haha just a tidbit that's what got Tuomas interested in music, his parents or aunt took him to a Metallica/gun 'n roses concert when he was 15 and he was hooked. Even in "The Greatest show" Emppu does a little "Enter Sandman" riff LOL
James, the singer, wrote this as a tribute to his wife, as they were often apart because of extensive touring. The song, a ballad no less, is from 1991 and is one of their best and well-received crowd pleasers as well
VoicePlay is the one who has done Nothing Else Matters. In 6 weeks, they are nearly at 1 million. My car back then was a Triumph Spitfire -2 seat convertible and have been known to get 4 people in it to get to the beach or our PE class at the bowling alley.
I started listening to Metallica in 1983 with their first album Kill Em All. This is one of Metallica's softest songs. James Hetfield, who is the bands vocalist and rhythm guitarist, primary song writer, wrote this song. He was apprehensive about bringing this to the rest of the band. Elton John said this was one the greatest songs written. Metallica is primarily a metal band.
It always weirds me out, this is what Metallica looked like when I discovered them. 30 plus years later I’ll be attending my 31,32,33, and 34th Metallica show this year
Metallica is a great journey to follow down, though perhaps a fair word of warning: People often request Metallica's "One" music video but, I feel like you should save that till you're just a little more familiar with Metallica's work. The music video for One is one that tells a story, and some reactors often miss that because they're so blown away by the instrumentation and vocals. It's not going to take anywhere near as much prep as say, the Nightwish videos you've already done. However, all the same, that video goes over some people's heads sometimes and knowing how you've responded to music in other reactions, I know you'd want to appreciate it for what it was meant to be. Metallica's music generally has a subtext to it, Master of Puppets for example is about drug addiction and what that does to one's life.
Hi Debbie, I had the same. I knew Metallica, but never listen to this band. Since I discovered Nightwish, I listen sometimes to Metallica. But…honestly…it doesn’t touch me, unlike Nightwish and Floor. Metallica and Nightwish were last year playing on Pinkpop ( In The Netherlands). Singer James Hetfield was deeply impressed by Floor Jansen's singing skills and wanted to meet her afterwards. Floor thinks that's an honor, but......to be honest I'm more impressed with Floor than James Hetfield.
Metallica an absolutely wonderful band . If someone listens to them for the first time they will stay in their heart forever . Amazing guitar riffs , drums and overall sound🤘🤘🤘
The cover is actually done by a different a capella group called Voiceplay. Their bass singer is Geoff Castelucci (I probably butchered the spelling of his last name. Sorry Geoff).
Metallica lead singer James Hedfield had just started taking classical guitar lessons when he came up with the opening part to this song. The words started coming when he was on tour and in his hotel room talking to his girlfriend, who he missed 'something awful' in his words. However, as he kept writing he started thinking about Metallica's die-hard fans - and eventually about living for a higher power. About why one gets up every day and does the things they do. He said in an interview with Songfacts, "For some people, it's their mates or their kids or their careers, For others, it's service to their country. Regardless, it’s anything or anyone beyond self. After we recorded it and started playing it live, so many fans came up to us or wrote to us explaining how it connected with them in so many ways we could have never imagined. One person told us nothing else mattered but to get beyond his addiction to painkillers and how listening to the song kept inspiring him to keep battling it despite setbacks." James finished with this, “After a concert in New York, I was invited to visit a Hells Angel’s clubhouse. They showed me a video they'd put together of one of the fallen brothers and his life, and it was all set to 'Nothing Else Matters’ playing in the background. Wow. This means a lot more than me missing my girlfriend right? This is brotherhood. The army could use this song. Anybody who lives for something or someone other than themselves can use it in whatever fashion they decide.” (Songfacts, Wikipedia)
BTW - You gave me a big smile talking about the army green Pinto. It was my Dad's car that he usually just drove to games he refereed (soccer, softball, and basketball). The license plate was a vanity one reading "SOCCER". So, when he wasn't using it and I first got my license in 1975. it's what I drove around in. You took me right back to those days :) Thanks
Makes sense you got to see the original before seeing Voiceplay. I really like when Metallica collaborated with the San Francisco symphony and did the S&M album
I find it very hard to believe that anyone born in '70s and '80s has never heard this song, just like Smells like teen spirit by Nirvana. In '90s, these songs were heard from every television set. And even if you only listened to pop music, somewhere you would have heard Nothing Else Matters.
Metallica is probably in the top 3 inspirations for any modern rock/metal you will react to on your channel. It's a valuable journey to include on your channel. Noteable picks include: - Master Of Puppets - One - Fade To Black - Welcome Home (Sanitarium) - The Unforgiven - For Whom The Bell Tolls If you search RU-vid for Metallica Reactions, you'll see how these are very popular, and if you take them on, you'll learn why! 🤘👍
You have just now entered the greatest and most seductive rabbit hole in all music….Metallica’s. These guys are pure LEGENDS and TITANS within the music industry…..you have so many Metallica bangers ahead of you and their otherworldly instrumentation, lyrics, power and energy will blow you away like never before….their live performances are from another planet leaving most people in awe 🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘
My wife and I used this for our first dance at our wedding in 2009, it's still played to death in our house! l've seen Metallica 7 times, they never fail to amaze! 😉🤟
This is one of the few Metallica songs where James the lead singer plays the guitar solo. He wrote this as a tribute to his gf now his wife. Just shows you how much this song means to James.
When Tuomas was in the USA as an exchange student, his host family asked if would like to go to a Rock Concert... To see Metallica! Nightwish begins in his head. This song is a lot softer than their other stuff.
Debbie you've never heard of Metallica, they are are superb live, I've seen them. I love nothing else matters. Lovely to see your lovely bubbly reaction🇬🇧
Gamazda has a great piano rendition of this piece. Just saying…you love the piano? Check her and Jerrod Radnich out…you won’t be disappointed. Love the blue
That's a good recommendation. I worry a little about people trying to push her to do something like Damage Inc. right after this, and putting her off the band before she has a chance to really get into it.
This was the first Metallica song I ever learned on guitar. I started playing just a couple years after this album came out, so it was cool to be able to play something that so many people loved listening to. After buying this album, I made it a ritual every 2 weeks when I got paid at my part-time, teenager job, to go to the music store, and buy every other album in release order, and immediately listen from beginning to end.
@@JohnDoe-ex5hg first time I tried it fkd me up, cuz I was only a year in to playing. I didn't recognize it was not a standard rock beat. Once I caught on it was 3/3 I got it. But i stumbled through for a while till it dawned on me.
@@Frostrazor Metallica often play with different time signatures. Master of Puppets is an obvious one. Coming out of the chorus in Nothing Else Matters, the half bar catches people out, which is another thing they use a lot. Unforgiven has it.. But I like the 3/6 time signature. Especially with a heavy track. My friend was playing a bass riff he'd just made up in 3/6. I was sat on the kit. Told him to just keep playing "that", and improvised some drumming to go with it. Pulled a few grooves from Nothing Else Matters along the way. Can make a really emotive song. Which is exactly what James did 😁 His sold way better than ours 🤣
Metallica was a big influence for Tuomas of Nightwish. I’ve read where he was an exchange student in the US and went to a Metllica show in Nebraska (or somewhere in the midwest) and, as the story does, changed his life’s path.
Song is a great song and masterfully produced. But not representative of what Metallica usually played or became popular for. The song was composed with Michael Kamen (RIP) who is known for being a music composer for symphony-orchestra with many scores written for popular movies. Most people don't recognize that this song is written as a Waltz. Meaning its time-signature is 3/3. If you listen you can count it (ONE-two-three-ONE-two-three-ONE-two-three). Which is atypical for modern rock music usually written with "rock" beat of 4/4 (one-two-three-FOUR-one-two-three-FOUR). The bands you mentioned were/are quite good but truthfully a different sub-genre of rock. All are rock but Metallica is rooted in "metal". The two primary differences are composition, and lyrical inferences. 1 - Metal is usually composed the way classical music is composed - multiple movements - each one with it's own tempo and/or time signature or tone. For this reason, rock is usually more universally appreciated as it fits a 'corporate rock' or 'corporate radio' mainstream sound - it's why you hear rock music on radio stations a lot, but traditionally metal does not or did not get much air play. And thus Metal was usually associated with those who were 'outcast' because their music is outside what is mainstream and the norm. This of course leads many to believe metal fans were all freaks and messed up people. Not true. 2 - lyrics in Metal are similar to how they are in (good) hip-hop. (not house party music - but traditional impactful meaning). In fact, Metal and hip-hop are very similar. It's not wonder hip-hop borrows/samples metal beats and riffs. While traditional "rock" music is more like house-party music about partying, girls and having fun, Metal is often rooted in dark satire, deeply philosophical concepts of control and corruption, and often with double-meaning, hidden-meaning, very thought provoking revelations - once again, not unlike hip-hop with their "bars". Metal is "bars" with heavy use of guitars. Just like movies that use music to heighten or enhance the mood to make you feel what the actors are saying or doing, the guitars and drums in metal enhance the mood to make you feel the lyrics - it hammers home the intensity of what is being said, the same why the Star Wars score or Jaws score does when the intensity is rising. Because of this - contrary to (ignorant) belief, Metal fans are not all mentally disturbed freaks but instead usually some of the most kind and friendly people - and they are deeply emotional, feeling, and creative minded people because of the classical music influences that metal takes. In this regard - Eddie Munson (Stranger Things character) is the quintessential metal head of the 80s, and very much indicative of most of the friends I had in high school in 1985-1989. Most people who dont know or appreciate metal just think of it as "noise" and loud for the sake of loud - and a lot of it is - just like a lot of hip-hop rap is trash. But GOOD metal is as good hip-hop is - very moving, and very powerful, and not just a bunch of noise, but meant to leave you with a message. Metallica is and has been the greatest of metal bands for a long long time. No one has ever done it better.
Hi Debbie, As a fellow music lover who also listened to “Nothing Else Matters” only recently, I can only say better late than never. When you have the time, I would appreciate it if you could listen to another cover of this great song by an Indian rock band called Thaikkudam Bridge. The music video name on RU-vid is : Thaikkudam Bridge - Nothing Else Matters!This one is an even softer version of the original with the violin dominating the guitar. Best Wishes and Warm Regards!
another reason they're great like Nightwish is they don't let their fans down, want to see what a dedicated hard core band does during a downpour, check out "Metallica: Master of Puppets (Manchester, England-June 18, 2019) LOL
Metallica was around in the 80s, but they were considered thrash metal, not close to hair metal. Most of their stuff is heavier, but they really earned those views...a great band, great songs.
"I would imagine they have a lot more intense music...." Umm, yep. Add high energy to that, seeing them live probably wouldn't help your heart! They are another band that does not shy away from the hard subjects. Drug abuse, suicide, evils of warfare, execution of the wrongly convicted. The list is long. But, they do it in a nuanced and often thought provoking way. They also have something of a 'less is more' approach to many songs, where they let the music do the talking. You can be listening to a song for a minute before the first lyric. But it won't feel like it, and their lyrics are incredible. Like PATP, an understanding of the lyric to Fade to Black greatly enhances the song. You will of course get to Master of Puppets fairly early on in the rabbit hole. Very powerful lyric, hard hitting delivered with huge energy. For a visual blast check out either Enter Sandman or Creeping Death from the 1991 Monsters Of Rock show in Moscow. With a 30+ year back catalogue you're going to get a feast of suggestions. So, I'll leave it there. You're going to have (another) great musical journey. Oh, and I saw Def Leppard at the Cambridge (UK) Corn Exchange in 1979. My very first rock gig!
They were the biggest metal band in the world when they recorded this song. In a lot of ways this was a very metal song, because it was very against what the fans wanted, and because it meant enough to them to do it anyways. Their first four albums are all heavy metal gold, and this - their fifth album - was very divisive for their fans. I loved it, but it was the last one for me. Another great song of their's that you might enjoy is Fade To Black, from their second album. It's a little slower, with meaningful lyrics. Then check out Blackened from their fourth album, to really get a sense of the spectrum they operated in. Both songs are lyric heavy, so lyric videos are recommended.
correction - divisive to existing fan. it earned them fans 10-fold despite that divisiveness. And that is why they were....ARE the biggest metal band in the world. I'm not a huge fan of their music over the past 25 years either - but I won't take away that they are truly the biggest giant in the metal world. Their new stuff sounds better than anything they've released in the past 25 years.
One of my Metallica faves. Maybe listen to their "Mama Said" for a more country feel - could be a hit or a miss, but I love it. Crush your non-musical rock into metal! LOL! This and "Mama Said" were the songs I learned to play on guitar when I wanted to do more than keyboards and piano. The drummer, Lars Ulrich, also has the same birthday as me! I hope the wife of James (the singer) appreciated the lyrics!
You're just a hair older than me. You remind me of my best friend's older sister. She loved David Lee Roth but music was changing...getting deeper and darker. That's what sort of heralded in the 90s. I enjoyed this video.
If you are going to do more Metallica, there are 3 mandatory reactions, each with a specific video to use; Enter Sandman, live in Moscow (1.6 million in crowd); Master of Puppets, lyric video; One, official video. All go harder than this, which is a great song. All worth a watch. Rock on Granbrah! (Lionel Ritchie???)
I used to go to sleep to Metallica back in the day. The Unforgiven, Enter Sandman, and Creeping death(Live at Moscow-You wont believe your eyes!) are a few you should react to. 😊 You should check out their video for the song One. It's powerful. You might need tissues though.
as always a great reaction and if your still up for another one and I know you love Diana Ankudinova I have one for you it is called Closest Soul but you have to do the video with sand art it tells the story of her life it is haunting and beautiful and you will need the CC for it but it will make you cry I am sure it is dedicated to her now family and her adopted mother. I hope if not tonight then soon for you to do a reaction to it.
One of Metallica's mellowest songs. I suggested a song from them a while back called One. It starts out mellow but gets pretty intense by the end...maybe that would be a good next step for you, to ease you into their more intense songs. They do have more mellow songs too, by the way. I'm pretty sure you're already had a bunch of recommendations in the comments, so I won't leave one here. After you get used to some of Metallica's heavier tunes, maybe you can move on to some Megadeth, Overkill, Testament or maybe even some Slayer. Cheers!
You've probably opened big rabbit hole now Alice. The guys in Metallica are like family to us metalheads. They've been in our lives since 1981. Watch the video VH1 Behind The Music on Metallica. The full version is only like 45 minutes. You will appreciate them even more. They picked up bassist Robert Trujillo a few years back. Rob is also family because he goes back to the 80s with the bands Suicidal Tendencies and Infectious Grooves. Yeah... Metallica of any era is required listening.
You have a lot of Metallica to react about. Since you started with Nothing Else Matters, stay with the Black Album. Enter Sandman, Unforgiven, Sad But True, Wherever I May Roam, My Friend of Misery, Of Wolf and Man, The God That Failed, Don't Tread on Me, Struggle Within, Holier Than Thou and Through the Never
You should check out a band called LILIAC . They do amazing covers ( like Metallica''s Master of puppets ) and awesome originals as well, you won't be disappointed !
One of my favorite Metallica songs. If you like it too you must look this song from Metallica's S&M album, Metallica and Symphony Orchester, i'm 100% sure you love this version if you like this song. Trust me! I like all your reactions i've seen! Specially your Nightwish reactions. Greetings to you from Vienna! Bye!
Metallica is an incredible band ! I grown up with it and some more 80's bands like Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, AD/DC, DIO, .... Please ! dive in it ;) !
Ooof..... only bon Jovi and twisted sister were "hair bands"...... 80's metallica was Thrash metal..... this song came on what many original metallica fans consider their "sell out" album. Songs on this album are generally slower, less complex, simpler, than their older stuff. There were a few notable exceptions, like don't tread on me, and the God that failed. This album was their attempt to get a non metal audience, and radio play...( metal got zero radio play). It succeeded. It was their biggest selling album...... and my least favorite of their first 5 albums...... and after this, they doubled down, and created IN MY OPINION, nothing but garbage......
Metallica is the most successful metal band in the world, and for that very reason it has the most haters. Don't be surprised if you see some around here.
Metal, Thrash, fine, it has to bang. Metal will never die, that's a good Metallica song, but I think I'll stay true to Sodom, Kreator and Destruction💥👌👍🤘😘
It's not Home Free or PTX that covered this song, it's VoicePlay, I don't listen to them or PTX because both groups are missing something integral that Home Free has in spades. As for covers of this song....far as I am concerned Metallica's the best to listen to and that's where I leave it. Sometimes the original artists are the absolute best.
