![]() It was hit and miss for me – I still despise the song “Fuel.” I did like the covers album “Garage Inc.” I had basically drifted away from Metallica as each successive album took longer and longer to appear. My fandom was shaken a bit during that whole “Load”/”Reload” period. I bought the “Black Album” and then worked my way backwards through the four early masterpieces. ![]() I saw them on the Lollapalooza tour and I was impressed by “Ain’t My Bitch.” I was going through some things, anyway, I liked that tune a lot. ![]() You can only take the 10-minute epic metal tunes so far, folks. I got in on Metallica around the time of the “Metallica” album, aka “The Black Album.” For some reason their turn toward shorter, more “riff-driven” songs was seen as a sellout. Could you imagine some little old lady in an ER being treated by this guy in scrubs who happens to see the Dr’s bicep with “Metallica” tattoo’d on it… heart attack cart, stat! who tattoo’d “Metallica” on his inner arm. I remember my friend’s little brother’s roommate. Those first wave of fans were fucking rabid. Metallica was just raw, angry emotion set to hard, loud guitar played as fast as possible. What they were doing ran counter to everything that was going on in metal during the 80s: big hair, make up, songs about sex, and lycra. It could be argued they set the template for all hard rock/heavy metal going forward. Is there a band who inspired so much loyalty in their early days and so much ire in their later career? I wasn’t in the first wave of Metallica fans who flocked to the band’s anger and alienation over the course of their brilliant first four albums: “Kill ‘Em All,” “Ride the Lightning,” “Master of Puppets,” and “…And Justice For All.” It was quite a creative run over those first four albums.
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