Metallica-...And Justice for All–SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE LP–Speed Thrash Metal

$

26

BAND: Metallica

ITEM: ...And Justice for All  2LP

YEAR: 1988  

LABEL: Vertigo

CONDITION (see legend below):

COVER GRADE:  VERY GOOD +++

VINYL GRADE: NEAR MINT

Review

by Steve Huey

The most immediately noticeable aspect of ...And Justice for All isn't Metallica's still-growing compositional sophistication or the apocalyptic lyrical portrait of a society in decay. It's the weird, bone-dry production. The guitars buzz thinly, the drums click more than pound, and Jason Newsted's bass is nearly inaudible. It's a shame that the cold, flat sound obscures some of the sonic details, because ...And Justice for All is Metallica's most complex, ambitious work; every song is an expanded suite, with only two of the nine tracks clocking in at under six minutes. It takes a while to sink in, but given time, ...And Justice for All reveals some of Metallica's best material. It also reveals the band's determination to pull out all the compositional stops, throwing in extra sections, odd-numbered time signatures, and dense webs of guitar arpeggios and harmonized leads. At times, it seems like they're doing it simply because they can; parts of the album lack direction and probably should have been trimmed for momentum's sake. Pacing-wise, the album again loosely follows the blueprint of Ride the Lightning, though not as closely as Master of Puppets. This time around, the fourth song -- once again a ballad with a thrashy chorus and outro -- gave the band one of the unlikeliest Top 40 singles in history; "One" was an instant metal classic, based on Dalton Trumbo's antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun and climaxing with a pulverizing machine-gun imitation. As a whole, opinions on ...And Justice for All remain somewhat divided: some think it's a slightly flawed masterpiece and the pinnacle of Metallica's progressive years; others see it as bloated and overambitious. Either interpretation can be readily supported, but the band had clearly taken this direction as far as it could. The difficulty of reproducing these songs in concert eventually convinced Metallica that it was time for an overhaul.

Title

Composer

Time

1

Blackened

Hammett, Hetfield, Newsted, Ulrich

6:40

2

...And Justice for All

Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich

9:44

3

Eye of the Beholder

Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich

6:25

4

One

Hetfield, Ulrich

7:24

5

The Shortest Straw

Hetfield, Ulrich

6:35

6

Harvester of Sorrow

Hetfield, Ulrich

5:42

7

The Frayed Ends of Sanity

Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich

7:40

8

To Live Is to Die

Burton, Hetfield, Ulrich

9:48

9

Dyers Eve

Hammett, Hetfield, Ulrich

5:12

Cover Grade Legend

Very Good+++ (VG+++) - Very little wear, nice finish

Very Good++ (VG++) - Very light wear including small amount of edge wear and/or surface/ring wear

Very Good+ (VG+) - Light to normal wear including some edge and/or surface/ring wear

Very Good (VG) - Normal to heavy wear including one or more rough or partially split edges

Very Good- (VG-) - One or more rough or partially split edges, affected by moisture or dampness.

Good (G) - Badly worn or damaged and/or including one or more completely split edges, barely usable

Vinyl Grade Legend

Sealed/Mint - Record is in original shrink wrap and has never been opened nor played

NM (Near Mint) - No visible flaws to vinyl

NM- (Near Mint-) - Well cared for, may have a very small number of very minor visible flaws such as very light paper scuffs

VG++ (Very Good++) - Still great condition, a few light scattered marks or scuffs

VG+ (Very Good+) - Normal wear with a small number of scattered scuffs or light scratches, still a nice record

VG (Very Good) - Mishandled, lots of light scratches or scuffs or maybe a few larger ones, surface noise when played

G (Good) - Trashed, might play decent, but heavily scratched (I probably wouldn't try to sell something in this condition)

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