The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited

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The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited
The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited cover
Cover album (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
Professional reviews
Metallica chronology
Garage Days Re-Revisited
(1987)
Some Kind of Monster (EP)
(2003)

The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited is an EP released by the American heavy metal band Metallica in August 1987. It is to be considered an official release, as opposed to Garage Inc., a compilation.

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It was the first recording the band made with Jason Newsted (referred to as "Jason Newkid" in the liner notes) 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 also was used as a basis for the Garage Inc back cover, which showed the members as of 1998.

There was also a cassette version of this EP, which lists track lengths of 6:36, 6:39, 4:55, 3:10 and 3:28.

[edit] Track listing

# Title Writer(s) Original artist Length
1. "Helpless"   Sean Harris, Brian Tatler Diamond Head 6:38
2. "The Small Hours"   John Mortimer, John McCullim, Bryan Bartley, Ron Levine Holocaust 6:43
3. "The Wait"   Jaz Coleman, Kevin "Geordie" Walker, Martin "Youth" Glover, Paul Ferguson Killing Joke 4:55
4. "Crash Course in Brain Surgery"   Burke Shelley, Tony Bourge, Ray Phillips Budgie 3:10
5. "Last Caress"/"Green Hell"   Glenn Danzig The Misfits 3:30


At the end of "Last Caress"/"Green Hell" are a few bars of Iron Maiden's song "Run to the Hills." Iron Maiden responded to this on a B-side cover of the Montrose song entitled "Space Station No. 5".

[edit] Album information

  • Metallica - production
  • Recorded at: A&M & Conway, Los Angeles, CA
  • Release Date: August 21, 1987
  • Chart position: 28

[edit] Charting positions

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Year Chart Position
1987 The Billboard 200 28
1987 UK Albums Chart 27

[edit] Certification

Country Sales Certification
United States 1,000,000 Platinum
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