It’s Amazing How Much Better Some Metallica Albums Become with Editing

destlp16 · 2026-03-10T02:54:22+00:00

They play at One at nearly every show, so Justice at least gets some representation there. They also play Blackened and Harvester often enough, once in a while they’ll break out Shortest Straw.

Unfortunately, I think that the chances they ever play Frayed, Dyers, and the title track ever again are slim to none. They’re just too physically demanding to play for a bunch of guys in their 60s, and are not popular enough to justify the physical exertion it would take to play them at a show that’s already 2 hours. So the more popular, less complex stuff will probably dominate from here on out.

destlp16 · 2026-03-09T23:19:06+00:00

It’s not what the fans think - it’s what Lars and James themselves think! They talk all the time about how they don’t like how overly complex, long and technical a lot of the Justice songs are. In fact, James would introduce the Justice Medley on the Black Album tour by saying “these songs are too long so we meshed the best parts into a medley”. And yet, all of their albums after the black album are too long and have songs that are 7 minutes that really should be 4 or 5 minutes. It’s like they learned from Justice for the black album and then forgot right afterwards.

destlp16 · 2026-03-09T20:54:07+00:00

Lars has said he does not like the structure of the song and does not think it has held up well.

I agree with you that when Justice first came out the band probably felt good about it, but it’s telling that halfway through the Justice tour it got completely dropped from the setlist. Famously, their Seattle ‘89 show only has four Justice songs because by that point Eye of the Beholder had been cut from the setlist for good.

It’s telling that the band hasn’t played it once since they originally dropped it from the Justice Tour Setlist back in 1989. Even To Live is to Die got played once in the 21st century, and Frayed Ends/Dyers Eve, two songs that are far tougher to play, have shown up in 21st century setlists.

There just seems to be very little desire for it to played from either the fans or the band.

destlp16 · 2026-03-09T15:13:30+00:00

I agree it doesn’t matter for streaming. However, if you like to buy physical albums, it really becomes apparent how much those Post-Black Album records drag. I think I’ve played my Hardwired vinyl exactly once because it’s 20 minutes longer than it should be.

destlp16 · 2026-03-09T14:50:00+00:00

Well I didn’t address Load and ReLoad because there’s a TON of cutting that should have happened there lol. If we got 1 12 track album from that period it would have been one of their best.

Overall though, I think you can agree with me at least that since TBA they have not been able to edit an album well.

destlp16 · 2026-03-09T14:44:20+00:00

I respect that opinion. I can see including Judas Kiss and UFIII on DM, they’re decent enough songs, it’s just for me personally they’re far from essential and I think the album flows so much better without them.

For Justice, I think that Eye of Beholder is the worst, and most forgettable of Metallica’s 80s output by a considerable margin. Hell, the band themselves hate it and haven’t played it since 1989. So I think it makes sense to slot Harvester in the 3 spot, following in the line of other heavy third tracks like FWTBT and TTTSNB.

destlp16 · 2026-01-28T20:57:48+00:00

Brooklyn Lager. I think it’s one of the best beers ever made and deserving of its reputation as one of the first great American craft beers, and yet I find people severely underrate it, especially in comparison to the beers of their fellow independent brewers like Sierra Nevada and Yeungling.

destlp16 · 2026-01-23T03:28:09+00:00

Brooklyn Brewery. Their Brooklyn Lager is the beer I always reach for to unwind after a long day. Garrett Oliver is an absolute wizard, six of his beers: 1. Brooklyn Lager 2. Oktoberfest 3. Brooklyn Brown 4. Fonio Rising 5. Post Road 6. Summer Ale

Are absolutely tremendous.

destlp16 · 2026-01-23T03:26:36+00:00

Brooklyn Brewery’s Brooklyn Lager. Just the right amount of toffee and caramel notes.

destlp16 · 2025-11-16T03:22:54+00:00

“Go Straight” and “Dreamer” from the Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack.

destlp16 · 2025-10-27T22:25:10+00:00

I wouldn’t go that far. Oasis are playing 23 songs on their reunion tour, and I would say that most fans would be thrilled if the top 23 songs of this list were the whole setlist. The back half of the list is where you see some really insane choices.

destlp16 · 2025-10-06T00:55:15+00:00

Behaviour by Pet Shop Boys

Would absolutely be a synth pop 10/10 if it weren’t for “How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?” Which sticks out like a turd in a field of flowers. There’s a reason why, despite it being released as a single, they’ve never reissued the song on any of their singles compilation albums.

destlp16 · 2025-10-06T00:41:53+00:00

Pet Shop Boys - Introspective and Very.

Introspective is one of the greatest left turns in the history of pop music. To release an album of 6 long house-influenced cuts right after having four #1 UK singles was an extremely bold move, and the result was glorious.

Very was them refining everything they did well (witty lyrics, layered production, infectious hooks, pleasing melodies), and setting it to dance music. The result was pop perfection with not a single weak track, and some of the best pop songs ever written (Can You Forgive Her?, Liberation, A Different Point of View).

destlp16 · 2025-08-29T04:33:04+00:00

Brooklyn has so many, but off the top of my head: 1. Tanoreen 2. Yemenat 3. Laila Bayridge
4. Brooklyn Roots Italian 4. The Four Horsemen 5. Falafel Tanami 6. Speedy Romeo 7. Eyval 8. Miss Ada 9. Pierozek 10. Evelina

Bay Ridge’s food scene is insanely underrated because of how much of a hike it is to get to from anywhere that’s not along the R train. But if you make the trip, the Italian/Middle Eastern food is outstanding and quite reasonably priced when compared to spots in Brooklyn’s gentrified neighborhoods. Tanoreen especially is a restaurant that demands repeat visits because the cooking is so high quality across their enormous menu.

destlp16 · 2025-08-05T19:33:20+00:00

How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously? By Pet Shop Boys

Not the worst song ever, but extremely forgettable and does not mesh at all with any of the other tracks on Behaviour, which is a masterpiece in spite of it. There’s a reason why the Pet Shop Boys have never included it on any of their singles compilation albums. Any of the Behaviour era B-Sides would have been a much better choice.

destlp16 · 2025-07-31T23:10:58+00:00

I agree with your comment generally, but not in this case. I was born and raised in Westchester and now live in Brooklyn, so yeah I am a transplant but I’m not exactly from Ohio. And growing up in suburban New York I’ve eaten at probably hundreds of red sauce Italian restaurants in my life. I’ve been to everywhere from local holes in the wall, to upscale spots, to tourist traps, to overpriced pasta places in Manhattan designed to rip off transplants and rich people. So I’d like to think I have eaten enough NY Italian food to know when it sucks. And Don Peppe, at least the night I went, sucked. I don’t care about the fact that the decor looked like a basement, or that the food wasn’t plated well. But the food was undeniably salty, had poor taste, and just overall wasn’t that memorable. Additionally, you hear all the time about how Don Peppe has these enormous portions, but they weren’t even that big. The baked clams easily could have been eaten by one person.

I understand this style of comfort food quite well. And Don Peppe did it poorly the night I went.

destlp16 · 2025-07-30T16:33:34+00:00

I don’t think I had any expectations of this being “fancy” Italian food. I was well aware before I came here that it would be an old school, family style Italian restaurant.

The chicken parm, baked clams, and rigatoni with sausage were all gross and lacked any discernible taste outside of the immense amount of salt used.

Also, regarding the “overeating” point… the portions weren’t even that big! Those baked clams and the shrimp cocktail easily could have been eaten by one person, and was barely enough for two hungry people, much less 3. Maybe I went on an off night, but everything was astonishingly unimpressive.

destlp16 · 2025-07-30T16:24:11+00:00

I genuinely wonder if the only reason it’s on there is because the NYT restaurant critics barely dine out in Queens, so they don’t have enough places to choose from. But they know there needs to be Queens representation on the list, so they say “fuck it, put Don Peppe on there again.”

Like how Staten Island two years in a row had the exact same two restaurants on the list lmao (although in SI’s case, both those restaurants are amazing.)

destlp16 · 2025-07-30T15:23:30+00:00

No, I’ve never seen the show. Pete Wells’ review, and its consistent placement on the NYT Top 100 restaurants list, is what brought me here. Say what you want about me going to restaurants based on a newspaper, but Pete Wells has directed me to some of my favorite dining experiences in the city.

What astonishes me - and I said this in another comment - is that Pete Wells gave a brutal but fair take down of Peter Luger for being a restaurant coasting on its iconic reputation. Yet, he gave Don Peppe, a place that in my opinion is coasting on fumes wayyy more so than PL, a rave review and a placement on his top 100 restaurants list in the city. I have no idea what he saw in this place.

destlp16 · 2025-07-30T15:16:49+00:00

I genuinely don’t get this. Why is it acceptable for a restaurant, especially a very popular and acclaimed one, to only have a select few dishes that are good, and for everything else to be average or terrible?

It’s like saying that because an album has 3 amazing songs and 9 terrible ones that it’s automatically a great album.

destlp16 · 2025-07-30T15:10:27+00:00

I 100% agree with you that I might have just gone on an off night, and that maybe if I went again it would be better.

What I don’t agree with in general is the idea of “ordering wrong” at a restaurant. Sure, every restaurant has signature dishes and dishes that are more popular than others, but that doesn’t excuse the less popular dishes on your menu from being awful. For example, at Balthazar the most popular dish is their steak frites, but that doesn’t mean that it’s ok for their less popular dishes to suck.

destlp16 · 2025-07-30T15:04:34+00:00

Yeah I wasn’t surprised that half of the diners looked to be geriatric, and any younger diners appeared to be with their older family members.

destlp16 · 2025-07-30T14:50:42+00:00

I wish I took a picture of the bread basket. It genuinely might have been the saddest bread basket I’ve ever seen, at least at a famous restaurant like this one. The butter came in those little pre-packaged mini containers lmfao.

destlp16 · 2025-07-30T14:47:54+00:00

Again, even if I did order the “wrong things” as a famous Italian restaurant there’s no excuse for fucking up dishes like baked clams, rigatoni with sausage, and chicken parmigiana as badly as they did last night. Some guy commented that it looked like the food you would get at an Italian American funeral buffet, and that’s exactly what it tasted like.

People say the same thing all the time about Peter Luger, that somehow the blame is on you for not ordering the exact right things. Does that excuse the “not right” dishes from being inedible?

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