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Metallica Concerts, 1982-2012 [Infographics]
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I am so glad that some people have a lot of time on their hands. This is awesome.
A few interesting observations:
1. Metallica seems to have realized themselves that St Anger wasn't something they wanted to play after that tour. The Load album seems to have been similarly dropped pretty hard.
2. It appears they never even tried playing the majority of Reload live. This is interesting to me as a musician, because I'd have thought that Metallica would be the type of band to try a lot of their songs live before recording them, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
3. Very shocked that they never played Unforgiven II live, since it was a single and everything.
4. I really liked the Audience vs Band chart.
I am so glad that some people have a lot of time on their hands. This is awesome.
I know! Now, imagine if those same people also had good taste in music... That would be so cool!
With no evidence I feel that this is something of a trend at the moment; I've recently battled our designers when they have sacrificed readability.
I'm 29 and have excellent vision, I can't imagine how hard this could be to read for people who don't.
Which song should they play?
I don't think the answer to that question is a random mix of the songs with 40% song A, I think the answer is 100% song A. If you play any of the other songs, you make 20% of the audience happy, if you play A you make 40% happy, it strictly dominates. In other words, I don't think playing the songs at a concert in proportion to their last.fm statistics makes sense since at home listeners have as much time as they want but concert time is a limited resource that should be used on the best songs.
So I would be interested in the rank order of listening stats vs. rank order of concert songs and look for anomalies. Unforgiven (I, II, III?) are probably going to make that list since I've actually heard of that one and I am definitely not a Metallica fan.
This is pretty cool. A few interesting observations: 1. Metallica seems to have realized themselves that St Anger wasn't something they wanted to play after that tour. The Load album seems to have been similarly dropped pretty hard. 2. It appears they never even tried playing the majority of Reload live. This is interesting to me as a musician, because I'd have thought that Metallica would be the type of band to try…
This is pretty cool. A few interesting observations: 1. Metallica seems to have realized themselves that St Anger wasn't something they wanted to play after that tour. The Load album seems to have been similarly dropped pretty hard. 2. It appears they never even tried playing the majority of Reload live. This is interesting to me as a musician, because I'd have thought that Metallica would be the type of band to try…
In general, they didn't play new stuff live.
Here's to hoping they play fixxxer live one day.