The Top-Selling Album Of The Past 25 Years Is A Pleasant Surprise
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[quote]Think of all the HUGE albums that have come out since 1991: Jagged Little Pill, Come On Over,Supernatural, the Titanic soundtrack, everything by Backstreet Boys, everything by NSYNC, everything by Britney Spears, 21, Spin Doctors Greatest Hits. Yet none of those are the top-selling album of the SoundScan-era; no, that distinction goes to…The Black Album.[/quote]
It's a pretty good album.
1991 was 25 years ago? Where has the time gone....
Edit: Also I'm pretty sure the RIAA has Come on Over as 29x Platinum (29,000,000) anyway.
[quote]The only other album to sell even 15 million copies: Shania Twain’s Come on Over, which, well, 1997 was a weird year for everyone. Gas was only $1.30 per gallon — we were basically being forced to drive down to Sam Goody and buy the damn thing. THANKS OBAMA.[/quote]
lol
not even vanilla ice or limp bizkit...
[QUOTE=Papytendo;44964510]1991 was 25 years ago? Where has the time gone....[/QUOTE]
It's 2016 all of a sudden?
Where has the time gone indeed.
As much as I like Metallica, only maybe 4 songs on the entire (The Black) album were actually good. The rest were meh at most.
[QUOTE=TAU!;44964526]As much as I like Metallica, only maybe 4 songs on the entire album were actually good. The rest were meh at most.[/QUOTE]
I always preferred Ride the Lightning. I mean, that's got For Whom The Bell Tolls (my favorite Metallica intro after Disposable Heroes), Creeping Death, the title track and Trapped Under Ice (my third favorite intro).
[QUOTE=TAU!;44964526]As much as I like Metallica, only maybe 4 songs on the entire album were actually good. The rest were meh at most.[/QUOTE]
Depends on where you set the bar, everything is good when you compare it to St. Anger
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;44964554]I always preferred Ride the Lightning. I mean, that's got For Whom The Bell Tolls (my favorite Metallica intro after Disposable Heroes), Creeping Death, the title track and Trapped Under Ice (my third favorite intro).[/QUOTE]
Lightning and Justice are my personal favorites. I'm just glad that this isn't some pop album.
I thought you meant the Jay-Z album.
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[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;44964554]I always preferred Ride the Lightning. I mean, that's got For Whom The Bell Tolls (my favorite Metallica intro after Disposable Heroes), Creeping Death, the title track and Trapped Under Ice (my third favorite intro).[/QUOTE]
The Call of Ktulu was also great, imo.
[QUOTE=amos106;44964570]Depends on where you set the bar, everything is good when you compare it to St. Anger[/QUOTE]
St. Anger was, uhh, I dunno... did Metallica really make that album? I wonder sometimes.
Although, St. Anger definitely blows that Metallica/Lou Reed collab album out of the water. They're both great by themselves, but it was such a weird mixture of having them together. It was like... dipping a pb&j sandwich into pepsi and taking a big bite out of it.
Fuck yeah, IMO Metallica's the best band of all time. Not every song is great, but they're all damn good to me.
Now I feel like the obligatory black sheep who actually likes St. Anger. It was their worst album for sure, but I still think it was good.
I would imagine pop bands/singers did much better with singles than they did with albums. Why by the album with 3/4 shit songs just to listen to the good songs that every radio station will be playing anyway.
[QUOTE=Papytendo;44964510][B]1991 was 25 years ago?[/B] Where has the time gone....[/QUOTE]
what.
no.
thats impossible.
NO.
WE CAN GO BACK, WE MUST GO BACK.
saw them last night in stockholm, still as good as ever
Feel kind of dumb realizing its Metallica, I thought it was Jay Z's at first :v:
Metallica is pretty swell.
[QUOTE=Papytendo;44964510]1991 was 25 years ago? Where has the time gone....
Edit: Also I'm pretty sure the RIAA has Come on Over as 29x Platinum (29,000,000) anyway.[/QUOTE]
It just means that it's the top selling album since 1989, though it was published in 1991.
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Let me reiterate how I know I'm stating the obvious, here.
I don't see whats so terrible about St. Anger, sure its not in anyway as good as anything else but its not the garbage that people say, you got some nice stuff on it, I really love the title track, the intro is pretty fucking badass.
[QUOTE=BaCkStAbEr;44965436]I don't see whats so terrible about St. Anger, sure its not in anyway as good as anything else but its not the garbage that people say, you got some nice stuff on it, I really love the title track, the intro is pretty fucking badass.[/QUOTE]
St. Anger is still one of my favorite albums, i seriously don't know why people think its bad.
I listen to The Black album on my daily drive to work. Awesome news.
I have not listened to metallica since I haven't had hair on my ballsack
I remember when death magnetic came out and I thought it was AWESOME
But god now do I realize how bad it is
[QUOTE=Garbor 0.1;44965580]St. Anger is still one of my favorite albums, i seriously don't know why people think its bad.[/QUOTE]
The production quality and the overlong and repetitive nature of the songs are what ruins it for me.
If Lars' snare didn't sound like he was pounding on a trash can, I would like the album a whole lot more.
Thank god it's something decent and worthwhile to listen to, considering what debbie gibson style prductions the late '80s and '90s pulled out. But it's also last REAL Metallica album.
Pretty good but I only really enjoy 1/4 of the songs on there unlike MoP and Lightning where they are all fucking amazing
Metallica, fuck yeah.
Honestly, though, their new stuff is just... eugh. Even The Black Album had some weak parts - a lot of the songs were kind of dumb. Fun, but dumb.
Then Load/Reload. There was maybe one album of good songs between the two, and most of them would have been better as a side project than as Metallica. Most bands evolve their style over time, sure, but when you call yourself Metallica it implies you're playing, y'know, metal.
S&M is awesome, and anyone who disagrees can go fuck themselves with a rusty halberd. But it was awesome because it was old Metallica songs getting a new twist (with orchestration by someone who actually knows symphonic music, not a metalhead who thinks writing for three instruments is "complex").
St. Anger was a pile of garbage, there's maybe two songs on there that can be salvaged but even then they won't be good Metallica songs.
Death Magnetic is good but uninspired. It was like Metallica knew they sucked, and tried to copy all their old shit but didn't really have any heart left in it other than getting another solid gold jacuzzi. Also whoever mixed that album needs to be shot - grab the Guitar Hero 3 remaster, somehow even those clowns were able to mix a much better album.
LULU NEVER FUCKING HAPPENED, ALRIGHT? IT NEVER HAPPENED, IT DOES NOT EXIST.
[QUOTE=Hamsterjuice;44964516]not even vanilla ice or limp bizkit...[/QUOTE]
I refuse to admit that limp bizkit ever actually existed.
[QUOTE=Papytendo;44964510]1991 was 25 years ago? Where has the time gone....
Edit: Also I'm pretty sure the RIAA has Come on Over as 29x Platinum (29,000,000) anyway.[/QUOTE]
The top selling album of the past 25 years =/= the album is 25 years old. Do your math.
Not One Direction? Awww :(((
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