This is a great EP. It has some excellent live versions of songs from the bands first 3 albums, with the band playing them in a more mature, polished way, and with James giving it all on the mike as always. It's great to hear Robert on the bass as well, a seriously underrated player, even in this band. It's especially funny to hear James forget the lyrics half way through 'Ride the Lightning' and make a joke of it and carry on. Great metal from when the band were at their peak.
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In my opinion this song is one of 4 or 5 songs that were truly amazing songs to come out of the Load/ReLoad recording sessions in the mid nineties from Metallica. If you like metallica's new Hard Rock style, hard riffs and awesome lyrical content then you should own this song.
I strongly urge to try out Metallica's new sound, its really heavy. My CD also had versions of Of Wolf and Man/4 Horsemen/Helpless on it Live from London in 1997....sweet!!
THEN buy Load and Reload. Being a Metallica fan rules, you get all the best music!
Yeah, I really liked this, despite the lack of a 'Big' name such as a Ministry, Rammstein or Nine Inch Nails.
You need an open mind, but there's a wide variety of styles covering all from Hardhouse & Techno up to full on Industrial Metal.
Metallica themselves have absoluteley zero to do with these tributes but, on the whole, the songs do the band justice.
I've also bought Vols. 2 & 4 off Amazon UK. Vol.3 is only available as a used & new from Amazon UK at a VERY dear price! The other Cd's are also good, and I've an idea that there might be a single album with the pick of the tracks on, but I'm not 100%.
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I've read some bad reviews about this cd and I think is time to say something about it. Firstly I have to say that I've been a Metallica fan for almost 20 years and I collect every single tribute to them that I can find, so I have a lot of Metallica tributes in my personal collection and this is one of the best. Why? Well, not only the music is very well done but it is also a fresh approach to the beautiful melodies that Metallica offer with their sound. I mean, who need's a tribute were the music is played exactly as the originals? The "Buddha Lounge - Renditions of Metallica" cd is a compilation of some of Metallica's best songs reinterpreted with oriental instruments, wich brings to light the awesome composition of the original songs and their ... Read More:
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Great album. I still listen to it on a regular basis and it is definitely one of the top thrash albums to purchase. This is the best place to start with the music for this band as not all the: production, musicianship or songwriting on the albums is of the same standard.
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Not a bad album, but for me their previous album Ride the Lightning is better, hence 3 stars. In terms of song writing (music more than lyrics) the songs are a little dull and not immediately accessible. Guitar solos are a little random in terms of notes and scales played. Distortion bass starts to get a little boring after hearing the first two Metallica albums, not really doing anything new here. Drums, well we all know Lars isn't the greatest technical drummer around (St Anger has pretty much demonstrated this), but he does the job more or less. Vocals and lyrics are the best thing about MoP, pretty good effort from James, who was still on top of his game here, and perhaps that's why people forgive the musical deficits and give it 5 stars.
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my fav metallica album by far, kill em all was good but i never saw the big deal with ride the lightning and the puppets album but this is summat else each track goes on for ages with different guitar riffs and some good lyrics, its also the kinda album you can bang your head to as it goes from thrash one min to a slower tempo the next, so it suits both the old and new fans of metallica and as for the production i didnt even notice until i read amazons review, plus i think it makes the snare drum sound better.
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