Garage, Inc. [PA] by Metallica

Pros: A handful of excellent recordings, primarily featured on disc one.
Cons: Expensive; disc two is awful.

Metallica, widely held up on the pedestal as the greatest metal band in existence, decided to return to their roots and record a cover album of the fundamental material that shaped their impressive career. At the time, the band was coming off their two ...

Pros: Several great cover songs, a lot of rarities on disc 2.
Cons: Several not-so-great covers, largely inaccessible to casual Metallica fans.

Poor Metallica can never seem to please anybody these days. No matter what the band says or does, people are always quick to judge their actions as either "greedy" (probably the most popular adjectival description of Metallica nowadays) or just plain ...

Pros: all old school Metallica covers, plus some very cool new covers, namely Nick Cave's Loverman and Skynyrd's Tuesday's Gone
Cons: Seger's Turn the Page, which I just don't see the "genius" in that so many people seem to

To start this review, I must admit that I have not exactly been a loyal Metallica fan. Ever since Load and that thing they had the balls to call an album, Reload, I haven't exactly loved the direction Metallica has chosen to take...

Pros: Good cover songs cd
Cons: Only cover songs

If your looking for new Metallica songs Garage Inc. is not for you. This is a double cd with all cover songs. Even though there is no new material this is still a very good cd. Metallica does some of the songs better than the original bands. Some of my...

Pros: A heavy metal masterpiece!
Cons: none

Metallica's "Garage, Inc." is by far one of my favorite compact discs. I usually dislike cover songs. Most of the time a really great song is slaughtered ( for example Sheryl Crows version of Guns & Roses "Sweet Child of Mine")....

Pros: great old material finally on ONE disc and not ten EPs/singles
Cons: newer material could be better

Metallica did its fans both a favor and a slight error with the release of "Garage Inc." back in 1998. They put together one disc full of old cover songs that were parts of a few EPs, such as "Metal Up Yer A**", "Garage...

Pros: A nice metal time capsule
Cons: Turn The Page....Sorry.

If your average Metallica fan were to be cryogenically frozen around the time of, say, 1986, then awakened in the year 2000, he or she might experience a sense of culture shock where their favorite band is concerned. When I was living in Los Angeles as...

Pros: Put all the good old stuff on one disc
Cons: Everything else sucks

There was Garage Days Re-visited, with the ever-intense Blitzkrieg and then Garage Days re-re-visited the $5.98 EP with the tripped out tunes Helpless and The Small Hours, and the deep distortion of my favorite, The...

Pros: Its Metallica and it isn't Reload
Cons: none

Metallica released a cd that is one of their best yet. It is a slight change, because it is all old material (The best stuff was in the old days) and every song on the cd is a cover. But because they borrow someone elses songs doesn't take away from...

Pros: A 2-hour anthology of classic rock that is well performed, harmonious, and awe-inspiring.
Cons: The language issue may be a problem for younger listeners, but Metallica's albums are all like that anyway so it's kind of a moot point to argue if they've already listened to it.

Every great band at one point or another in their career has performed a cover, like The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who, The Beach Boys, And R.E.M. Playing covers not only gains popularity among fans of other artists, but it can lead to big breaks...

Pros: New school and old school brought together
Cons: None

Now that all the madness of putting out their new material is over, Metallica decided to sit back and just jam. No more expectations. Metallica just had to tour (which is what they do best) and write new songs. Yet, Metallica doesn't do that. Nope, they...

Pros: Awesome!!
Cons: None

Metallica has existed since the past generation, and it is still the top if it's genre in the next generation. With their oldest albums, to their newest one "Garage Inc.," they have sold millions. There is no other band even remotely similar...

Pros: Great new covers and great old covers
Cons: they should have done a boxed set of cover songs

I heard about this CD coming out about three months before it was released, and I knew that I had to have it. I had heard some of their older covers on the radio, but it was very hard to find the actual covers on CD, finally a CD with it all! I loved...

Pros: Interesting; Diverse; Surprising
Cons: Is it just me, or should some of this music stayed in the garage?

One thing you usually won't hear on Garage, Inc.: What you expected. The misfits? British metal? Yes, this two CD could easily be a surprise to many. It is not exactly a good album; Obviously, it is not Metallica, in that none of the songs are theirs,...

Pros: Great covers of great songs by great bands
Cons: More than half of the tracks are not the stellar material I'm used to from Metallica

This double disc should come with the following instructions:
1. Throw away Disc One.
2. Listen to Disc 2 until your ears bleed.
This disc has some of the best material on it I have ever heard. Disc 2 kicks off with the entire...