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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075596229920
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Elektra / Wea
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Elektra / Wea
Release Date: November 24, 1998
Sales Rank: 2077
Studio: Elektra / Wea
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Album Description:
Limited Edition Japanese double disc pressing of this 1999 album by the Heavy Metal giants comes housed in a sturdy miniature LP sleeve. Mercury. 2006
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This double-disc, all-covers release could come to represent a vital turning point for Metallica. While disc 2 is a straightforward collection of every cover the group have recorded in its 16-year history, disc 1 comprises 11 new selections drawn from the oeuvres of such exciting and diverse artists as U.K. punks Discharge and nefarious Australian Nick Cave. The heavier songs, such as the Mercyful Fate medley, Black Sabbath's "Sabbra Cadabra," and the Misfits' "Die Die My Darling," prove that nobody delivers a crunching riff better than these metal veterans. But it is vocalist-guitarist James Hetfields's confident approach toward the likes of Cave's "Loverman" and Bob Seger's "Turn the Page" that delivers the most electricity; here his raw, heartfelt vocals are largely untouched. Given that the recharged group spent only three weeks in the studio recording these tracks, it appears that these guys have remembered the value of studio spontaneity over laborious pontificating. Hopefully, that mindset will resurface in future projects. --Steffan Chirazi
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Rating:  -
When I found out Metallica was doing an album of cover songs years ago, I was skeptical right away. How can a thrash metal/speed metal band make it believable and create versions that surpass the originals? Well, they couldn't. This is just really really bad. The entire collection.
Two hours of cover songs, and every single one of them inferior to the original versions. The worst part is how many people went into this album probably not even aware of the original versions anyway, and just assumed "Well, it rocks, so Metallica's back!!" while completely ignoring how tasteless this collection of cover songs really is.
Maybe it's the vocals that ruin the entire thing? Yeah, that's probably it. Or maybe Metallica just wanted to abuse their thrash metal style by covering songs that do NOT -in ANY way- belong as part of a collection of thrash metal songs, such as the Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Seger, and Budgie tracks?
I think the Bob Seger song is the most offensive one to me personally, since people actually think it's superior to the Seger version. It's actually far worse because Seger's version had a very good "late night smokey bar" atmosphere that THIS version lacks entirely, in addition to Seger's incredible voice on that track.
The lead singer from Metallica doesn't have a voice like that. He's designed to be a heavy metal singer, not ANYWHERE close to Bob Seger's style.
I can go on and on about how ... Read More
Rating:  -
To put it simply, I love this album. If you like Metallica at all, there's probably something here for you. Granted, there's less of the progressive stuff a la Load and Reload, but I was never a big fan of that anyway. (Although Turn the Page and Loverman are awesome.)
Looking at my jewel case now, Bob Rock's name isn't on the back. On the discs it says "Somewhat produced by Bob Rock with Hetfield and Ulrich." I've been trying to figure out why Metallica went from metal gods to media darlings, and as near as I can tell it's because Bob Rock sucked. "Somewhat produced," with its suggestion of lacking quality may have been the best thing that happened to this album. The quality is inconsistent, Hetfield lets out a giggle when someone jumps the gun on a note in Loverman, there's a...Bob Seger cover (cooler than it sounds), and that's just disc 1. Disc 2 is a big collection of covers (16 songs!), and one of the few CDs in my collection I can honestly say I like start to finish.
People who aren't really into the Load/Reload era will find a lot to love, people who are perhaps need not apply.
Rating:  -
I really, really wanted to give this a positive review, but I can't. Individually, the songs on here are fantastic, especially the cover of Bob Seger's "Turn the Page" and "Whiskey in the Jar." As an album though, the band shifts styles dramatically from track to track, making it extremely difficult to listen to straight through. It sounds like I played it on random.
Don't get me wrong, it's still a decent album. I would have just liked to see it flow a little more smoothly.
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I like this album better than their early thrash albums like "Kill 'em all" and "Ride the lightning". "Garage Inc." is itself a thrashy type album, but I just found the music more engaging than on those other albums. It doesn't have any great songs, like "Fade to black"-an all time classic song from "Ride the lightning"-but the songs are what I would call "listenable". Of their early albums, I think that "Master of puppets" is their best. The good songs on "Garage Inc." aren't of that quality either, but hey, if you like heavy metal, "Garage Inc." will please. There are lots of heavy metal type sound modules in it-that is, certain lead guitar type sounds, rhythm guitar sounds etc, which are classic 'heavy metal'.
From the first cd-which includes covers of songs by Black Sabbath and Nick Cave-my favourite songs are:
Whiskey in the jar-it's this song which got me interested in buying this compilation. There was an Australian radio station which had a listener poll of the top 2000 odd songs of all time, and this song made the cut. It's a cover of Thin Lizzy's version, from what I've heard. Not a big Thin Lizzy fan, so hats off to Metallica to doing something I can appreciate with this song.
Tuesday's gone-a respectful, bluesy, country ballad, for the most part. Has accoustic guitar, steel string accoustic guitar and it also features a harmonica. So, this album is not just purely aggro thrash metal...there's some stylistic variety ... Read More
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I thought that this was a great buy especially considering it gave me a better idea of where one of the greatest bands drew its inspiration. Everything from folk style songs (e.g. Whiskey in a Jar, Turn the Page, and Tuesday's Gone) to wupass heavy songs (e.g. So What, Am I Evil, Blitzkrieg) to the excellent cover of Queen's "Stone Cold Crazy" are all some of the great variety you can see here. Many complain that Metallica became sellouts for ditching their traditional thrash, but I think this goes to show that they wanted to become more accessible by crunching human stories into some of their later work instead of singing constantly about revenge, death, and chaos like countless other metal acts.
Though the first disk has the more recent songs that vear into the style of "Load" and "Reload," the second disk contains all the B-sides and covers from their earlier career as is noticeable by James' higher vocal range. I think there is a little bit of everything to get a taste of from this set for anyone with an open mind.
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