Episode 3 - Ride The Lightning

METAL UP YOUR PODCAST - All Things Metallica

Clint Wells

Clint Wells, Ethan Luck, Heavy Metal, Arts, Nashville, Metal Up Your Podcast, Metal, Music, Society & Culture, Thrash Metal, Metallica

4.9 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we tackle Clint's favorite Metallica record, 'Ride The Lightning.' We discuss the evolution of their songwriting, Cliff's influence, whether or not Creeping Death is the best song on the record, the wonderful insanity of "The Call Of Ktulu," can a thrash band write a ballad, a track by track breakdown of the record and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0	What really gets my dick hard is...
0:03.0	So fucking what? So fucking what?
0:26.3	Welcome to Metal Up Your Podcast, episode three.
0:30.6	I'm Ethan Luck.
0:31.5	And I'm Clint Wells.
0:32.6	And we're back.
0:33.4	We hope you enjoyed episode one, our introduction.
0:35.8	I'd been kind of boring for you, but we wanted to let you know, let you know who we are and all that good stuff.
0:39.3	In episode two, of course, was kill them all.
0:41.5	We had a blast making that one.
0:42.7	So fun.
0:43.4	Oh, yeah, so fun.
0:44.3	And fortunately for Clint, it's time for Ride the Lightning.
0:49.2	It's my favorite one.
0:50.4	This is your time to shine.
0:52.2	It's hard to pick favorite. It's, you know, sometimes these records get likened to your little babies, and you love all of them so much.
0:59.1	But if I really did have to pick one pound for pound, this is my favorite Metallica record, for sure.
1:03.8	I mean, it's undeniable.
1:05.1	This is an incredible record.
1:06.1	I listened to it almost three full times in a row today as I was making show notes and working on some
1:12.3	social media stuff. And I do listen to this record often, but not like sitting down in front
1:17.6	of my studio monitors at a loud volume multiple times in a row. And I don't know how, but today
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