Poll: What is your pick for the greatest Metal song that went mainstream?

@ProfessorofRock

2 жыл бұрын

@Anna Trail Good call.

@mza2195

2 жыл бұрын

Iron Man, Enter Sandman, and Crazy Train for me.

@dgarve

2 жыл бұрын

It has to be "Crazy Train" by Ozzy, or "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath.

@retread1083

2 жыл бұрын

Would In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida be considered metal? Pretty heavy for 1968 and it got a ton of air play. Most infamous one-hit-wonder of all time?

@RBS_

2 жыл бұрын

...yikes, this one's tricky..... Some would say AC / DC's "You Shook", or, Bon Jovi's "Livin' On A ..." , would be 'Metal', but Stryper's "Honestly" , or Cinderella's "Nobody's Fool" wouldn't be 'Metal', because they're Ballads.... (CONT.) ...BUT, I'll go with the OBVIOUS, 'sugary' choice...***POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME!!*** ...hell, I stay away from Baseball Games, BECAUSE of it!! "😣"...ha-HAA!!

""King Nothing" and "Enter Sandman" by Metallica in my car always gets me to participate in what local law enforcement considers "reckless driving".

@ProfessorofRock

2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha. Good on ya.

@zachlewis9751

2 жыл бұрын

Every time I hear King Nothing I’m always surprised it’s so often played on the radio.

I am retired. I was a High School wrestling coach for 32 seasons. I was head coach for 11 seasons. Enter Sand Man was our run out song during home matches. The intro was perfect and we then exploded into the gym and my team circled the mat and paired off into intenser take down drills. It was the perfect song!!!! Prior to being head coach, as an assistant, we ran out to AC/DC's Hell's bells.

@ProfessorofRock

2 жыл бұрын

Both great "get your heart pumping" songs!

@HubertofLiege

2 жыл бұрын

My sons middle school team ran out to “stranglehold” once. Good times.

Enter Sandman was Virginia Tech's Football entry music every home game, they even got Metallica's blessing to use it. This was a great time to be alive, and the Black album was and is a masterpiece. I bought it the day it came out, popped it into my Cassette player on the way home, and got a ticket for forgetting to put my seatbelt on, totally worth it. that was how excited I was about having a new Metallica album to listen to.

My oldest son was killed in a tragic accident in 1995. I was devastated and didn't want to speak to many people in public. I took a job with my company working the graveyard shift and listened to album rock stations. I remember the first time I heard Metallica was the Black album. I had always liked heavier music like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath when I was younger but hadn't followed metal much having been turned off by Glam Metal. It moved me. The whole album did. I still love Metallica at 68 years old and have attended concerts with my 2 remaining sons and my 2 sons-in-law. Their lyrics have meaning. Great band!

Watching the premiere on MTV blew this 13 year old kid's mind and changed my musical focus. I was absolutely obsessed with these guys and their music.

Cool video. Thank you Professor.

Another great one, guested the song right away when I saw your shirt.

Absolutely love your content. Your channel is one of only a few that I have the notification bell on for. Thanks for all you put into them. Please don’t stop!

One of the best intros of any rock/metal tune, period. Interesting story behind this song, especially with all the lyrical changes that were made along the way!

@XAMS

2 жыл бұрын

Not even top 3 intros in a Metallica song though. Fight fire with fire, battery, blackened all better

@davidpierce9949

2 жыл бұрын

@@XAMS i agree. And justice for all, that lead in is way better as well

Such a great and Important Channel. You keep the Legends alive . Thank you For that. Greets from Germany . P.s. DM is my Favorite too ;)

I have seen a bunch of your videos and they are awesome. As a Librarian I can say easily say that your research is excellent. As a music fan I enjoy your interviews and insightful thoughts. You need your own music show on TV. KZread is great and all, but your talent needs to be on more platforms.

The Black album is theONLY album that I ever stood in line for to buy at midnight when it was released. It still plays as good today as it did 30+ yrs ago. @ProfesserOfRock - as always, good job on the vid.

Love your videos

OK - I just found your videos on KZread - I’m admitting to be one of the older generation (born 1947) so I’ve been through a lot of music changes. In the middle 70s I had just started to hear Metal (I’m slow on the take up sometimes🥴). My son was born in 1980 and by the time he was maybe 10 or 11 he had begun to listen to Metal also. Right now I’m in what we laughingly call “his” newsroom (he’s married with kids and is 42) and there is a Metallica poster still in the wall. I know he’s seen them a few times in his past - but it’s because of him that’s I really started to listen more. And I still do prefer metal/hard rock or whatever it’s called now. My friends think it’s really strange!!!! I’m so glad for SXM radio as I can listen to whatever I want, whenever I want. Thanks for this great video.

Very informative, Professor

Great discussion prof! Great album. Fade to black off ride the lightning was a great tune also. Thank you for this episode

Through the Never was/is my favorite off the Black album. It doesn't beat around the bush and gets straight to the push. And it basically describes the human experience from outside the body- more of an ethereal experience they provide the listener with. It's one of those tunes that is best listened to with really good headphones, in the dark under a clear, open, moonless sky, IMHO anyways. Thanks Adam! Much love

@thiosemicarbizidebenzoylal2921

2 жыл бұрын

Enter Sandman is cheesy. This stuff was diaper music compared to Blues Rock. Just my opinion.

@rachelpenny5165

2 жыл бұрын

I think all the songs off the black album are very good.

One of the most iconic albums of that era. I played it through.....all the time.....for a year.

@ProfessorofRock

2 жыл бұрын

I know exactly what you mean!

Great summation of why this song works.

Metallica, Guns and Roses, and Faith No More was my first concert in 92. Great show. I still have a sense of nostalgia when I listen to the Black Album

I love the way you talk about the music that made my life!!🥰😍

Great show. Great band. Great album. Took my 4 year daughter to the amphitheater in mnt.view ca. For her birthday. Wow almost 30 years ago.

My husband would hum our kids to sleep with this song. Twisted, but effective to get them to sleep with his deep hum. Thanks for the memory I forgot! Love you for that Professor ~Mimi

For my 15th birthday, a friend of mine gave me a cassette copy of the black album. Up until then, I was listening to stuff like Poison, Warrant, Motley Crue, Guns n Roses, and Ugly Kid Joe. That album opened my eyes up to a whole new world of music. I did what I had to in order to get the rest of Metallica's albums, which was difficult since my dad had just gotten stationed in Seoul, Korea. The Korean version of Master Of Puppets has a very different lineup of songs than the American version. Back then, I had no idea that it even was different. There's nothing quite like the feeling of lying in your bedroom with your walkman and reading the lyric sheet while you listen to a new album. Those were the formative years of my life as a metal fan.

First time I remember hearing Enter Sandman was in a parking lot where I was working as a cart collector. Someone was blasting it in their car from the other side of the parking lot, probably like 60-70 yards away. People had serious car stereo systems in those days. It blew me away. I'd never heard anything rock that hard yet be so melodic and catchy. The "it's just the beast under your bed, in your closet, in your head" was actually cathartic for me. I'd struggled with fear of the devil throughout my childhood. Rocking to this song and singing along to those lyrics helped me overcome that fear and, ironically, helped me sleep!

As a die hard Metallica fan I remember the day it was released on MTV. I was waiting in anticipation for the video/song debut for this masterpiece and was blown away ! Amazed by the heaviness and simpler approach to their usual complicated fast tempo music. It was so fresh and different but did not disappoint one bit.🤘😎🤘

How about the drums in “Enter Sandman”? Those drums!!! Those drum sticks were on fire!!!! Even today, if you go to Guitar Center, you might find someone taking those sticks and try their luck with “Enter Sandman” in the background. I sure saw someone doing so not long ago.

@ProfessorofRock

2 жыл бұрын

You're right. The drums rock.

I watched the premiere of “Enter Sandman” on MTV and it was one of those “oh crap…. My life will never be the same again” moments. It was my introduction to thrash metal and I dove in full speed ahead to all things metal, listening and absorbing it all like a sponge.

I can't help but think of the performance they did with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots playing school instruments on The Tonight Show. Still one of my favorite tv moments.

@Elwaves2925

2 жыл бұрын

I can't stand Fallon but I might have to check that out.

@shannonhailey7187

2 жыл бұрын

@@Elwaves2925 He has done it with several artists and it's by far the best one in my opinion

@Elwaves2925

2 жыл бұрын

@@shannonhailey7187 I did check it out and it's pretty funny to see how into it they all are. Cheers for mentioning it as I may never have seen it. 🙂

@deanrobert9953

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! Just found it and its great.

I love this! as a fun of metallica from philippines and all of the artist you say like redhotchillipeppers,sound garden sting coloe me bad and all the glam metal is my favorite and i'm a drummer and enter sandman is the second song that ived learn in drums after sweet child

I'm going to see them Friday 8/4/23 in Meadowlands Jersey. I wasn't that psyched, TBH. But now I'm really psyched for it.

Sitting here watching this video with a hockey game on tv....guess what song they play..."enter sandman". 30 years later it's still iconic

so many memories made with this album

Absolutely love Metallica and this song. When I first saw the video on MTV I was like what the hell is this?? Blew me away. Thanks Prof!

That was the tour that I saw them for the first time. Incredible show. They played for two and a half hours. There was no opening band. Perfection!

A riff you can't forget. Awesome song.

I bought Toad the wet sprocket as well that year, such great music!

I had an almost identical introduction to Metallica. My friend invited me over and played Enter Sandman. I fell in love with the song right away. That weekend I went and bought the Black Album.

Enter Sandman converted me into a metal fan........it totally blew my mind and still does.....childhood fears...such a classic storyline..."off to Never never land"...how genius is that !!!!

The Black album was like a wake up call. I was 17, out of high school absolutely lost in the world, hopeless and full of anxiety, social isolation, and a bleak outlook on the future. This album kept me going one day at a time.

Love watching your history of music…..

Enter Sandman, the opening song to what was just an amazing album. The Unforgiven video on MTV was what got me into Metallica when I was 11 years old. Now a lifelong diehard fan!

Sir, I'm 63. Soaked up everything to do with music. From Sinatra to Alice Cooper. I was in the perfect place in my known world as a teen. Smack in the middle of the music venue trilogy. 5 miles from The brand new Cap Centre, 20 miles from RFK, 40 miles from Merriweather Post Pavilion. I truly saw everyone touring. The Stones, McCartney & WINGS , Springsteen, Bad Co. The Dead dozens of times. Elton John 4 times. My point, the most awesome concert performance by anyone ever, (Woodstock hold my beer), Metallica , Enter the Sandman, Moscow 91. 1.6. Million in Attendance. Unfortunately for me, that one I watched on video. Time capsule in space material. Earth Metal.

I worked in a record store when the Black Album came out. We couldn't keep the CD on the shelf. It was nuts. However, the album DID divide fans. A lot of hardcore fans saw it as Metallica selling out. And by the way, *Master of Puppets* is their best album. It's perfection. The greatest metal album ever recorded.

At 12:57 I spy _The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld_! What a magnificent piece of ambient dub. Truly a classic.

I remember seeing Metallica play this song live, on MTV awards. Was sooooo glad a metal song was finally played live at the awards. I was 19 at the time, and metal was still considered underground and only had Headbangers Ball to watch.

They played the entire black album at louder than life. Was awesome hearing it live.

It awakened me to Metallica. I was 14 years old at the time and it blew my mind. Going to the M72 tour tonight!

I was 32 when this came out , wasn't a fan of hair bands so when I first heard this it was like sweet music for my ears .

Metallica's Disposable Heros, off Master is easily one of thier best. I was introduced to Metallica's And Justice and fell in love with the band. Their first 5 albums and Garage Days are absolutely essential to anyones play list. After the Black album I lost interst as much but they really changed my taste in music for sure. I would've never listened to many harder songs and bands.I can also remember watching MTV and the lines of fans waiting to buy the album. It was insanity. Just an amazing album but still can't touch Master. Nothing in thier music does 💯 And Toad The Wet Sprocket is such an underrated band. Loved them. Again well done video 💯

Straight up my favorite song.

@ProfessorofRock

2 жыл бұрын

It's a great choice for your "favorite" song. Thanks for watching!

My favourite song of all times! I will never forget the first time I heard it live, what an amazing feeling that was.

@ProfessorofRock

2 жыл бұрын

Same! So amazing.

That was a great year in music!

My favorite off the black CD is of wolf and man....but every song is a kick in the ass volt of energy to the soul......

Great year for rock . We was listening to Metallica and Ozzy No more tears. AC/DC released razors Edge in September 1990. Everybody was listening to these 3 albums back in the day.

When this album came out I was in the military in the Middle East, sitting on a ship in the Persian Gulf and everyone on board was listening to this album.

One of my favorite tunes of the 90's

Played Black album to death on cassette n cd..absolutely mind blowing that time…

When Enter... came out, I was just in highschool. I remember that MTV was playing the video as the hourly world premiere. I watched the video and recorded it on VHS. I watched the video. Then watched it on tape. I then went up to my room, grabbed my guitar and learned the whole song in ten minutes!

OK I'll confess I had this standoff of Metallica in the early days and enjoyed AC/DC as one of my favourite heavy metal bands. It wasn't until I stumbled across their Moscow standium performance on YT of Enter Sandman that sent chills through me like no other. I was 60 years of age at the time. I'm a convert now. Thank you Professor for your enthusiastic storytelling.

@deanrobert9953

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for dropping your comment. Just went to that Moscow '91 Enter Sandman video. Mind blown! 🤯

I always envisioned Freddy Kruger reaching out for me when he sings "Take my hand, we're off to Never-neverland!"

I like Enter Sandman! Awesome song and just a great feeling when you listen to it!

Heard and loved songs from Metallica in my teens but weren't 'on my radar' as for buying albums....however 'One' put them on the fringes of my radar....such a song. It wasn't until 90s a guy I was dating loved them...plus radios were playing them more mainstream and I had the fortunate to go to three concerts at Lakewood Ampitheatre here in ATL to see them. The first being the Black Album and what a album it was. This song was always one of my faves by them.

"Sad But True" is my favorite single from that album, but "Nothing Else Matters" will always have a special significance for me, as two of my buds from that time really dug it, and played it frequently. To this day, I still buy CDs.

Love this album. A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica is such a great documentary on the making of this album and the tour.

@ProfessorofRock

2 жыл бұрын

Love that doc!

@majesticpbjcat7707

2 жыл бұрын

I used to watch Year And Half on this VHS tapes in rotating order every day after school when I was 13-14. I used to know every line by heart for years after. What a time...

@aaronwhite3298

2 жыл бұрын

@@majesticpbjcat7707 kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZmaTvLZmqNufprQ.html Me too.. I rented it from Blockbuster way back in the day.. it's on KZread for free. Good times!

I remember thinking I was a metal god jamming this intro on my black Fender Squier in 1991. This was the go-to party album. Every song sounded massive. Our 5 disc changer had this album, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and Red Hot Chili Peppers on shuffle repeat. Listen for hours, never touch the skip button. Unbelievably lucky to have grown up then.

I was not into metal at all but my best friend in the Navy was. As a great friend he'd always go to punk and new wave shoes with me. One night he says, "Get ready, going to a show." I was like, "Oh no, who?" With that metal voice he says, "METALLICA!" Although I dreaded going, (And Justice For All tour), I had a GREAT time 🤟 and became a fan, borrowing tapes from him to rock out. Sadly, he died in a car accident while going home on leave and never heard the black album.

Having been a Metallica fan since 1986 and holding their first 4 albums in such high regard, I remember myself along with so many other OG Metallica fans being disappointed with the Black album. Took a few years for me to realize it really is a phenomenal record. Now I look forward to them playing the classic cuts from the Black album in concert. Nothing Else Matters is also one of the greatest power ballads ever written. 🤘🤘

The Black album came out like a week before my 10th grade year started. I had a crappy car but I had a portable cd player with a cassette adapter. Me and one of my friends jammed to school every morning and after school to that album.

The Black album kept me sane in Somalia, so I'll always be thankful for it.

Enter Sandman is just about as bad ass as anything I've ever heard, and I am now 66. I've been rocking all of my life.

Just the whole nightmare concept of Sandman is something I've always enjoyed when I think about the track and especially when I hear it 😈

I was in the 8th grade the first time I remember hearing Enter Sandman. My friend played it for me on his dads radio. 4 12s on the old style receivers. It was so loud ! It changed me. Before that I only listened to the crap on the radio that we heard on the bus, but after that I started my music journey in rock and metal.

The very first Metallica song I have ever heard, back in 2nd Grade, which was more or less a decade ago. My gateway to the song, and by extension, the band, was my father. Fast forward more than 8 years later, I received a CD copy of "The Black Album" on my 16th birthday, two weeks before I completed junior high, I might add; also, it was the first Metallica record I bought. Been an ardent fan ever since, having amassed a collection of 4 out of 5 of their first five albums, on CD; the only record missing is the debut album, "Kill 'Em All".

I don't think Black was as good as In Justice For All, but there was few good jamz on it. Great video as usual!

I remember where and when i bought the Black album. Like many, that was my introduction to Metallica and i've been a fan ever since.

Awesome tune my first ever Metallica album was the black album got into them back in the summer of 1992 aged 18 and never looked back and their classic 80's albums👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻the black album was a new era of Rock for me as a teenager in the early 90s

The Black Album is a treasure. I was a soft rock girl. My hubby loved Metallica. I heard the album so much…I loved it, started to ask him to put it on. I’m a fan now!!

The album that was the foundation for me playing guitar and being in bands to this day! I've always thought about how cool it would've been to be a teenager in the 80's instead of the 90's, but I'm glad that I was 12 when this album came out now that I think about it. What a way to start off a musical journey in life. I worked my backwards from that album. First to Justice, then Master, Lightning and finally Kill Em All. All within a few weeks. Got them all from those 1¢ mail order companies. BMG or Columbia House or whatever they were called 😂

Was a brilliant album and my favourite song off it was The Unforgiven. Though I liked all the songs on that album. Enter Sandman has been the ringtone on my mobile phone for years. I saw them play this song live on 5th June 1993 at Milton Keynes Bowl, UK. They were brilliant of course. I was at my second year at University around this time and got a bus to the concert.

"The Soul Cages", Never heard of this song. I had to look up the '92 Grammys to make out what you were saying. _This_ song beat out Enter Sandman? Wow. 30 years later and I've never heard of it (literally hearing it for the first time in my life), and I'm sure most people who had heard it forgot it soon afterward. Enter Sandman still rocks.

I have the black LP and man it's awesome. One of the few albums that I just loved every song on cant say that about most bands

I love so much music, and have eclectic taste, but metal will always be close to my heart! Soon as I seen the silhouette of James, I was like hell yeah, some Metallica! They're one of my all time favorites. It's very hard for me to pick favorite bands and put them on a list, but My #1 are Black Sabbath, and my #2 are Metallica. That's my whole list lol! Edit: After his maniacal laugh, he doesn't shout OOH!, he shouts BOO!

Kirk Wah-mmett. Black album made metal "safe" and commercial. The follow up Load was the only CD I ever gave away that was given back to me.

The Black Album was the first music CD I ever bought. I'll always wish I hadn't. 1980s Metallica will always be the Metallica for me \m/

@beatmet2355

2 жыл бұрын

I’m not in the camp that disses that album, but I’ve never been all that excited about it. It was the first NEW Metallica to be released after I started listening to them, and I was underwhelmed. But, it’s ok for what it is.

@ImYourOverlord

2 жыл бұрын

@@beatmet2355 There are a few songs on it that I like, but not nearly as much as their first four albums.

I never became a Metallica fan but I do own this album and love a lot of songs on it. The Unforgiven is a masterpiece IMO. It also introduced me to One and the their truly excellent rendition of The Ecstasy Of Gold.

"That was back when you paid for music." So true.

I had the cassingle before the album dropped later that summer. I was initially disappointed with the new, simpler songs. I thought Lars got replaced with the AC/DC drummer, but over time I appreciated this album for what it is.

Way back in 1996 i first heared metallica load album at young age ,i was astonished.i start digging to their first album kill all. And that was the beginning of my collection of all tallicats album.

'The Black Album' is the only Metallica album I own. 'Enter Sandman' is the sole reason I bought it. I love drums so that song absolutely blew me away and I knew I had to have it. One of my favorite albums in my collection.

Wasn’t a true metal fan until the black album. This is a classic and I will listen to it til the day I die(I’m almost 68 now)

I remember this time so well and in fact have a lot of albums on that list you put up for 1991! Metallica's Black Album was how I got introduced to Metallica! I went back and listened to other albums after and when Death Magnetic came out I listened to listening party on KROQ! Here is my question did you get the Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card back? Also I would love to see you do a piece on School of Fish! Such an underrated band!

Back 2001, when I was a fat and grumpy 36, Enter Sandman motivated me without fail in the local fitness center. For the better part of two years I worked out hard and achieved the best body I ever had, and every time I stepped up to the free weights, nothing got me going like Sandman (even on leg day). That's one of the best things about the truly great songs; we get older, and they never stop giving us the feeling we had 20 years ago.

I've seen Metallica live 4 times, with the last time being the infamous Montreal concert in 1992!! Got scalped tickets for that show....lol...what a concert that was!!

The B side to the single was a cover of "Stone Cold Crazy" whew talk about getting your blood pumping. Just imagine a Ford escort with a pair of kicker 12"s and Lars making your heart beat in time.

Enter Sandman and the black album are why I'm a Metallica fan today.

I Remember they Debuted that album at the Freddie Mercury Celebration after he Died . Recorded it on VHS ; )

Hearing Creeping Death back in 85, (First time I heard it), Metallica had zero radio play in Cincinnati at the time, I became a fan, I was 15 at the time, Iron Maiden was my first love, Powerslave in 84 hooked me

Metallicas one or enter sandman were the first heavy metal tunes I ran Into as a kid and they really left their marc on a young man.