AJFA is Metallica's best album...fight me

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MetalHeart said:
AJFA is boring :sleep:
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AJFA is like 4 fully realized, excellent metallica songs surrounded by them fiddle fucking around wasting studio time for 30 minutes

There's good riffs here and there, but instead of the rhythmically and melodically flowing style of progressiveness on MOP they started doing this annoying "snare tom rhythm guitar in drum line cadences" break 4056 times a song and it completely ruins the flow of everything

It's only progressive in the sense that it's long

It's more like shoving Lars' stupid ass rhythmic ideas everywhere, and the only thing james could think to do over it was chug the low E - because that's all he fucking does LOL
 
DanTravis62 said:
AJFA is like 4 fully realized, excellent metallica songs surrounded by them fiddle fucking around wasting studio time for 30 minutes

There's good riffs here and there, but instead of the rhythmically and melodically flowing style of progressiveness on MOP they started doing this annoying "snare tom rhythm guitar in drum line cadences" break 4056 times a song and it completely ruins the flow of everything

It's only progressive in the sense that it's long

It's more like shoving Lars' stupid ass rhythmic ideas everywhere, and the only thing james could think to do over it was chug the low E - because that's all he fucking does LOL
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The James slander hurts my soul but Lars is the 2nd most insufferable human in the world. Right behind people who clap when the airplane lands
 
PiggySmallz said:
As I read this comment I heard the fucking rhythm section during the solo of blackened and went "yeah hes fucking right"
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It's all over the album, there's only a handful of songs that don't do it

It wouldn't be a big deal in a song or two but at that point it seems like they were trying to artificially lengthen it
 
As much as I love AJFA, it can be tedious. Certain parts/segments are waaaaay too long and/or repetitive.
Blackened: perfect
AJFA: too long
Eye: great intro. Weird distorted vocals and too long
One: Epic
Shortest S: crappy tone. Only song they didn’t use the IIC++ on.
Harvester: perfect
Frayed: too long
TLITD: too long but great
Dyers: perfect
 
AJFA came out when I was in HS and I ended up seeing them 4 times on that tour. It's my favorite too so I fight with you. It was a big deal when Metallica finally made a music video.

Got to see them with GnR at RFK stadium too. Not sure what year that was.
 
AJFA had just come out when I discovered Metallica. I quickly moved thru the previous releases. I still dig AJFA, and recognize the time, effort and production put into it that helped them transition to the easierly digestible Black album. Lot of great riffs, almost proggy in some ways.
But feel they were at their best on the first 3 albums. The Cliff/Mustaine factor gave them a harder edge, more fire.

I like the more thrashy stuff. I'd listen to Megadeth's Dystopia before anything by Metallica after AJFA, actually before it, too.
 
It's no secret that Cliff Burton was their heart and soul when it came to song writing and direction. AJFA was a noble effort coming out of his untimely death, but something was definitely missing. I still enjoy listening to AJFA but go back to the first three much more often.
 
I still remember getting the bus into town Saturday morning as AJFA had been released the day before and eagerly made my home and dropped the needle slowly down... only to be be hugely underwhelmed as Dyer's Eve finally finished. I loved Metallica. In the summer of 1986 a C60 tape of Master of Puppets never left my Walkman and seeing the Damage Inc tour (with Anthrax as support) with Cliff on bass was THE best gig I'd ever been to. Still counts as one of them.

But I've tried and tried to get into AJFA. And, no, its not the lack of bass. It just bores me. I've had it in the car constantly in hope it might just "click" as some albums do sometimes over time.

This was the start of a - I guess - love/hate relationship I have with Metallica. I love the 1st three albums. I love the Black Album and Load. Reload, Death Magnetic and Hardwired are pretty damn good too. But AJFA and St Anger and Lulu and 72 Seasons just drag on and on and on and on and on. There is I'm sure a good album in each of those works. Maybe if they'd unleashed a brutal 28 minute blasting "less is more" face ripper in a Reign In Blood style? But the band choose to release their art as they do and they are most successful at it so, hey, what do I know? But I am jealous/curious what you all hear in AJFA cos I just never manage to hear it. And I'd like to!
 
DanTravis62 said:
I can see the argument being AJFA could have been the best

If the tracklist was something like

1. Blackened
2. One
3. The Shortest Straw
4. Dyers Eve

And then you put the rest of the awful, meandering dogshit into an editing machine and made 2-3 more great metallica songs somehow got shat out

Yeah, then AJFA could have been metallica's greatest record, if that had happened

Here in reality though, it's nowhere near as consistent songwriting-wise as either RTL or MOP. Not even close

In fact, you could make the argument that "escape" and maaaybe "leper messiah" were the only two "filler" tracks on those respective albums, and even then, "Leper Messiah" has a really killer breakdown. There's like 5 fucking songs worse than "leper messiah" on AJFA :hys:
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I can see not having AJFA #1 but this is retarded.
 
Tone Monster said:
As much as I love AJFA, it can be tedious. Certain parts/segments are waaaaay too long and/or repetitive.
Blackened: perfect
AJFA: too long
Eye: great intro. Weird distorted vocals and too long
One: Epic
Shortest S: crappy tone. Only song they didn’t use the IIC++ on.
Harvester: perfect
Frayed: too long
TLITD: too long but great
Dyers: perfect
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Agree a lot with this, but I'll add..

Shortest Straw: He didn't use the Mark IIC+ on it?? What did they use?
Frayed: Good song, but solo sounds like it was not what Kirk intended.
Dyers: Too fast to enjoy
 
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