Editing Garage Inc. (section)

==Production==
The day after Metallica finished the North American leg of the [[Poor Re-Touring Me Tour]] in San Diego's [[Sleep Train Amphitheatre (Chula Vista, California)|Coors Amphitheatre]], they hit the studio to start recording a new album of cover versions.<ref>{{Cite book |last=McIver |first=Joel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mBlbAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT334 |title=Justice for All: The Truth about Metallica |date=2014-06-16 |publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn=978-1-78323-123-2 |language=en}}</ref> As [[Lars Ulrich]] explained, the band wanted to do something different after "three pretty serious albums in a row, starting with [[Metallica (album)|the Black album]] and then ''[[Load (album)|Load]]'' and ''[[Reload (Metallica album)|ReLoad]]''", and the process would be easier by working with covers, especially as the band had a tradition of taking other people's songs  and  "[turning] them into something very Metallica, different from what the original artist did".<ref name=bill/> Given that the band had recorded many covers that were spread across various releases, such as B-sides of their singles and the 1987 EP ''[[The $5.98 E.P. - Garage Days Re-Revisited]]'', the band would "put them all in a nice little packaging for easy listening" along with the newly recorded cover versions, chosen through a group decision.<ref name=bill>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_HwoEAAAAMBAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_HwoEAAAAMBAJ/page/n100 101]|title=Billboard|date=November 14, 1998|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|access-date=January 24, 2018|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/450081/metallica-compile-rarities-b-sides-for-release/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812061927/http://www.mtv.com/news/450081/metallica-compile-rarities-b-sides-for-release/|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 12, 2017|title=Metallica Compile Rarities, B-Sides For Release|website=[[MTV]]|access-date=January 24, 2018}}</ref> Only one of the eleven songs in the "New Recordings '98" disk was not done in the three-week sessions, a version of [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]'s  "[[Tuesday's Gone]]" the band recorded for a radio broadcast along with friends such as [[Les Claypool]], [[John Popper]] and [[Gary Rossington]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/510104/just-some-cover-band/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709053146/http://www.mtv.com/news/510104/just-some-cover-band/|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 9, 2017|title=Just Some Cover Band ...|website=[[MTV]]|access-date=January 24, 2018}}</ref>