3rd Round of Elite Eight.
- Master of Puppets
- For Whom The Bell Tolls
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Last round of Elite Eight.
- One
- Fade to Black
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3 days for these last two and then iāll do some writeups and start the first final four matchup on Tuesday probably.
Do you mind if I put up a poal for best album cover and maybe best intro before final 4?
sure knock yourself out
Is it 1 v 4 and 2 v 3 or 1 v 2 and 3 v 4?
1v4 and 2v3.
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Good.
Would be a shame for the proper finals to happen in the semis.
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In terms of album covers, Megadeth blows the doors off Metallica.
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Yeah for sure, Iām just wondering if AJFA gets more love in the album cover department as itās my favorite. RTL second.
RTL is cool in a kind of ironic van art kind of way. AJFA is okay. Death Magnetic is actually a little cool?
I donāt think anyoneās ever going to be writing home about Metallica album covers, tbqh.
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Fade to Black vs One might as well have been the finals for me. Though Master of Puppets might come close. Those are pretty easy my top 3 though.
Yeah, itās a shame that Sad But True gets into the F4 over one of those two.
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Sad, but true
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Master of Puppets and For Whom The Bell Tolls was a close match in my mind.
were you still wanting to do this? I havenāt done any writeups yet for semis
First round of Semifinals.
Sad But True
āSad But Trueā was written by Metallicaās usual songwriting duo of Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield. The latter also served as the lead vocalist on the track. Hetfield in particular was inspired to write the tune by a 1978 movie entitled āMagicā. That movie starred Anthony Hopkins as a ventriloquist and an evil, āpossessiveā puppet who wants to control his character.
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This song is about a soldier fighting in a war and a mortar blows off in his face. He canāt hear, see, smell, taste and he doesnāt have arms or legs. He comes out of a coma in a hospital. During the time he is in the hospital he reflects on his life and things his father told him. Eventually the doctors get worried because heās having spasms all the time, but he doesnāt seem to be dying. They call in the general and he canāt figure it out either but the soldier with the general recognizes it. āItās Morse code,ā he says. The general asks what he is saying and the soldier looks for a minute and then says, āHe is saying K-I-L-L- M-E over and over again.ā >>
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The lyrics are based on the 1939 novel Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, which is about World War I. A specific passage that inspired the song is: āHow could a man lose as much of himself as I have and still live? When a man buys a lottery ticket you never expect him to win because itās a million to one shot. But if he does win, youāll believe it because one in a million still leaves one. If Iād read about a guy like me in the paper I wouldnāt believe it, cos itās a million to one. But a million to ONE always leaves one. Iād never expect it to happen to me because the odds of it happening are a million to one. But a million to one always leaves one. One.ā
James Hetfield was introduced to the book by his older half brother, David Hale, who was also in a band.
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In 1971, Johnny Got His Gun was made into a movie that was directed by Trumbo starring Timothy Bottoms and Jason Robards. The video for the song uses images and monologues from that movie.
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This was the first single released by the band to feature bassist Jason Newsted, who continued playing with Metallica until 2001. You have to listen very carefully to hear his playing, however, since the bass was buried in the mix.
This was the first video Metallica made. As part of their us-against-the-world ethos, they distanced themselves from MTV, which ignored metal until 1987 when the network gave it 90 minutes every week on Headbangers Ball . Directed by Bill Pope and Michael Salomon, the āOneā video looked nothing like what was in hot rotation on MTV. Morbid and sepia-toned, it runs 7:44 with disturbing images from the film Johnny Got His Gun . Metallica did give in my making a video, but they did it on their terms. The MTV presence helped them reach an audience far larger than any metal band had before
Because it is used in the video, Metallica had to pay royalties to use the film Johnny Got His Gun , which ended up being substantial. Instead of pulling the video or continuing to pay, when it came time to re-negotiate the license they simply bought the rights to it. When the film was released on DVD, it was their doing.
When Metallica appeared on The Howard Stern Show in September 2013, James Hetfield explained that this was not so much an anti-war song as an observation. āWar is a part of man,ā he explained. āWeāre just writing about it. Itās not good or bad, itās just a thing.ā
- Sad But True
- One
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and yes i found alot more info on One to post, cuz its way more popular and has a great backstory, sue me.
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