or the couple of moments when lars is acting out like a spoiled child (i mean, more than he usually does).
OR the scene when he sort of cries when visiting dave mustaine.
and the ever ambivalent mr. kirk wahmett…
omg that movie was sooo… emooootional.
I think you might appreciate my movie review written after viewing a screening of it in Hollywood right before its release . . . .
“METALLICA: Some Kind of Homo”
http://www.myspace.com/pinnylong/blog/73147574
^^^Ha! Great blog!
I got the premiere pass from the local radio station KROQ. I emailed them my “review” the next day and left my phone number. The producer for the morning show (Kevin and Bean) called me back the next day saying he loved my review and wanted to have me call in to the show when they have Metallica on (the following week) and told me to rip on them. I promised I’d make his show very popular.
I was really looking forward to the spot, but I called the producer back the day before to confirm everything and he told me that they sadly had to pull the plug on my part. He mentioned that they were “just getting on good terms with Metallica” and the station didn’t want that bridge getting burned.
loved the bit about het doing a pirouette and how halford would hump 'em all.
first part of that review were exactly my thoughts about it.
as for them having balls to show all the shit that happened, well… i wonder how it all actually went down. was it probably a decision to make just another album and shoot the process of it as well? then i guess the things started to go awry (psychiatrist is in, newsted is out, het is drinking etc etc etc) but they already spent the money on filming so i guess they went with it and turned the ‘concept’ of it around?
i mean why would any band (that is ‘conventional’ and mainstream, ofc) would say hey guys, i have a great idea, lets make a shitty fucking album, and film it too!! it would be just like “Let It Be”, but metal!.. sort of…
unless they were totally trolling everyone with that.
That’s hilarious, Gunner!
Gila-
We’ve got to assume they thought they were recording a new masterpiece. That’s the only way to explain it.
They were going to let us all “behind the curtain” to see their process. What it takes to be Metallica and record something as amazing as St. Anger.
has better stage presence and crowd banter
bleh, it’s all the same shit for both bands for a long time now.
But at least hetfield is still charming… “How many people have the ad justice for all album?”
crowd roars
"yeah, you’re right, I counted… I was a few off… It’ll be louder now… I figer… "
put your eyballs on Jason he’s gonna show you all whot the fock to do
so for this next song I want you dancing along, fucking along. singing along or doing something fuck along.
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has better stage presence and crowd banter
bleh, it’s all the same shit for both bands for a long time now.
But at least hetfield is still charming… “How many people have the ad justice for all album?”
crowd roars
"yeah, you’re right, I counted… I was a few off… It’ll be louder now… I figer… "
put your eyballs on Jason he’s gonna show you all whot the fock to do
so for this next song I want you dancing along, fucking along. singing along or doing something fuck along.
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Sounds like James fell off the wagon.
Metallica.
It took me years to forgive them for St Anger and for that stupid movie but eventually I did.
Slayer I don’t care much for these days but the 80’s stuff is very good.
Slayer but it’s close!
i’m not really a fan of either, but if i had to pick a side.
slayer.
Are you suuuuuuuuuure you’re not Nashtheslash?
definitely him.
…the little drummer boy from Metallica…
I got a good long chuckle out of this. thank you.
Late,
grmpysmrf
Lars Ulrich is to metal what Dominos Pizza is to Italian food.
He makes me want to take a plane to Denmark, stand on top of the highest building, lift a megaphone to lips and shout:
“What have you done? What the hell have you all gone and done, you silly Danish?!?!”
After reading through this thread I went and listened to Load, Reload, and Garage Inc.… and I still fucking like those albums a lot. Seems a lot of people hate them but even if you dislike the music it at least sounds like they were making music they wanted to rather than trying to be “heavy” and rehash their past shit like they’re doing now. Lars’ shitty drumming works well with it too because it doesn’t really call for anything too difficult.
I love their older stuff too. Master of Puppets and … And Justice for All are excellent. But I really like their more “rock” albums. Hell, I even like that S&M album they did.
It took me a long while to get over my metal butthurtedness and accept Load/Re-Load for what they are (good rock albums with some really well written songs) but I like them now too. Maybe in another 15 years I’ll finally accept St. Anger and Lulu.
load and reload sure have some good stuff on them. however sometimes i wonder what if they would scratch the “double album” idea at that time completely - after all, thats how it originally was, those songs/riffs were written all in one same big bunch, etc; and would instead opt for single cd condensing the better stuff out of whole pile? cuz those 2 albums suuuure have fucktons of filler.
It took me a long while to get over my metal butthurtedness and accept Load/Re-Load for what they are (good rock albums with some really well written songs) but I like them now too. Maybe in another 15 years I’ll finally accept St. Anger and Lulu.
I know what you mean. But if you don’t listen to them expecting a metal album and just a decent rock album(s) they’re really good.
But Lulu will never, ever be good. Good fucking god… that album is a fucking joke. I cannot imagine ever thinking it’s “good for what it is”. It’s pretentious bullshit. The “lyrics” make me cringe.
[reply]It took me a long while to get over my metal butthurtedness and accept Load/Re-Load for what they are (good rock albums with some really well written songs) but I like them now too. Maybe in another 15 years I’ll finally accept St. Anger and Lulu.
I know what you mean. But if you don’t listen to them expecting a metal album and just a decent rock album(s) they’re really good.
But Lulu will never, ever be good. Good fucking god… that album is a fucking joke. I cannot imagine ever thinking it’s “good for what it is”. It’s pretentious bullshit. The “lyrics” make me cringe.[/reply]
If they had decided to just knock out a two-song 7" with “Frustration” and “Iced Honey” on it, I’d actually think it was kind of cool and give it the “good for what it is” nod with the props for trying something different and all that other cliché bullcrap. But it’s really a truly wretched album and moved my position on Lou Reed from half-ambivalent respect to full-blown hatred. What an idiotic senile pompous retard. And up yours, Metallica for letting him do whatever the heck he wanted. You had to know this was awful. Sure, of course I’d do the same, probably, if my rock gods walked into my house and said, “Okay, here’s the song I’m gonna lay down” but I’m not a multi-platinum Grammy-winning world’s biggest metal band either.
Okay, okay. I’m just gonna stop. Whenever I talk Lulu I go off on weird tangents that ultimately end up with me devising ways to kill Lou Reed.
Maybe I can make Lou Reed die like I did to Ray Manzarek last month. DIE, LOU REED!!! DIE DIE DIE!!!
Lulu is just an all around abortion. Lou sounds like someones drunken, hippie grandpa. It’s terrible.
I remember listening to Lulu and just slumping further and further into my chair, eventually it ended after what seemed like an eternity of Lou fucking Reed bringing shame on everyone involved. Total crap with a smattering of nice riffs here and there, but mainly just an old man shouting nonsensical garbage and, maybe deliberately, pissing on the rug of a band who invited him to participate because they respected him. What the hell were they thinking? Lou Reed is an absolute shit sandwich of an “artist”. He cares more about pissing people off, annoying them with his deliberately obtuse claptrap, than making good music. Why Metallica thought he’d take it seriously and not go out of his way to destroy the goodwill brought about by Death Magnetic i will never know.
The worst Slayer have ever done in terms of making fools of themselves was to use 7-string guitars on God Hates Us All and downtune a bit lower than their normal tuning, they flirted a little with nu-metal momentarily before reverting back to their normal selves. As much as i love Metallica, I was embarrassed for them when they released;
Load (didn’t like it, some good songs, lots of pish. This is not Metallica)
Reload (same again)
St Anger (some good bits, mainly a failed novelty experiment, again, trying something different that was a bit nu-metal)
S&M that super-faggoty fucking piece of shit (i don’t need to hear a classic Metallica track with Michael Kamen’s score for Die Hard vomited all over it)
Some Kind of Monster - mainly because it showed them as a bunch of confused millionaires who’d forgotten how to write decent music and were too fucking scared to be themselves. Great film, but excruciating. Death Magnetic was a welcome return, to me anyway, but instead of following up with another good release they brought in old man Reed to shite all over their work and no doubt laugh about it with his arty pals behind their backs.
My advice to Metallica would be to lay off the coke and be yourselves, or try to be who you used to be even if you’re just pretending. Do it for you many millions of fans who seem to love you regardless of how you spit on them, while telling them how much you love them. That whole Load/Reload coke-loving “Oasis are the best band in the history of music” phase was just awful. When they cut their hair off they must have cut their fucking balls off too.