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Post by Reasonable good Nick on Jan 18, 2019 15:34:59 GMT
Their Satanic Majesties Request.
Metallica's Black Album.
Brothers in Arms.
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Post by oh oooh on Jan 18, 2019 15:38:23 GMT
Their Satanic Majesties Request. Metallica's Black Album. Brothers in Arms. great album why single that one out? ---------------"--------------?
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Post by Reasonable good Nick on Jan 18, 2019 15:42:51 GMT
Which one?
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jan 18, 2019 15:43:04 GMT
I wouldn't say the Black Album was a misstep although it might not tickle the balls of the metal cognoscenti. Fucking thing was the Dark Side of the 90s. It was after that they went wrong by trying to, yawn, expand the sound
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Post by Reasonable good Nick on Jan 18, 2019 15:47:52 GMT
I wouldn't say the Black Album was a misstep although it might not tickle the balls of the metal cognoscenti. Fucking thing was the Dark Side of the 90s. It was after that they went wrong by trying to, yawn, expand the sound I was going with it as the beginning of the end sort of thing.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jan 18, 2019 15:53:01 GMT
I can see that but I still dig the likes of Enter Sandman and Wherever I May Roam. They'd taken the prog-metal thing as far as they could go with Justice. They needed to streamline.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2019 17:12:48 GMT
I can see that but I still dig the likes of Enter Sandman and Wherever I May Roam. They'd taken the prog-metal thing as far as they could go with Justice. They needed to streamline. I don't know how much further they could've gone with their thrash formula. I think the timing was exactly right for the Black album. Original fans didn't like it very much, but they were going to stay with them because thrash was at the end of its shelf life anyway. There weren't that many bands for fans to gravitate to except the original thrash bands that started with Metallica, which they were fans of anyway.
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Post by phenomenalcat on Jan 18, 2019 17:34:14 GMT
Kid A
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Post by nolamike on Jan 22, 2019 21:56:21 GMT
I doubt this is an artist anyone here really listens to (I don't mind a handful of his songs, but wouldn't buy any of his albums), but Garth Brooks' musical turn in 1999 was one of the biggest commercial disasters any artist has ever taken. He was (and still is, I believe) the biggest-selling country act of all-time, whose 1997 album sold over 10 million copies (and the six before that each sold between 7 and 17 million copies in the US alone). He had a formula, but it was one that worked, and brought him massive success. And then, in 1999, he released an "alternative rock" album under the pseudonym "Chris Gaines," creating a whole backstory and persona around it (they even had a VH1 "Behind the Music" episode on "Gaines")... and it was a dud. It did manage to sell 2 million copies, but that was basically all she wrote. He's had some other successful releases since then - nothing close to his pre-Gaines success - but the alter-ego piece really derailed him for a while.
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