Metallica - Sell outs or Not?

[InvestComics]

I say no. They just evolved.

[_OM_]

...Devolved. I met the puke pots in 1985 when they came to town for a big heavy metal wankfest. They were so trashed that not only did they offer to get my 14-year-old brother devirginized - he'd come along just to see how a reporter works - by three groupies, Jimmy and Lars were so incoherent that I didn't even bother filing the interview, and just did a scathing review of the show, whose only highlight was when the lead freak for a San Antonio band called "Prezence" got hit with a 44oz cup of cheap beer, got nearly electrocuted when the beer conducted through him and his mike, and he jumped so hard and high that when he split his skin-tight pants from one knee to another a rolled up pair of socks fell out.

The punch line? The guy who threw the beer was an old friend I'd known since elementary school, and had the pleasure of bailing him out for this "offense"

[InvestComics]

...Devolved. I met the puke pots in 1985 when they came to town for a big heavy metal wankfest. They were so trashed that not only did they offer to get my 14-year-old brother devirginized - he'd come along just to see how a reporter works - by three groupies, Jimmy and Lars were so incoherent that I didn't even bother filing the interview, and just did a scathing review of the show, whose only highlight was when the lead freak for a San Antonio band called "Prezence" got hit with a 44oz cup of cheap beer, got nearly electrocuted when the beer conducted through him and his mike, and he jumped so hard and high that when he split his skin-tight pants from one knee to another a rolled up pair of socks fell out.

The punch line? The guy who threw the beer was an old friend I'd known since elementary school, and had the pleasure of bailing him out for this "offense"

So basically you dont like Metallica from something they did 25 years ago.

[_OM_]

So basically you dont like Metallica from something they did 25 years ago.

...Actually, I didn't care for them then because I really didn't get into the heavy metal/hair/glam metal bands back then any more than I do now. Something about it just didn't appeal to me, although I did develop an appreciation for KISS when they dropped the makeup and I actually got to see them live. Not a fan, but I do have a couple of greatest shits albums of theirs.

...As for the bit about my brother...hey, let's face it. Had I done that, the Dim little shit would have, with my luck, gotten three different strains of venereal disease, and I'd have had to explain to my mOM how I managed to EPIC FAIL at keeping him safe as I promised, because she didn't want him going to the show in the first place. It did have one traumatic effect, tho - it steered him away from journalism and towards marine biology, which one can argue is about as low-paying a profession as journalism.

...No, the reason I utterly *DESPISE* Metallica now and forever is the same reason a lot of people want to see Jimmy and Lars crucified on barbed wire upside down with their feet set on fire and their faces given the "rat cage" treatment. And that reason can be summed up in one word: Napster.

[InvestComics]

...Actually, I didn't care for them then because I really didn't get into the heavy metal/hair/glam metal bands back then any more than I do now. Something about it just didn't appeal to me, although I did develop an appreciation for KISS when they dropped the makeup and I actually got to see them live. Not a fan, but I do have a couple of greatest shits albums of theirs.

...As for the bit about my brother...hey, let's face it. Had I done that, the Dim little shit would have, with my luck, gotten three different strains of venereal disease, and I'd have had to explain to my mOM how I managed to EPIC FAIL at keeping him safe as I promised, because she didn't want him going to the show in the first place. It did have one traumatic effect, tho - it steered him away from journalism and towards marine biology, which one can argue is about as low-paying a profession as journalism.

...No, the reason I utterly *DESPISE* Metallica now and forever is the same reason a lot of people want to see Jimmy and Lars crucified on barbed wire upside down with their feet set on fire and their faces given the "rat cage" treatment. And that reason can be summed up in one word: Napster.

Well thank you for clarifying all of that OM!

[_OM_]

Well thank you for clarifying all of that OM!

...Well, your initial query sort of implied that my reasons for disliking Metallica were based on one incident. As you saw, there was more to it than that.

[Pseudobyte]

The poll is kinda... Limited. They sold out and they evolved, in my opinion.

Did you post this poll to argue the subject and defend them or were you just curious about peoples' general opinion of Metallica?

[zod]

The poll is kinda... Limited. They sold out and they evolved, in my opinion.

up until the black album - excellent.

black album/load/reload/st. anger - mediocre crap with the occasional good song.

s&m - a LOT of fun to listen to.

death magnetic - best thing since the black album.

so they kinda evolved, devolved for a while, then went back to evolving a tad.

nothing like they'll ever be on justice for all/master of puppets, but still, better.

[InvestComics]

The poll is kinda... Limited. They sold out and they evolved, in my opinion.

Did you post this poll to argue the subject and defend them or were you just curious about peoples' general opinion of Metallica?

I was just curious about opinions on Metallica. People always seem to have such a huge passion about liking them or hating them. It usually makes for some fun dialog.

[_OM_]

I was just curious about opinions on Metallica. People always seem to have such a huge passion about liking them or hating them. It usually makes for some fun dialog.

...I think what he was trying to point out is that the poll's options are sort of biased in favor of Metallica being a big pile of shit. Not that I'm disagreeing with that, obviously, but polls need to have some sort of balance of opinion where multiple guess choices are concerned.