Stanger (uggggghhhhhh)

Metallica again. Only this time it's fairly negative. Actually, I wouldn't say negative, but moreso critical, because THIS MEANS A LOT TO ME ANDGNWGIDIJFNHIDFKNBDF
The thing about Saint Anger, or, "Stanger", as me and many peers of mine call it, is that it actually had a handful of good ideas going for it that would've made it relatively pretty freaking cool, but they had to ruin it with abysmal production quality, the worst vocals James has ever conceived, and arguably the worst drumming on any metal album ever. That last part might be a little far, but....eh. I'm pretty sure Lars was just dicking around. Especially since he went out of his way to disconnect the snare from the snare drum, which in turn made the snare sound like a f*cked up trash can. By the way, he hits the snare A LOT on this album.
The thing about Stanger, is that they wanted to go back to their roots of the garage days, while taking on almost an entirely new form of metal (at least new for them) to the studio. You could argue that the entire point of this album was for it to sound like crap. I don't like that purpose. That's really dumb, actually.
What's even dumber, is that they claimed that the purpose is to go back to their roots, but they still had Bob Rock as the producer AND he played bass on the album.
Fun Fact: Bob Rock is the worst thing ever
Fun Fact: Bob Rock is a sh*t bassist
Fun Fact: Bob Rock sucks
Now the songs themselves aren't that terrible listening to them now. I can almost say I like a few of them. But I can't listen to them with the quality of everything just being so freaking piss-poor.
If there's anything about this album that probably can't be fixed with just a little work of the studio, it's definitely the vocals. These vocal takes are awful. The lyrics for the songs suck too, but that's not the main issue. James' voice on this album ranges from "Wow, you should rerecord that take." to "Wow, you should stop everything you're doing forever."
I have to admit, the best song on here is probably Sweet Amber, mainly because it's the shortest song on the album, but also because I like the idea of what could've been. You know? I could probably do a better recording of this song. And I hate hearing people say that Frantic is the best song. Frantic sucks. The freaking chorus is literally "Frantic-tic-tic-tic-tic-tock!" Apparently Metallica was doing this before Ke$ha.
Here's another problem, the songs on this album are too freaking long. I like long songs if they can be interesting, and it's not that these songs aren't interesting, because they are...it's just that they're painful to listen to. Saying that, I've probably listened to this whole album in one sitting at least twice in my life. It's not very good.
In total, the lyrics suck, the drums suck, the vocals suck, the overall production sucks, Bob Rock still being here sucks, and I don't like it.