SONGS ABOUT OR BY PUPPETS
SONGS ABOUT OR BY PUPPETS
4: METALLICA - Master Of Puppets
Oh, they’re are a jolly band that there Metallica. There are plenty of stupid metal fans who saw Spinal Tap as a documentary, but only one band used it as a blueprint for a career. And Master Of Puppets is what you get if you have absolutely no sense of humour. When you don’t find grown men with long hair and impossibly faded T-Shirts amusing then you have probably lost all of your humanity to start off with and might as well be a puppet.
So what kind of puppeteer is this portentiously titled Master Of Puppets? Well he’s pulling our strings, no doubt, but he is also twisting our mind and smashing our dreams. I assume he is doing this by using sledgehammer riffs and singing which is just sub par for Neaderthal communication. Frankly this is a bit of a rubbish puppeteer, all he seems interested in is getting his puppets to fight and injure each other. And then it all becomes clear.
Master Of Puppets is about a Punch & Judy Man. Suddenly the reason for James Hetfield’s grunty vocals is that it is the only way he can make his kazoo speaking voice sound anything less like Mr Punch. Metallica are an end of the pier act - when will someone push them off? That’s the way to do it!
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Diz on September 18th, 2006
Alcoholism.
Pretty good lyrics actually. And composition that requires a higher IQ than yours, like it or loathe it.
FT's Brettmund on November 9th, 2006
Listen-ye-not.
As an ardent Metallica fan of many years I can tell you that Tanya is ABSOLUTELY SPOT ON in her assessment of the view from the overdrive (overdire?) tower that Hetfield et al built for themselves.
Diz, I think that night you passed out in the bar you were actually drugged and had your sense-of-humour gland removed. Still, doesn’t explain the stains in your pants the next morning.
Diana on June 25th, 2007
I was a Metallica fan in the past, I still like them a bit, I mean “Load” and “Reload”, but I think “Master of Puppets” is a big shit. I think they realy exaggerated with this. All things have a limit and I think they were better than that.