From: wsmst3@unix.cis.pitt.edu (William S Mason)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.metal.heavy
Subject: **FLAME WARNING** Re: Topic Of The Week
Summary: Hit 'n' to avoid it...
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:49:54 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


	I had given up talking about this because nobody is going to change
their mind either way, and it justs wastes everybody's time.  But this guy is
such a pretentious annoyance that I had to respond.

In article <1992Apr10.022749.12449@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mcdougal@lonestar.utsa.edu (Jon . McDougal) writes:
>
>    Seems many of you lads are coming down on Metallica for 'selling out'
>or even 'posing'. Come on! It doesn't matter if you wipe your ass one
>day with blue toilet paper and green the next, you are still the same
That is a poor analogy.  Besides, I didn't listen to Metallica for their
toilet paper, I did it because I liked their music.

>fraggin' person. SURE... they slowed it down a wee bit, and I can see where
>some of the songs are not exactly classical lyrics from the past,
>but do you up and abuse them when they make slight changes? Nobody cared
So you admit that the DID change their sound?  I wouldn't call it a "slight"
change, either.  Listen to Battery, or Trapped Under Ice, and compare it to
something off the new album.  Slowed down "a wee bit?"  NOT!

>to mention, 'Where ever I may. . blah'. That tune'll wake my ass up in the
>morning and get my shit ready for class. And they are still Metallica!
>Can any of you knobs who are shitting on them play 1/5th as good as
>Lars or Kirk? Hell no! Shut your ass and get in your place. I don't see
         ^^^^YES.   Besides, you obviously can't write as good as Hemmingway
or Faulkner, so why don't you quit writing posts?  Ever hear of a CRITIC?  Yes,
they are often full of shit, but it all depends on whether you agree with them
or not.

>anyone out there with a CD contract or a couple million fans writing
>them everyday!
Oh.  So I have to have a CD contract to not like Metallica any more.  That's
interesting.

>
>    They slowed down, whoopdeeshit! If your ass is so weak that you
	I like fast music, so obviously I would be disappointed when they
slowed down.  Besides, I thought you said they didn't slow down much at all?

>listen to them for years and then turn your 'I-hate-WHAM-music' back on
>them, fine... run off and listen to whatever the hell you want! But
It wasn't like I woke up one day and said "Y'know, I hate Metallica"  It was
gradual, starting with AJFA.  I grew to dislike them more and more, until I
ended up where I am now-not liking them.

>don't try to take stabs at the lads who are OUT THERE making music,
>touring the world, and receieving thousands of fan letters a day! You
>sit behind a terminal, whining your fingers on a moot point.
So with the same argument, you are not alowed to dislike any band you hear on
the radio, since they all make touring the world and getting fan letters. Does
this mean that other recording artists are allowed to rip on Metallica?  And
who was the one who brought up this point in the first place, after it had died
down again?

>
>"Does anybody speak without a mask?"
>                                --Empire
>Jon
>
>Sidenote: No! I am not some diehard Metallica fan, just an hombre who
>          can not stand puds rousting a decent band without due reason.
	I have stated my reasons before for not liking
their new stuff (NOT just the change of sound).  I just can't stand puds who
spout off for no decent reason...

Bill