Most of the songs on here are a poor imitation of the original. Providing the listener with mediocre covers, this could only be enjoyed by someone who had never heard any of the originals or who is a complete metal novice and just wants to buy every Metallica album (so my 11-year old self). However, all these songs are ruined by James Hetfield, who seems incapable of doing any style of vocals besides his usually high-pitched yelling. Besides the oddball classic rock covers on here, there's plenty of punk, including bands like The Misfits and Discharge. The rare standout is a slightly touching version of Bob Seger's "Turn the Page," but replacing the emotional horns section of the original with Kirk Hammett's repetitive lead guitar nonsense didn't really help the song much.Īs I sort of mentioned before, a lot of the covers on here were originally non-metal, meaning this album could be partly responsible for the modern craze of turning every song imaginable into a metal song. But much of it, such as their cover of Blue Öyster Cult's "Astronomy," Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Tuesday's Gone," and Black Sabbath's "Sabbra Cadabra" fail to inspire. Some of the covers, of course, are classics, such as "Blitzkrieg" and "Am I Evil?" and the whole Garage Days Re-Revisited EP, all of which is inserted in the dead center of the album. So instead, they took a collection of covers they had already released, recorded a handful more, and then bundled it all up and disguised it as an album. To cover classic metal and punk songs in the grungy alt-rock style of their preceding albums would have been to prove themselves as sellouts. While most of this album has Metallica's classic Justice-era sound (plus bass) throughout, it's really not that big of a deal considering that they wrote 0% of the material on it. Anger, Metallica was like "hey, all our fans hate us so let's do some covers!" While maybe it could have been pulled off successfully, the result was extremely disappointing. Having just released the perpetually disappointing Load and Reload just a couple short years earlier, and half a decade before releasing their nadir album St. Music Inc./BMG Music, CRASH COURSE IN BRAIN SURGERY and BREADFAN © Essex Music International, Ltd., BLITZKRIEG © Men From The North Ltd., STONE COLD CRAZY © Glenwood Music Corp., SO WHAT © Link Music Ltd.Making a 27-song cover album is a bad idea for any bad but it was an especially poor choice for Metallica, who were already at the low point of their career. Photography: Anton Corbijn, Ross Halfin, and Mark LeialohaįREE SPEECH FOR THE DUMB and THE MORE I SEE © Maxwood Music Ltd., IT'S ELECTRIC, HELPLESS, AM I EVIL? and THE PRINCE © Happy Face Music/Zomba Enterprises, Inc., SABBRA CADABRA © Essex Music Ltd., TURN THE PAGE © Gear Publishing Co., DIE, DIE MY DARLING and LAST CARESS/GREEN HELL © Evilive Music, LOVERMAN © Mute Songs Ltd./Windswept Pacific Songs, MERCYFUL FATE © Roadblock Music, Inc., ASTRONOMY © Sony ATV Tunes, TUESDAY'S GONE © MCA Duchess Music, THE SMALL HOURS © Edgy Music Ltd., THE WAIT © E.G. Recorded live direct to two-track at The Plant Studios in Sausalito, CA in December 1995 Roughly produced by Bob Rock with Hetfield and Ulrich John Popper appears courtesy of A&M Records and Blues Traveller.Įngineered by Mike Clink and Toby "Rage" Wright Les Claypool appears courtesy of Interscope Records and Primus. Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney appear courtesy of Columbia Records. Pepper Keenan appears courtesy of Columbia Records and Corrosion of Conformity. Gary Rossington appears courtesy of CMC International. TUESDAY'S GONE recorded on Decemat KSJO Studios in San Jose, CAĪdditional Musicians on TUESDAY'S GONE: Gary Rossington, Pepper Keenan, Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney, Les Claypool, Jim Martin, and John Popper Recorded & Mixed at The Plant Studios (except TUESDAY'S GONE), Sausalito, CA from September to October of 1998 Somewhat Produced by Bob Rock with Hetfield & UlrichĪssistant Engineers: Kent Matcke, Leff Lefferts and Chris Manningĭigital Editors: Paul DeCarli and Mike Gillies
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