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Meaningless Monday Poll: How Many “The Unforgivens” Are Too Many?
New footage of Metallica performing The Unforgiven 3 live in Norway just surfaced on YouTube. I posted a rant about Metallica’s song-naming convention awhile back (I think that post has since been lost), but basically I was asking why there are three Metallica songs named The Unforgiven? I can’t think of any other band that has done that with a song. Can you imagine Led Zeppelin doing Dazed and Confused 2 or Black Sabbath doing Paranoid 2? Or 3!? Can you imagine Ozzy trying to figure out which version of Paranoid to play? You know that would confuse the shit out of Ozzy.
Besides, repeating the name of your songs kind of takes the meaning out of the original song. The first Unforgiven was an epic hard rock tune that made metal-heads unashamed to bring out the acoustic guitar and sing. Not to mention everyone at parties playing a vicious air guitar along with Hammet’s ballad-esque guitar solo after downing a few brews. Since then, well, it seems that anytime Met want to write a slow song they call it The Unforgiven.
Maybe I’m being too critical though. I mean, who cares what the song title is, right? So, I’ll ask you all this question:
Loading ...Here is the live video of Metallica in Norway performing The Unforgiven 3 for the first time live:
Written by DS
Dan Spiteri is the owner and main shenanigan distributor of Bay Area Metal Scene. When he's not blasting his hearing into oblivion, you can find him doing "outdoorsy" stuff like skiing, bike riding and drinking cheap beer.
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Soulfly have a track called “Soulfly” at the end of every album.
What about Overkill? They have 4 albums ending with a song called Overkill.