Enter Sandman

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艺人: Metallica
语种: 英语
厂牌: Elektra Records
发行时间: 1991年07月29日
专辑类别: EP、单曲

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&Enter Sandman& is a song by the American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released as the first single from their eponymous fifth album, Metallica in 1991. The music was written by Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. Vocalist and rhythm guitarist Hetfield wrote the lyrics, which deal with the concept of a child's nightmares.

The single achieved gold certification for more than 500,000 copies shipped in the United States, spurring sales of over 22 million copies for Metallica and propelling Metallica to worldwide popularity. Acclaimed by critics, the song is featured in all of Metallica's live albums and DVDs released after 1991 and has been played live at award ceremonies and benefit concerts.

It is among Metallica's most-played songs, having been performed live by the band 1,112 times, behind only For Whom the Bell Tolls (1,263), One (1,283), Seek & Destroy (1,354), Creeping Death (1,377) and Master of Puppets (1,426) - all songs that were released before Sandman.

Initially, the song &Holier Than Thou& was slated to be the opening track and first single from Metallica; according to the documentary A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica, producer Bob Rock told Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield that the album has &five or six songs that are going to be classics&, not only with fans but also on the radio, and that &the first song that should come out is 'Holier Than Thou'&. According to Rock, Ulrich was the only band member who felt, even before recording, that &Enter Sandman& was the ideal song to be the first single. Ulrich has said that there was a &big argument&; however, after explaining his point of view to the rest of the band, &Enter Sandman& eventually became the opening track and first single of the album.

The single was released on July 29, 1991, two weeks before the release of Metallica. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in the United States and nine other countries, and sold over 22 million copies worldwide, allowing &Enter Sandman& to become, as Chris True describes it, &one of the most recognizable songs of all time in rock&. The single peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and at No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart. On September 30, 1991, it became Metallica's second single to achieve gold status in the United States, for shipping more than 500,000 copies. In addition to the nominations received by the album as a whole, the song was nominated for Best Rock Song at the 34th Grammy Awards in 1992, ultimately losing to &The Soul Cages& by Sting. It was also voted Song of the Year in Metal Edge's 1991 Readers Choice Awards.

&Enter Sandman& was acclaimed by critics. Chris True of Allmusic declared it &one of Metallica’s best moments& and a &burst of stadium level metal that, once away from the buildup intro, never lets up&. According to him, the song's breakdown &brilliantly utilizes that 'Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep' bedtime prayer in such a way as to add to the scary movie aspect of the song&. Steve Huey, in Allmusic review of Metallica, described it as one of the album's best songs, with &crushing, stripped-down grooves&. Robert Palmer of Rolling Stone described &Enter Sandman& as &possibly the first metal lullaby& and wrote that the song &tell[s] the tale& of the album's &detail and dynamic, [...] song structures and impact of individual tracks&. Sid Smith from the BBC called the song &psycho-dramatic& and noted that the &terse motifs served notice that things were changing& with Metallica's new album. Blender magazine's Tim Grierson says that the lyrics &juxtapose childhood bedtime rituals and nightmarish imagery& and praises the &thick bottom end and propulsive riff&. This song is considered to be their signature song.

&Enter Sandman& has received many accolades. Rolling Stone magazine listed it as the 408th song on their &500 Greatest Songs of All Time& list, and VH1 placed it 22nd in their list of the &40 Greatest Metal Songs of All Time&, 18th in their list of the &100 Greatest Songs of the '90s& and 88th in their 2003 list of &The 100 Greatest Songs from the Past 25 Years&. Blender magazine included the song in their &The Greatest Songs Ever!& series of articles and placed it 65th on their list of &The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born&. Q magazine listed it 81st in their list of &The 100 Songs That Changed The World& and 55th in their list of &The 1001 Best Songs Ever&. Total Guitar magazine readers chose the song's riff as the fifth greatest ever, while Kerrang! places it fourth on their list of the &100 Greatest Singles of All Time&. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame includes it in their list of the &500 Songs That Shaped Rock&. It was also featured in Triple J's &Hottest 100 of All Time&. In 2009, it was named the 5th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1. In 2010, &Enter Sandman& was included in Kerrang's Top 100, as decided by fans.

Since the song's release, there have been claims that the main riff was taken from the song &Tapping into the Emotional Void& by Excel. &Tapping into the Emotional Void& was released originally on their 1989 album The Joke's on You. In 2003, it was reported that Excel members were considering legal action against Metallica due to the similarities between the songs.

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