Round 1 (Late 80's to present) - #2 Metallica vs #15 Black Keys

YellowSnow

Be forewarned @Swaye ' s Metallica war party is on the loose now and if they don't make it to the BOTB Final Four JUSTICE FOR ALL will be delivered.

backthepack

#2 Metaillica

Rather easily.

dnc

#15 Black Keys

I *heart* makeup sex

AZDuck

#15 Black Keys

fuck Metallica. They sued their own fucking fans

GrundleStiltzkin

#2 Metaillica

Superfan @Swaye where do you come down on Black album & beyond?

LesGrossman

#2 Metaillica

Shouldn't be close.

chuck

#2 Metaillica

I think Metallica takes this bracket. Black album is full of decently hard rocking, entertaining, immaculately performed, easily listenable hits. Everything before it is amazing on a different level.

Swaye

#2 Metaillica

I see we have lots of assholes in here. 3 votes for Black Keyes is laughable. Idiots (except pookie).

Swaye

#2 Metaillica

AZDuck said:

fuck Metallica. They sued their own fucking fans

Shut up.

Swaye

#2 Metaillica

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Superfan @Swaye where do you come down on Black album & beyond?

Black album was great, nothing like the first 4 which were otherworldly. Beyond Black they have had some good stuff on their last coupe of albums. Load and Re-load were abortions.

AZDuck

#15 Black Keys

Swaye said:

AZDuck said:

fuck Metallica. They sued their own fucking fans

Shut up.

make me

Mad_Son

#2 Metaillica

AZDuck said:

fuck Metallica. They sued their own fucking fans

Metallica makes great music. I voted for Rush too

GrundleStiltzkin

#2 Metaillica

Swaye said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Superfan @Swaye where do you come down on Black album & beyond?

Black album was great, nothing like the first 4 which were otherworldly. Beyond Black they have had some good stuff on their last coupe of albums. Load and Re-load were abortions.

I was meh on Black at the tim and like it even less now. Stopped listening to anything new after that.

AZDuck

#15 Black Keys

the Black Keys do more creative stuff and I like blues-influenced music

Swaye

#2 Metaillica

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Swaye said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Superfan @Swaye where do you come down on Black album & beyond?

Black album was great, nothing like the first 4 which were otherworldly. Beyond Black they have had some good stuff on their last coupe of albums. Load and Re-load were abortions.

I was meh on Black at the tim and like it even less now. Stopped listening to anything new after that.

I think if you gave St. Anger, Death Magnetic and Hardwired a chance you would like some of it. It isn't Master of Puppets or Ride The Lightning legendary shit, but it is good. Load, Reload and S&M you can flush into a toilet.

YellowSnow

#2 Metaillica

AZDuck said:

the Black Keys do more creative stuff and I like blues-influenced music

In spite of my vote for Metallica, I prolly listen to the first 3 Black Keys records than Metallica's stuff. I fully appreciate and get Metallica and they are the #2 "true" metal band of all time (I consider Zep and AC DC as more "hard rock / metal"). But I really have to be in the right mood to listen. I was listening to Kill 'em All on the way home and thought I might crash my old SUV off the Aurora Bridge.

Mad_Son

#2 Metaillica

Swaye said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Swaye said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Superfan @Swaye where do you come down on Black album & beyond?

Black album was great, nothing like the first 4 which were otherworldly. Beyond Black they have had some good stuff on their last coupe of albums. Load and Re-load were abortions.

I was meh on Black at the tim and like it even less now. Stopped listening to anything new after that.

I think if you gave St. Anger, Death Magnetic and Hardwired a chance you would like some of it. It isn't Master of Puppets or Ride The Lightning legendary shit, but it is good. Load, Reload and S&M you can flush into a toilet.

I love S&M.


I once loudly exclaimed that at work during a Metallica discussion. If anyone overheard that and took it out of context I didn't get any offers.

Swaye

#2 Metaillica

YellowSnow said:

AZDuck said:

the Black Keys do more creative stuff and I like blues-influenced music

In spite of my vote for Metallica, I prolly listen to the first 3 Black Keys records than Metallica's stuff. I fully appreciate and get Metallica and they are the #2 "true" metal band of all time (I consider Zep and AC DC as more "hard rock / metal"). But I really have to be in the right mood to listen. I was listening to Kill 'em All on the way home and thought I might crash my old SUV off the Aurora Bridge.

If crashing an old SUV off the Aurora Bridge while headbanging "Am I Evil" is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Swaye

#2 Metaillica

Yella (I like to make you sound like an NWA member), listen to the following songs in this order.

1) Fade to Black
2) For Whom The Bell Tolls
3) Blackened
4) Master of Puppets
5) Battery

Slow and steady to mindnumbingly awesome. If by 5 you are not completely invigorated and ready to charge a hill and kill everything at the top, then you are doing it wrong.

Swaye

#2 Metaillica

Mad_Son said:

Swaye said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Swaye said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Superfan @Swaye where do you come down on Black album & beyond?

Black album was great, nothing like the first 4 which were otherworldly. Beyond Black they have had some good stuff on their last coupe of albums. Load and Re-load were abortions.

I was meh on Black at the tim and like it even less now. Stopped listening to anything new after that.

I think if you gave St. Anger, Death Magnetic and Hardwired a chance you would like some of it. It isn't Master of Puppets or Ride The Lightning legendary shit, but it is good. Load, Reload and S&M you can flush into a toilet.

I love S&M.


I once loudly exclaimed that at work during a Metallica discussion. If anyone overheard that and took it out of context I didn't get any offers.

I am not cultured like you and when I heard an orchestra playing Creeping Death I puked on my date.


He was pissed.

YellowSnow

#2 Metaillica

Swaye said:

Yella (I like to make you sound like an NWA member), listen to the following songs in this order.

1) Fade to Black
2) For Whom The Bell Tolls
3) Blackened
4) Master of Puppets
5) Battery

Slow and steady to mindnumbingly awesome. If by 5 you are not completely invigorated and ready to charge a hill and kill everything at the top, then you are doing it wrong.

Will do. AJFA is my favorite Metallica. It's where I most get their artistry. Fuck the bass being turned off - who cares?

Whiskey in the Jar is my favorite of the Metallica covers.