Fight Fire With Fire

And some of these names might even show up, uh, again, as we go on, but, uh, let's move on to our second selection.

This is Metallica with fight fire with fire.

Okay, so the category here is just, generally speaking, spokesman, leader of the band, co-leader, Swiss Army knife, important guy, writer.

Obviously, Lars Ulrich is a big, big part of Metallica when we think of who leads that band.

What do all these Metallica songs have in common? "And Justice for All," one.

"Disposable Heroes," what do you think that's about? "Eye of the Beholder," "Blackened," "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "The Shortest Straw," "Ride the Lightning," "Fight Fire with Fire," and Don't, "Don't Tread on Me." What do you think that those songs have to do with? Well, some- she asked Grok, Dana asked Grok, and Grok said, "Well, they all tackle political and social issues-

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... like war horrors, syste- systemic injustice, government overreach, censorship, nuclear threats, and resistance to oppression."

"Hetfield's song lyrics are among the most scathing critiques of the system ever written.

It couldn't be more obvious this is a cowardly cop-out by someone trying to conflate nihilism with virtue." Well said.

Uh, "To influence you with their bullshit, then he proceeds to play And Justice for All, Blackened, The Shortest Straw, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Leper Messiah, Disposable Heroes, Fight Fire with Fire, Eye of the Beholder, and Don't Tread on Me." So that's why, that's why Katie Halper was correct when he called her a loser and a coward.

Could also put in hypocrite of the highest order.

Yeah

... playing the, starting the song, right? I thought going into night two that Fight Fire With Fire would be a great way to start night two, because it basically started the same way as Battery.

Yeah.

Acoustic intro.

The first song I ever heard was on the, the radio station around here, WBAB.

It was called Fingers Metal Shop, and he played Fight Fire With Fire.

And as a kid that age, I didn't know what to make of that.

If, you know how it comes in, it's all nice, soft, and pretty, and all of a sudden there's this crazy fast guitar rift, and this, the vocals are like dun, dun, dun-dun, dun.

But we have copies of some of the albums here with us.

So I h- I have the copy of Ride the Lightning here.

Um, Craig, we've mentioned before, brought this to my house when we were 14, and he played that song he was so intrigued by, Fight Fire With Fire.

He hated it.

Damage Inc.

And we would fuck around with like Fire with Fire.

But yeah, like...

So Thrash

I think, I think I found Ride the Lightning quite scary at first 'cause it was quite sludgy and, uh, undefined.

Like, um, you know, Fight Fire With Fire is a pretty brutal way to start a record.

[laughs]

Uh, and then, uh, but then it was Master of Puppets that made me go-

[rock music]

It's Metallica right here on your classic metal show from the Ride the Lightning release, that is Fight Fire with Fire, and-

Wait a minute.

That wasn't Metallica.