Garage Inc.

Garage, Inc.
Compilation album of cover songs by Metallica
Released	November 23, 1998
Recorded	September 14 – October 1, 1998 (disc one) 1984–95 (disc two)
Studio	The Plant Studios in Sausalito, California (disc one) Various other locations (disc two)
Genre	Heavy metal hard rock thrash metal
Length	136:38
Label	Elektra Vertigo Sony Music
Producer	James Hetfield Bob Rock Lars Ulrich Mark Whitaker
Metallica chronology
Reload (1997) Garage Inc. (1998) St. Anger (2003)
Singles from Garage Inc.
"Turn the Page" Released: November 16, 1998[1] "Whiskey in the Jar" Released: February 1, 1999[2] "Die, Die My Darling" Released: June 7, 1999[3]

Garage, Inc. is a compilation album of cover songs by American thrash metal band Metallica. It was released on November 23, 1998 through Elektra Records. Over 2.5 million copies have been sold in the U.S. as certified by the RIAA. It includes cover songs, B-side covers, and The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited, which had gone out of print since its original release in 1987. The title is a combination of Garage Days Revisited and their song "Damage, Inc.", from Master of Puppets, and the album's artwork draws heavily from the 1987 EP. The album features songs by artists that have influenced Metallica, including many bands from the new wave of British heavy metal movement, hardcore punk bands and popular songs. As of August 2013 the album has sold more than 6 million copies worldwide.

Production

The day after Metallica finished the North American leg of the Poor Re-Touring Me Tour in San Diego's Coors Amphitheatre, they hit the studio to start recording a new album of cover versions.^[4] As Lars Ulrich explained, the band wanted to do something different after "three pretty serious albums in a row, starting with the Black album and then Load and ReLoad", and the process would be easier by working with covers, specially as the band had a tradition of taking other people's songs and "turn them into something very Metallica, different from what the original artist did".^[5] Given the band had recorded many covers that were spread across various releases, such as B-sides of their singles and the 1987 EP The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited, the band would "put them all in a nice little packaging for easy listening" along with newly recorded version chosen through a group decision.^[5][6] Only one of the eleven songs in the "New Recordings '98" disk was not done in the three week sessions, a version of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Tuesday's Gone" the band recorded for a radio broadcast along with friends such as Les Claypool, John Popper and Gary Rossington.^[7]

Packaging

The cover for Garage Inc. had a Ross Halfin photograph of Metallica dressed as mechanics. The band wanted the booklet to hold a detailed account of the contents of the project, and designer Andy Airfix was allowed to search through Ulrich's catalogue of Metallica memorabilia in San Francisco to create a 32 page booklet. Airfix also did the back cover, where the front of Garage Days Re-Revisited was modified with headshots of Metallica in 1998 and the track list written on tracing paper.^[8]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[9]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[10]
Entertainment Weekly	B−[11]
NME	5/10[12]
Q
Rolling Stone	[13]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[14]

• Rolling Stone (12/10/98, print edition, p. 122) – 4 Stars (out of 5) – "Gloriously hard as the album is, you can't miss Metallica's good natured side coming through."
• Entertainment Weekly (12/18/98, p. 84) – "We'll have to wait until Metallica's next 'proper' album to find out if this trip to the garage recharges their batteries. Still, all things considered, Garage Inc. is an intermittently exhilarating joyride." – Rating: B−^[11]
• CMJ (12/21/98, p. 29) – "Those who still relate to the adolescent angst of the 'Metallicas' earliest days will find plenty to like on Garage Inc."
• In 2005, the album was ranked number 500 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.^[15]

Track listing

Disc one

These tracks were recorded in September–October 1998 for the Garage Inc. album.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original artist (date)	Length
1.	"Free Speech for the Dumb"	Garry Maloney, Kevin "Cal" Morris, Tony "Bones" Roberts, Roy "Rainy" Wainwright	Discharge (1982)	2:36
2.	"It's Electric"	Sean Harris, Brian Tatler	Diamond Head (1980)	3:34
3.	"Sabbra Cadabra"	Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward	Black Sabbath (1973)	6:20
4.	"Turn the Page"	Bob Seger	Bob Seger (1973)	6:06
5.	"Die, Die My Darling"	Glenn Danzig	Misfits (1984)	2:29
6.	"Loverman"	Nick Cave	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1994)	7:53
7.	"Mercyful Fate"	King Diamond, Hank Shermann	Mercyful Fate (1982, 1983)	11:11
8.	"Astronomy"	Joe Bouchard, Albert Bouchard, Sandy Pearlman	Blue Öyster Cult (1974)	6:37
9.	"Whiskey in the Jar"	Traditional arr. Eric Bell, Brian Downey, Phil Lynott	The Dubliners (1968) (inspired by Thin Lizzy's version (1972))	5:05
10.	"Tuesday's Gone"	Ronnie Van Zant, Gary Rossington, Allen Collins	Lynyrd Skynyrd (1973)	9:06
11.	"The More I See"	Maloney, Morris, Peter "Pooch" Purtill, Wainwright	Discharge (1984)	4:49
Total length:				65:42

• "Sabbra Cadabra" also covers part of the Black Sabbath song, "A National Acrobat."
• "Mercyful Fate" is a medley of the songs "Satan's Fall", "Curse of the Pharaohs", "A Corpse Without Soul", "Into the Coven", and "Evil"
• "Tuesday's Gone" was recorded December 18, 1997 during the "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" radio broadcast on KSJO.^[16]
• "The More I See" contains a short segment of the Robin Trower song "Bridge of Sighs", from the album of the same name
• "Free Speech for the Dumb", Loverman, Astronomy, and "The More I See" have never been performed live.^[17]

Disc two

These tracks are a collection of B-sides from artists Metallica were inspired by, throughout the early years of the band.

The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited (1987)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original artist	Length
1.	"Helpless"	Harris, Tatler	Diamond Head (1980)	6:38
2.	"The Small Hours"	John Mortimer, John McCullim, Bryan Bartley, Ron Levine	Holocaust (1983)	6:43
3.	"The Wait"	Jaz Coleman, Kevin "Geordie" Walker, Martin "Youth" Glover, Paul Ferguson	Killing Joke (1980)	4:55
4.	"Crash Course in Brain Surgery"	Burke Shelley, Tony Bourge, Ray Phillips	Budgie (1974)	3:10
5.	"Last Caress/Green Hell"	Glenn Danzig	Misfits (1980/1983)	3:30

Garage Days Revisited ("Creeping Death" B-sides) (1984)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original artist	Length
6.	"Am I Evil?"	Harris, Tatler	Diamond Head (1980)	7:50
7.	"Blitzkrieg"	Ian Jones, Jim Sirotto, Brian Ross	Blitzkrieg (1981)	3:37

B-sides & one-offs (1988–1991)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original artist	Length
8.	"Breadfan"	Bourge, Phillips, Shelley	Budgie (1973)	5:41
9.	"The Prince"	Harris, Tatler	Diamond Head (1980)	4:26
10.	"Stone Cold Crazy"	Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon	Queen (1974)	2:19
11.	"So What"	Nick "Animal" Kulmer, Chris "Magoo" Exall, Clive "Winston" Blake	Anti-Nowhere League (1981)	3:09
12.	"Killing Time"	Vivian Campbell, Trevor Fleming, Raymond Haller, Davy Bates	Sweet Savage (1981)	3:04

Motörheadache ("Hero of the Day" limited edition CD single B-sides) (1995)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original artist	Length
13.	"Overkill"	Eddie Clarke, Ian Kilmister, Phil Taylor	Motörhead (1979)	4:05
14.	"Damage Case"	Clarke, Kilmister, Taylor, Mick Farren	Motörhead (1979)	3:40
15.	"Stone Dead Forever"	Clarke, Kilmister, Taylor	Motörhead (1979)	4:52
16.	"Too Late Too Late"	Clarke, Kilmister, Taylor	Motörhead (1979)	3:12
Total length:				70:51

• "Last Caress/Green Hell" contains a parody of Iron Maiden's song "Run to the Hills" at the end. Iron Maiden responded to this on a B-side cover of the Montrose song titled "Space Station No. 5"
• "Am I Evil?" and "Blitzkrieg" were initially B-sides to the International "Creeping Death" single and were also bonus tracks on the 1988 Elektra reissue of their first album, Kill 'Em All; they have since been removed from that album (together these covers were known as Garage Days Revisited).
• "Breadfan" and "The Prince" are taken from the "Harvester of Sorrow" single; "The Prince" is also the bonus track on the Japanese pressing of ...And Justice For All
• "Stone Cold Crazy" originally appeared on the Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary album and was later included on the "Enter Sandman" single
• "So What?" and "Killing Time" are taken from the "Sad But True" and "The Unforgiven" single; "So What?" is also the bonus track on the Japanese pressing of Metallica

Personnel

Metallica James Hetfield – lead vocals, rhythm guitar Kirk Hammett – lead guitar Lars Ulrich – drums Jason Newsted – bass, backing vocals Cliff Burton – bass (on "Am I Evil?" and "Blitzkrieg") Guest musicians on "Tuesday's Gone" Pepper Keenan – co-lead vocals Jerry Cantrell – guitar Sean Kinney – additional percussion Jim Martin – guitar John Popper – harmonica Gary Rossington – additional guitar Les Claypool – banjo

Technical personnel Bob Rock – producer James Hetfield – producer Lars Ulrich – producer Mike Clink – engineer Brian Dobbs – engineer Jeffrey Norman – engineer Csaba Petocz – engineer Randy Staub – engineer Toby Wright – engineer Leff Lefferts – assistant engineers Chris Manning – assistant engineers Kent Matcke – assistant engineers Mike Fraser – mixing Flemming Rasmussen – mixing Randy Staub – mixing George Marino – mastering, remastering Paul DeCarli – digital editing Mike Gillies – digital editing Andie Airfix – design Ross Halfin – cover design, photography Anton Corbijn – photography Mark Leialoha – photography David Fricke – liner notes

Chart positions

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1998	U.S. Billboard 200	2
1998	Canadian Albums Chart	3
2009	Mexican Albums Chart	97

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1998	"Turn the Page"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	1
1999	"Die, Die My Darling"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	26
1999	"Turn the Page"	Modern Rock Tracks	39
1999	"Whiskey in the Jar"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	1

Sales and certification

In the U.S., Garage Inc. sold 426,500 units in the first week of release, making Metallica's fourth straight debut surpassing 400,000 copies.^[18] Still, the million-plus record breaking debut of Garth Brooks' Double Live made Garage Inc. land only at second on the Billboard 200.^[19] As of 2003 the album has sold over 2.5 million copies and has been certified 5× Platinum.

Like the three preceding studio albums, Garage Inc. in North America during its opening week.^[20]

Region	Certification	Certified units/Sales
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[21]	Gold	27,446[21]
Greece (IFPI Greece)[22]	Platinum	30,000^^
Poland (ZPAV)[23]	Platinum	100,000^*
United Kingdom (BPI)[24]	Gold	100,000^^
United States (RIAA)[25]	5× Platinum	5,000,000^^
^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^shipments figures based on certification alone

Awards

Grammy Awards

Year	Winner	Category
2000	"Whiskey in the Jar"	Best Hard Rock Performance

Release history

Region	Date
Worldwide (except North America)	November 23, 1998
United States	November 24, 1998

References

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9. Allmusic Review
10. Larkin, Colin (2006). Encyclopedia of Popular Music. 5 (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 725. ISBN 0-19-531373-9.
11. Sinclair, Tom (1998-12-18). "Garage Inc. Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2012-06-03.
12. "Garage Inc - Metallica". NME. 1998-11-17. Retrieved 2011-03-15.
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14. "Metallica: Album Guide Rolling Stone Music". Rollingstone.com. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
15. [...], Rock Hard (Hrsg.). [Red.: Michael Rensen. Mitarb.: Götz Kühnemund] (2005). Best of Rock & Metal die 500 stärksten Scheiben aller Zeiten. Königswinter: Heel. p. 7. ISBN 3-89880-517-4.
16. http://www.bootlegs.ws/met/met97-12-18.html
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21. "Metallica" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland.
22. "Greek album certifications – Metallica – Garage Inc." (in Greek). IFPI Greece.
23. "Polish album certifications – Metallica – Garage Inc." (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry.
24. "British album certifications – Metallica – Garage Inc.". British Phonographic Industry. Enter Garage Inc. in the field Keywords. Select Title in the field Search by. Select album in the field By Format. Select Gold in the field By Award. Click Search
25. "American album certifications – Metallica – Garage Inc.". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH

External links

• Information about the album on the official website