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Just now, Barking Spiders said:

Viz the N word, the way NWA and others use it's n***a not n***er, which is the racist term.

Thats completely splitting hairs though. It's obviously a colloquialism of the N word. If someone white was to say n***a they would be derided and wouldn't be able to say I didn't say n****er!

Anyway when did you ever hear an American say n****er? Sounding out the "er"

Whatever happened to the great British sense of humour where we could laugh at others freely but more importantly, laugh at ourselves first?

5 minutes ago, musicbassman said:

Errrr - sorry, why not?

If your music is set on shuffle or random then that's what it should be, mathematically speaking ?

Otherwise, it's just like having a weighted roulette wheel.

Algorithms mate. The computer can't ever be truly random.Thats why you find you don't hear a band for years and then you hear one song  and then they seem to come up quite a lot for a while.

14 minutes ago, Gareth Hughes said:

‘Schindler’s List’. I don’t find that movie offensive at all, but I’m certainly never watching it again, it’s so damn disturbing.

I was the same with Train Spotting. Great movie but I can't bring myself to watch it again. Definitely gonna watch Schindlers list again right enough.

3 hours ago, KingBollock said:

I truly believe that Dani Filth is an astoundingly good lyricist. A true master at what he does.

I remember years ago Mark and Lard on radio one used to go on about Cradle Of Filth and I thought it was a made up band. It wasn't until I looked them up on Youtube that I realised that  they were real. Pretty decent too and none of it offended me.

9 hours ago, Bunion said:

I Cum Blood”

Thats easily cleared up with a course of antibiotics.

Just now, musicbassman said:

I'd be interested to know what program you're using, @ubit. 

I use Groove Music on my PC to play a supposed random selection of covers I've loaded to play along to on bass, and the same 40 or 50 songs keep coming up over and over when it's set on random, when there's hundreds to choose from.  😟

I have a Mac mate, so it's just iTunes or Music as it's called these days. With any computer it's not completely random. You might be commenting that we haven't heard any U2 for ages then one comes on and for the next few weeks you seem to hear lots of them. I have an iPhone and it's the same in the car when I connect to bluetooth and play songs on random through that.

4 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

I believe its about taking back the word from the racists and using it themselves. 

I got called a N***** once in Nigeria. I’m white so it came as a surprise to me. I ignored it in case it was an attempt to goad me into saying something back. 

Newsted is a monster player and deserved better than that. I’m sure with the money involved I would get over it quickly but to not be featured on an album you are credited with is a pretty poor show old bean. 

1 minute ago, Thunderbird said:

I've always found some rap a bit odd groups like NWA and the like always say n££££r and it seems not to offend would it be offensive if a  white band used that word in a song? Does that make sense? 

Totally  agree there. You hear the N word thrown about like nobody’s business and yet if a white person says it it’s call the cops. If it’s so offensive why is it used so much by black singers? 

1 hour ago, Graham said:

It's my favourite Metallica album, but that mix 😡

 

To think how it could have sounded.

 

It's also heartbreaking for Jason, he wrote Blackened, so it's his song opening the first album he recorded with them but then finds he's inaudible.

As you say, it’s a cracking album but when you realise that the lows you are hearing are just from Hetfields guitar it gets annoying. If the frequencies were getting lost change the bloody settings. Every other band in the world manages it. A heavy metal band with no bass? Whoever would have thought it?

1 minute ago, Jason Karloff said:

OK consider it homework. I will. 

Is this the original or bass in yer face version? 

If you can be bothered to listen to the Youtube version with bass, it's much betterer!

2 minutes ago, Jason Karloff said:

I find Steel Panther mildly amusing. 

Although I'm guessing some probably can't see the obvious joke. 

Aren't there loads of shockingly horrid white power type bands out there? 

I watched a Louis Theroux documentary years ago about white power Nazis in America. There were some Nazi bands featured and I looked them up on Youtube. I left a few derogatory remarks in the comments and then made my escape.

4 minutes ago, Jason Karloff said:

I haven't listened to that in years. 

Do you think it's worth a revaluation? 

Yes'o

I love the Macc lads and Steel Panther but I don't know the others. I will give them a listen because I certainly aint easily offended.

5 minutes ago, Ricky Rioli said:

With audible bass it sounds notionally more satisfying, but what is there in this long bleak album to make satisfaction seem relevant?

Is that serious?

1 hour ago, Jason Karloff said:

 

Please someone lock this thread. It's beyond tedious now.

4 minutes ago, Ricky Rioli said:

I think it sounds right. The album is a mausoleum, and it sounds like one. Lars deserves every name he gets called, but his artistic vision is genuine, and he got this right. Absolute masterpiece. 

I don't know whether to agree with you or not. Yes it's a great album and the guitars and drums sound great but being a bass player I love bass thumping out. If you do sound tests with the videos above and hear the difference you will know that it sounds better with a good bass sound.

3 minutes ago, Doctor J said:

They could have righted a very big wrong but, rather spitefully, stick to their guns. They were wrong, they know it, and still refuse to acknowledge it.

Indeed mate, they said their ears were shot during the original recording and mixing. What a crap excuse. Then when they had the chance to remix it said we don't need to change it, it's perfect. Like the Mona Lisa, would you change that? How up yer derrière is he? Comparing your record with a timeless, priceless masterpiece. 

I'm not talking about the fact that you can't hear it with bass. I mean the original album was criminally handled.

Just now, MacDaddy said:

There are versions where bass has been added.

Search for 'And Justice For All With Bass', on the YouTube. 

  I just added it as you posted

I remember this album coming out and to be honest I never noticed the lack of bass on the album. I always thought it was my shitty system (at the time) but after years of reading about it and finding out what really happened. It's no wonder Jason Newsted left that band. It was criminal the way they turned down the bass until it was dialled right out of the mix. The reasons are even more mind blowing.

I love Metallica but it seems like Lars is a little toss pot Hitler and Hetfield isn't much better. You do see that side on the video Some Kind Of Monster but it's only now that I have a stinky poo hot sound system that I can appreciate just how little bass is on this album. Steve Thompson actually said he was asked to drop the bass. He took it almost right out of the mix  as a joke and Lars said ok, a bit more. He couldn't believe it. Then years later Lars asked Thompson what happened to the bass on Justice?

This was a great album spoiled by interfering know alls.

https://archive.blabbermouth.net/news/metallicas-james-hetfield-defends-and-justice-for-all-production-we-wanted-the-best-sounding-record-we-could-make/

1 minute ago, Jason Karloff said:

Discussions and healthy debate are fine and dandy, but some people seem to revel in laying into others. 

Also some people seem hung up on the literary definitions of words like rascism and xenophobia. Maybe while they have their dictionaries out they should look up sarcasm? 

I wasn't hung up.  Your original post was labelled as being racist. I merely pointed out that it wasn't as being American isn't a race. Then I was hit with a tirade of completely baffling content about American being a race.

I play my music through my computer. I currently have 25,608 songs loaded and mostly it plays on random. I have loads of different genres and bands/performers. I do have all of the U2 back catalogue. I find that I don't hear them for ages and then because of the algorithms I hear a few at a time. I keep getting back into bands due to this. I can't possibly listen to all of my music so this is the best way I find. Its great hearing a band that I had forgotten about as it sounds fresh again. I'm not particularly a big fan of U2 but I do enjoy hearing songs on random.