Nice sift @enoch!

I discovered these guys a while ago on YT also. I don't usually care about watching reaction / review videos, but these guys are great. They are so enthusiastic and honest that it is almost like hearing the songs again for the first time myself.

Their reactions to Holy Wars (Megadeth), Master of Puppets, and One (both Metallica) are awesome for the thrash lover in me. And for other stuff, their vids for Killing in the Name (RATM), Digital Bath (Deftones), and Lateralus (Tool) are also all great.

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If you ask almost any metal fan (and even most open minded music fans), they will acknowledge that Master Of Puppets is a classic album of it's genre that still sounds as good today as it did when it came out.

Just wondering if anyone here feels that there are any other albums/songs of that era (preferably featured in the video) that still hold up in the same way, because I'm struggling to think of any.

And not ironic kitsch either... actual good music that if it was released today would still be regarded as good.

Maybe "graceland" or "Licenced to Ill"?

Also Charles Dance: being evil since ages ago!

>> ^blingaway:

No room for artist interpretation?
The thing with down-picking is it limits the speed at which one can play and it's very fatiguing in the long run. It's easier for a beginner to down-pick, and it looks cool, but it's a bad habit to cultivate if one wants to develop real technical proficiency.
Don't get me wrong, good alternate picking is important, but you seem to think that people down-pick because it's easier than alternate picking. It's actually not, especially if you want to play a fast song. Down-picking is a valid technique that produces a distinctly different sound than alternate picking. It's especially common in metal and punk. Master of Puppets by Metallica is a really good example of this. Almost the entire rhythm section of the song is down picked. Try playing along to it one day (or worse, a live version where it's even faster). I guarantee your picking forearm will ache by the time you get to the acoustic bit!

As for artist interpretation, if you don't like that kinda music, or even the down picking sound, that's fine, but the people doing it are not doing through lack of technical proficiency.
Full disclosure: I've been playing guitar for nearly 20 years. I don't claim to be a virtuoso, but I started out playing a lot of metal, so I know this stuff.

heheheh yeah, I got that part. (The previous was mostly a self-deprecating remark.)
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If I may : the dude was playing Master of Puppets ... :-D
>> ^jonny:

Soooo many good bassists. Shameful of me to drop a few names like that and exclude others. Of course, it is my heaven, so I get to pick.
In reply to this comment by toferyu:
Cliff might drop by if he feels like it...
>> ^jonny:
When I get to heaven, Les Claypool will be jamming with Victor Wooten and Phil Lesh. Jaco Pastorius might be allowed to sit in on occasion.

If I may : the dude was playing Master of Puppets ... :-D
>> ^jonny:

Soooo many good bassists. Shameful of me to drop a few names like that and exclude others. Of course, it is my heaven, so I get to pick.
In reply to this comment by toferyu:
Cliff might drop by if he feels like it...
>> ^jonny:
When I get to heaven, Les Claypool will be jamming with Victor Wooten and Phil Lesh. Jaco Pastorius might be allowed to sit in on occasion.

Soooo many good bassists. Shameful of me to drop a few names like that and exclude others. Of course, it is my heaven, so I get to pick.
In reply to this comment by toferyu:
Cliff might drop by if he feels like it...
>> ^jonny:

When I get to heaven, Les Claypool will be jamming with Victor Wooten and Phil Lesh. Jaco Pastorius might be allowed to sit in on occasion.

Cliff might drop by if he feels like it...
>> ^jonny:

When I get to heaven, Les Claypool will be jamming with Victor Wooten and Phil Lesh. Jaco Pastorius might be allowed to sit in on occasion.

Ah...Metallica - When They Were Good. The Black was in my opinion 'ok' after that, they lost it...but Master of Puppets is awesome, so awesome, that I bought it on CD hehe

(I had a tape cassette before that) shut up, I'm not that old!

Metallica "Master of Puppets"

I am very strongly against the rage against the machine "riff" on this list. On the basis of the riff itself it's garbage. I am not familiar with the track, so maybe it is totally rockin'- but it's not rockin because of a so-cool-best-ever-omg-killer guitar riff. One chord and a wah-wah pedal do NOT a "riff" make.

That having been said, I would also scrap Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson, and Lynyrd Skynyryr from the list. Mr. I have too many ys in my name is a very very catchy riff, but DAMMIT that's not rock- it's country!!!

... what's that? Oh this isn't just for rock?

Shit, well that opens up a whole new bag of cats now doesn't it?

What about
Mason Williams - Classical Gas
Django Reinhardt - Minor Swing
Andres Segovia - "Asturias"

Or even programmed guitar- how about Ministry - TV II, or Nitzer Ebb - Murderous?

OK, so nobody will ever pick those, I agree. I'm just saying, if you want to have a list, you've got to pare it down SOMEHOW. Just rock, or just metal, or something.

But whatever, as was pointed out, nobody will ever agree with a list, and while there are GLARING deficiencies with this one (in my opinion), my strongest beef with with rage against the machine. That isn't a riff. It's a chord and a wah pedal. argh.

Other than that, the list needs Metallica (Enter Sandman or Master of Puppets), probably at least one more beatles (Come Together, or birthday), some CCR (Suzy Q), and some floyd (Another Brick in the Wall, the trippy trippy floaty guitar riff at the beginning of shine on you crazy diamond, money, any of a dozen more), and probably at least one doors and one santana track.

Then change the Jimi to Voodoo Chile (slight return), and AC/DC to highway to hell (or just get rid of ACDC altogether) and we'll have a much better list.

OK!

ok, the list is about half right in my opinion. The first thing that struck me was the shameless lack of metal songs. Come on, you have Green Day and Smashing Pumpkins but no Metallica, Motorhead or Slayer? Whats up with that? You could do a top 20 list on those three alone.
Here's a few:
Slayer- Raining Blood
Metallica- Master of Puppets
Van Halen- Unchained(now thats a cool riff)
Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath(the darkest riff ever written and root to all metal. I swear that riff envokes the devil himself. Iron Mans cool but...)
AC/DC- I think Highway to Hell is a beter riff
Motorhead- Ace of Spades(bass riff)
Judas Priest- Electric Eye
Rush-YYZ or Limelight
Ted Nugent- Cat Scratch Fever of Stranglehold
Boston-Piece of Mind
Doobie Brothers- China Groove
Kanasas- Carry On....
I also agree with the Cream and Jethro Tull additions as well as Dire Straits, Deep Purple(though Highway Star is better), GnR, Layla, RATM, Skynard, Stones and Zep(and a dozen other Zep songs) from the original list. But I feel Stairway To Heaven is a tired worn out, overrated, boring song. GASP! There I said it, now let the angry posts begin!

Erm... Master of Puppets was written by Metallica... what's this stuff about Holocaust writing it? The credits for Master of Puppets are: "Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Cliff Burton".

Holocaust covered Metallica, Metallica did not cover Holocaust.

I hate non factual crud being spread around the internet as fact

Good thing they didn't sell well back then, or now we'd have to endure "Master of Puppets, Too..."