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- monkeychow
- Rep: 661
Re: METALLICA Discussion
My problem with St Anger is the song structures...every song is too long and goes no where. they have the occasional cool riff, or ok hook...but then it just never develops into a structured working song. It sounds like a tapped jam session where like you'd take some of those jam ideas and make them into a workable song latter!
But I think the new album will rock.
Re: METALLICA Discussion
My problem with St Anger is the song structures...every song is too long and goes no where. they have the occasional cool riff, or ok hook...but then it just never develops into a structured working song. It sounds like a tapped jam session where like you'd take some of those jam ideas and make them into a workable song latter!
That's what I was referring to. I think it had to do with working on a Mac & just copying riffs here & there & pasting them all over the place. It doesn't seem to have much of a flow, just start/stop/start/sop/start/stop. This riff/that riff/this riff/another riff/another riff/that riff/this riff/another riff/that riff.
Re: METALLICA Discussion
Plus Rick Rubin is an awesome producer. He's gets it out of people, and pushes them to their limits. (As happened with VR who later opted to work with someone else & release the album quickly) he steps into the first session, and from what I've heard, he says "You got three songs. Needs more work" and waits & works on those three etc. Then they come up with more, and he says some are ok. Then they come up more & more etc, and he takes the best out of all of them. He's produced kick ass albums from everyone like RHCP (BSSM) & Slayer, & Weezer to Jay-Z, Johnny Cash, and apparently well received albums from Dixie Chicks & Niel Diamond.
- metallex78
- Rep: 194
Re: METALLICA Discussion
Yeah, I read something further from Bob Rock, where he said that the reason St Anger sounds like it does, is because their main songwriter (James Hetfield) wasn't there for most of it because of all the rehab stuff he'd gone through, and the head space he was in at the time. I think the majority was cut and paste in pro-tools by Bob and Lars to make them kinda sound like songs.
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oooooooooooooooooooooh....
Interesting. They're throwing people for a loop, and they are also taking a major fucking gamble by competing directly with GNR buzz. In fact, they are gonna get a buzz first and ride its initial wave.
GNR better throw up Shackler's Revenge on Itunes beginning of September or they risk the track not being relevant. New Metallica records get talked about everywhere regardless of their quality.
- metallex78
- Rep: 194
Re: METALLICA Discussion
Metallica have always recorded great cover songs.
The thing that excites me the most about this though, is that usually their covers are recorded and thrown together pretty quickly, and judging by the quality of this their new album must be pretty fuckin good.
