Metallica's WORST song EVER?
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- What is Metallica's worst song EVER? From what I've read, many people think, "Dirty Window" from the album St. Anger is Metallica's worst track. Do you agree? In order to find out if this offering really is egregious, we'll be listening to a live performance of Dirty Window in San Francisco, California. Do you think Dave Mustaine of Megadeth is even capable of writing a bad song? Will your ears bleed forever after hearing these nasty notes? Watch at your own risk. Get on James Hetfield's level of songwriting with my music theory course below. It's time to reach level 666 and sell your soul to the dark side muhahaha!
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I can't stand that album. They ask tried very hard to be the worst song. In fact..... I don't think i was able to finish the album
Shred, I've always been fascinated by Deicide's second solo on "D34d By Dawn" & am genuinely interested in an analysis of the song by someone who actually knows music theory & can articulate what exactly is going on (scale modes, etc.) 😄😄
Ozzy Also had black fingernais, and a lot of black metal bands. Kirk is excentric and his love for horror movies, is the reason he likes to couloured his Mail black ( ened)
Listen to frantic and St. Anger live, way more better with real drums and solos
I must confess St Anger is my dirty pleasure album. Sure, it's not up to Metallica's standard, but there's something about that garage sound with weird lyrics and general teen angsty attitude. It doesn't always hit, but when it hits, damn.
"FRANTIC-TICK-TOCK!" gets me every time. Guilty pleasure for sure!
@@King_Kuya 😂 For me, that’s one of the cringiest parts of the whole album
it's not bad just unique
@@rferguson3 I said "guilty" pleasure, didn't I? ;)
It's actually just bad. Don't overthink it.
They killed it with this performance. St Anger isn't that bad of an album, it's harmed by it's production, but played live, they are listenable.
Its an album that has aged well
I am selling the trashcans Lars used on St. Anger, only $100000 each, all signed.
my world is fire
@@alexanderball6326 I wouldn’t go that far
I kind of listen st.anger more than I used to
Metallica's worst track is Boulevard of broken dreams in my opinion.
Ouch
Actually smells like teen spirit is pretty bad too
Their best album is easily Siamese Dream
All jokes aside James actually played that song live with bj armstrong lol
@@arrrrrran3043 how dare thoust sideline jokes! 😤
they should honestly re-record st anger as live versions, like solos and all
Yeah muhahaha
I always say the DVD that came with the record is way better because the sound isn't all screwed up. The songs actually aren't half bad.
they did that and it came with the album, it was the same sound, lmao
@@philiom7724 it was better, actually
@@idiotburns the dvd and the album sound completely different my man.
Kirk dyes his nails black (and wears black eye-shadow) because he's a closeted emo gothboi
Throught everyone knew this by now
Dirty Window is a solid tune, especially the live version. Purify on St Anger has my vote as worst
Invisible kid is a monster as well
@@paulpv7 riff is badass tho
Was gonna say the same thing. That or Shoot Me Again imo. INVISIBLE KID IS UNDERRATED THOUGH.
Purify has an awesome riff in there, but the chorus is awful and agrees with the worst song ever
Nonsense. The lyrical flow of Purify and riff are awesome. St. Anger is just misunderstood because that style is not typical to Metallica.
St. Anger is in my top 3 favorite Metallica albums. I was listening to it at a crucial point in my life and the animosity and honesty of this album spoke to me deeply. They were treated like shit throughout the making of this album, and all that anger and frustration came out in this beast. The drums and guitar tones were so nasty and unfiltered, and James' vocals were really dark and aggressive. This album was untamed and showed a very different side of Metallica and i will forever love it, and i will forever love them.
legit same bro. it doesn’t deserve the hate
Completely agree. People always have some sort of issue with the album, but I think it’s perfect. I wouldn’t change anything about it and it’s definitely in my top 3, right behind Death Magnetic.
It helped me get through a difficult time in my life as well and it’s stuck with me as one of my favorites.
It’s an album I’ve been listening to this week. It’s one of my favourite albums for certain moods. Bands have to move on or they become boring and dull (and bored I’m sure). They have to make you feel something, even if for some it’s hate, which is ironic for an album called St Anger. A poor response is better than indifference and irrelevance.
SAME
Well said Metallica has no bad songs their the greatest I have a tattoo on my arm so every1 knows their my fav
I don't think Dirty Window is the worst track on St. Anger... The last time I listened to it I was struck by how the lyrics even ended up being kind of prophetic, for what ended up happening with the way people treat each other on social media
Well said
For me the worst Is All within my hands, the drums at the beginning Is quite unsettling
@@vincyd5328 You have to admit, AWMH has by far the most intense drumming of any Metallica song...with the fastest double pedal to boot.
@@sleepdeep305 i think that kill em all drumming Is very Speed and trash metal, st'anger drum Is more suitable in death metal/grindcore
I would have to say that each song is a reflection of where the artist is at the time. No bad songs really, just maybe out of character or not your taste.
Well put! I completely agree, people grow, people change, people do drugs, people quit doing drugs, people get married, people get divorced, people suffer major losses, etc... If all this doesn't change the way you write songs and what you write lyrics about, you would run out of content within the first two or three albums!
St.anger is a great album. It’s the old fans that can’t let go and live in the shadow of the first four albums.
I love this album, and Load and ReLoad, The Outlaw Torn and Fixxxer are some of my favorite songs of all time!
100% true.
That "I look out my window..." part is heavy as fuck. No way it's worst song.
Given how much bad press the album got when it first came out, I'm finding the St. Anger songs are actually fun to hear live. Their acoustic version of All Within My Hands as a case in point
Even if you hate Dirty Window or St. Anger, you HAVE to agree that the snare buildup and James’s laugh is sick.
Metallica got me into metal. St. Anger - from the days of ordering CDs and waiting for that happy yellow foam package - was a massive, maaaaassive disappointment. I can honestly say, it was my first full album disappointment, and I'll never regret hanging that shit CD from a fishing leader and shooting it (along with whatever the fuck else) with my buddies.
For the questions. They tuned to C for this album. Might even be Drop C, I don't remember, I used to cover Frantic with band. Fun one to play and sing. That was Kirk Hammett's signature pick ups. Dyes his nails just because probably. This whole thing was much better than what is on the album. James is into it, there's no shitty snare sound. Kirk does a solo, which wasn't on the album. Better energy overall IMHO. They should do the whole album live like that and it'd be way better. I like a few songs on it. Far as their radio songs, the worst is "Better Than You" to me. I always skip that one.
Judging from how their fingers look playing it, it's probably drop C.
@@penttikoivuniemi2146 its is, although dirty window is usually drop C#, invisible kid is drop G#, and i believe the rest of the album is drop C
@@musicbymann Ah, my mistake. Thanks for the correction. I thought the whole thing was in C.
Agree on "Better Than You", very good candidate for their worst song.
@@musicbymann wasn’t invisible kid in drop A?
This live performance of this song should have been the actual recording of the song. It sounds so much better in the live version than the actual garbage recording of Dirty Window. It sounds so much better live. If you wanna listen to this song off the album then yes, it sucks. Not this live version that I absolutely love. metallica always impresses me with making their not so great songs sound so much better live and re written a little bit. Also giving Kirk a solo in this version is so much cooler as well and definitely needed. Metallica forever!!!
St Anger is mostly in drop C tuning, with the album version of Dirty Window being in drop C#, and the album also having some songs in drop A# and drop G#.
I personally quite like St Anger as an album, production could’ve been miles better obviously but I can appreciate the songs themselves.
Also, the signature on Kirks pickups are his own, those are his signature EMG Bonebreaker pickups, which you can get with either a signature engraved cover or a regular emg cover
Who in the hell voted this their song ever?!!! I say play this every show
I think Dirty Window is one of the stand out songs from St. Anger. It sounds quite chunky in places. Cool solo as well from Kirk!
Also at 0:55 is that a Red Special James has in that picture? I went to check out a video of Brain May showing off THE Red Special, but I saw the back doesn't look the same and it might be more a signature model than the real thing James has.
Dirty Window ain't bad. I honestly think Invisible Kid is way worse
One thing that the album St. Anger had that I absolutely loved was the CD came with a live DVD performance of the whole album...I wish more bands did that. Metallica's HQ always looked so cool imo. All that history in one building makes me tingly in WAP area
I think with Saint Anger if they just mixed it without the "garage" sound they were shooting for I think the album would have sat a lot better.
The lyrics however are probably my least favorite aspect.
Compared to earlier works the lyrics feel a bit grade school at times.
Off-topic, but Shred, I am getting a message on your video for Rush saying "video is unavailable".
Those are Kirk's on signature pickups, the EMG Bonebreaker. Some limited units were decorated with his signature.
Todd Barriage does a Dirty Window cover that blows me away. It's not even that much different from the original, but it's fantaaaaastic
A fantastic performance from an album that was an anathema to both my pals and myself coming out of high school. This performance made me want to go back and listen to St. Anger but I just couldn’t do it. I would love a re-recording of the entire album in this vein.
If you want a truly terrible st anger deep cut, I would recommend Invisible Kid. They only performed it it studio and thank god they did
100% awful track that was
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That's the song off of St. Anger I get stuck in my head most often.
They tuned to Drop C on St. Anger quite a bit. Gave this kinda minor pentatonic / 90s crossover weirdness to the music. The biggest issue with the music on St. Anger is - they basically played the songs or the basic song structure just 2 to 3 times in a row without any great transitions or intermitting parts etc.
Can you play wonderfloor?
"What if I...purify?"
Although Metallica is my favorite band of all time, St Anger is the only album that has given me a headache, but Dirty Window is far from the worst song on that album (my choices would be Shoot Me Again and Purify, my choice for which one is worse changes a lot).
😂😂 “Shoot me again” 🥱 literally shoot me again and again.
@@ollieparr1826 Agreed, at least Purify’s outro is kinda cool
"Shoot Me Again" is in my top 3 of the album, alongside "Sweet Amber" and "St. Anger".
@@marekwichniarek268 I’ll agree to Sweet Amber and St. Anger but “Shoot me Again” just doesn’t grab me like it should……
@@marekwichniarek268 Sweet Amber is my 2nd favorite on the album, only behind The Unnamed Feeling
Honestly Dirty Window is still fun but if there has to be one song that is bad for even Metallica, that would be Atlas Rise. It feels that Lars doesn't know what to do in few parts.
why cant you take the spec out of neighbors eye and he takes log out of yours?
I like how Lulu is so bad that it erased itself from existence.
What!!!! Dirty window is the best on that album
I like St. Anger. 🤘🏻
I wish this was the worst song I ever wrote.
I was there at the concert. James looked right at me haha
As far as Kirk's fingernails being black, I remember watching a black and white movie called Village of the Damned. It had these little kids with black fingernails that would kill you if they touched you. Old 60s horror movie, right up Kirk's alley. Just my guess.
Dirty Album is unironically my favorite song on that album. I love St Anger tbh. I think Metallicas worst song is Murder One tbh.
same lmao, i just love st anger in general, i cant choose a worst song
@@lcdl731 that's fair. Murder One isn't a bad song. It's just simply my least favorite.
Murder one is about lemmy
@@timothyhetherington yeah and I wish the verse was just better. The chorus is good so there's that.
You are right Dirty Window is a banger
this song is oddly nostalgic for me. when i was like 16 in 2011 and would play gears 3 w my friend, when we would get an execution we would scream "i am judge and i am jury and i am executioner, too". it was honestly the best time
listening to the entire album in one sitting can be a bit of a drag/headache, yeah. but it was the first metallica album i bought (in my pre-teens, mind you) and while it was quite a handful on the ears it kind of resonated with me and of course now brings me back to far better and simpler days of those early 2000s. i really enjoy metallica's unloved children from that era. i'm glad they exist.
i listen to it all the time
Big fan of your content, but what about scales and theory used by Trey Azagthoth and Morbid Angel in general 👿
Who gives a shit 👎🏻
This is the first time I have heard this song......and I totally DIG IT!
It's got a Soundgarden-esque grunge thing going on...and it works.
Its' only crime is that it's " not thrash metal". 🤨
And 2 that, I say.....🤨 whatevs.
lol kirk signed his own pickups
I absolutely fuckin’ LOVE that song! Turn that shit up!!!!
Worst Metallica song is, obviously, "Happy but false" Muahaahhah 69/100 joke
Still waiting on Sunn O))). I know you're not a critic or whatever but you're an intellectual heavyweight in music.
When are you gonna review Archspire 😔
Dave Mustain signed the pups 😈
I actually love the chorus of this song. I remember when this album came out and after I bought it my friends and I would blast the hell out of it. Sure it doesn’t have anything on the first 4 or 6 albums but if you listen to it as a regular Rock/metal fan it sounds great. Remove the bias and it will set you free
St Anger makes me so ANGRY!
Muahahahaha
Great verse well said Shred keep em coming!
James Hetfield must have been pulling words out of a Hat to piece together in Rehab when he wrote St Anger .That St Anger song itself is the Worst Song Of All Time , period . 😭🤖😬😵😖🙈🙉🤔🙄👎😫😩😲🤕🤢
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Anything Metallica did with Lou Reed is much worse than this.
Of course UA-cam delivered and replaced Lou Reed with Abraham Simpson, on one track, and it’s hilarious.
I'm just glad that someone is keeping his house so clean.
Looks like Kirk’s KH signature on those pickups, like the one on his signature skeleton foot wah.
Yea st anger ain’t that bad. I love a few songs from that album. Some kind of monster goes hard
Are you for real dude?
I honestly feel that most of the hate to that album is completely exaggerated. The songs are great, and despite people not liking the snare sound I think it works super well with the songs.
I thought people hated Purify
Oh, that's definitely Ashley Simpson signature pick ups, complete with finger syncing feature. Shred, you was thinking if his wah. Its the bieb's signature wah pedal, complete with auto tune switch, to aid in those tough key of C minor solos.
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St. Anger got me into metal, there are some cheesy moments there, but it holds a special place in my heart. The rawness, anger, garage sound - love it all
St Anger, Some Kind of Monster, and Invisible Kid have some cool sounds. I listen to that album when I want to appreciate the rest of their music more lol
Never heard this before. Not bad.. It kinda has a Motorhead type feel in some parts.
Listen to the album version and you’ll understand the hate.
In a live setting it’s a decent Metallica track. Studio version is straight cheese
@@mrslippyfist9155 I understand the hate but can get past it
You should listen to the actual album version, if you can stand the sound of St. Anger, I understand some people can't take that. If you can't, I recommend the studio rehearsals of the song.
Video about new Kirk Hammet's album? Please
Shoot Me Again sounds like Korn slammed into Godsmack at the top of a staircase while ReLoad was playing on the stereo. Dirty Window is "Stairway" levels of songwriting genius in comparison to that.
the main riff is seriously killer
My problem with St.anger is not the drums sound, or the lack of solo its just the songs really rocks its first 2 to 3 minutes and I get bored after 3 minutes.
wow, this sounds way better live. I sort of fell off at the st.anger album but this is pretty legit.
Oh no way, I'd say Purify
How bad Dirty Window EVER may be, compared to Brandenburg Gate (Lulu) Dirty Window is a great song yet.
I'm surprised Dirty Windows was voted. To me it's one of the few barely listenable tracks on the album (C- where most of the album is D or F). The song would benefit from being shorter by a minute or two so that the main riff (a decent one too) or breakdown doesn't repeat for the umpteenth time.
so many people have forgotten about Lulu... it was real sh*t
The subject matter of this song harkens back to And justice for all, but with zero effort at composition and lyricism.
My only complaint with this statement that dirty window is the worst is that shoot me again and purify are on the same album.
I actually really like the album. Since it came out. And I like most of their other albums too. I think is good that an artist explores different sounds and stuff. I don't know. That's just my take on it. Plus, St. Anger has a lot of "angry" energy, for lack of a better word. A lot of in your face metal. So yeah, I love it.
Definitely fresh breath of new life is put into St.Anger songs while being played live recently.
tt anger is my fav metallica album by far. The anger and aggression is right where it should be. the tones aren't the beefy and distorted crazy tones that everyone looves to hear. and the drum mix is sooo raw and alive. props to lars as well, really nailed the double bass and blast beasts. the bass tone is also so dirty. Aaand no more wah from kirk, heaven
WTF Internet? How tha f@#k can this be their worst song - this song destroys 'Invisible Kid'. They could've opened the album with Dirty Window IMO
Day 1 of asking Shred to play The Undamaged Beginnings Of Sanity
This song isn't too bad played live. It definitely isn't their best song, but I would still rock out to it at a concert.
Hey! Any song where Het does a mariachi laugh can’t be the worst.
Invisible kid is
Or Bad Seed
What about cure and poor twisted me
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I Like Dirty Window, that Song is one of the Most Liked Songs on that Album to me. But at the Same I Feel like my Opinion is Changing.
The Memory Remains has to be worst. I wish my memory didn't remain of it.
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I've literally never heard anyone say it's Dirty Window. It's one of the best songs on the album, in fact. Their worst songs would stuff like Sweet Amber or Invisible Kid.
If you can't enjoy 6:02 there is no saving you. Come on man that's pure headbang fuel. Y'all are just blinded by "durrr saint anger bad because everyone says so".
you have terrible taste, and that's fine, but don't push it onto others. st anger is a horrendous album
@@umi6817 I kinda struggle with the idea that the guy who is preaching the same opinion that everyone constantly screams every time anything to do with Saint Anger is mentioned is accusing me of "pushing my taste onto others"
@@plasmakitten4261 well, what do you want people to do? praise st anger as some sort of misunderstood work of genius? most people think it's garbage because it's garbage, deal with it
@@umi6817 I wouldn't mind if yall would stop spouting the same orthodox opinion over and over and over for years and decades. "Saint Anger is bad because there's terrible production and no guitar solos and the snare sounds bad, and the lyrics are confused, and also Lars bad, Napster suit bad". Literally millions of you have the exact same opinion for the exact same reasons. It never occurred to you that someone else could have a different opinion and doesn't care to hear the same opinion again for the trillionth time? We get it, you don't like Saint Anger. Now shut up about it and let the rest of us enjoy it.
@@plasmakitten4261 you really think you're special for liking that garbage heap of an album 😂 you do you, mate
Dirty Window is one of my favorites! haha. Shit's bad ass.
I always get this song in my head randomly, a few parts are low key really cool.
high key
What a stupid question. Why does Kirk Hammett paint his finger nails black?
Gonna take a wild guess and say because he wants to.
My buddy, who is in a Metallica tribute band that only plays from the first 4 albums said, "Stanger isn't a bad album, it's just not a good Metallica album."
The some kind of monster movie and album should’ve been shipped together lol. You get a different perspective and an appreciation for the album.
Kirk started painting his nails black since 90s. I think it was around the time he came out as bi.
St.Anger has some of there best songs. All within my hands from 2:00 - 2:50 is some of there best work.
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