Cliff was told by his father "I have a problem with your music: I can't dance to it with my wife!" so that's how an actual waltz was sneaked to a Metallica record.
The (Metallica) song that changed my life was Welcome Home (Sanitarium). I had never heard Metallica prior our local stone John Caldwell putting this album on at the local teen community center. We were allowed to bring our own music and allowed 30 mins. I'm there playing pool, probably listening to Bon Jovi or something and John put on this album which we all knew would be "that headbanger noise crap!" Then Sanitarium played, and my jaw dropped and I instantly became enamored with the sound, and begged to know who it was. I asked for this album (cassette tape) for Christmas that year, and I got both Master and Justice tapes! I was 16. I became a complete metal head and started hanging out with the other "freaks" and learned just how truly cool, intellectual and creative they really were. I learned a life lesson then not to judge a book by the cover after getting to know them. It all started from Welcome Home Sanitarium.
@@absolutinte864 Love to hear it. Glad to hear this is an anthem in your life the same as us "boomers" who grew up listening to this every single day - like the OP, I'm sure.
You can't go wrong with any of Metallica's albums. Not just the first 4 or first 5. Quit being so damn closed minded and afraid of the albums that came after.
@@philosophicalnarwhal7559 The only person i see here that's being delusional is you. "St. Anger" is a great album, and I'll die on that hill. "St. Anger" HAD TO HAPPEN IN ORDER FOR METALLICA TO CONTINUE TO EXIST! Why this happens to fly over people's heads truly baffles me. It wouldn't surprise me though, since you have your head shoved so far up your own ass, that you can no longer think straight.
The one Metallica song that changed my life, you ask? I would have to say "One". Because up until I saw their video for that song, I had heard of Metallica, in magazines like RIP, Metal Edge & Metal Hammer. But I had never HEARD them. They got NO radio play back then, and they didn't make videos. Until "One". Then one day I saw it as a "Canadian Premiere" on the MUCH MUSIC Power Hour. With host JD Roberts(now an American news anchorman, CBS I believe). And I FREAKIN' loved IT! Next day, I went out to Sam The Record Man and bought ALL their cassettes. And I listened to all 4 of those albums relentlessly. Almost driving my Mom insane in the process. LOL. So yeah. That's the song that "introduced" me to Metallica and I haven't looked back since. Gonna be 52 this year, still and ALWAYS will be a Metalhead. As for which album you should react to next? My vote is on "Kill 'Em All", but when it comes to those first 4 albums, there is NO wrong answer. Loved the reaction. Keep up the GREAT work! 🤘🤘🤘
My story is almost the same as yours. Had heard of Metallica but I had never listened to them, which would require buying their album since there was no radio airplay. I thought I didn't like metal, but to me metal was Motley Crue and Poison. I had never heard thrash. When I saw the video for One on MTV, I had never heard anything so dark and it was amazing. I ran out and bought Justice and eventually all their albums and then moved on to Megadeth, Slayer, etc.
It is kind of funny that you said that about them NOT being played on the radio, "back in the day" because that WAS the point of Metallica!!! They didn't want to be "radio hit makers" and they wanted to write and record THEIR MUSIC, THEIR WAY, without input for record executives and radio stations!! In the 1980s I was still growing into adulthood in Ithaca New York, and not one radio station in my area played a lot of heavy metal! In fact the handful that would, stuck to songs like Van Halen Eruption/ Running With The Devil, Ac Dc You Shook Me All Night Long and Back In Black, and rarely Don Dokken's Alone Again......but that was about it!!! And I am talking around 1982 to 1986!! You'd NEVER heard an Iron Maiden song, Def Leppard was completely "unknown" to many people in my home town, and even bands like The Scorpions, Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot and Judas Priest, NEVER got any air play throughout most of that decade either!! Yet the screwed up part the radio stations that supposedly played "today's music" often stuck with RAP, or songs from Peter Gabriel, Cyndi Lauper, Depesh Mode, or Micheal Jackson!! It really was a "dark time" for rock and roll as well as Heavy Metal music in the 1980s in central New York!! But Metallica NEVER wanted to make "hits" then, they just wanted to make the music they wanted to play!!
I think she’s just repeating what she’s heard. If she reviewed other songs on this album, she should know they sound the same on all the tracks and she would’ve said it before reviewing this song in particular… that’s not her actual opinion she’s just Hating on Lars because it’s popular to hate on Lars.
Interesting comment you made about Lars and the drums. As I understand it, he used a different snare drum for this song specifically. Go listen to "Photograph" by Def Leppard, and hear that amazing sharp snapping snare in that song. Lars asked to borrow that snare for the recording of this song as it had such a pronounced snap to it (Rick was obviously recovering from his accident at that time and likely wasn't using it - not being crass - just giving context). You can hear in Orion how that snare drum is quite unique and iconic and is the same as Photograph. I personally do not think it sounds like garbage cans - as a drummer myself, I'm actually quite a fan of the way this drum sounds. I think it sounds crisp and super sharp! Though I will say the St. Anger album Lars's drums sounds like pots and pans and I absolutely can't stand anything about it.
First Metallica song I heard was 'Harvester of Sorrow'... That changed my life for sure... Then, I heard 'Eye of the Beholder'... 'Hit the lights'... 'One'... and then I started w/ the entire "Kill 'em all" album and worked up to the 1991 self-titled 'black' album.
Metallica has so many masterpieces that choosing one song doesnt cut it, it's like a pyramid with a flat top where so many can fit, they musically raised me since l was a child especially through my teens, their versatility can shred and touch in one single album, no wonder they're the top metal band in the world
KILL 'EM ALL!!! First Thrash album on wax. I would suggest a full listen to Exodus "Bonded by Blood" as well. Kirk Hammet was a founding member and wrote a lot of those songs before jumping to Metallica. Has the BEST frontman of all time in Thrash, the Legendary Paul Baloff!
@@pressman1788 I haven't listened and do not intend to. Even Gary Holt wishes they didn't do that. The original was recorded right down the road from where I'm typing right now. Cannot be redone.
...and justice for all is my g.o.a.t Metallica song. hearing it and then seeing the album artwork front cover gave me chills. they got a live version of it in Seattle in '89. epic concert. 🤘😎 🤘
@Lilly Jane Reacts Awesome 🔥. And Justice for all! Powerful voice and Lyrics from James on this album 🎤🔥🤘They were really young when they made Kill 'Em All. So his voice was higher. During MOP and AJFA and onto the 90s his voice had so much power and aggression. I think you will dig AJFA plus the lyrical content is badass. Can't wait for you to break it down. Much love from Texas 🤘
I'd like to see Kill 'Em All next. AJFA is great but I would have loved it if the bass had not purposely turned down. For me the song Ride the Lightning was the one that really got me into Metallica and made me a fan.
Orion is a song you listen to while sitting outside on a summer night getting stoned and just letting the musical changes take you on a journey. Especially the more mellow part of this song. At least that's what me a my buddies used to do back in the day.
There is a reason why this was the first(and I believe only) metal album to ever be inducted in to the library of congress for it's historical significance and overwhelming influence in music
The one that changed my life? Outlaw Torn, definitely. It's about James search for replacement of his father figure in his life. It helped me to go through tough times in my marriage, especially last part when he speaks to his future wife to help him with his struggles and not letting him leave, just like his father (Outlaw Torn in this song) did...abandoning the kids. Hear me, and if I close my mind in fear Please pry it open See me, and if my face becomes sincere Beware, yeah Hold me, and when I start to come undone Stitch me together Save me, and when you see me strut Remind me of what left this outlaw torn
My favorite Metallica instrumental. My favorite part starts at 4:50 here, that bass. Back when this was a demo, it was part of the song Welcome Home(Sanitarium). Lars is spanking what?🤣😆
@@lillyjanereacts You want to hear Lars spanking a trash can, then listen to St. Anger which a lot of Metallica fans despise even though a minority of people have warmed up to it over the years. If it wasn't for Lars' determination as well as the connections that he had at the time, then there wouldn't be a Metallica.
This song has a way of touching every part of human emotion.... It helps with clarity.... I know of several professional athletes and race car drivers that listen to the song before they perform,. If you close your eyes and just listen.. when the song is over and you open your eyes it puts you in a calm place and ready for whatever is put in front of you
Fight Fire with Fire (Ride the Lightning). First Metallica song, first heavy metal song I had ever heard. Starts slow and acoustic then explodes with super fast heavy riffs. I was blown away and have been a metalhead ever since. This was in 1987, I was 10. Great reaction! I've enjoyed watching your Metallica journey, keep it up! 🤘🤘
I was 23 when the album came out. It didn't change my life but it certainly influenced the way I live it and treat others🤘. RIP Cliff "Bellbottoms Rule" Burton.
Fade to Black turned me into a Metallica fan. A buddy of mine played the opening riff on his guitar and I was like “That sounds cool” and he looked up, smiled, and said “that’s Metallica!” It took me a minute to appreciate Hetfield’s voice but I very quickly learned to appreciate their musicianship. 🤘🏻 This track is probably my favorite by them. I never get tired of it.
Back in the 80’s Metallica got no radio play for their first 3 albums except college radio. So they were little known until this album because they opened for Ozzy. And that launched their popularity. It was how I saw them first and I was so blown away, I immediately bought their first 3 albums.
This was a good review of "Orion". The important thing to remember is the era when this song (the album as a whole) was released. No internet, no playlists (other than mix tapes) and Metallica was not heard on the radio until "One" was released. It took me a whole year to find out that a local metal band, playing "Creeping Death" was a Metallica song. I didn't even know the song's title was "Creeping Death". I purchased "Kill 'Em All" and "Ride the Lightning" before I found the song I was looking for. "Orion" was something I heard when a friend played it for me. I couldn't, at the time, afford to buy the album so I had to rely on friends to play the "Master of Puppets" album for me. I appreciate the technology of the current day, and the reaction videos of younger people, such as yourself, but I don't see any acknowledgment of how us grey beards learned (and had to work for) the music. Please, keep in mind in future videos that instant gratification didn't exist.
Loved your reaction! I'd like to see Kill 'em All next as I'd like to see you react to "Anesthesia Pulling Teeth" which is a killer bass solo by Cliff.
The Metallica song that changed my life was the unforgiven from the black album. This was the first Metallica song I ever heard and first kind of metal song I ever heard. Another band that really changed my life was one I started getting into recently. It's a band named cacophony with Marty Friedman and Jason Becker. Their album Go Off is my favorite.
This is outsider music... Metallica are outsiders themselves. They have poured their hearts and souls into their music and the honesty of the whole music and act is unfathomable... You can listen to all kinds of music, but you experience Metallica. The live shows they do have an unbelievable energy that I have not seen or felt with other bands I have seen. Something happens when Metallica comes out... It is incredible. The song that got me to Metallica was probably Enter Sandman. I was just getting more into music during that time and I have come to realize what kind of special moment it was to grow up with Metallica and Guns'n'Roses.
along with The Call of Ktulu my absolute favorite metallica tunes these instrumentals still speak to my soul like they did when i was 10 & 12 when i first heard them
Metallica holds the title of "The Greatest Rock Band Of All Time". Their Black Album went double platinum in two weeks....Top that. All Rock Bands that exists today is inspired by Metallica one way or another. Not just in the U.S. but in the entire planet.
the song that changed my life was Fuel, from the Reload album. But it wasn't the version that was on the album, or the S&M live version. I used to play a Playstation 1 game called Hot Wheels Racing, it has one of the best video game soundtracks of all time. Their center piece was the demo version of Fuel, called Fuel For Fire. I was obsessed with it, I was 12 and I thought it was the coolest song I'd ever paid attention to. I grew up watching VH1's Pop Up Video and MTV's TRL, but this was something immersive I got on Napster, then LimeWire and WinMX and started downloading Metallica. A cool neighbor of mine introduced me to Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Megadeth, and the rest of Metallica at 13 and I became a devoted metalhead, goth/punk, and electronic music guy (techno, dnb, dubstep, ambient, etc). I've been playing music for 19 years, and honestly, if it wasn't for Metallica I never even entertain the idea. I wouldn't be the same man. I wouldn't have the gnarly long hair I have now! I've loved watching your reactions to rock and metal because, honestly, rap rarely ever gets me. I like a lot of old school people and a few other younger rappers and producers but overall I stick to what I like, and make an effort to explore a lot of new things. Love jazz and classical, blues and funk and a lot of progressive rock and some folk/songwriter stuff I mean, eventually I'd imagine you'd want to do all the albums and music right? Doing Kill em All next would be great, then maybe the new record coming out in a few months. It feels like you've really enjoyed yourself and that's the most important part. Thanks for your work, appreciate it!
Hot Wheels Turbo Racing for the PS1 I remember it. Got it from my moms boyfriend a few years after the ps3 launched and when I heard Fuel as the opening theme little me got SO excited that my favorite band was the theme
For me the song that make me changed my taste of music is "The God That Failed" from Metallica of course. Its from the "Black album". When i heard that song i become metalhead for life. So you could say that is the song that changed my life. Greetings from Serbia. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
This album literally changed my life, it brings out emotions that no other music ever has for me. So glad that you found out how special it is and that we could share that journey with you. 👍
Fade to Black From the album Ride the Lightning I saw Cliff back in 85' This was when they were opening for Ozzy They just blew Ozzy away And another good song Is Seek & Destroy Off Kill'em All
Blackened was the song that changed my life as it was the first Metallica song I had ever heard, this was shortly after the And Justice For All album came out. I found the album in my sister's room because I would go in there looking for music and this was the first real "metal" album I heard...I had heard my sister's Twisted Sister, Kiss and Cinderella albums, stuff like that, but finding this album is what actually turned me into a metal lover and fan...my sister never did get that album back lol. After hearing this album over and over, I begged my parents to get me all of their other albums and I just drank it all up. Metal is a language in and of itself, so when you talk about instruments talking, that's 1000% a real thing, but I think other than great symphony, metal is the one genre that tends to surprise a lot of non metal listeners when they first hear it, and I have seen a lot of reactors in the last few years becoming metal heads which is friggin' awesome \m/
When playing Orion : - Press play - Go run a bath - Run some errands - Tidy up the house - Have a bite Then come back to the computer and the fade-in should be just about done and getting into the song. 😛 I had to run this track thru my audio editor and raise the volume on the intro to make it more audible from the first second. It's way too quiet/low otherwise.
Song that changed my life. Well, many of them have, but Seek and Destroy was my gateway into Metallica. The metal band I was in used to play that every practice as a warm up song. LOVED that song. Many others (Fade to Black, Sanitarium, Master of Puppets, One, Orion) had heavy impacts on my life, but Seek and Destroy will stick with me forever as my first taste.
11:05 the Metallica song that changed my life: ‘One’. Watched the music video- and it could not be unseen. The music was unlike anything I had heard before (also my first time hearing thrash metal of any kind). Metallica fan ever since. Metalhead ever since. If you’ve reacted to Ride the Lightning & Master of Puppets, I feel you’ve covered their best stuff already. Kill ‘Em All would be alright. But part of me wants to suggest St Anger, or Lulu. But I don’t want to kill your fledgling love of Metallica.
At 43 years old, looking back on my life to this point, there is nothing more influencing on my life and who I am as a person than Metallica. The 1st time i listened to Ride the lightning, my life was changed forever for many different reasons
I was 18 during the Master of Puppets tour. The tour that Cliff died on... his death devastated the metal community. It devastated me. He was so young and really just getting started...and already so extremely talented. Every time I listen to songs from this release, I find myself wondering what direction Metallica would've went in had he still been alive and with them. ...every time I listen to this song, I shed a tear. He was so fucking awesome.
I love the fact that Rodrigo y Gabriela chose to cover this, totally on acoustic guitars, with Rodrigo covering all of Cliff's parts. Making it even better, when they play this live, they brought in Rob Trujillo to play bass on it.
It was a few weeks BEFORE Metallica was set to open for Ozzy Osbourne in Binghamton New York in 1986, when I first discovered Metallica through a friend of mine! Master of Puppets WAS a brand new album, and I had never heard them, OR heard of them before, even though I already had my ticket to see them in concert.....what can I say I am a huge fan of Ozzy, since his days with Black Sabbath!!! Keep in mind too, that this was about a month BEFORE Cliff Burton died too!! So I was at my friends' house listen to his collection of Metallica albums and he played their song Fade To Black! In those days I was in my early twenties, and I usually felt very alone, unaccepted, unwanted and very much unloved! You see my family treated me like I was a worthless piece of crap, they never wanted to begin with. And most of my life women and my peers treated me like a physical and emotional punching bag........so when I first heard Face To Black......I was in some ways considering suicide on a near daily basis!!! THEN I heard Fade to Black, and realized I was NOT the only person who felt so isolated and alone!! I had, however, always drawn strength from the music I listened to, gaining insight and inspiration for the bands, music and songs I typically listened to that fed my will to "go on"!! And trust me when I say I was an emotional wreck when I discovered Metallica those few weeks before I saw them in concert!!! And the only other song Metallica sang that gave me the strength to fight had to be the song Escape.......which I often played in rotation with Fade to Black!!
You wantto really hear cliff , kill em all. Anesthesia...pulling teeth. All cliff at first , then a drum rhythm he goes crazy over. Imagine Kirk playing on a bass, wah wah pedal and all. That's gonna be something that will melt you. But if you wanna get a taste of kill em all, closest song that dropped recently off their nxt album really sounds like a newer polished version of a song that would fit on that album. Polished in a good way. Kill em all was raw, and that makes it soo good . Like watching a super talented garage band coming into their own. Which is what it was. The jump to ride, then master was leaps and bounds. Then justice. Epic. I'll be waiting patiently for another reaction. All my best.
I'm down for Kill 'Em All next. Thrash energy through and through. I mean "Hit The Lights", "The Four Horsemen", "Anesthesia", "No Remorse", "Seek And Destroy", "Am I Evil?", "Blitzkrieg", "Whiplash"... Thrash, classics, underrated songs, iconic bass solo, fantastic covers. Bangers for days! I'm good with ...And Justice For All next too. Either after the other really. But since we've done their 2nd and 3rd album, might as well check off the 1st next before going further down their catalogue just saying.
I haven't seen anyone mention it yet, but the high-pitched fast part in the beginning is actually played by Cliff on bass, as well as the third solo(not the last one, the second and third are connected)
I'm no Lars fan, to be sure but he WAS pretty good until after the black album. He was just about hitting his prime here. No problem with his playing as much as how they recorded him. I've always had an issue with how they mic'd him on this album, too.
I remember when this album came out... In the late 80s, it feels like (to me) this type of stuff was taking off. I actually saw the Master of Puppets tour in Cincinnati (with Cliff, opening for Ozzy) just a few months before he died I think. I was 16. This album blew people away. It was, and still is, amazing. The sound of it is ingrained in me pretty much.
Master of Puppets the album wasn't well known when it was released. The band worked their asses off on the road and it slowly gained popularity. It was the die hard Metallica fans that understood the true depth of the band and word of mouth on top of Metallica's hard work is what pushed it through. Cliff died during the Master of Puppets tour and the band quickly got a replacement, which is what Cliff would have wanted. This album was released in 1986 and it's been my favorite Metallica album since the day it was released. Yes, I'm one of those die hard Metallica fans from the early and mid 80's.
I don't know about changing my life, but the first Metallica song I heard was "Master of Puppets" followed by "Sanitarium". That got me from the "glam metal" that was popular in the late '80s into the "real" heavy metal bands like the Big 4.
When we were teens, my friend and I used to drive out into the middle of nowhere on a starry night, and lie on the hood of his car, with this playing on repeat, just looking at the universe and talking about... stuff... life, the universe, girls, Metallica, Cliff... The weirdest thing about it was that though we never thought of it at the time, that car was a 1986 Ford Orion.🤔
Cliff Burton's Bass Solo Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) from Metallica's debut album Kill 'Em All. It literally made my mind up to play bass. He is one of the biggest influences of mine instrumentally and musically. Today oddly enough is the 38th anniversary of his passing at the age of 24.
Cliff was told by his father "I have a problem with your music: I can't dance to it with my wife!" so that's how an actual waltz was sneaked to a Metallica record.
Ray Burton the legend.
Awesome, hehe!
He use to wake up the next morning after performing complaining to his dad about his neck hurting.
@@ChefSmith82same thing with Jason.
Is that true?
Every time Cliff’s solo comes in, I nearly cry. He put so much feel into it. To me, it feels like his masterpiece
metallica was never the same without cliff.....nor could they be.....
Undoubtedly a masterpiece
One of my favorite songs from this album🤘RIP Cliff
es la favorita de todos ... aguante clfff!!
Cliff em All.
The (Metallica) song that changed my life was Welcome Home (Sanitarium).
I had never heard Metallica prior our local stone John Caldwell putting this album on at the local teen community center. We were allowed to bring our own music and allowed 30 mins. I'm there playing pool, probably listening to Bon Jovi or something and John put on this album which we all knew would be "that headbanger noise crap!"
Then Sanitarium played, and my jaw dropped and I instantly became enamored with the sound, and begged to know who it was.
I asked for this album (cassette tape) for Christmas that year, and I got both Master and Justice tapes! I was 16. I became a complete metal head and started hanging out with the other "freaks" and learned just how truly cool, intellectual and creative they really were. I learned a life lesson then not to judge a book by the cover after getting to know them.
It all started from Welcome Home Sanitarium.
Nice story, tell it to Reader's Digest 😛
My favorite instrumental of all-time. I listen to this song at least once a year. On the day of Cliff's death. This song hits different on that day.
Thats actually funny hehe, i listen to it at LEAST once a day. Either on m way to work or home from work, every single day.
@@absolutinte864 same...this album is on repeat in the car
@@absolutinte864 Love to hear it. Glad to hear this is an anthem in your life the same as us "boomers" who grew up listening to this every single day - like the OP, I'm sure.
No word spoken, but the music says so much. Probably my favorite instrumental.
I've done that as well and yes, you're right. I noticed that. It must the vibe from he song, reliving his life through his soul. R.I.P Cliff!
On to and justice for all!!
Up Up And Up!!!
And Justice for Jason!
Who asked
Yes!!
My personal favorite metallica album
You can't go wrong with any of Metallica's first 4 album's in my opinion!
Truth
You can't go wrong with any of Metallica's albums. Not just the first 4 or first 5. Quit being so damn closed minded and afraid of the albums that came after.
@@TokusatsuGamingfan I do like some of their other albums, but not the whole album is what I meant.
@@TokusatsuGamingfan if you honestly think St. Anger is a good album, you're delusional dude lol not a single good track on that waste of studio time
@@philosophicalnarwhal7559 The only person i see here that's being delusional is you. "St. Anger" is a great album, and I'll die on that hill. "St. Anger" HAD TO HAPPEN IN ORDER FOR METALLICA TO CONTINUE TO EXIST! Why this happens to fly over people's heads truly baffles me. It wouldn't surprise me though, since you have your head shoved so far up your own ass, that you can no longer think straight.
The one Metallica song that changed my life, you ask? I would have to say "One". Because up until I saw their video for that song, I had heard of Metallica, in magazines like RIP, Metal Edge & Metal Hammer. But I had never HEARD them. They got NO radio play back then, and they didn't make videos. Until "One". Then one day I saw it as a "Canadian Premiere" on the MUCH MUSIC Power Hour. With host JD Roberts(now an American news anchorman, CBS I believe). And I FREAKIN' loved IT! Next day, I went out to Sam The Record Man and bought ALL their cassettes. And I listened to all 4 of those albums relentlessly. Almost driving my Mom insane in the process. LOL. So yeah. That's the song that "introduced" me to Metallica and I haven't looked back since. Gonna be 52 this year, still and ALWAYS will be a Metalhead. As for which album you should react to next? My vote is on "Kill 'Em All", but when it comes to those first 4 albums, there is NO wrong answer. Loved the reaction. Keep up the GREAT work! 🤘🤘🤘
My story is almost the same as yours. Had heard of Metallica but I had never listened to them, which would require buying their album since there was no radio airplay. I thought I didn't like metal, but to me metal was Motley Crue and Poison. I had never heard thrash. When I saw the video for One on MTV, I had never heard anything so dark and it was amazing. I ran out and bought Justice and eventually all their albums and then moved on to Megadeth, Slayer, etc.
It is kind of funny that you said that about them NOT being played on the radio, "back in the day" because that WAS the point of Metallica!!! They didn't want to be "radio hit makers" and they wanted to write and record THEIR MUSIC, THEIR WAY, without input for record executives and radio stations!! In the 1980s I was still growing into adulthood in Ithaca New York, and not one radio station in my area played a lot of heavy metal!
In fact the handful that would, stuck to songs like Van Halen Eruption/ Running With The Devil, Ac Dc You Shook Me All Night Long and Back In Black, and rarely Don Dokken's Alone Again......but that was about it!!! And I am talking around 1982 to 1986!! You'd NEVER heard an Iron Maiden song, Def Leppard was completely "unknown" to many people in my home town, and even bands like The Scorpions, Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot and Judas Priest, NEVER got any air play throughout most of that decade either!!
Yet the screwed up part the radio stations that supposedly played "today's music" often stuck with RAP, or songs from Peter Gabriel, Cyndi Lauper, Depesh Mode, or Micheal Jackson!! It really was a "dark time" for rock and roll as well as Heavy Metal music in the 1980s in central New York!!
But Metallica NEVER wanted to make "hits" then, they just wanted to make the music they wanted to play!!
the irony of calling lars' snare a trash can on THIS album is hilarious 😂
She has no ideaaaa lmaoo
I think she’s just repeating what she’s heard. If she reviewed other songs on this album, she should know they sound the same on all the tracks and she would’ve said it before reviewing this song in particular… that’s not her actual opinion she’s just Hating on Lars because it’s popular to hate on Lars.
Rest in Peace Cliff, You were my inspiration to overpower our guitarist with bass.
Cliff Burton is a genius
Interesting comment you made about Lars and the drums. As I understand it, he used a different snare drum for this song specifically.
Go listen to "Photograph" by Def Leppard, and hear that amazing sharp snapping snare in that song. Lars asked to borrow that snare for the recording of this song as it had such a pronounced snap to it (Rick was obviously recovering from his accident at that time and likely wasn't using it - not being crass - just giving context).
You can hear in Orion how that snare drum is quite unique and iconic and is the same as Photograph. I personally do not think it sounds like garbage cans - as a drummer myself, I'm actually quite a fan of the way this drum sounds. I think it sounds crisp and super sharp!
Though I will say the St. Anger album Lars's drums sounds like pots and pans and I absolutely can't stand anything about it.
I love this instrumental (especially, the harmonizing guitars section)
First Metallica song I heard was 'Harvester of Sorrow'... That changed my life for sure... Then, I heard 'Eye of the Beholder'... 'Hit the lights'... 'One'... and then I started w/ the entire "Kill 'em all" album and worked up to the 1991 self-titled 'black' album.
4 words
And justice for all!
Metallica has so many masterpieces that choosing one song doesnt cut it, it's like a pyramid with a flat top where so many can fit, they musically raised me since l was a child especially through my teens, their versatility can shred and touch in one single album, no wonder they're the top metal band in the world
"The Four Horsemen" off Kill Em All, i`ll never forget the first time I heard it...those galloping guitars just blew me away!
Thank you thank you thank you for not interrupting the bass interlude!!!!
The bass part should have been like way longer it’s so good it should be 2:30
The guitar work on this track is amazing. Especially the bass
Recorded at Sweet Silence Studios in Denmark.
KILL 'EM ALL!!! First Thrash album on wax. I would suggest a full listen to Exodus "Bonded by Blood" as well. Kirk Hammet was a founding member and wrote a lot of those songs before jumping to Metallica. Has the BEST frontman of all time in Thrash, the Legendary Paul Baloff!
@Brettanomyces Did you like the remake of Bonded by Blood Exodus recorded with Rob Dukes? Let There Be Blood.
@@pressman1788 I haven't listened and do not intend to. Even Gary Holt wishes they didn't do that. The original was recorded right down the road from where I'm typing right now. Cannot be redone.
Haven't seen much mention of Exodus among reactors, but they are definitely worth checking out. Really solid thrash.
Spanking a trash can. haha That will come back as a reference point if you're planning to listen to every single album.
wait for her listening to St Anger...
@@GibParadox I was just thinking the exact same thing, LOL😂😂😂 Metallicas worst drum sound EVER
St Anger dwfinitively sounds better live.
...and justice for all is my g.o.a.t Metallica song. hearing it and then seeing the album artwork front cover gave me chills. they got a live version of it in Seattle in '89. epic concert. 🤘😎 🤘
@Lilly Jane Reacts Awesome 🔥. And Justice for all! Powerful voice and Lyrics from James on this album 🎤🔥🤘They were really young when they made Kill 'Em All. So his voice was higher. During MOP and AJFA and onto the 90s his voice had so much power and aggression. I think you will dig AJFA plus the lyrical content is badass. Can't wait for you to break it down. Much love from Texas 🤘
I'd like to see Kill 'Em All next. AJFA is great but I would have loved it if the bass had not purposely turned down. For me the song Ride the Lightning was the one that really got me into Metallica and made me a fan.
Search RUclips for And Justice for Jason ... someone adjusted the bass and it is a whole new album... :)
Spanking a trash can? That reminds me of one metallica album hhaahahaah
The album that shall not be named. XD
St. Anger lol
Orion is a song you listen to while sitting outside on a summer night getting stoned and just letting the musical changes take you on a journey. Especially the more mellow part of this song. At least that's what me a my buddies used to do back in the day.
I still do it 30+ years later
Hope you’re having an amazing day!
Thank you Jacob (:
There is a reason why this was the first(and I believe only) metal album to ever be inducted in to the library of congress for it's historical significance and overwhelming influence in music
The one that changed my life? Outlaw Torn, definitely. It's about James search for replacement of his father figure in his life.
It helped me to go through tough times in my marriage, especially last part when he speaks to his future wife to help him with his struggles and not letting him leave, just like his father (Outlaw Torn in this song) did...abandoning the kids.
Hear me, and if I close my mind in fear
Please pry it open
See me, and if my face becomes sincere
Beware, yeah
Hold me, and when I start to come undone
Stitch me together
Save me, and when you see me strut
Remind me of what left this outlaw torn
My favorite Metallica instrumental. My favorite part starts at 4:50 here, that bass. Back when this was a demo, it was part of the song Welcome Home(Sanitarium). Lars is spanking what?🤣😆
spanking a trash can lmao.
@@lillyjanereacts Lilly, you gave me a great visual of Lars banging on trash can lids. 😆
@@lillyjanereacts You want to hear Lars spanking a trash can, then listen to St. Anger which a lot of Metallica fans despise even though a minority of people have warmed up to it over the years. If it wasn't for Lars' determination as well as the connections that he had at the time, then there wouldn't be a Metallica.
This song has a way of touching every part of human emotion.... It helps with clarity.... I know of several professional athletes and race car drivers that listen to the song before they perform,. If you close your eyes and just listen.. when the song is over and you open your eyes it puts you in a calm place and ready for whatever is put in front of you
ABSOLUTELY THE BEST INSTRUMENTAL.......EVER!!!!! R.I.P. CLIFF 🔥🤘
That 4 minute mark always gets me man🔥🤌🏼
Yes, definitely do Kill Em All, for sure!!!
Fight Fire with Fire (Ride the Lightning). First Metallica song, first heavy metal song I had ever heard. Starts slow and acoustic then explodes with super fast heavy riffs. I was blown away and have been a metalhead ever since. This was in 1987, I was 10. Great reaction! I've enjoyed watching your Metallica journey, keep it up! 🤘🤘
I was 23 when the album came out. It didn't change my life but it certainly influenced the way I live it and treat others🤘. RIP Cliff "Bellbottoms Rule" Burton.
Fade to Black turned me into a Metallica fan. A buddy of mine played the opening riff on his guitar and I was like “That sounds cool” and he looked up, smiled, and said “that’s Metallica!”
It took me a minute to appreciate Hetfield’s voice but I very quickly learned to appreciate their musicianship. 🤘🏻
This track is probably my favorite by them. I never get tired of it.
Back in the 80’s Metallica got no radio play for their first 3 albums except college radio. So they were little known until this album because they opened for Ozzy. And that launched their popularity. It was how I saw them first and I was so blown away, I immediately bought their first 3 albums.
This was a good review of "Orion". The important thing to remember is the era when this song (the album as a whole) was released. No internet, no playlists (other than mix tapes) and Metallica was not heard on the radio until "One" was released. It took me a whole year to find out that a local metal band, playing "Creeping Death" was a Metallica song. I didn't even know the song's title was "Creeping Death". I purchased "Kill 'Em All" and "Ride the Lightning" before I found the song I was looking for. "Orion" was something I heard when a friend played it for me. I couldn't, at the time, afford to buy the album so I had to rely on friends to play the "Master of Puppets" album for me. I appreciate the technology of the current day, and the reaction videos of younger people, such as yourself, but I don't see any acknowledgment of how us grey beards learned (and had to work for) the music. Please, keep in mind in future videos that instant gratification didn't exist.
Creeping Death from Ride The Lightning or The Four Horsemen from Kill ‘Em All. Those were the songs that made me a Metallica fan.
Best bass solo ever! Cliff will be at the top of my list forever
Cliff Burton wrote the middle part of this song, and it was his favorite song to play
Loved your reaction! I'd like to see Kill 'em All next as I'd like to see you react to "Anesthesia Pulling Teeth" which is a killer bass solo by Cliff.
The Metallica song that changed my life was the unforgiven from the black album. This was the first Metallica song I ever heard and first kind of metal song I ever heard. Another band that really changed my life was one I started getting into recently. It's a band named cacophony with Marty Friedman and Jason Becker. Their album Go Off is my favorite.
This is outsider music... Metallica are outsiders themselves. They have poured their hearts and souls into their music and the honesty of the whole music and act is unfathomable... You can listen to all kinds of music, but you experience Metallica. The live shows they do have an unbelievable energy that I have not seen or felt with other bands I have seen. Something happens when Metallica comes out... It is incredible.
The song that got me to Metallica was probably Enter Sandman. I was just getting more into music during that time and I have come to realize what kind of special moment it was to grow up with Metallica and Guns'n'Roses.
along with The Call of Ktulu my absolute favorite metallica tunes these instrumentals still speak to my soul like they did when i was 10 & 12 when i first heard them
Metallica holds the title of "The Greatest Rock Band Of All Time". Their Black Album went double platinum in two weeks....Top that. All Rock Bands that exists today is inspired by Metallica one way or another. Not just in the U.S. but in the entire planet.
the song that changed my life was Fuel, from the Reload album. But it wasn't the version that was on the album, or the S&M live version. I used to play a Playstation 1 game called Hot Wheels Racing, it has one of the best video game soundtracks of all time. Their center piece was the demo version of Fuel, called Fuel For Fire. I was obsessed with it, I was 12 and I thought it was the coolest song I'd ever paid attention to. I grew up watching VH1's Pop Up Video and MTV's TRL, but this was something immersive
I got on Napster, then LimeWire and WinMX and started downloading Metallica. A cool neighbor of mine introduced me to Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Megadeth, and the rest of Metallica at 13 and I became a devoted metalhead, goth/punk, and electronic music guy (techno, dnb, dubstep, ambient, etc). I've been playing music for 19 years, and honestly, if it wasn't for Metallica I never even entertain the idea. I wouldn't be the same man. I wouldn't have the gnarly long hair I have now!
I've loved watching your reactions to rock and metal because, honestly, rap rarely ever gets me. I like a lot of old school people and a few other younger rappers and producers but overall I stick to what I like, and make an effort to explore a lot of new things. Love jazz and classical, blues and funk and a lot of progressive rock and some folk/songwriter stuff
I mean, eventually I'd imagine you'd want to do all the albums and music right? Doing Kill em All next would be great, then maybe the new record coming out in a few months. It feels like you've really enjoyed yourself and that's the most important part. Thanks for your work, appreciate it!
Hot Wheels Turbo Racing for the PS1 I remember it. Got it from my moms boyfriend a few years after the ps3 launched and when I heard Fuel as the opening theme little me got SO excited that my favorite band was the theme
I love her so much I grew up in the 89's to see her react take me back thank you.
For me the song that make me changed my taste of music is "The God That Failed" from Metallica of course. Its from the "Black album". When i heard that song i become metalhead for life. So you could say that is the song that changed my life. Greetings from Serbia. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
I know why it makes you feel better. Cause Metal makes everything better.
4:00 Such a great solo..
I can play it flawlessly!! (On air guitar, of course)
OH and 6:27 and 7:06
This album literally changed my life, it brings out emotions that no other music ever has for me. So glad that you found out how special it is and that we could share that journey with you. 👍
My above all favorite song of any band.
Fade to Black
From the album Ride the Lightning
I saw Cliff back in 85'
This was when they were opening for Ozzy
They just blew Ozzy away
And another good song
Is Seek & Destroy
Off Kill'em All
Trashcan drums? Been listening to this album since it came out and that never crossed my mind, still doesn't. St. Anger, yes, trashcan drums.
Hit the lights changed my life. My introduction to Heavy Metal in 1984. It has saved my life!!🤘🏾🤘🏾
Blackened was the song that changed my life as it was the first Metallica song I had ever heard, this was shortly after the And Justice For All album came out. I found the album in my sister's room because I would go in there looking for music and this was the first real "metal" album I heard...I had heard my sister's Twisted Sister, Kiss and Cinderella albums, stuff like that, but finding this album is what actually turned me into a metal lover and fan...my sister never did get that album back lol. After hearing this album over and over, I begged my parents to get me all of their other albums and I just drank it all up. Metal is a language in and of itself, so when you talk about instruments talking, that's 1000% a real thing, but I think other than great symphony, metal is the one genre that tends to surprise a lot of non metal listeners when they first hear it, and I have seen a lot of reactors in the last few years becoming metal heads which is friggin' awesome \m/
It's Metallica leading you out into SPAAAAACE! Fucking love it!
When playing Orion :
- Press play
- Go run a bath
- Run some errands
- Tidy up the house
- Have a bite
Then come back to the computer and the fade-in should be just about done and getting into the song.
😛
I had to run this track thru my audio editor and raise the volume on the intro to make it more audible from the first second. It's way too quiet/low otherwise.
Love it subscription officially added 🤘
Awesome! Thank you!
Wow thank you that was fast very welcome fellow metalhead 🤘
Song that changed my life. Well, many of them have, but Seek and Destroy was my gateway into Metallica. The metal band I was in used to play that every practice as a warm up song. LOVED that song. Many others (Fade to Black, Sanitarium, Master of Puppets, One, Orion) had heavy impacts on my life, but Seek and Destroy will stick with me forever as my first taste.
11:05 the Metallica song that changed my life: ‘One’. Watched the music video- and it could not be unseen. The music was unlike anything I had heard before (also my first time hearing thrash metal of any kind). Metallica fan ever since. Metalhead ever since.
If you’ve reacted to Ride the Lightning & Master of Puppets, I feel you’ve covered their best stuff already. Kill ‘Em All would be alright. But part of me wants to suggest St Anger, or Lulu. But I don’t want to kill your fledgling love of Metallica.
At 43 years old, looking back on my life to this point, there is nothing more influencing on my life and who I am as a person than Metallica. The 1st time i listened to Ride the lightning, my life was changed forever for many different reasons
I was 18 during the Master of Puppets tour. The tour that Cliff died on...
his death devastated the metal community. It devastated me.
He was so young and really just getting started...and already so extremely talented.
Every time I listen to songs from this release, I find myself wondering what direction Metallica would've went in had he still been alive and with them.
...every time I listen to this song, I shed a tear. He was so fucking awesome.
Orion will always remain my favorite Metallica song. All time masterpiece.
My eyes well up every time I listen to this song. Cliff's genius gets me every time.
I love the fact that Rodrigo y Gabriela chose to cover this, totally on acoustic guitars, with Rodrigo covering all of Cliff's parts. Making it even better, when they play this live, they brought in Rob Trujillo to play bass on it.
It is most awesome when experienced live in person (ahhhh, memories..)😎❤🤙
Master piece!!!!
Oh, and the song “Master of Puppets” was my “OMG WTF is this?!?!” moment that got me into metal as a teenager in the late 90s.
Please kill em all is amazing all the songs just as MOP and RTL
Oh yes. 1986 drums and guitars. I’m in heaven.
It was a few weeks BEFORE Metallica was set to open for Ozzy Osbourne in Binghamton New York in 1986, when I first discovered Metallica through a friend of mine! Master of Puppets WAS a brand new album, and I had never heard them, OR heard of them before, even though I already had my ticket to see them in concert.....what can I say I am a huge fan of Ozzy, since his days with Black Sabbath!!!
Keep in mind too, that this was about a month BEFORE Cliff Burton died too!!
So I was at my friends' house listen to his collection of Metallica albums and he played their song Fade To Black! In those days I was in my early twenties, and I usually felt very alone, unaccepted, unwanted and very much unloved! You see my family treated me like I was a worthless piece of crap, they never wanted to begin with. And most of my life women and my peers treated me like a physical and emotional punching bag........so when I first heard Face To Black......I was in some ways considering suicide on a near daily basis!!!
THEN I heard Fade to Black, and realized I was NOT the only person who felt so isolated and alone!!
I had, however, always drawn strength from the music I listened to, gaining insight and inspiration for the bands, music and songs I typically listened to that fed my will to "go on"!! And trust me when I say I was an emotional wreck when I discovered Metallica those few weeks before I saw them in concert!!! And the only other song Metallica sang that gave me the strength to fight had to be the song Escape.......which I often played in rotation with Fade to Black!!
Many songs changed me, but one I specifically remember that crushed me was Unforgiven II.
This song is meant to be played on extreme high end equipment and loud enough to shake plaster off the walls!!!
ORION is a MASTERPIECE
I wish he was here for ever and he was a great person
After this masterpiece, you must listen "To live is to die" tl
Idk which one changed my life but The Unforgiven is my favorite Metallica song and And Justice For All my favorite album.
You wantto really hear cliff , kill em all. Anesthesia...pulling teeth. All cliff at first , then a drum rhythm he goes crazy over. Imagine Kirk playing on a bass, wah wah pedal and all. That's gonna be something that will melt you. But if you wanna get a taste of kill em all, closest song that dropped recently off their nxt album really sounds like a newer polished version of a song that would fit on that album. Polished in a good way. Kill em all was raw, and that makes it soo good . Like watching a super talented garage band coming into their own. Which is what it was. The jump to ride, then master was leaps and bounds. Then justice. Epic. I'll be waiting patiently for another reaction. All my best.
You are so kickass! God bless you & your family!
I'm down for Kill 'Em All next. Thrash energy through and through. I mean "Hit The Lights", "The Four Horsemen", "Anesthesia", "No Remorse", "Seek And Destroy", "Am I Evil?", "Blitzkrieg", "Whiplash"... Thrash, classics, underrated songs, iconic bass solo, fantastic covers. Bangers for days!
I'm good with ...And Justice For All next too. Either after the other really. But since we've done their 2nd and 3rd album, might as well check off the 1st next before going further down their catalogue just saying.
BlitZkrieg isn’t on kill ‘em all that’s garage days unless it was a b side on a kill ‘em all single?
And justice for all another great album with no fillers.
I haven't seen anyone mention it yet, but the high-pitched fast part in the beginning is actually played by Cliff on bass, as well as the third solo(not the last one, the second and third are connected)
Not to mention that the song is awesome.
Thanks a lot .
What Lars does in the killer riff at 2.11 is amazing. Goes offbeat and forces himself in again. Brilliant!
I'm no Lars fan, to be sure but he WAS pretty good until after the black album. He was just about hitting his prime here. No problem with his playing as much as how they recorded him. I've always had an issue with how they mic'd him on this album, too.
yes
I remember when this album came out... In the late 80s, it feels like (to me) this type of stuff was taking off. I actually saw the Master of Puppets tour in Cincinnati (with Cliff, opening for Ozzy) just a few months before he died I think. I was 16.
This album blew people away. It was, and still is, amazing. The sound of it is ingrained in me pretty much.
Master of Puppets the album wasn't well known when it was released. The band worked their asses off on the road and it slowly gained popularity. It was the die hard Metallica fans that understood the true depth of the band and word of mouth on top of Metallica's hard work is what pushed it through. Cliff died during the Master of Puppets tour and the band quickly got a replacement, which is what Cliff would have wanted. This album was released in 1986 and it's been my favorite Metallica album since the day it was released. Yes, I'm one of those die hard Metallica fans from the early and mid 80's.
Sad but true song hit me the most
I don't know about changing my life, but the first Metallica song I heard was "Master of Puppets" followed by "Sanitarium". That got me from the "glam metal" that was popular in the late '80s into the "real" heavy metal bands like the Big 4.
Great reaction thanks 😘
Rip Cliff! Beast Mode on base personified! One of my all time favorite songs, this song pumped me for many a table top and triple in motocross!!
The real number 1 song that Cliff Burton shined on was the song Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) from their Kill 'em All album.
When we were teens, my friend and I used to drive out into the middle of nowhere on a starry night, and lie on the hood of his car, with this playing on repeat, just looking at the universe and talking about... stuff... life, the universe, girls, Metallica, Cliff...
The weirdest thing about it was that though we never thought of it at the time, that car was a 1986 Ford Orion.🤔
Cliff Burton's Bass Solo Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) from Metallica's debut album Kill 'Em All. It literally made my mind up to play bass. He is one of the biggest influences of mine instrumentally and musically. Today oddly enough is the 38th anniversary of his passing at the age of 24.