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Title: Awesome idea...poor implementation
Review: Being both a classical music and Metallica fan, I was very excited about this CD's potential. Unfortunately I was completely disappointed: Metallica chose the wrong man for this job.I'm sure that Mr. Kamen meant well, but one has to wonder if he got his musical education from a Music Theory for Dummies book. The colors and textures of his accompaniment sound wrong for the subject matter and are generally forced and contrived...almost as if he were trying to fit as much into the background as possible.In Mr. Kamen's own words (from the liner notes), Metallica's "songs ... were already complete!" He should have left them that way.The really sad part about the whole thing is this would be an awesome live CD set if it weren't for the orchestral accompaniment.
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