Master of Stylophone

May 3, 2020 4:00 PM

Metallica - Master of Puppets
posted by Pendragon (16 comments total)

From Metal Injection: It took a week but I finally got it! It was great fun and lots of constructive hard work. I cut out the 2 verses and choruses because they are melodically the same as the first one. The goal was playing all of the riffs and solos. It was my biggest Stylophone project so far.
posted by Pendragon at 4:02 PM on May 3, 2020 [2 favorites]

Chop your breakfast on a mirror with a stylus.

This was seriously good.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 4:10 PM on May 3, 2020

That was great, but it did remind me what an excellent album that was. It got me through 6th form and a good chunk of college/Uni.
posted by Brockles at 4:44 PM on May 3, 2020 [2 favorites]

\m/
posted by humboldt32 at 4:49 PM on May 3, 2020

\S/
posted by Lipstick Thespian at 4:50 PM on May 3, 2020 [2 favorites]

That's the best thing I've ever seen.
posted by neroli at 5:02 PM on May 3, 2020

MoP might have been clearly the best thrash album of the era if only Slayer hadn't met Rick Rubin.

This was pretty good, definitely one of the best Stylophone demos. Props to the chef!
posted by rhizome at 5:21 PM on May 3, 2020 [1 favorite]

No joke, better than the original.
posted by dobbs at 5:42 PM on May 3, 2020 [1 favorite]

Oh my god. The dual Hammett/Hetfield tracks! And the that stereo riff at 3.49! I am slain. Thank you for this masterpiece.
posted by freya_lamb at 5:59 PM on May 3, 2020

Wow. I first heard Master of Puppets in some dude's garage, where we asked his dad to move his car out so we could skateboard in there because it was raining. We were listening on a copy of a copy of the cassette, and my mind was blown and I insisted my friend sacrifice another cassette to make another copy, and I listened to that on repeat (so. much. hiss.) until a couple summers later when I bought my first CD player (TEAC, $99.99 from Lowe's hardware, no random play but could program 16 tracks, size of a VCR). I bought a copy of MoP and listened with headphones and marveled at the reduced hiss. The fidelity! From lasers!

Do Orion next.
posted by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints at 6:34 PM on May 3, 2020 [4 favorites]

That's to say, I heard this song a billion times at that point in brain development when every note is permanently encoded in memory, so this is great.
posted by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints at 6:36 PM on May 3, 2020 [3 favorites]

Perhaps nothing else matters.
posted by vrakatar at 7:20 PM on May 3, 2020 [1 favorite]

OMG I was feeling a little bit down this morning and this cheered me right up.
posted by Zumbador at 11:48 PM on May 3, 2020

I really enjoyed this Master of Puppets documentary released on YouTube a month ago. It pulls together material from a lot of different interviews and recordings into a cohesive whole.
posted by ElKevbo at 4:19 AM on May 4, 2020 [2 favorites]

This is awesome and I have madly texted the link to a bunch of people. Thank you.
posted by soundguy99 at 4:31 PM on May 4, 2020

Metallica was such an equalizer among the various cliques. Everyone thrashed to that shit and it was good.

I'm not sure when it happened, but there was a point in the 80s when every generic metal princess' favorite song switched from Van Halen's "Unchained," to "Sanitarium" [sic]. I don't know what I was doing at the time (skateboarding), but each of those songs enjoyed almost-complete coverage over rocker chicks in my area, though not at the same time. It was like a lightswitch flipped, and I only notice the gendered aspect because it was so pronounced, and I had already been surprised at the ubiquity of "Unchained" among the young women in my area.

If I was going to guess, the switch was caused by the release of this album and the release of Van Hagar's first, "5150," which happened exactly three weeks later. I was impressed that a song so extreme was so popular, like it was at every four-circles-of-friends party between 1986 and 1988.
posted by rhizome at 3:25 PM on May 6, 2020