enough time to record a
song Dave wrote about Ninjas or something...
 
I saw Mustaine on TV talking about writing a song about russians putting
chips in peoples brains and making them super-soldiers or something.  And
he was serious about it.  C'mon Dave...  Grow up.
 

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