View Poll Results: How is St. Anger?
***** Must Have: A classic
8
10.13%
**** Excellent
9
11.39%
*** Good
14
17.72%
** Fair
11
13.92%
* Poor
37
46.84%
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The official St. Anger review and thoughts thread!!
06-15-03 | 12:01 PM
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Check this link I found on another BB. it would be best to have a cable connection though.
http://www.lagmonster.com/metallicrap/
Oh yea....
I voted for poor. The album is horrid. As for it being the best since the Black album. Well that wouldn't be to hard to do. an 80 minute belch would be better than anything they have done since then. There are no memoralbe riffs or hooks. It's just heavy for the sake of being heavy. No passion at all.
http://www.lagmonster.com/metallicrap/
Oh yea....
I voted for poor. The album is horrid. As for it being the best since the Black album. Well that wouldn't be to hard to do. an 80 minute belch would be better than anything they have done since then. There are no memoralbe riffs or hooks. It's just heavy for the sake of being heavy. No passion at all.
06-17-03 | 09:34 PM
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06-18-03 | 02:57 AM
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The more I listen to it, the more I DON'T like it.
I was trying to pick out a song to play on my show, but I'm having a hard time justifying playing anything off of this album. It just sounds like crap next to the new Anthrax or Overkill albums - both in production and songwriting (more on the production side, but the songs needed some more work).
The attitude is great, but the execution of the concept was poor.
They could have done a great stripped down album but have the songs polished just a bit more to where they were more cohesive - and they could have used a less annoying snare drum, er, trash can sound.
I was trying to pick out a song to play on my show, but I'm having a hard time justifying playing anything off of this album. It just sounds like crap next to the new Anthrax or Overkill albums - both in production and songwriting (more on the production side, but the songs needed some more work).
The attitude is great, but the execution of the concept was poor.
They could have done a great stripped down album but have the songs polished just a bit more to where they were more cohesive - and they could have used a less annoying snare drum, er, trash can sound.
06-19-03 | 09:48 PM
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Originally posted by B5Erik
The more I listen to it, the more I DON'T like it.
The more I listen to it, the more I DON'T like it.
06-20-03 | 08:05 AM
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Originally posted by raiders757
Check this link I found on another BB. it would be best to have a cable connection though.
http://www.lagmonster.com/metallicrap/
Check this link I found on another BB. it would be best to have a cable connection though.
http://www.lagmonster.com/metallicrap/
As for this album - I just downloaded it out of spite and started listening to it just for the heck of it... I kinda like that St. Anger song cuz it sounds kinda punk/metal. Some people are commenting on the quality of the recording. I think it's appropriate and I kinda like it although it sounds like it was faked - they made it sound raw using high-tech equipment. Lame. Anyway - I listened to a few other songs and they were crappy. Nothing stood out really. I've never been a Metallica fan and I never bought any of their albums - even before napster or mp3s existed. I wouldn't have bought this album even if I couldn't have downloaded it. If someone gave me the album for free, I would've sold it to buy something good.
06-20-03 | 01:17 PM
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Originally posted by Trigger
I think it's appropriate and I kinda like it although it sounds like it was faked - they made it sound raw using high-tech equipment. Lame.
I think it's appropriate and I kinda like it although it sounds like it was faked - they made it sound raw using high-tech equipment. Lame.
While Rock had previously rigged Lars' kit with multiple modern microphones and dampened the bass drum with pillows, spending as much as a week perfecting a snare sound, this time Rock spent five minutes setting up the drums and recorded the rest of the band with a combination of cheap PA mics and vintage microphones.
06-20-03 | 03:03 PM
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Originally posted by Rypro 525
Also did Bob Rock do the bass for the entire album or just for rehersals, since they got the new guy a few months ago.
Also did Bob Rock do the bass for the entire album or just for rehersals, since they got the new guy a few months ago.
06-20-03 | 03:37 PM
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Originally posted by Flashback
From my understanding he played all of the bass tracks but I could be wrong.
From my understanding he played all of the bass tracks but I could be wrong.
So if Trujillo played bass in rehearsals, why didn't he play bass when they decided to release the rehearsals as a studio album?
