Metallica

Death Magnetic







On the one hand,Metallica is one of the last great hard rock groups.Born when M-Tv was still young and relevant,they grew to the monster they are despite lack of Tv time.Born in the dying embers of when radio was king,they grew despite no airplay.

For their time,Metallica was a true rock god.Fans a plenty/fame and fortune...sex,drugs and rock & roll.

Then,came their downfall...Napster.

Many fans-myself included-had Metallica on tape,record and cd.But,downloading music was new and exciting and easy.Why get out the old record Lp when you could download it and listen at your leisure?

I mean,yeah,I have Metallica on tape,but to transfer them to my computer/MP-3 player is a pain in the ass.

So...asshole Metallica gets a burr up it's ass and says,"What the fuck?How come we ain't getting our $$$ from this free download shit?"

They changed how we listened to music.Suddenly we became criminals for just downloading a song we already had.In the backlash,cd sales started dropping because what was once tauted as being the next great big thing was exposed as only being the wizard behind the curtain.Cd's were over priced and extremely hard to keep in good playing shape:ie quality sucked.

Now,money hungry-it's all about the $$$ -Metallica was accusing us of ripping 'them' off!Bullshit.As far as I was concerned,Metallica were sucks that sucked the big suckity suck suck...screw them.

I never bought another Metallica cd/download.I turned the channel when they were on the radio.F.U. you greedy bastards.

Forward to now.Some years later.If Metallica is on the radio,I may,or may not change the channel,but it sickens me that I had to download this cd to expound upon it.

As I have paid to download more and more music I have come to realize just how much this format sucks over every other musical format.Music is throw-a-way now-a-days.You 'do' miss sounds in the music.You do miss the treat of liner notes and album art.You begin to accept the mediocrity of it all.Quality Schmality.Average is best.

And that is 'Death Magnetic' in a nutshell.Average disguised as great.I may listen to,'The Unforgiven III' or anything else from this cd on the radio...but no matter how many weeks this cd stays at the top,I know deep within my heart of hearts this cd is just average at best.

C