Bonus Song Thursday - Metallica "Hero of the Day"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! Brian and Bill continue talk about Metallica, jumping 10 years ahead from 1986's Master of Puppets to "Hero of the Day" from 1996's Load. We discuss the evolution in the band's sound and image, how their alternative leaning contemporaries influenced their sound (maybe bringing in some Bowie influence?), and more about Lars' heavy kick drum. Also, we read a bunch of listener emails, first tackling some singers who reference a person/character in multiple songs, then we finally get an answer to what the heck dream pop is, and then blogger Jeff Fiedler finally clues us in to what the heck was going on with Queen and Elektra Records! Additionally, we read an open letter from one listener to all the others, that makes Jared my "Hero of the Day."

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0:00.0	The window Hello, welcome to light the way back home.
0:25.6	Like that homes, no matter where they've gone.
0:44.6	Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast bonus song Thursday. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian.
0:49.6	What were we just listening to right there, Brian? That was Hero of the Day by Metallica.
0:55.0	And they kind of sound a little like a cross between crash test dummies and weird owl.
0:56.9	Wow.
0:59.8	I never thought of that comparison right there before. Think about it, though.
1:00.9	It sounds a little like it.
1:02.5	Yeah, it does.
1:03.2	That was off of 1996's load.
1:07.2	Ooh.
1:08.4	So if you never listen to the podcast before, what we do here every week is take a different
1:12.7	album of music, talk about what makes it great, and then we follow it up with another episode
1:17.3	of bonus song Thursday, where we kind of do the same thing we do on the other episode,
1:22.7	but with a single song.
1:24.0	Yeah, that sounds good.
1:25.6	The other day we had Doug Robertson, aka the weird teacher,
1:31.2	who has, he's written a couple of books on teaching, and he has a very active Twitter at the
1:36.7	weird teacher. And we were talking about Metallica's master of puppets. Yes, yes. So now we're
1:43.6	following up with kind of like a 10 years later, actually.
1:46.8	Yeah, what happened?
1:47.9	They became commercial giants.
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