FIRST TIME listening to METALLICA - "Harvester of Sorrow" REACTION
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This song is INSANE live. Especially the Moscow 91 performance.
The part after the first chorus, just before the second verse, where they slow down a bit on that riff….goddamn.
My favorite live performance of my favorite Metallica song.
The Live Shit version where they stop for a bit and comes back with James spitting, then "AAAAAAALLLLLLLL have said their prayers..."
Lars drumming was genius in this Album actually.
I agree.
lars was a beast in the 80's and early 90's 😎🤘
No it was not. Just because it was his best drumming does not mean it was genius. It was very mediocre actually. For Lars though, mediocre is outstanding.
@@rofyle definitely you don't know absolutely nothing about drums and being a drummer. And Justice For All has a great drums work.
Facts
THIS SONG IS PERFECT, ONE OF THE BEST METALLICA HAS CREATED. THE RIFS ARE AMAZING, THE SMOOTH SOLO IS ON POINT. AND WHAT TO SAY ABOUT THE LYRICS, JUST A MASTERPIECE. THIS SONG DOESN'T NEED TO CHANGE ANYTHING. IT'S NOT TRASHY, IT'S NOT FAST, IT'S HEAVY AS HELL!!!! 🤘🏼🎶
So many people will disagree with you.
@@markhammond4517 I KNOW THAT, BUT I REALLY DON'T CARE. EVERYONE HAS HIS OWN OPINION. GREETINGS!
@@robertovasquez1538I agree with you bro I love this song one of my favorites off of this album!!!🤘🤘
@@IIIYungIII THANKS BRO, THIS SONG TAKES ME TO ANOTHER PLACE
WHY ARE WE SHOUTING?!
This was actually done at the 1991 concert in Moscow, which one might argue was their best ever performance of this song! Check that one out when you get a chance! Honestly it’s it’s a far better performance. You can actually hear just a smidge of Jason’s bass on the live version!
I see your smile when you hear " language of the mad" :)
This along with Blackened are my two fav on this album. I've ramped the volume up on this track hundreds of times to feel that heavy beat and riff. Love the anger and energy in this song.
I think "Four Horsemen" (Kill Em All album) is the song that defines them the best.
Agreed -"Four Horsemen" is without a doubt one of their top songs which defines them the best.
No
That long intro is a BLAST to play on drums!!
I love that the guitar literally cry’s, you can feel the pain in the guitar
Drink up
Shoot in
Let the bearings begin!
Love that shit lol
Great insight Lily.
From what I've read about this song is that the person was abused as a child (first verse) and than as a parent becomes the abuser of his child himself. The cycle continues and it becomes a "Harvester of Sorrow"
You skipped a song again. You skipped "The Shortest Straw". You should absolutely react to the live version of this song from the concert in San Diego in 1992. You are right about the child abuse part of the song, although the final verse of the song talks about the main character in the song succumbing to the madness and murdering his own family as a result of the abuse he suffered as a child.
Live dont sound as good and it takes away from the studio album.
Always do live after u heard the studio version first.
@@markhammond4517 She doesn't do live versions of songs that she's already done reactions to the studio versions though.
@@markhammond4517 The live version of some Metallica songs sound much better than the studio versions. And they don't take anything away from the studio album.
@@TokusatsuGamingfan if your at a concert it sounds great. But watching off of a recording makes it sound worse is my point here.
One of their Best songs ! Top 10 list made.
one of my favorite songs from justice, the pure energy is best felt when played live, to name asingle song that defines Metallica is nearly impossible, but you're getting close Dyers eve is one of the songs thst truly defines Jaymz mentality. it's only been a few years since he found inner peace and sobriety. his family has strengthened him, butin his youth he was full of rage and questions left unanswered for years.
Its 3:30 A.M here i was going to sleep but i saw a notification of your video i check your channel few minutes ago but there's no new metallica reaction but now i got one thanks ❤🤘🏽
This song is the first song I heard from this album, which wasn't even released yet. I went to Monsters of Rock tour, which was Van Halen's tour, and they were the main band, but had a lot of other bands on the bill. The whole show was 9 hours long, and Metallica were third from the top, after them came the Scorpions and then Van Halen. Anyways they were in between their huge album Master of Puppets, and their new album coming out, which was And Justice for All, but it hadn't been released yet, and no singles were even out yet. So they told the crowd "Do you want to hear a song from our new album", and of course, everybody screamed "hell yeah". This is the song they played, and everybody fucking loved it, including me, and it kicked ass!!!
AJFA album is Metallica’s “Let’s show everyone how technical we can be” album. Harvester features Lars’s kick drums equipped with clicks on the beaters that resemble tap dancer toes. So re listen and appreciate the repetition you mentioned as both feet pedals working the double base drums. Also featured in “One” that sounds like machine gun fire and the end of “Fade to Black”
It's interesting what you said about "missed opportunity" when "infanticide" was whispered. For the longest time that I listened to this song until reading the lyrics online, I thought "language of the mad", was "vanquishing of man".
my favorite!!!!🤘👿🤘
YYYEEEEESSSSSSS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Lilly, It's weird you think this song is repetitive, and you don't think the same thing about the new Metallica song called If Darkness Had a Son, which you already reacted.
Was thinking the same thing
@@spyder328 Interesting
Both are repetitive.
I’m more interested that she enjoyed AJFA (title track) given how repetitive and drawn out that song is.
@@shmick6079 It's still a great song.
to me "If Darkness Had a Son" sounds nothing like this song. Like I know it had some parts where it repeated itself but overall I just genuinely enjoyed the song. Also the music video was cool af for "If Darkness Had a Son" so it made it feel more engaging. I also explain why I think Harvester of Sorrow was intended to be repetitive at the end of this video.
Next metallica reaction video you really should do My Friend of Misery
One of the reasons why this song is repetitive is that it was released as a single, Metallica's first real attempt to get some radio play, but One ended up being the smash hit from the album.
Harvester of Sorrow was a preview of what was to come in Metallica's musical direction, as every song in the followup was under 6 minutes long, and had similar song structures.
To define Metallica you have already done it…..”One”
I started like to metal from the black album of metallica when the time the CD's not yet existed..when i heard and justice for all album,i really2 love it,i always repeated it everyday..the sound made me hype and banging my head..i am the 90s kid headbanger 🤘🤘🤘
Metallica’s Kill ‘em All is their first take on New wave of British Heavy Metal and content is based mostly on bringing the Head Banging to America. Lightning and Puppets content are all terrifying scenario based lyrics. Justice is them throwing down the technical gauntlet per say. More for themselves, keep in mind there is a reinvention going on, anger, sorrow, and misery from losing Cliff.
To this day the only album I will listen to start to finish. An absolute fucking masterpiece
i started watching your videos because you're a pretty lady reacting to good music, but I have to say I really enjoy your insight into the songs you play. I'll admit, some of the songs I never gave much thought to the lyrics, so I appreciate your vids. Thanks
This is the tune you pump whilst CQB Raiding through the the slums of Fallujah 💪💀🔥
I love how in some Metallica songs they let the music tell a story it's not just the lyrics the music also tells a story
Lily, my favorite line in this song is "Drink up, shoot in. Let the beatings begin."
Metallica went downhill fast after Cliff died. He was the only one who had any music theory under his belt. The songs got simpler, the lyrics more pedestrian.
The drumming for this song is perfect and aggressive in a much different slower way.
Ride The Lightning defines Metallica perfectly. IMO that is the Best heavy metal album ever made by the hand of man and its the greatest Metallica album overall
This is literally one of, if not my favorite, Metallica song. It could be interpreted as a person being abused by a family member. Not being able to take any more of the abuse, ultimately killing their abuser. Their "loss" of life becomes the victim's "gain" of freedom.
Can't be done. Impossible. 1 song? Nope, sorry. Too many choices.
Really looking forward to you digging into their first album.
Fun fact, this song is not just repeative but its actually the slowest song that Metallica has ever created as it contains less beats in total length of the song than any other songs they have made.
Harvester of Sorrow was the first Metallica song i ever listened to when i was 12 in 1994. The song is one of the most underrated powerful songs from Metallica. You should also check the performance of this song in the famous Moscow concert the crowd and the military were going crazy during it
I call b.s.
It is very Underrated 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🔥🤘🏽
You’re so great at breaking songs down. Crazy!
thank you (:
@@lillyjanereacts watching on UA-cam at BLACK METAL TEENS HEARING PINK FLOYD
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This was the 1st song i ever heard by Metallica and ever since then i have been a big fan 🤘
One of the best songs period.
Great job breaking down this song. Id say two songs define them first would be Welcome Home (sanitarium) and second off same album is battery
Metallica has been known for long intro mountain sized epics… its not repetitive for us we suck on the riffs. And this is a live staple of the band
React to Shortest Straw!!!! damn i love that song 🤘🤘🤘
Dyers Eve is METALLICA
This is for me in top 3 their songs....
Can’t wait for her reaction to “Dyers Eve”
Great reaction by you as always!
Fun fact! This is their slowest song by BPM!!
But to answer you me question about what song describes Metallica. It would be seek and destroy. It’s a song for the fans and always their last song and it from their first album!
James' perants were very religious as he was a child. He is singing in this songabout that time as he grown up. If he got sick he couldn't go to the doctor or something.
With every METALLICA-song he take a little revenge on them, about all that he didn't have. Including " HARVESTER OF SORROW ": Read the lines word by word and you can feel his pain he had in the past as he was akid.
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you on the 'Infanticide' lyric, Miss Lilly. I think shouting it would have broken the intense mood this song spent so much time building up. Try listening to this one in the dark. It's Metallica's creepiest song by a country mile.
Metallica and Tool do similar things Lyrically that keep the song up to interpolation to the listener. All we know is it is about abuse they really don't go into detail. That is why music is so powerful.
Tool is not metal.
@Mick Dokan tool is too slow to be metal. Hardly ever do they play like metal bands played in the 80s and 90s. Tool would be considered Hard Rock or progressive metal which is different.
@@markhammond4517 Tool is not Rock, they have way too much texture in how distorted and thick their riff tones are. They're Alternative Metal.
@@murk4552 I said progressive metal not rock
From what I've gathered and read,Harvester is about an alcoholic/drug addict who flipped, killing his family and then himself
IF I HAD TO PICK JUST ONE SONG TO DEFINED METALLICA, IT WOULD BE "MASTER OF PUPPETS", 100% SURE!!! 🤘🏼🎶
one of the best Metallica songs...
It's probably sounding a bit repetitive to you because you've been listening to a lot of proggy sounding Metallica songs from the 80's that go for 8 minutes and are crammed with riffs (basically every other song on this album)
I just absolutely cannot figure out why so so many people say Lars is one of the worst drummers of all time!! I mean I am freakin blown away by that!! IMO Lars should definitely be considered on the top 5 list of greatest heavy metal drummers of all time. Lars is awesome!
Because it's simple to play but that dont matter.
I don't understand the hate for Lars either. I think that comparing him to other metal drummers is part of the issue. I also can't help but think it's one of those asinine things that started on the internet somewhere that ended up blowing out of proportion without anybody doing any research before shooting their mouth off.
And they also fail to take into account that if it wasn't for Lars following one of the inspirations for Metallica as well as Lars meeting up with James Hetfield for the first time, there wouldn't be a Metallica right now, PERIOD!!
There are some well known metal drummers that have Lars on their list of the most influential and best drummers. Saw it in a UA-cam video but can't remember who those drummers were.
One of best songs ever. Esp live.
I always thought that this song was meant to be a walk in intro for a wrestler or a boxer.
Master of Puppets is the song that defines Metallica. It’s got everything and it’s them at their best.
Can't wait to hear your reaction to Frayed Ends of Sanity, probably my favorite song off of this album. Go for the studio version since most live versions are not the full song, just samples.
Because it's the weakest track off the al um
@@stevenhenry5267 hot take lol
@@stevenhenry5267 why are you such a hater, are you a music expert?
@@dylanallen7720he is not wrong
This and blackened are the best
Around 7:20
It’s a vocal nuance. Nasty practices are typically kept hush-hush so he whispered it.
Either here or on your own time, you should check out Native Howl - Harvester of Constant Sorrow, it's a metal Mashup cover by a metal bluegrass band.
Lol
On of my favorite songs
Lol.no way.
@@markhammond4517why
@@Nichwar19 it's just my opinion but I don't like it because it's too slow and repetitive regardless if that's their point to the song. You have a right to your opinion and can disagree.
The original Sad But True! 🔥🔥🔥
"child-abuse vibes" ... i hope you dont have any of these experience reffrence of this music xD
A song to define Metallica, I'd go with Master Of Puppets.
Such a great song.
The album from when I 1st seen them live in 1989 at 13 or 14
There are a lot of good songs that don't constantly repeat the chorus. Some are 2 or 3 words, some are 1/2 paragraph or bigger. Some don't use it until the end. I like the story tellers. A good, mellow one is "Summertime Rolls" by Jane's Addiction...
you should have seen the version live in moscow best version ever
No 1 song defines metallica
Do a reaction of to live is to die. Amazing song
She will probably cry.
@@proapocalypse1448 but it’s an incredible song and then she will probably love that song
@@dhannysvallejocevallos6059 Yes it is awesome.
She will get to it in a few weeks. She was going in order of the track listing of the album until she messed up and skipped "The Shortest Straw" on accident.
I love your honestly! This song is slow and try to make you headbang, it gets critics but I love it
'Harvester of sorrow' was the first Metallica song I ever heard back in 1990 when I was a teen... it was different from anything I had heard from the usual 80's pop tunes... the guitars and drums stood out. The first hook to me becoming a fan was in... 🤘🤘 It's actually the most popular song on 'And justice for all' ... next to 'One' and 'Blackened'... 🔥🔥and Metallica used to crank it out regularly in concert.
The fact is... 'Harvester of sorrow' was the Metallica track that changed the band's trajectory, going into the next album in 1991... James Hetfield wrote 2 heavy riffs for the 'Justice' album that were not the usual thrash metal tracks... one was 'Harvester of sorrow' and the other would become 'Sad but true' ... Lars Ulrich felt that 'Sad but true' would not fit the vibe of the album, so they worked on 'Harvester of sorrow' and it made it on the album.
When Metallica was touring for 'Justice' in 1988/ '89, they noticed playing arenas that the audiences did not respond the same way as they did in smaller venues... Bigger crowds didn't know what to do when fast songs like 'Battery' were played live (except moshing)... but when they played 'Harvester of sorrow', the crowds responded by moving to the slower riffs and the reaction was bigger... it became a crowd favorite at the time.
That was why Metallica opted to shed the faster thrash metal tempos and embrace a heavier groove on the 1991 'black' album... They wanted to appeal more without losing their edge... And it worked. 'Enter Sandman'... 'Sad but true'... 'Wherever I may roam' ...became huge favorites from that record and none had a thrash metal tempo, and arena and stadium crowds moved actively to the slower songs.
It was also the time when bands like Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins... were starting to make waves, and music was changing, crowd reactions were changing... the 80's were not happening any more by the time Nirvana broke big in 1991.
I still don't understand why Metallica completely shed their metal sound in 1996 and embraced a more 90's rock sound w/ country and southern rock influences and slower tempos... We wanted Metallica in 1996 to be the champions of heavy and thrash metal, and bring back the aggression that was missing from the scene in the 90's. Instead, they put out 2 albums ('Load' and 'Reload') that basically cut their past loose and declared themselves 'free to play whatever they wanted'... Former bassist Jason Newsted said that he was not feeling those records, but he had little say in their creation... to this day, Newsted doesn't know which tracks are on what record from those 'Load' sessions. He wanted Metallica to be the iconic metal juggernaut that he had been a fan of before joining... but they were literally playing country songs and riffs that did not sound like traditional Metallica.
Load and Reload had some great songs though. Bleeding Me, The Outlaw Torn, Fixxer, King Nothing, Low Mans Lyric, and others.
@@ernestwhisenant1706 A lot of those records was boring and catered to the 90's audiences... Good songs, but not Metallica songs - 'Alternica' songs.
If the overall production of this album was better (more audible bass being the most obvious), it would be regarded as the best Metallica album made. It's easily my favorite and that's not taking a shot at any of their other masterpiece albums. This was a peak of Lars' drumming and the bands most "proggy" album. I can still listen to every track from start to finish without any issue to this day.
you forgot the shortest straw that came before harvester
Lars is not a bad drumer. He just prefers simplicity at times. Does not mean he cant pull out a hundred hits in a second. He never followed a metal trends if they do not suit the song. I would say that Harverster of Sorrow has more drumming complexity to it than a slow paced song should even have. AJFA album is his best drumming to this date, and nothing else beats it.
Childhood? Wait until you get to "Dyers Eve" 😅
This song live at Russia is the bomb.
Great reaction to a great band and great song. Best live version of this song is from The Big 4 which I have the DVD of. 😀😃😄😁
The live version from Moscow gives all the pure anger this song needed in the vocals. You'll love it. Magnitudes better than this version.
Metallica is not that great live unless your there.
@@markhammond4517 Sorry, but I'm going to call massive BS on this. Metallica is absolutely great live, you can see that on the San Diego performance from 1992 and the 1991 performance in Moscow which was very revolutionary for the hard rock and heavy metal world.
@@TokusatsuGamingfan you're not understanding go back and read my comment again.
@@markhammond4517 No, YOU are the one who's not understanding here.
Personally a fav of mine, however I think that the live versions are much better than studio versions
This is my favorite Metallica song
Metallica To Live is To Die And Metallica Album Garage in Mercyful Fate.
Define Metallica in just one tune? That's impossible 😅😂
This one was pretty dark, and there are a couple of dark ones left here.
Hamster of Sorrow.
ONE song to define Metallica....?
Well, if we're talking about old-school Metallica (1982-1987), the it can only be WHIPLASH.
I think you skipped Shortest Straw on the list. I know you did One awhile ago as well. You should definitely do Shortest Straw next, some Lars's best drumming.
If I were ranking them (and ranking them is like ranking my favorite Sunny day) this would be my last favorite Metallica song on and justice for All.
Dyer's eve is a good one the reason I think they are so repetitive is they maybe trying to make a point of some sort I've never thought about it but this is does have a bit of abuse in it
That's incredibly hard one song to describe Metallica......... Off top of my head Metal Militia.
LOL, she is trying to talk about repetitiveness while somehow convincing herself her favorite Top 40 artists don't DO THE EXACT SAME THING.
Check out their Seattle 89 version, you won’t me disappointed
Nice guitar riff sounds simple but it's not, it have a couple tricks on it like double stops, hammer ons, pulls, bends and odd times.
Song defined Metallica have a tattoo seen them in concert three times and they are my favorite band because I related to a lot of things that happened to me in life growing up with cerebral palsy and apparently didn’t understand it. I am 37 now and still jam them as my anthem music when I need a musical release, but their greatest masterpiece was and Hass to be master of puppets second to welcome home (sanitarium) please review one of the songs. Would love to see your reaction. Sincerely Brad sanders😎👍
I like your thoughts on the song cause I never even thought it was about child abuse until you said it pretty cool thanks
Dyers Eve. :)
My all time favorite song.. raw emotion.. fan favorite.. surprised you find it repetitive.. to each their own..
One of my favorites as well , I enjoy this album
This song is mainly about drugs but Metallica is just…. HELL YEAH 🤘🤘🤘