I'd expect a guy named "Hugh Jackman" to laugh at a dick joke, seeing as his name always sounded vaguely like a prank name but not quite.

You're missing one very important distinction, which is that fascism is "The truth is what WE SAY IT IS" rather than "what it IS". I'm not talking about the government declaring the truth to be whatever is most convenient for them. I'm talking about established facts of science, math, factual occurrences (independent…

Same, I put Load and Reload over Black. Black is mostly just same-ish and bland (only two tracks I really care for anymore are "The God That Failed" and "My Friend of Misery" - I once loved "The Unforgiven" but now I'm sick of it). Load and Reload, by contrast, are chock full of experimentation with genres. I'm not…

I've said it before - if Load and Reload had been released by any band NOT called METALlica, they'd have gotten rave reviews. The worst anybody would have said would be that maybe they were a bit too long and needed trimming down.

Rubber Soul isn't really "weird", it's just the first Beatles album where you really can't deny that they were stoned when they made it. There were little signs of them being stoned on previous albums (Help!, I'm looking at you…), but Rubber Soul is an album where you say "Holy shit, these guys LOVED being baked out…

Really? I loved that Muse went pretty much full-on metal with Drones. Was disgusted when their previous album with "Muh-muh-muh-muh-Mad-Mad-Madness" came out, thought it was a sickening chase of the dubstep trend, though I've since warmed to it.

I regard Lightning, Puppets, and Justice as a loose trilogy, really (no, not Kill 'em All and the next two - Kill 'em All was a balls-to-the-wall, rough debut album recorded by 4 nutted-up teenagers who hadn't yet refined what worked and what didn't work). Justice is definitely the "Return of the Jedi" of that…

I make a distinction between metalheads, and people who happen to listen to metal (of which I am one). My problem with metalheads, is that they have a tendency to regard any music that ISN'T metal as worthless dogshit, and to judge music solely on how heavy and/or incomprehensible it is. I made the mistake of once…

I'm a lifelong Billy Joel fan/apologist, and not once have Kings of Leon ever reminded me of Billy Joel. Never heard that comparison before.

My problem with the lyrics of Pinkerton isn't that they're "oversharing", it's that they're fucking creepy. Dude, nobody wants to know how often you jack yourself off while pining for some Japanese girl halfway across the world that you saw once and who may or may not be of borderline legal age. And the…

Jack White is white, but Jack Black is also white.

You know, I listened to Cut the Crap on Spotify just a few years ago out of morbid curiosity, to see if it was really as bad as everyone says, and it didn't really sound so bad to me. Certainly not their bets stuff, not even memorable (I don't remember a damn thing off of it, actually), but nothing on it actively…

I don't think Tom Waits ever really went bad. Real Gone wasn't exactly great, but Bad As Me is right up there with Swordfish, Rain Dogs et al. for me.

I generally think R.E.M. is just fine (casual fan), but I also loathe "Everybody Hurts", and I suffer from severe depression. Fuck, that song MAKES me want to kill myself. It's just so saccharine and cloying. I appreciate the point you're trying to make, Michael, yes, everybody does hurt sometimes, but right now…

Very good point, but on the other hand, Foo Fighters are also generic as hell.

Yeah, but YouTube comments, 100% of the time, suck assballs, and you shouldn't ever read them, about anything.

Florence and the Machine is fucking amazing. That lady is just quirky and out there enough, but with the requisite amound of holy-fuck-can-she-wail vocal talent to be really interesting.

If I had more musical talent, I'd like to start a band that categorized ourselves as "post-everything", and just played…fucking music, of whatever style or combination of styles we felt like playing at the moment.

Grohl went from being the loudest, most hyperactive drummer this side of John Bonham in Nirvana, to making bland, vanilla dad-rock with the Foo Fighters.

Funny you say that, it's pretty much my exact opinion of James Hetfield these days.