From: mtc001@dunix.drake.edu (Michael Clark)
Subject: Re: Metallica Movies
Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:15:15 GMT

In article <1ar0njINNe7o@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> maf10@po.CWRU.Edu (Moses A. Fridman) writes:
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>	Shit, I will be upset when (if?) those two docuvideos about Met
>will be released.  Of course Mtv will hype the damn things seven ways from
>Sunday, and of course I will have to buy them, being a TRUE FAN.
>	I remember a time (...sounds like a Maiden song...) when just about
>all you could hear about the band was their latest album, and some rumors
>from other fans and various metal trash rags.  This was alot better than
>the Bob Cock publicity stunts, because all that mattered was the music. 
>All of the emphasis was on the music, and not on things like quintuple
>platinum records.  If you wanted to know who Metallica was and how they
>thought and felt, you could take apart the songs.  Now, it's so obvious,
>with more direct lyrics and all these interviews and specials, IMO the
>music has cheapened.  My favorite song off of the black album is My Friend
>Of Mysery, because it is more AJFAish, being written by Jason, and the 
>B-sides.  Isn't it sort of sad when the B-sides are better than the
>singles? 
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>                   Ah well, they still do a mean live set.  
>                   When that changes, I don't know what I'll do...
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>                                             Moses
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>-- 
> | |^\   /\   \   |   \   |   /| | |\   +--- \   | "Ask for thyself another
> | | / /    \ | \ |   | \/|  X | | | \  |--  | \ |  kindom, for that which
> | | \ \____/ |  \|   |   | / \| | |__/ \___ |  \|  I leave is too small 
>      \           |       |                      |  for thee"

Oh gawd...give it up Moses.  Do you realize that things change in this
world whether or not you like it?  I think it's pretty sad that so many
people don't want Metallica to change.  Just stick with the old formula.
Do you know what's going to happen?  You're going to get sick of them.
In case you haven't been able to tell, the group has grown muscially.
Their songs are definetly different from their past but that's because
the band changes, and their music changes with them.  These guys are
getting older, they've been through a lot of interesting experiences
through their career.  To stick with their fans yelling "Oh, AJFA was
the best and I can't beleive you release the Black Album, it must be for
money or something else..."  That's pathetic.  If they wanted money,
they could have done a lot more interesting things for dough.
	I've been a fan since RTL and I have enjoyed each album
more and more as each new one comes out.  They change, they keep their
sound fresh and *different* with each album.  You can only do so much
with powerchords, you can do a LOT with harmony, a LOT with good vocals.
Look at Unforgiven.  A classic sign of Metallica's growing ability to
write phenomenal songs.  Emotion, harmony, solo that fits the emotion of
the lyrics, and different effects.  Excellent.
	What I'm trying to say is, maybe a little openmindedness would
allow you to realize what's going on.  If you don't like what's coming
out, just sit there and replay your AJFA, MOP, and RTL over and over.
When you're 50, you will probably forget what you even did with "'dem
Metallica CDs, must've tossed them or sometin'"
-] Spike  
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