{"id":735,"date":"2011-07-13T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=735"},"modified":"2011-07-12T21:19:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T01:19:34","slug":"july-video-challenge-metallica-unforgiven-nin-head-like-a-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2011\/07\/13\/july-video-challenge-metallica-unforgiven-nin-head-like-a-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"July Video Challenge: Metallica, Unforgiven \/ NIN, Head Like A Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creepy black and white imagery: check. James Hetfield and co. with all of their hair and the occasional ridiculous moustache: check.\u00c2\u00a0 Reminder of why so many hard rock stations had “Mandatory Metallica<\/a>” bits: also check.<\/p>\n

This is not the song that caused me to become a Metallica fan – that was One<\/em> – but it is certainly among my favorite tracks. They would go on to name two more songs “Unforgiven” but this one, from their fifth record, entitled Metallica<\/em>, aka The Black Album, is the one that I think of as Original and Best. Also, The Black Album was the one I used to put on almost every night to listen to as I was winding down to sleep.<\/p>\n

And now i have just discovered that, in what I can only call as CLASSIC METALLICA MOVE, I can’t embed the damned thing to share with you. I promise the click-through<\/a> to YouTube will be worth it, though.<\/p>\n

Or you can watch a classic video from a band on the other end of the sharing spectrum: Nine Inch Nails<\/a>. I was in to them before I was in to Metallica, and, because MTV used to play them back to back, I often used to mute the video for One<\/em> while waiting, impatiently, <\/em>for Head Like a Hole<\/em> to come on. So have some skinny, angry, dreadlock-flinging Trent Reznor:<\/p>\n

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Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole<\/div><\/div>
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