St. [b]Anger
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TheTrueZoltan!
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The big problem with St. Anger is that not only the production is shit, the songs are absolute crap, too. Trying to re-record St. Anger is the definition of polishing the turd. What's next? Lulu re-tabled?
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I like Frantic and St. Anger
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I have entirely different thoughts on that album now than I did when it came out and for a while after.
While I watched Some Kind Of Monster a ton I think I had to go through some of my own stages with substances before I realized the depth of that situation. They caught a lot of shit for both the album and DVD but I think it was pretty damn brave of them to put both of them out there. I see them much more as a document of James’ sobriety and figuring out life sober than I do anything involving ‘Metallica’ the band.
Coming out of a situation like that, you don’t know who you really are because the you you were before you went down that path wasn’t functioning right to begin with. You’re scared shitless of pretty much anything because you haven’t experienced life with that kind of clarity and you’re just a giant open wound for a while. Guilt and regret over the things you did when fucked up are all at the forefront of your mind and while you’re trying to convince yourself you deserve health, you’ve got a laundry list of offenses behind you from the drinking days gnawing at your brain. While the 12 steps cover those things, it doesn’t exactly complete everything all at once. Vulnerable isn’t a strong enough word.
And that’s just for regular people, never mind being James Hetfield, the biggest metal guy on the planet whose identity was being a riff god and a hard drinker. St. Anger sounds exactly like I’d expect it to sound, in hindsight.
While I watched Some Kind Of Monster a ton I think I had to go through some of my own stages with substances before I realized the depth of that situation. They caught a lot of shit for both the album and DVD but I think it was pretty damn brave of them to put both of them out there. I see them much more as a document of James’ sobriety and figuring out life sober than I do anything involving ‘Metallica’ the band.
Coming out of a situation like that, you don’t know who you really are because the you you were before you went down that path wasn’t functioning right to begin with. You’re scared shitless of pretty much anything because you haven’t experienced life with that kind of clarity and you’re just a giant open wound for a while. Guilt and regret over the things you did when fucked up are all at the forefront of your mind and while you’re trying to convince yourself you deserve health, you’ve got a laundry list of offenses behind you from the drinking days gnawing at your brain. While the 12 steps cover those things, it doesn’t exactly complete everything all at once. Vulnerable isn’t a strong enough word.
And that’s just for regular people, never mind being James Hetfield, the biggest metal guy on the planet whose identity was being a riff god and a hard drinker. St. Anger sounds exactly like I’d expect it to sound, in hindsight.
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Oh, absolutely. I still think that album is horrible, but it is a valid, important and probably painfully honest document of the band at that time… which makes it even more nonsensical to try to re-record it with supposedly „better“ sound.
This is a really good post.
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This era was the most humanizing thing in my eyes. When It Came To Be (pun), I was only a teenager at the time and didn't get it. Now that I've been through the ringer with my own and my friends' addictions and demons, I get it.
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