Live Shit: Binge & Purge

Live Shit: Binge & Purge
Live album box set by
Metallica
ReleasedNovember 23, 1993 (1993-11-23)
RecordedAugust 29, 1989 – March 2, 1993
Venue
Genre
Length2:20:35 (Seattle performance)
3:19:09 (San Diego performance)
2:57:06 (Mexico City performance)
8:34:39 (full box set)
LabelElektra
Producer
Metallica live albums chronology
Live Shit: Binge & Purge
(1993) 		S&M
(1999)
Metallica video chronology
A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica
(1992) 		Live Shit: Binge & Purge
(1993) 		Cunning Stunts
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal8/10[2]
Entertainment WeeklyB[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]

Live Shit: Binge & Purge is the first live album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released in a box set format on November 23, 1993. The initial pressings contained three CDs or two cassette tapes, featuring songs from concerts in Mexico City during the Nowhere Else to Roam tour, as well as three VHS tapes, one of them with a concert in Seattle from the Damaged Justice Tour from 1989, and the other two with a concert in San Diego from the Wherever We May Roam Tour from 1992, split in two parts. It was originally packaged as a cardboard box designed to resemble a typical tour equipment transport box. In addition to the audio and video media, the box featured extra bonus material, including a booklet with photos, typical tour correspondence exchanged by the band and their management, internal documents, and handwritten notes; a recreated copy of an access pass to the "Snakepit" section of the tour stage; and a cardboard drawing/airbrush stencil of the "Scary Guy" logo. Live Shit: Binge & Purge has been certified 15× platinum by the RIAA as a long-form video format.

When the set was reissued in a 3-CD / 2-DVD format (with the San Diego concert in one DVD), the box was replaced with a jewel case format. The booklet that was included in the initial set was made available as DVD-ROM content.

Track listing

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Audio CDs

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Recorded at the Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City, Mexico, on February 25, 26, 27, and March 1 and 2, 1993.

Disc one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."The Ecstasy of Gold/Enter Sandman"Ennio Morricone/James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett7:28
2."Creeping Death"Hetfield, Ulrich, Cliff Burton, Hammett7:28
3."Harvester of Sorrow"Hetfield, Ulrich7:19
4."Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett6:39
5."Sad but True"Hetfield, Ulrich6:07
6."Of Wolf and Man"Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett6:22
7."The Unforgiven"Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett6:48
8."Justice Medley"
  • Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett
  • Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett
  • Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett
  • Hetfield, Ulrich, Newsted
    		• 9:38
    9."Solos (bass/guitar) (My Friend of Misery/Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin))" 18:49
    Total length:76:34
    Disc two
    No.TitleWriter(s)Length
    1."Through the Never"Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett3:47
    2."For Whom the Bell Tolls"Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton5:48
    3."Fade to Black"Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett7:12
    4."Master of Puppets"Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett4:35
    5."Seek & Destroy"Hetfield, Ulrich18:08
    6."Whiplash"Hetfield, Ulrich5:34
    Total length:45:04
    Disc three
    No.TitleWriter(s)Length
    1."Nothing Else Matters"Hetfield, Ulrich6:22
    2."Wherever I May Roam"Hetfield, Ulrich6:33
    3."Am I Evil?" (originally performed by Diamond Head)Sean Harris, Brian Tatler5:42
    4."Last Caress" (originally performed by the Misfits)Glenn Danzig1:25
    5."One"Hetfield, Ulrich10:27
    6."So What?/Battery" ("So What?" originally performed by Anti-Nowhere League)Nick Kulmer, Chris Exall, Clive Blake / Hetfield, Ulrich10:05
    7."The Four Horsemen"Hetfield, Ulrich, Dave Mustaine6:08
    8."Motorbreath"Hetfield3:14
    9."Stone Cold Crazy" (originally performed by Queen)Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon5:32
    Total length:55:28

    VHS/DVD

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    San Diego

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    Recorded at the San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, California, on January 13 and 14, 1992.

    VHS one/DVD one
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    No.TitleLength
    1."20 Min. MetalliMovie"19:56
    2."The Ecstasy of Gold/Enter Sandman"7:23
    3."Creeping Death"7:45
    4."Harvester of Sorrow"6:55
    5."Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"6:59
    6."Sad But True"6:35
    7."Wherever I May Roam"6:57
    8."Bass solo (My Friend of Misery)/Orion Jam"10:48
    9."Through the Never"4:29
    10."The Unforgiven"7:54
    11."Justice Medley" ("Eye of the Beholder"/"Blackened"/"The Frayed Ends of Sanity"/"...And Justice for All"/"Blackened")"10:16
    12."Drum solo and drum battle (with James Hetfield on drum kit) (Moby Dick (by Led Zeppelin)/One/Hit The Lights/Walk This Way (by Aerosmith)"9:43
    13."Guitar solo (Mistreated (by Deep Purple))"8:49
    Total length:1:54:29
    VHS two/DVD one
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    No.TitleLength
    14."The Four Horsemen"5:30
    15."For Whom the Bell Tolls"5:50
    16."Fade to Black"7:19
    17."Whiplash"7:41
    18."Master of Puppets"5:28
    19."Seek & Destroy sung by Newsted"15:44
    20."One"9:46
    21."Last Caress"3:54
    22."Am I Evil?"2:55
    23."Battery"7:27
    24."Stone Cold Crazy/End credits"13:06
    Total length:1:24:40

    Seattle

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    Recorded at the Seattle Coliseum, Seattle, Washington on August 29 and 30, 1989.

    VHS three/DVD two
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    No.TitleLength
    1."The Ecstasy of Gold/Blackened"11:43
    2."For Whom the Bell Tolls"5:30
    3."Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"6:27
    4."Harvester of Sorrow"6:28
    5."The Four Horsemen"5:35
    6."The Thing That Should Not Be"7:14
    7."Bass solo/To Live Is to Die Jam"7:46
    8."Master of Puppets"8:46
    9."Fade to Black"8:10
    10."Seek & Destroy"8:05
    11."...And Justice for All"13:33
    12."One"7:48
    13."Creeping Death"7:48
    14."Guitar solo (Little Wing (by Jimi Hendrix))"6:34
    15."Battery"9:11
    16."The Frayed Ends of Sanity Jam/Last Caress"1:54
    17."Am I Evil?"4:06
    18."Whiplash"5:37
    19."Breadfan/End credits"8:20
    Total length:2:20:35

    Personnel

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    Metallica
    Production
    • James Hetfield; Lars Ulrich – producers
    • Guy Charbonneau; Mick Hughes – engineers
    • James "Jimbo" Barton; Kent Matcke; Mike Fraser – mixing
    • Scott Humphrey – digital editing

    Charts

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    Chart (1993) Peak
    position
    US Billboard 200[5] 26

    Video certifications

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    Region Certification Certified units/sales
    Germany (BVMI)[6] Gold 25,000^
    United States (RIAA)[7] 15× Platinum 1,500,000^

    ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

    References

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    1. ^ "Metallica – Live Shit: Binge & Purge review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
    2. ^ Popoff, Martin (August 1, 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 277. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
    3. ^ Browne, David (December 3, 1993). "BOXING DAY (Metallica: Live Shit: Binge & Purge)". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on May 23, 2007. Retrieved June 3, 2012.
    4. ^ "Metallica: Album Guide". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on February 10, 2011. Retrieved June 3, 2012.
    5. ^ "Metallica – Chart history – Billboard".
    6. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Metallica; 'Live Shit (Bing & Purge)')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
    7. ^ "American video certifications – Metallica – Binge". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
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