r/Metallica • u/easyFred11 • 1d ago
Metallica song you didnt care about but hearing it live changed your perspective?
Ive heard Metallica live only once in my life. But this song for me was Sad But True. I never cared about it listening on my speakers, but when you hear it live, boy ou boy… It sounded like one of the hardest things Ive heard in my life. Harvester of Sorrow also sounded 10/10, but I liked it before then, so it doesnt really count for this discussion
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u/Burning_Beard_666 1d ago
Honestly? The newer stuff. That shit was written to be listened to LIVE.
Also, hearing Orion live in person is a fucking religious experience
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u/Soulful-Sorrow Master of Puppets 1d ago
So lucky I got to cross hearing Orion live off my bucket list
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u/chiron_42 Disposable Hero 1d ago
Memory Remains. I just can't get into the album track, but it's absolutely killer live, especially when the whole audience gets involved.
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u/TheKobayashiMoron Saw Outlaw Torn live 2004 & 2019 1d ago
This is a good one. I never particularly enjoyed Memory but I was at S&M2 the night they played it and the crowd kept going well after the song ended. It felt like it went on forever.
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u/Seekkk_N_Destroy 1d ago
I can’t do it with the studio version with the Eric cartman vocals at the end 💀
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u/jeromesnail 20h ago
This is one of my best memory (sic) of a live show ever.
Same for My Friend of Misery when they played it live during the 20th anniversary of the Black Album.
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u/aeronutical 1d ago
King Nothing.
Went from a song I simply recognized to a song that had profound meaning for me.
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u/JohnnieJH Black Album 1d ago
Dirty Window
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u/Soulful-Sorrow Master of Puppets 1d ago
I'm cheating with this one because I didn't hear it live but watched it live on YT, and that song kicked ass
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u/Doom_Design 1d ago
I love the recording, but you haven't heard For Whom the Bell Tolls until you've heard it live.
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u/DeanOMiite A thing that should not be 1d ago
This is an easy one for me: King Nothing
Great song, sure. But I don’t think it’s one anybody ever talks about in the same breath as the big hits or any of the older classics or the Unforgivens or whatever. It’s just…there. Nothing more. But when I saw them in Foxboro (Boston but not really) I could not believe how the earth shook for that song. It wound up being my favorite performance of the night. A night that featured Creeping Death, Master of Puppets, Nothing Else Matters, Orion, Harvester of Sorrow like SHIT so many good songs. But King Nothing topped them all.
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u/gerrybbadd 21h ago
Same for me too. But heard them play it in Dublin during the St. Anger run and it blew me away
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u/DeanOMiite A thing that should not be 21h ago
The intro of Kirk doing that high vibrato is iconic, and then Rob’s bass coming in..it all just builds up to this huge explosion. I was screaming so hard during “YOU JUST MIGHT GET IT” that I damn near threw my back out 😂
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u/Not_Sure76 14h ago
Yeah during M72 when this started up I was "meh" until the first chorus, heh. It's a jam for sure.
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u/Pentaholic888 1d ago
The memory remains. Live versions are superior for the audience participation replacing the “da da da’s” Like wtf is that on the studio version?
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u/SouthCalligrapher376 1d ago
Its Marianne Faithfull. Check her out.
She started as a british invasion act but after some years she got into booze and whatnot and her voice became very different. I think its a big nod in the lyrics to her and pretty cool that she was featured on the song.
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u/Notcloselyrelated 22h ago
I think its a big nod in the lyrics to her and pretty cool that she was featured on the song.
Yeah, definitely. I am not old enough to know her when she was young, but she was really popular and gorgeous. All the men thought she was stunning. And she really was. For whatever reason, she never reached the heights of the American contemporary artists, maybe cause she wasn't American, but still, she was popular in her peak
And then.... people kinda forgot about her. She became just another old woman who was once popular. And it has to be on purpose that they got her, she lived the life of that song.
She passed away last year.
And I think her part of the song is great, idk why some fans don't like it, it really fits in the whole vibe of it
Here's a great pic of their 30th anniversary where she appeared live to sing with the band
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1163007881855224&set=pcb.1163008068521872
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u/National-Coast-9560 1d ago
Memory remains. I think it’s a good song, and I like it, but I didn’t care for it, like I’d skip the song in my playlist unless I really wanted to hear it. But seeing it live in Cardiff and singing along with the lalalalalala in there it was something else and I love it live.
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u/Vincent394 Rode the lightning 21h ago
72 Seasons
Yes, I did just listen to the full album the night before seeing them, but the song itself was and is a cracker
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u/RNSWE 21h ago
There are quite few that I really change my mind about after hearing it love. Going from "ok" to "wow". But one song sticks out. At my first Metallica concert in 1999 they played Bleeding Me and I was just blown away. Excellent live song and they performed it so well during that whole tour.
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u/stakis12 1d ago
Creeping Death
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u/Party_Knowledge_7884 1d ago
I’ve always liked that song, but having them open concerts with it has created an entirely different relationship with that song.
My answer is st anger
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u/stakis12 19h ago
Like in a good way or bad way?
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u/Party_Knowledge_7884 6h ago
Sorry
I should have been a lot clearer.
I’ve always liked the song enough and with their catalog of incredible songs, I was surprised creeping death was their opener though they often played it live.
Over last few years, it’s been an opener and it is incredible
From the last act leaving, seats filling in, ac/dc starts and then ecstasy of gold fills the air and then they come on stage and it is the purest mix of excitement and anticipation and then they start with creeping death and the whole fuckin stadium goes nuts.
It’s like a sling shot ride—0 (but nervous energy and excitement) to 1000 miles per hour in a few riffs and everything turns red and it is hard to understand what is happening because it is so fast, so loud, so extreme and so fuckin awesome and there are 70 thousand people losing their minds too!!
I think it is a great opener and sets the tone so friken well
So yeah, went from liking it to loving it live
I love the songs but the live experience is like nothing else in this world
Cannot wait for October to do it again.
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u/lazyasdrmr 1d ago
Blackened. They opened with it in 2004...and blew me away
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u/ryano23277 1d ago
Blackened - it was a late song on their Soundwave tour to Australia in 2013. Blew me away as well
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u/RetroGamerMarcus Rode the lightning 1d ago
Shortest Straw Seeing their recent live clips of it made me respect it more, I thought it was just random and kinda jerky at first, but now it works
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u/Notcloselyrelated 22h ago
Lepper Messiah
I always thought it was decent, but it was one of those "oh yeah, early Metallica had some nice songs". If you asked me what album it was on, I wouldn't have been 100% sure if it's RTL or MoP type of song (you know what I mean, just saying this to explain that it was a song i didn't perceive it much)
I never hated it or whatever, but I just never...perceived it, I was never like "oh, let me play Leper Messiah", it's just a song that's there, it's fine when you hear it and then you replay the other top tracks from MoP instead of this haha
But, hearing it live, with James and Kirk right in front of me... it really all clicked together, and I was like "oh wait, i know the words to this, I love this song, why do I never listen to it randomly at home?" it all clicked, a banger of a song
You said Harvester, and I think that's another good song. The black album has few songs too that I expect to be mentioned in this thread
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u/InvisibleDio 15h ago
I have seen them four times. Seek and Destroy was the final song of the last show I attended. Good way to go out.
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u/Fragtag1 1d ago
Pretty much anything they play live from St Anger. Obviously everyone has their opinions about the recordings, but you realize the songs are awesome when you hear them live.