"Metallica: Some Kind of Monster" (2004, Dir: Joe Berlinger Bruce Sinofsky)

Since we started this show we've known that, someday, we would sit down to talk about Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, a movie about Metallica, and the world, going to therapy for the first time.

Topics include: popular music, thrash, the 80's, drinking, how exactly you make a heavy metal record, the way computers absolutely annihilated the music business in a way that predicted the future annihilations we are currently living through, the advent of a new perspective on therapy and the emergence of therapy-speak, even among the world's biggest violence-celebrating band.

excerpted music in this episode in order:

"Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin (published 1899) "Crazy Blues" by Perry Bradford, performed by Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds (1920) "Stardust" by Hoagy Carmichael, performed by Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra (1931) "Tomorrow Never Knows" by The Beatles (1966) "God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys (1966) (YouTube video) "So What" by Miles Davis (1959) "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin (1969) "Detroit Rock City" by KISS (1976) "Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing" by Discharge (1982) "Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath (1970) "Machine Gun (Live)" by Jimi Hendrix (1969) "Breaking the Law" by Judas Priest (1980) "Bonded by Blood" by Exodus (1985) "Phantom Lord" by Metallica (1983) "Master of Puppets" by Metallica (1986) Our NEXT episode will be about Cobra Verde! Watch it here.