This song is an awesome example of how the melody also supports the story told. The master is talking in the beginning (the drug). The slow part in the middle is the puppet (drug addict) getting high and delirious-like. Then the puppet comes out of the high, looking for another high and is angry at the master. Then the master ends it again. It’s just put together so well.
I was about to make the same comment. I love the details and at the end as it's crashing even the guitar solo sounds chaotic as if spitting out of control
“Damn this shit was good!” I think a lot of us said those same words the first time we heard Metallica. Good stuff guys. Definitely check out the music video for “One.”
Metallica's 'Master of Puppets' is First Metal Album Added to Library of Congress in the 2015 registry, which means it was determined by the federal government to be preserved for all time because of its historical significance. Thrash Metal, became a reaction against the pop metal of the early 1980s, aiming to renew metal by emphasizing speed and aggression. Guitarist James Hetfield’s galloping power chords, Lars Ulrich’s machine-gun drumming, and lead guitarist Kirk Hammet’s blinding tapped leads - is as rousing an example of the sub-genre as one could find and the technical proficiency is astonishing, the Library of Congress wrote in an announcement about the album in the 2015 registry.
There are many better bands technically but Metallica is great at making soulful, easy to understand, approachable and very engaging songs. They're not virtuosos but they're are amazing at making music people relate to.
@@juampi99990 They're also really good at lyrics, Metallica's lyrics are always impactful. And the riffs, very good riffs in general, and song structure.
@@scottlaughlin9897 Hammet has never considered himself virtuoso so no. Satriani is, most definitely, but Hammet, in my opinion, is not. Hetfield and Mustaine, for example, got to their levels on their own: they're self-taught.
I’m a white guy in my early 50’s. This was my jam in high school. It’s awesome you guys are digging on it. I’m really into the country blues and Delta blues from the 30’s and 40’s. It’s no secret that black people have been driving American music and culture forever. I have great hopes that you guys dig back deeper to some of the best American musicians ever like Robert Johnson, Son House, Charley Patton or even Memphis Minnie. Those old blues started all of this. In fact there was a guy named Kokomo Arnold who sang a song called the twelves back in the 40’s that is clearly rap. Well done fellas. Keep em coming.
The gent on the left was just jamming. The gent in the middle had an analyzing look. The gent on bottom was like what the hell you got me listening to?!
That album was meant to be played as a whole, and in the order it is presented on the album. Every song on the album can stand by itself, but they make a lot more sense as a unit and played in order. At the time, in the mid-80s, Metallica was far from the ABSOLUTE BEAST they've become. They really rebelled against the status quo and "doing what you're supposed to do" in the music industry. They didn't really believe in doing singles or music videos. Their first video was for the song 'One' on their next album, '...And Justice For All.' The album 'Master of Puppets' didn't chart very high because Metallica was still kinda underground. A couple of months after the release of the album, on the Master of Puppets Tour, bassist Cliff Burton was killed when the band's tour bus wrecked in Sweden. That's a story in itself. Metallica came back to the U.S. and had the funeral for Cliff Burton. They also had conversations with Cliff's father, Ray Burton, about whether they should continue as a band without Cliff and with some bassist who could never fill his gigantic shoes. They drank for weeks on end, and the bassist auditions were rather brutal. They finally selected Jason Newsted and proceeded to be the opening act on tour with Ozzy Osborne. They made a name for themselves, and Ozzy was quoted as saying, "They gave me a run for my money every night." Metallica still couldn't move up the charts as they were overwhelmingly occupied by Pop, Hair-Metal, Country, and "Hard" Rock band's. Frankly, most people in the 1980s just weren't ready for their unique kind of music. Also, Metallica was only played on a handful of radio stations and had no music videos due to their disdain for MTV. It all changed for them after releasing their 4th album, making a music video, and blowing all the other bands off the stage as an opening act during the 1988 Monsters of Rock Tour. Today, the album 'Master of Puppets' has its own place in The Library of Congress. Metallica became a household name after releasing their 5th album 'Metallica', more commonly known as 'The Black Album'. All current members of Metallica, plus Jason Newsted and Ray Burton, father of Cliff Burton, are members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Megadeth and Pantera should definitely be in the Top 5 of some of those lists mentioned. AC/DC and Guns N Rose's were never Heavy Metal bands. Every song on Metallica's first five albums is great. Check them out. The albums are 'Kill 'Em All', 'Ride The Lightning', 'Master Of Puppets', '...And Justice For All', and 'Metallica'. Enjoy. Slayer is pretty awesome as well!!!!
This song has about 4 movements, and if you listened to them separately you would think no way are these from the same song. But the band did an awesome job of making all these interesting pieces into one cohesive song. And they weren't totally reliant on the guitar work or melody to achieve that task. Drums and bass were used very creatively to create segues tying everything together.
Master of Puppets is great, but, this song has exactly one part that is even marginally different from the rest of it. And if you claim you can hear the bass in a song from a band with two distorted guitars, you are simply lying. You can play this song on the finest, clearest, sharpest sound system in the world and you will not be able to pick out the bass in 99% of the runtime in 99% of metal songs.
My sister and I would have house parties when our parents went out of town. My friends were all skaters, rockers, punkers, and metal heads and my sister's were all hip hop heads. I had a pretty eclectic music collection, but every party would have some black dudes excitedly skipping past all of my hip hop and going straight for Metallica.
I always appreciate people checking out metal. It's the most misunderstood genre. There are so many sub genres with in it, that it's vast like an ocean. Fir real. There are so many different sounds, and styles that the musical artistry really comes through. When people ask me for suggestions, I always want them to show me what they listen to first so I can find something I feel like will make the best impression, and then slowly work them through some sub genres to see where their tastes develop. Even when you find a list of sub genres, there are usually sub genres with that category too. 😂 I feel like there is something for everyone. You just need to find it.
James Hetfield in his prime was one hell of a song writer. The lyrics and structure of this song are so beyond anything of that time period. IMO it's not just the greatest metal song ever constructed, it's one of the greatest songs ever created.
Wild to believe this song is over 35 years old. and a few years ago became mega popular with the show Stranger Things. good to see em still rockin too.
1986, thrash metal was not yet "palatable" to the masses, so 'singles' from more hardcore bands weren't really a thing. One reason being, the songs were a bit longer and the bands didn't believe in chopping them up into "radio edits" as that would ruin the composition. Quiet Riot opened the door for getting Heavy Metal to the mainstream in 1983 with their cover of Slade's "Cum On Feel The Noize", but that was very melodic, with fairly lighthearted lyrics and relatable...just a step or two beyond Hard Rock. Metallica's music at that time was still a few miles down the road to what people were accustomed to. When they released the single "One" in 1988, the video received heavy airplay on MTV and gained the band a lot of exposure. By the time the Black Album came out in1991 , their music had evolved, and more people were familiar with their name. Ergo, they became marketable on the radio.
Master of Puppets came out in my senior year of high school. It is, in my opinion, the quintessential Metallica album and sound. I had already been a huge fan of theirs from all the way back in 1981 when they had a demo tape that made it's rounds called 'No Life Til Leather'. This band defined my youth. I play the guitar and I was compelled to learn every song they wrote and played in several bands covering their material. Best metal band of all time in my opinion.
The metal genre is so big you cant figure it out in a lifetime but in 1976(i was 5yo) my mom bought me Rainbow-Rising album and since that day i was hooked. It is unreal how much different metal there is.
good vid y'all, this is my fave album of all time and it has zero skips, it's timeless, it's 38 yrs old and still holds up, I doubt it will never feel "dated" even to future generations 🤘🏻
Most people think heavy metal/hard rock is just noise. Most really do have a message in there somewhere. The Unforgiven is another one. Ozzy has songs with good messages as well.
I’ve always said the beginning of this song is about the “chase” of the drug. The middle melodic part is the euphoria from the “high” and back to the aggressive end is the “chase” again.
Phenom nailed it! That lyrical section is the “high ecstasy” on drugs- until it crashes to the brutal addiction part. Singer James Hetfield was in his teens when he wrote this.
Great reaction!!! I gotta say, being a teen in the 80's, at least for me, was pretty special as i was one of those kids who listened to everything. I could go from listening to the entire Master of Puppets cassette (back then) to Public Enemys My Uzi Weighs a Ton, to something from Bob Marley, then some Redbone (Lolly Vegas) and then a little classic rock thrown in lol. Truly enjoyed watching this and appreciate yous 💪🏽🎸✌🏽 I suggest Fade to Black and Hells Bells in the future. Hells Bells is my walk up song in pool league lol 💪🏽🎱
This song is a masterpiece. Everything about this song is brilliant. Musically, lyrically. It’s my favorite Metallica song and honestly one of my favorite songs of all time and I’m 54 years old. I’ve listened to a lot of music.
As an old head here, my favorite from this album is disposable heroes. You will be absolutely blown away. If you chase down a live video PLEASE do Creeping Death live in Moscow ❤ I really enjoyed your reaction and thoughts on this one and will be subscribing and hoping for more metal 😊 Edit: I'm already subscribed so I'll celebrate my good choices 😅
Some people think Metal is just noise,and not all metal is the same.This is top tier! Just like a lot of people think rap and hip hop is just a bunch of cursing,and some may be.However,we know there is a lot of really clever,amazing messages in those genres as well.There is a Christian artist I think you guys would really vibe with,his name is Toby Mac.Check out his song featuring Kirk Franin and Mandisa called,I Don't Wanna Gain the Whole World and Lose My Soul.The video with it is great!
Y'all definitely want to pay attention to the lyrics because yeah, there are profound messages. I would suggest you try one or more of these: One __ Creeping Death __ Fade to Black __ The Four Horsemen __ Seek & Destroy __ For Whom the Bell Tolls __ Welcome Home (Sanitarium)....and I left many more off of this list. But I'm sure the others have likely included.
Honestly, I think people outside of metal listeners don't realize there are different genres INSIDE metal. Outside metal fans, bands like AC/DC and Ozzy Osborne are considered metal, but to actual metal heads who've been listening all our lives, we don't really consider them metal; we consider them hard rock. I went to an Ozzy concert when I was 13 just to see Metallica, who was their warmup, and when they left the stage I went to the last row and smoked weed with someone I'd never met while Ozzy did his thing. haha. My older sister was totally into it, fighting her way to the front of the stage by flashing her boobs. I've listened to her brag about going to the "bark at the moon" concert for the last 3.5 decades while I rolled my eyes. I don't think she realizes, to this day, that we actually saw Cliff Burton play live before he was killed. Makes me sad. I'm also traumatized remembering her boob flashing. She was a stellar example for her little sister. Fortunately, the only thing I ever did to get to the front of any stage was punch someone. LOL
One of the greatest songs ever on one of the best albums ever too!! Thank you for the great reaction. It was like I was hearing the song for the first time!! Love it!
Dude to the left is getting it the whole time, middle dudes just like,...I totally understand what this song is about and I can respect what it's about, young dudes just like, I'm just here....
It's crazy. I discovered this album in 1987 and it was the same time I discovered Criminal Minded so I was a metal head and a hip-hop head and both genres were just a small collection of kids in high school who were into it. Everyone else thought it was just awful noise. Seeing people love it like this all these years later is so satisfying. This album (cassette!) needs to be played over and over and over again at full blast with a broom in your hands as a guitar headbanging in your room to fully enjoy it. Cool reaciton.
I saw this tour in 1986. Metallica opened for Ozzy and it was an absolute life changer. I still have the shirts and the ticket stub. I've heard this record a million times and in my opinion it is still the standard by which any other metal record must be measured.
I was 11 when i bought this album and I did´nt know anything really on music.. Bought the album only on the looks of the cover because I thought it looked cool. Today I´m 48 and still a total metal-head. Metallica saved me from my older brothers shitty taste in music, okey he beat me up a little for playing Master of Puppets VERY loud in my room but hey, it was worth it.. This summer in June i will see Metallica live in Denmark for my 23rd and 24th time on their M72-tour🤘😎👊
yo - i've said this on many a hip-hop fan reactor - Heavy Metal and Hip-Hop are VERY similar. *(great) Metal is composed like classical music - in that it has several movements in a single track, it changes tempo, breaks, time signatures, etc. The lyrics like good hip-hop usually has a very powerful message and is profoundly spit - the instruments are used the way movie music is - the music score that enhances the mood of the viewer. Jaws for instance would not be as intense without that powerfully haunting music building up, Game of Thrones, or Star Wars would not feel as epic without the blaring horns and bravado music. So the guitars are used to enhance the mood of the song -- make the listener feel more intensely the way the author/singer is evoking just like we are brought to emotion by the music in a movie that enhances its intensity. Metal is rock as hardcore rap is R&B/hip-hop. Where as most "rock" music is about partying, drinking, getting laid, etc, so too is a lot of rap, but Metal is where lyricism meets progressive musical composition. Then Metallica has some of the greatest musicians of all time all playing together, and we get Masters of Puppets - largely considered the greatest heavy metal album of all time. The reason they only had "one single" is because back then metal music only played on underground radio stations. It was not mainstream. They didn't have music videos, there was no internet to download streamed songs or watch on RU-vid - the only time you heard it was because you older brother or uncle shared it with you. Metallica really broke out with popularity when they toured with Van Halen on the Monsters of Rock tour - and out of 5 bands, Metallica played 2nd! But they killed it every night, and by the next year they were headlining everything.
i am so fortunate to live in the time of Metallica, i remember in 1983 i bought the album Kill em All, it was so heavy and fast for the times, it was WIDELY consider "too fast and too heavy and will never be the norm" i shelfed it, thinking it was just too heavy for my musical taste at the time which was like Kiss, Ozzy, Iron Maiden, Priest, Dio, Dokken, Ratt, Billy Squire, VH....etc. NONE of those bands were even remotely close to as fast and heavy as metallica at the time. In 84/85 they came out with Ride the Lightning and i got tickets to see them OPEN UP FOR, armored saint and WASP....they literally blew me away, i was 3 ft from Cliff the entire show, it was in a small club. the stage was literally 4 foot off the ground....you could reach out and touch them they were so close. they blew me away, they were so damn good live and so fast, id never felt like that before from Metal except Black Sabbath. then, a year later, i go see Ozzy Ultimate Sin tour and Metallica opened for Ozzy on Master of Puppets. i met the whole damn band at a food court at the Hyatt Regioncy hotel cause tehy were still not HUGE rock stars at the time. This was July of 86....2 months later, Cliff was killed in Sweden in a bus accident. my one huge claim to fame is i talked to him for about 3 minutes at the food court, and the rest of metallica. To this day i play guitar because of Tony Iommi from Sabbath and Randy Rhoads with Ozzy, but also because of James and Kirk and the energy they provide with their music. RIP Cliff Burton, gone but never forgotten
As a fifty year old lifelong metalhead, I have to concur that Guns 'n Roses is NOT a metal band. Not in my book, at least. AC/DC absolutely is - In my book. My book may not be your book. The entire Master of Puppets album is a total masterpiece.
