Fuel (song)
| Fuel | |
|---|---|
| Metallica | |
| publication | November 18, 1997 |
| length | 4:29 |
| Genre (s) | Heavy metal |
| Author (s) | James Hetfield , Kirk Hammett , Lars Ulrich |
| album | ReLoad |
Fuel ( English for: " gasoline ") is a song by the US metal band Metallica . The song was released as the third single from the seventh studio album ReLoad and in 1999 was nominated for a Grammy in the category Best Hard Rock Performance .
Origin and content
Fuel was written by Kirk Hammett , James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich . As early as 1995, the band made a demo recording of the song under the title Fuel for Fire , with the text differing from the published song. A version with the original lyrics can be heard on the Cunning Stunts DVD . The song Fuel is about the fact that many people have the desire to drive their cars too fast or to live their lives too fast.
Live performances
The song was first played on February 9, 1997 in Chicago . Fuel is one of the songs that are regularly played at concerts, although the song with 418 performances (as of August 2012) is not one of the most played songs by the band. When singer James Hetfield could not perform due to an injury in July 2000, bassist Jason Newsted took over the vocals. At these appearances, Kid Rock worked on the turntables as a guest musician.
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In his book Justice for All: The Truth About Metallica, the British author Joel McIver described the song Fuel as the highlight of the album ReLoad . However, he put this statement into perspective by saying that "even the worst songs on the albums Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets would be many times better than Fuel ".
Fuel reached number 31 on the UK singles chart . In Australia , the single reached number two in Finland fifth in Germany and 57th in a the magazine Guitar World created list of the 100 best Metallica songs of all time occupied Fuel place 50th was in 1999 the song for a Grammy in the category Best Hard rock performance nominated. However, the award went to Jimmy Page and Robert Plant .
Further use
The song Fuel was used for the Hot Wheels Turbo and Test Drive Off-Road Wide Open video games . The Hockey Team of the Philadelphia Flyers played Fuel late 1990s in their home games shortly before the game. The song was also heard on television broadcasts of the NASCAR series. In 2003 coverte Avril Lavigne the song as part of the MTV telecast MTV Icon . For James Hetfield "it was strange to hear the song sung by a woman".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b encycmet.com: Fuel
- ↑ a b metlists.com: Fuel
- ↑ setlist.fm: Fuel by Metallica Song Statistics
- ↑ Chart positions: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ Joel McIver: Justice for All: The Truth About Metallica . Bosworth Music GmbH, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86543-368-8 , p. 330 .
- ↑ chartstats.co.uk: Metallica - Fuel
- ↑ australian-charts.com: Metallica in the Australian charts
- ↑ finnishcharts.com: Metallica in the Finnish charts
- ↑ musicline.de: Metallica in the German single charts ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ guitarworld.com: Fuel ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ rockonthenet.com: Grammy Awards: Best Hard Rock Performance
- ↑ cf. McIver, page 422
