Comments on: Metallica and Philosophy

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 03:11:37 +0000

Metallica’s past decade of suckiness is simply God’s way of telling us to listen to Slayer instead.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:33:18 +0000

It is settled fact that Bob Rock is the problem. The ‘Tall had heard the Cult’s “Electric” album and wanted the guy who produced it (Rick Rubin). Due to various label fuckups, they got “the Cult’s producer”, which is not a rigid designator and at that moment named Bob Rock who had produced the overblown piece of shite (actually I quite liked it) “Sonic Temple”. There is some philosophy in this after all.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:30:08 +0000

Tim—You got me.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:14:05 +0000

If I was king, Metallica would have broken up after their fourth album….

“Where’s your crown, King Nothing?” (King Nothing, off the Load album)

Sorry, Jake, couldn’t resist.

By: bi

bi — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:15:36 +0000

Steve Burton: What? What? But I just spotted Creativity alive and well just a moment ago! He’s not in America, but rather in the Land of the Rising Sun a.k.a. Japan. Why do people want to proclaim him dead? Maybe they think America = The Entire Universe, so if he’s not alive in America, then he must be dead. Or perhaps declaring him dead will allow them to get some insurance money.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:13:51 +0000

To #11—you may be onto something. If I was king, Metallica would have broken up after their fourth album, released Garage Days Revisited post-mortem, and be fondly remembered as possibly the greatest metal band of all time.

By: Steve Burton

Steve Burton — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:52:33 +0000

bi – could it be possible? You have not yet heard anything of this, that creativity is dead?

It’s all about cutting and pasting now. Get with the hip-hop program.

By: a dudette at work

a dudette at work — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:24:37 +0000

“One” would definitely be a theme for a bioethicist and i feel that i am the one to write it.!

By: a dude somewhere… » Blog Archive » The lagoon is my dirge.

a dude somewhere… » Blog Archive » The lagoon is my dirge. — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:43:06 +0000

[...] Metallica and Philosophy call for papers. [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:49:32 +0000

I can’t believe they didn’t suggest essays about “One”.

That is a glaring omission. It would make for good material for a bioethicist.

By: bi

bi — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:19:52 +0000

Well, it seems pretty evident from Steve Burton’s parroting of the first 20 or so words from someone else’s post, that creativity today isn’t the creativity of the early ‘80s. Not that I know what early ‘80s creativity was like, but now I have a nice trope to throw around.

Unfortunately the deadline for abstracts was July 1st …

Oh, no problem. Deadlines are nothing more than social conventions. And our goal in life is to transgress all social conventions, isn’t it? Viva la Revolution! Towards a new liberatory format for philosophy journals!

By: Ron McG

Ron McG — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:34:04 +0000

After watching their sad need for the use of therapy in order to force themselves to write music in the “Some Kind of Monster” documentary, I prefer “Metallica: The Pussification of a Once Relevant Band”.

By: Steve Burton

Steve Burton — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:00:35 +0000

It seems pretty evident from the mere fact that such a volume is being contemplated—as part of the Popular Culture and Philosophy Series—that philosophy today isn’t the philosophy of the early ‘80s.

By: dave heasman

dave heasman — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:06:37 +0000

I speak from total ignorance of Metallica—but is “Mama Said” the same song as the “Mama Said” I know, by the Shirelles?

By: KaeseEs

KaeseEs — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 06:10:12 +0000

To #7 – Two words – Bob Rock.

I’m confused as to how they missed ‘Damage, Inc.’ and ‘Battery’ in re “Violence”.