The Unforgiven (Metallica)

I review and analyze The Unforgiven from Metallica’s Black Album.

 

Here’s the breakdown:

-A gigantic goal in my life as it relates to The Unforgiven

-What this song is

-How it compares to older, more melodic Metallica songs

-When I first heard The Black Album in 1991

-Total suburbia in the 90s

-First impressions of The Unforgiven

-We thought it was Newsted

-Heavy lyrics, mellow chorus

-Emotion and timelessness

-Pre …And Justice For All versus post …And Justice for All

-James Hetfield’s feelings

-The Unforgiven II and III

-Listening to The Unforgiven now

-Hetfield’s age when he wrote this song

-Song #4

-The production

-Kirk Hammett’s solo and A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica

-Emotion versus technique

 

THE LYRICS

-“And quickly he’s subdued”

-Finding out the “why”

-Showing emotion as a man

-Disgrace

-Turning inward

-Repression

-Therapy

-Safe spaces

-Reading the lyrics as opposed to singing them

-“A vow unto his own”

-They

-A sign of hope?

-My will

-The chorus

-Never living up to your full potential

-What if?

-Why I started this podcast

-Joe Rogan

-Immortality and legacy

-Not really living

-My deathbed

-Life

-Motivational posters

-What the term “unforgiven” could mean

-Forgiving yourself

-Forgiving others

-Is there power in forgiveness?

-Hetfield’s angry and sensitive side all at once

-The struggle against They

-Pleasing them

-Being bitter

-Not wanting to accept

-1984 (SPOILER ALERT!!!!!)

-My deathbed, revisited

-Dying with regret

-Labeling

-The PMRC (Parents Music Resource Center)

-How labeling albums didn’t work

-Subduing

-Addressing the symptom

-The sound of Unforgiven III and Death Magnetic

-The sound of the Metallica albums

-If the first four albums had the Black Album sound

-The Black Album CD booklet

-Plugs!

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