Retail Price (not our price): $24.98 Release Date: 1999-11-23 Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea Discs: 2

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1) Album Description
Limited edition release (1,000 copies only) featuring Metallica's 1999 outing, a set of playing cards featuring the aces in the deck as specially designed caricatures of the band's members, plus a 2000-2001 calendar with all of the lyrics from the 'S&M' album, a silk screened black t-shirt (with the 'S&M' logo in red on the front & a soloist in red on the back) and a poster with the four aforementioned caricatures. Comes packaged in a fine weave, fabric-finished black box with silver lettering and a white satin interior (that doubles as a display case). Also contains a sheet music certificate. Black cloth covered box dimensions in inches 11x11x4 approximately. CD is packaged in double slim line jewel case. Plain slipcase covers entire package.

2) 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