Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Retro Video of the Week: "One" by Metallica

This was most of America's introduction to Metallica.  They had become underground superstars with virtually no airplay.  This was the band's first video, as well as their first song that cracked the Top 40 (or the Top 100, for that matter).  The video is particularly memorable because it features scenes and dialogue from the movie Johnny Got His Gun, which is about a soldier whose mind is functional, but who lost his limbs, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and all of his senses in a mortar blast.  Rough day.  On the bright side, he didn't spend the entire Super Bowl keeping track of how much money he was losing because a future Hall of Fame quarterback standing in the endzone couldn't throw the ball away within fifteen yards of a receiver.  Metallica would also have been a better halftime choice than Madonna.  Anyway, since it's Metallica, the video is not able to be embedded.  So, click here to watch it.

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