Metal Reviews

I decided to make this a seperate thread, since I don't want the "Do You Think Metallica Can Make A Comeback?" thread to become too specialized. And since it's a compilation album, I don't think it'd be appropriate to make this a Hit/Miss poll.

Anyway, what are your thoughts?

Here are mine:

First CD (newer covers): Pretty good. My three favorite songs are Metallica's covers of Turn The Page, Die Die My Darling, and Astronomy. I also really like the Mercyful Fate medley, Whiskey In A Jar, and It's Electric. The rest of the songs are decent, but nothing really remarkable. Although I do like that Outlaw Torn-ish outro after The More I See (I can't remember the name of the song they're playing the riff from, though). And it's interesting that Metallica's Sabbra Cadabra cover would use A National Acrobat as its bridge.

Second CD (older covers): Love Garage Days Re-Revisited. All five of those songs rock, although my overall favorite is probably Crash Course In Brain Surgery. Blitzkrieg I like, but Am I Evil I don't like (I know many people will disagree with me, but I don't care). Breadfan's a cool song, but I don't like that acoustic bridge. The Prince is good, very NWOBHM-ish. Stone Cold Crazy, So What, and Killing Time are awesome. And I'll be honest and admit that the Motorheadache songs are probably my favorite on the whole compilation. Yeah, James's attempt at sounding like Lemmy takes some getting used to, but I loved hearing Metallica playing heavier and thrashier versions of those four Motorhead classics. Even with the mistakes they deliberately left into the songs (they were recorded during a rehearsal, and when Metallica released them on the Hero Of The Day single, they decided to leave them as is rather than digitally correcting the mistakes - the most obvious being that lyrical screw-up in the third verse of Overkill).

Good (double) album. Highlights for me would be Whiskey in the Jar, and Tuesday's Gone from the first disc, and Last Caress and Blitzkrieg from the second.

This is pretty good overall... Tuesdays gone, astronomy, whiskey in the jar, Blitzkrieg and last caress stand out for me.
Oh, and overkill is fuckin awesome.

Not at all thrash but when it's good it's amazing and the bad parts are awful.

I thought Astronomy and Loverman were pretty good.

There's a lot of "what the fuck" on the first disc, and their version of Whiskey in the Jar has been played so much I can no longer listen to it, but it's definitely a good boxset. Most of the stuff on the second disc is brilliant.

Mercyful Fate is THE song that got me into MF/KD. They did amazing things with those riffs. Their version f those songs was so damn good it made the originals sound slightly dissapointing in comparison.

I don't understand why they didn't get KD to do guest backing vocals on that track. KD and Lars are good friends so the logistics of it happening would have been too easy to arrange.