Showing posts with label St. Anger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Anger. Show all posts
Monday, August 28, 2023
Monday, November 14, 2022
Thursday, October 6, 2022
Getting Ready for SP to be unleashed
I saw Steel Panther for the first time at Chicago Open Air in 2017. I was entertained. They are releasing a new album in February 2023 so Michael Starr, their vocalist, is doing press. Before getting to the podcast quote, a question came up in my brain that I'd like to know the answer to, but I don't know where to look. I know the answer is online, somewhere, but what site to read? No clue. So here's the question:
Why does it take so long to have an album come out in 2022?
Back in the old days when on an album's release day, you could purchase a cassette tape or a vinyl or a CD version of the album. Certainly, I understand that when there were those 3 different formats (cassette tapes, vinyl, and CDs) to produce, there had to be a "cut" of the album several months prior to the release date to allow the "production" of those cassette tapes, vinyl, and CDs to be completed.
For example, in August 1991, when I went to Musicland in the mall in Davenport and bought Metallica's Black album, there was a choice. Do I want a cassette tape, a vinyl record, or a CD? I could choose what format I wanted. Fast forward to 10-6-2022 and I ask myself, how many cassette tapes, vinyl, and CDs are produced when an album is released?
Think about this as well. The new Steel Panther single - title below - is being released today and the release of the album on 2-24-2023, meaning there are 141 days (4 months, 2 weeks, 4 days) between 1st single and album release. Why?
I'm genuinely curious what has to be done that causes a delay like this? It's not like Musicland or my local Best Buy or Target or Wal-Mart stores routinely stock new CDs anymore... or do they? I haven't thought about going to any of those stores - especially since Musicland closed decades ago - as a source for new music releases for a very long time. I wrote about buying Metallica's St. Anger release in 2003 in my dailyvault.com review:
I went to Wal-Mart on Wednesday, June 4, 2003, and bought this CD. Happy as a clam, I was about halfway home when I noticed a little sticker that said "Edited."
Metallica "censored"? Not in my house. I turned around, returned to Wal-Mart and got my money back. I told the clerk at Wal-Mart, "I was driving home and noticed the "edited" sticker." He replied, "I never buy CDs here. They're all edited." I then went to the Best Buy store across the street and paid less money for this same release ($9.99) with all the cursing included. I told the cashier about the "edited" version and he replied, "I always buy my CDs here." That surprises me. . .. not.
So I don't know the answer to my question. Perhaps a future post will reveal an answer.
Anyways, during a podcast, as reported on Blabbermouth.net, he said this:
California glam metal jokesters STEEL PANTHER will release their sixth album, "On The Prowl", on February 24, 2023. The official music video for the LP's first single, "Never Too Late (To Get Some Pussy Tonight)", will make its online debut tomorrow (Thursday, October 6) at 7:00 a.m. PDT / 10:00 a.m. EDT.
Late last month, STEEL PANTHER singer Michael Starr spoke to the "Everblack" podcast about his relationship with the band's original bassist Lexxi Foxx who left the band in July 2021. "I just talked to him today," Michael said. "He's doing good, man. He did exactly what he wanted to do. He started a family. He's living in Chicago. Him and his wife just had a baby. So Lexxi Foxx is not gay. I thought he was gay this whole time. It's so weird."
I think Starr does a great job of not breaking character.
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Monday, October 25, 2021
Monday, June 14, 2021
Thursday, May 20, 2021
the liberals were gong to pay
After reading Jay Sizemore's article about St. Anger and writing about it on this blog - Sounds like a blessing to me - I went on to read some of his poetry on jaysizemore.com, this being his most recent poem on May 12, 2021:
For the Poetry Police: a poem. I was interested in reading more, which led to a brief dip onto Medium.com, where I skimmed his short story: https://medium.com/parlor-tricks/the-trump-morphosis-1af1aa640ba5, which was an interesting story until the conclusion, which is where I read, three paragraphs from the end, the following:
Certainly, gong is an interesting word choice. I would have selected the word going instead.
Greg smiled to himself. This was it. This was the war that was promised. Finally, the liberals were gong to pay for what they had done to his once great country.
Certainly, gong is an interesting word choice. I would have selected the word going instead.
Sounds like a Blessing to Me
Finally! A shared opinion about St. Anger has been found in Jay Sizemore's article: Metallica’s St. Anger: It’s Time to Forgive the Snare - Can we move past the snare drum and finally admit this album is good?.
Stay tuned for more Jay Sizemore info.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Friday, March 13, 2020
Revisiting SA
You don't get to say, "Heavy music is based upon feel" and then criticize the album because the tempo is not 100% aligned with a metronome.
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Friday, November 22, 2019
Monday, July 1, 2019
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Anger
There's anger in our world.
There's the kind of anger that one feels after a death, as in when I just got the news that WWE legend King Kong Bundy has passed at the age of 61: King Kong Bundy.
There's anger when it is held inside and motivates one to do tasks that are later regretted, as in when it consumes a person and drives their actions:
There's the kind that Metallica harnessed within the album St. Anger, which was "good" anger. Tip: Stay to the end of the video below for the message from Metallica to the prisoners at San Quentin.
There's manufactured anger, as in when WWE wrestlers compete at a PPV, as they did at SummerSlam 2003 - SummerSlam 2003. Tidbit: The above video was the theme song for SummerSlam 2003.
There's the kind of anger that one feels after a death, as in when I just got the news that WWE legend King Kong Bundy has passed at the age of 61: King Kong Bundy.
There's anger when it is held inside and motivates one to do tasks that are later regretted, as in when it consumes a person and drives their actions:
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There's the kind that Metallica harnessed within the album St. Anger, which was "good" anger. Tip: Stay to the end of the video below for the message from Metallica to the prisoners at San Quentin.
There's manufactured anger, as in when WWE wrestlers compete at a PPV, as they did at SummerSlam 2003 - SummerSlam 2003. Tidbit: The above video was the theme song for SummerSlam 2003.
Friday, January 26, 2018
Monday, June 12, 2017
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Anger is Still Mesmerizing to Me
I really enjoy seeing and reading anything related to the St. Anger era of Metallica. I had never seen these before:
Monday, June 6, 2016
20 Years Ago, Loaded, and 13 Years Ago, Anger
Metallica's "Load" celebrates its 20th anniversary:
radio.com/2016/06/04/not-fade-away-metallica-load-20/
Metallica's "St. Anger" celebrates its 13th anniversary:
radio.com/2013/06/05/not-fade-away-re-evaluating-metallicas-st-anger-10-years-later/
radio.com/2016/06/04/not-fade-away-metallica-load-20/
Metallica's "St. Anger" celebrates its 13th anniversary:
radio.com/2013/06/05/not-fade-away-re-evaluating-metallicas-st-anger-10-years-later/
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Anniversary
Metallica's "St. Anger" release came out 11 years ago. It's still a controversial release. It's still nice to know that, per this article, they sound excellent.
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There are some very good songs on St. Anger, most specifically Frantic, The Unnamed Feeling, and Sweet Amber. All Within My Hands also would have been a great song, IF they had recorded the acoustic arrangement they did live at one of their charity shows. THAT version of the song is amazing. All in all, it was a letdown of an album, but for me, as a Metallica fan, it oddly came along at the "right time" in my life, as well. Something in James' lyrical themes of the time seemed to fit where I was in my own life. Regardless, even fans of the album would be hard-pressed to argue against the fact that it should have been better.
Also, I'd like to point out that, at least in my own fan estimation, the rhetoric that Metallica got "bad" in the 90s, is both false and unwarranted. Yes, they did shed their 80s thrash sound. But the thing is, they DID the thrash thing, four epic, bad ass albums' worth. They arguably did thrash better than anyone else on the planet, they wrote the "book" on thrash metal. So, one could easily argue (as I'm sure they themselves would and did), that as artists they did not want to repeat themselves, and wanted to venture into other territory. The "Black Album" is one of the best metal albums ever recorded, period. My personal favorite is "...And Justice For All", but Black is right up there. It's still incredibly heavy, and one thing about 90s Metallica, is that James ventures into some very dark, more intense and sometimes personal lyrical content. Some of his best lyrics are from the 90s albums, and songs like "The Unforgiven", "Sad But True" and "Nothing Else Matters" exemplify that.
As for the infamous Load and Reload? Yeah, people claimed they "sold out", they cried because the band cut their hair, and once against shifted styles. But the thing is.....those are STILL heavy metal albums, and what's more, they STILL feature some really incredible music. The thing many thrash purists ignore, is that those albums really hearken back to the kind of music that Metallica themselves grew up listening to, 70s arena rock, southern rock, prog rock, and heavy metal bands. There is a LOT of that in there, as well as Kirk's growing blues influences (he was learning from Satriania for a bi there). They aren't Thrash, no, and they DO have dumb names/covers, granted. But Load and Reload still have a LOT of really great music on them.