(September 27, 2016 at 5:59 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: More the music than the lyrical content. If I'd heard this 12-13 years ago, I'd have thought it was pretty rad, but as it stands it sounds undeveloped, lacking gall, a sound that hasn't made any serious progression in years.
Oh, come on - didn't you hear the cute little vocal harmonies in the chorus? That's progress... kind of...
But yeah, I agree - it seems that ever since Metallica achieved mainstream success in the late 80's - as well as all the associated backlash from hardcore fans - they seem to have been trying to prove, that they're still just a garage band. At first, it was just an occasional EP, or an album of punk covers (with somewhat desperate titles, like Garage Days Revisited, Garage Days Re-Revisited, or Garage Inc.) in between their more commercial releases, but now it's like they believe, that they really are a garage band. Which they kind of are, in all aspects but authenticity, in my humble opinion. Quite frankly - I liked them better as "sell-outs". Come back Black Album, all is forgiven.
This track is not as bad as the previous one - at least Hammet bothered to play an entire solo - but still, nothing really memorable, or interesting from my point of view. Of course - I realize I'm probably not the target market. Not sure who is though, if I'm honest...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
