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Originally posted by SecretMethod70
You know, everyone's entitaled to their opinion of the music and all, but I just don't get people complaining about bands changing styles. IT'S *THEIR* MUSIC, NOT YOURS. Shocking that, over the course of 20 years, as the PEOPLE change, the music they produce may change. When they started, they were angry, cocky, young adults. Now they are people who have experienced tragedy, and also people who have experienced love and are married. That's bound to have an effect on what their creativity produces.
I'm all for choosing to like or dislike a particular group's music. But it really bugs me that any time a band makes a change in style, no matter WHAT the change is, it is perceived as "selling out." People change, and Metallica are people, not just some group of musical servants. Choose to like it, or choose to dislike it, but I don't think it says anything negative about the band itself.
Now, if you wanna talk about something that DOES say something negative about the band, let's look at the whole napster thing 
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I absolutely love Metallica. They are my favorite band. They have a hundred songs that I am obsessed with. No other band even comes close if you ask me. One thing that really pisses me off is when people say Metallica "sold out" because they changed their sound. Give me a damn break,
if Metallica DIDN'T change their sound the same damn people would complain about Metallica being mediocre. IGN's fanletter and response sums it up well:
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July 21, 2003 - This review sucked. St. Anger was a big dissapointment for most people since Metallica was basically trying to get attention from a new crowd of Linkin Park fans and such. Where were Kirks awesome solos? James' melody demonstrated in softer somgs such as Fade to Black?? The album is a complete mess, with absolutely no unity or coherence. And comparing Metallica to death-metal band Opeth????? Are you fucking insane? Good god! You obviously don't appreciate what Metallica used to stand for- and sound like. They're, as one Seattle DJ said, like a Metallica cover band, and a poor one at that. Disgusting. Metallica is dead.
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So basically what you're saying is that Metallica should have made an album in 2003 that sounded like the albums they used to make back in the '80s?
What would be the point of that? I mean if they just made albums that always sounded like their old stuff you'd be bitching right now that they were just making the same records over and over again.
Sounds like you might be one of those anal retentive "purists". Am I right?
Don't get me wrong, I'm something of purist myself when it comes to the musicians, artists, and actors whom I feel a deep connection with, but I also tend to cut them some slack since I'm not a musician, artist or actor myself.
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Don't think I'm a new-age fanboy that likes S&M, Load, Reload, etc. only. My favorite Metallica albums are Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning, and....ST. ANGER. Yes, I have to say that St. Anger is on my favorites list. Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, the fans kept bitching and moaning about Metallica not sounding hardcore enough since their Master of Puppets days, yet when St. Anger was released, everyone complained that it was TOO hardcore and too rough. Metallica didn't abandon their fans...their fans abandoned them. If a majority of the St. Anger haters would listen to the album through a few times I know they'd enjoy the music. Battery, Master of Puppets, Disposable Heroes, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Fade to Black,
Frantic, Some Kind of Monster, St. Anger, Dirty Window, The Unnamed Feeling, and Purify are my all-time favorite Metallica songs. Notice something about them? They're all hardcore metal Metallica.
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Originally posted by Derwood
Well, not quite. St. Anger isn't exactly Michael Bolton. Much of the music on it may not be great, but you have to admit that it's the "hardest" sounding stuff they've done since "Justice"
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Exactly, and now people are complaining. Just give the album a damn listen! I hated St. Anger with a passion the first time I heard it. Now it's my favorite album containing my favorite Metallica songs ever. I play it whenever I can, even at work (I work at a YMCA Camp). Metallica hasn't lost their touch. They haven't sold-out. They aren't too old, and they haven't lost talent. They've returned to their hard as fuck metal rythms that made them famous and now their own fans are pissed. Maybe today's age is a bit too new for hardcore metal fans?
I personally love St. Anger. I consider it Metallica's best album, even better than my previous favorites (Master of Puppets and Ride the Lightning). I don't care if people single me out, because a bunch of my friends are beginning to agree with me. St. Anger isn't the type of album you can listen to once and love like the rest...but when you listen to it enough to pick out each part of each song and know exactly the feeling you're about to get, you remember precisely why Metallica is the greatest band in the world. Their music evokes emotions that none other can raise. Metallica is my favorite band and always will be. Rock on!
-Lasereth