The cassette version of Metallica’s debut album, Kill 'em All, featured two cover songs, Am I Evil? and Blitzkrieg. (Both absolutely awesome.)
At the end of Blitzkrieg, it all just kind of falls apart, and somebody (probably James Hetfield) burps and laughs. Lars Ulrich, the drummer, then says, “You f*cked up, in one place.”
Listening to the song countless times, I don’t hear any f*ck-ups, anywhere.
So, where was the one place they f*cked up, and how?
(I have never heard the original version of this song, by the band Blitzkrieg. So maybe it’s readily apparent there.)
Didn’t “Am I Evil” and “Blitzkrieg” also come on the b-side of the Creeping Death EP?
Just a suggestion, not an answer: Cliff Burton, RIP, was pretty notorious for screwing up, at least on stage. I once saw James Hetfield yell at him. Cliff naturally responded with his classic one-fingered salute.
My WAG is that they fixed whatever the f-up was, but kept the witty banter. As for “Am I Evil?” and “Blitzkreig,” they were both originally released under the “Garage Days Revisited” rubric on the b-side of the “Creeping Death” EP, as Sofa King suggests. Kill 'Em All was re-released after the success of Master of Puppets, and they added the two b-sides as a bonus.
minty green
Who’s been a fan for so long his original copy of Kill 'Em All has neither song
Damn! i wish i still had my copy of the first kill 'em all!(1986?) wish i had any of my metallica albums…specifically the first garage days…ohh the memories sigh…
as for your quiery i remember listening for it too and didn’t catch it either…
I’m a musician and I’ve recorded many other bands (and done sound for live gigs as well)
I don’t know of the songs you are talking about (or much about Metallica for that matter) but I know in a studio setting the band heards one thing while the listener hears another.
I’ve put piano tracks down that I REALLY hated because they wern’t what I was going to play -what I heard in my head. But after listening to the tracks a few times, I left them alone because what I ended up playing worked.
I played a live show with a 102f fever… I sucked. The band thought I sucked. I really sucked. But I watched a video of the show months later and I really didn’t sound all that bad. The people listening would have never known.