This week it’s the turn of Metallica and their 1991 self-titled album also known as the ‘Black ALbum’. It was a controversial release at the time as it split it’s hard-core fan-base due to it’s commercial direction, but in the same time earned the band world-wide fame and a host of new listeners. The first and best metal-hard rock crossover album? We’ll see!
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Suitably lunatic photo.
By: Sarah on January 23, 2008
at 12:41 pm
There a very few which are not!
I’m currently reading Slash’s autobiography at the moment and recently read Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis……it was a whole different world back then. Nothing that Pete Doherty or Amy Winehouse could do would come any way close to them!
By: Le Catch on January 23, 2008
at 2:01 pm
Good point. I read Scar Tissue a while back….I can’t help thinking -even though it was tough- those guys had a lot more FUN than people like Doherty and Winehouse do today.
By: Sarah on January 23, 2008
at 4:44 pm
I think it’s a sign of the times where everything a celeb does is in such public domain. With YouTube, blogs and sites such as TMZ every mundane detail gets posted.
We are so conditioned to seeing Nicole Kidman doing her weekly shopping, Jordan breaking the heel of her shoe on her way out of a nightclub and the latest reality ’star’ picking their nose on their way to the bank that when we see Amy Winehouse smoking crack or Doherty with blood seeping from his latest track marks that it shocks us so much!
Back in the days of Guns N Roses and Metallica we all knew what was going on but we never actually saw it. It was just crazy rock stars doing what they do. It did sound fun!
By: Le Catch on January 23, 2008
at 5:39 pm
[...] Coming Up This Week… This week it’s the turn of Metallica and their 1991 self-titled album also known as the ‘Black ALbum’. It was a controversial release at the time as it split it’s hard-core fan-base due to it’s commercial direction, but in the same time … [...]
By: Coming Up This Week… on January 25, 2008
at 4:15 pm
Hmmm
Well said
By: Eimear on January 25, 2008
at 7:11 pm
[...] plodding my way through a host of autobiographies that I picked up over Christmas and have been shocked to discover just how close to the wire a lot of music’s main players from the last 30 years have lived. We all [...]
By: Album Archive on February 1, 2008
at 10:33 am
metallica is my favorite band despite all the sellout accusations.
By: Aaron on October 18, 2008
at 11:46 am