Release Date: 24th November 98
Features all the cover songs Metallica have recorded over the years plus 11
new cover songs from 1998.
Lars: "I believe that music history should be explored by music lovers. And
I think people are short-changing themselves if they don't take a step back
to understand, or even appreciate, where things came from. I think what Garage
Inc. does is give people a better understanding of our influences, what has
inspired us over the years and what still turns us on musically."
Lars: "We make albums like Garage Inc. because they're fun to do. Doing covers
has always been a great way for us to break away from our normal recording process.
It allows for a much looser approach, and it's always fun taking other people's
songs and adding our own spin to them."
Recording Location & Date: Disc 1 The Plant Studios Sausalito, California September
- October 1998 "Tuesdays Gone" recorded live at KSJO San Jose, California December
18th 1997
Recording Location & Date: Disc 2
Tracks 1-5 A&M & Conway, Los Angeles July 1987
Tracks 6-7 Sausalito, California Spring 1984
Tracks 8-9 One On One Recording, Los Angeles, California February 1988
Track 10 Berkeley, California 1990
Tracks 11-12 One On One Recording, Los Angeles, California 1991
Tracks 13-16 The Plant Studios Sausalito, California December 13th 1995
Producers: Metallica, Flemming Rasmussen, Mark Whitaker and Bob Rock
Band members:
James Hetfield - Guitar Vocals
Lars Ulrich - Drums
Kirk Hammett - Guitars
Jason Newsted - Bass
Cliff Burton - Bass (Disc 2 - Tracks 6-7)
1. Free Speech For The Dumb - Discharge
JAMES: "I think we've slowed it down a little bit and tuned it down to get more
'chug' out of the riff. I like to think that they were the first crossover band,
even before us, as in combining aggression and good riffs."
2. It's Electric - Diamond head
JAMES: "That's where the shit came from that's what spurred us on."
3. Sabbra Cadabra - Black Sabbath
JAMES: "You sit and listen to the Sabbath stuff and think 'wow that's great'
and then you go to sing it, and you think 'wow I can't sing that high, we'll
have to tune the song down a bit to get in that range'."
4. Turn The Page - Bob Seger
JAMES: "I heard a song on the radio singing about the road life, a kind of somber,
gruff, honest lyric in there. I kinda felt it could be Bob Seger, but the lyric
and song itself was great. So it's all to do with that song rather than Bob
Seger itself. The lyrics are us. We've been road dogs since day 1."
5. Die Die My Darling - The Misfits
JAMES: "Awesome, ugly shit. I always liked their poppy modulations combined
with singing about death."
6. Loverman - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
JAMES: "He's got the nice mellow stuff and goes straight into chaotic hell.
He builds these things into giant ugliness. That's the kind of stuff we were
doing with 'Fade To Black' acoustic to heavy, one extreme to the other, and
I saw a lot of that in Nick Cave. That's what this Loverman is really all about."
7. A Mercyful Fate Medley (featuring Evil, Curse Of The Pharoahs, Satan's Fall,
A Corpse Without Soul and Into The Coven) - Mercyful Fate
LARS: "I think it's dear to all of us, we realize 15 years later how tremendously
influential they were and what a motherfucker it was to execute. Just realizing
how those guys were such brilliant musicians and have such a great thing going
was very cool."
8. Astronomy - Blue Oyster Cult
JAMES: "That song's always been pretty epic to me. Listening to the song, we
thought whether we should even fuck with it because it's so sacred. We tried
it and it came out pretty well."
9. Whiskey In A Jar - Thin Lizzy
JAMES: "It's extremely catchy and the fact it isn't really their song is weird,
it's some Irish drinking song. I liked the fact the Phil Lynott could go anywhere
and write any style, from some completely sappy love ballad to some total quick-rocker
to goofing around with the cowboy song, to different shuffle beats."
10. Tuesday's Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd
JAMES: "This is the only one with guests (Gary Rossington, Jerry Cantrell, Les
Claypool, Jim Martin, Sean Kinney and John Popper). It was live from the radio
show we did last year and so there's all these people singing out of key. We
gave Randy (Staub) the tapes of it and said 'here, mix this' and he was like
'holy shit'. There's 20 guys on it, and it had a great vibe."
11. The More I See - Discharge
JAMES: "They had the riffs. Bones came up with some metal riffs, and Cal would
just scream. It was fun doing those songs, there were no lyrics there just three
lines with 'repeat repeat.' Very cool doing that stuff."
Singles:
Turn The Page
Whiskey In The Jar
Die, Die My Darling
Promos:
Turn The Page
Whiskey In The Jar
Die, Die My Darling
Last Caress
Track Listing
Disk 1
1 - Free Speech For The Dumb 2:35 (Originally recorded by Discharge)
2 - It’s Electric 3:33 (Originally recorded by Diamond Head)
3 - Sabbra Cadabra 6:20 (Originally recorded by Black Sabbath)
4 - Turn The Page 6:06 (Originally recorded by Bob Seger)
5 – Die, Die My Darling 2:26 (Originally recorded by The Misfits)
6 - Loverman 7:52 (Originally recorded by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
7 - Mercyful Fate 11:10 (Originally recorded by Mercyful Fate)
8 - Astronomy 6:37 (Originally recorded by Blue Oyster Cult)
9 - Whiskey In The Jar 5:04 (Originally recorded by Thin Lizzy)
10 - Tuesday’s Gone 9:03 (Originally recorded by Lynyrd Skynyrd)
11 - The More I See 3:23 (Originally recorded by Discharge)
Disc 2
1 - Helpless 6:36 (Originally recorded by Diamond Head)
2 - The Small Hours 6:40 (Originally recorded by Holocaust)
3 - The Wait 4:52 (Originally recorded by Killing Joke)
4 - Crash Course In Brain Surgery 3:08 (Originally recorded by Budgie)
5 - Last Caress/Green Hell 3:29 (Originally recorded by The Misfits)
6 - Am I Evil? 7:50 (Originally recorded by Diamond Head)
7 - Blitzkrieg 3:36 (Originally recorded by Blitzkrieg)
8 - Breadfan 5:41 (Originally recorded by Budgie)
9 - The Prince 4:24 (Originally recorded by Diamond Head)
10 - Stone Cold Crazy 2:17 (Originally recorded by Queen)
11 - So What!? 3:08 (Originally recorded by The Anti-Nowhere League)
12 - Killing Time 3:03 (Originally recorded by Sweet Savage)
13 - Overkill 4:05 (Originally recorded by Motorhead)
14 - Damage Case 3:40 (Originally recorded by Motorhead)
15 - Stone Dead Forever 4:51 (Originally recorded by Motorhead)
16 - Too Late Too Late 3:12 (Originally recorded by Motorhead) |
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