Garage Inc Music Cd

Metallica - Garage Inc

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Garage, Inc.      Artist : Metallica      List Price : $24.98 USD        Your Price : $19.49 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1998-11-24      Studio : Elektra / Wea      Label : Elektra / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (641 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Garage Inc      a 2 is better than a 1      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 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     Customer Reviews for Garage Inc Cd      diamond in the rough      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.