Since I’m on vacation, I dug through the vaults to pull an previously unavailable episode for you: our Metallica Awful Band Spotlight (Episode 3)
We discuss our love for the band, dissect 3 music videos from their unfortunate later era, cover “Lulu,” their bland-yet-repulsive collaborative album with Lou Reed, and the documentary that revealed the bitter, hollow shells they had become: Some Kind of Monster.
Video 1: “We Did It,” a Frankenstein amalgam of discarded riffs from STanger, produced by Swizz Beatz and featuring Ja Rule.
Video 2: “I Disappear,” the band’s only standalone single, featured on the soundtrack for Mission Impossible II, and containing various half-assed movie references, the only upshot of which is James receiving a 67 Camaro with a fucked up transmission.
Video 3: “Stanger” the case of “the snare and the stone.” The band is tough. They want you to know that.