Metallica - Live Shit: Binge & Purge (1993) Part 3 of 3

The marathon is almost over. Today is the last part of the three day review. Without a doubt, this seems to be the mess around CD as this whole thing is just a mess! James was so drunk and a lot of these songs were the ones used at the longer in the set. They do "So What" right before "Battery" as it's not even labeled. You know something's not right when you see "Battery" at a staggering ten minute edition. I actually wouldn't mind if they went into So What right before Battery as like the end of the show kind of thing. "The Four Horsemen" definitely sounds like it doesn't belong on this side I mean if you listen to a bootleg of one of there shows perhaps from 1986, I notice it doesn't blend well with all the black album stuff. I have video bootlegs from shows from the tour and it was in such a horrible spot after "Nothing Else Matters" or after "Sad But True". They didn't do it every night but, they did it at a couple of shows a month on the Black tour and it was just put in a weird spots whenever I got a new show in the mail. Not to say it didn't belong in there, it's kind of like them playing "Motorbreath" on the new tour. I didn't care for the spot they put some songs in. Unfortunately day three CD is my least favorite but, ultimately it's Metallica and is killer regardless. Three days of Metallica officially over. I feel like trading Metallica shows again! My DVD list is located at http://db.etree.org/gsprulz. Songs to check out "Am I Evil?", "Battery" and "One".


1. "Nothing Else Matters" 6:22
2. "Wherever I May Roam" 6:33
3. "Am I Evil?" 5:42
4. "Last Caress" 1:25
5. "One" 10:27
6. "So What?"/"Battery" 10:05
7. "The Four Horsemen" 6:08
8. "Motorbreath" 3:14
9. "Stone Cold Crazy" 5:32

Metallica - Live Shit: Binge & Purge (1993) Part 2 of 3

As of the second part of the review I will be discussing disc two. Yesterday, I went over part one of probably the best box set I own. I didn't get into sound production in the last post but, I think people would understand it's not as good as S&M which nothing tops that in live recordings either in my opinion. As far disc two goes, it's only six tracks but, being six tracks doesn't mean this is the slouch part of the set. They do "Seek and Destroy" for over 18 minutes and do one of my favorites performances of "Whiplash" I've ever heard as you've probably of seen the live music video of Whiplash while they were promoting the box set. They only do seven songs from the Black Album on the span of the discs which they played with there catalog. It was nice hearing "Through the Never" which mostly after that tour they stopped playing the song until the Death Magnetic tour I believe. Which two songs that has been left out of that tour and to this day remain to be seen which are two of my favorite songs from Black "Struggle Within" and "Don't Tread on Me". Metclubbers who win meet and greet, we need answers pronto!! Songs to check out "Whiplash", "Seek and Destroy(Jason Newsted Edition)" and "Fade to Black".

1. "Through the Never" 3:47
2. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" 5:48
3. "Fade to Black" 7:12
4. "Master of Puppets" 4:35
5. "Seek & Destroy" 18:08
6. "Whiplash" 5:34

Metallica - Live Shit: Binge & Purge (1993) Part 1 of 3

This is a monster setlist from the monster Nowhere Else to Roam tour which spanned over seventy shows including the run in with Guns n' Roses. Along with the three CD's, there were two videos that came along being Seattle 1989 on the Damaged Justice Tour and San Diego on the Wherever We May Roam tour which constantly they were doing three hour unprecedented shows. I'm going to focus on the audio which was recorded the five nights they were in Mexico City in 1993. A 25 song setlist of recordings from those nights of Metallica is crazy and is probably a little too extreme for anybody that isn't a Metallica fan. I mean there's three different kinds of people when it comes to Metallica. They're either spectators, never will be fans or probably one of you reading this post as we are the crazy Metalicohlics that will wait all day and miss school or work just to be in front at one of there live shows. Especially the Metclubbers were the hardcore of the hardcore. I've never listened to Live Shit completely without taking a break myself though. I remember after the "Justice Medley" which is pretty long but, killer they like mess around doing solos for half an hour it seems. After sitting down and listening to the first part today, I always seem to forget Jason's importance in the band like he had to of been the best back up singer in metal of all time. Instances of him backing up and leading on songs like Whiplash I always admired. Lars was socializing, James was getting drunk, Kirk would probably be zoning out at art stores around the world and Jason was the only guy headbanging listening to heavy metal on his free time at this point. We owe Jason Newsted big time for all the things he did for our band during the nineties. Songs to check out "Justice Medley", "Harvester of Sorrow" and "Of Wolf and Man".

1. "Enter Sandman" 7:28
2. "Creeping Death" 7:28
3. "Harvester of Sorrow" 7:19
4. "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" 6:39
5. "Sad but True" 6:07
6. "Of Wolf and Man" 6:22
7. "The Unforgiven" 6:48
8. "Justice Medley" 9:38
9. "Solos (Bass/Guitar)" 18:49

Metallica - Garage Inc. (1998)

The double disc covers extravaganza is amazing that all the songs are better than the originals in fact. It's a collection of recordings and B-Sides that caught fame as Metallica always played cover songs at there gigs in there setlist since day one. The first disc recordings are the newly produced songs from 1998. The second disc features the songs from Garage Days Re-Revisited '87, Garage Days Revisted '84, B-Sides & One Offs '88-'91 and Motorheadache '95. It's basically a good selection of artists and songs that influenced Metallica to become what they are and Metallica's way to give credit where it's due. It's a massive collection over two hours of material. It seems to work with there hard rock and metal fans because it's half and half where people can relate to the songs in the genre demographic. Songs to check from first disc "Turn the Page", "Whiskey in the Jar" and "Free Speech for the Dumb". Songs to check from second disc "Last Caress/Green Hell", "So What" and "Overkill".


Disc 1
1. "Free Speech for the Dumb" Discharge (1982) 2:36
2. "It's Electric" Diamond Head (1980) 3:34
3. "Sabbra Cadabra" Black Sabbath (1973) 6:20
4. "Turn the Page" Bob Seger (1973) 6:06
5. "Die, Die My Darling" Misfits (1984) 2:29
6. "Loverman" Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1994) 7:53
7. "Mercyful Fate" (a medley of the songs "Satan's Fall", "Curse of the Pharaohs", "A Corpse Without Soul", "Into the Coven", and "Evil") Mercyful Fate (1982) 11:11
8. "Astronomy" Blue Öyster Cult (1974) 6:38
9. "Whiskey in the Jar" Thin Lizzy (1973) 5:05
10. "Tuesday's Gone" (recorded in 1997 as Metallica hosted a radio program out of San Jose, CA (KSJO)) Lynyrd Skynyrd (1973) 9:06
11. "The More I See" Discharge (1984) 4:49

Disc 2
The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited (1987)
1. "Helpless" Diamond Head (1980) 6:38
2. "The Small Hours" Holocaust (1983) 6:43
3. "The Wait" Killing Joke (1980) 4:55
4. "Crash Course in Brain Surgery" Budgie (1971) 3:10
5. "Last Caress/Green Hell" Misfits (1978/1983) 3:30
Garage Days Revisited (1984)
No. Title Original artist Length
6. "Am I Evil?" Diamond Head (1980) 7:50
7. "Blitzkrieg" Blitzkrieg (1981) 3:37
B-Sides & One-Offs (1988–1991)
No. Title Original artist Length
8. "Breadfan" Budgie (1973) 5:41
9. "The Prince" Diamond Head (1980) 4:26
10. "Stone Cold Crazy" Queen (1974) 2:19
11. "So What" Anti-Nowhere League (1981) 3:09
12. "Killing Time" Sweet Savage (1981) 3:04
Motörheadache (1995)
No. Title Original artist Length
13. "Overkill" Motörhead (1979) 4:05
14. "Damage Case" Motörhead (1979) 3:40
15. "Stone Dead Forever" Motörhead (1979) 4:52
16. "Too Late Too Late" Motörhead (1979) 3:12