Nite Songs

Here we go then, once more unto the breach, our official worst 5 albums ever (well, 7, there’s a three way tie in there). Seatbelts on, this is gonna get messy… PREVIOUSLY IN THIS COLUMN:   Intro  •  Part 1 (50-41)  •  Part 2 (40-31)  •  Part 3 (30-21)  •  Part 4 (20-16)   •  Part 5 (15-11)  • Part 6 (10-6) 5.= METALLICA - "St Anger" (2003) 5.= LOU REED - "Metal Machine Music" (1975) 5.= LOU REED & METALLICA - "Lulu" (2012) I'm grouping these three together for obvious reasons but basically all of them are deserving of a place in the Top 5. Bear with us, this might take a while. So, St Anger  then - there's few incidents that I look back on from my music journalism career and genuinely think "yeah, f**kinell I really got that wrong" but this album is one of 'em. I reviewed it for a print 'zine I was working for at the time and gave it 9/10 on the grounds that, in my own words, "they've rediscovered the riffs!" Un...

  “Rock ‘n’ roll ain’t worth the name if it don’t make you f**k...” - Motörhead - Overkill (as covered by Metallica & Lemmy on this ‘ere album) Now this is a bit of a weird one and possibly the most subjective GDR yet (ironic given that it’s a Metallica EP featured on this compilation that provided the name inspiration for this column). I have to be honest, although I've kind of dipped a toe in the waters many times down the years, I've never really considered myself to be a full on metalhead. I mean don't get me wrong, of course there's a few albums by Maiden, Sabbath, Led Zeppelin et al on my Ipod and I still love AC/DC and Motörhead but I've always instinctively preferred a bit of melody to a full on grunting assault. And in terms of the thrash/glam wars I was always firmly on the glam side - I mean, sure, I can see why grunge killed it off but at least it had good tunes, was aware that it was all a bit daft and was simply about a few drinks and a good time...