St. Anger - A Metallica Retrospective
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2023
- After a tumultuous couple of the years, Metallica returned with their 8th studio album, St. Anger. It was, and still is, super divisive. What do I think? Is it good? Is it bad? No matter what side I take, the comments are sure to disagree but that's alright.
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st. anger? i barely know her…
Anger
I don't care what anyone says about the album. It helped me through some tough times and I can't help but love some of the songs on here.
Same here. It's not what the music does for others, it's what it does for you.
I swear this album + Load & Reload saved my life when I was seriously considering suicide last winter.
@@RonnieRonnie3697 Stay strong, my friend!!! Life has opportunities for you!
2003 was a pretty tough year for me, and this album carried me through.
As someone who struggles with mental health, the lyrics on this album sound like they were written just for me, especially the song “The Unnamed Feeling”. It may not be a popular thing to say, but this may be my favorite album. I personally think that they HAD to make THIS album to get the stuff they were dealing with at the time out of their systems. And I think it’s beautiful in its ugliness.
Like how you mentioned snare sound like two times. This album may be messy BUT when it clicks it clicks really well
It’s good songs like Dirty Window, Sweet Amber, Unnamed Feeling, and invisible Kid
St. Anger is amazing. Pure anger in music form. It's beautiful
Not even close... 'Vile' by Cannibal Corpse is absolute rage and fury; it kills.
'St. Anger' is diarrhea in music form.
Yeah sure, Vile is great. But It's no where near as relatable. Also St. Anger came first lol @@sumonjamal1653
It f^%$@! SUCKS
Frantic, Invisible kid, dirty window, sweet amber and the unnamed feeling is a banger. Still on my daily metallica playlist😂
Not on mine
Sweet Amber and Unnamed Feeling are my favs on here
Exactly my 2 favourites from that album too.
I've always said this wouldn't be too bad of an album if the songs were only 3-4 minutes each. And Lars had a proper snare. haha
I think as a guitar player I feel the album has some good material. Looking forward to the condensed version
No it doesn't
I love these retrospective videos and how informative they are please keep it up man im sure they will blow up!
I will say, the best way to appreciate this album is to watch the documentary, it really makes you understand how things were at the time
Keep up the amazing work
He focking left the band!!!!
I really love your videos. Metallica is my favorite band and I think after I found out that you became a fan on Death Magnetic it made me more fascinated with your opinion about the albums. I knew there were younger fans that got in to Metallica after the 90s, but it never even occurred to me that the younger fans would get into them on an album that was released after the 90s.
I really just thought everyone that got into Metallica got into them by discovering one of their first five albums but I guess it does make sense if the current album that they are touring and that you see them on TV playing the singles from would be a way to be introduced to them. I’m in my 40s and there are so many people my age that were in there very young teenage years or preteen years where we just thought the black album was really cool and we immediately fell in love with the first five albums. Of course I like the newer Metallica albums, especially death Magnetic, and 72 seasons it’s just really cool to me to hear that someone heard their music later in their career and that became their favorite band through those albums.
Great video as allways !
Although a weak album it stands out non the less. The unnamed feeling and st anger helped a lot here and there in my life. Like James says this album is some kind of a monster, a mind that was blown to pieces and lost its harmony that you go there only when you feel like that and not for pleasure.
Bob Rock played the bass on this album 👌 you got it wrong Robert didn't join the band until the album was done and ready to release 😅
St. Anger was Metallica's "purge" album. There was a lot of poison flowing through the band at the time. Alcohol, rehab, absence, abandonment, resentment, and the uncertainty of whether or not there will even be a band. Any other band would have folded their tents and resigned the project completely. Getting it made and released was nothing short of a miracle. St. Anger shouldn't be a compared of what came before it, but where the band was at the time. Say what you want about St. Anger, but if there was at least one track that resonated with someone on a personal level and helped them through their darkest hour, then I'd consider the album a success.
I gotta say some kind of monster is my favorite track of the album. First time i ever heard it was at the end of their guitar hero game, and for some reason, it just really resonated with me because of that
Exactly. If every song had been 5 minutes or less with a little more thought put into the lyrics it would not have been as bad as it came out.
I feel like they made the songs long just because they were known for having longer songs, but that was due to solos.
Cool review.
Personally I'd ditch Invisible Kid and Shoot Me Again. Edit down a couple songs.
Add in the solos and fills that were added into the live versions.
I'm used to the drums, I dunno if I'd change them.
I just noticed that there was a ramp during the crash at 4:08 at the rear tyre of the trailer
I knew it! Thanks!
The funny part of your rating is I liked St. Anger as well except for the snare, the repetition of a few songs. I actually like it more than Death Magnetic, Reload, and 72 Seasons as of this moment.
nice video
dope you used the song's instrumentals
I can agree with you I actually don't mind this album.
it's hard to appreciate this album but i enjoy it
I love this album tbh,,
@0:33 COMPLETELY disagree here. A lot of classical music and symphonies share very similar elements as heavy metal music does. Metal: a headbangers journey (think that’s the name) is a great documentary that explains this better 🤘🏽💙
The bass in shoot me again is so cool to me
St anger is amazing as it is
I love Frantic, Some Kind of Monster, Dirty Window and Invisible Kid. The st anger song has a real sad, helpless feeling that I don't enjoy, though I love the ultra aggressive main riff.
This album is better than that Black album BS. As a fan of 90s death, this album and down tuning, this is a masterpiece. It's raw and relentless. This is James' album. People don't realize this fact. He needed to do this more than the band needed to make another album. He misses Jason, and some of the songs may reflect Jason's perspective through James' eyes. Im
The black album was awesome wdym?
i like St. Anger i think its my 2nd favorite album
No one would have complained if it had high production values….the songs themselves are great and they were never the issue
THESE ARE THE BLANK THAT BLANK BLANK BLANK 🤘
St Anger was good for its time. I loved it when it came out. C-. I agree!!!
i might get some crap for this but i like St. anger
Metallica was always so well produced with a clean for its time sound starting with at least MOP, and they never needed down-tuning to sound heavy with few exceptions and post '94 for James's voice. St. Anger was poorly engineered, (especially the snareless snare drum) but the song arrangements were better than anything in the 90's.
St. Anger wasn't as good as the last three studio albums as of now, but it was better than the 90's. (although they played well live throughout the early 90's) I also agree that All Within My Hands shouldn't have been longer than Invisible Kid and ought to have been cut at 8:30 sharp. They could've cut "Some Kinda Monster" to be at least a little shorter and have the room to include another song.
Would you do a Rammstein retrospective too?
I probably wont because I didn't really listen to Rammstein. I know Du Hast, but that's about it. I may look into doing a series about artists that I haven't really listened to before. Kind of like a first impressions thing.
Where did you find a shorter edit of this album at?
it’s linked in the description
@@Ahmedic Thank you
I like the ping 😂 I like the dry fat sound they went with 😅
I think if they tweeked a few things here and there it would be way better. Example AWMH is better acoustic imo
Love this album. It's a terrible album but it's one of my favorites
Ah the yearly “it’s a good album bro it’s super underrated bro I swear it’s just misunderstood”
Rating: could've been a shorter album and it would've been a better album.
Although the songs from this album they do BANG when played live.
It sounds like kyuss more than any one else
If you took away the snare, the album actually isn’t bad
St. Anger would've been much better received with a shorter length and clearer production. Fix those two and you have a really solid album. Too bad the production, lack of solos, length and some of the lyrics are lackluster.
I remember being pretty excited for this album back in 2003. I hadn't bought a Metallica album since the Black album and was looking forward to Metallica returning to their roots. However, my excitement soon turned to disappointment and I only remember two songs that stood out which were St Anger and Frantic. The rest of the album was pretty forgettable.
Do Megadeths Catalog
This album should have been short as a crossover thrash metal. 2 minutes, 3 minutes songs. 30 minutes of kickass noise. It would have been better received.
Besides Frantic, it's a painfull album to sit thru, just like it was first listen to Load after the Black album.
72 Seasons is 🔥🔥🔥
no
Boring... sounds good... but boring.
To me if any other band did St.Anger it would’ve sucked. It’s only listenable because Metallica is a quality and made it passable in areas
As a Metallica fan I give mad respect 4 opinions. Although I may disagree with some of the opinions I found others right on the mark. It goes back to you cannot judge art. If you're reading this shoot me a little thumbs up but only if you agree a******❤
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I like this whole album except for My World and Invisible Kid, the latter of which is one of my top 3 worst Metallica songs along with The House Jack Built and Crown of Barbed Wire.
An actual re-edit and mix of this album and maybe even re-recorded with Rob now full on in the band would be fantastic....even if they just did four or five of their favs. Like the new electric version of "All Within My Hands" 2022' Fantastic crafted version and just takes the song to a new level.
This album still remains my least favorite Metallica album. I absolutely dreaded listening to this and really didn’t like it. But I will say that I can see the positives about it. It’s just for me the negatives heavily outweigh those positives
I definitely agree. As far as positives go on this there’s only three the riffs were amazing the unnamed feeling as its own standalone song even with the shitty production is fucking awesome and the acoustic version of all within my hands is great other than that what they should do is remaster it, at least fix the drums, and it would be, a nice little experimental album
great videos, but your speaking voice is too low in the audio and the music is all loud volume.
the album is good I dont care what anyone said its good regardless the band push through their problems for many things including the loss of Cliff
I actually love this Album. C- is too low of a grade. If you can just accept the bad drums, these songs are good. Good Riffs, good melodies. Not great but good at the very minimum. Solid B for me. A couple of Great songs in here, couple of bad ones and the rest are good.
Of course, I understand that Garage Inc. is a cover album, but you shouldn't have excluded it from the retrospective
I really struggled with this album when it first came out... it actually took me till very recently to put it on and listen from start to finish in one sitting. After 20 years of heaping hate on St Anger ive stopped. Its actually not that bad - the drums, lack of solos and jamses at times very ordinary vocals and lyrics bring the album down. Its not a terrible album. Its just a terrible METALLICA album!
I'm just writing this comment because of my mission in this world. That is to explain to people that in that famous humorous clip where Lars is shouting "HE F$%#ING LEFT THE BAND!!!" he's not simply stating that Jason left the band, which we all laugh about. What he does is actually way, way worse and not funny at all. If you watch that clip in its entirety, Lars, Kirk and someone behind the camera talk about Jason's departure and the person behind the camera says Jason "is wounded", but Kirk and Lars are being complete dicks and trying to just shake that argument off, culminating in Lars shouting "HE F%@%ING LEFT THE BAND!!!! WHAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?!?!?!" meaning that JASON IS TO BLAME HERE. JASON is the one (in their minds) that did something very-very bad to other people.
I also want to add on this topic Hetfield's heartless "I popped his little bubble for a sec... [and he left] :\\" in Some kind of monster (the movie) which he said AFTER the rehab. When he became "a better person".
I actually like it because it’s so ugly. And the problem with the snare isn’t the sound so much as it’s SO GOD DAMN LOUD in the mix!
I always called it the breaking bad album lmao
This album is the equivalent to phantom menace.
This was surprising! Based on your reviews of Load and Reload, I thought you would hate this one!
I think there are some great riffs in here but, overall, I don't like it. A lot of these good riffs are thrown together without much thought. From a songwriting perspective, all the tracks sound disjointed to me. For exemple: Sweet Amber's main riff is killer! But the vocal melody brings nothing to the table and the chorus is lazy and awful. It sounds (to me, at least) as if they forgot how to actually craft songs - they're just a bunch of segments poorly pieced together.
Also, the snare... I don't have to go there, right?
Taint Anger
Ngl if the drums were normal the album would be a banger
Does this. Guy like anything that the band does
actually yes. i enjoy the album that i covered in this video
raw, very emotional album. Their heaviest and angriest. Don't expect anything pretty. The riffs kick ass, and I really like the heavier drumming here. Fundametally disagree that they are changing a trend here: Besides some moments on SOAD's Toxicity album, I can't really hear much similiar stuff. It's a modernized Metallica
Some moments drag on too long, most lyrics arent that good. Really dislike the guitar tone
7,5/10
It was Bob rock that had the stupid idea with the drums. And no solo. Glad they sack him….. frantic and St. Anger pluss dirty window live are good, with proper drums and solos
That’s so sad to see Lars like that for the simple fact that during this time, both he and Jaymz were probably still douche bags about certain things, I get certain things as far as like wanting him not to be a fan and to come up with his own shit but When you’re creativity is stifled and you can’t do anything else put you in a very shitty situation and to be honest Metallica probably could’ve used a year off they put out a lot of stuff load reload garage ink S&M that’s a lot.
The drums sound very weird on this album
I disagree. I don’t think Nu-Meta had an influence on St.Anger’s sound as much as the Garage Rock revival did. Y’know - TheStrokes, TheWhiteStripes, KingsOfLeon, TheKillers etc
All those bands dropped a lot of money in their production to sound sh***y 😊
Adding Rob to this was unnecessary.
Megadeth's Super Collider was better
It’s amazing how many people get so easily offended over that snare drum. It’s NPC behavior at this point.
Like the disliking Lars for the Napster thing when time told us all he was actually right 😆
Invisible Kid - seriously one of the worst songs Metallica have ever written.
This entire album needs editing.
Metallica no doubt own the original masters of this and it was all recorded with Protools so they could easily go back in, edit the songs down (kinda like they do when they play some songs live) and resample the snare throughout.
Itd be imprived hugely
The guitar sound in it of itself cool, but the lyrics, vocal performance, and drum sound are all just not up to par.
I get it was supposed to be a perceived comeback in heaviness for the band and perhaps experimental in a sense, but this just doesn’t represent what made Metallica great to me. I have listened to this album and was just never a fan of it.
St anger and unnamed feeling arr great songs but rest are complete garbage man :)
St Anger was the first release I experienced as a Metallica fan and I was hyped. I loved everything they had put out except for Justice and Black, so I was hoping for another banger but... the disappointment was unreal. Everything about this album just yelled "WTF mate" at me.
20 years later, I have grown to not only like the album but to even love it. Sure, just as you said, some of the songs could have been shortened and some parts are just not fitting well, but... Damn, it has its place. When Lars goes into double tempo over James' slow riff in Monster for example. Blood pumping stuff.
While its not their magnum opus, together with Hardwired I think its the best music they've put out since 2000.
Other than Some Kind of Monster, horrible album. Hard to believe Bob Rock was in the studio for this album. 🥱🤦🏿♂️