Metallica - One

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"One" was written in November 1987 by Metallica's principal composers — rhythm guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich. This song details the life of a soldier after he becomes a decerebrated paraplegic. During his time in the hospital, he reflects on his life and things his father told him. The doctors become worried because he does not die. The lyrics are based on the novel "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo, an anti-war novel about World War I. A specific passage that inspired the song is: "How could a man lose as much of himself as I have and still live? When a man buys a lottery ticket you never expect him to win because it's a million to one shot. But if he does win, you'll believe it because one in a million still leaves one. If I'd read about a guy like me in the paper I wouldn't believe it, cos it's a million to one. But a million to ONE always leaves one. I'd never expect it to happen to me because the odds of it happening are a million to one. But a million to one always leaves one. One." In 1971, "Johnny Got His Gun" was made into a film which was directed by Trumbo. Metallica bought the rights to movie after attempts to use images from the movie in the music video, the first in Metallica's career. The video uses images and monologues from the movie. The song was released in 1989 as the second single taken from the album (the first being "Harvester of Sorrow"). It became the band's first Top 40 single in the United States, peaking at #35 on the Billboard Hot 100, achieving this with absolutely no pop radio airplay - American pop stations refused to play a seven and a half minute long thrash metal song - but mostly on the band of rock radio airplay and the fact that the physical 7'' single had gone sold over 50,000 copies at that point. For the first 20 seconds of the song there is a series of sound effects with a battle theme; an artillery barrage is heard and continues slightly over a clean tone guitar intro by Hetfield before Kirk Hammett comes in over the top with a clean-toned solo. The song speeds up after Ulrich's drums come in and continues until each chorus, when the guitars become heavy and distorted before returning to clean. There is a second solo by Hammett halfway through the song, before lyrics cut out and the song gradually gets more heavy and distorted until the "machine gun" guitar build up (played alongside two bass drums) before the final, often highly praised, guitar solo by Hammett, and a final dual solo by Hammett and Hetfield. "One"'s opening A-G modulation was written by Hetfield based on an idea prompted by the song "Buried Alive" by the band Venom. “ I had been fiddling around with that A-G modulation for a long time. The idea for the opening came from a Venom song called "Buried Alive". The kick drum machine-gun part near the end wasn't written with the war lyrics in mind, it just came out that way. We started that album with Mike Clink as producer. He didn't work out so well, so we got Flemming to come over and save our asses.” - James Hetfield, Guitar World 1991 This song is featured on Guitar Hero 3. This was the first single released by the band to feature bassist Jason Newsted. He continued playing with Metallica until 2001. Metallica performed the song at the Grammy awards in 1989. This was the first year a Grammy was awarded for Hard Rock/Metal Performance, and in a storm of controversy, the Grammy went to Jethro Tull. This was considered a slap in the face to metal and further evidence that the Grammys had become culturally ignorant as the album Jethro Tull was nominated for, Crest of a Knave, could hardly be considered hard rock or heavy metal. In 1991, this slight was avenged when the song won a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. This was included on the 1999 live album S&M, which they recorded with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. KoRn performed this on MTV Icon in 2003. The name of the statue with the scales on the album cover is "Doris". Hetfield has said he lifted the intro from Venom's "Buried Alive," a song about being trapped in a casket while being buried alive, similar to the predicament of the character in this song. Hammett told Kerrang! September 13, 2008 that this track has one of his favorite Metallica guitar solos. He explained: "Specifically, this is the middle solo of the song. Much like 'Enter Sandman' it's a solo that everybody can pretty much sing along to, and it definitely gives me a really good feeling every time I play it."

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- BLACKENED

Incredible

- Good and bad

The remaster is great. There's clarity to the high end and low end, and fantastic seperation. However, if you were hoping for Jason Newstead's bass to stand out like it does when you play the Guitar video game with Metallica's name on it, then you're in for a bit of disappointment. I'd rather have the video game versions, whether the bass was seperated for people playing it. Because it stands out beautifully. I like the versions on the internet that give Jason's instrument the importance it deserves (this coming from a drummer, btw; I've been drumming since 1994). But even those versions don't have the remastered sound for newer and more dynamic sounding stereo systems. And for those who said it doesn't sound any different than the original ... get yourself a high end BOSE, or some Shure IEMs, or a nice set of cans for your ears (any brand, so long as they're dynamic and designed for listening to things in studios), or sit in front of a pair of studio monitors. Studio monitors are the only thing that seperates the bass guitar enough that you can hear that it's there. Else, on just about anything else, (multi-driver Shure IEMs, for example), you mostly just hear low end on James' guitar. The songs really impress with the YouTube versions that depict Jason's bass brought to the front. There's more depth and resonence, and for the first time in history, I wanted to listen to the album more than once or twice. I started listening to the entire album a few times a day for about a week. It was sonically wider, more powerful, and it made the singles into magnum opus pieces. I don't care WHY Metallica asked their people to use a minimal amount of bass. Maybe it was part of the grieving for Cliff, and that's okay. I'm not upset. It's just that they had the chance to make it right with this reissue, and they didn't. I'll have to keep listening to the old flat repair job that I found online. I was looking forward to buying this (since I have all the other remasters so far), and I am REALLY REALLY REALLY looking forward to the black album's remaster. But I'm skipping this one, after listening to all the clips, and after listening to the entirity of this on YouTube. Sorry, Metallica. Not this one. Don't worry, I'll BUY this album, and then listen to the repaired internet version, but I won't listen to it as you guys intended it. I'll listen to it as the sound guy would have wanted to mix it. He's the sound professional. Not me, not you.

- Finally Listenable!

An all-time great metal album, but plagued by horrible sound quality. It now sounds great, and is (finally) a pleasure to listen to. About time!

- Should’ve kept both on here

I hate when they remove the old album to make room for the remastered version. 900+ reviews gone

- 5 ⭐️

Raw energy & emotion deserves a lot of praise!

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