One CD compilation of Load/Reload

The year is 1996.
Metallica basically have all the songs from Load and Reload ready. You're producing the sessions, and they need to come up with one single 76 minute album.

What songs do you pick for a single CD "Load"?

 

I started a thread like this a while back, speculating on Load as a hypothetical single double-album, which I think would have worked better... plus, recording it on analog tape, getting a more organic feel and sound to it, and not piecing it together via Pro-Tools would have helped too.

 

Piecing it together via Pro-Tools? It seems like a lot of the recording was organic though...I mean the 1995 demos from Lars' Dungeon don't sound all that different from the album cuts...Only differences being James playing the solos, so his solos were overdubbed onto the record....

 

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Who are you, the Riddler ...?

I can't speak for the demos - never heard them - but I do know for a fact that Bob Rock meticulously pieced the many performances/takes together in the studio via Pro-Tools to create a 'perfect take'... not that it's some kind of abhorrent anomaly in music or that there's anything inherently wrong with doing it that way, but for a set like Load/ReLoad which Lars said at the time he wanted to sound "greasy", both recording and splicing together digitally is not exactly conducive to getting that organic 'classic rock' sound and feel that 'Tallica were obviously going for on those albums.

Playing together in the studio, recorded to analog tape, both albums reduced to a single double-album, and Load would have been up there with Physical Graffiti...

 

The solos are James.

 

"Ain't My Bitch" 5:04
"Fuel" 4:29
"The Memory Remains" 4:39
"Until It Sleeps" 4:28
"King Nothing" 5:29
"Hero of the Day" 4:21
"Poor Twisted Me" 4:00
"The Outlaw Torn" 10:40 (full length)

 

OK, I'll play. I quite liked Load, not so much Reload, but haven't listened to either for years. But as I've got my ipod here, let's see what I put on.....

Bleeding Me
Cure
Fuel
Hero Of The Day
King Nothing
Ronnie
The Memory Remains
The Outlaw Torn
The Unforgiven II
Until It Sleeps
Wasting My Hate