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Metallica - Garage Inc. Audio CD

A fair review of the Metallica "Garage Inc." Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Metallica reviews here, or go back to the Metallica tabs.

Metallica Band: Metallica
Title: Garage Inc.
Rating:
Release Date: 1998-11-24
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Free Speech for the Dumb 2: It's Electric 3: Sabbra Cadabra 4: Turn the Page 5: Die, Die My Darling 6: Loverman 7: Mercyful Fate - Evil, , Metallica, 8: Astronomy 9: Whiskey in the Jar 10: Tuesday's Gone 11: More I See 12: Helpless 13: Small Hours 14: Wait 15: Crash Course in Brain Surgery 16: Last Caress/Green Hell 17: Am I Evil? 18: Blitzkrieg 19: Breadfan 20: Prince 21: Stone Cold Crazy 22: So What 23: Killing Time 24: Overkill 25: Damage Case 26: Stone Dead Forever 27: Too Late Too Late

WARNING!!! THIS ALBUM IS EDITED ON AMAZON MP3
It is the edited version, NOT the explicit version. Play close attention before ordering the MP3 album from Amazon. So unless you like a whole lot of annoying beeps, I'd pass on buying the MP3 version of this album from Amazon.


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The cd's great came in just in time no scratches of any kind nothing more or less.


MP3 album is the CENSORED version.
All bad words are beeped. Lots and lots of cool tunes, but BEWARE, the downloadable MP3 version of this album is the Clean or Censored version.


THIS IS THE CENSORED VERSION
Not sure why Amazon wouldn't specifically state somewhere that this is the "clean" version, except on one song, which makes no sense because all the songs are beeped. FYI : If you are purchasing this as an MP3 Download, be aware you are buying the censored version. I'm asking for my money back. What's the point of listening to "So What" without the cursing?!?

The 1 star is not for the album, it's for amazon. Booo!!! .


a 2 is better than a 1
How can a thrash metal/speed metal band make it believable and create versions that surpass the originals? Well, they couldn't. When I found out Metallica was doing an album of cover songs years ago, I was skeptical right away. 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 these songs are inferior to their original versions, but I'll stop there. Oh ok, one more- Blue Oyster Cult's "Astronomy" stinks here because it doesn't have any of the moody piano parts that the original version had. Another inferior version.

Wanna know why "Sabbra Cadabra" morphs into "A National Acrobat" halfway through the song? Because the lead singer is incapable of singing the jam that finishes off "Sabbra Cadabra", and in fact, he doesn't even sing the middle section of the song either (you know, the "lovely lady" part that Ozzy Osbourne mastered). Or maybe Metallica just didn't want to actually attempt the fantastic piano jam at the end. Who knows.

Two hours of one inferior version after another is a bit much for me, however, just the fact they attempted such a daring thing is pretty historic for a band with their kind of reputation as influential metal Gods, so the album can't possibly receive a 1 star rating.

But, come to think of it, maybe Metallica was going through a dry spell coming up with new material and didn't know what to do? Well, turning original songs into junk wasn't exactly a great idea. You can't even tell most of these songs apart. Maybe a band with more diversity would have been better for a cover song collection.

People need to be aware of the original versions before commenting on this album. That way they'll see how inferior these cover songs are. I bet if everyone was familiar with the original versions before writing a review for Garage Inc, the overall rating for the album would be down significantly.


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