The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited
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| Cover EP by Metallica | |||||
| Released | August 21, 1987 | ||||
| Recorded | A & M and Conway Studios, LA, July 1987 | ||||
| Genre | Heavy metal, speed metal, thrash metal | ||||
| Length | 25:04 | ||||
| Label | Elektra | ||||
| Producer | Metallica | ||||
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The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited is an EP released by the American heavy metal band Metallica in August 1987.
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It was the first recording the band made with Jason Newsted playing bass. The EP consisted entirely of covers of late-'70s and early-'80s NWOBHM and hardcore music. The band included the dollar price in the title (which was printed on the cover) in an effort to ensure that fans weren't overcharged for it. The official CD release of the album amended the title (and the price) to The $9.98 CD... Though the EP has been out of print for many years and is considered a collector's item, all five tracks were later included on the 1998 double-album Garage Inc. (along with numerous other covers the band had recorded over the years).
The song "The Wait" was omitted from the UK pressings of the album in order to conform to local music-industry rules regarding the length of EPs.
Although the EP is often referred to as "Garage Days" by fans, the trailing portion of the EPs full title is often mistakenly called "Garage Days Revisited" (rather than 'Re-Revisited'), a title which actually refers collectively to Metallica's cover versions of "Am I Evil?" and "Blitzkrieg", which were the two B-sides of the 1984 single "Creeping Death".
The cover of this CD was also used as basis for the back cover of Garage Inc.
[edit] Track listing
- "Helpless" (Sean Harris, Brian Tatler) (Diamond Head cover) – 6:38
- "The Small Hours" (John Mortimer, John McCullim, Bryan Bartley, Ron Levine) (Holocaust cover) – 6:43
- "The Wait" (Jaz Coleman, Kevin "Geordie" Walker, Martin "Youth" Glover, Paul Ferguson) (Killing Joke cover) – 4:55
- "Crash Course in Brain Surgery" (Burke Shelley, Tony Bourge, Ray Phillips) (Budgie cover) – 3:10
- "Last Caress/Green Hell" (Glenn Danzig) (The Misfits cover) – 3:30
- In the final seconds, the band spoofs the opening riff of Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills" deliberately out of tune.
[edit] Charting positions
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| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1987 | The Billboard 200 | 28 |
| 1987 | UK Albums Chart | 27 |
