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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 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.

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They stopped playing St Anger material after that tour because that album/tour almost broke them up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Kind_of_Monster_(film)

But probably also because it's awful.

Am I only the person ever to like Load? I know it's not their best, but I still enjoyed it.

I didn't mind it, despite a couple of weaker tracks. Don't think I bought Reload though and barely listened to St Anger.

At some point, I reckon Hetfield lost the magic and was forcing things from that point.

I enjoyed Load and Reload, gave up after buying St Anger.

Favourite album is S&M.

My observations were similar, but more generally: notice that everything until the Black Album gets played at concerts, while everything after that just tapers off quickly.

Which doesn't surprise me, as I think their work used to be much better in the past.

I would imagine they don't play The Unforgiven trilogy live much because they seem to be more mainstream than what their fans (at the concerts) would like.

They've played Unforgiven II once live. Check the graphic again. I think the video is on youtube.

In general, they didn't play new stuff live.

Here's to hoping they play fixxxer live one day.

Amen to that.

From the same album, I was really shocked they'd never played Prince Charming live. Can really imagine that going down a storm, it's just the right pace for a good gig song.

Throw in them and 2x4 for your next setlist please :-) Bit of variety's good and I can imagine them all going down well.

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