Used to be pro-death penalty. Two people changed my mind: Joshua Milton Blahyi and David Berkowitz... aka General Butt Naked and the Son of Sam/.44 caliber killer. No one is too bad for forgiveness, and even the worst can change with God. Seriously, i HIGHLY recommend The Redemption of General Butt Naked, a documentary on Blahyi. That is my religious viewpoint, but people often tell me to keep religion out of politics, so i need a political view divorced from my religious view. My mind is not totally made up on this. 1 practicality: in our society, there is no need to end someone's life to remove the threat they pose to society. 2 false convictions: i don't want to be party to killing an innocent, even at one or two removes. However... Sori, you say there is nothing your children could possibly do to make you think they should be executed, but we are told to love others as we love ourselves... is there anything YOU could possibly do that would male you feel it appropriate for you to be executed? I feel the same as you about the "killing those that deserve it is something i could do", and so when i say that there is certainly something i could do that would make me nod and say, "yes, kill me... it is for the best", maybe you can empathize. (I haven't, i just understand that i have the capacity) So... i cannot be wholeheartedly against the death penalty. Lastly, there is a story about a WWI French general seeing captives after a failed mutiny, who were set to be executed. Seeing they looked dejected and ashamed, he said to stand tall because, "in this way, too, you serve France," ( being executed as a deterrent to future mutinies) There is some truth to that. (Though we do need to weigh individual vs society)
Forget the moral arguments. It's impossible for anyone to agree with the state sentencing and carrying out death sentences. For one reason and one reason only......... they DO and HAVE executed innocent people. 1 innocent person put to death is 1 too many.
"there is no need to end someone's life to remove the threat they pose to society." oh really? because we have prisoners living in our prisons on taxpayers dollars for the rest of their lives (like Charles Manson), who just become more and more hardened. and now with the virus, the dumbasses in the state government want to set them free because of your same line of reasoning: "uwu, they're gonna get the totally not made in china virus", and they're going to kill and rape and steal yet again. consider also if you let criminals live, the cult of personality that grows around them: Manson for one, or his norwegian counterpart varg for another. if they remain, they get to keep spreading their vitriol, thumbing their nose at the system, and proving that there is no such thing as justice.
The guitar solo's in this song, are some of Kirk's greatest work, and are Top 5 in all of Metal history in my opinion. This song is criminally underrated by a lot of people. The whole Ride The Lightning album is a masterpiece, start to finish. \m/ \m/
I would put this album above master of puppets if it didn’t have Escape and Trapped Under Ice on it. They aren’t bad songs but neither of them are on the same level as the other 6 songs.
@@jhamilton1007 For me personally the master of puppets is so matured, it's not speedy, wild, explosive enough. Simply their music just grow up into the mainstream somehow. And while the Kill them all is so young, too raw, and lack of comprehensive, The Ride the lightning is just perfect in all the ways! For me: 1983- Kill them all: A young lion begin his life journey 1984- Ride the lightning: A champion warrior lion at it's best shape 1986- Master of puppet: An experienced and wise king lion
@@robocopvn I think they're all perfect in their own way. Specifically in being able to convey where they were at those points of their lives and career.
I agree!!! Trapped Under Ice is a phenomenal song. I even love Escape. Escape is usually the least favorite song off Ride The Lightning for most fans of the band, but I have always loved it. The band even hate the song Escape. They have only played it live once and that was because they did the album Ride The Lightning in its entirety on their own Orion Festival a few years ago.
@@johnkatsoudas4767 I think it was cunning stunts maybe, that or something else, Kirk and Lars played a min of it to fuck with James. It's James that doesn't like it. I know it's more democratic now than before and also Lars has a lot of input but still, what Papa Het says, goes
Ride the lightning, bring back a lot of memories. I discovered Metallica back in 91-92 when the Black Album was released. Back then, we didn't have any money so I was not able to buy records or cassettes. I got a job during summer vacations and with part of the money I earned, I bought the Ride Lightning cassette tape on a garage sale. Oh man, I was a happy child. Keep in mind by that time, I only knew the singles "Enter Sandman" and "The Unforgiven" since I heard them on the radio. From the first notes of Fight Fire with Fire to the amazing The Call of Ktulu, I was blown away. I was not expecting that raw power, that energy, that heaviness. It became my favorite record until I heard Master of Puppets. But that my friends, it's another story.
Same here. I had heard the radio singles from the black album. One afternoon, the guys across the street were sitting in the front yard with a cooler full of beer and a boombox. They were playing random rock and metal songs. Suddenly I hear this bell ring out a couple times and this riff kicks in. I was like what the hell is that? My introduction to For Whom The Bell Tolls. A few years later when I had the money and CDs had come out, I bought this album. That's when I went from listening to Poison and Bon Jovi to Thrash Metal lol
The Black album opened the doors to a ton of new fans. Myself and friends were listening to them for about ten years prior. They were a changed band by that time for sure. We were fortunate to have experienced both.
One of my all time favs! I saw this tour back in '85, in Sacramento, Ca when they opened for another Bay Area band called Y&T. Cliff Burton was absolutely ruling that show.....they all were. We also saw them at the Day on the Green at Oakland Coliseum as part of the a five or six band line up. Cliff Burton was already a hero of ours, so it was a real privilege to see him live.
Best Metallica period imho. Great riffing and lyrics and also a beast of a bassist player, mr Cliff Burton. Along with Master of puppets, Ride the lighning stands out among all their albums...
Its they're first polished album, but Kill Em All is my fave, cuz of the rawness. Play "Jump In The Fire", the slide squeeking across those brand new strings is So Flippin Cool. I could play that album over & over again just for the raw ness of it. They were baby geniuses. 🎸
Best metallica period: Ride the lightning - And justice for all Black album was good, but not as good as the past album, after that album the band went to shit
Fun fact: Kirk Hammet rode the quote "ride the lightning" from Stephen Kings novel "The Stand". Metallica liked it so much that they took it as the record name.
SUCH a good song, and such a great record. This and Master of Puppets changed my life, and over 30 years after hearing them for the first time, these albums still hold up for me.
To all who are confused about Dave Mustaine contributions on this song, they are : The main riff (1:47) , the bridge right before the vocals (2:07) , and the spider chord descending thing (3:35) which Metallica simplified a bit
@Mark Hammond Metallica used to be better than Megadeth, but that was long long long time ago. Metallica after Black has been one sad experience compared to what Megadeth has been pushing out I love both of them equally, and Megadeth never reached Metallica's peak, but after Black, Megadeth has been better
Just an hour ago I was searching for the reaction video of this song from Vin and Sori...and an hour later here it is hot and fresh from the pan being served to us by them...Love you Vin and Sori
@@libero3493 It's arguably underrated compared to other Metallica songs. But then again, a Metallica fan could say that about other songs, most likely.
You should definitely check out this song on their movie Through The Never, especially the solo when they flip the switch to the electric chair, wild Tesla coils going off so loud you can hear it bussing in the performance
Orion was excellent it would have been awesome to have a few of the new songs from Hardwired on there for sure for me personally Moth Into Flame would be the ideal pick
I spent the longest time not recognizing the electric chair on the album cover. I had no idea what I thought it was, if anything, but never thought about it, until I got a good look at it (probably on a full-size LP cover - the only benefit of vinyl ; larger cover art), and saw it was "the chair". Light bulbs went on, of course - hence the title and such... duh-doi, right?
So let me get this straight.....Vin is a huge Metallica fan ,but has never heard this before and he always thought it was a microphone and not an electric chair on the cover of Ride the Lightning? Now that's some phony crap.
Thought th exact same thing! They're bout as big of Metal fans as I am a rap fan. Jus trying 2 make $$ from TH-cam & Patreon. Every1 who's seen movies knows ' Ride the Lightning ' means electric chair, none th less a " supposed " Metal fan!
Who cares? Not everyone has or wants to dig out every single song from an artist if they're comfortable listening to only a select few songs. Stop being such an edgy elitist.
When i first saw the album cover i thought it was a microphone, but i thought that can't be right, i looked at it again an then i saw the electric chair. And when i heard strapped in the electric chair for the first time then i felt stupid. But then again i was 15 when i fisrt heard it, i am 29 now.I
The album that got me into metal. Had an older cousin who was into the scene and he played this when I spent the night at his house. Been hooked ever since.
The theme of this album (and the next 2 albums) is being controlled, it's not necessarily anti capital punishment (just like disposable heros isn't about antiwar), but from the person's perspective of someone else is controlling me, the movie the green mile comes to mind of something graphical that represents what's describes the content of this song... Metallica were very controversial in those days. In the Metallica movie "through the never" Kirk gets a Tesla coil on stage for the song that electricity comes out. Kirk got the title "ride the lightning from a Steven king book. Dave mustane has a writing credit for the song because they used one of his things he wrote when he was in Metallica
See THIS is the kind of subject matter in songs I love hearing your thoughts on. I don't really have as much time to listen to the discussions after like I used to, so I'm more selective about the discussions I stick around for, but this is a good one! I don't remember you guys ever talking about the death penalty, so this is an interesting one for me! Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to plug in my suggestions, as usual. 😁 Band: Demon Hunter Song: Cross to Bear Demon Hunter is my favorite Metal band and I think you need to revisit them, especially since you loved the last heavy song you did. This song is one of their most aggressive and I think the premise is quite interesting. The vocalist said it's about how people use the expression "it's my cross to bear" and that he hates how people use it so lightly without fully understanding the weight of it. Band: Exodus Song: Sealed With a Fist It's about domestic abuse and it's my personal favorite by them. It's got groove and the lyrics are cleverly written. It always puts a smile on my face because it has a happy ending of sorts. Band: Lamb of God Song: Embers This one, based on my understanding, is about the loss of a newborn. I read an article that had a statement from the guitarist saying it was about his daughter. It's beautiful, tragic, and hopeful at the same time. Band: Iced Earth Song: Damien It's about, well, the son of the Devil. Horror Show was an album about different horror icons and legends like Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman, and Damien. This song is particularly memorable because of its opening bass line, the choir that sings, the crushing riffs, and the "colorful" words against Christ used in Damien's perspective. It's an epic song and I'm morbidly curious to see the looks on your faces after hearing certain lines. Much love! - Manny
Trapped Under Ice is very underrated in my opinion also. Other than the song Escape , Trapped Under Ice has not been performed live by Metallica but a very few times. The few live versions I have listened to of Trapped Under Ice sound phenomenal. Metallica should add it to more of their setlists in the future because it is an amazing song.
Guys please do Trapped Under Ice, from this record. This is such an underrated but great song. WHY DID NOT METALLICA PLAY THIS ON THE GIG IN ANTARCTICA
One of the two songs on the album with Dave Mustaine as a credited song writer. The guitar tones on the album are great. Master would have an overall better mix but thr guitars set a standard for thrash tones. This album was my introduction to this band.
As I was born in USSR in my childhood i was very often thinking what would I do in some situations that happened in WW2. Those were thoughts about numerous terrible situations that were happening almost each day at that war. And these thoughts gave a lot of moments of feeling so small and weak, because i coudlnt imagine if i could be a hero to sacrifice myself in certain circumstances. Ltater, as I grew older i realized that war is in some "grey" area where you shouldnt use your imagination thinking what will happen to you or what will you do ou there in that "grey" area. All I try to say that imaginning what is worse - electric chair, lethal injection or any other form of death penalty lies in the same "grey" area. I think that the only way to be is thinking that "when or if i get there - i will know". In all other case - you cant know. "Grey" area can be explored only when you are inside that "grey" area.
@@brunopinheiro1632 Didn't mean technically as in technicality musicianship wise. Just mean like how the album is structured/flows/consistency and that sort of thing.
Ride the lightning is pretty much about death, almost every song is about tragedy, electric chairs, being trapped under ice, suicide and 2 songs are about the grim reaper, so yep, its a masterpiece album. lol
My introduction to Metallica was this album. It started with a question about a metal up your ass shirt. My friend didn't have his "Kill em All" cassette handy, but we listened to Ride The Lightning. This was all a few weeks before Master of Puppets came out. Those 2 albums are still my favorite Metallica albums. Songs are amazing.
RIP Cliff...Surprised Vin hadn't heard this before, This is one of their bigger tunes. Had this on Cassette, Record/Viynl, and CD at one point in time, Think I still have the CD somewhere.
It's foreign to me that you saw a microphone and then realized it's an electric chair. Over the last 30 years I've owned multiple copies of RTL in multiple formats and never thought that it could be anything other than an electric chair. But it does look like a microphone. And it makes me wonder how many other people think it's a microphone. It's very odd to see a very familiar picture for 30 years and then have the processing of that image turned on its side. Thank you for that.
Ride The Lightning is the first Metallica album I ever listened to back in 1987 at nine years old and it blew my mind at how aggressive and heavy it was. I have never listened to anything like that before and I loved it immediately. That is what I have always loved about Hard Rock/Heavy Metal music was the heaviness and aggression. All these years later Ride The Lightning is still my favorite Metallica album. I love every song on it, including Trapped Under Ice and Escape. I am happy that Metallica finally have remastered their first four albums a few years ago because they were way overdue . The first four studio albums have always been my favorites and they sound better than ever now that they have been remastered. They also did big boxsets for each one with alot of unreleased live songs and demos but they are expensive. They only did deluxe editions for Master Of Puppets and And Justice For All which is a more reasonable price. I wish that the first two also got deluxe edition releases. I agree with Vin that it is amazing the quality of music that Metallica did on the Ride The Lightning album at how young they were. Metallica in my opinion is one band that were at their peak of creativity in the first ten years of their career. They still made great music after the first four albums , but it was never as amazing for me. Great review of this song. I agree with Vin also on that I could not even be the person to pull the switch to an electric chair. I could never do it because I have no right to end anyone's life. The only way I could ever be capable of killing someone is for self defense.
The LIVE version, "Day on the Green 1985" concert is so good, y'all should check it out! It's about a guy wrongfully convicted an sentenced to death in an electric chair, hence ride the lightening..........
One of the greatest metal albums of all time hands down. I think as an album I prefer it over master but master slightly beats it just to the overall impact it had on music.
So... Majority of us thought the same perspective! At first time when we observe the album cover, it's a microphone and later... Oh! It's an electric chair!
Trapped under ice and escape are also there and the call of ktulu is a fcking masterpiece, could you please react to these, especially the call of ktulu, cliff is killing it on that as well as the whole band
Dead man Walking is the movie with Susan Suranden and Jeff Spicoli( I know this not his name but his name is escaping me so that's one of his other characters)
I remember one time when I was about 16 me and my dad were driving and listening to this on the highway. As we were getting off, the song was turned up very loud and he was so engulfed into the song that he almost ran straight into an oncoming fire truck. Honestly one of the most frightening times of my life, and one of the reasons I no longer listen to Metallica on the highway.
I suggest a metallica instrumental. It's called Suicide and Redemption. I seen you did the others. You'll love this one. It's off of their death magnetic album.
Way back when, when I bought my first stereo system and was picking out speakers, i made the salesman play this tape. Creeping Death specifically. I bought the speakers.
Late...but Ride the Lightning is a taken from Stephen King's "The Stand," where King uses it to refer to the electric chair. In the book, a man charged with murder is discussing his options with his lawyer, and asks what happens if SCOTUS rejects his appeal, to which his lawyer responds "Why, then you go on to Death Row at state prison and just enjoy all that good food until it's time to ride the lightning." Hammett was reading The Stand while they were recording Kill Em All, saw that phrase, and mentioned it to James, who loved it.
sheesh, Sori, didn't you ever watch Green Mile??? still trying to learn this solo, lol... how about Snowblind by Black Sabbath... haven't heard you do that one...
Used to be pro-death penalty.
Two people changed my mind: Joshua Milton Blahyi and David Berkowitz... aka General Butt Naked and the Son of Sam/.44 caliber killer.
No one is too bad for forgiveness, and even the worst can change with God.
Seriously, i HIGHLY recommend The Redemption of General Butt Naked, a documentary on Blahyi.
That is my religious viewpoint, but people often tell me to keep religion out of politics, so i need a political view divorced from my religious view. My mind is not totally made up on this.
1 practicality: in our society, there is no need to end someone's life to remove the threat they pose to society.
2 false convictions: i don't want to be party to killing an innocent, even at one or two removes.
However...
Sori, you say there is nothing your children could possibly do to make you think they should be executed, but we are told to love others as we love ourselves... is there anything YOU could possibly do that would male you feel it appropriate for you to be executed? I feel the same as you about the "killing those that deserve it is something i could do", and so when i say that there is certainly something i could do that would make me nod and say, "yes, kill me... it is for the best", maybe you can empathize. (I haven't, i just understand that i have the capacity)
So... i cannot be wholeheartedly against the death penalty.
Lastly, there is a story about a WWI French general seeing captives after a failed mutiny, who were set to be executed. Seeing they looked dejected and ashamed, he said to stand tall because, "in this way, too, you serve France," ( being executed as a deterrent to future mutinies)
There is some truth to that. (Though we do need to weigh individual vs society)
Forget the moral arguments. It's impossible for anyone to agree with the state sentencing and carrying out death sentences. For one reason and one reason only......... they DO and HAVE executed innocent people. 1 innocent person put to death is 1 too many.
"there is no need to end someone's life to remove the threat they pose to society."
oh really? because we have prisoners living in our prisons on taxpayers dollars for the rest of their lives (like Charles Manson), who just become more and more hardened. and now with the virus, the dumbasses in the state government want to set them free because of your same line of reasoning: "uwu, they're gonna get the totally not made in china virus", and they're going to kill and rape and steal yet again.
consider also if you let criminals live, the cult of personality that grows around them: Manson for one, or his norwegian counterpart varg for another. if they remain, they get to keep spreading their vitriol, thumbing their nose at the system, and proving that there is no such thing as justice.
Fantastic points Rhoetus
@@OneTrueVikingbard don't give them interviews or make documentaries about them. Media made Manson.
Quite the essay you've got here. Is your forgiveness why catholic priests are still being prosecuted for raping kids?
When you've heard this song one million times and can notice the slight change in tempo and tuning in this video...
Thank god. I thought I was tripping up.
It is slower 100%
Why though?
The guitar solo's in this song, are some of Kirk's greatest work, and are Top 5 in all of Metal history in my opinion. This song is criminally underrated by a lot of people. The whole Ride The Lightning album is a masterpiece, start to finish. \m/ \m/
I honestly like this album more than master of puppets. Ride the lightening is my favorite metallica song hands down.
Hell yeah man
TheNotoriousJef It has that great mix between Kirk riffs, James riffs, Cliff riffs, and Dave riffs, which is why I like it more than MoP
I would put this album above master of puppets if it didn’t have Escape and Trapped Under Ice on it. They aren’t bad songs but neither of them are on the same level as the other 6 songs.
Charles Hendrix Are you high? Trapped Under Ice is the best song on the album by far
Sori is right, it's an electric chair. "Ride The Lightning" is a metaphor for getting the electric chair
IKR, how did see a microphone..
...Vin was the one to mention that it is an electric chair. Get off your high horse, white knight.
@@malolux5862 Vin thought it was a mic stand at first lol. Fuck outta here
The scream in the back when James says “I don’t want to die” is actually Lars, plus Lars wrote the intro riff to the song.
99% sure not Lars.
@@vannacee26 Lars is the one screaming
@@vannacee26 th-cam.com/video/VGdG12VIEBI/w-d-xo.html go to 2:03
@Nicholas Rivera I said "when *James* says "I don't want to die"....
Lars did write the opening riff, correct. The rest of the song musically was Mustaine with Hetfields lyrics and Kirk's solo's.
People hail the Master of Puppets. But I love "ride the lightning" the most
Yep - it's simply RTL Part II ... an inferior one at that!
They're both Metal classics, but for different reasons.
@@jhamilton1007
For me personally the master of puppets is so matured, it's not speedy, wild, explosive enough. Simply their music just grow up into the mainstream somehow.
And while the Kill them all is so young, too raw, and lack of comprehensive, The Ride the lightning is just perfect in all the ways!
For me:
1983- Kill them all: A young lion begin his life journey
1984- Ride the lightning: A champion warrior lion at it's best shape
1986- Master of puppet: An experienced and wise king lion
@@robocopvn I think they're all perfect in their own way. Specifically in being able to convey where they were at those points of their lives and career.
Same!
And now we will wait for Trapped Under Ice, one of their best and most underrated song in my opinion
I wouldn't call it one of the best but it is truly and criminally underrated
My absolute fav !
I agree!!! Trapped Under Ice is a phenomenal song. I even love Escape. Escape is usually the least favorite song off Ride The Lightning for most fans of the band, but I have always loved it. The band even hate the song Escape. They have only played it live once and that was because they did the album Ride The Lightning in its entirety on their own Orion Festival a few years ago.
@@johnkatsoudas4767 I think it was cunning stunts maybe, that or something else, Kirk and Lars played a min of it to fuck with James. It's James that doesn't like it. I know it's more democratic now than before and also Lars has a lot of input but still, what Papa Het says, goes
Escape
Ride the lightning, bring back a lot of memories. I discovered Metallica back in 91-92 when the Black Album was released. Back then, we didn't have any money so I was not able to buy records or cassettes. I got a job during summer vacations and with part of the money I earned, I bought the Ride Lightning cassette tape on a garage sale. Oh man, I was a happy child. Keep in mind by that time, I only knew the singles "Enter Sandman" and "The Unforgiven" since I heard them on the radio.
From the first notes of Fight Fire with Fire to the amazing The Call of Ktulu, I was blown away. I was not expecting that raw power, that energy, that heaviness. It became my favorite record until I heard Master of Puppets. But that my friends, it's another story.
Same here. I had heard the radio singles from the black album. One afternoon, the guys across the street were sitting in the front yard with a cooler full of beer and a boombox. They were playing random rock and metal songs. Suddenly I hear this bell ring out a couple times and this riff kicks in. I was like what the hell is that? My introduction to For Whom The Bell Tolls. A few years later when I had the money and CDs had come out, I bought this album. That's when I went from listening to Poison and Bon Jovi to Thrash Metal lol
@@plantdesigns7889 that's an amazing story. I miss those good old days :D
The Black album opened the doors to a ton of new fans. Myself and friends were listening to them for about ten years prior. They were a changed band by that time for sure. We were fortunate to have experienced both.
"Until I heard Master of Puppets .."
Yes. That's the definition of "raw power" ;)
I love that this song starts out "Guilty as charged"
One of my all time favs! I saw this tour back in '85, in Sacramento, Ca when they opened for another Bay Area band called Y&T. Cliff Burton was absolutely ruling that show.....they all were. We also saw them at the Day on the Green at Oakland Coliseum as part of the a five or six band line up. Cliff Burton was already a hero of ours, so it was a real privilege to see him live.
That solo part is just EPIC. One of my favourites.
1000%
Best Metallica period imho. Great riffing and lyrics and also a beast of a bassist player, mr Cliff Burton. Along with Master of puppets, Ride the lighning stands out among all their albums...
Its they're first polished album, but Kill Em All is my fave, cuz of the rawness.
Play "Jump In The Fire", the slide squeeking across those brand new strings is So Flippin Cool. I could play that album over & over again just for the raw ness of it.
They were baby geniuses. 🎸
Best metallica period:
Ride the lightning - And justice for all
Black album was good, but not as good as the past album, after that album the band went to shit
Fun fact: Kirk Hammet rode the quote "ride the lightning" from Stephen Kings novel "The Stand". Metallica liked it so much that they took it as the record name.
There is no bad song on this album!
The song that got me hooked on metal at 12 years old. Great song and still a favorite to this day
SUCH a good song, and such a great record. This and Master of Puppets changed my life, and over 30 years after hearing them for the first time, these albums still hold up for me.
To all who are confused about Dave Mustaine contributions on this song, they are :
The main riff (1:47)
, the bridge right before the vocals (2:07)
, and the spider chord descending thing (3:35) which Metallica simplified a bit
you know the dave songs!!
Was just about to write a similar less detailed post, good job
@Mark Hammond yea probably it is, we know it mate
@Mark Hammond No Megadeth is better than metalic suck...
@Mark Hammond Metallica used to be better than Megadeth, but that was long long long time ago. Metallica after Black has been one sad experience compared to what Megadeth has been pushing out
I love both of them equally, and Megadeth never reached Metallica's peak, but after Black, Megadeth has been better
Just an hour ago I was searching for the reaction video of this song from Vin and Sori...and an hour later here it is hot and fresh from the pan being served to us by them...Love you Vin and Sori
The tuning is off. I get that it's for copyright, but damn it sounds bad
Archiwum Johnego is it just me or does it also feels a little slower too?
@@Anthony-nk4ky Yes, just a little bit slower and lower. It makes the song loose a bit of dynamics.
technically this is what it sounded like before they sped up the tape in 1984 for the album
@@billrobertjoe Ok, thanks, good to know. Does it mean this is the original vinyl version?
@@jol9178 no, it means it was slowed down, a vinyl can be played at any speed
Best Metallica album for me from front to back...got it the day it was released and changed everything about metal.
my second favorite to master, but a great choice for best!
Mark Hammond holy shit dude. He just said it was his favorite album.....
You should do 'Trapped Under Ice' from this album, heavily underrated
Classic
Well,actually for me is overrated
@@libero3493 lol how?
@@libero3493 It's arguably underrated compared to other Metallica songs. But then again, a Metallica fan could say that about other songs, most likely.
please do trapped under ice and escape. the whole album is great :)
You should definitely check out this song on their movie Through The Never, especially the solo when they flip the switch to the electric chair, wild Tesla coils going off so loud you can hear it bussing in the performance
The footage of it is on their channel, cut as a regular live performance.
Great Movie.
I LOVED "ORION" at the end.
And "Creeping Death" was a great scene.
Orion was excellent it would have been awesome to have a few of the new songs from Hardwired on there for sure for me personally Moth Into Flame would be the ideal pick
0:43
"You guys are never ever in your life gonna find a channel like Vin and Sori"
Probably true
I rather just see her reaction, don't care to keep seeing his dumb air guitar thing.
I spent the longest time not recognizing the electric chair on the album cover. I had no idea what I thought it was, if anything, but never thought about it, until I got a good look at it (probably on a full-size LP cover - the only benefit of vinyl ; larger cover art), and saw it was "the chair". Light bulbs went on, of course - hence the title and such... duh-doi, right?
So let me get this straight.....Vin is a huge Metallica fan ,but has never heard this before and he always thought it was a microphone and not an electric chair on the cover of Ride the Lightning? Now that's some phony crap.
Hahahaha
Thought th exact same thing! They're bout as big of Metal fans as I am a rap fan. Jus trying 2 make $$ from TH-cam & Patreon. Every1 who's seen movies knows ' Ride the Lightning ' means electric chair, none th less a " supposed " Metal fan!
Who cares? Not everyone has or wants to dig out every single song from an artist if they're comfortable listening to only a select few songs. Stop being such an edgy elitist.
When i first saw the album cover i thought it was a microphone, but i thought that can't be right, i looked at it again an then i saw the electric chair. And when i heard strapped in the electric chair for the first time then i felt stupid. But then again i was 15 when i fisrt heard it, i am 29 now.I
@@Leafsfan91 how does a chair look like a microphone? I dont get it
“I thought that was a microphone the whole time. .” “It’s an electric chair.” 😆
The album that got me into metal. Had an older cousin who was into the scene and he played this when I spent the night at his house. Been hooked ever since.
such a great listen! there is not one skip or insignificant song on this album! trapped under ice or fight fire with fire two favorites
Love to see you guys rocking out
What's with the song audio? Sounds lower and slower. Is that the video that was used or was something done during the editing process?
Dang back to back days of my favorite bands for once
The theme of this album (and the next 2 albums) is being controlled, it's not necessarily anti capital punishment (just like disposable heros isn't about antiwar), but from the person's perspective of someone else is controlling me, the movie the green mile comes to mind of something graphical that represents what's describes the content of this song... Metallica were very controversial in those days. In the Metallica movie "through the never" Kirk gets a Tesla coil on stage for the song that electricity comes out. Kirk got the title "ride the lightning from a Steven king book. Dave mustane has a writing credit for the song because they used one of his things he wrote when he was in Metallica
Trapped Under Ice is probably their most underrated song on this album.
See THIS is the kind of subject matter in songs I love hearing your thoughts on. I don't really have as much time to listen to the discussions after like I used to, so I'm more selective about the discussions I stick around for, but this is a good one! I don't remember you guys ever talking about the death penalty, so this is an interesting one for me!
Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to plug in my suggestions, as usual. 😁
Band: Demon Hunter
Song: Cross to Bear
Demon Hunter is my favorite Metal band and I think you need to revisit them, especially since you loved the last heavy song you did. This song is one of their most aggressive and I think the premise is quite interesting. The vocalist said it's about how people use the expression "it's my cross to bear" and that he hates how people use it so lightly without fully understanding the weight of it.
Band: Exodus
Song: Sealed With a Fist
It's about domestic abuse and it's my personal favorite by them. It's got groove and the lyrics are cleverly written. It always puts a smile on my face because it has a happy ending of sorts.
Band: Lamb of God
Song: Embers
This one, based on my understanding, is about the loss of a newborn. I read an article that had a statement from the guitarist saying it was about his daughter. It's beautiful, tragic, and hopeful at the same time.
Band: Iced Earth
Song: Damien
It's about, well, the son of the Devil. Horror Show was an album about different horror icons and legends like Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman, and Damien. This song is particularly memorable because of its opening bass line, the choir that sings, the crushing riffs, and the "colorful" words against Christ used in Damien's perspective. It's an epic song and I'm morbidly curious to see the looks on your faces after hearing certain lines.
Much love!
- Manny
This is my favorite metallica album period every song on this is great
What a ridiculously amazing album. Earth shaking
The whole solo section of this song is my favorite part of any Metallica song.
first album i bought by metallica, first song i heard was creeping death which made me buy it, and saw them live at donnington 1985
Trapped under ice is, for me, the best in the whole album
What is the story about that?
Trapped Under Ice is very underrated in my opinion also. Other than the song Escape , Trapped Under Ice has not been performed live by Metallica but a very few times. The few live versions I have listened to of Trapped Under Ice sound phenomenal. Metallica should add it to more of their setlists in the future because it is an amazing song.
@@johnkatsoudas4767 Agree 100%
Yeah, for long time I thought that was a mic too, just until I analize the cover closer. You are not alone, Vin. welcome to the club.
do you no wat version of ride the lightning is cause its a bit slowed and its amazing
I also thought the cover was a microphone when I first saw it. Then I put the record on and looked at it at the same time. Quite a realization.
Guys please do Trapped Under Ice, from this record. This is such an underrated but great song. WHY DID NOT METALLICA PLAY THIS ON THE GIG IN ANTARCTICA
One of the two songs on the album with Dave Mustaine as a credited song writer. The guitar tones on the album are great. Master would have an overall better mix but thr guitars set a standard for thrash tones. This album was my introduction to this band.
As I was born in USSR in my childhood i was very often thinking what would I do in some situations that happened in WW2. Those were thoughts about numerous terrible situations that were happening almost each day at that war. And these thoughts gave a lot of moments of feeling so small and weak, because i coudlnt imagine if i could be a hero to sacrifice myself in certain circumstances. Ltater, as I grew older i realized that war is in some "grey" area where you shouldnt use your imagination thinking what will happen to you or what will you do ou there in that "grey" area. All I try to say that imaginning what is worse - electric chair, lethal injection or any other form of death penalty lies in the same "grey" area. I think that the only way to be is thinking that "when or if i get there - i will know". In all other case - you cant know. "Grey" area can be explored only when you are inside that "grey" area.
INCREDIBLE album, literally. It was exactly what I was Hungry for back in the mid 80s, PERFECT album for me back then.
Favorite Metallica album. Master of Puppets may be technically "better", but the darker atmosphere of Ride the Lightning just gets me going \m/
Metallica and technically two words combined that can't make sense.
@@brunopinheiro1632 Didn't mean technically as in technicality musicianship wise. Just mean like how the album is structured/flows/consistency and that sort of thing.
Ride the lightning is pretty much about death, almost every song is about tragedy, electric chairs, being trapped under ice, suicide and 2 songs are about the grim reaper, so yep, its a masterpiece album. lol
@@brunopinheiro1632 no need to open the hangar doors now, c'mon
Favorite Metallica album for me. I love James' vocals and the way the album just has an ominous and dark sound it.
It's the reverb in the sound .. love this album !!
My introduction to Metallica was this album. It started with a question about a metal up your ass shirt. My friend didn't have his "Kill em All" cassette handy, but we listened to Ride The Lightning. This was all a few weeks before Master of Puppets came out. Those 2 albums are still my favorite Metallica albums. Songs are amazing.
RIP Cliff...Surprised Vin hadn't heard this before, This is one of their bigger tunes. Had this on Cassette, Record/Viynl, and CD at one point in time, Think I still have the CD somewhere.
You should do Trapped Under Ice. Underrated gem
It's foreign to me that you saw a microphone and then realized it's an electric chair.
Over the last 30 years I've owned multiple copies of RTL in multiple formats and never thought that it could be anything other than an electric chair.
But it does look like a microphone. And it makes me wonder how many other people think it's a microphone.
It's very odd to see a very familiar picture for 30 years and then have the processing of that image turned on its side. Thank you for that.
Wait, where did "an eye for an eye" come from?
I wore my Ride the Lightning shirt and then this popped up, WHAT THE HELL?
You guys should react to the live version of this from Mexico 2009. It's insane
Hello from Brazil !! I love United states, and metallica!! We love vin and sory!!!!!!
clicked so fast. just got the lightening backpatch on my battle jacket \m/
Ride The Lightning is the first Metallica album I ever listened to back in 1987 at nine years old and it blew my mind at how aggressive and heavy it was. I have never listened to anything like that before and I loved it immediately. That is what I have always loved about Hard Rock/Heavy Metal music was the heaviness and aggression. All these years later Ride The Lightning is still my favorite Metallica album. I love every song on it, including Trapped Under Ice and Escape. I am happy that Metallica finally have remastered their first four albums a few years ago because they were way overdue . The first four studio albums have always been my favorites and they sound better than ever now that they have been remastered. They also did big boxsets for each one with alot of unreleased live songs and demos but they are expensive. They only did deluxe editions for Master Of Puppets and And Justice For All which is a more reasonable price. I wish that the first two also got deluxe edition releases. I agree with Vin that it is amazing the quality of music that Metallica did on the Ride The Lightning album at how young they were. Metallica in my opinion is one band that were at their peak of creativity in the first ten years of their career. They still made great music after the first four albums , but it was never as amazing for me. Great review of this song. I agree with Vin also on that I could not even be the person to pull the switch to an electric chair. I could never do it because I have no right to end anyone's life. The only way I could ever be capable of killing someone is for self defense.
The LIVE version, "Day on the Green 1985" concert is so good, y'all should check it out! It's about a guy wrongfully convicted an sentenced to death in an electric chair, hence ride the lightening..........
That performance is worth it alone, just to watch a young headbanging Cliff Burton.
The first line is "Guilty as charged".....not sure he's innocent....
''Explain to me the feeling after sitting in the chair''. Who sang that?
Yessssss, you're reacting to my suggestion
Ooooh they listened to it “a half step down” (Eb) version 😍
It’s a slower version the real song is a tiny bit faster
I was looking for a comment noticing this.
Yeah right? I've heard it a little bit slower
@@maatias.herrera And a bit lower too.
They do it on purpose when they edit the video to try and get ads
Yup
One of the greatest metal albums of all time hands down. I think as an album I prefer it over master but master slightly beats it just to the overall impact it had on music.
I also thought it was a microphone until I bought a "ride the lighting"-shirt and I suddenly realised what´s on it. xD
Music that brings feelings like the ones you feel when you hear this kind of music will never be made again
You HAVE to check out Trapped Under Ice from this album. TOTAL BANGER and one of my favorites from them. Highly underrated song.
I used to have the tshirt with the glow in the dark skeleton dude getting electri- fried on it. I remember wearing it to the movies.
Metallica - Fixxxer I've been waiting for someone to finally get to it.
Gayle-Ann Rumsby and starting that one up...now!
Yesss!
Heh...damn bro.... I gotta call into question you not knowing that was an electric chair. And yes, that album was FIRE.
How could he be a Metallica fan and not notice, haha. Literally says, “strapped in the electric chair”. Edited for fucked up spelling
My very first Metallica album. Fade to Black is my favorite Metallica song to this day.
I love this song and album, my favorite from them!
A cool fact that few people will ever know or realize The lightning bolts hitting the electric chair form into the letter M for MetallicA.
Has anyone noticed that the lightning on the album cover has the shape of an M?
oh yea never noticed that before, good eye
Now that....... is what I am talking!
Early Metallica... raw and focused
Man I miss those days
One of the greatest metal songs ever 🤘🎸🥁🎤
It's a good thing you guys reacted to the SONG... at 35:00 of the video ?
This album is up there in my top 3 of Metallica albums...This song is one of my favorites and this solo is one of Kirk's best...
They finally reacted to their best song
So... Majority of us thought the same perspective! At first time when we observe the album cover, it's a microphone and later... Oh! It's an electric chair!
Trapped under ice and escape are also there and the call of ktulu is a fcking masterpiece, could you please react to these, especially the call of ktulu, cliff is killing it on that as well as the whole band
@Strangerdeath They already did Ktulu.
@@jeremyboehm5512 OK, thanks for info
@@stangerdeath9555 NP
I think every song on this album deserves a review....or a just a listen at the least.
I used to think that the electric chair on the album cover was a generator, boy I was dumb when I was younger
This and Blackened my two favorite Metallica solos
Dead man Walking is the movie with Susan Suranden and Jeff Spicoli( I know this not his name but his name is escaping me so that's one of his other characters)
You never knew what the term ride the lightening means.
This album was awesome. Trapped under ice good.
I remember one time when I was about 16 me and my dad were driving and listening to this on the highway. As we were getting off, the song was turned up very loud and he was so engulfed into the song that he almost ran straight into an oncoming fire truck. Honestly one of the most frightening times of my life, and one of the reasons I no longer listen to Metallica on the highway.
You should really check out the finale of this perfect album. Call of ktulu, their best instrumental imo. Cheers!
“Lamech was the first rapper, he had all these women “ 🤣🤣
Love the Tremonti shirt Sori!
React to Metallica - So what (Most emotional song ever)
Ork _ oz
Just for the reaction alone.
@@user-SeniorClay that song remembers my late goat everytime :((
Ork _ oz
The heart wants what the heart wants. Lol
You know it's a cover version of The Anti knowhere league song, an English punk band from 70s and 80s dont you?
@@jochencooper2751 yes I know and I want him to react Metallica's version. R u happy now?
I'm glad I wasn't the only thinking it was a microphone.
I suggest a metallica instrumental. It's called Suicide and Redemption. I seen you did the others. You'll love this one. It's off of their death magnetic album.
Way back when, when I bought my first stereo system and was picking out speakers, i made the salesman play this tape. Creeping Death specifically. I bought the speakers.
It’s been said many times already and I love it- but again, this song is criminally underrated for reasons I have no idea..it fucking rocks.
When that second solo kicks in with that rhythm... thrash perfection.
Cool little main riff there by MegaDave 🤘🎸
Late...but Ride the Lightning is a taken from Stephen King's "The Stand," where King uses it to refer to the electric chair. In the book, a man charged with murder is discussing his options with his lawyer, and asks what happens if SCOTUS rejects his appeal, to which his lawyer responds "Why, then you go on to Death Row at state prison and just enjoy all that good food until it's time to ride the lightning."
Hammett was reading The Stand while they were recording Kill Em All, saw that phrase, and mentioned it to James, who loved it.
Vin, you amaze me with your knowledge of the Scriptures. GOD Bless and keep being you!
Spare the 99 for the 1.
sheesh, Sori, didn't you ever watch Green Mile??? still trying to learn this solo, lol... how about Snowblind by Black Sabbath... haven't heard you do that one...