Garage Inc.

Garage Inc.
Metallica compilation album
Publication (s)	November 24, 1998
admission	September – October 1998
Label (s)	Vertigo
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Heavy metal , thrash metal , hard rock
Title (number)	27
running time	136: 09
occupation	Vocals , guitar : James Hetfield Lead guitar , background vocals : Kirk Hammett Bass : Jason Newsted Bass: Cliff Burton (only on Am I Evil? And Blitzkrieg ) Drums : Lars Ulrich
production	Bob Rock , James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich
Studio (s)	CD 1: The Plant Studios in Sausalito , California (USA)
chronology ReLoad (1997) Garage Inc. S&M (1999)
Single releases November 16, 1998 Turn the page February 1, 1999 Whiskey in the Jar June 7, 1999 Die, Die My Darling

Garage Inc. is a compilation album by the US heavy metal band Metallica . It was released on November 24, 1998 and contains only cover versions . The album consists of two CDs: the first CD contains only newly recorded songs by other artists. On the second CD, however, you can find the complete EP from Garage Days Re-Revisited from 1987 as well as all songs previously covered and published for B-sides or sampler contributions .

Track list

The original interpreters of the songs are given in brackets.

CD 1

1. Free Speech for the Dumb ( Discharge ) - 2:35
2. It's Electric ( Diamond Head ) - 3:33
3. Sabbra Cadabra ( Black Sabbath ) - 6:20
4. Turn the Page ( Bob Seger ) - 6:06
5. Die, Die My Darling ( Misfits ) - 2:26
6. Loverman ( Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds ) - 7:52
7. Mercyful Fate ( Mercyful Fate ) - 11:10
8. Astronomy ( Blue Öyster Cult ) - 6:37
9. Whiskey in the Jar (Irish folk song) - 5:04 (madefamous worldwideby Thin Lizzy in 1973)
10. Tuesday's Gone ( Lynyrd Skynyrd ) - 9:03
11. The More I See (Discharge) - 4:48

CD 2

1. Helpless ( Diamond Head ) - 6:36
2. The Small Hours ( Holocaust ) - 6:40
3. The Wait ( Killing Joke ) - 4:52
4. Crash Course in Brain Surgery ( Budgie ) - 3:08
5. Last Caress / Green Hell (Misfits) - 3:29
6. Am I Evil? (Diamond Head) - 7:50
7. Blitzkrieg ( Blitzkrieg ) - 3:36
8. Breadfan (Budgie) - 5:41
9. The Prince (Diamond Head) - 4:24
10. Stone Cold Crazy ( Queen ) - 2:17
11. So What ( Anti-Nowhere League ) - 3:08
12. Killing Time ( Sweet Savage ) - 3:03
13. Overkill ( Motörhead ) - 4:05
14. Damage Case (Motörhead) - 3:40
15. Stone Dead Forever (Motörhead) - 4:51
16. Too Late Too Late (Motörhead) - 3:12

Song information

CD 1

• Discharge's two songs - Free Speech for the Dumb and The More I See - come from the band's early days. The former was released on the debut album Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing , the latter as a single in 1984.

• Sabbra Cadabra contains in the middle (2:52 - 5:04 min.) An excerpt from A National Acrobat , after which the song is continued with Sabbra Cadabra . Both songs come from the 1973 album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath .

• Turn the Page reached # 1 on the Billboard Charts for "Mainstream Rock Tracks" and # 39 for "Modern Rock Tracks". In Germany the single reached # 23 in the charts.

• Die, Die My Darling was also released as a single and reached # 26 on the Billboard charts.

• The medley Mercyful Fate consists of the songs Satan's Fall , Curse of the Pharaohs , A Corpse without Soul , Into the Coven and Evil . Except for A Corpse Without Soul from the 1982 EP Mercyful Fate (sometimes also known as Nuns Have No Fun or Corpse Without a Soul ), all other songs are from Mercyful Fate's debut album Melissa (1983).

• Whiskey in the Jar is the oldest song Metallica have ever covered. It is an Irish folk song that was best known again through the band The Dubliners . Metallica related the cover to the Thin Lizzy version from 1972. The single reached # 4 on the Billboard charts. Metallica won a Grammy Award in the category "Best Hard Rock Performance" with this song . The single reached # 23 in Germany. The Australian edition of the Whiskey in the Jar single includes Pt. 1 & 2 a making-of of the album.

• Tuesday's Gone was recorded in 1997 during the promotion of ReLoad in the studios of the radio station KSJO-FM ( San José (California) ). In addition to Metallica, you can hear John Popper ( Blues Traveler ), Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney (both Alice in Chains ), Les Claypool from Primus , Pepper Keenan ( Corrosion of Conformity ), Jim Martin (ex-member of Faith No More ) and also a member of Lynyrd Skynyrd himself: Gary Rossington .

CD 2

• The first five songs were as Garage Days Re-Revisited - EP already published 1987th The EP is rare, a CD version was released under the name The $ 9.98 CD . Numerous bootlegs were published in advance.

• Am I Evil? and Blitzkrieg are the band's first published covers and appeared on the 12-inch of Creeping Death . A CD version also contained the single Jump in the Fire .

• Breadfan and The Prince were the B-side of the English Harvester of Sorrow single. The Prince was also released as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of … And Justice for All .

• Stone Cold Crazy comes from the sampler Elektra's 40th Anniversary , the anniversary compilation by Elektra Records .

• So What and Killing Time come from the Unforgiven single.

• The Motörhead covers come from the Hero of the Day single, released under the name Motörheadache , which was released on the occasion of Lemmy Kilmister's 50th birthday.

Chart successes and sales figures

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Garage Inc.   DE 1 07/12/1998 (43 weeks)   AT 3 December 6, 1998 (27 weeks)   CH 10 December 6, 1998 (25 weeks)   UK 29 05.12.1998 (8 weeks)   US 2 12/12/1998 (44 weeks)

Singles

Turn the page   DE 23 11/30/1998 (9 weeks)   AT 19th December 20, 1998 (8 weeks) Whiskey in the Jar   DE 23 03/01/1999 (18 weeks)   AT 30th 03/14/1999 (8 weeks)   CH 55 07.09.2008 (1 week)   UK 29 02/27/1999 (2 weeks)

Garage Inc. entered the German charts at number 1 on December 7, 1998 and was in the top 100 for a total of 43 weeks. The album also topped the charts in Finland, Sweden and Norway.

Garage Inc. earned 5 platinum records for more than five million units sold in the United States in 2000 .

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Argentina (CAPIF)	gold	30,000
Australia (ARIA)	platinum	70,000
Germany (BVMI)	platinum	(500,000)
Europe (IFPI)	platinum	1,000,000
Finland (IFPI)	gold	(27,446)
Greece (IFPI)	platinum	(15,000)
New Zealand (RMNZ)	platinum	15,000
Norway (IFPI)	gold	(15,000)
Austria (IFPI)	gold	(25,000)
Poland (ZPAV)	platinum	(100,000)
Sweden (IFPI)	platinum	(80,000)
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold	(25,000)
Spain (Promusicae)	gold	(50,000)
United States (RIAA)	5 × platinum	5,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	gold	(100,000)
All in all	7 × gold 12 × platinum	6,115,000

Main article: Metallica / Music Sales Awards

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Garage Inc. | Metallica.com. Retrieved May 6, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000051667
3. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000051667
4. ↑ Chart positions: DE AT CH UK US
5. ↑ Chart tracking Garage Inc. on officialcharts.de
6. ↑ International chart tracking Garage Inc.
7. ↑ US: 5x platinum