TRAINWRECKORDS: "St. Anger" by Metallica

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  • Опубликовано: 23 мар 2021
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    It's one of the most legendary bombs of all time -- the biggest rock band in the world turning in a tuneless blast of cacophonous trash-can banging. How did the much-maligned "St. Anger" turn Metallica from gods of metal to rock-and-roll punchlines?
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Комментарии • 8 тыс.

  • @cookieface80
    @cookieface80 2 года назад +1451

    "Meesa lifestyle determines meesa deathstyle" - Jar Jar Hetfield

    • @daelen.cclark
      @daelen.cclark Год назад +64

      Meesa lifestyle determines messa deathstar.

    • @jamesnoble3502
      @jamesnoble3502 Год назад +9

      😂😂😂😂

    • @guyincognito320
      @guyincognito320 Год назад +45

      Saiiiint Jar Jar 'round my neck, heeeee never gets respect - literally James f'ing Hetfield

    • @karmatologist
      @karmatologist Год назад +38

      I always hear “my wife’s style determines my dad’s style”.

    • @Dumb_Killjoy
      @Dumb_Killjoy 9 месяцев назад +10

      I love that I'm reading this while my mom is watching Star Wars in the other room.

  • @argylega
    @argylega 3 года назад +1992

    Y'know how people tell you that sometimes when you're angry you should type up a letter to someone but then never actually send it, just throw it away instead? Yeah....

    • @RatelHBadger
      @RatelHBadger 3 года назад +40

      @Joshua Roehl Dude... that song is St Anger level bad! Rebecca Black would listen to Friday on repeat to get it out of her head. You should be proud!

    • @stefanfilipovits21
      @stefanfilipovits21 3 года назад

      Haha! 🤣

    • @KeyBladeMaster-Dan
      @KeyBladeMaster-Dan 3 года назад +36

      Oh crap we wasn't supposed to send those?

    • @marias-i3333
      @marias-i3333 3 года назад +9

      The problem is when you're that famous, some people want to hear everything you have to say, even if it's the shit you shouldn't say out loud

    • @knightwing5169
      @knightwing5169 3 года назад +10

      @Joshua Roehl Stop posting that song everywhere. It is definitely worse than St. Anger.

  • @allenwilhelm7799
    @allenwilhelm7799 Год назад +2099

    "If we have no guitar solos in any of these songs, that dates the music to this period. " super fucking perceptive of Kirk

    • @2doobsmcjubes555
      @2doobsmcjubes555 Год назад +560

      It's the only lucid moment in the entire documentary, he's so rational and everyone is like "Nahhh" it's a real life Spinal Tap bit.

    • @Aleph3575
      @Aleph3575 Год назад +270

      Kinda weird how even Todd doesn't seem to agree with him on that even though he'd just spent several minutes complaining about how the lack of solos on the album was one of the big contributing factors in it tanking, because Kirk was fucking right.

    • @okagron
      @okagron Год назад +99

      And it dated the album to its period. Sure, you can name metal bands doing solos at the time, but most of the mainstream metal wasn't doing solos.

    • @Running_Colours
      @Running_Colours Год назад +162

      ​@@Aleph3575i think he agrees with the fact that the way solos were handled sucks, but that he thinks that it's not the absence of solos per se that makes the album terrible, but the lack of hooks.
      In esdence, trend chasing itself wasn't the problem, it was the sheer absence of willingness to make a good album

    • @joaquinlezcano2372
      @joaquinlezcano2372 11 месяцев назад +28

      @@Running_Colours Yeah, there are tons of hits and great metal and rock songs with no solos. But is not experimenting, is just lazy

  • @benoitbrown9400
    @benoitbrown9400 6 месяцев назад +445

    Imagine being in prison and Metallica shows up, but then they play St. Anger.

    • @matthewhodgson4447
      @matthewhodgson4447 6 месяцев назад +38

      I'd ask for the electric chair. Even if I was jailed for unpaid parking tickets or something 😂

    • @PanteraEnjoyer
      @PanteraEnjoyer 5 месяцев назад +41

      @@matthewhodgson4447 "please, let me ride the lightning already"

    • @spaghettisauce445
      @spaghettisauce445 5 месяцев назад +15

      @@matthewhodgson4447”flash before my eyes,now its time to die”

    • @reeenji
      @reeenji 4 месяца назад +5

      really underrated comment

    • @hydorah
      @hydorah 3 месяца назад +11

      Notice how bored the inmates all look. It's like even in jail there are better things to do than listen to Stanger

  • @hannahb2306
    @hannahb2306 3 года назад +1847

    Kirk being told he can’t solo looks like Bambi finding out his mom is dead

    • @jaredlow4362
      @jaredlow4362 3 года назад +289

      I love all the comments about Lars and James fighting in SKOM being "they really fighting over who has custody of Kirk" lmaaaao

    • @Zenbateau
      @Zenbateau 3 года назад +82

      It's my favorite part of "Some Kind of Monster", and I will never stop to find it funny.

    • @manband20
      @manband20 3 года назад +143

      I love Kirk to death, but the funniest Metallica-related comment I have ever read was someone saying "If you ever feel useless, just remember that Kirk Hammett sang background vocals to Creeping Death opposite Jason Newstead."
      Kirk is a fantastic guitarist and has written so many beautiful rifts and he clearly has his place in the band.
      I fully understand why it's sacrilege to take that one thing away from him in his eyes.

    • @cremetangerine82
      @cremetangerine82 3 года назад +153

      It’s even sadder considering Kirk came out looking the best out of the band in that documentary.

    • @bendykirby4828
      @bendykirby4828 3 года назад +120

      I once read a comment describing the behind-the-scenes stuff as Kirk going to the bathroom while everyone else is recording, and when he comes back the album's finished.

  • @deementia6796
    @deementia6796 3 года назад +1163

    I just remember a local DJ announcing, "Here's the new song from Metallica" and they played the song's debut, and then he came back on and said, "That was a bag of suck!"

    • @bluraynation5188
      @bluraynation5188 3 года назад +86

      Haha! I miss the days when DJs had balls

    • @jojoversus1100
      @jojoversus1100 2 года назад +42

      The DJs in my area definitely still have balls. Corey & Patrick.
      When Volbeat - Last Day Under the Sun premiered, after it finished, Corey was all "Can I make a point? I really like Volbeat. They always have big riffs, driving solos, & are just generally fun to listen to. This song sounds like it's made for little kindergartners to all hold hands to. Yeah. I guess it's a "song", but unless my kids specifically ask to hear it, I wont be playing this bullshit anymore." & i swear to god they never played it again.

    • @jojoversus1100
      @jojoversus1100 Год назад +5

      @@jacksonteller3973 Totally. I throughly enjoyed Last Day, but then again I enjoy good music as opposed to the DJs of a butt rock station

  • @thegardenofeatin5965
    @thegardenofeatin5965 Год назад +973

    That shot of the music video to St. Anger, where they're playing in what seems to be a parking lot, washed out with sunlight and with a slightly yellow cast to it? That's 2003. That's what 2003 looked like.

    • @louisduarte8763
      @louisduarte8763 Год назад +96

      Parking lot? I thought that was the courtyard (or whatever it's called) of San Quentin Prison.

    • @demoleramera
      @demoleramera 8 месяцев назад +11

      You do know 2003 was a year in real life, right? Not just an aesthetic from a Metallica music video...

    • @theitfactorjameswheezer2852
      @theitfactorjameswheezer2852 5 месяцев назад

      That was a prison. Dumass

    • @zech6846
      @zech6846 5 месяцев назад

      @@demoleramera It was just an aesthetic from a Metallica music video; it's not a real thing you dork.

    • @24kgoldplatedvermeil
      @24kgoldplatedvermeil 5 месяцев назад +56

      @@demoleramera nah hes right tho. i feel the same way lol 2003 just had that vibe.

  • @joedatius
    @joedatius 2 года назад +1516

    St. Anger is like a coworker who's talking way too much about their personal life problems to the point where its uncomfortable and annoying

    • @duncanpadgett
      @duncanpadgett Год назад +34

      Best review ever.

    • @dostwood5103
      @dostwood5103 Год назад +25

      That's exactly how I feel about some woman whom I worked with at a CVS named Margaret. She was exactly as you described.

    • @TheBfutgreg
      @TheBfutgreg Год назад

      Watch me drop these "PORN BOMBS ON MY IMMEDIATE FAMILY YEAHHHH!!!"
      "Turns out...ooops!!! Sorry busy parents, I happen to like BDSM!!!!!"
      "Ok real talk.....TURNS OUT BDSM DIDN'T SCRATCH THAT WEIRD-ASS ITCH AND I LOVE random "midget and horse porn oh GOD please eensure safety like my God why...???
      "

    • @dreamofyouandi
      @dreamofyouandi Год назад +16

      @@dostwood5103 my mother is a margaret who used to work at cvs.

    • @batti591
      @batti591 Год назад +7

      And now every Metallica song is like that now.

  • @Katie_Woo
    @Katie_Woo 3 года назад +3032

    this album sucking is what bonded my dad with my boyfriend when I took him to meet my parents after a month of so of dating, i got to sit back and watch them go to town on how much they hated St Anger. they resumed the chat at our wedding reception 6 months ago - it is their favourite subject and is way more entertaining than the album itself.

    • @kaydwessie296
      @kaydwessie296 3 года назад +270

      That's so wholesome lol. My ex bonded with my dad over how good Learning To Fly by Pink Floyd is

    • @jdraven0890
      @jdraven0890 3 года назад +44

      I love this!

    • @AnnathePiana
      @AnnathePiana 3 года назад +34

      Such a good story!!

    • @namesurname7172
      @namesurname7172 3 года назад +75

      Fucking hilarious.
      Congrats on the wedding!

    • @TipTheScales27
      @TipTheScales27 3 года назад +21

      That rules

  • @currency_susan
    @currency_susan 2 года назад +3032

    I saw Metallica at the Download Festival in 2006. At the end of the set, Lars said "Thanks everybody and sorry about that fuck-up two years ago" (referring to him being too sick to play at the 2004 event). Three separate people around me simultaneously turned to their friends and said "What, St Anger?"

    • @leeprice133
      @leeprice133 2 года назад +138

      I saw them at Sonisphere in 2010 - it was apparently Hetfield's birthday and the overall a cool atmosphere between the band and the crowd... except when Lars addressed the audience. Real 'fuck off' vibes then 🤣

    • @kapibaron
      @kapibaron 2 года назад +60

      Nothing to apologize for. They played Battery with Dave Lombardo. Probably the best that song ever sounded.

    • @theyoyoyo7833
      @theyoyoyo7833 2 года назад +12

      Did you get to see Strapping Young Lad? I know they were in Download '06

    • @Rodrigombia1990
      @Rodrigombia1990 Год назад +20

      @@theyoyoyo7833 The worst album Devin can release in his career will always be better than the worst Metallica album. That's for sure.

    • @brandonvaglio5413
      @brandonvaglio5413 Год назад +4

      @@theyoyoyo7833 i’ve watched that SYL set so many times on youtube, so good

  • @shinyskunk
    @shinyskunk Год назад +477

    Watching this right after the Will Smith episode has me wondering how many of these things feature Chris Rock hosting a show right before a career-ending event occurs.

    • @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley
      @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley 2 месяца назад +19

      Lol, Chris Rock being some kind of harbinger of ill fate 😂.

    • @drygnfyre
      @drygnfyre 2 месяца назад +7

      It's uncanny how I was literally about to post a comment to the effect of "Isn't it funny how Chris Rock was indirectly tied to two career-killing moments, both times at an award show?" And then I saw this comment.

    • @motherreaper7287
      @motherreaper7287 Месяц назад +7

      Perhaps the most under rated comment of this entire amusing comment section.
      Don't throw Chris Rocks in Glass Houses I guess?

  • @ethanisfancy
    @ethanisfancy 2 года назад +1112

    “Especially Lars who brought in a giant beer keg to play drums on” is one of my favorite Todd jokes

    • @olliep8117
      @olliep8117 Год назад +16

      It is a good analogy. I reached a similar conclusion myself when listening to it back in the day. At the time I remember saying it sounded like they were banging on Teflon pans.

    • @emilyadams3228
      @emilyadams3228 Год назад +18

      @@olliep8117 My punk rock singer friend played this for me when it came out. I said the drums sounded like Lars ran them through the Pye limiter Hendrix used on the piano in Crosstown Traffic. He agreed. Then I said "Fuck this shit, put on Kill'Em All, I need to clean out my brain." So he did, and it worked.

    • @mikaelbiilmann6826
      @mikaelbiilmann6826 5 месяцев назад +7

      Just watched a video on yt where a guy plays a beer keg with a metal baseball bat. 😂 Sounded better than Lars’ sound on St. Anger.

  • @sonyakinsey4376
    @sonyakinsey4376 3 года назад +5049

    My whole family loved Metallica, especially my mom, and I convinced her to buy this album right when it came out. We left the mall for the hour long drive down country roads, with St. Anger playing. We just kept saying um... okay... well... and now it's actually one of the things I most regret doing to her. As a teen, I didn't do drugs, get bad grades, or get brought home by the cops, but I got her to buy this album. Mom, I'm sorry.

    • @zendakk
      @zendakk 3 года назад +406

      This is genuinely funny and sad at the same time. I feel your pain. Artists might do something that fans don't like, musically, whatever.. that's their right. But this album is just objectively *terrible* and the audio engineering choices are physically painful. Just a big oof all around.

    • @Bassist-Beneath
      @Bassist-Beneath 3 года назад +348

      As someone who did drugs and got brought home by the cops, I’m pretty sure mom would’ve been a lot more disappointed if I brought this piece of garbage home

    • @goneil9866
      @goneil9866 3 года назад +44

      How....could.....you

    • @Phantom_Mountain_Art
      @Phantom_Mountain_Art 3 года назад +25

      @@zendakk music can't be OBJECTIVELY bad you smoothbrain lmao. I'm not defending this album but that is not how objectivity works.

    • @MFChickenFlipper
      @MFChickenFlipper 3 года назад +80

      @@Phantom_Mountain_Art objectivity tends to refer to a standard being achieved, or simply remaining at a consistent quality. St. Anger fails at both. So with the finite amount of source material to analyze within the album itself, and seeing how it stands on its own merits, one can conclude that it is of objectively poor quality. Lots of people seem to think objective means "100% correct and universally agreed upon" when it's really not. The evidence used should be held up to scrutiny and if said evidence holds up, a conclusion can be made based on the information present. The conclusion is purely based on how well researched the information is, but simply working to analyze a piece of media with its own contents is engaging in objective critique. Stuff that would not qualify as objective would lend to personal feeling, or having to come up with your own personal explanation for a choice being made.
      For example, choosing to have the snare sound like someone smacking a bat against a trash can makes for an awful sound, not only on its own, but within the context of the rest of the composition; it sounds superbly out of place, even with them going for an "edgier" and "rougher" sound.
      Anyone can use objectivity to analyze a piece of art. It just comes down to the facts you use, and the assessment of said facts.

  • @Thebes342
    @Thebes342 3 года назад +2872

    Their live performance stream on Twitch getting replaced with 8bit folk tunes to avoid copyright infringement for their _own music_ felt like very delayed karma.

    • @battlion507
      @battlion507 3 года назад +309

      Copyright so strict that artists who made the music/companies that publish it... can't play it when they legally want to... *sigh*

    • @krivdik
      @krivdik 3 года назад +130

      Not unheard of, some bands or artists had their own music blocked on their own channel by the automated system.

    • @tarotsushima3332
      @tarotsushima3332 3 года назад +292

      @@battlion507 It's awful for all the other musicians getting screwed over but for those who were Metallica fans back when Lars went on his copyright striking tirade and getting Napster shut down, it's finally getting the last laugh.

    • @briancoulombe4517
      @briancoulombe4517 2 года назад +49

      If there was a right way to do music copyright, they’ve long since blown it.

    • @lemonworm
      @lemonworm 2 года назад +103

      every time i hear people use that royalty free song in videos now i always comment "so cool you used metallicas for whom the bell tolls live at blizzcon"

  • @ozharms
    @ozharms Год назад +935

    8:14 As a drummer, I can explain the sound: Lars turned the snare off. It’s not DETUNED, it’s just off. It has been used well in songs like “I Disappear,” it’s just mixed SO LOUDLY and the reverb is BALLS!

    • @jenniferbaumgarden9293
      @jenniferbaumgarden9293 11 месяцев назад +142

      Yeah, I think he's trying to sound like Korn, who were HUGE at the time. Lots of their songs the drummer turned the wires off on the snare.

    • @stevencoffin328
      @stevencoffin328 9 месяцев назад +8

      Can I ask what does it mean to "detune" a drum?

    • @ryujinayato1623
      @ryujinayato1623 9 месяцев назад +69

      ​@@stevencoffin328precussions, unlike normal pitched instruments (basically anything that is NOT a drum), when referred to as tuning it means to change the timbre of that particular piece (the ACTUAL pitch happens on the overtones, aka the "ring", thinks Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit's drums, where the snare's RING is in the key of F)

    • @phillipweber6059
      @phillipweber6059 9 месяцев назад +24

      ​@ryujinvtubecs
      Think you mean "percussion".
      I have been a percussionist since 1986.
      Percussion refers to any instrument that requires "striking" to produce a sound. That includes piano, BTW.
      Only drum I ever tuned to match a pitch is the timpani (the kettle drums most commonly used in symphonies). Like the person already commented, Lars just turned his snare off.

    • @nickrustyson8124
      @nickrustyson8124 8 месяцев назад

      @@stevencoffin328 Dankpod's 4th channel The Drum Thing is a pretty good source for Drums

  • @eddiedingle767
    @eddiedingle767 Год назад +522

    “I think it sounds stock to my ears”-Lars Ulrich on the album that actually had stock drum sound effects

    • @Captain_Neckbeard
      @Captain_Neckbeard 9 месяцев назад +6

      Says the most stock drummer ever.

    • @kanemccarthy1979
      @kanemccarthy1979 9 месяцев назад +29

      ​@@Captain_Neckbeardhey that's an unfair comparison. Stock needs to be standard and listenable. Lar's garbage drumming is neither of those things!

  • @TheMadTurtle
    @TheMadTurtle 3 года назад +3478

    The best thing about St. Anger being my first Metallica song, is that there was nowhere to go but up from there.

    • @Cronposh
      @Cronposh 3 года назад +22

      yo do you live under a rock tho?

    • @gayapplejuice8185
      @gayapplejuice8185 3 года назад +8

      @@Cronposh ?

    • @Massachamp08
      @Massachamp08 3 года назад +150

      wait until you hear Lulu, it makes St Anger look like the Black Album

    • @j.j.4150
      @j.j.4150 3 года назад +74

      @@Massachamp08 Well, depending on who you ask, the Black Album isn't exactly great either lol.

    • @Massachamp08
      @Massachamp08 3 года назад +85

      @@j.j.4150 bruh the Black Album is a fantastic album, metal wouldnt be big as it is today without it and we all know it

  • @doctordegenerate7854
    @doctordegenerate7854 3 года назад +966

    11:27 Pretty sure bringing prisoners out to listen to a performance of St. Anger counts as cruel and unusual punishment

    • @jasonvaughn4886
      @jasonvaughn4886 3 года назад +26

      better than bending over for the soap in the shower I guess...

    • @seamusburke639
      @seamusburke639 3 года назад +97

      "I'd like to go back to my cell, please."

    • @play-s-_______-osu
      @play-s-_______-osu 3 года назад +11

      @@jasonvaughn4886 it's not better

    • @jasonvaughn4886
      @jasonvaughn4886 3 года назад +13

      @@play-s-_______-osu yes, I know, they're both pretty cruel treatments...

    • @dookieshoe2905
      @dookieshoe2905 3 года назад +4

      I was about to say the same thing but I just knew someone else had to have the same thought. XD

  • @sirpsychosussy
    @sirpsychosussy Год назад +198

    "So then his friend says 'It's not stealing, we're just sharing' and then Lars pulls out a comically large soda can"

    • @bonafide9781
      @bonafide9781 8 месяцев назад +48

      “Oh, goody. I found my new snare.”

    • @TheAndrewj96
      @TheAndrewj96 2 месяца назад +1

      “Funniest shit I’ve ever seen.”

  • @fidelrivera2887
    @fidelrivera2887 Год назад +384

    My friend Chris was a massive fan of Metallica. He told me he listened to it once and threw it out the window of his car near his house. That CD case with a new CD stayed in that gutter by the sidewalk for weeks and no one took it. It was a running joke when we got together to rip on it savagely.

  • @funnydude595
    @funnydude595 3 года назад +1659

    “except for Lulu, but that is a story for another day”
    Metallica will return to Trainrecords

    • @elbermoramontero2769
      @elbermoramontero2769 3 года назад +214

      James will return as the table.

    • @zorkk2000
      @zorkk2000 3 года назад +30

      lulu wasnt that bad...

    • @francesthepossum1812
      @francesthepossum1812 3 года назад +23

      Lulu was good, imo

    • @jared4402
      @jared4402 3 года назад +33

      Can't wait for the table wrestling memes that episode.

    • @AndrewColomy
      @AndrewColomy 3 года назад +52

      Lulu had decent production but it was very very poorly paced and Lou Reed sounded horrible. He really brought the album down. It would have at least been listenable if they took out Lou Reed and just had James, and maybe shaved off some of the songs like Junior Dad which are way too long for no reason.

  • @augustokonrad3572
    @augustokonrad3572 3 года назад +1677

    Metallica 1983: Thrash metal
    Metallica 2003: Trash cans metal

  • @afterdinnercreations936
    @afterdinnercreations936 Год назад +261

    Give "In Utero" this, it still had hooks. People still belt-out, "HEY! WAIT! I got a new complaint!"

    • @NJGuy1973
      @NJGuy1973 Год назад +56

      On the listenability scale, St. Anger makes In Utero sound like Revolver.

    • @stevencoffin328
      @stevencoffin328 9 месяцев назад +84

      Well Kurt was always a big pop music fan. One of the funniest stories about him was he invited his friend over to his place saying "I just heard the coolest song!" And he plays his friend "My Sharona" by the Knack and it took his friend a minute to realize that he wasn't playing it as a joke and he seriously considered it one of the best songs he'd ever heard.

    • @collinjamesguitar
      @collinjamesguitar 8 месяцев назад +47

      Oh dude. In Utero is still a great record. Heart Shaped Box is an immaculate song.

    • @tylerlarsen1842
      @tylerlarsen1842 6 месяцев назад +22

      In Utero had effort put into it. Cobain simply didn't want his band to be perceived as sell-outs. It wasn't about making too much money or being too famous, it was about controlling their image.

    • @davidk7439
      @davidk7439 6 месяцев назад +21

      Nobody said that In Utero was bad, just that it was intentionally abrasive (to the point where much of the lyrical content got them pulled from stores). Also, Heart-Shaped Box is essentially the only single out of the album that randos on the street recognize and can belt out.

  • @eslington
    @eslington Год назад +136

    My mind is blown that "My lifestyle determines my deathstyle" isn't something They Might Be Giants made up for Scott Bower, since it's such a dorky sentence.

    • @ozharms
      @ozharms Год назад +15

      Love TMBG. Scott Bower, Scott Bowerrrrr

  • @Jekyllstein_Gray
    @Jekyllstein_Gray 2 года назад +1308

    "This album is like seeing your parents cry for the first time" is one of the harshest insults I can imagine.

  • @66Roses
    @66Roses 3 года назад +3854

    The most embarrassing thing to happen to Metallica is still copyright-claiming their own live performance on Twitch.

    • @stevegeorge6880
      @stevegeorge6880 3 года назад +424

      Wow. That sounds like an Onion headline.

    • @darkhero-3097
      @darkhero-3097 3 года назад +535

      @@stevegeorge6880 It was hilarious. They had to play copyright free music over it

    • @danieltaylor4185
      @danieltaylor4185 3 года назад +184

      Poetic justice at its finest.

    • @lulairenoroub3869
      @lulairenoroub3869 3 года назад +148

      The most embarrassing thing Metallica ever did was rejecting Les Claypool. Hetfield's best song licks shit off the shoes of Claypool's worst.

    • @DVAcme
      @DVAcme 3 года назад +88

      @@lulairenoroub3869 WHAT!!!!! LES CLAYPOOL COULD HAVE BEEN METALLICA'S BASSIST?!?!?! *HEAD EXPLODES*

  • @carlcarlington7317
    @carlcarlington7317 Год назад +171

    Let’s not forget that the early 2000’s had some HEAVY competition in the rock scene. Like even if you weren’t into emo or nu metal. Just two years earlier tool came out with lateralus and soad came out with toxicity. Not only did you not want to listen to st anger to begin with but you had other far better options to listen to at the time.

    • @vaelethun
      @vaelethun Год назад +35

      Seriously. Two words: Linkin Park.

    • @johnps1670
      @johnps1670 6 месяцев назад +12

      Slipknot, Sepultura. Metallica isn't that heavy anymore.

    • @DatBoi-mo9vc
      @DatBoi-mo9vc 5 месяцев назад +12

      ​@@johnps1670heavy music nowadays is practically unlistenable. I dont care if that makes me sound old, its fuckin unintelligible and extremely grating

  • @arthurdurham
    @arthurdurham 2 года назад +386

    I very much agree that Metallica's prestige fell after this, even if they did "return to form" after. It was like Metallica was more a force of nature before and then just became a band after. I had one friend who I saw it with directly.
    I was never that into them personally, but I knew so much about them bc of him. He would obsessively try to learn the guitar parts to all their songs whenever we'd jam or would put in the S&M album whenever we drove places and talk about it like it was music gospel.
    But after St Anger something shifted. He kind of just started moving on to other metal bands. Didn't really bring up Metallica as much anymore. He didn't complain about them getting worse or anything but it was clear their mystique was gone for him.
    And I noticed this especially when I eventually stumbled across the video for "The Day That Never Comes" on tv. I didn't even know they had a new album until that point bc I just wasn't hearing the hype from him.
    I think Todd's right that the whole St Anger debacle and documentary humanized Metallica. They were no longer gods of metal but people making metal music. Achilles had fallen.
    Once you see how the sausage is made you no longer enjoy eating it as much.

    • @duncanpadgett
      @duncanpadgett Год назад +30

      You totally nailed it with the sausage comparison there. Nicely done.

    • @arthurdurham
      @arthurdurham Год назад +8

      @@duncanpadgett Thank you 😁

    • @emilyadams3228
      @emilyadams3228 Год назад +24

      There was an episode of Northern Exposure in 1994, when one of Maurice Minnefield's fellow former astronauts comes to town. He was someone Maurice really looked up to, and considered to be a role model not only as an astronaut, but also as a man. Then he tells Maurice his business failed, he lost his house, etc., and asks him for a loan. Maurice is so shocked he doesn't say yes or no. He doesn't know what to say. Later, he mentions it to Chris, barely able to communicate his feeling of being abjectly let down. Chris says that he shouldn't be, the greatest people are also, at bottom, human. Maurice turns to leave, pauses on his way to the door, and says, "I've got all the humans I can use."
      That's probably what happened to your friend, and a lot of Metallica fans, after St. Anger. When I read the line "he looked like he'd given up on life", I saw Maurice Minnefield's face.
      My punk rock singer friend played St. Anger for me when it came out. After 20 seconds, I said "It sounds like Lars is running 5-gallon paint buckets and 66 Chrysler air cleaner tops through the Pye limiter Hendrix used on the piano on Crosstown Traffic." He agreed. I said "Fuck this, put on Kill 'Em All, I need to clean out my brain." He did, and as far as I know, that was the last time he listened to a second of St. Anger. And he has hundreds, maybe thousands, of records. He's one of those guys who likes music, TV, and movies that are so bad they're good. St. Anger is one of the few things that is simply off the table, and not negotiable.

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow Год назад +7

      @@emilyadams3228 I will upvote a Northern Exposure reference anytime, anyplace.

    • @Tardisntimbits
      @Tardisntimbits 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@SamAronowI second this!

  • @LostNapoleon
    @LostNapoleon 3 года назад +806

    Here before Lars Ulrich copyright claims the whole video

    • @kellybarthel8060
      @kellybarthel8060 3 года назад +48

      Lars just sent me a cease and desist letter as he has copyrighted my life.

    • @Arbbal
      @Arbbal 3 года назад +49

      In the VH1: Behind the Music, Metallica openly admitted they got big initially because fans were sharing bootleg copies of their demos. Then, once they made it big suddenly they are against people sharing their music. Fortunately, entertainers and entertainment companies learned from the mistake and never attacked their fan bases again.

    • @Samael1113
      @Samael1113 3 года назад +25

      @@Arbbal
      Metallica actively encouraged fans to bootleg their early performances and EPs.
      They would even let them plug in to the sound boards at concerts for cleaner recordings, if Radio DJs from the early 90s are to be believed.
      Then when other bands were able to do that same tactic on a wider scale, they sued and shut it down because a couple people were downloading their radio singles. /smh

    • @Dill_Pickle1997
      @Dill_Pickle1997 3 года назад +1

      Shit, is this actually gonna be taken down?

    • @metetural9140
      @metetural9140 3 года назад +3

      @@Dill_Pickle1997 oh god no dude, Metallica don't go and take down any video about them. Though their record label, or some other company might try and strike the video for the music

  • @adamfromm
    @adamfromm 3 года назад +685

    When I was on the editorial staff for a small local literary magazine, we used to use the acronym "GTBP," which stands for Good Therapy, Bad Poetry. "Yes, this poem sounds like it represents an enormous personal emotional breakthrough for you, and I want to make sure I acknowledge that when I inform you that it is very, very bad." From what I can hear, St. Anger sounds like GTBP hooked up to a Marshall stack.

    • @the-NightStar
      @the-NightStar 3 года назад +42

      That sounds like literally everything Roger Waters has ever done.

    • @evandemers3753
      @evandemers3753 3 года назад +45

      As a Metallica fan who actually listened to St.Anger in full, I can confirm that it does sound like that.

    • @littlekingtrashmouth9219
      @littlekingtrashmouth9219 3 года назад +7

      @@the-NightStar
      Post-Pink Floyd that is

    • @michealpersicko9531
      @michealpersicko9531 3 года назад +14

      @@littlekingtrashmouth9219 Post 1983 Pink floyd at least; A momentary Lapse and Division Bell are all Gilmour albums basically waters sounds phoned on those two and Delicate sounds of thunder(before division) and Pulse were live Albums. The Final Cut is the last Pink Floyd Album before Roger started to check out of the band.

    • @littlekingtrashmouth9219
      @littlekingtrashmouth9219 3 года назад +5

      @@michealpersicko9531
      His solo stuff was shite too

  • @Nonebody71
    @Nonebody71 7 месяцев назад +86

    The history behind this album is actually a lot more interesting than the album itself

  • @drengskap
    @drengskap Год назад +97

    St Anger - incontrovertible proof that 'abrasive and difficult' isn't the same thing as 'good.'

  • @WilliamMaranciMashups
    @WilliamMaranciMashups 3 года назад +5001

    that mtv awards napster sketch is peak cringe

    • @lotus-prince
      @lotus-prince 3 года назад +165

      It's incredible that they managed to get the guy from the Dungeons & Dragons movie to be in it! :-P

    • @giuseppeianniello1998
      @giuseppeianniello1998 3 года назад +120

      The St. Anger video was nominated for Best Rock Video at the 2003 edition, but lost against Linkin Park

    • @Ceaseless_Cischarge
      @Ceaseless_Cischarge 3 года назад +30

      I like it when my favorite content creators comment on each others videos. :)

    • @michaelboydston313
      @michaelboydston313 3 года назад +6

      WAIT HOL UP THAT ERIK ANDRE?

    • @Mateus_Carvalho
      @Mateus_Carvalho 3 года назад +67

      @@michaelboydston313 Pretty sure that's one of the Wayans.

  • @ghostofabulletproducciones5748
    @ghostofabulletproducciones5748 3 года назад +1015

    Kirk saying that the lack of guitar solos would date the album to that specific point in time was so extremely on point and accurate.

    • @austindolan7182
      @austindolan7182 3 года назад +141

      one problem with the lack of solos is metallica always writes their songs around kirk's solo, and during the solo, there's this cool jam happening behind kirk with james, cliff/jason/robert, and lars playing something bad ass.
      which is one reason the songs go nowhere.

    • @Snarl616
      @Snarl616 3 года назад +34

      I like to think that Mtv told them "nah guys, solos are too complex for the average mtv listener"

    • @greysnake2903
      @greysnake2903 3 года назад

      Ya

    • @ThierryRocksTV
      @ThierryRocksTV 3 года назад +29

      And then came the rise of Metalcore and Djent bands which brought back guitar solos into modern metal.

    • @TheDarthsteve316
      @TheDarthsteve316 3 года назад +82

      Yep. It's kinda hard to explain now, but Avenged Sevenfold hitting with Bat Country with a stated goal of bringing back guitar solos and dual harmonies was actually a big deal. They were viewed as "uncool" for a loooong time.

  • @dannycomellas
    @dannycomellas Год назад +49

    12:36 Hetfield as a stern dad fits. He'd go on to narrate an anti-porn documentary. Not kidding.

  • @thenothing2786
    @thenothing2786 Год назад +45

    Protractor!
    Contractor!
    Compactor! Green Tractor!

    • @FreshlyXpyr3d
      @FreshlyXpyr3d 7 дней назад

      Smoke detector! I hardly know her!

  • @Arcanecide
    @Arcanecide 2 года назад +2484

    "the snare is to st anger what jar jar is to the phantom menace"
    Amazing comparison

    • @plasmakitten4261
      @plasmakitten4261 2 года назад +51

      The problem is that even without jar-jar the phantom menace still isn't good.

    • @musyarofah1
      @musyarofah1 2 года назад +193

      @@plasmakitten4261 and changing the snare tune of st anger also doesn't make it better.

    • @josephschultz3301
      @josephschultz3301 2 года назад +68

      Hence the comparison, guys.

    • @dr.loomis4221
      @dr.loomis4221 Год назад +1

      Oh you like it? You're a big fan? You think it's an amazing comparison?

    • @josephschultz3301
      @josephschultz3301 Год назад +34

      @@dr.loomis4221 Nobody paged Dr. Shithead to the operating theater, thank you.

  • @Ninjaverse45
    @Ninjaverse45 3 года назад +380

    Those "clonk", "donk", and "bonk" has to be the highlight of the video.

    • @FragmentedR_YT
      @FragmentedR_YT 3 года назад +8

      @@mezzb I think the lack of bass on that album also helped worsen the drum sound, since often the bass helps the tone of drums by the parts often being similar rhythmically. And Justice is actually by far my favorite Metallica album as I think the songs themselves are almost all excellent there, but there’s always been something weird sonically about it (which is also partially why I love it so much).

    • @LRM12o8
      @LRM12o8 2 года назад +1

      @@FragmentedR_YT exactly, taking Newsteds work out of the mix ruined the drum sound, too.
      It's also my favorite Metallica album, vut I gotta honest, It would be much more fun and I would listen to it more often, if it had the powerful sound it deserved.
      I wish they would have fixed that in the remaster (as far as possible), but I understand the difficult circumstances under which tge album was made, the very personal decision to mix it that way and even though I disagree with their decision, I can see why they don't want to.
      I can imagine that changing it would feel like betraying their former selfs and their history to them.

  • @choch72
    @choch72 9 месяцев назад +99

    I always found it ironic that a band who built their whole momentum in the 80’s on TAPE TRADING was the band that went after Napster.
    Forgot where they came from.
    They’re legends. They’ve redeemed themselves. But that period from like 2001-2007 they were maybe the most loved and hated band simultaneously.

  • @bradcarter223
    @bradcarter223 6 месяцев назад +34

    “I have never been more acutely aware of James Hetfield as a human being, and I hate it.” That line is absolutely perfect. If I was let down by Load and Reload, I was depressed by St. Anger. It just put a stake in the heart of Metallica. And the documentary just made James and Lars look like insufferable egomaniacs. It was well past time for me to abandon ship.

  • @GdoubleWB
    @GdoubleWB 2 года назад +1213

    Little-known fact, behind the scenes, Lars Ulrich actually gave up the majority of drumming duties on this album to Bam-Bam from The Flintstones.

    • @dr.loomis4221
      @dr.loomis4221 Год назад +14

      oh what a fun joke

    • @ghostoflazlo
      @ghostoflazlo Год назад +21

      @@dr.loomis4221 he's not wrong tou. Lars IS nothing but a big blonde baby

    • @DobuDobuDobuDot
      @DobuDobuDobuDot Год назад +29

      @@ghostoflazlo Bam-Bam is also a way better drummer.

    • @duncanpadgett
      @duncanpadgett Год назад +5

      Go easy there, Gdouble. Bam-Bam has feelings too.

    • @Randall_Kildare
      @Randall_Kildare Год назад

      DAAHhhahhhahHAhah!
      Oh... fuckin' WINNING!

  • @MsAngrybutterfly
    @MsAngrybutterfly 2 года назад +2975

    That movie extended my marriage by at least a few years. Whenever my ex or I would blow up over nothing instead of addressing the real thing that was bothering us we called it "Suing Napster", then we'd bond over how ridiculous we were being and make up. Our eventual divorce was amicable, and our other divorced friends are all weirdly jealous, like "yeah, they really got divorce right, they don't blame each other, they don't hate each other, it just didn't work out" "Some Kind of Monster" is always going to be one of my favorite movies for that reason.

    • @galleryofrogues
      @galleryofrogues 2 года назад +299

      That’s like that Breakfast at Tiffany’s song but instead you have a healthy disdain for Metallica to bring you together ❤️

    • @NEEDbacon
      @NEEDbacon 2 года назад +148

      @@galleryofrogues "Do you REMEMBER how METALLICA, were gonna sue Napster?"

    • @rubberchix
      @rubberchix 2 года назад +3

      You couldn't satisfy them

    • @thewheelsoffury1992
      @thewheelsoffury1992 2 года назад +102

      This is one of the best stories I’ve ever read. Genuinely warmed my heart, thank you

    • @Jessamine29
      @Jessamine29 2 года назад +14

      @@NEEDbacon I heard that as I read it and I can't decide if it's terrible or not XD

  • @haddib
    @haddib 7 месяцев назад +34

    I actually liked St. Anger when it released. I'm sure it's a coincidence that I was 10 years old and had literally just discovered Metallica a week prior.

  • @TheSpookiestSkeleton
    @TheSpookiestSkeleton 2 года назад +77

    I feel like St. Anger needed to exist, like if you swallow poison and they have to pump your stomach. St. Anger is what came out of Metallica when they pumped it's stomach.

  • @darklsn
    @darklsn 3 года назад +717

    "I'M A LONELY LITTLE BOY AND I NEED TO BE LOVED; DAD WAS REAL MEAN AND NOW I NEED A HUG"
    Bro I'm crying lmfaoooo

    • @patoren3gou653
      @patoren3gou653 2 года назад +4

      Shut the f****** You're Metallica not Weezer

    • @EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany
      @EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany 2 года назад +24

      >Super Macho Man Who Hasn't Felt Love In 10 Years
      >Sad little boy who is misunderstood
      Pick one James XD

  • @aacsmiles
    @aacsmiles 2 года назад +477

    The patron saint of anger is St. Jerome, in case anyone was curious.

    • @buckodonnghaile4309
      @buckodonnghaile4309 2 года назад +53

      Cheers, I was curious.

    • @press_x_tojason
      @press_x_tojason 11 месяцев назад +35

      You did more research than James, well done.

    • @justsomecommentchannel8602
      @justsomecommentchannel8602 11 месяцев назад +28

      source ? according to wikipedia:
      "Patronage: Archaeologists; archivists; Bible scholars; librarians; libraries; school children; students; translators; Morong, Rizal; Dalmatia"
      there is also a page for another saint jerome (Gerolamu Emiliani), where (again, according to wikipedia):
      "Patronage: orphans and abandoned children"
      the only thing i found about him being a "saint of anger" is about him having anger issues and dealing with them. maybe that gives him an unofficial title of "saint of anger". however officially he's not the saint of anger.

    • @itsyaboidonk7341
      @itsyaboidonk7341 11 месяцев назад +23

      no it isn't it's St. Anger

    • @UnfortunatelyTheHunger
      @UnfortunatelyTheHunger 8 месяцев назад +40

      @@justsomecommentchannel8602 i did some quick googling, and it seems that according to catholic scholars, st jerome is who you pray to when you yourself have pent up rage you need to channel somewhere

  • @jomartinkelly1
    @jomartinkelly1 2 года назад +140

    One of the most beautiful snare sounds in existence is We're In This Together Now by NIN. That gorgeous ring at the end of each riff. It's really slow, and it has a pitch that fits with the tune. But when it's just pummelled so relentlessly like that, it's just torture.

  • @Lyendith
    @Lyendith Год назад +24

    13:30 Huh, it’s only two years after this review that I learned Hetfield had _literally_ blown up and suffered severe burns due to a pyro malfuction during a concert. Ouch.

  • @Zarvanis
    @Zarvanis 3 года назад +2417

    Metallica is so legendary, they have TWO Trainwreckords-tier albums and it still wasn't enough to kill their careers.

    • @thisisfyne
      @thisisfyne 3 года назад +134

      Oh, we're counting Load and Re-Load as one album now?

    • @KatarnCrusader
      @KatarnCrusader 3 года назад +601

      @@thisisfyne I think he meant Lulu with the second one

    • @SomeDumbKid1
      @SomeDumbKid1 3 года назад +356

      You make 4 of the best thrash albums ever and you earn some goodwill.

    • @mjwbulich
      @mjwbulich 3 года назад +225

      @@SomeDumbKid1 they didn't even need four albums. Master of Puppets cemented their legacy.

    • @dark_fire_ice
      @dark_fire_ice 3 года назад +88

      Don't forget they are the cause of DMCA

  • @williancruz9657
    @williancruz9657 3 года назад +561

    Metallica behind the scenes documentaries are fucking hilarious. Someone in editing knows what they're doing, cause they're paced like comedies.

    • @lotofmalarkey434
      @lotofmalarkey434 3 года назад +54

      I read somewhere that Some Kind of Monster was gonna be a reality show before the band got the rights, so I think you’re onto something there

    • @dookieshoe2905
      @dookieshoe2905 3 года назад +7

      A Year and a Half In the Life of... was really good but that was back when they were at their peak too.

    • @wad316
      @wad316 3 года назад +43

      "HE FOCKING LEFT THE BAND!!"

  • @FreshBakedGaming
    @FreshBakedGaming 6 месяцев назад +17

    James Hetfield’s vocal performance in “Frantic” sounds like he's doing a Trey Parker impression.

    • @drygnfyre
      @drygnfyre 2 месяца назад

      I'm surprised South Park never took a jab at "St. Anger." Or maybe they did and I missed it.

  • @lonestar6709
    @lonestar6709 2 года назад +98

    20:39.
    Bob's face there, just says it all.
    He is simply, beyond done, with this tantrum throwing.
    From taking Metallica to the bigtime, to sat around doing sweet f*ck all. That smirk tells it all.
    I'm glad 'St Anger' was a hit. Because it means Metallica, are still here. But don't act up like this again, lads.

  • @thenothing2786
    @thenothing2786 3 года назад +762

    That skit was so very on point. Imagine you are in your crappy little dorm room while you, struggling to pay your bills while putting yourself through school and some rich asshole barges in and says that he now has the rights to all your shit because he only made $5,000,000 that year.

    • @nomobobby
      @nomobobby 3 года назад +81

      -- Unintentional messaging "We're judging you for using Napster anyways so... Why buy the good stuff we're already a criminals?" Yeah, not hard to see how they lost.

    • @3llenseg60
      @3llenseg60 3 года назад +38

      @Dustin Kimpton Most of those are live show costs, which I assume are paid for by the tickets. You wouldn't download a live show, right?

    • @Arcademan09
      @Arcademan09 3 года назад +39

      @MR.CLAW97 imagine defending rich musicians

    • @lionwolf2797
      @lionwolf2797 3 года назад +25

      @@Arcademan09 Imagine that the concept of paying for music doesn't register to some people, case if you haven't noticed the reason why merch and ticket pricing skyrocketed in the last 20 years is mainly due to the fact that people just weren't paying for music like we uste too, it's not about "DeFeNdInG RiCh MuSiCiAnS" it's about the value of the music, it's about people supporting their artists not just by tickets or merch but by supporting mainly by buying the actual music they make, cause ever since the Napster days us the fans have been supporting mainly by compensating the lost profits of record sales by buying more expensive merch and tickets for the shows

    • @yaboyreege7158
      @yaboyreege7158 2 года назад +20

      @@lionwolf2797 I agree. People don’t realize that when they start downloading music, the artists that they claim to “love” aren’t being compensated. There is a lot that goes into recording music or live shows and everyone has to be paid. If these guys are rich and made a ton of money over the years, it’s because of their own success and hard work. They have countless fans and have been touring and writing music for decades. Their fans have supported them all of that time and have always paid for their music/merch/shows, up until Napster and downloading started. They started losing money from that, they called it out, and they were right to do that. Most people wouldn’t appreciate being stolen from or having their hard work just stolen off of them and never reimbursed for it. I’m not even a fan of Metallica and never was but I believe they were in the right to come out and go against Napster. People didn’t like it cuz they weren’t getting freebies anymore, straight up

  • @Pepsolman
    @Pepsolman 3 года назад +590

    St. Anger backing a Jar Jar Binks scene was the nightmare I never knew I would suffer.

    • @MaoRatto
      @MaoRatto 3 года назад +10

      I loved it. 地獄 is what I live for.

    • @commandercaptain4664
      @commandercaptain4664 3 года назад +6

      Jar Jar > you.

    • @Pepsolman
      @Pepsolman 3 года назад +23

      @@commandercaptain4664 “I’m madly in Jar Jar with you.”

    • @Demiglitch
      @Demiglitch 3 года назад +16

      MEESA FRANTIC TIC TIC TICK TOCK

    • @Pepsolman
      @Pepsolman 3 года назад +5

      @Julie Miller And Jar Jar for All.

  • @LegoManiac_101
    @LegoManiac_101 2 года назад +189

    The “tick tick tick tock” always makes me think like the “Saint Anger” album is like Metallica is trying to be Cannibal Corpse.

    • @theycallmerisky619
      @theycallmerisky619 Год назад +53

      To me it feels like theyre trying to be system of a down. Which makes more sense seeing as they were the most popular metal band at the time.

    • @ayyguevara8448
      @ayyguevara8448 Год назад +5

      I mean it’s literally a Hives lyric

    • @SiRenfield
      @SiRenfield Год назад +7

      I also lowkey expect them to start singing the Metalocalypse theme any second now 😂, probably not a coincidence since as previously mentioned in this thread Some Kind of Monster somewhat inspired the show

    • @emilyadams3228
      @emilyadams3228 Год назад +2

      @@SiRenfield What, for real? When I first saw Metalocalypse, I thought "This so reminds me of Some Kind Of Monster/St. Anger Metallica!"
      (I've had the good sense to not watch the movie, or listen to the album, based on what I've heard.) I mean, a movie about the making of an album? Then there's a book about the movie about the making of the album? That's like This Is Spinal Tap seeing itself in facing mirrors. All that stuff where literally every man, woman, and child on Earth buys everything Deathklok sells, no matter how elaborately stupid, and go to their shows even though every one of them goes, well, Metalocalyptically awry and kill everyone there, has Monster/Anger written all over it. Only, Metalocalypse is fuckin excellent. So ya know, silver linings.

    • @clwireg
      @clwireg Год назад

      @@ayyguevara8448 That album came out four years after St. Anger

  • @yckfides5613
    @yckfides5613 Год назад +83

    When I was younger, VH1 (in Latin America) used to play every single music video they came across, regardless if it was an obscure artist, the song didn't made any impact on the charts or, worst case scenario, it was Jewel singing about cellphones causing cancer.
    The fact that they aired St. Anger only twice during its release and none of the other videos from this record seems very telling to me.
    *Edit*
    They did play artists/bands like Cradle Of Filth, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, Type O Negative, Ministry and others on a regular, so it's not like they had anything against metal.

    • @drygnfyre
      @drygnfyre 2 месяца назад +1

      That's pretty interesting. In America, VH1 was basically obsessed with adult alternative, softer rock, etc. They were in love with Creed in the early 00s, to the point that their second annual award show promised it wouldn't have any more Creed on it. Stuff like the female rockers, Matchbox 20, any kind of "social rap," that was the stuff VH1 loved. Here, they would almost never play metal. But then in the mid 00s, VH1 turned into a permanent nostalgia channel, with so many variants of "I Love [decade]."

  • @MarshallsEmporium
    @MarshallsEmporium 3 года назад +1399

    Trainwreckords Weird Lyrics Hall of Fame:
    "And now she thinks she's bissexual" (Lauryn Hill)
    The entire "Door to Door" song (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
    "In a word to, Yah! The wisdom tooth, So open up and say aaaah-men, rinse cup, hey and spit again" (Van Halen)
    "I am the modren man" (Styx)
    "I'd love to hurt the population" (Hootie & The Blowfish)
    "Keep you and hold you, after I scold you, I hope I can mold you" (Arrested Development)
    "Mary Jane, I wanna roll you down to the fields where you were born" (Spin Doctors)
    The supreme god:
    "You're being a penis, colada that is" (Liz Phair)
    And now, a new addition to the family:
    "MADLY IN ANGER WITH YOU"
    Edit: A few great additions I missed, thanks for commenting lol
    "We love Spam in America / Polanski's banned from America" (Jewel)
    The entire "American Life" Rap (Madonna)
    "A Tribe Called Quest is a bad investment" (MC Hammer)
    "We aint gonna be treated like trash, we got one thing, we are the Clash" (Bernie Rhodes)
    "Gay man, looking for another / Candyman, yeah the candyman can" (Van Halen again)

    • @zdoggzero6595
      @zdoggzero6595 3 года назад +126

      Also the entirety of magic pie (Oasis)

    • @prufrock1977
      @prufrock1977 3 года назад +116

      That Liz Phair episode just made me cry.

    • @Demiglitch
      @Demiglitch 3 года назад +28

      @@prufrock1977 Yeah, her entire discography does that.

    • @paolocruz7917
      @paolocruz7917 3 года назад +77

      The whole American Life rap (Madonna)

    • @nejdalej
      @nejdalej 3 года назад +114

      Also "my life style determines my death style", "tick tick tick tick tick tick tick TICK TICK TICK TOCK" and " St Anger round my neeeeecckk"

  • @aruss1
    @aruss1 3 года назад +444

    When I was at Marine Combat Training in 2003 someone wrote "my lifestyle determines my deathstyle" inside one of the stalls in the bathroom. So I guess it was a big hit with 18 year old Marines right out of boot camp, at least.

    • @hiimemily
      @hiimemily 3 года назад +81

      Sounds about right.

    • @LRM12o8
      @LRM12o8 2 года назад +12

      The single most embarrassing line from an album that almost exclusively consists of embarrassing lines! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @2-d_in_a_bag
      @2-d_in_a_bag 2 года назад +36

      my poop style determines my wipe style

    • @aruss1
      @aruss1 2 года назад +3

      @@2-d_in_a_bag lol

    • @f67739
      @f67739 2 года назад +5

      @@2-d_in_a_bag i laughed harder than i should at this

  • @xSaraxMxNeffx
    @xSaraxMxNeffx Год назад +30

    1. frantic wanted to be System of a Down. Its like if someone how barely understood SOAD made a song for SOAD.
    2. st. anger feels like a stream of conciousness to me. kind of like that song (i think it was korn) where the lead singer just went into a fugue state and started ranting about a child hood abuser of his. The difference is that THAT song didnt ever intend to be a song, it was just musical therapy.
    3. The whole thing feels like...chaos. They couldn't actually agree on anything anymore but couldn't take not being metallica anymore so they just....fuckin made SOMETHING.

  • @williampope714
    @williampope714 Год назад +23

    There's a "Trainwreck" brand guitar amp in the background of their studio. Perfect.

  • @whenfatkillsfat803
    @whenfatkillsfat803 3 года назад +1384

    Now that this is done, Chinese Democracy is inevitable.

    • @Lyendith
      @Lyendith 3 года назад +184

      I’m not so sure of tha… oh, you mean the album. >.>

    • @rockoorbe2002
      @rockoorbe2002 3 года назад +87

      Complete with Axl Rose and his dreadlocks

    • @geraldsvanscyoc7054
      @geraldsvanscyoc7054 3 года назад +5

      Yes!

    • @DiabolicalApostle
      @DiabolicalApostle 3 года назад +39

      Chinese Democracy was good, though.

    • @MrMike855
      @MrMike855 3 года назад +48

      Why? No one expected anything from a new Guns n' Roses album in 2008, 15 years after their last. In fairness, people probably didn't expect much from Funstyle, but that was such a clusterfuck that you could get around it.

  • @thedevilgoose2482
    @thedevilgoose2482 3 года назад +482

    I don’t think the drums were replaced by an oil barrel.
    I think it’s more accurate that he’s playing with a Half-Life crowbar.

    • @accountwontlastlong1
      @accountwontlastlong1 3 года назад +18

      Oh god you're right. While Gordon was in stasis for 20 years after the Black Mesa Incident, his crowbar ended up in the hands of Lars, who somehow... turned it into a drum or something. ANYWAY, that was that until he lost it and Barney got it back to give to Gordon once he got out of stasis.

    • @lardkraken8231
      @lardkraken8231 2 года назад +4

      @@accountwontlastlong1 Barney is actually Lars Ulrich and was using it as a drumstick

    • @darkchiron
      @darkchiron 2 года назад +3

      Yeah one of the guys in Slipknot plays with kegs or oil drums in his kit and they don't sound anywhere near as bad.

    • @QueenCloveroftheice
      @QueenCloveroftheice 2 года назад +2

      To me, it sounds like he’s dribbling a dodgeball lol

    • @TheHeroOfTomorrow
      @TheHeroOfTomorrow 2 года назад +2

      "Lars Freeman, who is Gordon Freeman's brother..."

  • @masqueradevictim
    @masqueradevictim Год назад +9

    Fun Fact. St. Jerome is the Catholic saint of Anger. Or at least the saint you pray to in order to control your anger.

  • @flamingorange8857
    @flamingorange8857 Год назад +28

    James Hetfield (covering Amy Winehouse): "They try to make me go to rehab I say YEAH YEAHHHH YEAH"

  • @EllaBrownHart
    @EllaBrownHart 3 года назад +166

    My dad looks so much like this era of James hetfield that back in 2003 he was stopped on the street for autographs.

    • @svenjansen2134
      @svenjansen2134 3 года назад +17

      Did he gave autographs? Or maybe get a free guitar plus sponsorship?

  • @STRAKAZulu
    @STRAKAZulu 3 года назад +476

    This album reminds me of one of my therapist’s techniques: Write an angry letter to someone that wronged you.
    The problem is the second half. To BURN that letter, instead of sending it.

    • @thereverse-flash9942
      @thereverse-flash9942 3 года назад +51

      This album literally was a therapist technique, they had a therapist who made them right lyrics to air out their anger.

    • @noesunyoutuber7680
      @noesunyoutuber7680 3 года назад +16

      @@thereverse-flash9942 That therapist should have been fired. If you hire a therapist to get an album's production back on track and the result is St. Anger, they did not do their damn job!

    • @thereverse-flash9942
      @thereverse-flash9942 3 года назад +7

      @@noesunyoutuber7680 It was to get the band back together

    • @elrapido5150
      @elrapido5150 3 года назад +35

      @@noesunyoutuber7680 Yeah, to be fair, the therapist wasn't brought into make a stellar album, he was hired to keep the boys working together. In that regard, he did his job swimmingly.

    • @stephaniewozny3852
      @stephaniewozny3852 3 года назад +4

      What's your therapist's opinion on not sending it, but setting it to music, thus launching your wildly successful musical career?

  • @j800r_aswell
    @j800r_aswell Год назад +63

    St. Anger is a detox. It perhaps shouldn't have been put out but I suppose they felt they had to put something out.
    I do feel so bad for Kirk though. He literally did not need to be a part of that. He had like no input and doesn't really play anything different to James. It was a musical detox for James and Lars, with Kirk simply "allowed to be there".

    • @diegovaldes1408
      @diegovaldes1408 4 месяца назад +3

      Kirk is credited as a writer in every song of the album. He literally wrote the fucking "my lifestyle determines my deathstyle" line. Fym he had "no input" lol

  • @themonopolyguy4365
    @themonopolyguy4365 Год назад +54

    When they played frantic at mtv icon, it led everyone to believe St. Anger was going to be a monster of an album. Things changed quickly after the release.

    • @emilyadams3228
      @emilyadams3228 Год назад +2

      It was a monster, but one from Rick And Morty or Superjail.

  • @machine-shopbilly6584
    @machine-shopbilly6584 3 года назад +865

    The people who love Metallica the most are metalheads and Metallica fans, the people who HATE Metallica the most are metalheads and Metallica fans

    • @PrinzPassionsfrucht
      @PrinzPassionsfrucht 3 года назад +25

      This is a perfect description my dude.

    • @Pundit07
      @Pundit07 3 года назад +132

      So basically, Metallica is the “Star Wars” of metal

    • @PrinzPassionsfrucht
      @PrinzPassionsfrucht 3 года назад +23

      @@Pundit07 That checks out I would say.

    • @machine-shopbilly6584
      @machine-shopbilly6584 3 года назад +18

      You either like the black album or you hate the black album, very little in between

    • @commandercaptain4664
      @commandercaptain4664 3 года назад +21

      "No one hates _________________ like ________________________ fans."

  • @bradleypearl2986
    @bradleypearl2986 2 года назад +449

    St. Anger's snares sound like getting hit in the face with a dodgeball.

    • @dcyphrz8532
      @dcyphrz8532 2 года назад +6

      It does!!

    • @brendaleelydon
      @brendaleelydon 2 года назад +16

      It's a bold move, Cotton - let's see how it works out for them...

    • @skaldlouiscyphre2453
      @skaldlouiscyphre2453 Год назад +7

      No wonder so many Metallica fans hate it. It's triggering and reminds them of middle school.

    • @totempolejoe1
      @totempolejoe1 Год назад +2

      That's a new one for me

    • @thekidfromiowa
      @thekidfromiowa Год назад +1

      Trashcan lid

  • @markm5927
    @markm5927 Год назад +41

    St Anger the song was basically my first exposure to metal, at least that I can remember. That music video was everywhere back then. I was pretty young and remember thinking "Jesus, metal is awful, it really is just noise". It's Metallica, so I just assumed in my childhood way that metal sounded like Metallica. Thankfully St Anger doesn't even really sound like Metallica.

  • @regularshowman3208
    @regularshowman3208 2 года назад +117

    What's funny is that as someone who's not musically literate, at first the snare sounds fine to me, it just mostly blends in.
    But the more the album goes along, at least as far as this video is concerned, the more distracting it starts to sound, like it's beating a drum against my head.

    • @lumpchunker5516
      @lumpchunker5516 2 года назад +9

      Yeah, I never would have noticed it if Todd hadn't pointed it out. It still doesn't bug me that much, honestly 🤷‍♀️

    • @nickrustyson8124
      @nickrustyson8124 Год назад +1

      @@lumpchunker5516 For me it bugs the hell out of me, but that's because (mainly because of Dankpods) I became interested in the drums, and while I would love the idea of making a song in the worst tunes imaginable, Marching Band Snare will always stand out

  • @MethCrystal666
    @MethCrystal666 3 года назад +559

    I vividly remember hearing Frantic on the radio when it first came out. I was so excited! I'm a metalhead, I was not used to hearing this kind of heavy music on mainstream radio. Sure, it wasn't *good* exactly, but it was loud and aggressive and I was so hyped to hear what this new, young, popular metal band was going to do next! Then the song ended and the DJ said "That was Metallica." Total whiplash.

    • @liamfitzgerald7217
      @liamfitzgerald7217 3 года назад +48

      Was that last part supposed to be a pun?

    • @MethCrystal666
      @MethCrystal666 3 года назад +73

      @@liamfitzgerald7217 I mean, I noticed the reference and I left it. I'm not gonna claim it's clever or anything

    • @jaredlow4362
      @jaredlow4362 3 года назад +17

      @Stella Hohenheim it's a song off Metallica's Kill Em All

    • @liamfitzgerald7217
      @liamfitzgerald7217 3 года назад +7

      @Stella Hohenheim Metallica has a song called Whiplash.

    • @flightofthebumblebee9529
      @flightofthebumblebee9529 3 года назад +1

      St. Anger kicks ass. Only idiots care what other idiots think.

  • @molokovelocet1
    @molokovelocet1 3 года назад +525

    Todd: "Is it gonna sound like that for the entire album?"
    Narrator voice: "It will sound like that for the entire album."

    • @AnarchistMetalhead
      @AnarchistMetalhead 3 года назад

      it has its charm if not listened all at once

    • @maxthescarecrow4038
      @maxthescarecrow4038 3 года назад +8

      @@AnarchistMetalhead Oooof, just when I thought ancap opinions couldn't get any worse you gotta hit me with that one.

    • @daishoryujin95
      @daishoryujin95 2 года назад +1

      James immediately afterwards:
      "I've made a huge mistake."

    • @exe2517
      @exe2517 2 года назад +1

      I read the last line in Ron Howard's voice in my head.

    • @propername4830
      @propername4830 2 года назад +1

      Hey this isn't the Arrested Development episode

  • @jonathanryan2915
    @jonathanryan2915 Год назад +46

    The problem with St.Anger is everyone was saying that Metallica wasn't metal anymore. After the Black Album, they did Load which was Hard Rock at best, then they did Re-load. On the Reload tour they insisted on doing short medley's of kill em all and garage days songs on acoustic guitars on stage. It seemed like they were abandoning everything that gave them their reputation by 2000. Then the Napster thing happened. St.Anger was supposed to be them going back to the speed and thrash heaviness, then we got an unfinished, terribly mixed, forgettable album that almost everyone wanted to forget

  • @sinistrality7883
    @sinistrality7883 Год назад +21

    My favorite part of the Documentary is that there's a segment in there of Lars selling his paintings and how it calms him down and whatnot, and they all look like garbage, and he speaks about them like they're made by rembrandt or someshit, but they all just look like shit.

    • @NJGuy1973
      @NJGuy1973 Год назад +3

      Not a Basquiat enthusiast, I presume?

  • @trooper9249
    @trooper9249 3 года назад +858

    All the songs here sound like bad parodies of heavy metal music written by someone who hates heavy metal.

    • @ddjsoyenby
      @ddjsoyenby 3 года назад +29

      yeah.

    • @nothingislogical
      @nothingislogical 3 года назад +66

      I think this is the most accurate description of this album I’ve ever heard.

    • @campfortson4387
      @campfortson4387 3 года назад +23

      i swear to god, you are just describing james hetfield when he was doing this album.

    • @gabe_s_videos
      @gabe_s_videos 3 года назад +9

      All their songs sound like that, period.

    • @seymourglass26
      @seymourglass26 3 года назад +17

      At least Spinal Tap was fun.

  • @ArtemyMusha
    @ArtemyMusha 3 года назад +348

    All these references to Some Kind of Monster, and not once does Todd show Lars yelling, "HE FOCKING LEFT THE BAND?!"?

    • @KatarnCrusader
      @KatarnCrusader 3 года назад +26

      which part of that is... helloooo?!

    • @andreylucass
      @andreylucass 3 года назад +10

      ruclips.net/video/kj_8E3FOU4s/видео.html

    • @bridgetoneill9684
      @bridgetoneill9684 3 года назад +25

      Period!
      Exclamation point!
      ffftUUUUUUUHHHH!

    • @aidanhickey9845
      @aidanhickey9845 3 года назад +20

      Or him screaming "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK" into a microphone.

  • @mattgoett2799
    @mattgoett2799 11 месяцев назад +16

    I remember in Highschool that my metalhead friends were all excited because they really expected the next "Ride the lightning". It was sad. The first day they thought it was good, the second they said that two or three songs were kinda ok. The third day they stopped talking about it. For months!

  • @JakeSeelye
    @JakeSeelye 2 года назад +50

    @16:32 if you notice Robert Trujillo's face, you can see him contemplating if joining the band was such a good idea after all. I mean, who could blame him... "Invisible Kid" is garbage.

    • @Aleph3575
      @Aleph3575 4 месяца назад +5

      Its actually insane to me how that song is fucking 8 minutes long.

    • @m3tamorphosissystem250
      @m3tamorphosissystem250 Месяц назад

      @@Aleph3575and yet it’s only the second worst of the three 8 minute St Anger songs

  • @thedrewdog
    @thedrewdog 3 года назад +474

    One of my first jobs was at a pizza place, and I had a friend who bought this album the morning it came out.
    He pulled into the parking lot blaring it, hopped out of the car talking about how awesome it was...but by the end of our 6 hour shift, he had slowly come to terms that the album literally sounded like garbage.
    It was actually sad, he came into work so happy...

    • @Bismuth83X
      @Bismuth83X 3 года назад +23

      Basically my experience with Netflix's reboot of Aggressive Retsuko. I was a high schooler with really annoying classmates, so I loved the original shorts, and I was excited to hear it was coming to Netflix. Then, when it finally premiered on Netflix, I watched a little bit of the first episode in the car on the way home, and, well... let's just say that after finding out how they screwed up the show, my traditional Friday pizza didn't taste as good as it usually does. I stopped using Netflix permanently, I burst into random fits of rage in class, and I wished I could stop being so angry, but couldn't. In essence, Netflix's version of Aggressive Retsuko was my personal St. Anger and it effectively turned me into St. Anger.

    • @seamusburke639
      @seamusburke639 3 года назад +23

      My stepdad has a similar experience listening to WEEKEND WARRIORS by Ted Nugent. He was a huge fan, then heard that and it slowly creeped on him, "Oh no, this isn't good..."

    • @dookieshoe2905
      @dookieshoe2905 3 года назад +3

      Same. I was so pumped but before I even got halfway through the album I was just crushed. XD

    • @dookieshoe2905
      @dookieshoe2905 3 года назад +3

      @@Bismuth83X XD I'm sorry man, it's really the worst when something you love is eviscerated right before your eyes.

    • @TheBrettAbides
      @TheBrettAbides 2 года назад +12

      @@seamusburke639 Henry Rollins had a good story about Ted Nugent before and during Weekend Warriors. Not only did Weekend Warriors suck, but Ted made the mistake of having this up-and-coming band called Van Halen opening on that tour, who ended up upstaging Ted.

  • @michaeldebellis4202
    @michaeldebellis4202 3 года назад +312

    “Replacing the percussion with squeaky dog toys” someone who could pull that off was Frank Zappa

    • @patchchrist
      @patchchrist 3 года назад +4

      Also, obvious MST3K reference.

    • @AngelMartinez-rx8yt
      @AngelMartinez-rx8yt 3 года назад +5

      Arcade Fire could probably get away with it

    • @kaydwessie296
      @kaydwessie296 3 года назад +19

      And any project fronted by David Byrne

    • @GroteB
      @GroteB 3 года назад +1

      I've seen Cesar Zuiderwijk (drummer for Golden Earring) do exactly that during a clinic: play a solo with something like 8 squeaky, sausage-shaped dog toys in every nook and cranny.

    • @ArchangelSteve
      @ArchangelSteve 3 года назад

      Just look for "Through the Fire and Chicken" on RUclips to see how you should replace percussion with a squeaky dog toy.

  • @jasonkendrick1759
    @jasonkendrick1759 Год назад +10

    I illegally downloaded St. Anger on principal alone. Listened to it once and never again.

  • @MisledDan
    @MisledDan Год назад +82

    How ironic that James and Lars fire Dave Mustaine for his anger control and drinking problems. Then, almost 20 years later, James finds himself basically in the same boat!

    • @FreshlyXpyr3d
      @FreshlyXpyr3d Год назад +8

      Differenc ebing Dave was also on heroin

    • @sinistrality7883
      @sinistrality7883 Год назад +6

      Wasn't he fired for Drug Problems?

    • @T.Maximus
      @T.Maximus 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@sinistrality7883 he was just out of control always starting shit that's why they booted him.

  • @MrODigga
    @MrODigga 3 года назад +538

    The idea that the way we live foreshadows the way we die is really a profound and impactful one. It deserved such better writing than "My lifestyle determines my death style"

    • @achair650
      @achair650 3 года назад +34

      *in dreaded black and white, hands on head in confusion* my life style determines my death style....
      *in neon lights, thumbs up, shades and rose colored nostalgia* MY LIFESTYLE DETERMINES MY DEATHSTYLE, YEEEHEEEH, YEEEEHEH!

    • @thereverse-flash9942
      @thereverse-flash9942 3 года назад +12

      That’s what happens when you let anyone other than James write lyrics

    • @inkwisitive
      @inkwisitive 3 года назад +10

      Is it bad that I think that's the best lyric on the album?

    • @morley364
      @morley364 3 года назад +62

      Don't you mean "My lifestyle (donk donk) determines my death style"

    • @MrODigga
      @MrODigga 3 года назад +3

      @@morley364 Ah yes, my mistake!

  • @freelanceangel8962
    @freelanceangel8962 2 года назад +740

    My father was a devoted Metallica fan from the early 1980s on, raised my brother and I on Metallica and when "St. Anger" came out, he was SO EXCITED to run home with the CD and listen to it. ...and then he sat motionless with an expression of abject shock before quietly throwing the CD case over his shoulder and leaving the room.

    • @largegummyhitman5786
      @largegummyhitman5786 Год назад +16

      How the fucking hell was he not demoralized from their previous shitty albums of load and reload or even the dumpster fire we call garage inc which all sucked as for load and reload they both felt like soulless cash grabs for the grunge rock movement when it was already long dead and then there is garage inc which tried to milk and even copy the success of punk acts such as green day but looked like fucking posers in the end

    • @lordrathut
      @lordrathut Год назад +8

      @@largegummyhitman5786 Garage Inc was better than both previous albums

    • @largegummyhitman5786
      @largegummyhitman5786 Год назад +1

      @@lordrathut Well even then that is your opinion so enjoy it all you want

    • @clinteldorado
      @clinteldorado Год назад +10

      It was the first Metallica fan to come out while I was an active fan of the band, aged 16. A friend and I both bought copies of it, went to a local pub (the landlord was remarkably lax about licensing laws), put our CDs into our respective Discmans… and then lied to each other’s faces that it was the best thing they’d done since Justice, because we simply didn’t want to admit that Metallica, fucking METALLICA, had essayed this piece of garbage.

    • @clinteldorado
      @clinteldorado Год назад +7

      @@largegummyhitman5786 What did Garage, Inc. have to do with Green Day? Half the songs were recorded in the ‘80s before Green Day was even a thing, and the disc of new recordings has covers of Discharge, Blue Öyster Cult, Mercyful Fate and Black Sabbath.
      It’s about as Green Day-influenced as it is Thelonious Monk-influenced.

  • @jameshonaker585
    @jameshonaker585 Год назад +7

    The "*donk*" subtitles are brilliant.

  • @johnnyV75
    @johnnyV75 Год назад +17

    Funny thing is that the rehearsal DVD that came with the album sounded 1000 times better than the actual CD did lol

  • @feardatd7961
    @feardatd7961 3 года назад +451

    Oh boy... Can't wait for Todd to scream "I AM THE TABLE!"

    • @samuelskillern7365
      @samuelskillern7365 3 года назад +6

      Wrong album.

    • @wspann1967
      @wspann1967 3 года назад

      k

    • @qw000pz
      @qw000pz 3 года назад +53

      @@samuelskillern7365 "Metallica will return in: Trainwreckords - Lulu"

    • @evan.6397
      @evan.6397 3 года назад +18

      Fellow Botchamania viewer?

    • @qty1315
      @qty1315 3 года назад +5

      I can't wait to see Todd "Worship someone who actively despises you. Who actively despises you."

  • @ileolai
    @ileolai 3 года назад +279

    my 6th grade teacher, who was like a 60 year old woman whose primary interest was Elvis Presley, was a huge metallica fan. just to add to that ''bigger than metal'' thing

    • @boomslang182
      @boomslang182 3 года назад +3

      My friend's pastor father is a Metallica fan

    • @seymourglass26
      @seymourglass26 3 года назад +7

      @@boomslang182 Just like all those republican congressmen who claim they love Rage Against the Machine. Irony can be a hell of a drug.

    • @Bacopa68
      @Bacopa68 3 года назад +2

      I had a 60 year old teacher who was a Rodgers and Hart fan who hated Elvis. But she got totally turned on to Texas favorites The Judys, and also the B-52's and Devo. She knew a couple of the Jonestown killers and thought "Guyana Punch" by The Judys was the infamy they deserved.

    • @ileolai
      @ileolai 3 года назад +1

      @Stella Hohenheim stop upvoting your own comments

    • @ileolai
      @ileolai 3 года назад

      @@seymourglass26 Exactly lol

  • @RyleeStrange
    @RyleeStrange Год назад +18

    I think what i realized is something that lots of singers do. When they wanna get more serious, or more broad with their artistic and lyric range...they also regularly get voice lessons. if James wanted to make his voice all front and center and be this new introspective james hetfield who doesnt sound like james hetfield...he shoulda gotten some voice lessons.

  • @Nassuklovni
    @Nassuklovni 5 месяцев назад +9

    This documentary and the album, were amongst the first big lessons in my teenage life. Realized that I don't really want to know anything about people, who make music/movies/books that I like.

  • @SMATF5
    @SMATF5 3 года назад +98

    I respect the artistic choice to make the snare sound like a rubber playground ball hitting the side of an aluminum shed.

  • @pinkwings8036
    @pinkwings8036 3 года назад +369

    I didn’t know Hbomberguy was the drummer for Metallica.

    • @ZILtoid1991
      @ZILtoid1991 3 года назад +20

      Yes, and he also wrote the song "Fifteen Thousands Dollars".

    • @Sound_Judgement
      @Sound_Judgement 3 года назад +53

      St. Anger failed because they didn’t include the cult classic “No More Horses” on the record

    • @birdglasses8278
      @birdglasses8278 3 года назад +24

      Jason is garbage,and here's why

    • @toot1231
      @toot1231 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/Mdbn5pJJGOk/видео.html

  • @riffgroove
    @riffgroove Год назад +11

    I remember going to see "Some Kind of Monster" in the theater and walking out absolutely gutted.

  • @vaelethun
    @vaelethun 11 месяцев назад +9

    Heyyyy, a million views! Congrats, Todd!

  • @Videokind
    @Videokind 3 года назад +508

    Kind of the funny thing here is, we could all totally imagine what the good version of this album might be.
    Like, take that song 'St Anger' for instance - the good version of that would vocalise something to the effect of "I wear St Anger around my neck for protection, but it also keeps away people who care about me - my anger is a comforting thing that is also destroying me".
    That's potentially really powerful, but the song itself is just so nothingy.

    • @xemnufromthemagicplanet1678
      @xemnufromthemagicplanet1678 2 года назад +35

      THAT IS SUCH A GREAT IDEA
      Seriously, how did they not lean into that?

    • @JohnSmith-mk1rj
      @JohnSmith-mk1rj 2 года назад +15

      @@xemnufromthemagicplanet1678 Cuz Metallica were never great songwriters, lyrically. They never explored concepts, never tied themes together...
      Every album was just a collection of songs, and that's what Metallica did. It grew tiresome, especially when they sold out...
      Even Queensryche had deeper song writing. Carnivore had a concept and theme. Nuclear Assault did the whole 'crunchy, endlessly repeating mosh riff' stuff better.
      By the time the Black album was released, Metallica had sold out and their most popular song off that god forsaken piece of garbage record was based on a nursery rhyme.
      Even Megadeth did that concept better, on 'Go To Hell,' from the 'Bill and Ted 2' soundtrack.
      I liked your comment - something so obvious, but Metallica just never really 'got it' when it came to writing songs.
      Frustrating and sad.

    • @jjjimmer
      @jjjimmer 2 года назад +17

      @@JohnSmith-mk1rj One? Unforgiven? Ronnie? Sanitarium?

    • @arandompasserby7940
      @arandompasserby7940 2 года назад +8

      This kind of slight lyric reworking to make the intentions come through better is something I honestly wish Mike Patton (Faith No More, Tomahawk) had. His lyrics are unique and interesting, but they feel like a bunch of words that, in and of themselves, don't really mean anything.
      They just needed someone to come behind him and change a few words to give the songs a bit more context or something.

    • @FabulousResults
      @FabulousResults 2 года назад +10

      also the easy fix for the stupid title... just call it St. James! or St. Hetfield if you don't want the comparison to actual Saint James. OR you can lean into it since James was the first to be martyred

  • @obsidiangrimoire
    @obsidiangrimoire 3 года назад +106

    Having never heard this album before, my immediate thought is that the song St. Anger sounds like Red Hot Chili Peppers covering a Linkin Park song.

    • @mamajodylynn5585
      @mamajodylynn5585 3 года назад +3

      That's actually a decent analogy

    • @NJGuy1973
      @NJGuy1973 3 года назад +8

      @@mamajodylynn5585 One review of Lulu stated "If the Red Hot Chili Peppers acoustically covered the worst twelve Primus songs for Starbucks, that would be better than Lulu."

  • @A_Dopamine_Molecule
    @A_Dopamine_Molecule 2 года назад +18

    Shame that Hetfield relapsed after this... Hope he's doing well now.

  • @brandonmcbride1119
    @brandonmcbride1119 2 года назад +7

    Skipped school to get this cd and the vinyl. Wish I'd just stayed in school.