Better_than_You_(Metallica_song)

Better than You (Metallica song)

Better than You (Metallica song)

1998 single by Metallica

"Better than You" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica. It is the fifth track on their seventh album, Reload. The song was originally titled "Better". It won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, the band's fourth award in that category.[2] The song is about someone who is obsessed of the struggle to be better than someone else.[3] The band performed a jam of the song for the first time in London in 1995.[4] The single cover features the same picture as the cover of Metallica's Cunning Stunts as well as on the final page of Reload. The 2011 book Metallica: The Music and the Mayhem describes the song as "[qualifying] on all grounds, with lyrics full of festering resentment, and Hammett giving a lengthy solo."[5]

Quick Facts Single by Metallica, from the album Reload ...

Track listing

1998 CD promo (USA: Elektra PRCD 1149-2)

  1. "Better than You" – 5:21

1998 CD promo (USA: Elektra PRCD 1165-2)

  1. "Better than You (Edit)" – 4:44

Personnel

References

  1. [1]
    "Every Metallica Song Ranked". Loudwire.
  2. [2]
    "Past Winners Search". Grammy.com. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
  3. [3]
    "Better Than You". encycmet.com. Archived from the original on June 18, 2010. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
  4. [4]
    "BETTER THAN YOU". 4horsemensite.com. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
  5. [5]
    Wall, Mick (March 1, 2011). Metallica: The Music and the Mayhem. Omnibus Press. p. 160. ISBN 978-1849386623.


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