Self-criticism, from time to time, is necessary for growth. And when it comes to an artist reviewing their own art, even more so. This is what drummer Lars Ulrich Metallica song he would never want to hear again.
In an interview with Vulture , Ulrich states, “There’s a song called ‘Eye Of The Beholder’ on the album …[And] Justice [For All] . Whenever I listen to that song, it kind of sounds like – I guess we didn’t mean to be super disrespectful about it – but it sounds very forced.”
“It sounds like you’re trying to put a square peg in a round hole,” he states. “It sounds like it has two different time signatures. There’s a kind of 4/4 in the intro and verses, and I think in the chorus it’s more of a ‘waltz’ time signature. It literally sounds like two different worlds rubbing against each other. It sounds very strange to me, I’m not a big fan of that song.”
Regarding finding tracks like this that, after years, don't sound as good as they did back then, the drummer says, “I think the asterisk is that, for me, we did the best we could at every moment. So, of course, sometimes you sit down and you're like, 'Huh?' or 'That could have been better' or 'That was a little weird' or 'That sounds a little silly or easy' or 'That sounds too thought out' or whatever. It revives that whole thing about the past being the past, and I don't spend much time there, and there's not much I can do about it [laughs] and honestly, I don't listen to them. I don't listen to much Metallica music.”
Listen below to "Eye Of The Beholder" by Metallica.
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