2. I've never cared for solos by any instrument in any band of any genre, so I think I might enjoy 'St. Anger'. It's weird I have never ever given it a listen - only know the singles (which I remember liking).
This is not the only objection that people have to St. Anger.
Let's put it this way: For Whom the Bell Tolls doesn't have any solos, but nobody complains about that, because it's still a good song.
I'm not one of those people who will say that
St. Anger is devoid of good ideas. I think it has numerous good ideas that are for the most part either poorly executed or repeated way too many times. And then what good is there is promptly smothered by a terrible production job.
Frantic is a good song. It's a bit too repetitive, but it's a good song. I wish they would rescue that one, shorten it a bit, and play it live sometimes. There may be another couple of songs that could be salvaged—I don't know, and I haven't had it in me yet to give a second listen to that monstrosity to figure it out. But there may be.
Low Man's Lyric is awesome. I think most of the more experimental songs on the
Load albums are pretty awesome. I think there's probably close to a couple of hours of quality music between those two albums, but not two hours and forty minutes. A 100 minute double album would have been cool.
Also, this:
Personally, I rank MOP below Justice and Ride. It's great, but I prefer the other two.
Same here.
And I agree that MOP sounds kind of flat. I also think that it's just less melodic from a songwriting perspective than AJFA and especially RTL.
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