{"id":470,"date":"2007-12-11T23:47:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T03:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=470"},"modified":"2007-12-11T23:47:56","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T03:47:56","slug":"metallica-master-of-puppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/metallica-master-of-puppets\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallica &#8212; Master of Puppets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/metallicamasterpuppets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-798\" title=\"Metallica -- Master of Puppets\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/metallicamasterpuppets.jpg\" alt=\"Metallica -- Master of Puppets\" width=\"500\" height=\"1500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Metallica<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Master of Puppets<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1986<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 10<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1986 &#8211; Probably when I worked at Mother&#8217;s Records<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The great one from the great ones. Some, people smarter than me that is, consider this the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metallica\" target=\"_blank\">greatest heavy metal album of all time<\/a>. I wouldn&#8217;t argue with that.<\/p>\n<p>I was listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/2007\/04\/10\/rodrigo-y-gabriela-rodrigo-y-gabriela\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rodrigo y Gabriela<\/a>&#8216;s version of Metallica&#8217;s &#8220;Orion&#8221; this Saturday and decided I should play the original, which ended up turning into a Metallica history lesson for my son Mars. Then, coincidentally on Sunday I got another, and unexpected, dose of <em>Master of Puppets<\/em>. We were at our kids&#8217; music recital where most of the tunes were seasonally-correct holiday stuff. But then this one middle-school-age-looking youngster came up to play the title track, &#8220;Master of Puppets.&#8221; He was even wearing the t-shirt. He has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/2007\/08\/26\/klarcnova-klarcnova\/\" target=\"_blank\">same cool teacher<\/a> as my kids, and his teacher accompanied him on bass. There is nothing simple about this music. It&#8217;s intense in every way, but the kid did a solid job getting pretty far through the song then stopped somewhat abruptly before the pretty bridge and solos.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking around the room at the faces of the parents and relatives wondering if anyone else in the room was getting it. As great as this music is, it&#8217;s not for everyone. And even for metal aficionados it takes some adaptation just to digest what&#8217;s going on. I&#8217;ve played &#8220;Master&#8221; more than you can imagine and I was still surprised how fast, intense and sophisticated it is when I spun it again this week. I was talking to the kids&#8217; teacher yesterday and as he put it, &#8220;it still holds up.&#8221; Indeed. Side one alone qualifies it as a &#8220;10&#8221; in my book.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out:<br \/>\n&#8220;Battery&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Master of Puppets&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The Thing That Should Not Be&#8221; (for you fans of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H._P._Lovecraft\" target=\"_blank\">H.P. Lovecraft<\/a>)<br \/>\n&#8220;Welcome Home (Sanitarium)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also worth mentioning about &#8220;Master&#8221; is that it was the last album with bassist Cliff Burton. He would die in a bus accident while on tour. OK, everybody knows that. But do you know this? Tipper Gore&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parents_Music_Resource_Center\" target=\"_blank\">PMRC<\/a> had it in for the title tack, which they apparently said was about &#8220;getting kids hooked on drugs.&#8221; Any moron could read the lyric sheet and see that the song was about the nightmare of drug addiction. I remember reading an interview with James Hetfield some time after the flare up. He might have even had to testify at a Senate hearing, can&#8217;t remember for sure. When he was asked about the whole thing he just said &#8220;people are going to believe what they want.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t need to explain anything.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Smashing through boundaries<br \/>\nLunacy has found me<br \/>\nCannot stop the Battery!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lemme see those horns people!<\/p>\n<p>More at Wikipedia:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metallica\">Metallica<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Master_of_Puppets\">Master of Puppets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Metallica Title: Master of Puppets Year: 1986 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 10 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1986 &#8211; Probably when I worked at Mother&#8217;s Records Keeper: Yes The great one from the great ones. Some, people smarter than me that is, consider this the greatest heavy metal album of all time. 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