Talk:Load (album)

message: I think the article should mention that they had to fade-out the last song to actually fit on the record. The original version was a minute and a half or so longer. The full song was later published on a single.
The article should broaden the informative value by mentioning that the album was recorded in Sausalito. LIllIi 23:09, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The last song, Sausalito 

message: This article looked like it was written by a 12 year old. There was a huge amount of POV and original research. It looked like a blog as opposed to an encyloedia article. I made a quick effort to clean out most of the crap. It needs a good copyedit now. I will do that a bit later. 216.21.150.44 01:29, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: POV and poor un-encyclopedic text

message: Almost all of the articles on the individual songs are stubs whose info could either be merged into this article (as has been done with many of the Megadeth articles) or be deleted outright.  Can we do without them? Willbyr (talk | contribs) 18:30, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Articles on individual songs

message: It says in the article that it's about his mother's loosing fight against cancer, but on the following fan site; http://www.encycmet.com/songs/sluis.shtml it says it was his father that had cancer. I don't know which is right of the two, but it should be corrected.
According to the article on James Hetfield, his parents both died from cancer they refused treatment for because of their religious beliefs.  This song is probably about his father's cancer because I believe his mother had died some years before and his father passed away more recently. 208.242.14.105 12:26, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lyrics for "Until it sleeps" 

message: I definitely consider this to be heavy metal.  The band has the word 'metal' in their name.  I think it's absurd to call metallica's music anything else.  The band is quite literally synonymous with heavy metal.  Heavy metal is an umbrella term that includes many times of sub-genres (thrash metal, death metal).  Categorising this album as heavy metal would not be inappropriate. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 159.53.46.141 (talk) 19:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  hard rock or heavy metal 

message: http://www.metal-archives.com/release.php?id=2638
"The real origins of this artwork comes from Godflesh's music video "Crush My
Soul" from the album "Selfless." Kirk Hammett has been a huge fan of Godflesh
and Justin (singer/guitarist of Godflesh) showed the music video to Kirk. Kirk
decided that a specific scene in that music video would be a perfect cover art
for the Load album, and, in interviews, Kirk never mentioned the fact that the
cover art came from a Godflesh video."
:This bit of trivia was added to the article, but it's inaccurate. It's true that Andres Serrano directed Godflesh's Crush My Soul video, and perhaps that's how Kirk Hammett came to know of Serrano and where the idea for him to do the cover art for Load originated. But the cover art for Load does not appear in the video. It's from a piece entitled "Semen & Blood III" that Serrano did in 1990. Druff (talk) 19:07, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  note about the cover art 

message: Load is listed under four genres in this article; Thrash metal, speed metal, hard rock, and heavy metal. However, only the latter two can really be applied to this album. For example, one of the defining characteristics of both genres, the high speed of the music, is absent entirely from Load. Therefore, I have removed thrash metal and speed metal from the list of genres that this album falls under because while the album may fall under the hard rock and heavy metal genres the same can not be said for thrash metal and speed metal.--CP 61 21:19, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Thrash Metal" and "Speed Metal"? 

message: I hears that the main riff of this song was written in Master of Puppets era. Is it true? 22:24, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  2 X 4 

message: Do we really have to have this? This review looks neither "professional", nor is "Sound of Metal" itself of much notability, unlike the other sources (e.g. Allmusic and Rolling Stone). VZakharov (talk) 20:05, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sound of Metal review 

message: Is it worth mentioning that 2X4 was first played in London in 1995 during the brief Escape From The Studio tour and that as far back as 1994 the band would jam on what would become The Outlaw Torn towards the end of Seek and Destroy when performing?
-Alan 24.184.184.130 (talk) 19:38, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pre-album song debuts 

message: The Reception section seems like it only has good things about the album. It doesn't include the harsher reviews by critics, and even in the more mixed reviews, it only cherry-picks the most flattering statements. 68.193.130.33 (talk) 15:32, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reception POV? 

message: i deleted southern rock from the genres because there isn't more than one southern sounding song on load.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by MasterOfBucket (talk • contribs) 21:56, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  SOUTHERN ROCK (?) 

message: Singles from Load
# Until It Sleeps (released on May 21, 1996)
# Hero of the Day (released on September 9, 1996)
# Mama Said (released on November 25, 1996)
# King Nothing (released on January 7, 1997)
"Ain't My Bitch" and "Bleeding Me" are not singles. --SuperVirtual (talk) 12:22, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Singles from Load 

message: The term "hard rock" doesn't fit in the genre bar. Upon looking at the reviews listed in the "Reception" section, none of them categorises the album in that genre. Robert Christgau says "this is just a metal record", while Allmusic also wrote "what's left is polished and disappointingly straightforward heavy metal". Drowned in Sound actually noted that a number of tracks "seemed to pass by in a blur of hard-rockin' sleaze", but that is not a clear statement of the album being hard rock, just a comment that some songs have hard-rock flavour. What other editors think?--Вик Ретлхед (talk) 18:42, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Genre

message: First, thank you to  for the inspiration here, I hope that this meets with the high standards that you have set. Regarding Hetfield's comment, quoted in the Artwork section of the Load page "Lars and Kirk were very into abstract art, pretending they were gay." This seems a bit homophobic and Wikipedia isn't the place to spread that kind of hatered. Recommend deleting this portion of the quote, it doesn't really have anything to do with the album's artwork. Thoughts? Cheers! FiggazWithAttitude (talk) 15:48, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a sourced quote and Wikipedia IS NOT censored  - FlightTime (open channel) 18:11, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you for the reply. It's good to see that Wikipedia is not censored by ALL users, but there are some out there with a quick trigger finger when it comes to deleting others' posts and threatening blocking or banning. You're one of the good ones. Cheers! FiggazWithAttitude (talk) 18:37, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, when someone makes a change and doesn't inculde a reference to support their claim, it doesn't take long to decide and click revert.  - FlightTime (open channel) 18:41, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: , Obviously entries in the main page need to be referenced. We can all agree on that. The censorship that I'm referring to took place on the Talk pages, where there should be a bit more leeway for constructive debate. Again, glad that you chose to join in the debate. Yes, James Hetfield made the quote in question, and yes, it was published and is sourced. Still, not sure what his quote has to do with the artwork and I'm not sure if he'd want his homophobic thoughts published just for the hell of it some 20+ years later, but that's the world we live in. Instead of trying to improve it, let's just leave it ugly side out, is that what I'm hearing? FiggazWithAttitude (talk) 19:35, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  Nope, ALL new entries in mainspace need to sourced.  - FlightTime (open channel) 19:39, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

text: , this wasn't constructive, and so of course I'm going to revert it if I see it – I've already gone over why with you on my talk page, so I don't know why you're going on about it. 4TheWynne(talk)(contribs) 19:21, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks again my friend (of misery)! Cheers! FiggazWithAttitude (talk) 19:38, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homophobia ?