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60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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Metallica's Load Song

Metallica's problem, post black album, is less that they were selling out than that they seemed confused about what selling out would even entail. The highest charting Metallica single of all time is the load song until it sleeps. These are the guys who in 2011 would make Lulu, which co-starred Lou Reed and at the longest songs of all, people hated Lulu.

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