OFF: Metallica's Astronomy

[Joseph Brooks]

>
>OK, here goes!  (Anything rather than watch the news.)
>
>Cast your mind back to the early-mid 80s.  The best, or at least the
>biggest, 70s metal bands - Zeppelin, Sabbath, Kiss, Aerosmith, even BOC -
>had gone, or were (or at least appeared to be) in terminal decline; punk
and
>the NWOBHM had come and gone, without leaving much of a trace (particularly
>in America); Motorhead and Venom had been great, but even they had seemed
to
>peak; popular music as a whole was dominated by twee romo bands in makeup
>(Culture Club, Duran Duran, Thompson Twins, and worse); a few cock-rock
>dinosaurs still walked the earth (yes, David Coverdale, I'm looking at
you),
>and mostly such metal as was left was horrible big-hair glam from LA (Ratt,
>Poison).  It was horrible.  A generation in crisis looked for heroes.

Which is around the time that I and many of my friends gravitated towards
what is now known as the Jam band scene, starting with the Dead and on to
Phish, moe. etc. Bands which changed my ideas about music in a big way. Oh,
I still like metal if its tastey...

>Metallica were simply the right band, with the right riffs and the right
>attitude, at the right time.  They were an antidote to all that was wrong.
>They simply set the agenda for heavy music for several years.

Couldn't stand them when they were stuck on the speed/thrash/death metal
thing. That music just plain sucks, IMO. I started to take notice only since
the last 3 or 4 albums. I really like the "Load" CD and the one before it.
(Except for my problem with the lyrics, mentioned elsewhere on the list).

>
>Whereas Dave Mustaine is a twat.

hehe


JB
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