Black Album 25 years old today!

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I like the Black album, but ask yourself this...would they have put that out if Cliff were still alive ? I doubt it...Cliff was the balls and integrity of Metallica, hell, even Jason had a limit. The other 3 are tool bags for everything they did after that...although they ripped Mustaine off in the early days so maybe none of them had any integrity.
 
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I like the Black album, but ask yourself this...would they have put that out if Cliff were still alive ? I doubt it...Cliff was the balls and integrity of Metallica, hell, even Jason had a limit. The other 3 are tool bags for everything they did after that...although they ripped Mustaine off in the early days so maybe none of them had any integrity.
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This in SPADES

No F%$n way. :no: Cliff would've asked them if they lost their balls.
This is the reason that I am more convinced than ever that Metallica died when Cliff did, and that Cliff was the driving force in that band.
 
I liked everything up to and including the black album. I grew up listening to the old stuff and wasn't shocked or disappointed when the black album came out. I thought it kicked ass. I never thought "this is so much different than their other stuff". I didn't care for Load and Reload but they grew on me too after a number of years. HATED St. Anger and haven't listened to Death Magnetic (or whatever it's called)
 
I just finished Mustaine's book and Scott Ian's book too, VERY good info about Metallica in both...and how they've operated over the years.
 
I LOVED the black album when it came out. I was 12. I had the cassette and listened to it on my Walkman 24/7. Wore that thing out!

People may think it was a sellout type album, I think it was th perfect culmination of their musical career coming together. A perfect blend of the older and newer style. I first got hooked on Ride the Lightning and the earlier albums but the black album just flowed for me.
 
To me, if they had had Bob Rock do MOP that would have been the heaviest thing ever... His production complemented their heaviness in such a great way.
 
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