Metallica - ...And Justice for All | Masterpiece or Overrated? We Pick the 'Worst' Song

Dive into the raw power and controversy of Metallica's ...And Justice for All on this episode of The Worst of the Best Podcast! Ryan and Jason break down one of the most iconic (and debated) thrash metal albums ever—Cliff Burton's shadow, Jason Newsted's infamous buried bass, peak aggression, and why fans still call it a masterpiece despite everything. From environmental destruction to political corruption, teenage angst, and personal demons, they tease the riffs, solos, and stories that made this 1988 release a turning point for Metallica.

We rank the tracks, share personal memories of discovering the band through the "One" video, compare bass mixes (including fan-enhanced versions), and reveal our shocking pick for the worst of the best on this album. If you're a die-hard Metallica fan or just curious about thrash metal's golden era, this one's packed with brotherly banter, nostalgia, and unfiltered opinions.

Don't forget to like, comment your favorite track from the album, subscribe for more "best of" breakdowns (Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning, The Black Album already covered!), and drop a review on your podcast app—it helps spread the word!

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0:022 secondswelcome to the worst of the best podcast you wanted the best well they didn't freaking make
0:1010 secondsit so here's what you get from Canada Ryan and Jason
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0:3535 secondswelcome to the worst of the best podcast I'm your host Ryan and with me as always is my brother Jason Jason how you doing
0:4444 secondsdoing good brother how are you good before we start talking about the subject matter of today's episode I just want to say Jason we have been getting
0:5252 secondsfeedback from listeners about our previous episodes I know Jason always thinks nobody cares or nobody listens which is true nobody does care nobody
1:011 minute, 1 seconddoes listen but when I taught basic training out there for a little bit last couple years out in Quebec I was teaching basic training I'm in the the
1:081 minute, 8 secondsCanadian Forces and I had the opportunity to teach basic training and during that time some of the recruits they would kind of Google you your name
1:171 minute, 17 secondsand then find oh Ryan he's got a our instructor here has a podcast and so a few of those students did that over time over the couple years I was there which
1:251 minute, 25 secondswas always kind of embarrassing but slash like sure I'll take the listens whatever but a couple of the students have have reached back to me and said hey we really enjoy the cut of your jib
1:331 minute, 33 secondsand and I actually just got a message from one of them the other day so people are listening Jason and they do enjoy what we have to do and one of them actually said you guys are better than a
1:421 minute, 42 secondslot of those podcasts that has millions and millions of downloads or listeners and we appreciate that that was a a kind thing to say oh that's nice nice to hear
1:501 minute, 50 secondsR yeah what I will say to those individuals especially uh the few that do actually reach out to me leave us a review on iTunes that would make us uh
1:581 minute, 58 secondsnot more happy but gets the word out when people are you know scrolling through their podcast apps they see this and they see a topic that they might want to look at but before they even
2:072 minutes, 7 secondslisten to the episode they might want to look at some reviews so give us a shout out on your socials as well share us like us share the episodes that you
2:152 minutes, 15 secondsmight be enjoying just hey I kind of got a kick out of this episode share it on your Facebook it would mean a lot to us and don't be embarrassed if you're not embarrassed to listen to us don't be embarrassed to share us but maybe
2:242 minutes, 24 secondsthey're embarrassed for us yeah they don't have to be embarrassed for us that comes naturally we're embarrassed for ourselves that's true yeah so Jason I'm
2:332 minutes, 33 secondsexcited we are doing Metallica's and justice for all album if you're a first time listener to our Channel because you saw again that hey these guys are going
2:412 minutes, 41 secondsto talk about what you might feel as a listener one of your favorite metal albums of all time and or Metallica albums of old time as a show what we do
2:502 minutes, 50 secondsis we pick the best of somebody's career whether you're an artist musical artist actor or even any kind of list from conspiracy theories to food items or
2:582 minutes, 58 secondswhatever it is we discuss those things in that list and then we say at the end of the episode what we feel is the worst
3:063 minutes, 6 secondsof the best of that topic today is Metallica's debut fulllength album with
3:143 minutes, 14 secondsbasis Jason newad after the death of Cliff Burton but many people feel that Metallica in some ways even peaked with
3:223 minutes, 22 secondsthis album despite it not having as many sales as the Black Album this album kind of marks maybe the last album before the
3:303 minutes, 30 secondsquote unquote new Metallica which is kind of funny cuz you know Black Album came out in ' 91 or whatever many people feel Jason that this album and many
3:393 minutes, 39 secondspeople's Metallica Phantom is their favorite album but we've said this about Ride the Lightning we've said this about the Black Album we've said this about master puppet that's the thing about the Metallica fandom people have their
3:483 minutes, 48 secondsfavorites regardless of when the album came out or for me personally I was introduced to Metallica Through This
3:563 minutes, 56 secondsAlbum which is interesting that I didn't really catch my radi are sooner than this album and this came out in N September 88 and we've been listening to
4:054 minutes, 5 secondsmusic for quite some time before this album you know or into music like the mly crew and the AOS Smiths and stuff like that the Van Halen you know zezy
4:134 minutes, 13 secondstop and all the rest you know from the early 80s I'm not quite sure why Metallica never hit our radar until 88
4:224 minutes, 22 secondsso this is where I was first introduced to Metallica And I I suspect it had to do with the fact that they released a
4:294 minutes, 29 secondsvideo for the first time all their other albums had no music videos associated with them they were kind of anti- music videos for well their career up until
4:384 minutes, 38 secondsnow anyway so as far as an album where they peaked I don't know this album is a special place in my heart and my
4:464 minutes, 46 secondsmemories just because this is where I was introduced and then I would go back to their back catalog find all the hidden gems that they had previously
4:544 minutes, 54 secondsreleased so sometimes it's fun finding a band that you connect with and love and then being able to explore their back
5:015 minutes, 1 secondcatalog and kind of it's like binge watching a Netflix series or something right like you get you get to go oh this is pretty cool and then you watch the
5:095 minutes, 9 secondswhole thing from front to back was similar to me in my Metallica experience yeah we share that very similar experience I I I don't know if it was
5:185 minutes, 18 secondsyou that first bought the tape cassetta or if it was me yeah it was yeah it was yeah now I to answer your question why I
5:265 minutes, 26 secondsthink I can answer it a little bit I mean you were in grade 10 when this album came out and I was in we both just started those years of school so yeah we were already kind of
5:335 minutes, 33 secondswouldn't say knee deep but pretty knee deep in our music listening we'd have been music listeners are our whole young lives we've always enjoyed metal rock
5:415 minutes, 41 secondsand roll from Queen to we listened to everything we had a large library of albums but I think a lot of our Rock was hard rock I would even argue some of our
5:495 minutes, 49 secondsheavier Rock was you know our bad boy Rock was Appetite for Destruction we didn't listen to a lot of heavy metal I
5:565 minutes, 56 secondsthink Metallica was the first heavy album that you and I and our siblings
6:036 minutes, 3 secondslisten to on rotation heavy rotation when this album came out I remember feeling this way I could be wrong but I was just shy of 13 yes the one video
6:126 minutes, 12 secondsmakes the video waves that of course Garner a lot of popular culture attention and Metallica reaches the
6:196 minutes, 19 secondsmasses such as us you and I did not listen to master puppets in the albums before that there's no way we never listened to any of those but I remember seeing the video course that was the
6:286 minutes, 28 secondsfirst exposure of Metallica I've ever heard was the song One the video one and I remember thinking seeing it for the first time maybe we've heard of the band
6:356 minutes, 35 secondsMetallica saw the logos on people's Gene jackets in high school and stuff but seeing these guys with their long hair and it's black and white video and it
6:436 minutes, 43 secondswas scary this was darker heavier dangerous almost type of music it was such a theme and sound that was so
6:516 minutes, 51 secondsdifferent than anything we ever listened to yeah is very very aggressive and dark sounding but boy was it good
7:007 minuteslet's just oh yeah yeah it didn't take long for you to get sucked into into it and just you know especially as teenagers or whatever you really can tap
7:087 minutes, 8 secondsinto The Angst and anger The Angst yes yeah and in this album James Taps into that teenage Ang so yeah so when we
7:187 minutes, 18 secondsstarted listening to this album I had a paper root and I remember listening to this album non-stop on my paper root on rotation flipping the tape over flipping
7:267 minutes, 26 secondsthe tape over never stop listening to any song and then I used to mow Lawns as well I remember listening to this album when I mowed lawns this was an obsession
7:357 minutes, 35 secondsover and over I could not get enough of the Rifts the driving cords just the power of this and it just spoke it just
7:427 minutes, 42 secondsspoke to it I just could not get enough of how powerful and amazing this album was and is we were part of the Columbia
7:517 minutes, 51 secondshouse uh tape CD whatever Club so yeah we started getting their back like oh they have other albums and we started going to the you know kill them all Ride
7:587 minutes, 58 secondsthe Lightning and of course master puppets new to our Channel check out our reviews of master puppets Ride the Lightning and The Black Album on previous episodes if you're a Metallica
8:078 minutes, 7 secondsfan and like what we do here again we're not a Wikipedia page Jason and I will talk about you know a little bit of facts here and there that most I would
8:158 minutes, 15 secondssay All Metallica fans will be aware of but there are casual Metallica fans and there are also people who just listen to our episodes regardless of the topic so
8:248 minutes, 24 secondswe will give a little bit of you know generic background stuff so people get an idea you know when the album was released how old the members of the band were at the time to give you some
8:328 minutes, 32 secondscontext things like that but this isn't going to be there are metallico theme podcasts out there that you know I'd recommend searching and or just their Wikipedia page but if you're coming here
8:418 minutes, 41 secondsto learn about Metallica and you're already a huge Metallica fan we're not going to teach you anything new but this is just Jason and I talking about the songs what they mean to us how they feel
8:498 minutes, 49 secondswhen we hear them and then at the end of the episode we're going to pick what we feel independent of each other what is the the least best song I mean there
8:588 minutes, 58 secondsreally isn't any of course bad songs in a nine song album with this album but there might be one that for whatever reason is the one that ranks the lowest
9:069 minutes, 6 secondsJason newad new basis Cliff Burton had passed now he did play on the ep the 598
9:139 minutes, 13 secondsGarage Days Revisited EP that is a great EP by the way it's all cover songs but the cover songs that Metallica chose to
9:219 minutes, 21 secondsplay on that EP are fantastic I gave it a relisten the other day and I was like man these are some really fun fun songs
9:289 minutes, 28 secondsnot only are they a great metal band they're actually a really good cover band they do some really great covers they covers are always well done yeah
9:379 minutes, 37 secondsyeah I have to agree yeah every cover they do is just spoton really well done with their metallic isms in it but I give them full credit that they pick
9:449 minutes, 44 secondssome pretty fantastic songs not only do they do a good job covering it well I mean they're Pros but the songs they pick are really cool and I go back and
9:529 minutes, 52 secondslisten to The Originals which is what those original bands want you to do and I've done that and of course Diamond heads big influence uh oh motohead bands
10:0010 minuteslike that some interesting bands they've picked over the years that was Jason newstead's First recording with the band now you know Jason as well as I do that
10:0910 minutes, 9 secondsJason was a fan of the band he went to concerts so he used to watch Metallica with Cliff Burton in the band he was one of many bases that of course tried out
10:1710 minutes, 17 secondssome big names tried out for the band even Dave elvon apparently for Mega tried out for the Metallica gig I don't know how that worked how's it worked for
10:2510 minutes, 25 secondshim now uh Dave Ellison you could say um he's trying trying to make money hand over fist oh
10:3310 minutes, 33 secondsjesz it's a tough gig to beat the situation that he's in right now he's begging on his hands and knees he is he sent out a couple good audition tapes
10:4210 minutes, 42 secondsfor some for some other people to to watch though so Jason newad is actually the same age as James hfield they're both 25
10:5010 minutes, 50 secondsat the making of Injustice for all back to the EP when you listen to it you can actually hear Jason Net's bass playe
10:5810 minutes, 58 secondswhich is an interesting point to bring up now because when we get to the mix for Injustice for all has been
11:0511 minutes, 5 secondscountlessly talked about and scrutinized over the years that Jason nad's Bas plane was turned down according to the
11:1411 minutes, 14 secondsoriginal mixer Name Escapes me he was told by Lars when you hear Jason's base turn it down till when you can barely
11:2311 minutes, 23 secondshear it then knock off another three DBS that's what the mixer said that Lars told him to do unfortunately because of all the controversies around
11:3211 minutes, 32 secondsthis album that's basically the one that people continue to talk about all these years later and it kind of haunts them
11:4011 minutes, 40 secondsto this day when anybody Rec comments on YouTube or whatever they always talk about the fact that Jason has no base
11:4911 minutes, 49 secondspresence on this album which is just too bad you know Lars was hurt and angry that their brother had died a horrible
11:5711 minutes, 57 secondsdeath on tour so there's a lot of Anger from Lars from the band themselves that he had to be replaced in this in this
12:0412 minutes, 4 secondsway so Jason became kind of the the runt of the group from there on out and was
12:1212 minutes, 12 secondspicked on and hazed throughout his career with Metallica which is also very unfortunate they lose a basist through a
12:1912 minutes, 19 secondstragic accident and then they lose a friend who was to help out the band in a tough situation and they did lose Jason
12:2712 minutes, 27 secondsthrough years of basic bullying they bullied him and they uh started off by not allowing his base to be heard on the
12:3612 minutes, 36 secondsFirst full length album that he recorded on it's kind of a a shadow over over this album and that would probably be
12:4312 minutes, 43 secondsthe biggest hit on the album is the low to zero base arguments have been made by the band over the years they've gone back and forth they've all but admitted
12:5112 minutes, 51 secondsthat they did do this to Jason the reasons why they've actually haven't said what you said of course they haven't said that they said it was a
12:5812 minutes, 58 secondscreative choice I.E the Riff was already very identical the the heavy riffing was already identical to the bass plane but
13:0513 minutes, 5 secondswhen you hear these songs live of course now with trulio playing in the band but even before then when Jason was playing the band the mix of the live stuff you could hear the bass it's not like we've
13:1313 minutes, 13 secondsnever not heard the bass in these songs but the only way to hear the bass mix in these songs now is live and you will hear them so I recommend if you haven't
13:2113 minutes, 21 secondsalready as a Die Hard Metallica fan go out there and listen to those live performances that Metallica releases very frequently on their YouTube channel
13:2913 minutes, 29 secondsyou can very clearly hear the bass plane and that's funny enough that's a lot of the comments in those respective justice
13:3713 minutes, 37 secondsfor all songs that are live on their page people say hey look you know we can hear the bass so this is an ongoing discussion it haunts them it's a talking
13:4513 minutes, 45 secondspoint that will never go away and the reason why it won't go away too is the band has remastered these albums they were asked well why didn't you bring up the bass level in the remaster and they
13:5413 minutes, 54 secondssaid the reason why they didn't is mistake or not they said this is what we did at that time they didn't want to change whatever reasons they had they actually
14:0114 minutes, 1 secondhave they've stuck to them stubbornly so probably James is probably pretty stubborn but they haven't changed the mix even with the remasters it's too bad
14:0914 minutes, 9 secondsat the end of the day it's too bad so what we're going to do now is we're going to play a little bit from each song just talk about her overall feelings about the song maybe a couple
14:1514 minutes, 15 secondslittle tidbits about each song but I wanted to do something with you Jason if you wanted well there's tons of videos on YouTube that people have played their
14:2314 minutes, 23 secondsbase yes I've seen those yeah there's one guy in particular incredible he does the whole album and he does it live you can see him do it it's just amazing
14:3214 minutes, 32 secondswe'll play a little bit of blacken so blacken the first song on the album but let's play a little bit the beginning without the bass and let's just compare
14:3914 minutes, 39 secondsit for our listeners with the bass just so they know what we're talking about then we'll start talking about the actual song Here is the original sound
14:4614 minutes, 46 secondsand song Black and opening track of Injustice Raw
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15:2815 minutes, 28 secondshe
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15:5215 minutes, 52 secondswith number one J how do you feel just hearing that opening part of that album yeah I mean back in the day you had a
16:0016 minutestap cassette you threw the tape cassette in and whatever was the first song was the first song there's no Shuffle there's no so to have that even that's
16:0816 minutes, 8 secondsthe bu it's a buildup it's quite small but just hearing that slight buildup into the the opening riffs your
16:1616 minutes, 16 secondsadrenaline starts to go you feel that rush they pull you in very quickly I love it I totally agree it's incredible
16:2416 minutes, 24 secondsintro it's it's a track that they play quite frequently on tours to still to this day I absolutely love that song blackin of course is talking about you
16:3116 minutes, 31 secondsknow how humans are destroying Mother Earth this is one of the uh first albums where I would read the lyrics and
16:3916 minutes, 39 secondsthere's not just there's a little bit more to what they're singing about than just sex drugs and rock and roll there
16:4616 minutes, 46 secondswas a lot of meaning in in each song for example this one being about the environment at the age of 25 James and
16:5516 minutes, 55 secondsthe rest of the band are starting to talk about issues kind of bigger than the M themselves on a global scale in many ways which is different they
17:0317 minutes, 3 secondsexpressed it in a very real way very mature way through their music and that's a theme throughout this whole
17:1017 minutes, 10 secondsalbum political environmental those sort of issues were brought up throughout this album they're actually talking
17:1717 minutes, 17 secondsabout hey look this is nuclear war man we can eradicate Humanity the Earth could be destroyed lost in natural life
17:2517 minutes, 25 secondsthis is no it's Bleak yes it's not a Feelgood song but these are real issues these are real topics yeah yeah and yeah
17:3417 minutes, 34 secondsI don't know it's up to you as a parent what what do you want your kids listen to I don't know uh some of the pop songs of today are kind of explicit but they might be easy to listen to and tap your
17:4317 minutes, 43 secondsfoot to but if you actually sit down and listen to lyrics I don't know maybe I want my 10-year-old to listen to Blacken over some of the stuff that's oh for sure yeah yeah really
17:5217 minutes, 52 secondsquickly here Jay let's just hear a little bit of blacking with the bass and just I'll give a shout out to this Channel It's called The Bass Channel it only has 9 4,000 Subs which is a lot but
18:0018 minutesat the same time this guy's an incredible basis and he's done a lot of Base enhancing videos especially with Metallica especially with this album he did the whole album you can watch him
18:0818 minutes, 8 secondsplay Live he just sits down and just jams it's pretty cool but I'll share it with Jason and you the audience just to hear a little bit of the Baseline during blacking and just how much it enhances
18:1718 minutes, 17 secondsthe sound of this album which again speaks to Jason being sad that this according to Metallica will never be rectified officially
18:2918 minutes, 29 seconds[Music]
18:5618 minutes, 56 secondswhat' you think of that I absolutely love it it adds so so much depth and scope to the song like right away when I
19:0419 minutes, 4 secondssee the band Live now you watch Robert playing you recognize how technically gifted Jason was as a basist oh yeah
19:1319 minutes, 13 secondshe's incredible basist yeah so when you watch Robert you watch him play these songs and you watch him you know and you
19:1919 minutes, 19 secondshear the Baseline that should have been more prominent than it is and then now as we witness in that mix it's really
19:2719 minutes, 27 secondsunfortunate that Jason was was not able to show off his Wares and probably made it difficult for him to blend into the band you know he's replacing a beloved
19:3519 minutes, 35 secondsCliff I think it made the transition more difficult than it should have been as well but it should be noted that Jason has the writing credit on the song because it was actually his riff yeah he
19:4419 minutes, 44 secondsplayed that Riff on the base James liked it and they went with that and that was the start of blacken so really ironically the first opening track of the album was something that Jason
19:5219 minutes, 52 secondscontribut to but it was eventually turned turned down a little bit but again we won't speak to we know the base is there it's in the album like Jason
20:0020 minutesplayed the song almost 500 times with the band so it was definitely a song that people heard live and we hear this bass live if you want to hear the bass
20:0820 minutes, 8 secondsyou have to go on YouTube guys there it's been remixed many times over I'm sure there's people that actually listen to those versions on their phones and what have you yeah or live on their
20:1720 minutes, 17 secondsofficial Channel I mean you'll hear the bass play loud and clear today in the in the mixes which is actually really kind of cool you just go listen to their live releases that they do quite frequently
20:2520 minutes, 25 secondsand you get to hear these bass playing live all right the second track on the album is the title track Injustice for all yeah basically you know another song
20:3420 minutes, 34 secondslike blackens about the environment the damage that we're doing to the environment and then Injustice For All About corruption political corruption or
20:4320 minutes, 43 secondssome of the injustices within our political or Justice systems again a deeper meaningful song lyrically than
20:5020 minutes, 50 secondsyou might think of when you see a bunch of guys with long hair thrashing it out on stage or in a video if you were to ask me what's their longest song of
20:5920 minutes, 59 secondstheir Library I'd almost say it's this song but it's actually their fourth longest they have three other tracks that are longer than this one the song Jay is about money to how it's actually
21:0821 minutes, 8 secondsmore important than Justice which is the basic theme of the entire album in fact James throughout the song He's heard to be singing Justice is raped we're
21:1521 minutes, 15 secondsreferring to Lady Justice which is artwork on the cover of the album and that artwork on the cover of the album is actually designed by James or he had a hand in designing that artwork
21:2421 minutes, 24 secondssomebody else drew it but he gave the uh what he wanted when he says Justice is raped he means that the justice is becoming overruled by money fair enough
21:3421 minutes, 34 secondsand nothing has changed no no we got it all figured out now money money's yeah right I know it's it's a Gong Show the
21:4221 minutes, 42 secondssong has been played many times live despite its length as of 2015 it was played up to 257 times live and it's been played of course since often it's
21:5021 minutes, 50 secondsalso used in medley as well and it was a downloadable track in the video game rock band which I owned at the time with
21:5821 minutes, 58 secondsmy a little while back and I remember playing this on rock band I always thought it was an interesting pick that Metallica had this song as a rock band track it kind of makes sense I mean they
22:0622 minutes, 6 secondsare advertising their album more than they're advertising the song there you go so the song titled and justice for
22:1422 minutes, 14 secondsall is advertising their album and justice for all we know how big rock band was that makes sense all right here's the opening part of justice and
22:2122 minutes, 21 secondsyeah we forgot to mention if you're first time listening of our Channel we don't play the whole songs obviously cuz if you want to hear the whole songs you will do that on your own time on iTunes
22:3022 minutes, 30 secondswhat have you we can't for copyright stuff you know play the whole song through but here's a bit of the intro to Justice
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23:1723 minutes, 17 secondsnah
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23:3323 minutes, 33 secondsI love that drumming the back Lars is doing it has that kind of almost irban feel to it while listening to there I was just like there's a lot going on
23:4123 minutes, 41 secondsKirk like I I'm not sure who was playing what exactly but there's a lot of music being introduced complex changes Tempo
23:4823 minutes, 48 secondschanges yeah just within a very short period of time there's complexity to the song I suspect that that complexity made
23:5623 minutes, 56 secondsit difficult to play live all the time in its length even though it's a title track off of this album it's not played
24:0424 minutes, 4 secondsas often as you might think you're right about the complexity this album actually was their most complex album that they probably have done in quite a while
24:1124 minutes, 11 secondsquite frankly but certainly at this point in their career this was their fourth album if you can believe it they're only 25 years old this is their fourth studio album this was almost
24:2024 minutes, 20 secondsconsidered progressive metal it's right on that verge of progressive metal I think this song is the one that is the most Progressive there's a lot of
24:2724 minutes, 27 secondschanges in this title track a lot of different like you're saying drum parts and Pace changes and what have
24:3524 minutes, 35 secondsyou it's morning Supremacy I can't believe the things you
24:4624 minutes, 46 secondssay I can't believe I can't believe the price you pay nothing can save you
24:5624 minutes, 56 secondsjustice is lost Justice is right Justice is done P your scen Justice is
25:0625 minutes, 6 secondsdone so James wasn't really interested in singing on this album I think he was not feeling it per se so the producer
25:1525 minutes, 15 secondswas just like just bring your anger I love the way he phrases these lyrics There is anger some disgust to go along
25:2325 minutes, 23 secondswith the lyrics the way he emphasizes law you know J as his lost raped gone pulling your strings Justice is done
25:3225 minutes, 32 secondsjust the way he emphasizes these lyrics let's sample from this song at least we'll try to do more from the next ones uh some of Kirk's amazing solo work on
25:4025 minutes, 40 secondsthis album the level and quality of solo work that Kirk brings
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26:1926 minutes, 19 secondsI mean how does that sound sounds awesome Kirk is a guitarist that seems to fly under the radar so often like
26:2626 minutes, 26 secondspeople talk about so many other guar but every time you focus on his his soloing it's so impressive why don't people talk
26:3426 minutes, 34 secondsabout kirkmore I don't know where it becomes very obvious of how skilled of a guitar player that he is is watching him
26:4226 minutes, 42 secondsdo these solos live I love it yeah totally agree all right second track on the album Injustice for all yeah Injustice for all was released in 88 as
26:5126 minutes, 51 secondsa promotional single or promotional singles I guess they don't really make Airways but they kind of they just give it to like yeah I think they give it to
26:5826 minutes, 58 secondsradio stations or you know at the time like the Rolling Stone magazine or other critics as they hey we're coming out with this album here's a sample of what
27:0627 minutes, 6 secondsto expect okay that makes sense yeah a teaser third track on the album Jay Eye of the Beholder M now IE of the beholder
27:1527 minutes, 15 secondswas actually a single from the album it was released in October 30th of 1988 it was the second single of the album I did not know that yeah and what's different
27:2327 minutes, 23 secondsabout the music back then or or you know Metallica I mean they had one but they didn't have any other music videos from this album no other way to really
27:3227 minutes, 32 secondspromote their singles they're not going to be playing these songs on typical Airwaves they're just too long and don't really have the eror play they would get
27:4127 minutes, 41 secondsreleasing as a single I'm not sure was the single ever played I've never heard this it on the radio ever it was officially a single one of the reasons
27:5027 minutes, 50 secondswhy we don't hear much from the song is it hasn't been performed live in its entirety since
27:5627 minutes, 56 seconds1989 what yeah wow I'm surprised by that they've thrown in some medley and stuff they do sometimes they do medle for justice yeah but they haven't done it
28:0528 minutes, 5 secondslive since then in September 2020 so just over a year and a half ago Lars allor stated that he's not a fan of the
28:1228 minutes, 12 secondssong and that he doesn't ever want to hear it again huh is that weird explain why doesn't say why at least in that quote let's get a sample is this Lars
28:2228 minutes, 22 secondspick of the worst of the best song on the album sounds like it sounds like it yeah yeah is it ours well find find out I love the intro to the song I I I
28:3028 minutes, 30 secondsabsolutely love this intro the
28:3228 minutes, 32 seconds[Music]
28:5628 minutes, 56 secondsbuild guess you hear the base on a little bit yeah I I was saying the same thing
29:0129 minutes, 1 second[Music]
29:2929 minutes, 29 secondsthat intro alone I don't know why they would have played this live I'm confused I you know Lars and his I mean obviously
29:3729 minutes, 37 secondshe's got good instincts because I mean the band's been around forever people give that guy such trouble but no he's actually a musical genius in his own right he writes a lot of this music with
29:4529 minutes, 45 secondsJames this is he's the drummer but he's the music guy too but I'm trying to understand his reasoning for this song I wish he would explain more it's like
29:5329 minutes, 53 secondsanything any artist you they'll be like or actor or whatever I hate that movie I hate that Ro and they like what dude that was one of my favorite things they just for whatever reason the creator of
30:0130 minutes, 1 secondtheir own stuff they see flaws or they see weakness where we don't yeah fair enough let's hear some of James
30:0830 minutes, 8 seconds[Music]
30:1730 minutes, 17 secondssinging doesn't matter what you see or do it what you you can do it your own
30:2430 minutes, 24 secondsway if it's is how I say now you notice in the beginning part of that clip he has a bit of a vocal effect
30:3230 minutes, 32 secondson his yeah I love that maybe large doesn't he's not a fan of well it's not autotune per se but maybe the vocal effect but they wouldn't have that vocal
30:4130 minutes, 41 secondseffect live anyways so the song itself Jason is about freedom and it's only as true as you perceive it it protests against the restricted limit of Freedom
30:5030 minutes, 50 secondsby law is that speaking anything happen in today's world right now well it's funny because here here's phrasing in in the
30:5730 minutes, 57 secondssong Independence limited Freedom of Choice choices made for you my friend freedom of speech speech is words that
31:0431 minutes, 4 secondsthey will bend Freedom with their exception yeah it seems to be an issue today more than probably even back then
31:1231 minutes, 12 secondsdoesn't matter what you see or into what you read you can do it your own way if it's done just how I say I know we're
31:1931 minutes, 19 secondsnot going to get political necessarily or we're not going to say we agree or disagree with some of the things the government's doing right now because especially with me I'm a government employee but I'll just say it just just
31:2831 minutes, 28 secondsfeels like yeah it feels like at times we won't mention any of the words but read between the lines have the choice not to participate in this action it's
31:3731 minutes, 37 secondsyour choice not to however if you don't you'll be limited access to this that here there everywhere so it's kind of like well I think you're making my
31:4531 minutes, 45 secondschoice for me I have to still function in society you know you can do it your own way if it's done just how I say yeah
31:5331 minutes, 53 secondswe see that in government religion so what is your freedom if there's really only quote unquote one right choice
32:0032 minutesright you can do it your own way if it's done just how I say it's a great line
32:1332 minutes, 13 seconds[Music]
32:2132 minutes, 21 secondsyeah do you know what I know your money and your wealth you silence just to hear yourself
32:2932 minutes, 29 secondsthere again is that little vocal effect great solo by Kirk again so the next track Jason the next one is the big one huh the big one track four the third
32:3832 minutes, 38 secondssingle believe it or not this was the third not the first single from the album but it's the first single they released they've released singles from other albums so this is their third from
32:4632 minutes, 46 secondsthis album with the first out a video one they Ed footage in the video from the movie Johnny's got a gun about the
32:5332 minutes, 53 secondssoldier who goes off to war and he loses his arms his legs his sight his speech his hair everything do a landmine he's
33:0033 minuteson a hospital bed the only thing he can do is shake his head up and down and Morse code and he says of course in the
33:0733 minutes, 7 secondsmusic video and from the movie itself they're saying what is he saying to moris code and the nurse or the Army staff is saying kill me over and over
33:1633 minutes, 16 secondsagain kill me it's a very hard video to watch so here's things I like about the video before we get to the song so look if you don't know the song one I then
33:2433 minutes, 24 secondsyou truly just don't know Metallica which is fine so welcome to this episode I'm glad you made this far that's amazing but one is a song that they've played you know numerous numerous
33:3233 minutes, 32 secondsnumerous times every concert it's kind of like that song that they don't play it people probably leave mad and rightfully so it is the one song that
33:3933 minutes, 39 secondsgot them into the stratosphere certainly ours like we were big metal listeners like we said before rock and roll listeners but we never even listen to Metallica because they seemed too maybe
33:4933 minutes, 49 secondsdark and underground or whatever but this song made them more accessible but it wasn't really on my radar I have to say it wasn't really even on my radar
33:5633 minutes, 56 secondsuntil this video I seem to recall that I've heard the name Metallica oh for sure yeah and that I was under the
34:0334 minutes, 3 secondsimpression that this was an inaccessible bant to the likes of our Taste Of Music s and I remember thinking oh this is because it had that soft beginning and
34:1234 minutes, 12 secondsso it leads you in it kind of draws you in so when it does get hard and crazy it's a new sound for us but because it has that soft beginning it kind of eases
34:2034 minutes, 20 secondsus into the uh the heaviness before we get really deep into the song itself what I mean by it wasn't really accessible or honor our radar one they
34:2934 minutes, 29 secondsdidn't have music videos which is the big way in which you know it's kind of like the MTV was the uh YouTube of our day that's number one number two their
34:3834 minutes, 38 secondssongs were not air playable too long they weren't really accessible to all people this song was the first song of
34:4634 minutes, 46 secondstheir career to chart in the US so four albums later they finally have a song that is charting and getting that kind
34:5534 minutes, 55 secondsof recognition even though they've had a m massive successful career up to this point it only reached number 35 on the
35:0335 minutes, 3 secondsBillboard Hot 100 35 that's it so as big and popular and promoted song on MTV
35:1135 minutes, 11 secondswith their video One it only charted to 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 yeah it's crazy but you know how many albums this
35:1935 minutes, 19 secondsalbum sold though as of 2003 so this is 18 years ago we can assume it's has sold more since 8 million in the us alone
35:2635 minutes, 26 secondsthat was from 18 years ago 8 million wow that doesn't sound as much as I thought it would have been well that's just the us alone 300,000 the UK 1 million in
35:3635 minutes, 36 secondsGermany Canada 300,000 I would think it's higher too of course people would dream to have those numbers today that just shows you how big the Black album
35:4335 minutes, 43 secondswas the Black Album I think was nearing 20 million Jason and that was considered just like a mega mega mega mega ALB but 8 million as of like I said this was
35:5235 minutes, 52 seconds2003 we know Metallica they make all their mint off their YouTube channel their tours they're merchandise they're
36:0036 minutesjust the hugest metal maybe most banned in the world actively that tours these guys just sell out wherever they go oh
36:0836 minutes, 8 secondsthey're massive for sure they are the biggest metal band of all time yeah and they they've earned it the song has that
36:1536 minutes, 15 secondssoft beginning and it kind of lulls you in
36:2036 minutes, 20 seconds[Music]
36:2736 minutes, 27 secondsa
36:2936 minutes, 29 seconds[Music]
36:3336 minutes, 33 seconds[Applause]
36:3936 minutes, 39 seconds[Music]
37:1337 minutes, 13 secondsso great guitar work here of course between James and Kirk I love how Lars comes in with that drum it sounds really heavy and deep but it's still kind of
37:2137 minutes, 21 secondssoftened in the background it's hard not to talk about one without talking about the music video because how
37:2737 minutes, 27 secondsinterconnected they are to each other the imagery of the video like you see the soft guitar playing they lure you in
37:3637 minutes, 36 secondsand the black and white video the impact the dramatic feel of that black and white video offers little glimpses of
37:4337 minutes, 43 secondsJames flashing through fan and black and white cutting in and out and really my first and many people's first introduction to the band itself and to
37:5337 minutes, 53 secondssee them in that Stark room playing their instruments it's a powerful image the combination of them playing and the
38:0038 minutesmusic that they are playing totally agree video and the song are they do go hand in hand in manyways in today's
38:0738 minutes, 7 secondsmusic world if you go on YouTube and'll look up YouTube reactions like reactors to the song first time listeners of Metallica And this is usually the first
38:1538 minutes, 15 secondsone they start with they go to the video which is it's always kind of frustrating me as a viewer of some of these YouTube channels in that I think the video now
38:2438 minutes, 24 secondsfinding enough distracts from the song because the video has all the movie bits in it and dialogue and people are trying to figure out what's going on in the
38:3138 minutes, 31 secondsmovie and and what have you so I think it's a song If You're Going to Hear for the first time I'd rather someone hear the song for the first time I wish that
38:3938 minutes, 39 secondswas what I almost did but I didn't back in the day it was the video that I saw and the song I heard for the first time but that was the first impression I I had with this band too was of course the
38:4738 minutes, 47 secondsvideo seeing these guys headbang and and that's the first thing I remember from this video not just the movie images
38:5538 minutes, 55 secondsfrom the film but the three three of them headbanging together that always is seared to my brain as the first memory you can barely see their faces their
39:0339 minutes, 3 secondshair you know their hair is all covered they see kind of menacing these 25y old there just 25y old kids just banging their heads and you know that's a memory
39:1139 minutes, 11 secondsI have back as a 12-year-old seen these you know menacing guys you know banging their head they're kind of dark and Surly and and they seem angry and it's like oh these guys aren't funny you you
39:2039 minutes, 20 secondsbring up the movie clips when when I think of this song even though I bring up the video and and the way that they're connected I actually think more
39:2839 minutes, 28 secondsof the band than I do of the movie clips that's interesting I'm distracted by the movie I was more fascinated by the people Behind the Music interesting who
39:3639 minutes, 36 secondsare these people like you say they're kind of surly at the time they were obviously much older than us but they were still very young I'm always
39:4339 minutes, 43 secondsfascinated by these young culturally a little bit you know they're not mainstream culturally they don't look you know long hair scruffy beards and
39:5239 minutes, 52 secondsand all the rest but yet the talent that these individuals Have and Have crafted and and perfected
40:0140 minutes, 1 secondat such a young age like this j a position of it's like oh you're a brain surgeon and you're only 25 right it's
40:0840 minutes, 8 secondsthat kind of you are a musical genius putting together a masterpiece of a song that has transcended culture after all
40:1640 minutes, 16 secondsthese years and you're only 25 when you did it it fascinates me as somebody who's musically you know I can't play an
40:2340 minutes, 23 secondsinstrument or carry a tune so I'm always intrigued and F fascinated by people who who have this level and caliber of
40:3040 minutes, 30 secondstalent and then to watch them perform something that I miss that they don't do anymore in concerts they used to do back in the day was the part in the song
40:3840 minutes, 38 secondswhere James sings l m and they have the big boom they have a big boom on the stage and explosion they don't do that anymore live I haven't seen a clip of it
40:4640 minutes, 46 secondsin a long time so here's the part it's the part of the song of course where kicks into overdrive
40:5740 minutes, 57 secondsthat's taking my sight taking my speet taking my hair taking my arms taking my legs taking my soul happy with life
41:0741 minutes, 7 seconds[Music]
41:1741 minutes, 17 secondsin there's that gunfire Sound by lars's drums and here a little bit of Kirk solo
41:2541 minutes, 25 seconds[Music]
41:4441 minutes, 44 seconds[Music]
41:4741 minutes, 47 secondsso chorus goes on and they have strob lights going during this part and everyone's banging their heads and fists it's rightfully so it's a fan favorite at the at concerts the buildup the uh
41:5641 minutes, 56 secondslights and the guitar carcel and yeah I'm watching the video as we're talking uh on mute here in the background seeing
42:0342 minutes, 3 secondsthem play in that Stark room just filtered light through the dusty Windows just pounding this song out I love it
42:1142 minutes, 11 secondsand what's also interesting is they show Jason noose quite a bit of his bass playing well they wanted you to see that he at least played played on the album I
42:1942 minutes, 19 secondsdon't know if you can hear it but he played on it all right track five Jason got the short of straw when he became the basis for Metallica yeah he did so
42:2842 minutes, 28 secondsthis is the fifth track from the album the song's lyrics deal with the blacklisting of American politicians with alleged ties to Communism during
42:3542 minutes, 35 secondsthe red scares of the 50s so the title the short of straw may also be a reference to the death of basis Cliff Burton Burton was given his fatal
42:4342 minutes, 43 secondssleeping bunk by pulling the short of straw on a game him a chance o oh I don't know if he didn't know he did die on a bus crash on the tour bus of all
42:5242 minutes, 52 secondsthings eh yeah so I guess they were he got this bunk and they're like hey who gets this crappy sleeping position and Burton drew the shortest draw and it's
43:0143 minutes, 1 secondonly been played live 98 times Jay H interesting so the shortest straw I got the shortest straw for pling life
43:0943 minutes, 9 seconds[Music]
43:5443 minutes, 54 secondsoh love that beginning love this song and what I love about the song Too is the
44:0144 minutes, 1 secondchorus when James sings show the stop the way he sings that chorus oh can can we get to it yeah yeah yeah I'm going to
44:0944 minutes, 9 secondsyeah let's
44:1544 minutes, 15 secondsTTY law living in for me we riding through S St the S St has
44:2544 minutes, 25 secondsbeen pulled for you
44:2744 minutes, 27 seconds[Music]
44:4244 minutes, 42 secondswhat I love about that too is this kind of the first time I think I would venture to Guess that that's the first time we get like a track overlay with
44:5144 minutes, 51 secondsJames singing so you got him singing of course shoulder straw and then has been pulled for you Sher straw so he's overlaying his own vocals it's obviously
44:5944 minutes, 59 secondshim singing both lines but he can't sing them at the same time because they're overlaying each other right I think it's the first time he did that a little bit of a production trick they hadn't really
45:0745 minutes, 7 secondsdone that too much in their singing it's pretty straightforward but him overlaying as vocal like that over top of each other is pretty clever did they play this song at our show I'm trying to
45:1545 minutes, 15 secondsfind where we saw them live in I think it was 91 9192 yeah Pacific colum no
45:2345 minutes, 23 secondsHarvester of Sor yeah I remember that remember specifically when that song came on because we always used to do that little quick little headbang yeah
45:3145 minutes, 31 secondswe looked at each other but they didn't play sh of straw there no no 23 Songs yeah well that's fine we will keep so they did not play it at our concert so
45:3945 minutes, 39 secondsJason and I we said it before in our other episodes of Metallica but we saw them live for the first time May 23rd 1992 they did not have an opening act
45:4745 minutes, 47 secondsthey played for almost 3 hours straight they did do their medley of justice for all where uh it was ey the beholder black and the fre Ends of Sanity were
45:5545 minutes, 55 secondsthrown in that one interesting was the opening track the second track of that concert was creeping death and I think it was by the end of creeping death I had to leave the mosh pit on the front
46:0446 minutes, 4 secondsrow yeah fun times six song was the third song at the concert Jason I saw six song on the album Harvester of
46:1246 minutes, 12 secondsSorrow
46:1446 minutes, 14 seconds[Music]
46:1746 minutes, 17 seconds[Applause]
46:2746 minutes, 27 seconds[Music]
46:3246 minutes, 32 secondsso just before this next part comes in and I think Jason would agree thing that makes this song so cool there's something about this song that has that I say almost like horror aspect to it
46:4146 minutes, 41 secondsthe idea this Harvester of Sorrow what a great title you know Harvester of Sorrow but I almost have this creature in my mind or some sort of entity doing this
46:4946 minutes, 49 secondsand the theme of that entity kicks in with that Baseline that comes in and this like drudy or crunchy like wallowing Shuffle sound that comes up
46:5846 minutes, 58 secondshere before you go back into the song in 1986 there was a book called The Harvester of Sor and it reveals the
47:0647 minutes, 6 secondsSoviet government's killing of 5 to 10 million ukrainians dark they are yeah they are
47:1347 minutes, 13 secondsborrowing Imaging from that book and it is the feelings of a grim reaper going across the land there oh there you go so
47:2247 minutes, 22 secondsuh their imagy worked this is something I've always had in my mind before knowing that Genesis there cool yeah and this one's been played a lot as of
47:3047 minutes, 30 secondsAugust 2019 of course it's 2022 it's been played 779 times live so this is a crowd favorite we saw this one live
47:3847 minutes, 38 secondswithout giving away anything this is close to my favorite song on this s you're allowed to say favorite we always say that you're you're allowed to always kind of say this is your favorite I
47:4747 minutes, 47 secondsthink this is very close to my favorite song so this will not be your pick as a worst song this will not be the worst song for sure yeah I agree I absolutely
47:5447 minutes, 54 secondslove the song from day one yeah now that you're saying that but I think I feel the same way I think this might be my I think it
48:0648 minutes, 6 seconds[Music]
48:0848 minutes, 8 secondsis that little bit of a sound effect backround there yeah
48:1848 minutes, 18 seconds[Music]
48:3548 minutes, 35 secondsgreat
48:3548 minutes, 35 seconds[Music]
48:4448 minutes, 44 secondsdrum love the Trum work on this
48:5848 minutes, 58 seconds[Music]
49:0449 minutes, 4 secondsit's hard to stop yeah it's my favorite song great buildup with Jam yeah I mean you got to do the anger misery you'll suffer you got to I mean that's God I
49:1449 minutes, 14 secondslove it yeah did I miss it oh com you you CLI
49:1949 minutes, 19 secondsright go it anger misery no suffer Uno me
49:3149 minutes, 31 seconds[Music]
49:3949 minutes, 39 secondsokay yeah I love that great chorus great buildup great drudgery and imagery it's fantastic yeah it's it's my favorite
49:4649 minutes, 46 secondssong all right Jason life in general having children being married not being married these are The Fray Ends of
49:5549 minutes, 55 secondsSanity I always love this beginning I don't know why they oh yeah yeah yeah
50:0650 minutes, 6 seconds[Music]
50:2650 minutes, 26 secondsoh
50:2950 minutes, 29 seconds[Music]
51:0051 minutesAER a Prosper I am all great you failure the song Jason is just what you
51:0751 minutes, 7 secondsthink it's about it's about a man a singer who is becoming increasingly paranoid and therefore on the brink of losing his mind so that oo that's from
51:1551 minutes, 15 secondsthe Wizard Oz that sound there yeah yeah so this song does not get played live and it's a fan favorite this whole album is a fan favorite but this song is
51:2451 minutes, 24 secondssomething the metallic fans have been yelling at the forever play this live it was debuted live in its entirety though at one point in May 28th of 2014 during
51:3351 minutes, 33 secondsthe Metallica By Request tour so the the fans actually got their say and it was uh done live in May 28th 2014 I haven't
51:4151 minutes, 41 secondsseen that performance in fact no I'm going to look for it yeah I'm going to look for it after this recording there you go the 1990 tour was actually called
51:4851 minutes, 48 secondsThe Freight ends so interesting that it's a song that's not really played yet they name a tour after it yeah so halfway through the s you get this kind
51:5751 minutes, 57 secondsof a temple change and buildup I just love the way it ramps up
52:0052 minutes[Music]
52:3952 minutes, 39 seconds[Music]
52:4652 minutes, 46 secondswas a funny time with Harvester I I don't know this might be my favorite on the album something about the song too yeah I I love Harvester don't get me wrong but I think I'm part of that
52:5552 minutes, 55 secondsMetallica fan base wishes they play this more live that buildup I love that way it ramps up like that and then the Kirk solo the whole imagery of this Freight
53:0353 minutes, 3 secondsend to sanity great another great title this whole album is just great great titles but Harvester of Sor is a great title Freight Ends of Sanity it's just a
53:1053 minutes, 10 secondsgreat song title In concept yeah so some more feel-good songs Jason the eighth track on the album is almost
53:1753 minutes, 17 secondstheoretically a instrumental but there is some spoken word but all members play in this song of course the song track is
53:2553 minutes, 25 secondscalled to live as to die it's officially I guess an instrumental really other than the spoken word in the song it actually is the longest song on the
53:3253 minutes, 32 secondsalbum just by a few seconds it beats Injustice For All by a few seconds the song is to live is to die which is a yeah another feel-good title we to live
53:4153 minutes, 41 secondsjust to die it's kind of true so the song itself was written as a tribute to the band's basis Cliff the music consists of riffs that Burton had used
53:4953 minutes, 49 secondsor had written that weren't used in songs just yet and the song title was a phrase that Bert was fond of this was kind of a tribute to him to live is to
53:5753 minutes, 57 secondsdie it goes without saying heeld Jason plays the second guitar solo during the slower midsection of the song and this is the last song Metallica release of
54:0454 minutes, 4 secondsBurton has a writing credit on even though he has written the bass and it was all Jason playing right the base and
54:1354 minutes, 13 secondsit's the only Metallica instrumental they ever recorded that Jason newad has a studio recording of oh okay yeah yeah cuz they didn't do it on the other
54:2154 minutes, 21 secondsalbums before he left the spoken word that we talked about near the end of the song they were written by the German poet Paul girart and it was popularized
54:2954 minutes, 29 secondsin the film Excalibur in 1981 another one of their famous acoustic type openings to a song where
54:3754 minutes, 37 secondswe'll kick in with that heavy guitar Metallica loves to
54:4054 minutes, 40 seconds[Music]
54:4954 minutes, 49 secondsdo the base right there
54:5454 minutes, 54 seconds[Music]
55:2355 minutes, 23 secondsa
55:2555 minutes, 25 seconds[Music]
55:4955 minutes, 49 secondsKirk's guitar work I love that build of dink I love how it does that kind of I don't how that picking sound where they
55:5555 minutes, 55 secondslike it's it's ramping up and then I love this slow interlude it does in the
56:0356 minutes, 3 seconds[Applause]
56:0556 minutes, 5 seconds[Music]
56:0756 minutes, 7 seconds[Applause]
56:0956 minutes, 9 seconds[Music]
56:1256 minutes, 12 secondsmiddle string effects hinting towards later uh Symphony work that they'll
56:2156 minutes, 21 seconds[Applause]
56:2556 minutes, 25 secondsdo really you think this is a real beautiful piece of music right here oh
56:3456 minutes, 34 seconds[Music]
56:4856 minutes, 48 seconds[Applause]
56:4956 minutes, 49 seconds[Music]
56:5056 minutes, 50 seconds[Applause]
56:5256 minutes, 52 secondsyeah Lo
56:5456 minutes, 54 seconds[Music]
57:0057 minutesthat's just amazing and then I just get a little bit of that spoken word effect is pretty
57:2157 minutes, 21 secondscool When a Man Lies it murderers some part of the world these are the pale which men Mis call
57:3057 minutes, 30 secondstheir lives all this I cannot bear to witness any longer they not of Salvation
57:4157 minutes, 41 secondstake I remember hearing that spoken word for the first time of course listening to this album it's funny I can hear James voice now but at the time I wasn't
57:4957 minutes, 49 secondssure who was necessarily speaking there you know but it's I can tell it's James now I've heard him talk many times but that's the first time listening I was like for all I don't know which band
57:5757 minutes, 57 secondsmember if it was a band member seeing it spoken words for I went probably a long time not knowing maybe who was speaking till I heard James speak in person but
58:0458 minutes, 4 secondsthat's definitely young James heeld there speaking that little line there yeah it's it's a powerful little uh insertion of lyric or poem still feel
58:1358 minutes, 13 secondsthe pain of the band regarding cliff and it l to this day they to this day every death date they announce how much Cliff
58:2158 minutes, 21 secondsyeah and I think I saw on Metallica's Instagram yesterday two-year anniversary Cliff Burton dad's death yeah they loved Cliff's Dad they just had this great
58:3058 minutes, 30 secondslove for Cliff and it shouldn't go away just CU he died young a long time ago they just to this day love and miss him yeah and speaking of death the last song
58:3658 minutes, 36 secondsthe entire is Eve this is a basically a big middle finger to his parents this is the angry 25-year-old James still having
58:4458 minutes, 44 secondsdaddy issues mommy issues a little bit I'm not going to you know I'm not making fun of it but it's kind of what we're dealing with here he had some angst towards his parents because he was sort
58:5358 minutes, 53 secondsof sheltered from the outside world because of their Rel religious life even though it's not funny but it's ironic cuz he also wrote the song The God That
59:0259 minutes, 2 secondsFailed referring to his mother's battle with cancer she was a Christian Scientist and so she wouldn't take any kind of treatment or medication so in
59:1059 minutes, 10 secondsmany ways he's angry at religion too for blinding his parents to you A life of healing and maybe live a little bit longer but this song is about his anger
59:1759 minutes, 17 secondstowards his parents quite frankly and it wasn't played live for the first time Jason until 2004 that was 16 years after it was written and then up to 20 2 it
59:2659 minutes, 26 secondswas only played 35 times lar says he never plays the double base of this live because it's just too difficult it's
59:3359 minutes, 33 secondsthat fast I just have to say some people aren't surprised by that here's the thing he's been killing it live lately even they've been releasing live videos
59:4159 minutes, 41 secondson their YouTube page and even the large haters as they say I'm not one of them never have been I don't understand I'm not a drummer so I don't hear the
59:4859 minutes, 48 secondsmistakes apparently he makes but uh but that being said even those naysayers have been saying for whatever reason the band has been killing live lars's
59:5659 minutes, 56 secondsDrummond's been like on point according to comments apparently they have practiced a lot more on this tour they've really as a band they've tighten
1:00:041 hour, 4 secondsthemselves even more than they already are here we go one of the lines here innocence torn for me without your shelter barred reality I'm living blindly I'm in Hell Without You cannot
1:00:131 hour, 13 secondscope without you two shocked at the world that I see innocent victim please rescue me this song is such I don't know how to describe it's almost I have a
1:00:211 hour, 21 secondsgreat relationship with our parents we both do and this isn't how I feel towards our folks but I get the anger that someone might feel being trapped in
1:00:301 hour, 30 secondsa worldview and then coming out of it and then saying you know whoa and that's how James felt when he wrote this song and that's the anger this is the
1:00:381 hour, 38 secondsangriest song on the album
1:00:421 hour, 42 seconds[Music]
1:01:211 hour, 1 minute, 21 secondshe
1:01:251 hour, 1 minute, 25 seconds[Music]
1:01:401 hour, 1 minute, 40 secondswhat do you see that thrash intro definitely could call back to more Thrasher days like the kill them all type of uh MH days who knows maybe the
1:01:491 hour, 1 minute, 49 secondssong has some throwback to that time and maybe you know even though this was recorded at the age of 25 425 maybe it
1:01:561 hour, 1 minute, 56 secondsis a a little bit of a younger James that did write it or at least bits and pieces but reading the lyrics pretty
1:02:031 hour, 2 minutes, 3 secondsscathing lyrics and pretty some deep wounds MH listen to his uh energy at the very beginning he's about to sing here
1:02:131 hour, 2 minutes, 13 secondsbut I'll read the lyrics Dear Mother dear father what is this hell you've put me through beever Deever day in day out live my life through you pushed onto me
1:02:211 hour, 2 minutes, 21 secondswhat's wrong or right hidden from this thing that they call life
1:02:261 hour, 2 minutes, 26 seconds[Music]
1:02:361 hour, 2 minutes, 36 secondsDear Mother dear father what is this hell you have put me through a de see stay in stay out in my life through
1:02:451 hour, 2 minutes, 45 secondsyou pushed on me what's wrong or right hitting from this
1:02:501 hour, 2 minutes, 50 seconds[Music]
1:02:531 hour, 2 minutes, 53 secondsthing you can hear that double Bas going going to yeah uh but really you hear James just I mean throughout this whole
1:03:001 hour, 3 minutesalbum the way that he air quote sings throughout this album there's just a true aggression and a true anger through
1:03:091 hour, 3 minutes, 9 secondsall of it captured something magical with his emotions on this album agreed the best part of the song My Favorite
1:03:171 hour, 3 minutes, 17 secondspart of the song I should say is this part here so it's right after Kirk's amazing guitar solo I just love the way his solo ends of course the whole solo
1:03:251 hour, 3 minutes, 25 secondsis great and then the way the way it kicks play the let's play the solo and the way kicks into James at the end
1:03:321 hour, 3 minutes, 32 seconds[Music]
1:03:421 hour, 3 minutes, 42 seconds[Music]
1:03:461 hour, 3 minutes, 46 seconds[Applause]
1:03:531 hour, 3 minutes, 53 seconds[Music]
1:04:121 hour, 4 minutes, 12 secondslove that transition
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1:04:191 hour, 4 minutes, 19 secondsthere without you can I without you too sh in the world that I
1:04:301 hour, 4 minutes, 30 secondsyeah he's not really holding any punches no that's the end of the album guys Jay we have a very difficult job here to do
1:04:371 hour, 4 minutes, 37 secondsyou might oh no oh boy J Jason coming in well wait there okay okay well there is one song on this album that I have never
1:04:461 hour, 4 minutes, 46 secondsreally liked really okay you know it might be the same one as me this is going to surprise a lot of people here's the thing I wonder if it's the same pick Jay and I have we have not talked about
1:04:541 hour, 4 minutes, 54 secondsthis beforehand now I will say this about the song one now it's not my pick but I was torn because one is suffers
1:05:031 hour, 5 minutes, 3 secondsfrom the single itis and I've talked about this in other episodes where it's played so much and I understand why it is but I have to look at this subjectively meaning if I heard this
1:05:111 hour, 5 minutes, 11 secondsalbum for the first time I had the same issue with enter samon when we did the Black album review if you haven't heard that go listen to it spoiler alert I
1:05:191 hour, 5 minutes, 19 secondsdidn't pick enter San as the worst it was another song but I'll let you listen to find out which one that was but enter San if I heard it for the first time with the rest of the album I wouldn't
1:05:271 hour, 5 minutes, 27 secondsthink it's the worst song and I have to do the same with this I only listen to one when I watch it live I never listen to it on my own I've known it so long I don't enjoy it unless I'm watching other
1:05:361 hour, 5 minutes, 36 secondsreactors listen to it or see it live just because I've played it out in my soul but I love the song I understand why it's so po it's a good song I get it
1:05:441 hour, 5 minutes, 44 secondsbut there is a song that yeah maybe like Jason since the beginning since I started listening this album as a 12-year-old I was like woo this kind of drags a little bit there something about
1:05:521 hour, 5 minutes, 52 secondsthis song That Just dragged they should tighten it maybe maybe if there's a 4-minute version of the song three and a half minute version of all the best
1:05:591 hour, 5 minutes, 59 secondsparts in Justice for All yes okay it is a song I have never been attracted to I never felt a connection now we Al should
1:06:071 hour, 6 minutes, 7 secondsalso say we don't pick the musicals I mean um instrumental to live is to die yeah yeah so what Jason's referring to sorry I stepped on you there is that in
1:06:161 hour, 6 minutes, 16 secondspast album reviews of this podcast the rule is all band members have to participate so they all do oh because
1:06:241 hour, 6 minutes, 24 secondsJames James the lyric he well no he plays guitar right I let's say I don't know let's just say Errol Smith for example theyve done some instrumental
1:06:321 hour, 6 minutes, 32 secondswork where Steven doesn't sing but he also doesn't play an instrument so he doesn't participate in the whole song so James all four members participate in di
1:06:391 hour, 6 minutes, 39 secondsZ whether it's spoken word and or yeah they're all playing an instrument so it definitely counts yeah okay I mean it's eligible to be picked but it wouldn't
1:06:461 hour, 6 minutes, 46 secondsit's not anywhere near my yeah justice for all it's got some great Parts obviously it's just almost 10 minutes long and it doesn't even it could be
1:06:551 hour, 6 minutes, 55 secondsthat and we still have a then we could have a really tight song it drags and it repeats and the parts of the repeat aren't great they're not exciting it's a little bit too slow slow it's slow it
1:07:051 hour, 7 minutes, 5 secondsdoes drag is a great word it does drag out it's bloated it's a bloated song
1:07:111 hour, 7 minutes, 11 secondsyeah it could use some trimming for sure we haven't agreed on a song for a while so this is good yeah it's funny it's one I've never liked yeah me too and it's
1:07:201 hour, 7 minutes, 20 secondstoo bad because the title of the album is Injustice for all yet the worst song
1:07:271 hour, 7 minutes, 27 secondsfor me is and justice for all all right well Jason this was an absolute blast but again we hope you enjoyed it we
1:07:351 hour, 7 minutes, 35 secondsaren't here to give you a huge Metallica news or um information per se but I think Jason and I did a good job expressing what we liked about the songs
1:07:421 hour, 7 minutes, 42 secondsand what we thought was the worst of this best album of metallic at least amongst many of the fan base in fact when we advertised that we're doing this
1:07:491 hour, 7 minutes, 49 secondsalbum review we already got comments saying hey this is my favorite album by Metallica so we're hoping uh we gave it some Justice oh I see what you did there
1:07:571 hour, 7 minutes, 57 secondsyou see what I did there remember in front of every Silver Lining there's a cloud and today for both of us it was n Justice FRA the title track thanks Jason
1:08:061 hour, 8 minutes, 6 secondsyou bet brother I have a good one Gator Productions
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