Same! I think Of wolf and man and Wherever I may roam are probably my favorite 2 songs by Metallica ever, and neither of them get the attention they deserve.
agreed. these 4 albums are there best. Sorry KEA, but a a lot of the oldest stuff just had a raw sound that felt juvenile. KEA is still bad ass though. Hardwired and DM can come to the party too.
After following Metallica since their first demo, I will FINALLY see them Sept 1. This is one of the few 80's bands that are still banging as hard as ever, still sounding great.
One of the best mixtures of heavy metal and middle eastern music, and I absolutely love how they introduce a couple of new chords during the last chorus when he sings "my body lies but still I roam Ye Yeeeaaaaaah" 🤘
Yup, this one, gates of Babylon, Home, stargazer, and Devin's Pixilate are some of the best mixtures of heavy metal and middle eastern music, specifically heavy metal instrumentation with middle eastern scales. I just think it's a marriage made in heaven.
The music video is a great window into their touring experience at the time. A condensed version of '...a year in the half'. Great tune, one of my favorite from TBA! Jason's bass is so great on the bottom of this all the way through.
I love how the music video for Wherever I May Roam is a condensed version of the tour part of A Year and a Half while the Nothing Else Matters music video shows the recording part of that film.
The Black Album gets a lot of bad rep, but it's not because it's bad metal, even though many probably argues that from some emotional standpoint. It's bullied because of what it symbolises. It's a watershed album that marked that a metal band don't need to shoehorn themselves intoa single genre, but can be successful in taking in other influences. Which to many diehard thrash fans at the time was complete anathema. And thus, among some people who thinks there's prestige in still staying "true" to that old obsolete idea of pure metal genres, people who just can't accept a band might change styles and experiement with their own identity, it's still popular to say bad things (like "sellout") about this musical masterpiece of an album.
There's also the misconception that Bob Rock "ruined" Metallica even though much of the Black Album was written before Bob Rock was hired. If anything, Bob made these songs sound as good as they possibly could have.
I love everything about My Friend Of Misery! The bass, the guitar riffs and solos, the drums, the writing and phrasing, the lyrics, and especially Hetfield’s vocal delivery!🔥
I had this song stuck in my head for 2 months because it was the very last song I heard before the MTI picked me and my fellow recruits up from the San Antonio airport to take us to Lackland for Basic Military Training. Of course, I remember that fondly and while BMT was by no means easy it was one of the best times of my life and this brings the memories flowing back.
‘The Load-Out’, ‘Bob Seger’s ’Turn the Page’, and this song are my trilogy of favourite touring songs. I was in a touring rock band for a brief period of time when I was in my early 20s, And all of these songs nail some aspect of that feeling perfectly..
Over 44 days in 1991 we had Metallica Black, Pearl Jam 10, Nirvana Nevermind, G’n’R Use your Illusion 1&2, RHCP Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Soundgarden Bad Motorfinger. Madness
On the subject of them "selling out". There is an interview with Jason where the topic comes up and his response was "Yes we do. Everywhere we go we sell out". Not an exact quote but it conveys the message. P.S. THE WARNING
En realidad la primera vez que los fanáticos extremistas dijeron que Metallica se vendió fué con Fade To Black porque no soportaron que el intro fuera grabado con guitarra acústica...
2nd song i discovered from these guys, after Dont tread on me! Such fucking amazing song writing on the Black album. I love pretty much all Metallica release since 10yrs old. Im 41 now lol. Love hearing your technical classical breakdown on these songs. Makes my ears happy to hear why these songs excite me so much!!! :DDD
IIRC Metallica did some gigs supporting AC/DC before they went on touring the Black album. At one of these concerts in Dortmund, Westfalenhalle they played just the intro to Wherever I May Roam as a teaser for things to come.
I love the appreciation and excitement you share with us when reacting to these songs. I can’t wait for you to experience “the God that failed” and “My friend of Misery”, both from this album. I personally love these two songs and place them among their greatest, and you can also hear their sound slowly morphing into what Load and Reload will become. ✨🤘🏾
I was a hiphop music lover and one day i heard this song and i was like HOLLY S*IT!!! THIS IS SOMETHING ELSE! and This is the song made me fall in love with Metal music and been a metalhead since thn.. ❤❤❤
One of my favorite Metallica songs. Iron Maiden has a song with similar subject matter, it’s called “Coming Home” it’s from their 2010 album the final frontier. It’s a Bruce Dickinson written song and is mostly about landing in your home city after a tour, which is relevant to him since he was the bands pilot for a good amount of years. It’s got a good groove and melody, I recommend checking it out sometime.
As I watched the classic albums docu, I do remember Kirk explaining that the solos s in Phrygian dominant scale to get that eastern hook on the sound. He had also confessed that he lifted the first bar of the solo from jimi hahaha. oh well you gotta do what you gotta do.
To hear this song with you man ...its like listening to music with my best friend. I lost my best friend last year at his very young 45 years old. I miss him a lot. And you took his place. He was very intelligent with a 150 IQ. In music. Like you. Thank you man. I love you. A big hug. Greatings from Argentina. AGUANTEE METALLICAAAA!!!!!
this was back when, if you had an album this big, you would be on tour for 2 years. Obviously you would have a bit of time off between legs but not enough to feel like you were ever home.
'Wherever I May Roam' always reminds me of the short story 'The Guitarist' by Grace Hallworth. I found it featured in a 'Thrills and Chills' magazine (who's old enough to remember THAT one?) when I was a kid, and it took me DECADES to track it down. Great read. Definitely worth it.
My personal all time favorite Metallica track. There was a period in my life when I kept moving around with no home to go back to. Still haven't found my place in the world, but this song makes me feel more at peace, that it's okay I haven't fully settled down like other people.
That Flat second is very much influenced by Middle Eastern music, and it does a great job of making our Western trained ears feel restless and yearning for those familiar resolutions. Absolutely love it and the use of the Flat five.
And Nirvana Nevermind, what a time for music. Miss it so much. Anyway, this is one of my all time favorite Metallica songs. James' lyrics are next level and Kirk's solo just hits perfectly. What a thing to experience when this album dropped
Brilliant video assessment of a classic Metallica song, as per usual, Doug! Thanks for being so enthusiastic about one of my favourite songs of all time. For me, it is undoubtedly the best song on the black album (ok, maybe joint best with The Unforgiven!) Looking forward to some more Metallica Mondays 😉 How about some Volbeat in the future? Shotgun Blues, maybe? Or Devil’s Bleeding Crown? Keep up the great work!
The ending fade-out goes on and on forever, and when the lead vocals stop but the backing vocals are still going. That’s the part where you’re trying to turn the volume up on your Sony Discman but it’s already at max
Doug. I appreciate your honesty and what you bring to your channel. Of course I'm excited you are digging bands like Iron Maiden and Metallica. Metallica just did a cover of an Elton John song last month on PBS. Was wondering what your take is on that cover. I get to see Metallica in Minneapolis in a couple weeks. Can't wait. Keep rocking! 🤘🏻
You should hear their live concert❤ with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. It is a. Amazing when you had the Orchestra behind the band absolutely beautiful
you should explore the LOAD album...arguably some of James best lyrics... Until It Sleeps, Hero of The Day, Bleeding Me, Outlaw torn... the live version (especially the Binge & Purge performances) is fun because they speed up the ending into a full on rock out. it's sick. this is the song that brought me to metallica. august '92. i was 12. this song knocked me on my ass. i'd never heard anything so big and powerful.
Sad But True is the song that got me hooked on Metallica. Was in a friend's car while in college listening to our local university radio station and Sad But True came on the radio and I was like WHO IS THIS? Got to see them the next year on their Black Album tour. Was my first ever live metal concert, during a thunderstorm! We could see the lightning through the roof (it was the metronome in Minneapolis- the same one that collapsed under a lot of snow a few years back.) There was flooding on I-94 heading back to out college town and we made it through it in the car we were in. I'll NEVER forget that night!🤘🤘🤘
Thanks for the reminder of one of my favorite times in music history, Doug! Wherever I may roam is my favorite song on this album. I was in my late teens in 1991, and you're right: It was an awesome time for heavy music. This album, Use Your Illusion by GnR, Megadeth's Rust in Peace, Souls of Black by Testament, Seasons in the Abyss by Slayer, Painkiller by Judas Priest, State of Euphoria by Anthrax, and (of course) Images and Words by Dream Theater, not to mention a whole bunch of other great music all came out in that era, which I consider to have run from about '88 to '92, based solely on my own memories and personal views on music, purely IMHO.
Dream Theater was recording Images and Words in 1991 😎 and interesting fact, in Chile 2005 DT played Peruvian Skies with extracts of Wish you were here and Wherever I may roam. Good stuff
It's ironic because they were on the road for like close to or longer than two years for the Black Album, so it's basically the hymn of that time frame
the song that turned me on to Metallica in 1992! Still great. So many hours at school spent in recess as an outcast and misfit, listening to the Justice and Black albums on my walkman(!).
The production is incredible on this song. I’ll never be a Black Album fan but if any other band released it I would. I was so into ‘Justice I can never recover from that initial feeling of deflation when I heard the polished production on this record. I can appreciate how brilliant that same production is now though.
I can't stand so called Metallica fans who claim they sold out on this album. I truly believe most of these people are online trolls because I've been to quite a few Metallica shows and they cheer just as loud for this song and others from the Black Album as they do for Creeping Death and For Whom the Bell Tolls. People who wrote them off after their first four albums are missing some very good music. You need to react to some of their latest albums, especially Hardwired
@@helgaratbone1691 To WHOM? What if it FAILED? What if all the "true metalheads" just said, "NO! I"m not buying this album and I'm telling ALL my friends, everyone I see at shows not to buy the stupid black album." But they didn't. You probably throw up the devil horns every time bloody "SANDMAN" comes on during a show, because you've probably been to every single one of their shows you could go to since this album came out. THIS is not a "sellout" song.
I'd say of all the 80s thrash bands, Metallica and their music have evolved the most which is interesting cause it's that evolution that's created the most backlash. For the loyalists that followed them from the beginning, their sellout is them turning into the kind of artists they spoke up against before becoming mainstream.
@@isitrealgood it was a sellout album. All the true metalheads didnt buy it. It was such a commercial success they didn't need to sell to any metalheads. Fact is going from underground success to commercial success is the generic idea of selling out. Back in the mid 90's the only Metallica album you could buy from a pawn shop was the black album lol. Getting Bob Rock to produce it is yet more proof they were a sellout. All you need to do is look at who he produced before Metallica. And who cares if they did anyway. They don't I promise you lol. And I don't care that they did. In fact good on them. Best business decision ever. But fact is they did. And it was a great commercial success to them.
It's a wonderful song. I agree, it does not matter what album it is, a good song is a good song. I think the Black Album is one of if not the best produced metal albums ever. It is a wonderful album. I have been a fan of Metallica since 1989 and it won't change anytime soon.
Other than what you mentioned and probably covered below but other fantastic 1991s: Arise (Sepultura), Nevermind (Nirvana), Use Your Illusion (GnR), maybe Mr Bungle, and definitely not forgetting Decade of Aggression (Slayer!).. that first side/cd of live slayer is unstoppable
Black album in special, but also load and reload, are great metal music albums although they are not thrash metal, I knew Metallica for the first time in this era and since then I enjoy listening to them a lot even though I also like all their previous albums.
Now I want to hear a reaction by Doug on a band called BeatallicA, which makes mashups to The Beatles and MetallicA. This was the time when MetallicA was going hard against Napster and Sony were going to sue the band (as Sony at the time owner the rights to both band’s music). The MetallicA band in a twist actually asked Sony to drop the case, which they did.
Great tune. Motörhead’s We are the Road Crew would be my personal favourite of the life on the road Genre of song. Lemmy was an awesome lyricist. (My favourite of his generally would be Orgasmatron, but plenty to get stuck into all round)
You have to react to Death ! They are musically very complex ,but also heavy af at the same time . ( A song like : Spirit Crusher , is something you as a classical musician will surely enjoy , coming from me , also a classical musician myself)
It is a fantastic album but even I hold it apart somehow from their previous work. The previous three albums built upon one another with the undeniable inflience of Cliff Burton offering something unique - even "...And Justice for All" felt his influence. The Black album seemed like the turning of a page, a new chapter if you will. It didn't have the direct influence of Burton and it was radio friendly to boot! I barely ever listen to the album these days, choosing to listen to the earlier ones when in a Metallica mood but when I stumble upon a track from it I am always struck by how great it sounds.
My opinion only --- I've always considered the Black Album as a time of actual morning for Cliff. ... And Justice for All was probably mostly on paper and some partially recorded material. But with the Black Album there was an album from scratch that allowed the necessary venting.
Great video Doug. One of my favorite Metallica songs. If you want to go more recent Metallica ( if you haven't already) From Death Magnetic: 1. That was just your life. 2. End of the line. 3. All Nightmare Long. 4. Broken,beat and scared. From Hardwired to Self Destruct: 1. Moth Into Flame. 2.Atlas Rise. 3. Halo on Fire. 4. Spit Out The Bone If you wanna go way back( if you haven't covered it already) From Kill'em All: 1. Jump In The Fire 2. Motorbreath. 3. Phantom Lord. 4. Metal Melitia From Ride the Lightning: 1. Creeping Death. From Master of Puppets: 1. Leppar Messiah. From Justice: 1. Harvester of Sorrow.
A lasting memory from listening to this album for the first time was that I'd also added a new Cerwin-Vega subwoofer to my home sound system setup and this was the first album that would make my CD player skip, until I added thicker isolation pads to the feet, good times!
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Mutt Lange made a great record didn't he? :)
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My friend of misery is a fantastic song, and my favorite of the black album!
Fire song ! 🔥
Best Hetfield's vocal rendition to me
Best lyrics I would say.
@@ryanjacobson2508"One man's fun is another's hell"
Same here. This song belongs in their top 10
The snare on this song (and album)sounds like a cannon. Definitely one of my favorite Metallica songs!
A Bob Rock specialty
@@SoiledWig They topped this on St Anger.
“My Friend Of Misery” is probably my favorite track from this epic album.🔥
a few good ones on here. Sad but true, of wolf and man, through the never. However they will never be classics like justice and master
@@yoteslaya7296Nothing beats Ajfa for be but you are wrong whole ba is a masterpiece
@@el.bihtador6159 lol masterpiece? Hardly
Of Wolf and man is my favourite song from this album. It is so underrated in my opinion
Yes! such a badass song.
Vocal on that one is badass
Shapeshift!!!
Same! I think Of wolf and man and Wherever I may roam are probably my favorite 2 songs by Metallica ever, and neither of them get the attention they deserve.
One of the best examples of Kirk Hammett’s composer genius. This is definitely one of his best solos. Still gives me chills while listening to it
the riff is Kirk's too. he loves those eastern sounding riffs
@@penoyer79 kirk has no writing credits on this song tho
@@penoyer79i don’t think tbf. he has written some special riffs but not in this song
@@Pepsiix23 you're right. i swore he had a writing credit on that one. my mistake.
Phrygian dominant and harmonic minor in Metallica makes us all presume it's Kirk's writing. It's perfectly understandable.
Nirvana nevermind was another album released September 1991. I was 13 and still can't comprehend how much great music was surrounding me at the time
The Black Album got me into Metallica and metal music. It’s a Masterpiece and it’s up there with RTL, MOP and Justice.
agreed. these 4 albums are there best. Sorry KEA, but a a lot of the oldest stuff just had a raw sound that felt juvenile. KEA is still bad ass though. Hardwired and DM can come to the party too.
One of the most badass lines in metal: "Carved upon my stone: My body lies, but still I roam"
I'd add "Your life is like a trigger, never troubled till you're squeezed." From My last Words from Megadeth
My fav Metallica's song, it gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it.
After following Metallica since their first demo, I will FINALLY see them Sept 1. This is one of the few 80's bands that are still banging as hard as ever, still sounding great.
One of the best mixtures of heavy metal and middle eastern music, and I absolutely love how they introduce a couple of new chords during the last chorus when he sings "my body lies but still I roam Ye Yeeeaaaaaah" 🤘
The sitar is from India, not the Middle East.
@@shredofmalarchi yes but harmonically they're much closer to middle eastern scales than Indian scales
Try "Home" from Dream Theater for an even better mixing. Granted, it's not a real sitar, but Jordan on keys but still.
What about "Gates Of Babylon" or "Stargazer" by Rainbow?
Yup, this one, gates of Babylon, Home, stargazer, and Devin's Pixilate are some of the best mixtures of heavy metal and middle eastern music, specifically heavy metal instrumentation with middle eastern scales. I just think it's a marriage made in heaven.
The long fade out at the end I pictured as their concert truck caravan driving off into the horizon, slowly disappearing into the sunset.
James subtle “yeah” after the solo @ 11:29 is my favorite part of the song.
Love that part too… and always wondered if anyone else could hear it! 👍
First time I've heard that "yeah"...I've been listening to that song for 30 years haha
The music video is a great window into their touring experience at the time. A condensed version of '...a year in the half'. Great tune, one of my favorite from TBA! Jason's bass is so great on the bottom of this all the way through.
I love how the music video for Wherever I May Roam is a condensed version of the tour part of A Year and a Half while the Nothing Else Matters music video shows the recording part of that film.
"On Every Street", the last studio album by Dire Straits, was also released in 1991. Terrific vintage that year :)
The Black Album gets a lot of bad rep, but it's not because it's bad metal, even though many probably argues that from some emotional standpoint. It's bullied because of what it symbolises. It's a watershed album that marked that a metal band don't need to shoehorn themselves intoa single genre, but can be successful in taking in other influences. Which to many diehard thrash fans at the time was complete anathema. And thus, among some people who thinks there's prestige in still staying "true" to that old obsolete idea of pure metal genres, people who just can't accept a band might change styles and experiement with their own identity, it's still popular to say bad things (like "sellout") about this musical masterpiece of an album.
There's also the misconception that Bob Rock "ruined" Metallica even though much of the Black Album was written before Bob Rock was hired. If anything, Bob made these songs sound as good as they possibly could have.
Right you are!!
Love the melodic bassline of My Friend of Misery.
I love everything about My Friend Of Misery! The bass, the guitar riffs and solos, the drums, the writing and phrasing, the lyrics, and especially Hetfield’s vocal delivery!🔥
I had this song stuck in my head for 2 months because it was the very last song I heard before the MTI picked me and my fellow recruits up from the San Antonio airport to take us to Lackland for Basic Military Training. Of course, I remember that fondly and while BMT was by no means easy it was one of the best times of my life and this brings the memories flowing back.
Ozzy Osbourne’s epic album “No More Tears” was also released in 1991.🔥
Guns and Roses 1 and 2... Van Halen FUCK... Soundgarden Badmotorfinger... Alice Cooper Hey Stoopid... Also released in 1991...
I was released in 1991, from my moms V
Nirvana - Nevermind 1991
There are so many epic albums from 91
@@Bogey_king😂
Fell in love with this song in middle school
‘The Load-Out’, ‘Bob Seger’s ’Turn the Page’, and this song are my trilogy of favourite touring songs. I was in a touring rock band for a brief period of time when I was in my early 20s, And all of these songs nail some aspect of that feeling perfectly..
Interestingly Metallica also covered Turn The Page...
@@riphopfer5816that was a lot😂
Guns N Roses releases Use Your Illusion I & II in Sept of 91, as well.
And it uses a coral sitar too in pretty tied up
My favourite rock albums to this day, but there's some others that come close! 😎
Over 44 days in 1991 we had Metallica Black, Pearl Jam 10, Nirvana Nevermind, G’n’R Use your Illusion 1&2, RHCP Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Soundgarden Bad Motorfinger. Madness
On the subject of them "selling out". There is an interview with Jason where the topic comes up and his response was "Yes we do. Everywhere we go we sell out". Not an exact quote but it conveys the message.
P.S.
THE WARNING
"Yes we sell out. Every seat in the house"
They followed trends, trying to stay relevant and become as popular as possible.. then dressed it up as "We just make the music we want to make"
En realidad la primera vez que los fanáticos extremistas dijeron que Metallica se vendió fué con Fade To Black porque no soportaron que el intro fuera grabado con guitarra acústica...
@@11SHADOWLORD11 Eso es cierto. ¿Pero la banda hizo eso para volverse más popular y exitosa? Creo que sí.
@@TerribleEnglish Black album hate in 2024 🤢🤢🤢
2nd song i discovered from these guys, after Dont tread on me! Such fucking amazing song writing on the Black album. I love pretty much all Metallica release since 10yrs old. Im 41 now lol. Love hearing your technical classical breakdown on these songs. Makes my ears happy to hear why these songs excite me so much!!! :DDD
IIRC Metallica did some gigs supporting AC/DC before they went on touring the Black album. At one of these concerts in Dortmund, Westfalenhalle they played just the intro to Wherever I May Roam as a teaser for things to come.
Hetfield’s singing on this track is so aggressive and on point. Love it
This album has 12 very well done songs! METALLICA!!! 1991!!
impressive to see this musical genius knowing every note and key
The Black Album made me into a Metallica fan when it was released. Gateway drug!
Same for me. Sad But True hooked me in. Saw them in concert the next year!
I love the appreciation and excitement you share with us when reacting to these songs. I can’t wait for you to experience “the God that failed” and “My friend of Misery”, both from this album. I personally love these two songs and place them among their greatest, and you can also hear their sound slowly morphing into what Load and Reload will become. ✨🤘🏾
I was a hiphop music lover and one day i heard this song and i was like HOLLY S*IT!!! THIS IS SOMETHING ELSE! and This is the song made me fall in love with Metal music and been a metalhead since thn.. ❤❤❤
One of my favorite Metallica songs. Iron Maiden has a song with similar subject matter, it’s called “Coming Home” it’s from their 2010 album the final frontier. It’s a Bruce Dickinson written song and is mostly about landing in your home city after a tour, which is relevant to him since he was the bands pilot for a good amount of years. It’s got a good groove and melody, I recommend checking it out sometime.
This song and Harvester of Sorrow are my personal 2 favorites with many others not far behind
Kirk’s best use of his wah by far
after 40y this song is still perfect... And kirk's best solo in my opinion..forever goosebumps, so many ups and downs and changes
Hell yeah... Here we go. Fantastic song choice indeed!!
As I watched the classic albums docu, I do remember Kirk explaining that the solos s in Phrygian dominant scale to get that eastern hook on the sound. He had also confessed that he lifted the first bar of the solo from jimi hahaha. oh well you gotta do what you gotta do.
It's my favorite driving song of all time!!!
As a 20 year touring monitor guy, i love this song and your insights into your touring career.
To hear this song with you man ...its like listening to music with my best friend.
I lost my best friend last year at his very young 45 years old.
I miss him a lot. And you took his place. He was very intelligent with a 150 IQ. In music. Like you. Thank you man. I love you. A big hug. Greatings from Argentina.
AGUANTEE METALLICAAAA!!!!!
It is like a miracle I was thinking of Where I may roam. I jumped on to Ytube and saw this video on recommended videos. OMFG
this was back when, if you had an album this big, you would be on tour for 2 years. Obviously you would have a bit of time off between legs but not enough to feel like you were ever home.
True road dogs.
This album is absolutely incredible. I suggest you react "Bleeding me" on Load. Great epic song
'Wherever I May Roam' always reminds me of the short story 'The Guitarist' by Grace Hallworth.
I found it featured in a 'Thrills and Chills' magazine (who's old enough to remember THAT one?) when I was a kid, and it took me DECADES to track it down.
Great read. Definitely worth it.
My personal all time favorite Metallica track. There was a period in my life when I kept moving around with no home to go back to. Still haven't found my place in the world, but this song makes me feel more at peace, that it's okay I haven't fully settled down like other people.
That Flat second is very much influenced by Middle Eastern music, and it does a great job of making our Western trained ears feel restless and yearning for those familiar resolutions. Absolutely love it and the use of the Flat five.
And Nirvana Nevermind, what a time for music. Miss it so much. Anyway, this is one of my all time favorite Metallica songs. James' lyrics are next level and Kirk's solo just hits perfectly. What a thing to experience when this album dropped
Not Metallica, but I didn't see a reaction video for Guns 'N' Roses 'November Rain'. Both the song and video are absolute masterpieces
Brilliant video assessment of a classic Metallica song, as per usual, Doug! Thanks for being so enthusiastic about one of my favourite songs of all time. For me, it is undoubtedly the best song on the black album (ok, maybe joint best with The Unforgiven!)
Looking forward to some more Metallica Mondays 😉
How about some Volbeat in the future?
Shotgun Blues, maybe?
Or Devil’s Bleeding Crown?
Keep up the great work!
@Doug.Helvering great to see you were headbanging with such great gusto!!
The ending fade-out goes on and on forever, and when the lead vocals stop but the backing vocals are still going. That’s the part where you’re trying to turn the volume up on your Sony Discman but it’s already at max
Finally, someone who knows music tells it: this album is enormous.
Nevermind from Nirvana was release in 1991. What a year.
And blood sugar sex magic by rhcp
Use Your Illusion 1 & 2 by GNR also.
Doug. I appreciate your honesty and what you bring to your channel. Of course I'm excited you are digging bands like Iron Maiden and Metallica. Metallica just did a cover of an Elton John song last month on PBS. Was wondering what your take is on that cover. I get to see Metallica in Minneapolis in a couple weeks. Can't wait. Keep rocking! 🤘🏻
The opening sitsr is played on a keyboard and the crashing sound is from Jason's 12 string bass.
Wrong!! It was played a Coral electric sitar
Nope. It certainly wasn't played on a keyboard.
Half-right dude. You definitely got the 12-string bass right
You should hear their live concert❤ with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. It is a. Amazing when you had the Orchestra behind the band absolutely beautiful
Listening to this song for over 30 years and never got bored from it
you should explore the LOAD album...arguably some of James best lyrics... Until It Sleeps, Hero of The Day, Bleeding Me, Outlaw torn...
the live version (especially the Binge & Purge performances) is fun because they speed up the ending into a full on rock out. it's sick.
this is the song that brought me to metallica. august '92. i was 12. this song knocked me on my ass. i'd never heard anything so big and powerful.
Sad But True is the song that got me
hooked on Metallica. Was in a friend's car while in college listening to our local university radio station and Sad But True came on the radio and I was like WHO IS THIS? Got to see them the next year on their Black Album tour. Was my first ever live metal concert, during a thunderstorm! We could see the lightning through the roof (it was the metronome in Minneapolis- the same one that collapsed under a lot of snow a few years back.) There was flooding on I-94 heading back to out college town and we made it through it in the car we were in. I'll NEVER forget that night!🤘🤘🤘
Definitely the lyrics got more personal from load onwards
I also suggested Until It Sleeps!
Agreed. Load is one of the best 90s albums period
I was 13 when this came out. I vaguely remember hearing Master of Puppies through the bedroom wall from my sister's tape deck in 1989.
one of my favorite songs of all time on a legendary album
This song is amazing with The San Francisco Symphony in 1999.
I would say even better than original
Next Bleeding Me Please!
Thanks for the reminder of one of my favorite times in music history, Doug!
Wherever I may roam is my favorite song on this album. I was in my late teens in 1991, and you're right: It was an awesome time for heavy music. This album, Use Your Illusion by GnR, Megadeth's Rust in Peace, Souls of Black by Testament, Seasons in the Abyss by Slayer, Painkiller by Judas Priest, State of Euphoria by Anthrax, and (of course) Images and Words by Dream Theater, not to mention a whole bunch of other great music all came out in that era, which I consider to have run from about '88 to '92, based solely on my own memories and personal views on music, purely IMHO.
This is one of those songs where the outro is the best part. I could listen to it on a loop with no fade out.
Metal makes every day better! Great stuff Doug!
Dream Theater was recording Images and Words in 1991 😎 and interesting fact, in Chile 2005 DT played Peruvian Skies with extracts of Wish you were here and Wherever I may roam. Good stuff
Oh man 1991 was my st year of hs and I remember all of that (and much more) coming out and just being so cool
STP’s Core also came out on ‘91, great album front to back.
92 actually
@@matthewdrake4385 I stand corrected 😀
It's ironic because they were on the road for like close to or longer than two years for the Black Album, so it's basically the hymn of that time frame
Thanks for Queens innuendo !I bought the album with seconds of it being available! It was on cassette!
the song that turned me on to Metallica in 1992! Still great. So many hours at school spent in recess as an outcast and misfit, listening to the Justice and Black albums on my walkman(!).
One of the best produced songs on the album. James' vocals are at their peak here.
The production is incredible on this song. I’ll never be a Black Album fan but if any other band released it I would. I was so into ‘Justice I can never recover from that initial feeling of deflation when I heard the polished production on this record. I can appreciate how brilliant that same production is now though.
Use Your Illusion I & II by Guns N' Roses also came out in 1991. I turned 14 that year. What a time to be a teenager.
This album sonically still sounds amazing. And all on tape!
One of th best outros to a metal track... period 🔥
I can't stand so called Metallica fans who claim they sold out on this album. I truly believe most of these people are online trolls because I've been to quite a few Metallica shows and they cheer just as loud for this song and others from the Black Album as they do for Creeping Death and For Whom the Bell Tolls. People who wrote them off after their first four albums are missing some very good music. You need to react to some of their latest albums, especially Hardwired
They did sell out. Bad! Easily one of the greatest example of selling out in rock history!
@@helgaratbone1691 To WHOM? What if it FAILED? What if all the "true metalheads" just said, "NO! I"m not buying this album and I'm telling ALL my friends, everyone I see at shows not to buy the stupid black album." But they didn't. You probably throw up the devil horns every time bloody "SANDMAN" comes on during a show, because you've probably been to every single one of their shows you could go to since this album came out. THIS is not a "sellout" song.
Why even bring it up and shine that spotlight on those idiots?
I'd say of all the 80s thrash bands, Metallica and their music have evolved the most which is interesting cause it's that evolution that's created the most backlash.
For the loyalists that followed them from the beginning, their sellout is them turning into the kind of artists they spoke up against before becoming mainstream.
@@isitrealgood it was a sellout album. All the true metalheads didnt buy it. It was such a commercial success they didn't need to sell to any metalheads. Fact is going from underground success to commercial success is the generic idea of selling out. Back in the mid 90's the only Metallica album you could buy from a pawn shop was the black album lol. Getting Bob Rock to produce it is yet more proof they were a sellout. All you need to do is look at who he produced before Metallica. And who cares if they did anyway. They don't I promise you lol. And I don't care that they did. In fact good on them. Best business decision ever. But fact is they did. And it was a great commercial success to them.
The song that got me into Metallica
The best song in this album so far
It's a wonderful song. I agree, it does not matter what album it is, a good song is a good song. I think the Black Album is one of if not the best produced metal albums ever. It is a wonderful album. I have been a fan of Metallica since 1989 and it won't change anytime soon.
Other than what you mentioned and probably covered below but other fantastic 1991s: Arise (Sepultura), Nevermind (Nirvana), Use Your Illusion (GnR), maybe Mr Bungle, and definitely not forgetting Decade of Aggression (Slayer!).. that first side/cd of live slayer is unstoppable
''Don't tread on me'' is one of favorites
What a piece of song is this…the drum and solos are f*cking epic
That year there were also the two "use your illusion " albums by Guns and Roses.........incredible year !!
Black album in special, but also load and reload, are great metal music albums although they are not thrash metal, I knew Metallica for the first time in this era and since then I enjoy listening to them a lot even though I also like all their previous albums.
something similar like the first seconds you can find at a group called Sisters of Mercy!
This song stands out the most to my ear because of the "Eastern" feel to it.
Now I want to hear a reaction by Doug on a band called BeatallicA, which makes mashups to The Beatles and MetallicA. This was the time when MetallicA was going hard against Napster and Sony were going to sue the band (as Sony at the time owner the rights to both band’s music). The MetallicA band in a twist actually asked Sony to drop the case, which they did.
This is my favourite song o the album, crazy you didn’t goo through before!
For the next I would suggest something from Hardwired.
This Is a Great Album!
Great tune. Motörhead’s We are the Road Crew would be my personal favourite of the life on the road Genre of song. Lemmy was an awesome lyricist. (My favourite of his generally would be Orgasmatron, but plenty to get stuck into all round)
Devin Townsend's Epicloud in the back of the room
You have to react to Death ! They are musically very complex ,but also heavy af at the same time . ( A song like : Spirit Crusher , is something you as a classical musician will surely enjoy , coming from me , also a classical musician myself)
It is a fantastic album but even I hold it apart somehow from their previous work. The previous three albums built upon one another with the undeniable inflience of Cliff Burton offering something unique - even "...And Justice for All" felt his influence. The Black album seemed like the turning of a page, a new chapter if you will. It didn't have the direct influence of Burton and it was radio friendly to boot! I barely ever listen to the album these days, choosing to listen to the earlier ones when in a Metallica mood but when I stumble upon a track from it I am always struck by how great it sounds.
My opinion only ---
I've always considered the Black Album as a time of actual morning for Cliff. ... And Justice for All was probably mostly on paper and some partially recorded material. But with the Black Album there was an album from scratch that allowed the necessary venting.
Great video Doug. One of my favorite Metallica songs.
If you want to go more recent Metallica ( if you haven't already)
From Death Magnetic:
1. That was just your life.
2. End of the line.
3. All Nightmare Long.
4. Broken,beat and scared.
From Hardwired to Self Destruct:
1. Moth Into Flame.
2.Atlas Rise.
3. Halo on Fire.
4. Spit Out The Bone
If you wanna go way back( if you haven't covered it already)
From Kill'em All:
1. Jump In The Fire
2. Motorbreath.
3. Phantom Lord.
4. Metal Melitia
From Ride the Lightning:
1. Creeping Death.
From Master of Puppets:
1. Leppar Messiah.
From Justice:
1. Harvester of Sorrow.
This song hits so hard live
A lasting memory from listening to this album for the first time was that I'd also added a new Cerwin-Vega subwoofer to my home sound system setup and this was the first album that would make my CD player skip, until I added thicker isolation pads to the feet, good times!
Blessings from Finland !