Richard Wooten (session drummer, elder-millennial, leftist metal-head, and jazz-funk aficionado) has long-form discussions with his closest friends about their favorite Music/art. Analyzing, unpacking, and reflecting on the two way street of influence between music and culture. Playlists included. Occasional political and social commentary.
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Richard Wooten (session drummer, elder-millennial, leftist metal-head, and jazz-funk aficionado) has long-form discussions with his closest friends about their favorite Music/art. Analyzing, unpacking, and reflecting on the two way street of influence between music and culture. Playlists included. Occasional political and social commentary.
Ep30: Machine Head pt2: Burning Red, Supercharger, and Nu Metal bubble
The Richard Wooten Podcast
3 hours 57 minutes
3 years ago
Ep30: Machine Head pt2: Burning Red, Supercharger, and Nu Metal bubble
“This album reeks of experimentation… for better and for worse”
Hey! This is basically three episodes in one, so it’s long, feel free to skip around to what interests you.
Burning red is awesome. It has killer melodies, grooves, feel, and I love the vulnerability in the lyrics. It’s one of my fave records.
Supercharger isn’t a bad record but it didn’t do well at the time. I argue that this is not because of 9/11 but because of an extreme saturation of other similar records coming out at the same time. (see google doc spreadsheet below)
We also talk about the nu metal bubble and why the genre faded away so quickly in the mid 2000s.
Preamble
00:00 intro
1:35 Shits nuts, roe v wade overturning, centrist “too cool to care” bullshit, and predictably losing “friends” when I amplify black and female voices
22:21 Performing masculinity through anger/indifference, and getting lost in the manosphere,
43:03 Crazy times, getting covid, etc…53:19 More DAW talk, musicals, instrumentation, and fucking up an album mix
1:14:39 Machine Head, nu metal paradigm etc…
1:26:00 Burning Red general impressions
1:42:32 Robb’s thrash pedigree, trauma in nu metal, and some track by track
2:07 Supercharger general impressions
2:19:22 some track by track silliness and summary.
2:33:01 The nu metal bubble that killed Supercharger, overall metal trends from 1995-2005
3:00:00 Hot Take: “Slipknot and Eminem killed nu metal”
3:22:44 How metal and rock get codified in the mid 2000s, the importance of metalcore etc…, and a fun ICP funeral story
3:51:15 Summary
Album release dates
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12jQnGexhP4amMM336cZWLrGMPel33WXdcHXrBso33_c/edit?usp=sharing
Demise of nu metal 2000-2002 playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2HhPTLELCRbZGuM3SZw4Mn?si=o36vvRJeQrWe4k9RTTzIWA&utm_source=copy-link
The Richard Wooten Podcast
Richard Wooten (session drummer, elder-millennial, leftist metal-head, and jazz-funk aficionado) has long-form discussions with his closest friends about their favorite Music/art. Analyzing, unpacking, and reflecting on the two way street of influence between music and culture. Playlists included. Occasional political and social commentary.
