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S&M
Metallica
Retail Price (not our price): $24.98
Release Date: 1999-11-23
Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 2

Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...

Disc 1
1.		The Ecstasy Of Gold		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
2.		The Call Of The Ktulu		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
3.		Master Of Puppets		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
4.		Of Wolf And Man		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
5.		The Thing That Should Not Be		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
6.		Fuel		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
7.		The Memory Remains		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
8.		No Leaf Clover		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
9.		Hero Of The Day		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
10.		Devil's Dance		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
11.		Bleeding Me		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
Disc 2
1.		Nothing Else Matters		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
2.		Until It Sleeps		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
3.		For Whom The Bell Tolls		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
4.		Minus Human		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
5.		Wherever I May Roam		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
6.		Outlaw Torn		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
7.		Sad But True		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
8.		One		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
9.		Enter Sandman		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1
10.		Battery		style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1

Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
At a point in their career when most bands would rest their laurels upon a greatest-hits package or live album, Metallica has done both, but with a decidedly loopy twist. They've recorded a double-live greatest-hits package with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra "sitting in." Rock history and cutout bins are littered with previous attempts at a rock-symphonic fusion, from Emerson, Lake & Palmer to Deep Purple to the Moody Blues and the Siegel-Schwall Blues Band. But while previous efforts at mixing the low-brow with the high-brow have mostly ended up browbeating the intended audience, S&M plays like a precarious joy ride. Set against the shrewd efforts of a team of orchestrators and arrangers (who employ enough taste to keep proceedings from sounding like one long "Live and Let Die" outtake), Metallica plays for their lives, undercutting their general somber tone by ratcheting up their musicianship several notches. The most underrated player here is SFO guest conductor and soundtrack vet Michael Kamen, whose attention to detail and nuance--and intuitive grasp of the Metallica canon--keeps this unlikely meeting of the minds focused and on track. -Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5

1) MUCH BETTER THAN YOU EXPECT....   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
When this album first came out, I wasn't sure I was going to like it. I wasn't entirely into the new directions the band had already followed, and I thought that this would be a new step down for the band.However, this is one of the better Metallica projects of the later years. It's not insane metal like any of the bands classic eighties outings, but it takes the goods and does a little something different with them. The SanFran Orchestra does a fine job arranging some classic Metallica tunes, and rather than just present the project as symphonic Metallica, they include the actual band as well, so you get some guitars in the mix. Other songs work better than others, but a good symphonic CALL OF KTULU shant be overlooked, nor should the track that was recorded originally for the album titled NO LEAF CLOVER. I was totally amazed at how much that song rocked when I first heard it. Easily one of the most inspired Metallica tunes of that decade. Anyway, I see a lot of people bashing this one, and I can't agree. There are symphonic rock projects that really hit the fan (Kiss Alive IV for instance) but this one turned out to be pretty good, and a highlight in the catalougue of post hey-day Metallica albums.

2) awesome cd one of the better live albums I've heard   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Live albums usually aren't my thing, however I must disagree because I love every live Rush album and the Rage Against the Machine Live At the grand Olympic Auditorium, but now moving on to this cd it rocks. The orchestra gives these songs new life and it sounds great. I saw Metallica quite awhile ago and they were terrible so I always use to avoid this cd but a couple weeks ago I decide to give it another chance since this is there only live album and I don't see any sign of a greatest hits cd coming along any time soon so this as close as your gonna get to a greatest hits album. IF your a die hard fan of Metallica and don't care that they're sell outs and there still a great band pick this one up. My favorites are Battery, MOP, Nothing Else Matters and Enter Sandman(Enter Sandman is my least favorite tallica song). If you have the disc give it another listen because you might be surprised of how good an album it really is.

3) THIS ALBUM SUCKSICA AS WELL AS THE GROUP!!   [Rating: 1 out of 5]
I thought "LOAD" & "RELOAD" was as far as they would sink...Nope!!This one takes the cake, maybe they'll do a duet with the Dixie Chicks,Or maybe do a rap with M&M where does it stop?I rate this CD a 2 from 1to10!!

4) Goose Bumps!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I was really unsure of this album. The thought of Metallica playing with an orchestra didn't really appeal to me. I thought it would be awful. Since I am a die hard fan and a collector I decided I would rent the dvd before I purchased the cd just to see if I liked it. I was blown away!This is one of the best things I have listened to in ages! The orchestra does not take away from the music. Instead it adds power.I guess I shouldn't have doubted that anything Metallica touches turns to gold. This is a crowning achievement.

5) Amazing   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Many people don't care for this album because it doesn't sound like it was made in a garage. Those people who fell in love with the Metallica of the 80s know what they used to sound like, and many of them never forgave the band for evolving. S&M is incredible, it is meant to be heard and felt. No one can deny the power that Metallica wields, but add the emotion and power of an orchestra, and it turns into something else. In my opinion both the band and the orchestra turned it up a notch for this recording.