Anyone else watch Todd in the Shadows? He's a music reviewer whose videos are a mix of analysis and humor. He has three distinct ongoing series: Pop Song Reviews, where he reviews current pop hits; One Hit Wonderland, where he delves into the lives and careers of one-hit wonders (and why they stayed as such); and Trainwreckords, where he takes a look at infamous albums that killed or derailed artists' careers.
Just today, was pleasantly surprised to see a new Trainwreckords in my subscription feed:
Ha! Thanks for posting that, I watched the whole thing. By the time ST. ANGER came out, I was already a 15 year Metallica fan. Bought it on the day of release and yeah, it’s their worst album. LULU is a Lou Reed album with Metallica on it and that one I never even bought.
Entertaining video, I think I saw the human side of Hetfield and the band way before this album or the documentary, but maybe I was a hardcore fan club member in the nineties who followed them way closer than the neurotypical Dave Matthews or Creed fan back then. Maybe too close.
![[pie]](https://threestooges.net/forums/Smileys/default/throwingapie.gif "Throw Pie")
18:30 Kirk was right, and Lars and this video maker is wrong. No guitar solos on this album was completely trendy and in fact, dates this album to the nu metal era. They were following the Limp Bizkits and Linkin Parks of the world, who not coincidentally, opened for them on that tour. Screaming profanities at Fred Durst from the crowd may not have been one of my more dignified moments, but at the time, it was fun.
Give this album a tuned snare drum, edit the lengths of the songs, remix it, re-record some vocal parts, throw in a few guitar solos - somewhere in here lies a good album. Somewhere deep. I listen to this thing maybe once or twice a year and whenever a good riff or idea happens, a few minutes of white noise follows.
