Live Shit: Binge & Purge
1993 live album box set by Metallica
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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 21× platinum by the RIAA as a long-form video format.
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- Seattle Coliseum (Seattle)
- San Diego Sports Arena (San Diego)
- Palacio de los Deportes (Mexico City)
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| Released | November 23, 1993 | |||
| Recorded | August 29, 1989 – March 2, 1993 | |||
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| Length | 2:20:35 (Seattle performance) 3:19:09 (San Diego performance) 2:57:06 (Mexico City performance) 8:34:39 (full box set) | |||
| Label | Elektra | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [1] |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 8/10[2] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B[3] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [4] |
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
Audio CDs
Recorded at the Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City, Mexico, on February 25, 26, 27, and March 1 and 2, 1993.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "The Ecstasy of Gold/Enter Sandman" | Ennio Morricone/James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett | 7:28 |
| 2. | "Creeping Death" | Hetfield, Ulrich, Cliff Burton, Hammett | 7:28 |
| 3. | "Harvester of Sorrow" | Hetfield, Ulrich | 7:19 |
| 4. | "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" | Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett | 6:39 |
| 5. | "Sad but True" | Hetfield, Ulrich | 6:07 |
| 6. | "Of Wolf and Man" | Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett | 6:22 |
| 7. | "The Unforgiven" | Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett | 6:48 |
| 8. | "Justice Medley"
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| 9:38 |
| 9. | "Solos (bass/guitar) (My Friend of Misery/Dazed and Confused (Led Zeppelin))" | 18:49 | |
| Total length: | 76:34 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Through the Never" | Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett | 3:47 |
| 2. | "For Whom the Bell Tolls" | Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton | 5:48 |
| 3. | "Fade to Black" | Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett | 7:12 |
| 4. | "Master of Puppets" | Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett | 4:35 |
| 5. | "Seek & Destroy" | Hetfield, Ulrich | 18:08 |
| 6. | "Whiplash" | Hetfield, Ulrich | 5:34 |
| Total length: | 45:04 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Nothing Else Matters" | Hetfield, Ulrich | 6:22 |
| 2. | "Wherever I May Roam" | Hetfield, Ulrich | 6:33 |
| 3. | "Am I Evil?" (originally performed by Diamond Head) | Sean Harris, Brian Tatler | 5:42 |
| 4. | "Last Caress" (originally performed by the Misfits) | Glenn Danzig | 1:25 |
| 5. | "One" | Hetfield, Ulrich | 10:27 |
| 6. | "So What?/Battery" ("So What?" originally performed by Anti-Nowhere League) | Nick Kulmer, Chris Exall, Clive Blake / Hetfield, Ulrich | 10:05 |
| 7. | "The Four Horsemen" | Hetfield, Ulrich, Dave Mustaine | 6:08 |
| 8. | "Motorbreath" | Hetfield | 3:14 |
| 9. | "Stone Cold Crazy" (originally performed by Queen) | Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon | 5:32 |
| Total length: | 55:28 | ||
VHS/DVD
San Diego
Recorded at the San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego, California, on January 13 and 14, 1992.
VHS one/DVD one
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 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
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 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
Recorded at the Seattle Coliseum, Seattle, Washington on August 29 and 30, 1989.
VHS three/DVD two
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 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
- Metallica
- James Hetfield – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, guitar solo on "Nothing Else Matters"
- Kirk Hammett – lead guitar, backing vocals
- Jason Newsted – bass, backing vocals, occasional lead vocals
- Lars Ulrich – drums
- Production
- James Hetfield; Lars Ulrich – producers
- Guy Charbonneau; Mick Hughes – engineers
- James "Jimbo" Barton; Kent Matcke; Mike Fraser – mixing
- Scott Humphrey – digital editing
Charts
| Chart (1993) | Peak position |
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| US Billboard 200[5] | 26 |
Video certifications
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| Germany (BVMI)[6] | Gold | 25,000^ |
| United States (RIAA)[7] | 21× Platinum | 699,993^ |
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^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||