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Metallica scale the heights; beat Glasvegas in epic chart battle
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American thrash metal pioneers Metallica have rocked their way up to top-spot in the UK album charts for their Rick Rubin produced LP Death Magnetic.
Death Magnetic, the follow-up to 2003's stripped-down-but-ultimately-not-very-good St Anger, was released two days earlier than scheduled due to significant leakage, and beat hyped-up black clad Glasvegas' self titled début to number one, despite giving the Scottish rockers a two day head start.
Whilst the mighty Metallica play London's 02 Arena tonight, Glasvegas have a sold-out gig at Leeds' Cockpit...
In other non Glasvegas vs. Metallica chart news, Elbow's Mercury Prize winning album The Seldom Seen Kid jumped to 7th from 61st, and the now middle-aged and unaptly named New Kids On The Block complete their stratospheric comeback from obscurity with their fifth studio album The Block reaching number 16.
DiScuss: Glasvegas vs. Metallica...Metallica win the battle for sales but who would your put your money on in a fist fight? Sure, Hetfield may be a bit of a bruiser (Kirk Hammett less so...), but would he stand a chance against four battle-hardened Glaswegians? Glasgow kiss anyone?
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I have it on good authority that Robert Trujillo knows Kung Fu. And that James Hetfield used to drink a lot. And that Lars Ulrich likes Venom. And that Kirk Hammett is gay and wears leather trousers.
Glasvegas ain't got shit on them in a fight.
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and glasvegas are shit.
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wow, Elbow win the Mercury and drop from 7th to 61st??!?!!
*pedant alert*
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oops, to 7th from 61st
*pedant is defeated and leaves to buy spectacles*
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in a fist fight
no contest really.
BUT, Glasvegas do have a girl amongst their number and no self respecting member of Metallica would ever hit a girl (unlike say members of other 80s US metal bands, mention no Guns N Roses names...) so perhaps they should let her rain down the punches.
I think she'd probably get worn out tho.
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"Glasvegas have a sold-out gig at Leeds' Cockpit..."
yeah, their Shepherd's Bush Empire show also sold out in minutes.
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Rob Trullijo
Looks like he would eat you alive.
I think the girl looks the hardest one in Glasvegas. I'm thinking some in-between-breast-suffocation would be her style.
Happy 'Talli' are number 1.
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what are you doing here?
GO AWAY
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Two bands of insipid, uninspired clog
Gee, who to pick, who to pick..
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yeah
they really got burnt there!
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So hang on
who's album came out 2 days earlier than the other?
"Death Magnetic, ... was released two days earlier than scheduled ... and beat hyped-up black clad Glasvegas' self titled début to number one, despite giving the Scottish rockers a two day head start."
I'm confused
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:D
this made me chuckle. I quite like the sound of in-between-breast-suffocation.
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metallica = thursday
glasvegas = monday
Metallica came out early - should have been saturday? or Monday?
But they still sold more than glasvegas despite people being able to buy their album from monday.
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let's all celebrate
by downloading metallica.
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hang your head
in shame Metallica and Glasvegas
Foggyatlas has spoken
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Should've been the 12th=Friday..
...was the 10th=Wednesday. Glasvegas' was released on the 8th=Monday, therefore a 2 day headstart.
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Metallica fans are so boring
Figures.
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i
heard a glasvegas song on the radio the other day, it made me VERY sad. IT was so bad, and overly scottish.
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not that being scottish makes me sad.
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