TRAINWRECKORDS: "St. Anger" by Metallica 

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.

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

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

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

@@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.

Meesa lifestyle determines messa deathstar.

😂😂😂😂

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

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

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

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

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

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

really underrated comment

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

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.

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.

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.

​@@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

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

Wow. That sounds like an Onion headline.

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

Poetic justice at its finest.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

That was a prison. Dumass

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

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

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.

@@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.

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.

Haha! I miss the days when DJs had balls

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.

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

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 🤣

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

​@@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)

​@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.

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

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

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

@@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.

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

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"

@Luke you have to emphasize the drum sound

@@lilo5437 And trash 'the rest of it'.

@Luke Just 'trash'.

metallica 2021: royalty free 8 bit music

Metallica 2003: Crash metal.

Says the most stock drummer ever.

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

Best review ever.

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

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...??? "

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

And now every Metallica song is like that now.

@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!

Haha! 🤣

Oh crap we wasn't supposed to send those?

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

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

James will return as the table.

lulu wasnt that bad...

Lulu was good, imo

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

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.

“Oh, goody. I found my new snare.”

“Funniest shit I’ve ever seen.”

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Ya

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Don't forget they are the cause of DMCA

Love TMBG. Scott Bower, Scott Bowerrrrr

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

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.

@@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

Shit, is this actually gonna be taken down?

@@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

Seriously. Two words: Linkin Park.

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

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

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

@@duncanpadgett Thank you 😁

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.

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

​@@SamAronowI second this!

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

I love this!

Such a good story!!

Fucking hilarious. Congrats on the wedding!

That rules

yo do you live under a rock tho?

@@Cronposh ?

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

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

@@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

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

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

@@jasonvaughn4886 it's not better

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

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

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

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

Hence the comparison, guys.

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

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

That sounds like literally everything Roger Waters has ever done.

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

@@the-NightStar Post-Pink Floyd that is

@@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.

@@michealpersicko9531 His solo stuff was shite too

Also the entirety of magic pie (Oasis)

That Liz Phair episode just made me cry.

@@prufrock1977 Yeah, her entire discography does that.

The whole American Life rap (Madonna)

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"

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

@@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).

@@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.

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

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

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

WAIT HOL UP THAT ERIK ANDRE?

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

Cheers, I was curious.

You did more research than James, well done.

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.

no it isn't it's St. Anger

@@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

it has its charm if not listened all at once

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

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

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

Hey this isn't the Arrested Development episode

Trent has always been a master of production

Agree that is a beautiful song.

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

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

You couldn't satisfy them

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

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

oh what a fun joke

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

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

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

DAAHhhahhhahHAhah! Oh... fuckin' WINNING!

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]."

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

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

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

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

"HE FOCKING LEFT THE BAND!!"

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.

I mean it’s literally a Hives lyric

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

@@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.

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

I loved it. 地獄 is what I live for.

Jar Jar > you.

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

MEESA FRANTIC TIC TIC TICK TOCK

@Julie Miller And Jar Jar for All.

-- 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.

@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?

@MR.CLAW97 imagine defending rich musicians

@@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

@@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

That’s an insult to RATM and SOAD!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

@@kylehegedus5498 It's much worse imitation for sure

Definitely can hear a SOAD influence now that you mention it

@@ShogunZIlla The screams sound just like Serj Tankian but without the vocal range to pull it off.

@@555Tbird without the vocal range and otherworldly charisma of Serj!

which part of that is... helloooo?!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kj_8E3FOU4s.html

Period! Exclamation point! ffftUUUUUUUHHHH!

Or him screaming "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK" into a microphone.

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

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

@@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!

@@noesunyoutuber7680 It was to get the band back together

@@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.

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

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

Not a Basquiat enthusiast, I presume?

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.

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

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.

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

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

Lars was kind of the canary in the coal mine on that one. When other musicians saw how he was treated by the fans, they adjusted their PR accordingly.

Now they're just like "...please pay to stop ads from happening? 😜 👉🏿👈🏿"

No, now they're like "please pay $100 for nosebleed seats at my next concert since you won't pay for my new record".

We make up for that now by paying $100 to sit half a mile away in an arena to see our favorite musicians when $100 could almost get you backstage passes in 2000

@@Arizona_Bay_Real_Estate I think that was due to TicketMaster being a monopoly.

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

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.

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..."

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

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

@@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.

Sounds about right.

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

my poop style determines my wipe style

@@2-d_in_a_bag lol

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

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

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

*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!

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

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

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

@@morley364 Ah yes, my mistake!

"'Frantic' but the snares are replaced with Home Depot buckets" would make for an interesting concept. Not necessarily a better one, but an interesting one nonetheless.

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What if he was at a computer store deciding between Microsoft and Apple and he went "My lifestyle....determines my Text File"

If that didn't happen, I say that it still did.

"All work and no play makes Homer...something something."

I'm a sucker for "Frantic tick tick tick tick tick tock!" I just imagine James writing that and feeling so damn clever.

@@qty1315 I see him just trying to get the perfect words before the therapist Dr Towel (thats his real name watch this podcast called Why I Hate This Album episode on st anger) Dr Towel just gives him his words (that happens)

d'oh!

@@ladyoftheratking7801 it's spelled "Towle," but close enough.

the rare double Trainwreckord

I AM THE TABLE

I was thinking the same

Can't wait to hear about Lou Reed's obsession with "colored" people.

Never made it more than 10 seconds into it

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

Complete with Axl Rose and his dreadlocks

Yes!

Chinese Democracy was good, though.

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.

That's actually a decent analogy

@@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."

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

@@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

Also, obvious MST3K reference.

Arcade Fire could probably get away with it

And any project fronted by David Byrne

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.

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

Was that last part supposed to be a pun?

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

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

@Stella Hohenheim Metallica has a song called Whiplash.

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

It does!!

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

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

That's a new one for me

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yeah.

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

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

All their songs sound like that, period.

At least Spinal Tap was fun.

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

@@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.

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

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.

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