Megadeth is successful, but they will never approach the succes of Metallica. True, Megadeth’s style is still a little thrashier, but their newer stuff, IMHO, doesn’t even compare to the older stuff. The new stuff seems kinda sterile, where the old stuff seems like it has much more feeling. That said, I have to say I feel a little silly debating Megadeth vs Metallica. Of course its silly in a good way. It makes me feel a little younger.
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Way before G&R or Metallica even considered the idea.
Oh, and also: let’s not start slinging insults here, OK? After all, we’re merely discussing a group of semi-talented has-beens. No need to take it personal. 
didn’t Deep Purple do the Orchestra thing aswell?
Metallica? they didnt make the establishment come to them. they just told their fans that and expected them to fall in line. I lost what little bit of respect for them the day they MURDERED “Whiskey in the Jar” by Thin Lizzy, after all the Napstyer furore.
Of course, Thin Lizzy raped the original Irish Folk version of Whiskey in the Jar in the first place. 
oh, Pick pick pick… and they didn’t rape the original. Them’s fighting words!!
No offense, but how old are you? I say that because in the 80’s Metallica wasn’t at all in the mainstream. I remember getting picked on in school for wearing a Metallica t-shirt. People said it was “kill your mother music”. Before One, they had no video support. Before the Black Album, they had no radio support. Yet they were still able to sell out arenas. I saw them this summer and they STILL cater to their older fans. The first 4 or 5 songs were all pre-Justice. While most bands go out and play a hour and a half of greatest hits, Metallica still plays two and a half or three hours of hits plus they throw in forgotten tracks. The only thing that has changed is now there are a bunch of frat-boys who don’t know half the songs.
Right… and what albums do those songs come off of??? 80’s albums thats what. No album from Black on ever gave me goosebumps.
I agree with Badtz too… the songwriting is laughable now.
I will say this though… I WILL continue to go to their concerts… they always have been the best live band ever. At their concerts they rock 80’s style… and they know it.
Ummmm…I’m guessing this was a sarcastic remark…
Ok, Lets go the opposite way with this statement…ONLY Metallica fans like Metallica. They’re the only one’s who would be downloading their music from Napster. I’m not a Metallica fan, hence, I never downloaded a single Metallica tune.
So, when Mr. Ulrich decided to go and kick off 10,000 Napster users for downloading their tunes…did he not realize that these people are the same “fans” that spend $50 for a concert ticket, $30 for a T shirt, and $20 for a CD?
So, what do we call it when money becomes more important than the fans?! SELLING OUT! This is the pure definition of the term. When you ignore your fans to make a few bucks.
Don’t worry…with the advent of Napster, Gnutella, and other file-swapping programs…the future of the Record Industry is dim. There will no longer be the need for Record Labels and Record Executives. The band will hire a Promoter to do all the online promotion for the band needed. Using Napster as a marketing tool, and many many many websites like MP3.com and Garageband.com are putting everything a band needs to be successful at their fingertips. Plus, new technology will make the future of self-managed artists a promising one. This will certainly super-saturate the market with mediochre bands and only those that do their homework and actively promote online will get the benefit of exposure.
As it is now, my band, JerkWaterJive is enjoying much success from playing on the Warped Tour with Green Day, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and Papa Roach, to performing at an upcoming Earth Day festival in Atlanta being broadcast nationally by Turner Television on April 21st. All this, without a record label. We recorded, produced, and sell the CD ourselves all with the help of MP3.com and Napster!!!
So, support your local artists!!! Go see a show tonite!
Why this is good timing for a thread…
Jason Newkid announced today that he was leaving the band!!!
I would just like to say that Metallica is a redneck band with mindless redneck fans. Don’t agree? Move here to North Carolina and you’ll see what I mean.
of course, and this shouldn’t even have to be said, they pale in comparison to Lemmy and crew.
Motorhead?
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In an entirely unrelated thread, Polycarp, speaking of obnoxious, opinionated people said:
:: ducking and running ::
hee hee!
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Led Zeppelin. 
explain how a guy from DENMARK, a guy from San Francisco, and two guys from L.A. can be rednecks… 
to BE a redneck, one has to come from those areas… You go to a concert and tell the guys with tattoos and piercings that they’re rednecks… :rolleyes: I dare you to meet me and tell me that i’m a redneck… i’m at a private university, i’m an art student AND in the honors program here [my gpa last semester was 3.64]… I like Metallica, and many other bands, because the music isn’t pussy manufactured music like all the pop crap that’s out there.
Actually I have Armored Saint’s newest album, Revelation, and it rocks! Armored Saint’s last album was 92 when Bush went to join Anthrax and that’s why they haven’t been around.
Very little compairs to Motorhead, and it’s not Metallica.
yep… nothing much compares to Motorhead. Speedealer is up there though.
And what’s up with Jason?
Ummm…wrong, I went to school with a family of rednecks from buffalo, ny.
Tatoos + Piercings = Redneck
And I care…why?
Yes it is.
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I dare you to meet me and tell me that i’m a redneck
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You’re a redneck.
I met Jason Newsted on the sidelines of a San Francisco 49ers game. It was right around the time that “Re-Load” was coming out. I already knew that the “Load” cover was a blood-and-semen picture from controversial artist Andres Serrano, so I asked him if the band had done anything unusual for the “Re-Load” cover. His face lit up and he said, “blood and piss!”